skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bphogan I was not saying these kids are unmotivated and should focus on school - I am very sorry for even letting my comment be unclear. Of course our children should be nurtured, and the fact that this situation exists is awful.

Everyone is different when it comes to what shapes them, for me it was a few select science teachers (not so much my environment in this case). That's why I am such a fan for Teach for America. I know four of my classmates who have elected to participate, and it has been the most rewarding experience of their lives. The thing that kids appreciate most? That they care. Really care.

One idea thing I've always wondered about was making a safe place in this cities to code. I wrote a paper on how 1. School districts can cut IT budgets instead of teaching staff by using servers and thin clients instead of full desktop computers. Then 2. after school, adding some coding classes after school (including meals, stews are healthy,cheap, and hot), with the eventual goal of becoming a self-sufficient outsourcing team. Or making mockups, or even slicing PSD's. I feel as though if Hacker Dojo's and such exist, eventually a charity version will be created as well. There could be sponsors from FB / Google / IBM, etc...

It's just a dream.

I've always been a supporter of education for all. It's just a really, really, hard problem. I can't think of doing anything that these other startups aren't doing, so I'm waiting until I can contribute a bit more. Thanks for the anecdote bphogan, it really hit home.
I built a company that develops iOS apps. My most successful app so far is http://www.tinypiano.com/ with 6 million (free) downloads (launched Feb 2012). The app is monetizing via ads and in-app purchases.

I do this full time. My goal was to make an app that achieves 10 million downloads. It looks like it should hit that mark sometime this year. Another goal was to make enough money to buy a house. Assuming all goes well, that should be possible in a couple of years.
Is this standard? I mean the unknown size field 'obj'.
When Amazon did the exact same thing (offering a browser that had its endpoint on an external server) everybody was euphoric because it allowed a modern rendering engine to "run" on a very limited device. Now Nokia does the same thing for crippled phones and they're the bad guy.
if it's $100 per impression at a 1% conversion rate that's $10k per reply. If 1 out of a 100 replies are meaningful that would be $1M.
While a bright monitor can reduce the quality of your sleep at night, I actually read somewhere (sorry, can't find it now) that a bright monitor at daytime can be beneficial for your circadian rhythm if you don't get exposed to much sunlight otherwise.
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A version of multi_xml with this fix has been pushed:

https://rubygems.org/gems/multi_xml/versions/0.5.2
> It shouldn't be the school's responsibility to take care of all these basic parenting duties. Perhaps that is where we should start.

That's true, but as a society we've pushed a LOT of non education related responsibilities onto schools. Picking up the slack for parents that don't want to be parents, or those that are trying very hard but struggling is just the tip of the iceberg.
Hi @hmexx, this is a great idea! ex-prj.com is my side-project and I hope you like it. Yes, the project is absolutely inspired by you. Thanks.
Yes! From Monoprice's low prices, I figured they'd be selling junk. But a friend recommended them highly, so I tried them out. Now they're my go-to place any time I need cables. And overnight delivery is a flat $5 in CA.
I agree with you, but what is even possible to do to fix that kind of place?

The only way I know of anyone getting out of the ghetto and becoming basically worthwhile seems to be the military, and even that takes 1-2 decades in (the low ranking enlisted kids from the ghetto are basically criminals in uniform in a lot of cases). The most likely thing is that they're always sketch, but their kids grow up in an entirely different environment and are decent.

But, it's not like we can enlist ~10mm random people (some with physical/mental/etc. illness) into the military, keep them there for 20y, and hope that when they procreate, their kids end up better.
The author says "I don't see a "mass exodus" to Linux any time in the future, but I do see home and corporate users migrating to Linux because they are tired of Microsoft's tricks and failures, and don't wish to pay Apple's high prices, and look for something more reliable and lower costing for them."

As a developer, I work in Ubuntu regularly, but I still don't think it's ready for most people on the desktop. The learning curve of moving your enterprise people to ubuntu I believe is larger than the learning curve for Windows 8.

I assume in the near future, somebody will write a script (If it doesn't already exist) to launch windows 8 computers directly to the desktop, and I suspect that would be very popular in the enterprise space.
My app breaks going from 3.2.8 to 3.2.9. I haven't had time to fix it yet, so I've just applied the workaround for now too.
No, Amazon Silk routes HTTPS traffic directly to the origin server.

https://www.eff.org/2011/october/amazon-fire%E2%80%99s-new-b...
One of the provisions of being eligible for federal funding as part of the Race to the Top program is that states implement merit pay. I don't personally believe that will change anything and may place even more emphasis on standardized testing, but it could also lead to diversified pay scales.
MultiXML version 0.5.2 is now released.
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I teach high school math and science, and I teach some intro programming courses when I can fit them in. I'm also starting to mentor more students who are interested in programming throughout my district. I currently teach in southeast Alaska, but I spent 7 years teaching in NYC before that.

I agree that a good MOOC does fill the role of curating material. But it is still difficult for most of the students I see to find the right course, and get enough momentum in the course to finish it, without a knowledgeable person to mentor them in the initial phase. It's similar to getting a programming environment set up. To really start programming effectively, you've got to know your way around an editor, a filesystem, a package management system, a terminal... You can do some hello world stuff without all that, but it's hard to make meaningful progress in programming without knowing all that. It is certainly difficult to complete these courses without figuring this environment stuff out.

So why do I like MOOCs? Because they help free me up to play the role of facilitator and mentor. I have one student now who is happily working his way through a python-related MOOC, and a couple other students who are trying them out. I just watch their progress, and help them when they hit a block. But none of them would be likely to complete these courses without that guidance.

'But I would count finding you and getting your help as "taking responsibility for my own education".'

It's not that simple; I am spotting these students, they are not finding me. If you're not living in a tech hotspot, it's pretty hit or miss whether there is anyone around who can act as a mentor. It's been said in other comments, that many of us are programmers because we watched people around us work as programmers when we were younger. That is a huge influence on who becomes a programmer.
Dealing with IE
Its a great story ... and marks the beginning of WebKit.
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> They have had ineffective teachers for multiple years in the past.

Even those that have been fortunate enough to have great teachers may not be doing as well as their peers in schools with better economic surroundings. Having involved parents can make a huge difference in academic achievement.

> Children come to school hungry

Year after year the one thing my wife will point out as having made a positive impact at the schools she's taught at has been her students getting breakfast at school every day as part of the routine. Initially she found it disruptive but over time they have logged fewer behavior related incidents, fewer nurse visits and more attentiveness in the morning. It's an anecdote but four years without it followed by four years with it and she's convinced. All eight years were at Title I schools with 100% free/reduced lunch as well as the before and after school meal program. The specific change was serving the morning meal in the classroom ensuring the kids were getting it.
About the HDMI/DVI issues, heres an overview of my (possibly incorrect) understanding, for those wondering (Note the resolutions listed can be fudged a bit by messing with display rate, ie it may be possible to get a single link dvi to display 24401400 @ 33hz)

DVI-A/I/D Single link supports up to around 1920x1200

* DVI-I/D Dual Link supports 2560x1600+

* HDMI <=1.2 supports up to 1920x1200

* HDMI 1.3 supports up to 2560x1600

* HDMI 1.4 supports up to 4096×2160

* HDMI1.3 intro'd different category cables, cat1 and cat2 (Sometimes called 'High Speed'). cat2 supports the higher res.

HDMI and DVI Single Link are compatible (you can get simple adaptors and hdmi-dvi cables). Note, single link only, ie HDMI to DVI adapter connected to a dual link cable and display will be act like DVI Single Link

HDMI w/Type B connector and DVI Dual Link are compatible, however as far as I know there were no HDMI Type B products ever made.

So you cannot convert HDMI>DVI to achieve 2560x1600

* To get 2560x1600 over DVI, you need a dual link card, display and cable

* To get 2560x1600 over HDMI you need a card with a >1.3 port, display and a >1.3 cat2 cable.

* Additionally, regardless of the HDMI standard supported by your card, it may not be capable of outputting 2560x1600 (The presence of a display port or dual link DVI is a good indicator)

So in theory most modern setups should support 2560x1600 over HDMI. In practice not so much, a few problems:

* Some displays and adaptors may claim to support >1.3, or not specify the version, and actually be <1.3

* Some displays and adaptors may be >1.3 but limit what they will output or display.

* Some displays may be >1.3 but report a lower max resolution in their EDID. Bypassing this/setting a custom mode may work just fine.

* Even if you do manage to get everything working together, you may experience general instability and errors.

TL;DR avoid HDMI for high resolutions if you can, it'll save you a lot of hassle.
> And there is tons of evidence showing that merit pay not only doesn't improve teaching quality, but actually makes it worse.

Do you have links to this evidence? I'm genuinely curious; my own searching brings up evidence in favor of merit pay, such as this recent study:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/23/d...
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I am really suspicious of any teacher evaluation system that ties to merit pay. I don't trust administrators and politicians to understand statistics well enough to measure my impact on student learning, as distinct from impacts such as home life, previous teachers, environmental factors, etc.

I would love to be able to earn higher pay for better performance. I have been so frustrated with terrible teachers getting paid much more than me throughout my career, simply because they'd been there longer. But I haven't seen any merit pay system yet that is anything more than a token bonus for some nebulous student performance measures.

Nate Silver did an AMA on reddit the other day, and the top question related to teacher evaluation and merit pay:

"What are your thoughts on data-driven metrics for teacher evaluation? Do you think a system that accurately reflects teacher value could ever be created, or will it always be plagued by perverse incentives (teaching to the test, neglecting certain types of students, etc)?"

He basically said that's too big of a question to answer in an AMA[0], it would take a book. But his first line captures my stance on merit pay:

"There are certainly cases where applying objective measures badly is worse than not applying them at all, and education may well be one of those."

[0] - http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/166yeo/iama_blogger_fo...
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It's also very slow and jerky compared to the stock browser on Samsung Galaxy S3.
http://gaurangkp.wordpress.com has this completely wrong. I wished he had published my comment on his blog (I was first post).

Nokia is NOT intercepting https. The actual TLS session is run via a https proxy. No interception occurring. The guy who broke this has no understanding of the TLS protocol or PKI in general. He tried to say the root verisign certs in windows were being proof. bullshit.

its 2 TLS sessions -- or TLS in TLS proxy. No problem. Go back to sleep.
You're missing the most obvious point: it's slow and jerky as hell. Almost unusable compared to the Android stock browser.
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The same problem applies to most point of sale hardware, the stuff we use doesn't mostly care about drivers at all. Receipt printers just want raw bytes sent to their port, no matter COM or LPT or LAN - OS is bit of an obstruction on the way. Kind of sad that web-based POS software can't take full advantage of the conveniences web brings (ease of updating the program, easier and prettier graphical designs) without losing the capability of interfacing properly with hardware.
1. iTunes started out as a music player. The iTunes Music Store came later. You can debate whether or not Steve was planning the iTunes Music Store from the beginning, but that's neither here nor there.

2. iTunes, at least in the beginning, was just a wrapper around the QuickTime framework.
hmmm, the new http://delicious.com/ start page has a

<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

in the <head>.

strange SEO strategy of one of the most valuables sites on the internet.
Nokia is not intercepting your https! They are doing nothing dodgy here.

Everyone who says "https interception" is hard, you are right. Unless you can install arbitrary trusted root
He has presented no evidence of this. All he did was sniff the wire and saw a TLS session to Nokia.
It's called an https proxy, genius. Ugh. This mAkes me so mad that people believe this crap.
Apple willingly releasing open source stuff feels rather counter to some of their other philosophy. (still)
I can't comment on the state of things today, but I was active an active KDE core developer at the time from that original message to the time of the Zack's blog post (and I'm friends with both Dirk and Zack):

There was a huge amount of excitement at the announcement that Safari would be using KHTML. At that time, it was almost a given that the OSS rendering engine was Gecko. KHTML was KDE's little engine that could. But nobody ever expected it to be picked up by other folks. One of the original parts of the KHTML-to-OS X port was KWQ (pronounced, "quack") that abstracted out the KDE API portions that were used in KHTML.

Folks were pretty ecstatic at first. It seemed very validating.

But that changed quickly. As Zack's post indicates, WebKit became a thing of unmergable code-drops. Even inside of the KDE community there became a split between the KHTML purists and the WebKit faction. They'd previously more or less all been KHTML developers, but post-WebKit there was something of a pragmatists vs. idealists split. Zack fell on the latter side of that (for understandable reasons: there was an existing community project, with its own set of values, and that was hijacked to a large extent by WebKit).

A few years later WebKit transformed itself into a more or less valid open source project (see webkit.org), but that didn't close the rift in the KDE community between the two, at that point rather divergent, rendering engines. There's still some remaining melancholy that stems from that initial hope and what could have potentially been, but wasn't.

It's hard to argue that WebKit being open source has been a bad thing -- in fact, I don't believe that in the slightest. But I can also understand that it's pretty head-turning to have have a project transform in that way, especially for the original contributors (though, it should be noted, the original author of KHTML, who wasn't really active at the time of the transition, did eventually fall into the WebKit camp).

Final note: this is just my somewhat fractured recollection of things from being in KDE community. My contributions to KHTML / WebKit were very minor (the original spellchecking support) so this may not jive completely with the folks that were closer.
I'm not sure if this is what you may be looking for, but I'll throw it out anyway. Kevin Rose has the Foundation series over at http://foundation.kr
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What's more expensive, a toy that gets used once on Christmas day and then gets discarded that costs $10, or a lego set that costs $50 and that gets passed down three generations or more?

Some of the lego my kids are playing with went through this route: my uncle, me, my brother, my son, my brothers kids. The oldest pieces I've got are from the early 60's, they have a different formulation and didn't keep their shape as good, but anything produced after roughly 1965 is as good as new today.
Also listen to this: http://productpeople.tv/2013/01/09/ep08-sacha-greif-2/

Somebody is doing things right.
A website is not a start-up, and there's vastly more to a start-up than building the software.

I built the software for RunOrg (http://runorg.com) on my own --- private social networks for non-profits as a service --- but my co-founder's business development skills have been invaluable in getting our current 60k members.

As a side-effect, I also built and open-sourced a web framework for OCaml (http://ohm-framework.com).

I'm definitely feeling the stretch on my resources, though : there are so many feature requests and so little time to build everything I'd like to build.
Or Smalltalk, since we're apparently throwing out the idea of using Python entirely.
How far does "name your price" realistically go as someone who is just starting, yet talented?
It is the same vulnerability at a fundamental level (it's virtually the same code), but it isn't exploitable out of the box in the same way Rails was, at least not on its own. However, there is a web framework, Grape, that was exploitable in exactly the same way that Rails was due to MultiXml's vulnerability.

And, really, technically, it was ActiveSupport that had this vulnerability. Even outside of Rails, had you used Hash.from_xml on untrusted user input you would have run into exactly the same issues.
I agree with Silver that it's far too big of a question for an AMA. My biggest concern in the short term regarding merit pay is that it is little more than a buzz word. Politicians throw it around as if it's a quick fix and then administrators are handed mandates that are poorly thought out so that it looks like something is being done.
> Nice! But note Lego tried their best to fight them..

They did, and this was actually pretty hypocritical of lego because lego started out copying a UK design, the "Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks".

On another note, the lego brand is usually explained as 'play well' in Danish, but this is much more along the lines of 'goods to play with' (like in the German spielzeug or the Dutch speelgoed). Of course that doesn't isn't nearly as good marketingwise hence the 'play well' myth.
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I am not sure if engineering meetings count as a formal setting though. :)
Your browser preference really doesn't have anything to do with this article.
There were quite a few links in that article. I found this email of particular interest and importance.
I am surprised at how heavily the number of lines of code factored into the decision to choose KHTML. It makes sense that a smaller codebase is much easier to jump into, and usually means cleaner architecture, but I didn't expect to see it addressed as such an important factor.
No, he meant:

$ whoami | sed 's/hr$/x/'
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Nokia pushed out an update that uses an http proxy for Phone to server TlS.
The worst thing about this is that they have diluted their security model (tls in tls is resistant to single interception-- ie tor).

They did this so boneheads that sniff the traffic will see the phone to server TLS rather than having it encrypted inside the phone to Nokia TLS. That's ignorant "researcher" you actually made it easier for the bad guys now.
midori uses webkit too. it's not only fast , also lightweight, more than safari.
The funny thing is, Nokia's Xpress Browser did the opposite (for a day), allowing people in China to browse any site on the internet. It worked like a secure proxy or VPN, punching a hole through the Great Firewall. Until China caught on and blocked the IP addresses of Nokia servers.

http://www.wpcentral.com/nokias-xpress-browser-has-been-bloc...
Well this was also after a year of working on a fork in seclusion. The project by then had diverged quite a bit, and had quite a differing philosophy from the original.
A function f is idempotent if

f(f(x)) = f(x)

Which is not what's needed here.
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So when did KHTML become WebKit?
You're missing out on the 3rd option: hmexx could gamble 100K, do 12 of these and finally pick the one winner to spend all the rest of his time on and drop the rest.

And of course the founder has a way of getting more runway without becoming a minority shareholder: put more money in.
Bad analogy time: It's like you're SSH'ing into a remote machine, then using w3m to access https://google.com. Then you complain that your outgoing local connections are to the server instead of to google.com.
Documentum from EMC uses Java as part of it's browser interface (webtop). It's used to download and manage documents on the user's machine.
Why stop at the US? Doesn't the rest of the world count?
2003 Safari keynote by the master himself, Steve Jobs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZNXQujgXw

It's so crazy to watch the demo, and see all the absolute crap websites back then. How far we have come.

What will the web look like in another 10 years?
Bringing jobs back to America is not solution to all the problems.

Most of all new planes are ordered by China, India, Middle East and South East Asian countries
YAML is aliased to Psych:

irb(main):001:0> require 'yaml'

=> true

irb(main):002:0> YAML

=> Psych
Some exceptions I've seen are cracks where the hands insert into the arms of minifigures and discoloring, particularly on white bricks. And of course there are missing pieces, but that's not a quality issue.

This summer I bought a set I grew up playing with (#6345 Aerial Acrobats). It sits on my shelf for now but I'm sure I'll play with it with my future children.