skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
President Obama regularly talks up the need for more
math classes “to equip our children for the future.”
The latter is odd and a bit dated, particularly when
we consider that computers and calculators have largely
made the need for math knowledge something of the past.

I recently read a comment saying

"Everyone who talks about advanced math think it's
just more of the most advanced thing they know."

Thus if you never did school algebra, you just think advanced math is just sums with bigger numbers. If you did do school algebra, you think advanced math is just using more variables in bigger equations. If you did calculus you just think it's more convoluted differentiation, or integration. If you did calculus of variations, you think ...

Well, you get the idea.

Yes, computers these days can do arithmetic much better than people can. And given the equations to manipulate, they can do the school algebra and calculus better than people can.

But that's neither what advanced math is, nor what advanced math gets used for.

Sorry Forbes, you certainly don't understand math, or the math. While it may be true that jobs don't require degrees, in many cases they certainly need the skills that degrees are supposed to impart. Whether they succeed in that, or whether they're now just a mill for turning out bits of paper, that's another question.
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We won't all be designing things. There will be a few people whose designs are widely used because they work the best.

We'll all be trading and downloading and filesharing the CAD files. Think of future banner ads: "Need a new plate? Go browse the 10 million CAD files on 3d-CAD-plates.com to download the floral plates of your dreams!"

Torrent networks and TOR will be used for the underground and black-market filesharing of CAD files for restricted objects, such as gun parts and other weapons.
It would be personally interesting if the Californa votes could be split into northern California (and presumeably SV), and Southern Cal.
Would not Google search, Wikipedia and Stackoverflow statistic be of some worth to show what the dominant usage of the word python is in the realm of software?
> she's hiding under a sheet with one stripey sock sticking out, a direct echo of "kids reading under the covers when the lights are out." No adult does that.

Have a middlebrow dismissal: my wife does that, and she's 33. She loves hiding.

I do have to say that you seem a bit grouchy for someone who works at a baby blue and pink startup called 'Freckle' :)
New York here.

Edit: I'm surprised Texas isn't higher than that. Pretty big hub for tech there and, of course, Dallas is the home of TI.
Except, he would need to wait around at the next charging station anyway. So, taking a risk more or less stupid behavior.

As to people doing the same thing, of course they do. Do you have any idea how many people run out of gas despite how common gas stations are and the standard reserve capacity?
This developer did expose himself to a real risk, and one he probably didn't even think of: that little site, which is essentially a text message, is driving my Chrome instance crazy. WTF did he code into it? Would I hire him?
This video does a better job of explaining the product (http://youtu.be/PXYWIBlvP9w)
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Well, it would be hard for the German company to claim there was no contract when they're trying to collect on it. As for US law, yes, there is enough there for a contract to be formed.

Additionally, the CISG may apply if the contract was for goods as opposed to services. Both the US and Germany are signatories. So that poses a good question - is web and graphic design a service or are they selling you the final product as a good?
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Parents moved here in the 70s to join tech. I was born here, and seem to gravitate back home even when I leave for a few years.
As a psuedo-american, I think Oregon is the only state I could leave New Zealand for and stay relatively sane. Portland looks like a great town - wish there were more tech firms there!
I'm guessing this guy was really bad PR : https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan
Keep in mind that California has two tech hubs (Silicon Valley and San Diego), plus a large city in Los Angeles.
"denial" should also be an option :)
The entire space between San Jose and LA is farmland :)
If you pre-format the cell as text, any value input will be stored in its entirety. For one offs, prepending any string with ' will force Excel to store as text.

For date, it typically does not truncate seconds, so not sure what's happening there.
In case no-one's already thought of it: Raspberry Pi is based in the UK, and Python is the default 'educational language' on the boards, as per their FAQ.
Born and raised in the Midwest, moved to SoCal for two years so my wife could complete her master's. We both absolutely hated the area, moved back out to "the sticks" and haven't looked back. Cost of living is lower, quality of life is higher.
Why not 50?

Further evidence of the way a nationwide presidential campaign would be run comes from the way that national advertisers conduct nationwide sales campaigns. National advertisers seek out customers in small, medium-sized, and large towns of every small, medium-sized, and large state. National advertisers do not advertise only in big cities. Instead, they go after every potential customer, regardless of where the customer is located. National advertisers do not write off a particular state merely because a competitor has an 8% lead in sales. Furthermore, a national advertiser with an 8% edge in a particular state does not stop trying to make additional sales in the state.
You don't need to identify as "bot", just send a keepalive message (can be a single space, XMPP ping, whatever) every 60 seconds or so. You can also request no history when joining rooms (most bot frameworks do this). It's part of the XMPP spec as well. Our roster pushes are also as in the spec, or have you found an oddity we should correct?

Joining a room with your full name can be an unexpected requirement but it really aligns with the way we enforce names on our service.
Exactly.

I have something along the same line in my contract. I never give the client all the files or set up the site until I have been paid in full. I regularly send them updates, screenshots and allow them to test out sites on the dev server but I never give them a finished product without being paid in full. Before I start, there is a 50% retainer. After the design is completed the client pays 25% of the total. After the development is completed they owe the final 25% and once they pay their last invoice they get the final product. With this system, I have never had a problem. That's not to say it's perfect but I do believe it's a great way to handle payments.
It's 5:20pm on the east coast so the numbers are going to be way off.

Edit: This was posted at 4:20pm EST and normally I don't check HN much after 4, I am just waiting on something before I call it a day.
Maybe you mean Federal Trade Commission instead of the Federal Communications Commission?

I am not suggesting that either organization fined someone for not using SHA1. I'm just suggesting that this sort of regulatory function falls under the purview of the FTC not the FCC.
yea, isn't this blatant "ghosting", punishable by delisting?
If you divide the responses per state over population, DC has a strong lead in "Hacker News User Density". VT, MA, and WA are pretty close to each other, followed by CA, DE, and CO. It would be interesting to compare these results to % urban/rural populations.
Can you provide a citation for the mis-statements about the Boeing battery situation? I couldn't find any.
> "jury is out"

One advantage of a jury being out is that someday said jury can come back in and return a verdict.

> as if someone was ever going to publish a cryptanalytic result showing bcrypt to be worse than SHA1.

SHA-1 has a formal specification, an RFC, a reference implementation, implementation guidance, and comprehensive test vectors published. To date, bcrypt is lacking some of those things.

And yes, bcrypt has gotten pwned worse than SHA-1 as a result: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2483
I would have written a different story. I lived 2 blocks from Haight and Stanyan for a long time and I was connected to street kids by skateboarding and guitar and being someone who talks to anyone (e.g I gave away a lot of Dunlop jazz3 guitar picks). While there may be a few people on the streets willingly (the new arrivals), and some are talented musicians/artists/artisans, the author chose to ignore the violence and the scourge of alcoholism and meth, the ones who have no family or safety net or options. He didn't look in the backpacks and see pepper spray, sawed off baseball bats, golf clubs and rocks (Skateboards are capable weapons also), he didn't see people lose most of their teeth in a year, or the armed guards at Whole Foods, stuff like that. The homeless are in the Haight becuase they wouldn't last long in the Mission, South of Market, Potrero, places like that
Thanks. Call me old fashioned but I don't feel comfortable giving a 3rd party access to my Stripe account.

1) Is it open source? or

2) Does Stripe have an API which grants read only access?

Either of those would make it worth checking out for me.
Nice, I'll sign up :) I see you guys are offline now. What times are you online? Perhaps you can assist me with integrating it into my CRM
I'm impressed by our representation so far; a recent chart of HN job posts showed 0 results for us.
The complex reality is that price is not there yet for CNC(including tooling) and lasers.

The Roland of the article cost more than 3 thousands dollars. I could make eight Prusa reprap (I did it for a University course) for this price, or buy printrbots.

About CAD: For some people it is genuinely easy, like some kids are "naturals" for playing basketball.

When you teach kids, it blows your mind what they are capable of doing when left alone once they learned the basics.
"Dr Melba S. Ketchum, of DNA Diagnostics". I just heard about this paper the other day, at http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/02/13/sasquatch-... .

> she says she bought an existing journal and renamed it .... So she owns the journal. It’s now called De Novo.

> Then she came out with a special edition. It’s Volume 1, Issue 1. It contains precisely one paper, hers.

I've confirmed that denovojournal.com has this as its only publication.
Tax havens: The missing $20 trillion
Huh? The summary is not specific at all (that's why it's a summary). Read it again. It says:

The next day, in 10-degree weather...

In fact, it's easier to look at Elon Musk's annotated version to see how it was misinterpreted:
http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/a...

Notice how his red highlighted area encompasses the summary (which is in a different font-size) and the bullet-point-like annotations...yes, I guess if you read the infographic in that left-to-right fashion, you would make that connection...but if you read it in numerical order (as indicated by the numbered bullet points), you would not associate the two statements.
Even if a spam filter would eat it: not receiving negative feedback is not the same as consent. So you can't just fire off an email and consider your duty done. If you want to use an email that way there should be some kind of confirmation link in there.
You would think the range calculations would account for that effect. They already have temperature sensors in the pack, and storing some historical data is cheap.
My impression from talking to people in the area is that the investor money is in Santa Fe, but most of the programming jobs are in Albuquerque. Of course Albuquerque is about 10X the size of Santa Fe.
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That's a horrible UI. I just tried it...since when does a mouse over indicate an "action"?

Oh well, I like Stripe so it's not entirely wasted.
I love that you're telling me how my car (cars, actually, this has been true of all of them) works, and I'm the obnoxious one. :) Clearly I'm not wrong. You are arguing on the basis of what can be done by software given perfect inputs. I'm telling you what is true on real systems. And the fact that you can't distinguish the two is precisely the problem I'm getting at.

That's not "anti-intellectualism", it's called "correct requirements analysis". And it's something I wish more software people knew how to do.
There are quite a few (in portland at least) these days!

Far less than the valley I am sure, but there has been a decided uptick in the last few years. Tech scene here is shaping up nicely.
Is Amazon yesterday’s cloud?
Maybe the last poll was on a sunny day. ;)
I wish people would stop posting this thoroughly debunked "news item". The original paper describes a sloppy procedure in which field-contaminated samples were analyzed and unsurprisingly discovered traces of both human and animal DNA, and the results were published in a hastily created non-journal after all the real science journals refused to publish it. Details here:

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/14/16964023-bigfoot...
U sed to work at the Round Table in Albany. It is quiet and not much happens there. At that time the same owner owned my store, and the one in downtown Berkeley. One night I was asked to fill in at the Berkeley store.

Tacked on the wall where you give your order is an "86" list. These are the homeless that are asked to leave the instant they appear. All others are allowed to stay as long as they don't disrupt the business.

I saw that list and laughed, but 10 minutes later a homeless man stood outside the window and screamed obscenities at me as I worked. He was on the list, so 911 was called.

A little while later a "street kid" walked in and asked if we had spare slices. I was about to say no, when the manager said sure, and handed over a slice. When I asked I was told that when they made mistakes, put onions on a pizze that called for no onions, they saved them and handed out slices to those that asked nicely.

I guess it all depends on who and how you act.
Dude, the code you posted again contains the exact same problem that started off this discussion! Even though I've already posted the solution! But of course that solution doesn't suit you because it shows that your previous results are wrong.

I'm not sure if you're saying here that now that you've been made aware of the problem you're just going to say that it's intentional, and that you're introducing this arbitrary assumption because that's what your simulation is supposed to investigate. If that's the case then fine, but the results of your simulation are still meaningless. The reason the prime numbers come out is still a purely synthetic artifact.

I can understand that you're bummed that your article is misleading and don't want to admit it. Just let the article be. I'm probably the first and the last person to ever notice that it's wrong. Has been very effective for psychologists ;-)

Best wishes!
Sorry, I'm legitimately confused about what you're saying. Who is corrupt here, and how does the popular vote give them more power?
Yep, that's the San Francisco lefty for ya: "You're welcome to immigrate to our country ... just not our city."
Here's a resource that you might find useful:

http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/pythonds/index...

It's not Coursera but it's well put together.
With a popular Presidential vote, every state becomes a swing state, demanding greater attention. How hard is that to grasp?

Stalwarts like Utah and NYC may be relatively ignored. Big deal.

Your complaint is that the minuscule rural population are ignored by the more prosperous, more populated, more important urban areas.

That sounds about right to me. One person, one vote.

If people in rural areas want to be more relevant, they should either start creating some jobs, stop being freeloaders, and work harder to prevent their people from following the jobs. Which is not going to happen so long as we have a petrol based economy.

Once human labor is required to replace petrol, you'll have more people returning to rural areas, to work the land.

So if you care about the vitality of rural areas, you'll work to expedite the post oil energy future.
Re: volume, remember that Tesla is only on the second step of the Grand Three Stage Plan.

* Low volume, high price car.

* Mid price, mid volume car.

* Low price, high volume car.
Something similar: both phones exchange a random seed and compute the arithmetic mean in order to get a common seed :)
Right. But probably I was just lucky enough never to encounter such kind of corporate world which uses Excel (or any other spread sheet software for that matter) in such weird fashion.
Technology's war on the middle class
>I just did.

Good on you. The only way these companies will figure out that this sort of model sucks is if they lose users/money.
Seems pretty ambitious!
As someone who works in the financial services industry, I think that all of the MS Office applications are great - much better than the open source alternatives (although I wish this wasn't true).

I also want to be the lone voice here in saying that I also think that Windows is excellent, and is much easier to use than OS X and Linux (and I've used them all) for everything except programming. This is a very unpopular opinion on Hacker News, but in the real world a lot of people are like me, agree with me, and it is worth bearing this in mind.
Kansas City right here. Midwest awwww yeah!
The judge would tell you that "prior art" is irrelevant here. This isn't about patents or copyrights. They are filing for a trademark...
::hug::
>The point being that a lot of these conceptions about who belongs and who doesn't are based on private property, but that there fundamentally isn't any real justification for private property. Even John Locke's attempts to justify it break down.

Its negation breaks down too, computer-hoarder.
I think we all know that batteries and battery gauges work quite differently from gas. Or do we?
While you are at it, go grab FTL (Faster Than Light)! Its reduced by 50% and quite frankly a fantastic space roguelike!

And Trine 2 is good fun and absolutely beautiful!

(Not associated with either, I just like them...)
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Strictly speaking, "Amazon.com" wasn't specified. How about http://amazon.net/ -> http://novaone.net/
I don't think Broder was violating his journalistic integrity but I do think he fell into the confirmation bias trap. He took the car for a test drive with the preconceived judgement that electric cars are not ready yet esp. in cold weather conditions. Then he subconsciously starts doing things to support his hypothesis, hiding behind his flawed reasoning that this is what any common person would do. The experiment was doomed to fail from the start. I can very easily create a similar situation with a gas-powered car -- it really isn't very hard to run out of gas if you are not vigilant about how much gas is left and where the gas station is located. In this case the charging stations are no where as widespread as gas stations are.
Shahrokh, great to see this. I'll pass it on and see what we can work out.
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I think this highlights the interesting lack of fundamental understanding by the general public about software and how complex and expensive it is.

Intuitively people understand things like cars and laptops are expensive, time consuming and difficult to build requiring complex tools and machinery.

This is not the case with software, where we see time and time again requests like "same as Facebook..." or "Same as Amazon". People have no idea of the time, money and expertise that has gone into making these sites function.

I wonder if we can change that lack of understand, or if the general public will always be at a loss to understand the complexities of software ?
Give me a break. That's an application implementation flaw, and one no standard could have prevented. It's like saying that insufficient cryptanalysis is responsible for the OpenSSL RCEs.

Again: I'm not really torn. It's a good thing you're all doing this.

The jury is not really out on bcrypt, though.
... for $1,000 do you want it to scale as well or do you just want something faked that'll work for 1 concurrent user? Do you need full reporting and analytics? Load testing? Unit tests? etc.? Ridiculous.
If you consider Air Rights, the ISS would be in many, many, many states and countries. Besides, that poll will change up and down per region (if you managed to list all of them) every 90 minutes. The length of each orbit.
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Use LibreOffice calc to import the CSV then save to Excel format. No kidding, Open/LibreOffice gives you (among others) the option to chose the type of each column at import.
I think people do detect cache issues. Considering the fact that an access to DRAM is like ~150 or more cycles slower... your programs if written even normally may starve for RAM.

Also, people sometimes people confuse TLB flushing with overall cache flushing as mentioned at the end of your article. Also, tagged TLB flushing is still not commonly used (to my knowledge)

The reality is that there is a huge performance hit whenever these systems need to be used by a new process or context. Maybe people are equating this experience to 'flushing'.
Agreed, i'm in the US Virgin Islands.
Actually it's Amazon + Fiverr + Ebay + Craigslist + forums...
I think tptacek might be using the socratic method or else he is just messing with you but I can't watch it any longer.

The regulatory function you are talking about falls under the purview of the FTC, not the FCC.

"Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers and Improperly Collected Personal Information from Users' Mobile Address Books

Company also Will Pay $800,000 for Allegedly Collecting Kids' Personal Information without their Parents’ Consent"[1]

[1] http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/02/path.shtm
Are you arguing that AES-CBC + HMAC is NOT a sound construction, or are you just augmenting my comment with more information?
Children and young people react with "this software violates my rights!" As a child, under the age of 18, in the US, has no rights. A parent is supposed to parent. They have no right to privacy.

It's absolutely false that children in the US have no rights or that parents can legally violate any of their rights arbitrarily. It's closer to the truth that children don't have a legal right to privacy from their parents in their parents' home using their parents' computer and internet connection.

This attitude is problematic though. Instead of encouraging a more open dialog between parents and their kids, parents using spyware creates an adversarial relationship. Under those circumstances, the kids will find ways around it, which you describe elsewhere as "unfortunate". I have no doubt there were situations where your software resulted in very good outcomes, but I'm inclined to suspect that in most cases where parents installed it, there was something broken in the parent/child relationship. Unfortunately "No mutual trust with your teenager? Our robot babysitter will let you know if she's talking about suicide online." probably isn't the world's best advertising slogan.
He's probably refering to this incident :http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boeing-7...
It took some courage, but I'm willing to admit I'm in Columbus Ohio.
It is not an issue really as there was so much data generated. Im sure scientics at cern will have much to to by then.
Were any of those for appsec mistakes?
The purpose of the Senate isn't to ensure the people's voice; it's to ensure the States' voices. If we did away with the Senate, we should seriously think about doing away with the Tenth Amendment as well and consolidating state law into a single national codex: they both rest their existence on the same principle.