skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story reminds me of my experience growing up and going to public school in Ohio (in the United States). When I did classwork, I did it very well. When I took tests, I was always in the top of my class (which led to me being in the highest-level classes offered at my schools). And when it came to class participation, the teachers always had praise for me. I spent most of my time outside of school learning new things from books, the internet, and everyone around me.

But I almost never did my homework.

This was almost the sole source of strife between my mother and I, and between both of us and school administrators. Going from 8th to 9th grade required a special exception, and recommendations from almost every one of my teachers, as my GPA was below the point normally required to progress to the next grade. I am lucky in that the teachers I had were sympathetic enough to stand up for me, and confident in my abilities using other methods of evaluation.

We (my mother and I) considered other schools, other formats of school, but in the end we settled on something modeled after Unschooling. When I was 13-going-on-14, halfway through my 9th grade year (freshman year of high school in the United States), my mother took me out of school using the legal provision for homeschooling. As she was a single working mother, I spent the rest of the years that my peers were in high school learning things on my own and seeking out my own learning opportunities. (A year or so later, I learned C, Objective-C, and the Cocoa frameworks and started a Mac applications business a year or so later with friends I met on the internet.)

Granted, I had the following things going for me: a supportive mother, generally being "well-behaved", living in a small town where it was safe to leave me to my own devices, living in a college town which gave me access to more learning resources, and an in-built self-motivated learning style. I also think it helped that I went through the public school system for many years before I left, as it meant I had friends and a social life that stuck with me even after leaving the school itself. So, I'm sure it's not for everyone, but for some, and maybe OP's son, it's worth considering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
FYI With the advent of smart phones, phone call recording is very easy.

Possibly time to update that personal training of yours?

disclaimer: I agree, I believe everything online has potential to be public domain. I do; however, leave the tinfoil at home and realise not many people care what porn I watch or what the latest trite shit I post to my facebook wall is.
This is incoherent. You are comparing a deficit in literal ability to complete the courses (through some sort of disorder) with an inability to find the time to complete them. Just because someone is "autistic" does not mean that you necessarily ought to be able to achieve more than them, especially when there are wildly divergent constraints for both of you. There is no logical basis whatsoever for your assertion.
USB? Does that cause a lot of CPU usage?
This is exactly how I've been working for the past 18 months or so, and it's just fine.

In our new offices however, we have a ton of these little breakout rooms which hold 2 or 3 people at most and are equipped with large screen televisions. I've been finding that if I hole up in one of those, connect my laptop to the monitor, and move my terminal window onto the television, I'm able to fit two huge pagefuls of vim, and I'm quite happy with it.

At home I've been using my Macbook with my Linux machine, connected through the mouse/keyboard sharing app Synergy, found here: http://synergy-foss.org/
This is a good question, and it's one of the more challenging aspects of neoclassical macroeconomics(as taught in most U.S. schools). It's also heavily contested, and one of the reasons why I started to dislike my study of economics, because the theory has to make some big assumptions to get any result.

The rationale given to not do this is that any policy change from the government is going to affect expectations of the future - if (on balance) most economic actors are rational and know that there will be inflation in the future, they will take steps _now_ to protect themselves from the side effects. If you change policy on both ends, expectations about the economy become uncertain - more so than if there's no change - which means that the market will start to move its investment towards other countries with more predictable economies.

Here's a Wikipedia article describing the original proposition that this theory was built on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Ineffectiveness_Proposit...
I was expecting a treadmill desk. Like the author in Stephenson's REAMDE has.
eh ? like your parent comment pointed out - it's a quip by us vi users, not "wisdom" (conventional or otherwise) :-)
Why do you care about attacks on SHA? It's a 32 bit seed.
This is for case 2. It's a wall so that people within an organization can ask questions / share opinions with others from their organization. Thanks for the clarification.
A nuclear fusion reactor, that is.

A Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor, to be specific. Fairly cheap. Really, authentically produces hydrogen fusion... but not much of it (neutron flux is very low) and it can't run very long before the accelerator grids overheat. It's basically a spherical particle accelerator, and doesn't come anywhere close to achieving breakeven. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Tom Ligon wrote an article for Analog in 1998 describing how a high school student could build one for a science fair: http://fusor.net/newbie/files/Ligon-QED-IE.pdf

Quite a few people have built operational fusors, including many high school students: http://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13&p=512
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco. Remote and onsite ok

I run jsonip.com and am the author of Helium css, https://github.com/geuis/helium-css.

I've written a lot of javascript for a range of devices, including the Google TV, mobile devices, server apps with node.js, and tons on good old regular sites.

I've got a super strong frontend background too. There's not really anything with html && css that I can't do.

Languages: Javascript, Python, php, (css and html if you count those as languages)

Github: https://github.com/geuis
I would say forget lists like this and just make reasonable preparations and be humble, open and honest. People can sense those qualities and you will have no problems.
My experience agrees with yours, the college hires who made me the most excited were those who had side projects and summer start ups.

You're breakdown of GPA is interesting and reasonable. It would be interesting to see if it correlates with first reviews and time at level.
I have a recent Macbook Air 11 and two Thunderbolt Displays that I daisy chain. That lets me keep my telemetry terminals that monitor cluster health, chat and music off to one side while I work on the other display in a full screen iTerm2 session.

I keep a bluetooth keyboard and a magic trackpad at the desk. Docking is just a careful sequence of power.. wait a second.. thunderbolt cable. (That pause seems to ward off occasional hiccups in OSX recognizing the daisy chain.) Undocking is the same -- savagely yank out the thunderbolt cable, don't sleep first; most of my crashes came from introducing thunderbolt devices while OSX was sleeping.

EDIT:

Regarding Virtualbox -- it works quite well with Linux and one of the displays, although you probably don't want to use a bulky compositing window manager at a Thunderbolt Display's resolution. I use i3 with boring old urxvt's, so the lack of compositing oomph from Virtualbox doesn't bother me.
Meanwhile middle class wages in the U.S have been stagnant for decades...

This is only because compensation has shifted from taxed wages to untaxed benefits. This is easily fixable - eliminate the income tax but raise taxes on health insurance.

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_displa...

Furthermore, even the stagnation of wages is caused purely by a composition change.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/immigrants_simpsons_p...
Yeah, but it's "internal state" is already known to the attacker here. The whole point of using it is for it's deterministic output given a pre-disclosed seed. It's only using it as a way to enumerate with of 2^32 possible reshufflings we agree to do to the deck before playing - which either of us can check at the conclusion of the game since we both knew up front the initial shuffled deck hash, the two PRNG seeds, and the order the cards came out in the game.
Is it possible to make a powder out of this formula so we only add carbonated water at home?

Easier to transport and store instead of moving millions of gallons of water around the world.

Just an idea for a startup.

RockaCola?
I think it works decently on desktop computers, but it's ridiculous on laptops with 768 pixels vertically. This site measures as 555 px, which really sucks.

NoScript blocks most of them (including this site) which helps.
So then how do I tell when it's a phishing attack?
Google Authenticator only offers a subset of standard TOTP, and it also offers a very similar subset of HOTP.

- Option of TOTP or HOTP ("time-based" or "counter-based")
- SHA1 only
- 6-digit codes only
- 30-second time step only (TOTP)
- Base32-encoded keys only

"Google Authenticator" also implies that the secret is stored on your phone, where it's far more susceptible to remote compromise than if it were stored in a dedicated hardware TOTP token.

Personally, my preference for SSH two-factor authentication is to just use standard pubkey authentication, but only allow keys that have been placed into PIN-protected, tamper-resistant hardware. The crypto is stronger, it doesn't involve some obscure PAM module, and the attack surface is smaller (since you can avoid invoking PAM at all until after authentication succeeds).
Simple Goods: selling embedded in any website
People still believe this myth? Especially on HN?

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Not really. I think marketers like the concept of being able to close the loop on display advertising, like posters and store shelves, but it's pretty infrequently used. The friction of it not being native to any OS is pretty high.

I was in a meeting where a marketing group wanted to implement it all over the place. I shut it down by going around the office and asking if anyone in the office even a) knew what it was, and b) had ever used it. About 1/4 had heard about it, but nobody had a clear understanding of how to use it or had ever actually scanned one.
Space and money don't allow for a desk or a monitor, and the overwhelming majority of my work doesn't necessitate coming into an office, so I do most everything from coffee shops and/or from my couch. In the case of the former, my setup is largely beholden to the surroundings. In both cases, I use my 13" MBP without any accessories or peripherals.
Some will always say you're wrong
Do users trust credit-card forms like these that don't have obvious payment-processor branding? I seem to remember HN discussion of something like this, but didn't find any by searching.
What strategy do you think these services could follow in order to keep users engaged while making money?

I can't come up with a good answer to this myself.
You can tell from the picture that it's a Dell. Probably a U2410.
Australian democracy works quite well with compulsory voting. It seems to have been improved by the "compulsory" part. (It's not very compulsory -- you can show up and submit a blank ballot or not show up and pay a small fine that isn't really enforced, but the effect is significant.) The US political system suffers in significant part from deliberate attempts to disenfranchise huge sectors of society. Black people, or poor people, say. In what first world country do you need to queue for three hours (and I did this in Arlington — one of the richest places in the US, not Mississippi) to vote on a working day?

Democracy isn't the problem in itself, flawed as it may be, but US democracy suffers from special self-inflicted problems: it's a government created by people who were suspicious of government AND democracy, so it's unmanageable by design. To be fair, democracy was an untried idea at the time, but the US is stuck with ridiculous artifacts of those early doubts.

We have a right to bear arms that cannot easily be undone or moderated but no right to, say, transportation, communication, or health care. Our abortion laws were magically derived from some other inferred right rather than designed by legislators with reference to experts (which is how abortion laws everywhere else work) so it's literally a war between people who think a pregnant mother has no rights over her own body until the child is born and other people who think she should be able to kill the baby right up until it's born. In Australia (IIRC) it's twelve weeks or to save the mother's life. No other democracy has this problem.
I am sorry. I wrote that from the wrong perspective. I was raised in a tiny town in the southern US, where being "right" has something to do with "praising jesus". Thanks to my parents, I was encouraged to "win" and now I live in NYC, and have a great job, a wife I love and respect, and an awesome daughter.

My point is not about right vs. winning, it is more about giving your children the tools to do well in any environment.
Perhaps that is because they focused too much on so-called "real" work and never developed their art enough to make a living. Perhaps they need so much money because they went to a university to learn what is free at any library.
I don't think that works - they have to tell me their server_seed before I tell them my client_seed. That makes the PRNG seed dependent on the SHA256 hash of something out of their control.
I have a new MacBook Air 11 as well, with only 1 Thunderbolt Display this is my perfect setup but there is one drawback, the fan is almost constantly running (not at full speed - unless YouTube etc is open). How do you find it runs with two displays?
Chasing Rainbows
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Yours is perhaps the best argument I've ever heard against corporal punishment. I've never accepted the "spanking causes trauma" argument since any form of discipline will do that if administered inappropriately. I do have a vendetta against double standards though, and I appreciate you changing my perspective.
I'm curious. Is there any practical benefit to building one of these apart from proving that it can be done?
Very sad indeed.
I keep two things:

(A) Paper notebooks, good quality and largish (10x12 inch) acid-free artists sketch books. I use these for notes, designs and so forth. When I approach a new body of code, I'll make class diagrams and make reverse-engineering type notes; the "muscle memory" of writing seems to help with my understanding and recall. These are also good for cartooning when I'm frustrated. :-)

(B) A single large file containing a daily log of "interesting" stuff, such as what I've done, hard-won knowledge about systems (including bugs), descriptions of personal interactions and so on. Sometimes I won't make an entry for a day or two, some days I add dozens or hundreds of lines. I have a shell command that can append a single line to the log, and another one that opens the file and appends a timestamped entry, whereupon I can write a few lines, paste-in a bit of email, etc.

The log file is real handy at review time. I also find myself grepping it for obscure things, like "How did I set five servers up to find that bug last summer?"

I have these two habits going back 25 years or so, and it's quite interesting to revisit my decisions ("No! God, don't do /that/!" :-) ) and day-to-day issues.
As far as I know, most states in the Southern US have laws against obscuring one's face during a political gathering, in response to the Ku Klux Klan in the past.
Which is covered in the second paragraph of the article:

>This tale with its message of simplicity and thrift--not to mention a failure of common sense in a bureaucracy--floats around the Internet, hopping from in-box to in-box, and even surfaced during a 2002 episode of the West Wing. But, alas, it is just a myth.

And anyway (also covered in both the article and Snopes):

>Pencils may not have been the best choice anyway. The tips flaked and broke off, drifting in microgravity where they could potentially harm an astronaut or equipment.

And the article ends back at square 1, with a new, cheaper space pen which the Soviets also purchased because pencils are problematic in space:

>According to an Associated Press report from February 1968, NASA ordered 400 of Fisher's antigravity ballpoint pens for the Apollo program. A year later, the Soviet Union ordered 100 pens and 1,000 ink cartridges to use on their Soyuz space missions, said the United Press International. The AP later noted that both NASA and the Soviet space agency received the same 40 percent discount for buying their pens in bulk. They both paid $2.39 per pen instead of $3.98.
Or no one is willing to pay enough for their skills.
They mention that they first do enough shuffling to cover all possibilities of the deck, then apply the seeded shuffling.
Indeed, school is very, very playable. Here's one anecdote from my personal experience:

One of high school English teachers was notoriously hard on guys. It was generally understood that she considered them goof-offs and slackers, and didn't give good grades to guys even for really hard work. I was at a disadvantage in that class even before I walked in the door.

So rather than fight an uphill battle due to my gender, I spent an extra hour on the first report (a paper on Romeo and Juliet) and carefully drew hearts and a large rose in colored pencil on the cover page. I then proceeded to behave a smidge more effeminately than my natural self whenever speaking to her, and breezed through that year while my male classmates struggled, with my teacher convinced I was a persecuted homosexual.

I'm not convinced it was helpful in the long term, because the work I avoided in that class didn't do me any favors. I've never done particularly well in English classes since, despite my love of reading and an over-sized vocabulary. But it certainly did give me an appreciation for the malleability of rules and systems when they are administered by imperfect humans.
couple of tips:

jquery's $() is aliased to j() in ruby. Try:

j('body').css background: 'pink'

window is alias to w(). E.g.:

w.alert('hello from ruby')

puts w.prompt('saywhat?')
h1b/green card ?
Yeah - in retrospect I was confusing myself there.

I still think this works though. Unless there is a way for them to chose a server_seed such that:

SHA256(server_seed + client_seed) % 2 ^ 32 = PRNG_seed(favourable to them)

without my choice of client_seed messing up their desired PRNG_seed.
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Actually, we do have giant shopping malls and some form of gated communities in Sinagpore, too. Disneyland didn't quite make it, despite some attempt in the 90s (I think), but there are other themeparks.
My theory is that some people have a threshold of 'pointlessness aversion' inadequate to the western school system. The son of the author is like that: he finds his homework useless so he won't do it. Perhaps we should admit that our society is too harsh with certain groups of people who happen to lack some abilities, I know it's been this way throughout the whole human history but since we reached an advanced level of material development we should at least reconsider this social dynamic.
Even better: it is possible for N players to fairly (safe from N-1 collusion) shuffle a deck with no central authority. The magic Google words are "mental poker". As you guessed, it involves homomorphic (or at least commutative) crypto.
https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/on-fairness/
Techendo has a good emacs tutorial for anyone looking: http://www.techendo.co/posts/techendo-tutorial-emacs-with-ti...
Green card/ H1B sponsoring?
Isn't lending/selling a Glass against it's terms of use?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google...
What a screwball.
Think of it not as a myth but as an amusing allegory.
Most of my work is done remotely with just my laptop now. When I did have a desktop setup (Cinema display), I spent more time rearranging windows and becoming reacquainted with the smaller/larger display when switching. It just seems easier to open the laptop and have everything exactly where it was when I left it.
I'd say V will still use a modified version of the RAGE engine (GTA4, RDR, Max Payne 3), so it won't (ever?) be released.
> I think Singapore has been a model based on empirical observation -- tightly controlled, but prosperous and happy (vague terms, admittedly) [...]

The expats are happy enough (and the locals I know), but according to surveys, people aren't all that happy. Rather numb, in fact.
> follow directions very carefully - be good at memorizing things - never challenge authority

I have yet to meet a smart person that can't do these things with ease. The only modification I would make, is to "only challenge authority when it is in your best interest to do so." It is generally best to go around authority or ignore it if the consequences are manageable. Challenging authority is generally a waste of time.
Growl a famous Mac open source product selling being sold on the Apple AppStore.
27" Apple display (2010, pre-Thunderbolt), Happy Hacking keyboard, cheap Dell optical mouse that to this day I have no idea where it came from.
Disappointing but not surprising. "I refuse to use Perl 6 until it runs an arbitrary subset of the incomplete specification on multiple backends," said no user ever.
"Smart hackers" does not say anything .... everyone thinks they are smart. Why dont you mention the job description, whether you do Green card/ H1B sponsoring? Which tech stack you deploy.... Are you a recruiter?
The answer is not black and white, although there are certain indicators that make an email very likely to be malicious.

In this case, record the ultimate destination of the link in an isolated browser session (to prevent a possible CSRF attack), then make your judgement from there.
A few years ago, I read The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning by Kralovec and Buell. The authors build a well-presented case against homework for children younger than high-school age based upon their claims that there is little evidence that homework for younger children has any long or short term benefit.

The authors observe that homework is disruptive to family dynamics because it is an ongoing source of conflict between parents and their children. They also observe that the primary reason schools assign homework to younger children is because parents demand it. Both of these observations are consistent with my experience both within my own family and my observations of the families of my child's peers.

On the other hand, I have no way of verifying or denying the author's claims about homework studies failing to demonstrate long term benefits from homework.

Overall, I am glad I read it because it gave me some perspective on the issue. My son still is responsible for doing his homework, and we as parents clearly communicate this to him. Anyway, if you're parenting, I'd say it's perhaps worth checking out.

As an aside, I strongly recommend Juliet Schor's Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture about the way corporations have come to market to children - and it's probably only gotten worse with them having online lives.

End of Homework: http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Homework-Disrupts-Overburdens/...

Born to Buy: http://www.amazon.com/Born-Buy-Commercialized-Consumer-Cultu...