skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an actual question for schoolteachers from a National Science Foundation study of elementary mathematics instruction in the United States. In Liping Ma's book (mentioned in my comment above, with links to two reviews), the author took the same NSF sample survey questions to teachers in China and compared how Chinese teachers answered the questions. Here is a teaching question for any reader of Hacker News who has ever had occasion to teach mathematics or explain mathematics to a friend or colleague:

"Scenario 3: Division by Fractions

"People seem to have different approaches to solving problems involving division with fractions. How do you solve a problem like this one?

1¾ ÷ ½

"Imagine that you are teaching division with fractions. To make this meaningful for kids, something that many teachers try to do is relate mathematics to other things. Sometimes they try to come up with real-world situations or story problems to show the application of some particular piece of content. What would you say would be a good story or model for

1¾ ÷ ½ ? "

This problem, providing an illustration for what it means to divide one rational number by another, proves to be extremely hard for United States teaches, but quite easy for teachers in China. What story problem would you devise to embed this calculation into a context understandable to children?
This response made me actually laugh out loud, mostly because of the delivery combined with it's accuracy in alluding to something very important:

We often seem to look at an issue from the other's point of view and deem it wrong or okay based on that. Why? Why not look at these situations that affect us directly from our point of view? Sometimes all that matters is you. This is one of those times.
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I wonder if, in future generations, schoolchildren will write their own formulaic pop-songs as today they write their own sonnets.
I was taught something very similar in a screenwriting class in the late 1980s (it was in 10-15 minute increments rather than minute-by-minute, but still).
There's a sidebar that has the detailed outline, also called a "beat sheet".

http://www.slate.com/content/slate/sidebars/2013/07/the_save...

If you read that, you will notice that the arc of the hero almost exactly matches the one of the prototypical hero from many cultures and mythologies, as explained by John Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

There are just so many elements one can make a compelling story out of.
> the core community would band together and upvote the entire front page to just being erlang articles, presumably as a self-filtering mechanism.

Hey, maybe, that's what brought me here maybe to begin with. Sometimes the strategy backfires ;-)
I need (!) to document a sequence of steps thru a process in the Member Center. Can't do that if I can't get to the Member Center.
It doesn't exactly work like gmail does.

You can set many alternative login passwords in fastmail and the google auth is one of those.

So with the google auth you use your google auth fastmail password and append your google auth login so if your password is Password1, when you login you would be typing something like Password1123456 to login.

You can also set other login passwords for applications or imap with or without delete capabilities but a lot of the time they need full permissions to work with email clients, it could be nicer.
It's odd that the article fails to mention the most high-profile film to follow Snyder's template, How To Train Your Dragon. Unlike the speculative examples in the article, the creators of that film have explicitly acknowledged Snyder's role in the development of their story (he's thanked in the credits). [1] I guess the fact that it was a huge commercial and critical hit (98% on Rotten Tomatoes) doesn't fit the simplistic, tabloid template that's taking over serious journalism.

[1] http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/03/26/how-the-dragon-really-...
the courts always rule in favor of the executive branch. every single ruling. don't even bother reading the opinions; there's nothing useful in those. if you see "United States" at the top, you'll immediately know the victor.
> Win8 is hated/feared more than Vista was.

Not from what I have seen. Vista was hated with intensity, while Win8 is simply 'not necessary yet'/'not better enough to make me upgrade from Win7'.

About the Surface Pro vs Mac Air vs iPad: I expect to be able to use a dockable 2014 Ubuntu Tablet for all the tasks I could do with any of these in 2013.
Actually I have to agree with this. I own a number of tech stocks and MSFT has a pretty stable price, but pays good dividends. Google and Apple on the other hand yo-yo like crazy on the stock price. If you are interested in short term bets on stock prices then GOOG and APPL are of course more interesting, but I'm currently happy to see the dividends rolling in from MSFT.
Why Techonomy Still Believes in Detroit
Paywalled. Anyone got a readable link?
police dry humor at it's finest.
> persecution-complexes

My favorite example of this is how the left attacks and ostracizes those who dare to oppose the gay rights agenda in any way (two examples which immediately spring to mind are [1] [2], but there are many more).

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

I could go on at length about the importance of defending someone's right to state unpopular opinions even (or perhaps especially) if you disagree with them, but I hope HN'ers are smart enough to fill in the details of that argument themselves.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_c...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membershi...
There is also the fact that the unrestricted portions of the German Autobahn were designed deliberately to accommodate 80mph traffic, unlike much of the urban US interstate system.

Of the 11-12 figure transportation projects the US could undertake in 2013, making it easier for people to achieve dramatically lower fuel efficiency by driving 10-20mph faster seems like a poor investment.
Can anyone explain to me how you can adjust for gas savings?
Can anyone explain to me how you can adjust for gas savings?
That's not necessary. Microsoft's net income this quarter was $4.97 billion. They're doing great. They failed to meet Wall Street's expectations this quarter, but that doesn't mean they're getting dragged down.

Additionally, the first few revisions of any new Microsoft product tend to do poorly, but Microsoft has huge stockpiles of cash that they can throw at the problem until they break into a market, dominate it, and start producing positive revenue.
Anybody surprised about this?

This is in line with what we have seen before. The "war on the whistle blower".

Next we'll see attempts to make it illegal to publish classified information after it has been received (or maybe it is already - see the Wikileaks disaster). In that case the reporter and the news outlet itself would be held responsible.
>the honesty of a human-to-human conversation

i think that the dishonesty of human-to-human conversation is exactly the problem that usability labs are trying to solve. People are way less likely to complain about your product to your face, they'll keep insisting it's good and you'll have to work harder to drag the problems out of them.
I don't understand. It's stock performance has been as good or better than those competitors in the very short term.

Are you talking all-time? Microsoft crushes those companies. And IBM crushes it.

My point is, to say that Microsoft is doing poorer than those competitors, you have to pick a very specific time period. Over the long-run, right up until today, Microsoft has been and will continue to be a wealth generating machine, albeit in a competitive market.
Somewhat unrelated, but what other countries have you considered? I wanted to open a US LLC to sell Android/iOS apps (my country is limited to free apps) but given that I can't open a US Bank Account (at this point) I've been looking for other options.
Doesn't seem any different than Judith Miller, who is mentioned at the end of page 2. She went to prison instead of revealing her sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#Contempt_of_cour...
Is anything known about Rowling's motivations in using a pseudonym?
While it is of course perfectly fine to hate read receipts, I don’t see how this is a problem created by read receipts. Before you had little green/yellow/red icons next to your emails and text messages, you were just as sure that your message had been received after a while, simply because emails/letters/texts don’t get lost – unless there actually has been a problem (i.e. a spam folder or a broken connection while chatting or…).

I am personally much happier with a ‘read, but not replied to’ message than with a ‘possibly read, definitely not replied to, did they even get a chance to see that?’ message.

IOW, can someone rephrase the problem the author has and that is apparently created by read receipts such that I can understand it?
We're only concerned with recent history here, though, aren't we?

Everything I needed to know about Steve Ballmer -- and Microsoft's future -- I learned when he laughed at the iPhone on national TV.
Can you name the 16?
The original Github comment by the way: https://github.com/lampepfl/scala-js/issues/4#issuecomment-2...
Ballmer has been a terrible CEO. Time and again he has displayed poor judgement that has cost shareholders billions of dollars.

Here's something to ponder: When Bill Gates retired as CEO in 2000, imagine that the board of directors hadn't chosen Steve Ballmer to replace him. Instead, they chose a CEO who stuck a sign on his desk saying "Windows and Office Development - nothing else" and then went to sip cocktails on a beach in the Bahamas for the next 13 years.

How much more would Microsoft be worth now?

I think Ballmer's alpha-male personality has blinded him to the 'do nothing' option. He loves the thrill and prestige of investing billions of dollars in new projects and is therefore biased against doing nothing and letting the shareholders keep their money.

And when he does 'do something' his execution is often flawed. Here he is in 2007 talking about the new iPhone: "Would I trade 96% of the market for 4% of the market? (Laughter.) I want to have products that appeal to everybody. Now we'll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get." [1]

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/20...
> WP8 is not a dominant operating system. Azure is not a dominant cloud infrastructure. Surface is not a dominant tablet.

The closest claim that was made to any of these was that WP8, Azure, and Surface Pro are "viable offerings" in their markets. Not that they're dominant. You even give an example of "folks who run big stuff on Azure" -- how is that not proof that Azure at least provides competition in the cloud services market?
From your website I assume you're in the US. You could contact the Mars Society. They run analog research missions. Not with spacecraft, but with habitats, rovers, equipment (operated by "astronauts").
You could design and test UIs in the near term and get useful feedback. Plus it's usually a lot less bureaucratic than an official agency or company to have a first look. It's a good entry point. If you see that this works for you, you should use their space industry/agency network to get into further stuff perhaps.

We (oewf.org) have analog missions, too. With rovers, equipment, on-site (analog Mars) control stations. And we have a Mission Control Center, what about better UIs for the ground station? (But I think you should be in Europe for that, working remote is certainly difficult in such a case.)

Another possible partner: Look at the Google Lunar X Prize teams. Some (of the advanced ones) could be interested in UIs for their Mission Control.
For anyone else who doesn't like Hollywood here are some recent film recommendations:

New World (South Korea)

Le Capital (France)

The Berlin File (South Korea) (although the end is disappointingly formulaic)

After Fall, Winter
How The Rainbow Color Map Misleads
Yes, you can use as far as I can tell an unlimited number of domains and aliases in a single account. Another plus over Google Apps is that the aliases are domain-specific (as far as I could tell, aliases for Google Apps applied to all domains).
Delete your nytimes.com cookies, refresh.
Beat the Series A Crunch, Sell Your Team on DeveloperAuction
Google "Hitting China's Wall" and follow the link to get around the paywall.
How I Earned A Lot More on Projects by Changing My Pricing Strategy
I did the same thing, also about a month ago. The latest gmail ui updates were bugging me. Now I have all my accounts forwarding to my fastmail account - works great.
I suggest you read the following link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069163

Especially the answer to "But could this be because they don’t see the benefits of ‘our’ way of life? If they knew, might they want to join us?"
But that woman should not be driving in the first place. So if your training/testing system allows irresponsible people like that to get behind the wheel, then that's where the problem is,and not with the speeds on freeways. Most EU countries have massive fines for eating/drinking/talking on the phone while driving so most people don't do it - that's one problem solved.
The page is meant to track consumer services.
That's not how any of these things went.

> Look at all the trouble they had when they built Windows on top of the IE engine.

They didn't build windows on top of IE. They showhorned IE in as a technical solution to a legal problem (How to abuse their monopoly without it being patently obvious to everyone). Just to be clear - At the time, IE4 was way better than Netscape4 - but it only became popular when it was available by default. And it was a successful solution, on all accounts - they killed netscape, they won the web (for a while), and they paid very little in damages eventually.

> Then the tablet: Microsoft was one of the first to really push tablet computers. Unfortunately, the technology wasn't there to support the idea.

The technology WAS there, but Microsoft's UI wasn't - they continuously tried (and failed) to make a desktop-OS touch-usable. I've never used one myself, but everyone I know who had a Newton said it was "just right". And the palm pilot worked very well too.

People underestimate what apple have done with the iphone and tablets - they've figured out the UI/UX. Hardware is an important, but lesser part of this equation. Microsoft, for 10 years, couldn't figure out that there even was a UI/UX problem.
Really? I missed it. Granted, I didn't read it too carefully because I felt he got repetitive, but I definitely got the impression that he was claiming that the book caused the scripts, and not the other way around. Near the beginning:

Maybe that’s what Snyder intended. But that’s not how it turned out. In practice, Snyder’s beat sheet has taken over Hollywood screenwriting. Movies big and small stick closely to his beats and page counts. Intentionally or not, it’s become a formula — a formula that threatens the world of original screenwriting as we know it.

I read that as "this book caused this kind of screenwriting," not "this book documents the kind of screenwriting that goes on."
Recursion vs. Non-recursion factorial
You had me until you mentioned HTML and JSON...

I think native applications still have advantages, no matter the platform. Specially for games.
Just because it's bullshit does not mean it's useless.

The tree of life model is almost useless for understanding single celled organisms which vastly outnumber there multicellular counterparts. It also creates a lot of confusion where people assume the model matches reality instead of poorly mapping to reality. Consider species is a surprisingly vague concept where A and B may be compatible and A and C are compatible but B and C are not. The point is it's based on inaccurate assumptions, if you understand how and why the model breaks down you can extract a lot of value from F=MA or any other such approximation.
I didn't say we have to gut them. We can talk to them and then nicely ask to pick up some stool and blood samples.

Frankly, I am more concerned about this argument I read in this thread : "We should do it for their children because they aren't given a choice by their parents get in touch with us and it isn't fair." That, is supremacy and way more dangerous than curiosity as an ideology.
If you read that, you will notice that the arc of the hero almost exactly matches the one of the prototypical hero from many cultures and mythologies, as explained by John Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."

Exactly, almost to the point of plagiarism.

We may or may not be doomed to exhaust the possibilities of fiction, but we definitely seem fated to rediscover (Joseph) Campbell once every few years.
I don't know a polite way to say this so I'll be blunt. The first words out of mouth were "holy crap" at how bad the art is. The big image in the link and on the kickstarter video look like mediocre high school art. It's really bad. The game interface is then pure programmer art. Please, please, please hire multiple artists.

That said, this is a great market to be in as HEX raised 2.2 million. Their project already had significant investment before hitting kickstarter though. The bar is quite high. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze/hex-mmo-trading-card...
Teaching fractions as pizza slices entails dividing the circle into 6ths, say, and shading in 5 slices[1]. The wedge in the circle shows relative magnitude; it depicts the fraction as a portion (numerator) of the whole (denominator) regardless of how big the circle is. The magnitude of the fraction is depicted only relative to 1.

On a number line, the magnitude of the fraction is depicted relative to any number. In this sense, we capture the "absolute magnitude" of the fraction, by placing on a line relative to the integers.

---1-----0-----1-----2-----3---
^ ^
5/6 13/6

An individual fraction, as a single-dimensional magnitude, is best represented in an infinite single-dimensional space, where magnitude increases forever in exactly one direction. A circle, on the other hand, has a finite amount of space. Maybe you're right: perhaps it is the infinite nature of the number line that lends itself to "absolute magnitude" rather than the fact that it is one-dimensional.

On the other hand (this is increasingly pedantic): While we could depict 1d magnitude "infinitely" in 2d with concentric circles of area 1, 2, 3, etc, using 2d area to depict a 1d magnitude is not intuitive. The natural alternative is to subdivide the space into units and show multiple discrete units. In 2d, 13/6ths would be two whole pizzas and one 1/6th-filled pizza. But in 1d, the units can be placed adjacent to each other according to the direction of increasing magnitude. In this sense, 1d lends itself to a natural depiction of absolute 1d-magnitude, but 2d does not.

[1] http://www.primarygames.com/fractions/images/pizza_5-6.gif
My understanding (which could totally be wrong) is that the charge is "gross indecency," not specifically labeled "homosexual acts." If it was the latter, some attention might still be merited but I agree I'd rather err on the side of caution (in terms of meting out punishment improperly).
GGplot2 with R
> Because belief isn't all-or-nothing.

Why not?

> Yes, it is exactly what I'm saying.

Here, let me save us a few rounds:

No it's not.

Yes it is.

No it's not.

Yes it is.

No it's not.

Now how about you rephrase what you wrote so we can move forward?
Mark Zuckerberg Spied on for Privacy Documentary
I dunno how it is in US, but in other places all kinds of shady businesses are protected by organized crime. Try to harass their businesses and jokes may end pretty quick.
Graphs like pie charts of like the data structure?
This guy posted an article that affirms exactly what you are saying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069163
I am stunned that apparently there are no HTML5 based trading card games yet. I would have expected there to be hundreds already.
I am pretty sure parent wanted to point out that we live much longer.
U.S. Government Gets Approval to Keep Tracking Phone Records
Th best action movie as determined by whom? Obviously the generally movie-going populace likes the movies that Hollywood produces otherwise they wouldn't go see them.
I don't think it works that way, since it's possible for something to be covered by more than one patent.
M:tG is a behemoth in the space, primarily on the back of the physical cards. Magic Online has a really poor interface, but it can qualify you for a pro tour which has a fairly large payout. The other digital magic games have much better interfaces, but don't tie into the competitive aspects of the game. They still solidify the brand.

I'm curious how these guys plan to compete with the major players in the space. Most of the real products have a huge backing and insane marketing budgets.

Is there a way they're trying to sell this beyond, "hey, why aren't you just playing the largest (and currently growing) CCG?"
I've historically liked him because of the "developers, developers, developers" thing, but over the last 5-10 years I think history has proven you right. He's a bad CEO who consistently makes bad decisions.
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I hope so; I bought one a couple of weeks ago. Nintendo seems to be getting ready for a major push, but I think it will need to make a price cut; not because the console is a bad deal, but because they need to generate positive headlines in the gaming press for the gaming community to stop seeing it as having no future.
Uninstalling NewRelic plugins will remove everything under /var
http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership

I drive 10,000 miles per year, the average cost of premium is $4.40, and similar luxury cars (Mercedes, BMW, Audi) get about 20mpg. That is $183/mo in gas ($4.40/gal * 833 mi/mo / 20mpg) I won't have to spend. Subtract the $30 or so in electricity I will have to spend, and I save $153.
> Child-based tax deductions should be based on what children a couple have, not on what gender the couple are.

Should... and are. You can receive child-based tax deductions even if you are not married at all. Whenever I hear the "deductions are for the children" thing brought up I take it as a clear sign that the person saying it has very limited life experience.
I feel like a very crucial bit of information was left out: how does one acquire cards? Is it like traditional TCGs where you pay a few dollars to get a random dozen? If so, count me out.
The naivete of anyone who thinks introducing a 65k year-old culture to modern society is truly, truly impressive. Imagine what it would take to achieve a perfect (as evidenced by the span of time) equilibrium with your environment.

We through around the word sustainable pretty readily these days, but this is the real thing. These people have achieved a sustainable existence unlike any other.
Stories have always made use of templates and archetypes. However, I vastly prefer Dan Harmon's story circle: http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/4570/673288-danharmonsto...