skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respectfully disagree.

The fundamental idea here is that some people learn how to learn, and others need to always be taught.

Learning "huh, when I hit this switch my wifi turns on or off" is pretty simple. Some people need to be told, and even then it's just a rote mechanical process - no thought as to why, how, or even that the switch is connected to anything. It's all magic.

I wanted to learn to lift even though I've never stepped foot in a gym. I did my research and bought the right books. I went into a gym and did exactly what I set out to do.

I need to replace my windshield wipers. I look up the information for it - it's right next to the new blades in Walmart. Dead simple. I bet a lot of people go to Pepboys for that.

It's as if the scientific method never existed, life is magic, and knowledge can only be gained by truly extraordinary humans.
You just posted the netshare link again instead of a StatCounter one. StatCounter's Mobile OS shows iOS at about 24% last month.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201207-20130...

But I don't think they count iPads and other tablets as "mobile." Their Mobile Browser chart listed iPhone and iPod touch separately and didn't list iPads at all. Mobile Screen Resolutions doesn't include iPad resolutions. Browser Versions (Partially Combined) has a separate entry just for Safari iPad (which actually exceeds Safari 6.0 and Safari 5.1, combined).
Frankly it was financially motivated. It was a lot cheaper to consolidate resources with the county.

The happy consequence of community development was not, I assume, planned.
Nick Burns: http://vimeo.com/24762526
This was the closest article I could find on it.

Several news outlets are now hinting as of 2pm EDT there is going to be an announcement about surveillance reform.

He will appear around 3pm EDT (just under one hour from this post).
The problem is people are ok or are even proud of not knowing how their stuff works, even the author isn't ashamed that he has to ask a salesmen what car to buy. People in Africa can take apart your car and put it back together, people in India can become experts in computing from a computer stuck in a wall[1].

Rich lazy first world humans are proud of the fact that they have advanced technology they don't need to understand, its a sign of luxury and 'success' like new clothes you just throw away as fashion changes.

1.http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_educa...
Not something you'd expect from RSA, of all places.
He stills pretty much explodes Holmes and Rahe stress scale. Some people would have simply killed themselves. Sure, the guy has grit. Doesn't mean that he likes being there. It's a whole different life style. You have to build everything from the ground up.
>40+km

Ha! Only 40km? I know many people who drive ~300km to get to a Costco. Hell, several people I know refuse to move to a city without easy access to Costco -- even if it means not taking a promotion. That's some serious store loyalty there. I love Costco, but not that much!
The fact that you think that verbal regurgitation of pedantic bullshit is more of a response than my "this guy is a teacher, wtf" response is probably the same reason this guy felt able to judge someone who had trouble with her computer when he couldn't configure a proxy on a Mac. You calling content filtering on a school network draconian is also ridiculous, this article blows.
The author wasn't even an IT bro--he was a stand-in whose real job was teaching.

This all said, would you expect that a doctor would have patience with somebody who insisted "My body hurts" without being willing to provide more detail?

Terminology matters, and those who think it does not are doomed to be taken advantage of by people with more nuanced ways of reasoning about the world.
Woohoo! Hadn't heard of you guys until today but excited to give SimpleTax a try. I've already filed 2012 taxes but I've added a link in my 2013 taxes folder and will give you a shot next year.

Pay what you want is an interesting (crazy?) choice...care to elaborate on why you went this route? Everyone is already used to paying for tax software so on the surface it would seem like a no brainer to charge a fee.
Just a screwdriver? That's a bit of a simplification.
Even excluding electronic components, you'd need a fair bit of skill (and machinery) to rebuild a VANOS system, install fresh synchros in a transmission, blueprint an engine...
Should I Use Scalding or Scoobi or Scrunch?
What evidence is there of the huge traction? Have they announced actual numbers?
> actually those things exist , but they don't

Not sure what you were trying to say here; one "Java in hardware": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava
I assume you eventually fixed it yourself. So therefore you can use a computer.

This is not about stupid mistakes.
Hmm.. let's not criticize the situation now because it was much worse in the past. But I'm not shocked you used that argument given your apologist comments on other posts related to the National Sorority Agency on HN.
Why is the copyright notice in a scripting file instead of something almost guaranteed to be statically served? Or was that part of the attack?
What are examples of comments that tell you why instead of how or what?
I get your point and I usually try to gage the techincal level of the person I'm helping and how interested they are in learning new stuff and explain/fix accordingly, but the author still has a point, way too many people these days have no idea how to do anything on a computer and the situation only gets worse when parents try to tell the world that their kids are "tech natives" when in fact they know nothing more than how some socialnetwork's UI works.

For example I graduate couple years ago from basic computer science vocational institution where we learned how computer hardware works, how to install a new OS and basics of web developement (PHP & MySQL), but now all of my former class mates contact me for tech help through skype even though they should all be "IT literate", but it was just a degree with for most of them, something to waste couple years on to figure out what they wanted to do.

Now I'm studying a computer science engineering degree and easily 1/3 of my class mates have no idea how to code or even how to use basic HTML and CSS tags and we've been at it for 2 years now, sure they are passing "Java 101", but if you gave them a task to write a piece of software most would just raise their hand in air and state "I can't do that" without even giving it a go and I know this I've been trying to recruit new blood to tech club where we write simple apps for Android phones for fun, experience and credit.
You guys should try http://www.CodeAnywhere.net, free online code editor that connects via ftp, dropbox and has a built in sandbox as well.
I see it as the opposite: there's no prevailing idea amongst mechanics that inexperienced drivers who rely on assistance to diagnose and fix simple engine faults are incapable of using the road
Results of May's HN unix command survey (spoiler: lots of Rails)
Sorry for the delay in replying, some more directly relevant replies had higher priority.

There is of course no official memo, these people aren't that dumb, or rather know the MSM wouldn't get away with carrying their water if one came to light. But there's pretty clear testimony by a BATF whistle-blower of a supervisor's comments that laid it out. While I don't have much respect for anyone in the organization, the rank and file properly had drilled into them the principle that they weren't to let guns walk, it's a cardinal rule and a lot of them are very upset at what happened.

And it's clear to anyone capable of following a logical argument based on three undisputed facts about the Arizona operation (it looks likely there was also a Texas one, and we have some evidence for a Florida/Miami area one targeting Latin America below Mexico):

When gun stores called up the BATF about extremely suspicious buyers, it told them to allow the sales, around 2,000 guns in total.

Unlike the Bush era's Wide Receiver operation, which put radio transmitters in the stocks of rifles, no attempt whatsoever was made to follow the guns south of the boarder, including informing, let alone involving the Mexican government (they're not happy).

Top Cabinet level officials like Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, plus many figures on down, made statements about how American gun stores and shows were supplying Mexican drug cartels despite a paucity of evidence.

E.g. you can't buy grenades or post-1986 manufactured automatic weapons in those venues, and for the usual reasons not really including effectiveness they prefer full auto M16s (originally supplied to the Mexican government by the US) and AK-47s (generally available on the black market, and much less bulky than drugs) to more expensive semi-auto US civilian versions. It should go without saying that the Mexican government doesn't ask the US government to trace weapons stolen from their armories.
Sneaky? That's not sneaky at all. The presence of eval is a great big flashing sign saying "Backdoor here!". Why on earth does the copyright file have code in it? Sneaky is the infamous sys_wait4() backdoor in the Linux source, or using open($filename) in perl, or letting someone pass in a debugging filename that you treat as a relative path without realpath().
What you are essentially saying is that people can create a community with the intent of making everyone equal, but they will invariably fail because people are, in fact, not equal. Liberalism and Leninism are two consequences of this axiom. The former tries to provide the weaker but more feasible guarantee of equality of opportunity. The latter tries to make people believe they are equal by getting them to ignore inequality.
The government is a particularly painful place to do defense, but even in the commercial world, defense is pain and generally doesn't attract people who are as "awesome" as offense. It tends to be more a conventional IT function, just implementing standards on existing stuff, mainly policy, etc. (NSA/DOD uses totally conventional computers for almost all of its work, so it's really "how to secure large Windows networks")

It's different when you're designing/implementing security for a new system which is very limited in scope (e.g. I would have loved to have been on the PAL design team for nuclear weapons) and very important/high profile. If you're doing anything else, it's much more a conventional IT job.

In the commercial world, it's kind of like how bitcoin (being disruptive, even if relatively undeveloped and toylike) is super popular, and is exciting, while no one is really super-enthusiastic about implementing x9.9898908098, ACH, etc.

I actually had no idea about there being different contractors on the offense side, since my contact has been really with the defense/customer side (which is shared with most of DOD). It's somewhat reassuring, as I wouldn't actually trust the "defense" people I've met with the level of information and access NSA obviously has.
I'm happy to see that they're treating their employees well. I really am. And I know this seems petty but; why the hell do they insist on starting Christmas in August? I walked into my local Costco last summer and one of the first things I see are Christmas tree's for sale. In August. I've grown to HATE the Christmas holidays because of retail behavior like this.
It gets much more precise than that, it's the phase that matters not the time. Laser interferometers routinely measure microns.

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

If they're not going for that kind of precision and range they could simply use ultrasound instead of a laser.

Range on this thing is impressive and precision is too: accurate up to 0.075 ", though they don't specify at what range that precision is still attainable. Typically with increased range on cheap devices you'll get an increase in absolute error so a percentage of the absolute distance would be expected. Maybe that's due to this being a laser device.

Interesting application of tech, a bluetooth enabled range finder could really be useful, especially for realtors that have to measure up a whole bunch of houses on a typical day and that need to keep track of what they measured.

Even more useful if the app would record audio along with the measurements made for later transcription.
The culture of innovation needs the infrastructure of innovation
This article has quite a serious error:

>>> This prototype is stating that a function called Copyright3_6_56() will be declared later on somewhere else in the code.

PHP has no function prototypes that "state that a function will be declared later". This thing just doesn't exist in PHP, unlike C. Copyright3_6_56() would be just a function call (with missing ;, so likely would cause a syntax error unless ; is found later).
It's not about how to run a society, or a corporation.

It's about how to live your life.

All snark aside, I'm really, really sad that there's someone on the other end of this communication that immediately thinks only of how to optimize how well they fit into someone's machine.
Dad got to fly Concorde one time - he was trapped in Paris by a strike against Air France. The business associate he was visiting went to the counter and started yelling at the Air France attendant. In order to "make the problem go away", the Air France guy gave dad the very last ticket on the Concorde.

He said the interior was cramped, but the food was amazing and watching the Mach number climb past 1.0 was phenomenal.
Thank you - I wasn't sure what the point of that was, other than illustrating that perhaps I don't make my points clear enough. :)
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F/OSS drivers for high-end phones are practically nonexistant; Google can't even release binary (!) drivers for the new Nexus 7.
This post made me realize I've come to use "TL;DR" as "thesis" or "abstract" - giving me something of a sense of what the writing promises and where it's going before I dive in - and I found it somewhat jarring when this one didn't meet my expectations.
I don't know about that. It seems like the complexity of operating a car (at least in terms of "# of things you need to know about") is pretty similar to that of a computer (at least on Linux/Mac systems; Windows is needlessly complicated for the non-tech-savvy user imo).

In a car the things you HAVE to understand are the shifter, (P/D/N), the interplay between gas/brake/coasting (which is more complex than it sounds; just ask any new driver), the array of necessary controls for auxiliary devices (headlights, windshield wipers, side-view mirror controls, etc). EDIT: forgot the emergency brake, and all the rules/mechanics of the road (stop signs, parking on a hill, left turns, right turns, etc etc etc etc)

For a computer, for most people's day-to-day usage, the only things you really need to understand are: logging in to the computer, the browser, Google, and the URL bar (technically optional, as many people use Google directly for everything). I understand that, complexity-wise, each of these don't match up one-to-one with the car example, but the fact remains that with very little effort, and almost no "under-the-hood" understanding, you can become what passes for "savvy" these days.

Anecdotally, my dad has always been extremely non-tech-savvy; He had _years_ of being set in his cargo cult usage of his computer (in which he didn't really distinguish between having a browser open and being on his att yahoo homepage, having a window minimized and having it closed, logging into yahoo and logging into the computer, etc). I was able to explain to him the 3 or 4 pieces that fit together using a simple example (e.g. "websites are places you go, the browser is the vehicle that gets you there", etc). He still doesn't necessarily understand anything even marginally under-the-hood; But he understands the operation of a computer (for his purposes) pretty solidly, and no longer has the issue of being helpless when the situation he encounters deviates slightly from what he's used to (i.e. opening the browser and not being logged in to yahoo, for whatever reason).
Moving forward, yes. Why can't he provide content dumps?
Funnily enough though, all of those things get the job done.
Open-Source Seattle transit app, OneBusAway, finally updated
That's a really freaking beautiful website.
I get the feeling that the author was judging the person he was helping far more harshly than the perceived judgement she might have passed on him.

There are certain professions that get brought problems constantly by people who think nothing of having you work for them for free.

Doctors get this constantly at parties, at the grocery store, functions for their kids, etc. "Does this look like anything to you?" To a much lesser extent, IT people get similar requests from people.

I have been brought at least a dozen computers in the last year with desperate pleas of, "I have x years of pictures on this computer and it won't turn on!" Take a look and half the time they have a virus the other half their hard drive is dead. My profession is in corporate IT but they just know I "work with computers". So they trudge right over, notebook in hand asking me to recover their data. I've spent as long as 7 hours and as much as $50 for these data recovery jobs on things like circuit cooler and replacement hard drive circuit boards.

The more appreciative always offer to pay. But I always decline because then I'm responsible for anything that doesn't work on that computer for the next 10 years. "You re-installed Windows nine years ago and last week my Caps Lock key broke, WHAT DID YOU DO?" The nicer ones end up buying me a case of beer then. So then I end up working hours on behalf of an aquaintances for beer instead of providing for my family at my typical $150 hourly rate.

Ignorance is your right so long as you don't ask other people to clean up after you for free.
It's as if the scientific method never existed, life is magic, and knowledge can only be gained by truly extraordinary humans.

That's exactly the problem with this.

We get to support the idea that all humans are created equally and deserve the same rights and freedoms, or we get to have that mindset. It's a bad spot to be in.
I can't say that I can pop the hood of my car and instantly know what's wrong, but I can change oil, tiers, lamps and battery and add necessary liquids. I don't know if that's a lot, but I like to think I know something about cars.
I personally thought this was a very good article. It definitely gave me a lot to think about with regard to how much I help my family members fix their computer problems instead of "teaching them to fish" so to speak.

First thing that came to mind for this:

> When they hit eleven, give them a plaintext file with ten-thousand WPA2 keys and tell them that the real one is in there somewhere. See how quickly they discover Python or Bash then.

Was "How will they learn Python without Google"? Only to look to my right and see my Python book. facepalm

Agh, the dependence.

Well done!
And if you feel like contributing...

https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-iphone
The most helpful monad tutorial http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/write_some_fucking_co...
Aw. I was expecting a CRM (which is what the original title says) but all I got was a CMS.
Teachers can't punctuate, and why it should worry you...
Another Russian expression:

"You will never carry knowledge [as a burden] on your back."

Can you tell I was raised by intellectuals? Heh.
Par for the course in science journalism.
I've heard worse. One such office worker is tasked to duplicate an Excel file. She does so by printing the original one, manually drawing the grids with pen and ruler, labeling the columns, and then typing it all in cell by cell.

She works by the hour and earns massive amount of cash.
Data scientist : career of future
Steve Jobs lost interview
Koding looks interesting, however my interest in the project died after waiting several months to get into the beta but hearing nothing and seeing no changes to their site. I'd still love to try it though, but I won't hold my breathe.
The Seed+ vs Pre-A Round Financing
And what of those who dissent to your "best form for society to adopt"? It takes intelligent and productive people (as in, it takes intelligent people, productive people, and people who are both) to make such a society work. When you provide no incentives for intelligence or productivity, because those incentives create inequality, then such people will complain (upsetting the balance), leave (gutting the society), sabotage (undermining the society), or simply stop caring (grinding the society to a halt). What then?
Analytics Press doesn't seem to have any eBook options. I hope that changes.
CRM, CMS, RGB, DNS. What's the difference. Our search is still over.
Hell if anything (at least for me), doing it in front of complete strangers makes it way worse. I freely admit ignorance to people I know even slightly well; they already know I'm a certain level of intelligence, so I don't worry as much about one contradictory data pt. By contrast, in front of strangers, the only thing they'll know about me is my ignorance in that situation.
NAND to MIPS: A Crash Course in CPU Architecture
I'm much more bothered by the wanna-be assault troops than the retired assault troops. Both on a scared-for-my-personal-safety level and on a go-join-the-military-you-wannabe-tryhard level.
If you read the article, you would know the answer.

"A hundred years ago, if you were lucky enough to own a car then you probably knew how to fix it. People could at least change the oil, change the tyres, or even give the engine a tune-up. I’ve owned a car for most of my adult life and they’re a mystery to me."
Why JavaScript Will Become The Dominant Programming Language Of The Enterprise
Spideroak is the dropbox alternative
I live in Houston, fourth largest city in the US.

We're a spread-out city, and our police force (at least at the time of the Occupy Houston protests) was undergoing severe budget and pension cuts. We simply are not providing police the resources they need to create a solid and friendly community relationship, are not giving them the opportunity to be anything other than random thugs in Crown Vics.
I really wish he had chosen some other means for accepting donations. PayPal has gotten so bad that I literally can't donate money to a worthy cause because I can't even change my fucking address on file without some generic error message popping up.
The counterpoint is...can you imagine Hoover as the next DIRNSA?
Obama meets with tech execs on surveillance, privacy
The article is missing the MD5 hashes of the malware sample. There is an old adage from malware reverser: "MD5 or it didn't happen".
What you're looking for is Matterport: http://matterport.com/ (another YC company)
Black Duck's Open Source Weekly Wrap Up
Email Company Used By Snowden Shuts Down Instead of Handing Data To Feds
Here, Take mine:
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