skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> defeated by their school laptops because they don’t have administrator privileges

Physical access is usually game-over from a security perspective. Unless you're doing hard-core encryption and TPM stuff, I bet someone who knew what they were doing, and was allowed to take a laptop home overnight, could root it by morning.

I'm sure that some students have done this.

I'm not going to detail the attack vectors, because I respect those hackers more than I respect the school that gives people crippled hardware, and I want those doors to remain open for others like them.
So...JBQ crisis averted?
I've spent a lot of time looking for books that'd teach some mathematical ideas while keeping the original progression of motivations/concepts in tact.

I'd first recommend "Men of Mathematics" by E.T. Bell. It's a collection of short biographies on 20 or so Mathematicians, also discussing a few of the most salient points of each's work. It's an enjoyable introduction, useful for getting a broad view of what math is made of and how mathematicians think. Bell was a serious mathematician himself (not of the rank of anyone he's writing about, of course), as well as a sci-fi author apparently :)

edit: could also try "Mathematics and the Imagination" as an alternate introduction.

After that would be "What is Mathematics?," by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. This one's a bit tougher, and I have to admit I had the experience of being perplexed at the selection of topics, and that it didn't tell me immediately what mathematics is -- but! Without too much time passing, I now appreciate the selection and think it could be read profitably by trusting that the selection is good and trying to answer the question why that's the case while reading.

At the moment I'm trying my second book from E.T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics, and like it quite a lot so far, though it assumes a little more math knowledge. This one's probably great if you did a mathematics undergrad, or similar, but would like to see the various topics related and given context.

Another I believe worth checking out, if none of the others fits exactly, is William Kingdon Clifford's "Common Sense of the Exact Sciences." I've only skimmed sections in this one, but it looks extremely promising; and from what I've read about it and about Clifford, I think it could be an important piece of pedagogy along the lines of what Lockhart's into. Not too long and pretty accessible I think.
If you don't know how to spell "tires", you don't know how to use a computer.
Of course phone conversation is inferior to talking on the phone, but I wouldn't say I hate talking on the phone. I already know that when I'm talking on the phone, it is either a) to arrange meeting face to face or b) because face to face is not an option.
http://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Paul-Lockhart/dp/067405755... (by guess who) looks like the best starting point since this resonated with you. (I've dipped into it but not seriously tackled it yet.)

It's hard to keep at it, learning on your own. I sometimes find problems where the usual solutions or explanations feel kind of ugly, and try to make them cleaner, like rewriting someone's code. (A couple days ago it was Snell's law: this optics tutorial http://www.bigshotcamera.com/learn/imaging-lens/refraction linked from HN just dropped this formula down, and to most kids it's going to be magic. Can you formulate the law of refraction in a more elementary way and derive it from some simple assumptions? I did come up with a version that never mentions sines, but I'm not really satisfied and it's gone back on the to-do list to try to take it further. See: hard to keep at it.)

More generally, this kind of work can come up all the time when programming if you say, "No, I'm not going to look up the algorithm, I'll work one out for myself and then see what's been done." Occasionally you find something kind of new that way, besides often deepening your appreciation of the usual solutions. For example, last week I found a new way to avoid the epsilon-loops in Thompson's regular-expression search algorithm -- new to me, at least. This has minor significance and came out of a ridiculous amount of work rediscovering things taught in automata-theory classes, but Lockhart wasn't kidding: it's a rush when you figure it out.
The HTML5 form Attribute
"Browser extensions that change some of the parameters of your browser’s snapshot make you even more identifiable because there are often other ways to check the values of these parameters."

For example, use Useragent Switcher in FF, this is effective as long as you keep JS off. With JS the site can interrogate the client and report and any discrepancy would be found, and distinctive.

I've been looking at this from the avoiding-tracking and from the server side (identifying clients independently of cookies). The client is very limited in options with JS on.
Users need more control of this in the browser.

In an application you could in principle track users even across some changes with a sort of "preponderance of the signals" confidence value - weighting several things like Ip, platform etc..
Thanks, I saw images for Google Nexus Phone, and mine is so, and I've got the update already, but made me wonder - There is a verion "With Google Wallet" and one without. I thought you can install Wallet by your choice, or is that not the case?
For me it's the install method. I don't like the 'copy this code into your console' approach; all it takes is a subtly-hacked server and someone can redirect that URL request or cause other mischief.

I just don't understand why Package Control isn't part of the standard Sublime Text 3 package by now. Do any Sublime users not use Package Control?
Father And Son Coaxed From Jungle 40 Years After Vietnam War
I didn't know that. Cool!
Why isn’t Blender taken more seriously?
I'm surprised War Thunder isn't on the list. Has native Rift support already built in, multiple views to choose from (pilot's eyes, virtual cockpit, etc), and is ridiculously immersive.

It's one of the main demos all my friends flip out about, and has them talking about for days after coming to my place and playing it.
Hmm. Weird i tried this with two of the same MP3 files and it didn't change the file size & quality is the same? :/
Original: http://151.236.11.202/mp3/2.mp3
Converted: http://151.236.11.202/mp3/1Vzigd0EXPo1.mp3
Any suggestions?
It's contemptuous of the court if I set up the mechanism because I was going to get such a gag letter.

But to say that a canary I set up a decade ago is contemptuous of a court filing made a month ago is ridiculous.
Hmm, I thought the new Nexus 7 was 'flo', not 'razor'? Have I always been wrong? Or has the development name changed?
For quite a while, I've been saying that too. We have the SMART data to know when they're wearing, so why don't we treat them like race car tires?

http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2012/11/flash-drives...
This then dumb for at least two reasons. I never copy-paste commands because no learning occurs. If you want to work at the command line, you have to work. At the command line.
Creating a Mock Web Service in .NET
Would it be possible to get that math book they wrote and perhaps the teachers' notes to go with it?
ImDisk[1] is free without restrictions and also open source. I just set it as a small system startup script[2] to create a ramdrive on boot into Windows. Makes for a nice throwaway drive for things that are read/write intensive (like compression/extraction) or putting a mini virtual machine on and running it purely in RAM. I also put things like my temp downloads there, page file, temp directories, browser caches/history. I suppose you could put the scratch drive for Photoshop on it as well, but I have never tried that.

Technically, you can also save all the files from the disk on shutdown, but you have to wait for them to copy back, though I prefer the volatile nature of the drive and having it wipe everything on reboot except for a predefined directory structure that gets recreated each boot.

RAM is cheap and I ended up buying 24GB for $150 or so a while back so having a ramdrive gives you a use for all that excess RAM. When I'm using my laptop with 4GB I miss having the extra space a bit.

[1] http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/

[2] https://gist.github.com/yareally/6199239 (my batch startup file example and link to a more detailed guide)
Laws and ethics are rarely synonymous though.
This is a great article of a person who went through the joys of programming coming from not know anything.
To be fair there are still lots of racist and intolerant people here. And nazis, though the antifa usually kick their asses.

But the tolerant and open minded strain is pretty dominant. Germany is 9% foreigners. Frankfurt is like 30%
Have met and been on the receiving end of a few of these types myself. Unfortunately, doing whatever it takes to get ahead and stepping on others to do so seems to work. On the other hand, there are good people in the tech industry as well.
Is this not already the mindset? I worked at a data storage company for a while; everyone knew hard drives fail, because we had so many disks we would have a couple failures just about every day. Everything was designed to be fault-tolerant so we could squeeze the most life out of every spindle, but in the absence of fault-tolerance I'm sure we would have had a spindle retiring schedule.

Are there many companies that do not acknowledge this basic fact of operation?
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/upworthy.com

Traffic seems to be growing exponentially. Upworthy feels like a big deal to me, but I'm struggling to find the proper context: what other sites have been so successful at disseminating socially-aware content across the Internet hive mind? What other sites have gotten this far with manipulating the salience of social issues throughout the online population using finely-tuned viral media?

From their about page:

"We're a mission-driven media company. We're not a newspaper — we'd rather speak truth than appear unbiased. And we're not a political campaign — we're more interested in the powerless versus the powerful than in Democrats versus Republicans."

This isn't just about optimism. This is about promoting social justice by using virality as a transmission tool.
Was a gross generalization I know.

Good luck.
Kids can’t use computers and why you shouldn’t care
Without knowing your skills, interests, or background, any advice is going to be very generic.

1. Attend, and present at, local meetup / groups.

2. Find a "buddy" and collaborate on side projects. Keep them open source, and publicly visible, on both your github accounts

3. Contribute to open source projects

4. Blog about your adventures in ( tech or sector specific task )

5. Apply to consulting companies (they are usually hanging around the local meetup groups)

6. Attend sector specific or technology specific conferences

7. Work Pro bono (as long as you can show the result to others)

Most of this has more to do with building a portfolio, and a personal brand, than actually finding a job. But, that part usually pays off like investing.
Of course, you don't need a Nest to learn to change your habits. Just stop using the HVAC, and you'll come up with alternatives. In my case, a mixture of fan usage and blinds/window usage.
Well, there's my daily laugh :)
“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”
Redd Foxx
try http://sideprojectors.com
the $gnu lol
Nice .htaccess thing
Not to normal consumers. Crap, I've been on the same set of spinning rust for going on seven years.
No, he quit. I believe the reason for his quitting was not so much because Qualcomm was tardy in releasing the images but more because of all the abuse he took from random internet nobodies due to the delay.

The Qualcomm crisis has been averted, the android userbase is still a bunch of dicks.
Yeah, pom files are disgusting, but leiningen (the clojure build tool) is built on top of maven and it's wonderful.

[enlive "1.1.1"]

instead of

<dependency>
<groupId>enlive</groupId>
<artifactId>enlive</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
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When all else fails - http://sideprojectors.com
Hey Imartel -- I've been in a similar situation. I think my first starting point was "Mathematics and the Imagination" or "Gödel's Proof." Mathematics and the Imagination is a good high level overview, and would provide some foundational notions that'll reappear repeatedly -- but, it won't given you any practice in mathematical methods. For that I would recommend "What is Mathematics?" by Courant and Robbins. Can be pretty challenging, but you'll actually get somewhere if you put effort into it. If you haven't had much experience with proofs, it's worth focusing briefly on the process of proving explicitly as a preliminary. That's actually a good thing to do with another person or in a class -- can be pretty difficult to get some of the subtleties involved, and to know when you've done things correctly or not.

I mention "Gödel's Proof" because it's the first thing I came across that informed me I am in fact interested in mathematical systems. I'm more interested in architectures than problem solving though. If you suspect that might be the case for yourself, might check it out -- it's about 100 pages.
Yeah, growing up I had the impression that California was this place where everybody was more interested in renewable energy and saving the environment than most other places.

The reality is California doesn't really make an especially strong showing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_States...
This is what I was trying to get across. The Nest isn't magic. Instead it provided information I could use to adjust my habits, and provide the data to show that my changes were resulting in a net benefit.
Introduction of MS Office Mobile on iPhone, Windows, and Android Phones
America’s accused is offered a job in Russia’s VKontakte
my impression as well
> Of course people can't use computers. They're not trying to use computers. They're trying to get X done. The computer is a device that, most of the time, just gets in the way of doing X.

Far too many times, "Computer Nerds" think that using a computer == getting X done -- because X for them is satisfying some arcane ritual to get some computer usage accomplished.

I'm reminded of Nick Burns from SNL

http://vimeo.com/24762526
Animatronic Hatbox Ghost makes it's appearance at D23 Expo 2013 - Stabley Times
> For anyone who's been paying attention to the darker subtext of the PRISM scandal, you can draw the uncomfortable conclusion that the government is saying: "Hey, tech sector, guess what--the halcyon days of your industry ignoring us are over. We matter, we command, and you obey. Get back into line."

You're the first I've seen to explicitly come to this phrasing, but I can't help thinking that this might be exactly what enrages me so much about their policies.

It feels like being lectured on appropriate behaviour by a pack of half blind chronically delusional half wits who even on top of their massive deficiencies and ignorance have the nerve to condescend in their demands.

Their laughably unjustified hubris needs to bite them, hard.
If the nest is what makes it fun and simple enough to change the habits, it's entirely reasonable to say the nest caused them. Maybe most of the value of the nest comes from behavior modification rather than more precise temperature control. But even so, that's still value.
> To be pedantic, he does NO parsing _of the subdomain_

To be correct, he parses the subdomain. The input is what is "parsed".
Actually, we don't do any processing on mp3 files yet. The following files are compressed to the best of our ability: GIF, JPG, PNG, MP4, OGV, SVG.

Got an idea for a good way to compress mp3 files?
The Invisible Funnel system?
The Invisible Funnel is no more than "negative option" billing method, which is a violation of the Visa/Mastercard rules as well as the FTC just slammed a group of marketers for millions..
Here is a document created by the FTC to explain what this is in greater detail: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/02/P064202negativeoptionreport.pdf
> when most mathematicians look at a set of abstract symbols they don't "see" the symbols per se, they see what those symbols are meant to represent.

Might we benefit from a different set of symbols that actually convey the geometrical meaning behind them? If instead of π, we used a glyph that shows a circle over a diameter, instead of x for a variable, we show an empty rectangle that shows that it's a placeholder for a value?

> Students who said the answer was 44, how did the students who said 26 arrive at their answer?

I came across a great example of this approach in Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor by Edward Lasker. Instead of just showing the right answer for a chess puzzle, he tells you what you did right in your answer and what you missed in getting an even better answer. This was a printed book that was completely interactive.
So you're saying that we should have a verb instead?

FOLLOWERS_FOLLOWERS_FOLLOWING /user/123
i would love to see just the opposite.. plan9-go
a plan9 kernel and tools all coded in go.

but go is a first class citizen when you think of something like raspberry..

you can think golang wherever you can think of python
So don't do anything to unseat the two major parties until the two major parties pass a constitutional amendment making unseating them possible?
I find it hard to believe that the same person writing that line is going to have the same qualifications as someone actually doing what we imagine the NSA does.

A copy error completely means that the NSA is incapable of doing its job! /s
if we think a little bit, go is also a way to have a plan9 runtime that works as a guest in every os :)
If anyone else notices the odd tone I checked the byline which explains it: "Peter Bright / Peter is a Microsoft Contributor at Ars.".

I'm too young to remember the era before Microsoft. I grew up thinking computer == windows. That a major Windows OEM is hoping for a saviour in linux distros and that this is not big news is amazing. That a self-proclaimed Microsoftfy's biggest "concern" is profit margin also underlines how far the world has changed. Granted Android and ChromeOS are not the linux distros slashdot hoped would rule. I would take issue with this and yet the freedom to be different is a culmination of the four freedoms. It took a while but open source's fundamental advantages are pulling it ahead bit by bit.
I've seen actual demos and the product's been improving at lightning speed. Not quite as polished as the CG but I think the special effects are there to help people envision what can be done, since it's really difficult to articulate. It's early-stage but definitely well beyond mere concept. There's some solid talent on the team and I'm excited to see where they go with this.
Can’t find your keys? Ask the Keeo
Please don't use different label names for the same information. Having both "2" as well as "ST2" in different context leads to confusion.
I wonder if it was a hardware issue or something that can be fixed with an update
HTML5 Foundations [eBook]
If we can get AR with the quality of the occulus rift, gesture control with very fine precision and an emotiv like layer for added thought interaction, for 300$, I think we might slowly be getting somewhere...
Yes, the people that covered this press conference are a shining example of the "real reporters" that Feinstein was talking about.

It's a good thing they didn't allow any of those unpaid journalists to talk to the president. They might have actually asked some real questions, and that might have been, uh, embarrassing.
I believe in Gratitude and Generosity
john carmack is watching gentlemen, get ready for a job offer ;)
Apple patent wins could mean U.S. import ban for Samsung
He wouldn't have quit if he knew the images were coming soon. This seems like Qualcomm was taking the heat for it, and decided to let Google use the images. JBQ even said he has been warning Google about this for six months.

So he knew it was Qualcomm the ones that were dicks, but he couldn't convince neither Google nor Qualcomm to put up the images, so he didn't want to take the blame for it from the Android community. This is just Qualcomm responding to the PR mess that they created now.
I didn't agree with most of the article, but the bit about the Microsoft Office curriculum is completely true.

In high school, I wanted to take my school's generic AP Java class. To get to even such a basic level of CS education, I had to sit through _years_ of MS Office and Adobe classes. Thankfully, the workload was so low, I was able to teach myself TI Basic and Actionscript, but those classes were jokes.
As I understand it... Only convention is the reason GET does not usually a body. The spec doesn't prevent it.
A feedback on that GIF: It's way to fast to understand what's going on. Even after looking at it for several cycles I don't get it. I suggest you slow down the playback :)
I wrote that javascript, and I like my bikeshed painted pedantic (http://pedantic.bikeshed.com/)

Happy everyone is enjoying it!
"James Cook, have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
Sounds like someone is upset Acer is "quitting" Microsoft.
I believe you're just reading the surface message here. When I read the article, what I felt was "man, he's really railing against a general decline in curiosity". To paraphrase Marvin of HHGttG fame, our computers may lament so -- here I am, a GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER in your pocket, and all you ask me to do is to tell your friends what you had for lunch?

Sadly, I've been part of this decline in curiosity as well. My son, when he was 4 years old, reminded me of that unadulterated fascination. (translated)

son: "Look, dad!"
me: (looking up) "What?"
son: "Tree!"

... and I humbly thanked him for the lesson of missing a magnificent glorious tree right there in front of my eyes. Its a tree! It made itself mostly from the contents of air by trapping energy from the sun! How cool is that!

All that said, the above anecdote is promising too. If only, we'd nurture our kids curiosity without providing canned solutions for them all the time, as the OP says.

Again, different people are curious about different things. Some are curious about the workings of things around them, some about their origins/history, some about people, some about societies, some about how people think, some about plants and animals and life, some about the planet and the stars ... and some about stuff that they think has-nothing-to-do-whateosver-with-anything-but-in-the-end-hell-it-does (hint - math).

Perhaps we're in an era where polymaths are rare, but curiosity, though heavily fragmented, does live on.

edit: area->era
Offer me such a controller with multi-platform support and I'd buy it at <800$. I think that's a good price to pay to add immersion capability to an Xbox, PC and PlayStation.

And I'm not even a gamer anymore.
You can't write a kernel in Go because it has a mandatory runtime system and garbage collection. However, Mozilla's Rust language is similar in some ways, can work runtime-less, and a small demo kernel has been written in it: https://github.com/charliesome/rustboot
Interesting to note that, according to the stats, most Sublime users that installed Git are on OS X while most users that installed PHP are on Windows. Overall it seems that the Windows user base is the largest.
At best, he parses the hostname / FQDN to extract the subdomain; after which, my previous post applies.
So maybe the chinese bots are trying to download random url to check if they find something interesting?
Bullshit. Google does not sell web services to end users.
Simply not true. There aren't enough people who care. Maybe 1% care. Everyone is going to keep using windows, facebook, and google. There are no nails in any coffin for any of these companies.