skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grouping children by age is silly, of course, but maybe it's preferable to grouping "by level of intelligence". Why? First, you need to teach to the level per activity. A child that excels at reading may be slower at math, one that is good at math might be poor in art. And each child will have a different response to different teaching methods.

What we're looking for is individualized learning, where possible.

For example, I think it's crazy for teachers to lecture, when the best lecturers for any field can be found on-line. Why listen to someone drone on about the Battle of Hastings when you can have a professor who is passionate about exactly that doing the talking? Children should have the ability to explore topics and listen to lectures individually, moving at their own speed, and then come together to do group activities in class.
Bose, obviously. But also Mcintosh, Nakamichi, Harman/Kardon, Sennheiser, and Bang Olufsen (Peter Bang was the audiophile in that duo).

But Dolby is different in that he didn't actually make any consumer products. Everything was licensed to studios, OEMSs, theaters, etc. His brand was the Microsoft of the consumer audio world.
Even 'alert(1)' produces over 500 chars. Imagine running a proper app trough this. It's hardly cheap.
Unfortunately reddit has more discussion these days: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1m8s55/ocaml_40...
That's a pretty awesome hack of JS's (rather insane) semantics. It's probably worth understanding at least the primative examples though if you're a JS programmer, because this actually happens sometimes to expressions you write.

For a little bit of insight into why []+[] === '', for example, check this out: http://www.2ality.com/2012/01/object-plus-object.html
I dont get it :/ if it says:
1 => +!+[]

Then why does it still translate to 1128 characters? :/
Lawyer's comments about whether a CEO goes to jail for fighting the NSA
The sad thing is we really do need better banking regulation, but even this thread is full of people who are just angry and think 1) something must be done 2) this is something 3) therefore we should do it.

I think we should pay government regulators like $400,000 a year. That way instead of having the C students from Harvard's class trying to regulate the A students, you can grab some of the A students to pull into the regulatory role.
I had a similar problem. I have a Brazilian name which means I have multiple middle names which normally means it can't fit in the required space.

When I renewed my UK Passport they just decided to lose one of my names. I was furious, but it became clear I'd need to go through administrative hell to correct it, and I needed the passport at the time.

Some time later, I've just given up on having my full name. I prefer just to give out a firstname lastname and ignore my middlenames. Its just far too much hassle to go through. As far as I am concerned, I have an external name which fits in ASCII and complies with anglo-centric formulae and an internal name which doesn't.

Thats just my personal choice though. My sister is defiant and managed to get her full name on by demanding that it was an unhyphenated triple barreled surname.
I think the premise of prototyping tool is pretty accurate. It makes easy to get something up and running and defer any operational knowledge until later. That being said, I don't see why people can't iterate their apps quickly on time-proven relational datastores. While having JavaScript through the stack is nice, I found writing Mongo Queries a PITA with all the curly-braces, etc...
I put in alert('hello') and it worked. That's awesome. But how? I searched the code it made and didn't see 'hello.' I understand the stuff below, how it uses JS's weird properties to the basic types... but how does it encode characters?
Actually you'd want to save it as (1 . (2 . (4 . (8 . NIL)))) since o/w you'd still get quadratic time complexity as you need to unpack your whole list when you add the next value.
If a random attacker in your local network can do that easily you should talk to your bank about SSL or change to one that actually knows basic internet technology.

SSL should be assumed as broken for defence against government surveillance but it still keeps the most common attackers out.
I make mobile games, and don't have money to.advertise the level we calculated we need. Our competitors we discovered talking with drunk employees saying too much that the advertising budget is usually from 1.5 to 2.5 of the game development cost. New franchises from new companies then this go to 5x the dev cost.
For servers, you might as well just call a rep because the price they are going to give is going to be 20-40% below the price on Dell's website.
When using Hyper-V, Windows works like the good old mainframes virtualization.

The hypervisor takes the OS role, and what you see as main OS is actually a guest OS as well, that has control privileges over the other virtualized instances.

I never used this type of CI build, so I cannot speak much about the real resource usage.
But I am a "Brilliant Internet Explorer Dick"
In the Netherlands, we do group by intelligence, got a whole group of systems for kids age 12 and up. Seems to work well.

Still grouped by age too, though you can move up or down a class if that suits you. Grouping by age doesn't always work, as age is a big factor in what kind of people you feel comfortable around.
You are focusing on a very specific thing (selling mortgage backed securities) as if that was the only thing that went wrong before, during or after the financial crisis. Are you aware of how widespread foreclosure fraud was? Why were Chase executives (to pick an example) not made accountable for that? If I was caught defrauding people out of their homes I would see jail time.
The NSA, Google and Apple know most WiFi passwords around the world
I am so confused, now. When we speak of a trans[$], is the noun used supposed to be the source-sex or the target-sex? I know it is common courtesy to refer to a person as their current preferred/identified gender, so does that apply to this terminology, too?

That is, a transgender man would not be a man who became a woman, but a woman who is now a man?
That's amazing. It lacks the load-bearing side of wheels + rod but anyway, thanks.
Probably a 501(c)(6), it's for business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce or the NFL. It's not really a loophole, it's exactly what the designation was created for.
Weird. I just sold an iPad2 on ebay last month for $300. Looking at eBay, that is the current going price for a used iPad 2 in good condition (as mine was). So when I saw MSFT offering $200, I thought this was a bad deal for their consumers.
Ask yourself how did it happen that some people got some much power to affect economy around you. Now find a way to insure/protect yourself against that.

You will probably find out that, for instance, central bank manipulations with currency are protected by police enforcement in forms of various laws and regulations anybody dealing with money needs to comply ("allowed to participate on the market"). Liberty Dollar founder was deprived of all his customers' silver and is being prosecuted. Bitcoin companies are all on the verge of being harassed etc.

Or, if you want to create an alternative bank or fund, you'll find it's not so easy to do: people with armed forces will politely ask you to comply with tons of regulations. It's basically a one self-protecting cartel and the basis of it is access to "legal" violent power.
Everyone loved the housing bubble. The bankers made the most off of it, but the rest of the mob went along because they had convinced themselves they would get rich, too, and were pushing it along as hard as they could.

I still occasionally encounter people who think the problem with the housing bubble wasn't that it ever existed, but that it ended.
Starting My Next Company
[2011] Stackparts
Yep. The US (and California especially, because of their unique blend) actually pays a little more for the fuel itself than UK consumers. It's only a few cents a gallon, but it reflects our higher transportation costs (it has to be shipped further from the refinery to the local gas station). The major difference is in the taxes.
I've always said that when I start a company I'm going to give out really meaningless titles like "Super Nintendo" and "Stealth Bomber", and make sure they go on the business cards.
"Awesome future bitch".. okay it has to be a little realistic.
I'd guess sell them. I sold my iPad 2 for $300 on ebay last month.
I've just tried, I get about 6 seconds only if I used a lot other things, but still near instant if I've used the camera recently.
> Does indeed look at like a marketing ploy. Nothing wrong with that.

Marketing via astroturfing (fake public engagement) is at best unethical, and often illegal.
Similar story here... My first and middle name were concatenated on my social security card, and I lost a few letters in the process too.
> 767

It's good to be a billionaire.
You don't really have much of a choice, assuming you're a business. Dell, HP, maybe Lenovo.

Lenovo and HP's business websites were a disaster for the longest time, they basically forced you to go through a VAR, and Dell had such a huge price advantage that it didn't make sense to go with anyone else.
Interesting, any reason for 70% exactly? Os is that just on your personal experience? I'd have thought Nigeria and East Europe would have been higher.
>Well, AFAIK, this doesn't happen with most humans struggling with addiction to hard drugs. Addicts will neglect everything, namely social activities, in order to get what they need.<

Do you have any tangible data to support your claim?
On a related note, I'm looking for a good program to sponsor a child's education. Most of what I find are run by church-affiliated groups which is fine if the education is secular. Any suggestions would be welcome.
"Ultra Error Expert" -- I can stand behind that. I take some functioning code and make it non-functioning in no time!
Are Entrepreneurs Made?  Or Born?
For many people activities you mentioned is so called cage. Getting high is a way to get away from socializing, playing, friends and family.

And why? That is up to individual to answer, if he dares.
People, Product & Customers: 3 things for startups to get right - Brad Feld
It converts certain things into strings. Like [][[]] => undefined, and then gets the characters by index from that string and puts your original string together.
Ask HN: Seeking the ultimate definitive guide to installing postgres on OSX
Usually whenever Postgres stops working I feel like I'm bumping around in a dark room in working to understand what is actually going on and a process to apply a fix myself.

A year ago I asked a question on stackoverflow as I was having problems with postgres, since then the
question has had over 15,000 views.

If someone would be willing to write up a definitive guide explaining core concepts of why things go bad and how to diagnose these issues yourself I'm sure it will get lots of views.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-not-connect-to-server-no-such-file-or-directory

[edit] Here is a more pithy discussion on the problem:
http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2012/09/postgresql-packaging-on-mac-os-x-is-mess.html?m=1
NSA reportedly tapped Americans' calls, even phone sex [2008]
Go-Restful: A library to build REST based services using Go
network connectivity, sure. I spend most of my time on a university campus, which has pretty much every port (bar 80) blocked, so if an updater decides to use another port, I can't access it. Sure, with a VPN I can fix it, but it's not an ideal solution.
Simple explanation: they broke no laws
Im not sure but once you have 0, 1, 2 and 10 as numbers you could add and subtract those to get any number you want, then express those numbers as strings (casting).
Look at the source.

It uses various techniques to get at e.g. type names, and then uses string indexing to access characters in the type name. It has enough characters like this to be able to call fromCharCode.
Show HN: Which iPhone 5c Color Should I Buy? Simple JS app
"When naloxone, which blocks the effects of morphine, was added to the morphine-sugar mix, the rats’ consumption didn’t drop. In fact, their consumption increased, suggesting they were actively trying to avoid the effects of morphine, but would put up with it in order to get sugar."

Is not completely right.. How about the usage increased because they were actually looking to get more morphine?
It increases the constant time, as reverse is O(n).
As one part of your solution, I recommend restricting the machines that can make outbound requests to a certain pool, and then limit that pool's total bandwidth, throwing an alarm whenever the limit is hit.

It may be that you are big enough that even the limited bandwidth you need for normal operations is enough to take out smaller hosts, so you'd need to measure and monitor to see how well this works.
That's not correct.

EDIT: The comment I was replying to was deleted. The point I was making is that different tranches in a CDO have different ratings. The lowest tranche (i.e. the ones that will suffer losses first, commonly referred to as the equity tranche) will effectively be rated as junk, while the top tranche (which would only suffer losses if every single other tranche had been wiped out, often called something like the "super senior" tranche), would be rated AAA.
Apparently I "♥ Android Dick" sigh
I like to come into work at night, open a cpp file somewhere deep in our code base... then remove a semi colon.
it's not called Mou, it's called openMou,
as with Microsoft Office, there is OpenOffice
Uncheck "Eval source".
Isn't it about time we get new security standards for Wi-Fi? Is there anything in the works right now to replace WPA2?
For this to be a worry, every person up both branches of a very large hierarchical organization tree--all the way up to where a Google Ventures employee and a Gmail developer both report to the same person--would have to agree to it.

That's ridiculous. The risk isn't institutionalized abuse, the threat is an unscrupulous guy in the Ventures group who has a buddy who works in the gmail (or other) groups. Calls him up one night and says, "Can you do me a big favor? Check out so-and-so and see what he's working on."

It isn't about Google's bottom line on wall street, it is about an individual abusing access to further his own career.
Oops, forgot to times by 100. My bad. That's 0.000014285571%.

But then we can remove over 7 billion people who have never made a basic mathematical error, as you're right - the ability to do arithmetic is a critical skill in extreme mountaineering.

This leaves us with a world population of 1. It must feel great to be the only inerrant mathematical mountaineer in the world - was that skill learned, or is it innate?
Here’s why censoring misogynist speech would be bad for women
Since everyone is guilty to some extent, and we let go free the financial "team", let's apply the same logic to borrowers. They could not foresee the crisys coming... Now let them keep the houses and erase debt records. Maybe this will make financial team more responsible for their actions in the round 2?
My question is this: if the rats knew that taking the morphine after moving to the park would keep the withdrawals away, would they have still taken the water?
I hope you write #line 9000 on the previous line to add to the confusion?
London - interesting corporate security or intelligence roles?
Hi there,
After five years in a great role, I'm now looking for interesting corporate security or intelligence roles in London...also open to other interesting offers outside of this realm!
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/rory-byrne/0/72b/95a/
Addiction is a topic that has been poisoned by deliberate Drug War propaganda. Almost everything about drugs on TV shows, which are paid to include it in their content, is government approved propaganda.

But wait, it gets worse: Non-addicted people are sent for "treatment," in order to avoid jail. So there is a whole industry of quack medicine diluting and poisoning the real science of addiction.

The Drug War is the foundation on which most of the prison industry, and most of the budgets of police departments rests on, plus whole federal law enforcement agencies, large segments of Homeland Security, etc. Truth is a low priority. Question everything you think you know.
GCTA =? Clinical trials by Google Analytics?
I get guild invites pretty much every time I play one of my unaffiliated toons. What I do is look at the names of the other player characters in the guild: \who guildname, and see how many of them have accented or unicode names. I ignore the guilds with more than one or two, as those players are typically more immature than someone who took the effort to come up with a more "normal" name -- one that can be typed on a US keyboard.

Personally, I tend to name my female characters with a vowel on the end. So sort of like Russian names. ;)
Which model of Windows Phone did you own? How long did you use it? How big of a SkyDrive did you own? Did you use Outlook.com or Hosted Exchange/Office 365?

For me, I'm very happy with my Lumia 928, 125 GB SkyDrive and the 400+ users I set up on Office 365 love the email system and web based Office.
"If anything on the few occasions I've used it, it actively put me off."

Cocaine can't have actively put you off that much if you did it again a few times. Reminds me of the joke "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it lots of times."
In most of the US, you just walk into an employee's office and tell them they are fired. If you tell them a reason that is discriminatory, prepare to be sued, but most of the time you are not required to give them any reason at all.
Thanks for the advice. When I mentioned getting too old I was referring to startups specifically. With C++ work I know I have less to worry about in terms of age.

I understand what you're saying about the "less cool" technologies but they don't interest me. The whole point is to guide my career down a path that is more enjoyable and fulfilling so doing something like that seems a step backwards. I appreciate the advice though, thanks!
Also worth mentioning the inspiration (and why the name has "fuck" in it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
As were the management of Enron, or Bernard Madoff, or Robert Maxwell....
That is the feeling I get from Ansible, its seems easier to get up and running but I wonder if it is more powerful than Puppet as you expand beyond the initial phase. I have been implementing Puppet at work and the ramp up was hardeous but I am now at a state where I can do powerful things with Puppet(ENC, Hiera, Dashboard).
I can't remember where I read it, but google does notify you. They can't say the NSA was in your account – they're under a gag order – but they do put a notice on your account so you're aware. I'll try to find a linl.
Recent discussion on the same topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379439
I find that nicotine's addictiveness is due to legality. That being said, I quit the various opiates much easier than cigarettes.
Acceptance tests with Behat
I just think that simply holding them accountable would be a good first step.

Say what you like about Dick Fuld but he lost both his job and the majority of his wealth when Lehman Bros went under. Have any banking regulators been even demoted for letting the financial system come to the brink of collapse on their watch?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-12/where-is-dic...
I could swear the article I just read ended with the conclusion that jailing wouldn't work and that structural reform would be better. In fact, I'm positive it specifically mentioned that we shouldn't punish businesses for failing, and that changing this policy for businesses with potential for collateral damage is a bad idea.

I understand entirely why you object to the article's tone, but perhaps "Nobody's in jail for this, and it pisses us off, but it's not tenable to put people in jail for this so let's look at other options" is the perfect message for people who don't already understand what you're saying.
I meant to say that VMs can do a deeper level of process isolation. They also perform complete hardware virtualization, which means you can run a completely different OS inside the VM. However, in terms of performance, VMs are not necessarily faster than containers at all tasks.
Currently, there is only 5 characters in the HN headline: "[]()+". Maybe a mod removed the "!" because they thought it was being used for emphasis. It could be placed before the "+".
I think the attention on the world's poor is great...and I'm not going to be one of those naysayers who argue, "Poor people don't need smartphones they need food"...but the OP is doing some serious forward-jumping here.

Let's assume that smartphones and tablets (and previously, cheap netbooks) are as vital to the poor as they are to everyone else. What does that have to do with enabling them to be the next "tech founders"?

In America, we have digital device wealth aplenty, and there's no clear correlation that such availability to the middle class enables a corresponding rise in valuable tech entrepreneurship. In fact, one might argue the opposite: that tablets and on-demand-high-speed entertainment has made people more into consumers (and snarky commenters) than producers.

Again, I think the attention toward the poor is great and much needed. I just think the "let them make startups!" vibe is cognitively awkward.
Seems accurate. I've seen just as many RockStar and Ninja titles through this as I do in real life.

Fun tool.
When you say "we all do things like this everyday", what precisely do you do on a daily basis that is the equivalent of climbing the highest mountain on earth?
None of the lines that were requested anyway.
As much as I want to agree, there needs to be some standardization. Whether its the supported character set or the name lengths, it's literally impossible to support everything. Personally I think every state should have a list of legal constraints for a name - maybe they already do.
By that logic Google wouldn't encrypt the data between servers, in response to NSA revelations either. Yet, they're doing that. The point is it should at least be secure from outsiders/internal spies.
That's an amazing list of speakers, but it's lacking something important that people who want to learn about startups need to hear: people who failed.
We've advertised on Linked In and Facebook but haven't thought of trying Twitter. Would you mind sharing a bit about what you've advertised on Twitter and the type of results you've experienced?

Thanks!
Is what your sister claimed sort-of correct anyway? An English middle name is generally a given name that can perfectly well be totally unrelated to family history.

It's my understanding that Brazilian (and Portuguese) "middle names" are usually if not always family names, are they not?

Insisting that they are part of your surname sounds like it might be the easiest way to get it accepted - it is common enough in Europe to have surnames with spaces. E.g. a Dutch surname like "Van der Vaart", or "Van Helsing", so it's quite likely various agencies etc. run into that often enough.
Yeah I feel like these rules were the result of someone who ruined it for everyone. Trust has to go both ways.