skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LaTeX is a real tool, so naturally it takes quite some work for a beginner to be able to use it - the advantage is its raw power.

And yes you can definitely use it to do custom things, and yes it can be made to not move graphics around, which is usually the biggest complaint MS Word users has, but no you shouldn't do it.
>There is no market because apple is playing monopolist (legal). Lets not use sloppy language !!

Are you going for satire?
Yes. Because keeping your kids from playing with the other kids the way everyone else is playing has always worked so very well, as an infallible means of preventing bullying.

This is just a simplistic idea. "Unmonitored" is the only useful word in it. It's true that parents need to monitor what their kids are doing.
See link given below where the sister of a girl who completed suicide described the "addictiveness" of social media apps.

> it might not seem this simple

Quite.

Someone feels sad and alone. Social media might be the channel for abuse and bullying, but it might also be where their friends are.
I think, if the kid has a phone or a tablet, building a quick and simple app for his device might make him think that programming is cool. Get him involved in the process, build a fart app or similar, getting him to make the noise and record it.
I know I'm in the minority here, but my offspring will only have smartphones when they are old enough to buy them and pay for their plans themselves.
If you are practicing NSA is out to get me security: USB tokens are probably the worst idea possible. They are practically unauditable (sure, maybe the design is open source, but is that actually what got put on the chip?) and specifically intended for cryptographic function by paranoid people who think they have something to hide. I.e. they are likely one of the first thing the NSA would target. And they are easy to target since everyone knows exactly how they will be used and what code will execute on them.

You'd be better off going with an x86 chip and avoiding the obvious hardware backdoor channel of a bad RNG(though for key generation it's unlikely NSA would ever see enough bits from the RNG to crack it). Because it's a generic computer, you can't just break the chip by backdooring everything(e.g. make xor a nop). You'd need to screw with instruction only if it is part of a cryptographic operations and that would be very very tricky and use up a hell of a lot of the transistor budget.
er .. ok, what a waste of public money. really.
I use latexmk and coupled with a script which uses inotifywait. Evice automatically reloads the PDF on changes, so I get semi-instant feedback. Works okay for me.
Ask HN: What are the best tech/startup events in NYC?
When you're a young person, peer pressure and need for peer acceptance/interaction is a powerful force that can defy rational action. Young people have limited perspective beyond the immediate social environments of their family and friends.

If all of the interaction at school is in these virtual spaces they may be compelled to try and socialize in the hope of peer acceptance.

Loneliness and social needs can be hard to deal with for some kids and the hope of positive interaction may drive them to keep trying to reach out to their peers even in the face of vicious bullying.
People might be surprised at how much public-private cooperation goes on between businesses and government research entities like NIST.

In fact, an explicit part of NIST's role is filling in science that businesses need but can't do themselves.

NIST started out as the National Bureau of Standards. It sits in the Department of Commerce. Most of its activities are directed at tasks-- like standardizing measurements-- that businesses depend on, but are too small, or too balkanized, to do effectively on their own.

Unless, you know, you like every corner gas station having its own definition of "gallon", and every appliance manufacturer rating its offerings using different definitions of energy, and every steel producer specifying tensile strength according to its own test procedure.

Disclosure-- I had a post-doc at NIST in the late 1990s.
VB6 had the best write code at run-time debugger I've ever seen, it's too bad the language itself was so lacking.
Fascinating article! I wrote a short story a couple weeks ago that explored one possible impact of such an event from the perspective of a school teacher whose job is replaced by a computerized solution. It's not exactly a happy story, but it might be fun for some readers here.

Link -- http://192.241.231.77/stories/mission/
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You must not have been a teenage girl lately. To be fair, neither have I, but:

Teenage girls will do ANYTHING to ensure they remain part of the social milieu they want to be in. Going into hermit mode and ignoring everyone else isn't an option that teenage girls are good at conceptualizing.
Google unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool
> Remind me, with science: When were we humans last wiped out, again?

I bet you think there's no answer. But in fact, on at least one occasion in the past, human numbers dropped below 10,000 individuals, which means the fact that we still exist as a species can be attributed to chance, not destiny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans

Quote: "The Toba catastrophe theory suggests that a bottleneck of the human population occurred c. 70,000 years ago, proposing that the human population was reduced to perhaps 10,000 individuals[3] when the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia erupted and triggered a major environmental change. The theory is based on geological evidences of sudden climate change and on coalescence evidences of some genes (including mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosome and some nuclear genes)[4] and the relatively low level of genetic variation with humans."

I emphasize this is an example that we can establish by studying the human genome from relatively recent times. Farther in the past, the genetic record is less easy to read, but it's very likely that the Toba near-extinction is only one of many similar events.
How To Do: Form based website authentication
I'm tired of this Buckminster Fuller / Alfred E. Neuman "What, me worry?" argument. Just because humans are clever doesn't mean we're exempt from natural and physics boundaries. To deny that is hubris to the extreme.
Privacy violation with Facebook user data
+1 for not calling it a "REST API".
Most European banks do. Only few US banks do. Primary reason for this difference is that it's trivial to transfer money from one European bank account to any other bank account. It basically works like email, where you can just enter any destination bank account number. With US bank accounts the process is much harder, as you first need to add and confirm the second bank account (which somewhat reduces the risk of what can happen if someone gets access to your account).
Most S/MIME certificate authorities require the generation of private keys using the "keygen" tag. Most browsers that support this tag require the generated key length to be 1024 or 2048 bits, whereas forcing either 2048 or 4096 bit keys would be more sensible.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495836
The web developers have taken over, it seems.

Edit: I say this as a web developer. I feel like it's often forgotten that Ruby and Javascript aren't the only languages worth using.
> You're making a common statistical error

You are the one that said things are worse compared to 1932. You don't get to have your cake and eat it.
From what I've tried learn about, the problem is NOT only the cyber-bulling...

It is the whole society that is sick, for several reasons (most of these, do not matter now).

But thinking short-term and about a single individual, usually the reason why a individual keeps going online and attracting bullies, is that other stuff is broken on his life, for example that individual might be extremely lonely, giving rise to "attention whoring" behaviour (that quickly attract bullies).

I once made friendship with a girl that was a unhealthy amount of time online, even weirder, she started to treat me like the responsible person for her, even with we living 1500 miles apart... Over time I discovered her father was a dead-beat sort of guy, and her mother was extremely tyrannical, yet kinda lazy, refusing to take her to the doctor for example when she discovered she had yeast infection.

More digging on her life, trying to understand some of her bizarre behaviour, and I found out that her extended family abused her when she was around 4 to 8 years old, including people that were cops and supposed to be moral compass, the environment already her was entirely toxic, she for example regularly participated in lucrative (for her) pyramid schemes and believed them to be legitimate and normal, when I explained what it was, she was confused, and did not wanted to believe the community she was living was dishonest, later more question asked, I figured that she really lived in a kind of cesspool of dishonesty and backstabbing, with everyone being more or less friendly on the front, but always ready to backstab in name of survival, the place was poor, people used stolen electricity, internet was ran by a illegal ISP, her father ran a unlicensed bar on the lowest floor of her home, and bar brawls inside were common...

It became clear to me, that what drove her to attract bullies on internet, was desperation, she was stuck physically in a hard to leave place (a bus to the city downtown was 30 minute walk away, and then it was a 2 hour trip in difficulty terrain, also her parents forbid her from taking a bus anyway, she never used a bus and was already a adult), the only confort she had, was that sometimes random strangers on internet cared for her (like me), but obviously, seeking random hero strangers on internet, is also a very fast way to find random villain strangers (some that even might look like heroes on first glimpse).
"I will never use Python in production ever again"
There are different types of cyberbullying. If they are just sending your threatening messages you may just be able to close the account. But if you are actually frightened by the threat associated with the messages, you may feel more scared by not reading them.

Other types of cyberbullying play out in the real world, but still in a way you can't confront the bullies. For example if there an anonymous Twitter account that posts nasty rumors about you. You can cancel Twitter, but everyone else can read it.

Now as adults we can say, "Big deal", but think back to when you were 15. How tough would it be to have mean things broadcast to everyone at the school everyday about you.
I forgot about the whole Sabu thing. Thanks.
Boston has such a lead in the biotech ecosystem compared to anywhere else that I wonder if they could establish a tech niche of bio/pharma-related tech. Chasing traditional consumer mobile/web-tech seems like swimming upstream in Boston.
> We've already demonstrated that we can bend physical laws to our needs ...

Bend doesn't equal break. Obviously a species will adopt more and more ingenious measures to stave off the inevitable, but that doesn't change the inevitable, only its arrival date.

The basic equation collides a finite planet with an infinite capacity for growth. Ultimately the finite planet determines the outcome, not the infinite capacity for growth.
You're going down the road into a philosophical argument. Defining a monopoly requires you to define a market, which is a huge can of worms. If you make the market "computing devices" then nobody has a monopoly. If you make the market "Win32 API PCs" then Microsoft has a monopoly. If you make the market "devices that run iOS apps" then Apple has a monopoly. And so on.

The larger point is that consumer choice isn't there. You can't get an iOS device with a removable battery. That doesn't prove that current Apple customers don't want a removable battery, it just proves they value some other characteristics more, and the market may not be offering any single product that satisfies their optimal set of preferences.

When that happens it means there is room for a newcomer to disrupt the market. If someone started selling iPhones (or something sufficiently equivalent) with removable batteries, some people would buy them -- if only because it would double the resale value since the phone wouldn't become landfill after the non-replaceable battery goes flat.
I'm a user of Debian but can see why some people prefer Redhat, and I've used it myself.

Perhaps the main difference is that there is more official vendor support for Redhat i.e. device driver RPM's etc. This could be something like an LSI RAID card perhaps, or a filesystem like Stornext. I know you can often find community built software/drivers for Debian but some organisations and people prefer an "official" source.
Yes. I wonder if they just looked into how many of jobs as they are right now will eventually be repacable. That would be wrong, as how we do a job has always changed, meaning that when we get to the point where job X would be replacable, it has changed so much to not be replacable. Also, if your job really gets replaced by a computer, there will also be tons of new types of jobs created for you to take.
Given all the backdoors and remote access stuff that are in place already, surely it should be a piece of cake to give parents some sort of remote access to their children's phones ?
Non-sequitur. There are plenty of non-DSLR tools for photography (TLR, rangefinders, large-format film) that are more than "just fine, and even within the world of digital, your average prosumer DSLR can't do the same thing as a setup with a medium format digital back. Give up the snobbery, DSLR does not necessarily equate to quality or superiority.
Thanks.

I built it in Sinatra. It was a good experience for me to use APIs.

*Submit fixed.
> Greg Mortenson abused his foundation to the tune of over a million dollars by withdrawing administrative funds for his personal use. That demonstrates a positive relationship between administrative costs and abuse.

No, it doesn't. A correlation between two variables can't be demonstrated by a single data point.
tail call elimination can be implemented in javascript:
http://raganwald.com/2013/03/28/trampolines-in-javascript.ht...
Signs, signs breaking my mind [image & text]
Silicon Valley.

If you're moving somewhere, why waste time on a city that is distant second, in terms of startup ecosystems? It's not like Boston or NYC are significantly cheaper than the valley.
I operate a social network with many young teens, and in nearly all of these cases, they are actually sending the messages to themselves, just like what ask.fm said about that girl that committed suicide.
I find it amusing that the cracked articles we were pointed to a few posts up talk about the mindset of "poor people think in terms of 'what do we need this instant' rather than 'what will we need in the future' due to scarcity of wiggle room in the budget". Basically one of the problems is people can't securely make smart long-term choices because the risk/reward calculation says if one unexpected thing comes up, the long-term payoff won't ever arrive because of getting hurt in the short term.

If you look at dollars as "lifestyle points", and votes as "societal points", the same reasoning is going on right here: the scarcity of "societal points" is causing the same reasoning about how to vote as poor people have to make for spending.

Not sure what that means - only noticing that there are parallels.
I would support making the parents of children who bully liable for civil penalties in cases like these.
In terms of performance, while it CAN be done, it would be several orders of magnitude slower than even the slowest phones on the market today.

I'll just take the processor module as an example: in a modern consumer processor, bidirectional bus speed to the CPU can be upwards of 25.6 GB/s (gigaBYTES) - compare that to the 50 MB/s typical speeds of your average 802.11 network. It wouldn't even make sense for the phone to have RAM when using such a slow interlink as it would be no faster than flash memory.

Yes, it CAN be done, but it would be so slow as to be unusable for most purposes.
No, LaTeX does not know anything about rivers and has no detection mechanisms for them. The line-breaking/spacing algorithms in TeX are just to old for that level of computational intensity.

There are some LuaTeX packages which can detect, but not fix, rivers, though their scalability is questionable.
It seems that you are not familiar with debian's testing program.
Somerville (bordering Boston and Cambridge) is home to one of the world's largest makerspaces: http://artisansasylum.com and a big cleantech incubator: http://greentownlabs.com/
500 Retweets Will Now Get You Three Years in Prison in China.
Four Notes --- NSA-free
>The modern equivalent would be the kidnapping of a celebrity's child, by a stranger, for money. Such things happen every day now...

Really? Give one example.
i'm puzzled at why few people mention the busses needed to communicate between the blocks. sure it looks all nice and stuff. and even if you had a lot of money, what about the transfer speeds needed to communicate between one block and the other?
I can agree with that, I've given a smartphone to my teenage daughter, but have had to take it away on weekdays because it's turned into an all-consuming "permanent distraction device". It's amazing how much kids are addicted to social media, it seemed to be leading to the development of a very short attention span before I pulled the plug. We'll see how things go "unplugged".
I don't want to knock down the issues of cyber bullying, but I don't feel this article does anything to fix the situation. All this article tells me is this girl was a victim, her mom stopped it, then her mom relaxed and suicide resulted after further bullying.

The article hints that there was some drama with a boyfriend, but doesn't flesh any of that out.
I want to address the bullies. Did they realize the impact that they were having? Were they angry at her perhaps spreading rumors, acting superior in school, what was the bully's perspective of this girl? As hinted by other comments here, why do teenagers choose to go more and more into the negative feedback loop they create in social media.

It is also worth considering what social applications can do about this. All a social app needs to say is "Hey, here's a person from your old school who bullied you. You should be his friend." and all the ads marketing towards advil after her google search?

Cyberbullying is a field I have so many questions about. This article serves to show that we know so little about cyberbullying, but it is a serious concern.
You know.. There is a reason people despise IE, and one of those reason is "Must be viewed in IE."

This isn't a web page, it's a chrome app, go put it on the chrome store.
Wow, that was fast. Just a day ago the UK PM, David Cameron, appointed an ex-music industry executive as his "IP advisor" - http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=3254862
And particularly since the photo description, and appearance of the device, is a gas chamber.
I think that depends on public opinion at the time, no? http://www.gallup.com/poll/1606/death-penalty.aspx
This has nothing to do with tests. Tests would catch this, but so would sensible development practices like running your code at least once before deploying it.
If you're going to hate over that, then I'm glad not to know you. I was taught to double space in typing class many years ago. I do it by habit now. I prefer the way it looks. In fact if you look at the source to any comment I make, you'll find that I do it by habit DESPITE the fact that I know that in many mediums it is going to get lost.

I've noticed many writers that I respect doing the same thing. I'd include patio11 as an example.

The fact that WordPress does the wrong thing with it is a bug in WordPress. The fact that you would hate the way that many good writers like to type, and like to see their words written, is a bug in your brain.
RedHat loves CentOS. To quote their CEO

> CentOS is one of the reasons that the RHEL ecosystem is the default. It helps to give us an ubiquity that RHEL might otherwise not have if we forced everyone to pay to use Linux. So, in a micro sense we lose some revenue, but in a broader sense, CentOS plays a very valuable role in helping to make Red Hat the de facto Linux.[0]

[0]http://readwrite.com/2013/08/13/red-hat-ceo-centos-open-sour...
It's a little bit of both. While there exists a fair bit of local pride and each state has its own parliament (Germany is a republic of states, much like the US), the government of the federal republic in Berlin holds most of the power and it's not like people from different states are much different (speaking in differences like being German or French). Regional dialects are mostly dead in the cities.
This mother actually did close facebook, even moved her kid to a new school. She did quite a bit more than many parents would have and it still wasn't enough. I don't think it is reasonable to put a 24/7 multi-year, constant surveillance burden on the average parent.

And what about enforcement? So you see bad stuff on your kid's phone repeatedly...in the end all you can do is take it away. Then they go to the computer. Then you take that away. Then they stay after school to use the computers there. Really I don't expect the symptom mitigation solutions to be very effective.
It's different in that the UN demonstrably exists.
That name sounds familiar.

I recall also his describing how they would "work up the chain". Where they had evidence of culpability at a lower level, they would use it to apply pressure to "flip" such employees against their management.

I think the description you cite is well taken.

I know someone who is fairly senior in the SEC. They have more or less confirmed what I've also read. The SEC is supposed to be self-funding. The revenue they take in (fees, etc.) has been far in excess of their budget. Instead of staffing up (woefully needed; occasionally promised -- most recently a couple of years ago; never delivered), Congress -- who sets their budget after incorporating that revenue into the general budget -- has treated them as a cash cow.

People need to look beyond "regulation is good/bad" labels, to learn and understand what is actually going on -- the specific circumstances.
There a much longer time when one could have said that about any of large number of other species than there has been when one could have said it about humans.

And its an invalid argument to make for the future prospects of any of them.
VB 6 doesn't have lambdas, VB.NET does have lambdas.
What if all of humanity didn't have to work?
In the day of ever increasing computerization/automization:

How would humans play a role in getting things done?
-or-
How would the general population "make a living" when they're not needed to make anything?
This site is purposely made hard to read if you do not have javascript enabled. The creator should be ashamed of himself.
Well I really didn't expect to end up watching this all the way through. Worth every second. Be aware this is NSFW but I'm not sure if the film would have lost anything if the NSFW clips had been left out.
I'm sure that's illegal in most places.
I think the idea is really nice. Calls for some sort of standard for the manufacturers, that they converge on the Standard Shipping Container spec for mobile tech. This sort of happened with computer parts. Even Apple computers have interchangeable parts with their PC brethren, even the CPU in some cases. What you would need to do is motivate the hardware manufacturers to settle on the Container spec and the basic board and components can be built from off the shelf parts (like PC computers today).

If you manage to pitch this to the hardware manufacturers, that's your entry point to build consensus.
Biotech ecosystem is better in BOS and maybe finance-related stuff in NYC, but otherwise I agree with you.