skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article was more or less okay, until he blew it with this:

> More likely, since it’s an iOS device, Apple will call this gizmo an iSomething. It will be impossibly strong and light — under a pound — the battery will last for days, and it ought to cost $199 for 11-inch and $249 for 13-inch, but Apple being Apple they’ll charge $249 and $349.

Can he really be that clueless? Does he even realize that even a large iPad is heavier than 1 pound? How could an iPad-like device with keyboard and a bigger battery be even lighter?

Also the price makes no sense at all - again because of the extra keyboard and battery, and also because there's no way Apple would price such a device below an iPad Mini. That would mean using a processor, RAM and storage that are even more obsolete than the ones in the iPad Mini.

That's crazy. If anything such a machine would have all of those even better than the large new iPad 5, and my guess is it would cost $700, while still maintaining more or less the same amount of profit as a Macbook Air (since the chip and storage would be so much cheaper than on the Air).

It would also increase Apple's average ARPU, and would bring them higher total profit and revenue, since these will be cheaper than Air, and Apple will sell more of them (but fewer than iPads, still).
It's hard to function in the world without some rudimentary knowledge of it.
As for practical scenario, imagine your boss wants to send you to a conference in Paris, and you answer back with "Where?".
Upon subscribing, you can grant LinkedIn access to Google contacts (via standard OAuth stuff).

This is then used to find your contacts already on LinkedIn, and then followed by a page where you can send out invites for your Google contacts. Of course, if you select everyone and click invite (which is the primary action, but there is a skip button), invites will be sent out.

An "invite your contacts" dialog then occasionally pops up during site usage, where you can once again click "sure, send out invites to all my contacts", but nothing is happening without user consent.

So yeah, growth hacking, but not hacking, like the article suggests.
> MPTCP is a third-party module, it is not part of the mainline kernel, it requires using the developers's kernel fork.

Oh I get it now, that explains. I stand corrected. Sorry for being so bitchy about it, I just thought they were saying Linux was not widely used and hyping iOS7 instead.
How do you think anyone can tell you "encryption XYZ is NSA-secure"?
No, I don't believe you are correct: a calculator can represent sqrt(2) as sqrt(2), just the same as we can on paper (perhaps you are calling this an algebraic representation).

In fact, I'm confident that Casio - probably the market leader in scientific calculators - is doing exactly this, storing the exact number.

Casio does not appear to approximate simple surds as floats until it becomes necessary, and stores the exact number sqrt(2), just as it stores exact representations of rational numbers wherever reasonable (and, it correctly distinguishes whether it knows a number exactly or only as a float - it refuses to convert inexact floats into fractions, but will convert exact numbers).

Calculator phone apps don't compete at this level - which is surprising, I would have thought smartphones would have put calculators against the wall.
Yep. I did a ^F to see if anyone had posted this one. See http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/odd.html for an explanation of this and other great Unix comments. :)
A pardon and an apology are different things. In this case both are necessary and the apology has already been given.

A pardon is necessary because without it he will still be recognised as a criminal by the state since he technically broke the law at the time.
I rather suspect this has been flagged or otherwise prevented from reaching the HN front page.
ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/
Yes, people expressing regret over using Ruby because of this seems a bit over the top.

And I liked the blog post, thanks for sharing.
"Never attribute to malice..."

I can totally see the traffic spike = profit angle and that seems to be the most likely reason. If they're looking at raw data, then who the person is may not have even been a consideration.

Facebook does, of course, share blame in this since they allowed the ad to show up on their platform. If they did earn profit, they should do something like donate it to a fund that engages in bullying prevention.
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Indeed, and I'm not judging the young folk either, with their energy and their zeal and their misguided good intentions. Life will beat it out of them sooner or later, best let them get on with it. They'll join us old cycnics soon enough...
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> So it had gotten me interested in which options now are secure? And which definatly aren't.

And how can somebody outside of NSA know that? There are only speculations on this topic at this time.
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Somewhat related, my friend's enigma machine in an excel spreadsheet: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19946053957/enigm...
Going by the article and my knowledge of the UK healthcare system, it's almost certainly care first, report later. It seems that the hospital is collating records of fights over longer periods of time - perhaps weeks or months - and providing that data to police. The article isn't really about reporting of individual crimes, but broader statistics for more targeted policing.
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Well I definitely wasn't going for condescending with that image, I was trying to come from more of a fun place to entice the bored business programmer looking for a solution to their excel problems. Obviously there's a lot less business programmers using C++ as opposed to Java and .NET, so I do plan to develop wrappers for those eventually. Currently tho, I am looking to be the most feature complete C++ library before I try to expand too far.

I'll think more about the screenshot, thanks for the heads up.
That will still block forever. If you include a function call in the loop though, it won't.
TIL Piaget was ageist.
Here's a link to either the study you're looking for, or a similar one:
http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/139295/1/2002%20NASSP%2...
According to one of the comments on the page :

"Facebook did permanently disable the advertiser’s account and
it looks like the site they were advertising is closed as well." - Mike Reed

So there you have it. Looks like the site is pretty much done operating since its reputation is utterly destroyed.
I always wonder what the implication is of such a free license. Does it really mean "whatever you want"? Because it does say so...
Quake Live is a native game (that's why you have to install a plugin) that is launched through a web-based interface.
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> I think the lesson is, if your business model MUST involve pulling stuff from the Internet arbitrarily, it is no less your responsibility as if you had crafted it yourself if you intend to commercially repurpose it.

I totally agree. If your actions result in something tasteless or harmful, then it is your fault that you haven't foreseen those consequences.
How a UK startup fixed the Airbnb calendar availability problem
I think the web or HTML5 is the most closed platform ever.

Let me explain. You want to program for the web? Javascript. You want to do 3D? we have you covered, you can only use webgl. Don't like it? Sorry but we need to remain open! want audio? We have an API for that, why would you want to use something else? use Audio API, it's open.

can you imagine if linux, or microsoft windows or OS X only understood one programming language? Or if DirectX were the only 3D thing you can use? or if to use audio, you had no choice but to use one library?

The web is just that, and no, being available on all the platforms does not make it an open platform. It's one big closed transparent prison available everywhere. Once you go in, you are stuck with the onboard equipment.
How does real-time multiplayer work in the browser when there's no support for UDP?
Did you even read the article? It's concerned with drink-related violence (not gang violence), and states fairly clearly that generally the reason that these types of crimes are not reported is because they happen in clubs/bars and the perpetrator is often not known. They clearly state that data is anonymised, and there's absolutely no suggestion that the reports are ever used for criminal investigations.

The main issue that this programme tackles (apparently quite effectively) is that the police often aren't even aware that an assault has taken place (and so can't target the area it happened in).

Certainly in some gang-related crimes the victims refuse to talk to anyone, but this is a very different situation. How is reducing violent crime by somewhere between 30 and 40% a bad idea?
I'm in an honours program at university and I get orders of magnitude less homework. Of course the work requires much more thought and maybe more reading, but the people designing public school curriculums really need to learn how people actually learn.
Japanese students probably do not work less hard than US students, or to greater effect.

Wait wait, people really think American students do more work than Japanese kids?

HAH. HAH. HAH. HAH. That's a good one.

Seriously: Japanese schools don't assign 3 hours of homework because that would conflict with the 3 hours of "not required but it will ruin your life if you don't do it and then fail your next admissions exam" cram school that the top 30% of Japanese kids/parents assume is inevitable.

If you want I can run down to the train station and take a photo of one of our local cram schools. It's 8:45 PM right now so the middle schoolers should be just about halfway finished for the evening.
I guess it just doesn't look that bad to me. The buttons particularly seem fine, but you could reasonably say that they stand apart from the rest of the UI in some way. That the timer is still using a picker like this at all instead of a more reasonable input is my only real gripe, but that's sort of beyond the scope of this.
You could tap the button to add a <strong> element, then type your text and re-tap the button to close </strong>.
Or you could select it and tap the button directly, but you'd have to dismiss the OS dialogue. I mean, it looks feasible on iOS, as I don't use Android, I can't really tell…
Well, I was educated in France and I was taught those tricks.
I suppose the rights are worth more if they can be protected for longer. A higher potential sale price is an incentive to invest more money/time into the development of a franchise.

How this scales down to the case of an individual author seems more dubious though.
That's very strange to me - I don't understand why a stranger thinking they are funny or cool would be upsetting. People have different tastes, why does it bother you?
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I wouldn't rule that out. Why wouldn't it make a great undersea battery?

Also, if we found Apollo 13 we could recover some Pu238:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/28/1637231/will-nasa...

http://unexplainedthings.tumblr.com/post/13563685365/will-na...
It would be better to just allow the government to be symbolically prosecuted for past wrongs. Politicians love to create revisionist history in which they are the heroes for letting people be free. In cases like this the government committed human rights violations, but they believe that they have the right to do this because it was legal. Only prosecution makes it clear that the government lacks the authority to ever attack people in this way.
What the really needed to do was to apologize, not pardon.
I'm getting a bit tired of articles that offer to explain science but don't mention falsifiability or reality testing.

> Science is people.

Spectacularly false. Science's primary obstacle, its single most important handicap, is people. In fact, the reason science exists at all is to compensate for how badly people test reality. Science is a kind of intellectual crutch so that people who cannot think, can at least assume a roughly upright posture in the world of ideas, maybe even stand "on the shoulders of giants".

I look forward to a time (in the far future) when what we call "science" will be a normal way to think about the world, rather than a special discipline representing a dramatic contrast to the majority of human behavior.
To which he answer "the capital of France" and everyone keep going.

If I tell you that you need to go to Sucre for a meeting, do you know where that is? Probably not. You will google it, spend 5 seconds on the internet and boom, you know where it is. Putting countless hours to learn all of them is useless. This is time that could be spent learning things that are important in the modern world. The computers aren't going away. You will never have to search for the name of a town in a dictionary or encyclopedia for hours anymore. It's a 5 seconds tasks.
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> to the faster, cheaper, more reliable WiFi

This is far from universally true and a wonderful illustration of why multipath is great: I frequently see wifi where the back link is down or behind a payment gateway, requiring me to turn off wifi to get a reliable connection. This is sadly common at conferences where the venue skimped on AP placement and left entire rooms at max range or with inadequate backhaul.

The true beauty of MPTCP is that you don't need to make assumptions and hope — instead we can let the kernel sort things out based on the current environment.
Stephen Elop to receive $25m pay-off
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Yes and it's miserable.
To be fair on Dropbox the issue is more than likely to do with the file system watchers.

The initial indexing of 300,000 files is going to take some time on a standard desktop PC, then you have to ask the OS to let you know of any changes on those files.
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It's pretty fuzzy, which is why I was surprised when the author claimed that it was about radical sincerity.
The government has already apologised.
The role of public school in the United States, especially when it first started, explicitly was to churn out factory workers[1]. The fact that non-industrial knowledge is also taught is a side effect of later developments.

[1] http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
I want to see some of this guy's 10 minute stories before deciding his fate...
> First of all, data is science just as much as people are ...

False choice. Science is neither data nor people, it's what we do with the data. Data by itself is nothing without a falsifiable theory that tries to explain the data.

How hard is it to say that science is disciplined reality-testing, and if reality disagrees with your theory, you must abandon the theory?
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It animates the focus change with a visible box moving between fields as you tab or click on different fields.
> There is a chance the product you fund will not make it

A very high chance, and the nature of that chance is not discernible to donors who have nothing to go buy other than the marketing materials on the Kickstarter page. People should not donate to Kickstarter, they should spend that money on existing games.
It would, but you don't need it because you don't need years or decades of power at high depths.
I think Cringely is wrong in detail but right in overall thrust. iOS is Apple's future, but Apple's plan is for multiple comparatively inexpensive devices that share data and do their jobs well, not one thing that hooks up to accessories and works badly. The killer app for iPhone 5S is commerce and becoming your identity wallet (Google Authenticator is a similar play, but it simply becomes an app you prefer to keep on your iPhonr). I can certainly see the iphone 5S logging you into your device.
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I don't know how much stock I'd put in self-reported reasons for attrition. At my school the undergrad professors for calc are all excellent - well reviewed by students, winning awards, etc. Still, a lot of STEM students drop out when they're taking first-year calc, because STEM programs are also just very hard. Even if we axed the first-year math requirements, I suspect those people would make it two or three years in before getting caught up on another class, and ultimately leaving anyways.
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Interesting indeed!

There's talk about it at http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=a4sdshu... . The best they found is this quote:

> "The nuclear power system will make China the third country apart from the United States and Russia to be able to apply nuclear technology to space exploration," Ouyang said.

Various newspaper article use that quote to say it was domestic production.

Parsed carefully, that doesn't say that they created the RTG, only that they applied it.
I could see it being used when creating support websites or customer care related websites. Anyone else has any ideas on where else can this be leveraged?
* Kids should not be penalized for knowing which is the capital of what, nor which part of Americas grows the most bananas. It is useless information unless the kid loves that kind of stuff.

* Focus should not be on memorizing anything, unless they are a building block of something which they will understand later, and better, with the memorization. May be the Spanish language verb forms are one of those, I'm not sure. From my experience I know a lot of knowledge do fall in this category, e.g. trigonometric manipulations, algebra of integration/differentiation, etc.

* Kids of that age, 13, have a fairly developed brain to decide which subjects they like, and which they are not interested in. They should be allowed to choose not to study Earth Sciences in favor of Physics, if they want to. Or to study Linguistics in favor of Maths (I assume they already know a basic level of mathematics to get by), if they want to.

I wonder how these kids gonna grow up, will the relentless homework on often useless subjects, create the discipline in them that is their most probable intention? Will this discipline help them to do better in life, as opposed to the Captain Kirk types?
And don't smoke, burning tobacco releases radiation.
This approach strikes me as the most realistic. If there is an existing codebase in the preferred language A, the obvious question, if B wins, is "Do we rewrite the code in B?"

The only downside, and I think adding the language C tries to defuse it, is that whatever the team writes first will always stick. For example: if I wrote a version with dynamic typing (say in Ruby), then redid it with static typing (Haskell), of course I'm going to try to reuse types. The extreme example (Greenspun's rule) is if my pet language A is Lisp: regardless of what B is, the team could try to write a half-baked lisp runtime on top of B. The style carries over, and sometimes it doesn't translate exactly. I don't know how to solve this.
Since Excel is Turing complete, you can do ''every possible calculation'' on it ;-)
How big is the Higgs runtime ? What level of javascript compatibility is it aiming for ?
The author's child is still a kid. I think she's in year 8? Here's my feedback: a. Let her be a kid. b. let her get enough sleep (it's hard to learn without enough sleep). c. Stop taking cannabis. It can lead to mental illness. d. If you are concerned about too much homework, do something about it. For real.
Also: FM Radio transmitter. (Which will also be my next project) :)
The problem is your proposed [] syntax implies random access. Many algorithms and data structures don't require or support random access.
It would probably sound more pleasant with a diatonic (or other) scale instead of chromatic.
> On its return they found organisms that were too large to have originated from Earth.

Too large? They had two choices -- too large and too small.

To be "too large", the organism would have had to be larger than an ostrich egg yolk, the single-cell record-holder for size.

To be "too small", the cells would have to be very small indeed -- the smallest earthly cells are extremely small.

In any case, if the cell has DNA, it's from here, so first run the test, find the DNA, then don't publish this ridiculous claim.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
That doesn't take into account how good a language is for prototyping and experimenting. Even if I have to write in $blublang, I'll probably still prototype it in $petlang for the increased productivity and then port it once I have the architecture nailed down.
I gave this a go with a "thick-client-in-browser" app that we are writing here [1]. I had to hack the code a bit (e.g. remove the clickable class check in the event simulator) but I was shocked how well it dealt with this scenario and how little effort I had to put in.

It's still a long way off from supporting this type of web page (e.g. dragging does not work, and would love to submit a PR if I only had the time to dig in more); but the almost-instant success with it was impressive. Good work Mozilla.

[1] http://www.k2.com/displaycontent.aspx?id=5502 / http://www.formsondata.com/
I don't know, like the article says, it's easy to confuse deep sincerity for irony. Some of hipster/geek chic is about beauty shining through unflattering clothes and awkwardness. Some of it is genuine appreciation for unusual things. Both part of a movement towards being more accepting of differences.
You should check out the game Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. It's currently a community driven game, and you can download the multiplayer client at http://www.faforever.com/

In this game strategy is much more important than APM. Some of the top players have less than 60 APM, whereas in Starcraft they have 300. Some of this is due to the community being smaller hence the overall competitiveness being lower, but it's also the nature of the game. The interface is optimized for letting you do as much as possible in a few clicks, unlike Starcraft where you have to micromanage everything. In a way Supreme Commander is like continuous time chess. You win by wit rather than who clicks faster. Like chess you have a king that you need to protect and to win you have to kill the enemy's king.

Here is a video commentary of a (very long) 4v4 game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg_z-pIcUJo
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Maybe this is why I always find my iMessages to be working, even when the office wifi is on the fritz?
I think what GP is getting at that if you call a function with one return value, you can ignore it by not assigning anything to the result of the function.

http://play.golang.org/p/9J46QRHul1

They presumably would like to force you to use the return value if it is of type error.
thanks everyone. a lot of sound advice, i knew i'd learn more here than any other site.
Worth noting that there isn't a "British" education system - Scotland has it's own school courses, exams and university level course structure (e.g. it is possible to go to university after 5 years in high school so first degree courses are 4 years rather than 3 as in England).
If the cell has DNA, that's evidence that it came from the surface, not space. There may be life out there, but it won't have DNA (an ad hoc solution to a problem unlikely to be repeated).
Indeed, on the surface, the multiple IPs would increase the amount of obscurity. Can anyone familiar with the protocol clarify if there are any other header elements which reveal that the packets belong to the same abstract TCP connection?
He probably wants exceptions.