skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a STEM backgound myself, that is something that saddens me with others with a similar education. Some, not all or even the majority of STEM educated people, show an arrogance towards people with different backgrounds that I just see as arrogant and ignorant at the same time. Nothing against the friendly exchange of not at all serious stereotypes with, say, economics majors. But some people just can't stop there.

For me, having a somehow technical or scientific background means to look at things as they really are instead of believing stereotypes yourself. The internet only makes it easier to voice these oppinions. At the very least it says more about the commenters than anything else by ahowing just how ignorant they are.

But than, maybe that's just human and we are were like that at a certain pint in our lives.
I think her interviewing behavior is what makes people hate her that much. Watch the Bill Gates plus Steve Jobs interview to get an example. She constantly wants to push some prepared narrative rather than being open minded about what the interviewees say. Sprinkle that that with some weird, inappropriate sexual innuendo and the problem increases exponentially. Her articles may be much better, however I've never read much of her.
It sounds like most middle/high schools.
Sigh. No. Where did I say "never crashes" ?

You on the other hand seem to be implying that a different programming model will result in a never crashing system at the scale of the current internet.
pandora.com had this on their login form wince they launched. on the flash version.

press tab from the username field and the 4 L-shaped corners flown from there to password.

was neat, but they removed it recently... at least I'm not getting it anymore.
Note: The US is a good country overall so the following may sound like anti US rhetoric but it isn't meant that way. Even in my country I am seeing similar things.

>Last year, the richest 10% got 50% of all income/wealth.

I think it is an easy fall back to make comparisons between the rich and poor, but that isn't the problem here. It is the government.

How much does the US government funnel into programs to feed the war machine, or spy on their own people. This isn't a rich vs poor situation, it is a government vs the people situation, there is money there but it is being diverted into other programs. More tax = more bureaucracy + more waste + same problems, when a government is not effective or efficient.
Perhaps the right side of the picker which is closer to your resting thumb (for right handed people) was preserved to allow you to continue to scroll up/down since it's now an inline control.
> Well, there is also the difficulty that there has not been, save Ada, a serious and concerted effort to replace C and C++ for so many of the things that they are used for.

Except Ada is older than C++, so it cannot be an effort to replace it.

Around the time C was still UNIX only we also had Modula-2.

An advantage C and C++ have over many other languages is that they are part of the standard tooling from OS vendors.

The only way to get people to use other, safer systems languages, is when OS vendors push for them.

For example, Objective-C would be dead if it wasn't the only language to fully explore iOS and Mac OS X capabilities.

Sure you can write bindings in other languages, but Objective-C will remain the language to go to.

The same with any language that would be targeted to replace C or C++. Without OS vendor support, no chance.
There comes a point when an institution becomes so badly broken that the only rational course of action is to get the hell out, and look elsewhere for a solution to your problems. It looks pretty clear from this article that the US school system is well past that point.
IPhone was first, but so was Motorola
Still can't figure out what it is. Hitting tab in a form to switch fields? That exists.
I dont get his theory at all, the trend seems to be people getting more devices, not less.

Why try to unify handheld and desktop? For customers it would be a FridgeToaster(tm), with less power than a dedicated desktop (yes performance matters). It doesnt even make business sense (less devices sold).
Huh? Tons of companies have iOS massively rolled out to their sales teams already.

You're talking about this in theoretical terms like the iPhone isn't already doing very well coupled with Exchange in the enterprise space, but it is...

The iPhone costs enterprises about the same amount as a good Android phone (e.g. Galaxy 4/Note). So it isn't uncommon for companies to offer employees a choice of either an iPhone or Android phone, since both hook into Exchange equally as well and cost the company a similar amount.

Blackberry is dying as the go-to enterprise phone. Has been for a while.
They seem to be using Citrix Netscaler, which has supported MPTCP for a little while:

http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/05/28/maximize-mobile-user-expe...

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of MPTCP, but I don't have any inside information from Apple, beyond what nmap tells us.
Two counter-points I would make to your comment, without agreeing or disagreeing overall about the effectiveness of the teaching.

The first is that it is possible for the educators to be "earnest" and unsuccessful in their attempts.

The second is that "memorization not rtionalization" could well be the opinion of his daughter, not her educators. Sure, they should do their best to prevent this, but kids with good memories will often use this to shortcut learning. I received an A* grade for my GCSE French (school exams at age 16 in UK - although I took at 15) not because I was good at French, but because I had a good memory. The written paper for example was 50% essay, and thanks to teachers preparing us on what sort of topics to expect, I was prepared. I picked "write about a recent holiday" and wrote an entire essay from memory. As in, I'd written it weeks previously (in the case of this specific essay, I'd actually written it for the oral exam, for which I had to memorize it and speak it... a nice it of duplication luck for me!), but I could write it down word perfectly without any mistakes. Coincidentally I'm sat in a hotel room in Paris right now, having spent yesterday remembering how poor my French language is.
She is not learning about what she is studying, she is learning to become a well trained parrot. Society has no use for parrots.

These kids need to be taught to look up the words they don't know in a dictionary appropriate to their age and gain an understanding of the new words they come across as they are studying.
That is the only way to understand any subject one is studying. No amount of "guessing" or "memorizing" will replace an actual understanding of the words one is reading.
It's the time picker in the Calendar app. It was introduced in May: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/29/google-calendar-for-andro...

Personally, I rather like the new time picker and have never experienced any usability problems. Also, the appearance depends on your time settings; the inner circle the parent poster mentions only appears if you use 24-hour time.
Not just mice and keyboards either, Android has a surprisingly large number of devices and device types supported. Even I am left surprised at what "just works" on an Android device.
This is the official guideline from my local school district on average homework times:

K Occasional

1-2 15 minutes (M-Th)

3-5 30-60 minutes (M-Th)

6-8 30-90 minutes (M-Th)

9-12 60-120 minutes (M-S)
The rest of the quote actually gives a poorer impression.
> I think if we're painting with really broad brushes, in the end companies care about ease of use. The cost of people is far greater than equipment.

Sounds like you have never worked in an enterprise. Ease of use for the staff is definitely not at the top of the list of concerns. They care about price, will it continue to run their legacy apps for another 10 years, how easy is it to administer etc.

Regarding your second point, I have not heard anyone who is not firmly an "Apple fanboy" cheering for iOS to supplant Windows in the enterprise. Linux, yes, iOS no.
That it is "innovation" when Apple does it, and for Apple users nothing that happens outside of their very narrow ecosystem exists.
Can someone give me a use case for this?
> when things go south, which seems to be the norm.

Source?

> What kickstarter teaches us is that there is a reason why gatekeepers to bags of money exist.

You absolutely never see games from big publishers be repeatedly delayed, killed off mid-development, or released mid-development.

Fact is, game development is hard and fraught with risks. As far as I can tell, this part of Kickstarter is, in this regard, doing pretty well, and I'm certain that a game like the Torment remake would never have gotten funding without it. Now and then, some of them are going to tank, just like games from AAA publishers tend to do. Others will come out and be crap (though since so many of them include "pay more to get access to the alpha", I'd say it's much less likely that the released product will be out of line with backers' expectation). And though people do tend to treat as such, Kickstarter is not a pre-order system. There is a chance the product you fund will not make it (that's why there is a mandatory "Risks and challenges" at the bottom of each Kickstarter project page). I'd just rather risk some money for a potential product which appeals to me and would have no shot at seeing the light of the day otherwise, than preorder an outsourced-to-5-different-studios sequel to Aliens: Colonial Marines.
First implementation not to be used for testing purposes?
If we factor in the inflation rate over 5 years, then Yahoo should still worth less.
There's been a lot of talk about hipsters in these comments. Could somebody explain to me, in any concrete terms, what the hell a hipster is?
I am building an HTML5 game (canvas/2D) that is distributed both online and on mobile. It is asset heavy with total assets weighing in around 600 MB, with an initial download around 7 MB and progressive loading as the player advances. Sprites are relatively large and a fair bit of animation and effects can be going on at one time, although I try to keep scenes static to cut down on rendering. I am happy with performance, both on mobile and desktop browsers. You are welcome to check it out for reference: http://www.webworks.dk/enginetest
Elliptic Curve Cryptography Patents
Facebook founder claims US spying gives users trust issues
Native will always fundamentally beat non-native, that's a plain fact.

In quality, perhaps. In sales, profit and market share, I'm not so sure.
Twitter discussion between Matz and others re diversity and RubyConf
Down in Northern Spain also @09:00
Incredible that the US can feed other countries, and bomb other countries into the Stone Age, but can't care for its own poor. Pathetic.
Only http://www.schneier.com is down. https://www.schneier.com works for me.

The site above does not check for https URL's.
Realistic can be very fun. It usually happens when the thing that you want to do would be too expensive for you to afford in real life (flying jets in flight simulators, for instance). In this case, it's a pretty small niche -- people who are interested enough in fencing to want a proper simulator, but who don't have the time / money / commitment / fitness to do it for real.
The mode of homework time appears to be 3 hours a night during weekdays, this is considered unbearable/a lot? Growing up this was the norm for me. The school in question runs from 8:00 AM to 2:20 PM with a 45 minute lunch break, recesses and homeroom included. With 3 hours of studying that brings you to a total of 9 hours - breaks (I couldn't find a schedule). Assuming 8 hours of sleep, 1 hour for dinner, 2 hours of miscellaneous daily activities and 1 hour to get ready and eat breakfast in the morning you're left with 3 hours of your day left. As a 13 year old with parents that take care of a lot of your responsibilities that's not bad at all. Especially when you consider that this is a school that advertises academic rigor and not intended for your average student.

The only thing I agree with is that this school isn't doing a good job of educating if the student says "Memorization, not rationalization". While the homework appears to be monotonous my understanding was that this is because she is 13, it is important to build the foundation (i.e. comfort with numbers and reading dense literature) that will allow her to pursue more intellectually challenging courses in the future.

The only criticism I have of this system is that the author suggests none of the courses promote critical thinking and creativity. If this is the case then this is a problem, I would think at least 1/5 courses should do that. One of the biggest criticisms of the education system in China (I don't know if this is true but I hear it a lot) is that it promotes rote memorization (with exceptions), and this school appears to be doing the same.

Edit: All of this is predicated on the assumption that this student is academically capable of succeeding at this school. While it takes her 3 hours every night (5 hours max) this may not be the case for the average student, we don't know where she lies on the curve. Anecdotal evidence from some parents is obviously not enough to draw any conclusions.
You claimed non-stop without any facts or anything.

I'm saying that we could have way fewer bugs and crashes with better languages and tooling.
It's all very cool but "magic bytes"? When I encrypt data the last thing i want is for its format to be easily recognizable.
I completely agree that there are much better way to teach people things, but you're exaggerating in saying that memorizing isn't useful.

Take language as an example. Sure there are better ways to learn a language than just memorizing words. (That's debatable but I think most people would agree.) However there certainly is some use, still, in just memorizing things. For example, I don't speak French, but thanks to memorizing things I can at least know the basics I might need to get by (allowing me, last night, to buy a packet of cigarettes, ask for a menu, order a meal and the wine I wanted, from a bar owner who didn't speak a word of English, and I never even needed to point at anything!)

And in the rest of life, certain things just are useful if you memorize them. I have an events manager at work who doesn't know anything about computer networking, but he's picked up bits and pieces from colleagues to allow him to do things he is likely to need to do. He hasn't gained the experience of tinkering with linux, so give him a new problem and he won't figure it out, but there are certain things he can do on a linux server easily - and that's fine, nobody can be an expert in everything, everyone has areas where you just need to be able to get by.
Ha! I did the same thing for History and English in NZ. We had 2 mock exams during the year leading up to the main one and I used all the same essays in all of them. My teachers weren't too pleased about it after the 2nd mock exam (and my English teacher actually failed me for it - though that didn't count) but I got a good final grade. Ironically my father is was teaching secondary school English and History at the time.
Google should buy the ECC patents from Blackberry and set them free. They probably want some of their patents anyway, and Blackberry is about to sell them very soon.
That is in theory exactly what this allows you to do. e.g., if you're watching some streaming video while outside, then come home to wifi, the connection will switch to wifi.
Clever marketing I would say. Now he could make tons of money just by selling printed stories via mail.
You can usually estimate based on other standardized tests for people who haven't taken (or publicly disclosed) an IQ test. It's possible that the 173 figure is based on her CPA exam results or SAT scores.
Start-ups are the new rock'n’roll - and they're in danger of losing their souls
Seems to work from Romania (although it errored out on the first try, it worked after that).
Effective schooling could never occur on such a federated level. There's such a broad range of individual personalities and skills along varying axes that the idea of "let's put all the kids born within 10 months of each other in our geographic area in a classroom, and threaten force on people who don't want to cooperate" is never going to function well.

I hold the opinion that the proper training and education of one's offspring should be a foremost life goal, and that delegating it to the state because "it's easier", "I don't have the time", etc. is an abhorrent cop-out. The state likes this because it gives them an outlet which can be used to program 99% of the rising generation, but I see it as a serious and negligent discharge of fundamental parental responsibility. Please note that "education" means ensuring children learn correct principles -- it doesn't represent any specific extant construct or abstraction, like "high school" or "university graduation". For far too long these have been mechanisms of control. I say this as a successful high school dropout who has never enrolled in post-secondary courses.

The things mentioned in this article are utterly absurd, and as you noted, the fact that people allow their children to go through this for meaningless rewards is really weird. Does an "A" still hold that much sway? I long for the day when it will be recognized at its true worth, which is zero.
Is this an issue with conferences? My guess is that conferences would prefer to have interesting topics, and probably wouldn't care as much if the material was partially recycled. I have known people who presented early results of a study at one conference, and the final results at another. They were upfront about it, so it wasn't unethical, but I guess you could accuse them of resume padding. Personally, I would prefer a bunch of really interesting presentations at a conference with some recycled material, rather than a bunch of boring presentations that are all original (although if you attend a lot of conferences with the same people, you might prefer the latter I guess).
Not as desktop replacements they don't. iOS devices are fine for when the user has very simple needs like filling in a form or reading a pdf, but real office work is a completely different story.

A desktop Windows computer is faster, cheaper and more capabale than any phone out there. Dumb terminals are dramatically cheaper. That's why almost every office worker in the world uses them. iOS is doing well replacing Blackberry and Palm Pilot in the enterprise, not replacing Windows machines.
This is done on purpose. While others are trying to play catch upmwith their API, they're busy advancing things like robotcars with no competition.
Possibly, but bikes are not generally equipped with ABS and traction control. In emergency scenarios, I would wager that cars have better collision-avoidance capabilities.
No, that wasn't my point at all.

My point was that I mistrust all braggart claims about how language/paradigm X will turn water into wine.
While I mostly agree with you, she is learning one very valuable thing - how to game the system, which should see her in good stead for the rest of her life.
Simplistic moral narratives without the need for economic analysis of the costs, benefits and incentives of those who interact with the program! Surely this will result in good outcomes for the needy!
I had to go through a similar process when ordering a machine from an outfit called "Mac of All Trades" (http://www.macofalltrades.com/) recently (on behalf of a client). They requested my driver's license and the front and back of my business credit card.

I went back and forth with their customer support over this. I pointed out how easy it was to use free software to fake the "credentials" they were asking for; I pointed out that the business email address they used to contact me + the business phone number they used to contact me + the business website that listed both + web.archive.org were at least as useful for verification of identity; I pointed out that we order piles of stuff from tons of different vendors and they were one of only two that requested this. They stonewalled and I eventually acquiesced. (They were the only non-eBay source for a machine that this client wanted at anything resembling a decent price.)

I pointed them to SiftScience and Bruce Schneier's article on security theater. In the end it didn't seem to do any good. I was friendly with them about it at the time but have gotten grumpier about it since.

I think I'll send them a link to this article and this thread.
You know, it's the only time picker I see in Android. Such is my heavy use of Google Calendar.
>Society has no use for parrots.

In fact, society has a great use for "parrots" whose sense of rational processing is beat out of them, and are taught to keep their heads down and just swallow whatever their superior is cramming down their throat. It is certainly not a noble use, but without these many years of mandatory obedience training, the wage slavery upon which our lifestyle depends would suffer a severe lack of willing participants.
When I was at school and that is not USA but Poland. We used to have 6-8 different subjects per day from biology, chemistry, geography, maths and history as examples. Everyone of this subjects converted to at least an hour of homework. What I learned as a kid is that it is impossible to learn all this things at home and I have to filter what is needed the most. Sometimes approximate and sometimes simply take the risk and just read rapidly the book and count on luck. This what most valuable lesson if learned at school. Some of the kids managed to do this 8 hour drill some like me had to adjust and focus on important stuff learn to filter. This gave me ability to play games and program.
OT but early on there's a quote from the homework:

"its [sic] significance"

Why is the sic in there? Is that not the correct use of 'its' in this context?
So, have Apple really cocked up this release, or is it just the bloggers going to town whenever they find some flaw and hacker news loves it when people find problems?

Am genuinely curious - I've boon obsoleted with my iPod 4 so can't find out for myself..
Per class?
It gives you the potential to switch but it isn't explained in the article how iOS7 uses this potential.

Does it automatically kill the cellular data connection and only use the Wifi if wifi is available? Or does it keep both open and use them both?
The sensor technology, developed by AuthenTec and bought by Apple a year ago, reportedly stores your fingerprints locally, so giving your iPhone the finger will not make it all the way back to Cupertino.
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If you can do well on your science homework following "memorization not rationalization", your science homework is not preparing you to do science. Same with math.
>I think it is an easy fall back to make comparisons between the rich and poor, but that isn't the problem here. It is the government.

Government isn't an isolated entity in society it represents segments of a society. And usually that is the rich and or powerful.
I spent a minute looking at that too. I think the author inserted the [sic] because:

"quotes [...] with 1–2 sentence analyses of its [sic] significance"

If the "its" is referring to the quotes, it should be "their significance".