skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very pretty, but using the down button to go right is a bit counter-intuitive.
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...they spark up conversation with the neighbouring tribe that has no concept of time!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711

...and then it all falls to pieces because they have no concept of god!

More to the point, what is the big deal with counting if there is no concept of private property?
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy) the last 1 has to be a 0.
Anyone interested in the Pirahã should read 'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle' by Daniel Everett ( http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386... )

There's quite a bit about the language, but the backstory of Daniel going over as a missionary and losing his faith (and family) while trying to convert a happy people in no need of religion is stunning.
So I went to try that site out. Where the hell is the download link?! They're all ads!
Samsung reports first ever Quarterly Loss
People talk about HTC,Nokia,RIM,Motorola who all have failed in the mobile business. And then people forget Samsung too was in that list and almost looking down a loss making path- but for some smart copying of iOS that helped them take off on the back of the Galaxy devices. This is possibly one of the great escapes in business history.
Umm not sure how this beats sceditor tbh
Three.

You must be referring to the legendary 3 Wolf T-Shirt available on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Three-Wolf-Adult-T-Shirt/dp...

Just get the T-Shirt and read the reviews - famously funny.

There aren't any wolves in the Amazon rainforest - not enough bins for them to go through, apparently.
Thanks! That's really good to know...

I assume you're using a temp because of the DMCA?... :(
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On one hand I'd agree with you, on the other Poles whine a lot and need a lot of appreciation from others to believe in themselves. I have worked with many people educated in other countries in similar age as mine. We compared our educational experience - many admitted that in terms of scope, PL education seemed much better - more in-depth courses, more interesting problems solved during studies, etc.

I'd say that you have to look at particular education levels and types of studies to get a good understanding on what's good and bad in PL education system.
I'm curious why you think acknowledging the US's ills is equivalent to overlooking the countless ills of many other extremely violent nations and despots. The difference between us, perhaps, is that I care about and acknowledge all aspects of global atrocities.
If you have a strong RSA modulus, e.g. 2048 bits, then the primes we are talking about are about 1024 bits.

There is no way you are going to hit such a prime number at random. Not even if you set a million fast computers going in a million universes on every planet in those universes. Certainly not before heat death of this universe.

The only way you are going to have an interest in this prime is as a factor of someone's RSA key (for which you will need not-yet-invented algorithms of great sophistication and probably an enormous amount of computer time to find in the first place).

On principle, the idea of illegal numbers is stupid. Actually, on second thoughts, it is stupid either way. It is basically serving only as a legal backstop for a situation that by definition shouldn't need one.
Damn, I meant I wince when I see someone espousing inherent gender differences, because the poor sod that brought it up finds himself or herself shouted down.
Obviously there are gender differences. Stating that gender differences result in inherent preferences tends to get people's hackles up.
Part of the problem is amateur evolutionary biologists starting sentences with 'Just like monkeys, women tend to... ' or 'Men tend to...'
Shame. From what I understand, this guy is incredibly hard to get an interview with. So they manage to score one, and perform the mother of all rookie interviews.

Rather than ask followup questions on any of the interesting things the subject has to say, the interviewer seems to almost want to cut him short to ask the next unrelated question from his list. Terrible.

Watterson: ..It was a grim, sad time. Desperation makes a person do crazy things...

<pregnant pause>

Interviewer: Great. So what kind of car do you drive?

I really wish we could get a do over on this one.
in the wake of bitcoins.. ah f¥€k it ;)
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I have a number of good friends who are teachers, including maths, and they talk about it a lot. While you may not think your system is good, it sounds like the UK system is encouraging mediocrity.

For example, when I was at school 20 years ago, we had to memorise formulas for common thing ( speed = distance over time, and similar). Apparently the kids are given the formulas in exams now. There doesn't appear to be such a thing as a "fail" these days, just a "foundation level pass".

As such, I can see where the UK is failing, and see positive things mentioned about Poland in the article.
It looks very good, but it does need an awful lot more features.
I'm not having the kind of argument with you that you seem to think I am. I looked at the articles you mentioned. Certainly their criticisms are devastating if, and only if, they are true and fair. Are they? I can't say. I don't have time to read the studies. If you have, and you've arrived at your beliefs based on factual analysis rather than ideology, that's good.

My point about IBC was not intended to dispute what you said, but rather to vent something that has bothered me for a long time. Sorry that wasn't clear. I feel slightly justified by the fact that your second link does the very thing I was complaining about:

these results were anywhere from seven to 14 times as high as other credible estimates, including those made by the non-partisan Iraq Body Count, a consortium of U.S. and U.K researchers, also concerned about the human toll of the war

This is deeply misleading. IBC's number is guaranteed to be a far underestimate: there's no credible scenario under which all or even most of the deaths in a bloody, messy war could be neatly individually documented, not to mention accessible to foreign researchers over the internet. That's like counting individual raindrops and adding only the drops you counted to produce an estimate of total rainfall. A proper statistical study would be expected to come up with a much higher number; an order of magnitude difference is probably not unreasonable. That doesn't prove the Lancet study was proper; perhaps other criticisms are more serious. But this is the only one I feel able to comment on and the fact that they included it without pointing out that it is comparing an apple with a raisin does not give me confidence. (Neither does your description of these documents as "hilarious". I don't see any hilarity there. I do smell an ideological agenda.)

This may be unfair of me, but I can't help feeling suspicious of the fact that IBC hasn't done more to counteract this widespread—I'd even say universal, based on what I've seen—misuse of their data for absurd lowballing of the damage caused by that war. They say their motivation is to do justice to the human tragedy of the war. Shouldn't they be the first to object to dishonest uses of their work which obscure how tragic it was?
My reading of that article says that 1 of 3 ten year olds will not reach 45 years. Then they start dying even faster. That is not similar to modern survivorship.

Looking at the plot associated with your quote emphasizes the difference.
: I like the "block" abstraction. It seems like a good way to visually work with structured content.

Hmm, IDK. I can see that it could be a good way to represent and manipulate the chunks of text once you've got them, but having to click a special icon and choose the block type every time you add a new paragraph (rather than just pressing "return" for the most common case of a new text paragraph) seems pretty clumsy.
2 anecdotes:

We had a guy from Poland living with us in Germany for 6 months. I think it was around 2003/2004 when I was still in school. His math skills were absolutely impressive but he still had to study a lot to keep up (he was living in Germany due to some excellency initiative, so this is a slightly skewed sample). When he showed me some of their lessons it was way beyond what we had to do in school.

In 9th grade I took part in an exchange program with the UK. As they lacked exchange partners , I got matched up with a guy from 10th or 11th grade (can't remember). The school was supposedly one of the better ones. I wasn't very good in math (usually hovered around grade 3 [1 - 6 with 1 being the best grade and 4.0 the worst passing grade]) but I was pretty much the best in their class. Wasn't very impressed by them.
Pretty, but it's time consuming to read. I still prefer to read a paper resume up to just two pages. Imagine everyone has an interactive resume like this: my eyes are going to hurt.
Another interesting idea against MitM attacks on key exchange is implemented in ZRTP: verbal cross-check of two code words displayed on both terminals (during the first call) and key continuity (during subsequent calls).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP#Authentication

Cross-check of code words is essentially a humanization of RSA keys fingerprint cross-check. Only true geeks will speak hex digits over the phone, but normal people won't hesitate to tell a few words or small quizes/stories/whatever (if they need added security for this call).
Even if it were true that China cages more people relatively, that would be a laughably low standard to flaunt.
My bad, I hadn't heard that update.
Thanks. Viciousness wasn't my intent.

I'll rephrase it: the definitions on the site, or at least the few-dozen I looked at, seem like forced attempts at a particular strain of hip cleverness. Which is what one often sees when middle-aged writers try to script hip teenagers. And in a fairly horrifying social phenomenon, it's becoming self-reenforcing amongst the target demographic.
People talk about HTC,Nokia,RIM,Motorola who all have failed in the mobile business. And then people forget Samsung too was in that list and almost looking down a loss making path- but for some smart copying of iOS that helped them take off on the back of the Galaxy devices. This is possibly one of the great escapes in business history.
For those who are interested I have uploaded some more demos:

IBM PC with Wolfenstein 3d, Civilization, Monkey Island:
http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-games/

IBM PC with Windows 3.0: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-win/

Mac Plus with applications and games: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/
I think it's the opposite (that it is at least in part more RAM that is driving this)

If you're going to end up swapping to disk most of the time anyway, the feature doesn't seem to be very useful. But with much faster CPUs, "many core" CPUs where your apps often won't manage to take advantage of the CPUs, and cheap RAM making lots of people buy huge amounts, the "cost" of using compression to offset swapping to disk seems to have dropped substantially, and the chance of avoiding swapping to disk entirely seems to have increased.
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According to the KernelMode thread¹ the keypair is generated on the server. The public key is retrieved from it, but its private counterpart will never be on your machine. No key is sent to the server.

¹http://www.kernelmode.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2945
I fail to understand this. Is your dislike of Rand overwhelming your ability to make a fair comparison? Roark's burning of "his" building provides the simplest example of an uncompromising act and damn-the-outcome that I can think off. Who would you use? Jesus and the money lenders? Ahab's hunt? Julius Levy killing his daughter? I can't think of anything even remotely as appropriate.
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I can't compare recent advances in educational systems, but I do have pretty good knowledge of at least what used to happen in high schools in the US and of schools and a technical university in France.

The conclusions I'd draw (and mind you, this is knowledge from ~15-20 years ago, and it is my knowledge and my opinions):

* Polish high school students indeed know more and are better at problem solving than most US high school students,
* that said, there are high schools (public!) in the US that offer university-level courses and are excellent,
* and university-level education seems to be much better in the US,
* the US approach of "if the answer has one too many significant digit, it is wrong and you get zero points" is virtually unknown in Poland and comes as a shock to Polish students, who are often taught that "it is the approach that counts". I find the US approach much more realistic: it doesn't matter how you "approached" the design of a bridge, if the bridge collapsed.
* French schools are quite similar to Polish ones, but:
* mathematics taught at French technical universities (the best ones) is WAY WAY WAY above what a Polish high-school graduate would expect,

My main point is that it is very difficult to compare educational systems and draw meaningful conclusions. Dealing with society-wide aggregates doesn't tell you much about the outliers: best schools, best students, specific curriculums, or specific sciences.

My secondary point is that based on my experience I wouldn't say the Polish system is better than any other. And I don't see any sweeping changes that would improve the situation in recent years (the reshuffling of schools and age groups doesn't do much in my opinion).
This year, I've engaged schools at length to discuss computer based systems. There are a few recurring threads that I have seen that would support this article.

* Real-world examples are not favoured. I'd go as far to say they are unpopular. There is an over emphasis on theory and rote learning, without providing context. This may be a result of "stove piping" mathematics to be "pure math only", rather than having "real-world applications".

* Children are shoe-horned and given little opportunity to pace themselves and their learning. The theory may be that kids that progress quickly may become bored.

* Technology is praised/shunned in the wrong ways. Tablets are generally praised, and in my view, offer limited opportunity and creativity. PCs are shunned, or treated as "toys".

* Over emphasis on rewards. There seems to be a common thread that kids continually need to be bribed. Avatars/humourous or cute animations/etc. There may be a good reason for this, but I find that it actually distracts students rather than helps.

I could list other things that have concerned me, but these are the first ones that come to mind.

Edited to add comments about "rewards".
Do you have any examples of OS X apps written with Qt that are indistinguishable from great Cocoa apps?

I'm considering using Qt for an OS X project and would love to see what it can do when used well.
I was born in Poland and lived there until I turned 24 (I am 35 now). Now living in Australia and having previously lived in other countries, mainly US , contrary to others who comment on the quality of Polish education, I can confirm that thanks to the fact I received it in Poland I am much better off compared to my peers in AU or US. I work in IT now but previously got a teaching degree here in AU and worked in education (high schools) for 3 years. To put it in a nutshell, AU education (probably along with other westernized countries) is an utter joke compared to Polish. What AU kids do at school, irrespective of the level they are in is 3-4 years behind Europe. AU is going strong thanks to its migrants coming mainly from Asia who are slowly replacing typical Australians in high paying white collar jobs. Any kid educated in Asia can run circles around top students here and that is particularly evident during students exchange programs where newcomers cannot believe that learning about fractions and watching cartoons to write compositions or essays is a standard curricular approach. The reason I do not work in education anymore is precisely because I could not stand myself to watch how AU curriculum with a plethora of mickey mouse subjects is dumbbing this generations down (and probably others before it). I am not saying that Polish education was the highlight of my youth and that as a student I didn't hate every day of my life while at school, spent cramming Math and English and many other, seemingly useless subjects. However, seeing what I see now, in hindsight I am so grateful for the fact that it was so bloody hard to be even average student at my school and now that I have 2 kids on my own I feel sorry for the fact that unless I pay premium from the start for a private school, they will never have the same opportunity as I did.
Although sounding a little bit cynical, there is unfortunately some truth in it: if thinking was important then the smartest people could be found on the highest positions. Clearly that is not the case (with a few exceptions). So we can only conclude that thinking is not of great value and smart people are not really wanted (unless they make cool, nice, shiny toys). It's just a simple observation; the world around us is not based on the smartest solutions.

A documentary I saw about the human brain gave an explanation for this: the brain always looks for the easiest solution because it wants to preserver as much energy as possible (it has already enough to do in the modern world). It is just natural that energy follows the path of the least resistance.

And that is the reason we don't have Plato's State :)
Thanks a lot. Why isn't this in the WP article?
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If you just took a bigger dose at the end of tje week you would know if there was any in it or not.
The headline is misleading, but the article itself is more solid in this regard.

In fact, if you want children to be able to think, you shouldn't "teach them to think". You should teach deep knowledge and skills in a particular subject matter context:

"Maths classes tend to be more sophisticated, with lessons that show the often fascinating ways that geometry, trigonometry and calculus work together in the real world. Students forego calculators, having learned how to manipulate numbers in their heads."

High expectations can also be effective:

"Yet his most effective change was also his wooliest: he expected the best work from all of his pupils."

See http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2007/Crit_Thi...
The "blue" and "indigo" in "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" are just two shades of blue in Russian, more like "light blue" (голубой) and "dark blue" (синий).
So, how was your day?
Semi OT: what is ninja? Tried looking it up but couldn't come up with a meaningful result.
The feds didn't negotiate anything, the article the company sponsoring Data Tables is planning to take action against the government.
Cute. Got my attention. Not sure about the flashing text at the beginning though - too hard to read.
I would also like to know this. Why is it important that the number representing some code must be prime? Why not any number?
In both cases, you shouldn't be documenting and testing the internals if your functions, but the code contract, i.e. that it does what you have agreed with other developers that the function will do.

The question is not whether to test or whether to document, but what to test and what to document.
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but when you ask a non-specialist[1] "what color is this", pointing to a scarlet object, they'll say "red". They will also take longer to tell the difference between turquoise and blue than between proper green and blue, where (I think it was) Thai-speakers wouldn't[2] (who have a primary-colour word for turquoise).

[1] specialist = (color-theorist, decorator)

[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/104/19/7780.full actually, this article seems to talk about Russian, I'm getting the Thai thing from a discussion I remember (a video by the authors at the Long Now foundation[3].)

[3] http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/oct/26/how-language-shapes...
Perhaps a contractor is defrauding the government, submitting an open source project as their own development work?
>I'm curious why you leave Pol Pot, Rwanda, the Soviet Union out of your statement.

That's like asking why someone left Cheetos out of their discussion of Twinkies. 1) Irrelevant, 2) Not a flattering comparison.

It does tell us who you think the United States' peers are. I wouldn't think to compare the US to machete-wielding Hutus or the horrific Japanese invasion of China during WWII; you seem to think that's pretty fair.
I got Freedos working about 2 years ago, but then stopped working on it. I picked it up again earlier this year. Approximately 3 months of full time work.

I'm considering writing some articles, just need to find some free time.
Rewiring the genetic code.
I posted it on the page as well:

Doesn't just calling return from an event equate to returning boolean false, which means you are invoking the effects of preventDefault() and stopImmediatePropagation() thus explaining why with return it's faster as the event stops bubbling immediately?
Which means the Islamic terrorists coincidentally live upstairs (which I believe is one of the stupidest coincidences of any book I have read and enjoyed.)
No. It equates to returning undefined, which is the same as having no return statement at all.
Continuous * needs Continuous Feedback, Too.
Doesn't a return without argument return false and thus have the same effect as preventDefault()? That would explain the difference, since the events are not "bubbling up".
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But the solution is to make sure that the documentation is of a sort that is useful in determining where to fix things. Again, if you have a problem with a function call, the fist question should be "does your call to the function match the documentation?" If it doesn't the first thing you do is change the call to match.

Now sometimes one comes to the conclusion that an API is broken, so you have to modify the comments, and then modify the code, but there is a reason to do it in this order.

When you modify the comments you are modifying a set of promises you have made to other coders. This allows you to think through how this change is going to work and how it will affect other code out in the wild. Then, when you modify your code, it is going to be better.
Damnit, after reading that I simply had to buy myself a copy of that book. These two guys were my childhood heros. Although my mom hated them thanks to all the hours I spent playing Keen or Doom and "not doing my homework"
When I first saw DOOM running on a bog-standard 386, I declared it to be utter nonsense. I'm no fool! I know what's possible and what's impossible, and that was clearly the latter. Sure, I knew it wasn't impossible, and in fact was true and real and a testament to the brilliance of Carmack et al, but it was still nonsense. Brilliant, astonishing nonsense.

I declare your x86 emulator similar nonsense, for all the same reasons. I take my hat off to you. Well done indeed!
What would you do differently if it was 5 or 8 wolves? Having concepts like "a few" and "a lot" seems to be enough for this case.
If you use the browser's "onclick" or "onmouseout" properties instead of the jQuery event calls, the result is very similar:

http://jsperf.com/always-return-on-jquery-events/5