skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like the cleaner is working 40 hours / week at this guy's place. Depending on how the booking is for the month, she might have to go in and do some cleanup like 10 times per month. Combine her tasks like laundry with other clients to optimize time usage and she can probably handle 20 clients / month.

You made so many assumptions about this guy.. Don't try and assume...
Dover maths books are good readin'. In Blackwells in Oxford (UK) there used to be a budget section with loads of old Dover books. I remember one about Fourier series that was translated from a Russian text.
First, I should apologize for relating a personal anecdote, because it doesn't have anything to do with Common Core. It does provide something of a benchmark for the state of education 25-ish years ago, and it's troubling to me that we're continuing a downward spiral. Your story made me think immediately of this.

When I was in 2nd grade sometime toward the late 1980s, I was subjected to a science test with the following question:

"Which of the following is the closest star to Earth?"

The answers provided were "the sun," "the moon," "Venus," and "Mars."

I selected "the sun." I was marked off, and the teacher had returned the test with "the moon" circled as the correct answer. I don't recall being bothered so much by having marks taken off for providing an answer I knew with certainty was the truth.

Following receipt of the test, I distinctly recall my mum heading off to the school with me the following day to dispute this "fact." The teacher in question and the school's principal both provided the bothersome answer "Well, it's marked as 'the moon' in the answer sheet, so that's what we have to go by."

While I don't recall what became of that particular test or my final grade, it stands out as one of my earliest negative experiences in public education. I can only imagine what these poor kids are feeling when faced with questions that make no reasonable sense. It upsets me to think what memories they might harbor in the years to come, because kids certainly do NOT forget.

And to think that education has only gotten worse since. Troubling times ahead indeed!
The moon box: day one of a combined NaNoWriMo and GitHub Game-Off project.
Coming soon: secure, private, encrypted email done well
Except VoIP apps, since we want all apps with that capability to start on boot even if we only use them once a month, and we don't want any others to start on boot even if we use them daily. iOS regulations are so stupid.
Have you checked if APKs that take advantage of this bug are flagged by the Google Play Services verifier?

I can't imagine a legitimate reason to use these zip file corner cases, so it seems like the perfect sort of issue to detect and flag. And it would be a good spot-check of Google's verifier since they've had a few months to add the check.
it would make sense to hire complementary skills, like UX-design. I hear this is what the usual advices say.
Indeed, this was a bug. I included http:// to get the map image when in fact it needed //, since when hosted on meteor.com it defaults to https. This is now fixed in the repo.
Hmm, are you still seeing this issue? Can you share any console logs?
Is it the name nokia that matters? I think MS got their cell phone business which is the one that designs and manufactures the phones and related tech. I am hoping that they stick to the durable and functional designs that made nokia popular
Just out of curiousity what about pre 1913, when there was no income tax and no minimum wages? Were all those people exploited? Was that all immoral or illegal? It was then that the American wealth was created, at the rates that seem incredible now?
Thanks for the validation! We're actually out to solve that problem for movies, this is just the start. Should have another product announcement in a week or so.

Give us a few years and we'll get to trousers too.
1) For the 2013-14 school year, NYS children need to be 5 by December. The exact date in December varies from city to city. So (for NYS at least) the kindergarten starting age is 4 or 5.

2) Yes, it is that intense. I am glad this is getting some publicity. It is especially rough for students with special needs who are often held to the same standards.
So Rockstar - an NPE patent Troll by definition - filing lawsuits against Google & Samsung is the same as Motorola filing lawsuits according to Gruber.
Except Motorola has - you know - actual products that it sells. Additionally this company was created by the Apple + M.S Cartel explicitly to go after Google and Android - not to create any value, only to harass and stifle a competitor.

Sometimes Gruber gets so wrapped up in his own B.S. that he starts defending the scummy actions of Apple - sad.
Backgrounding the app closes all its sockets, or you cannot rely on them to stay open except for VoIP apps.
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then you should check out Lumia 1020. The Camera is just awesome on it.
How Quirky Uses Technology To Disrupt Manufacturing
It seems like they tried to dumb down certain words like "equation" into "number sentence", but only succeeded in making it confusing and ridiculous.

And on top of that these are problem solving questions introduced way too soon. What's wrong with just asking a kid some addition and subtraction questions without all the fluff? I know it's trying to tease out whether they understand the fundamental concept and all that, but it's horribly done and kids of that age shouldn't have to be self-aware of their own learning.
The purpose of working in number bases other than 10 is to reinforce the meaning of place value, and to implicitly teach students that the way we write numerals is (1) very logical and sensible, but (2) an accident of biology.

What we should really do is make students add and multiply in Roman numerals. Quick, what's LXXVII x XLIV? Attempting that will make you appreciate decimal notation real quick.
Twitter Helps Revive a Seedy San Francisco Neighborhood
Related is Tmuxinator[0] of which I've been a big fan.

Looks like tmuxp gives pythonistas a more robust interface [1], although I'm not sure I'll ever need to unit test tmux configs.

[0]: https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator

[1]: http://tmuxp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/about.html#difference...
Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies
You are assuming wget returns error codes reliably. It does not. Also, your example assumes write permissions to the current working directory and no risk of someone nefarious being able to write to the current working directory.
Abusing emoji in iOS and your mac
No, what I'm saying is, if you want to claim that Google is responsible for the 2012 Motorola suit (not the 2010 one), that is, Google is responsible for it and not Motorola management, than Google did it on behalf of the Android ecosystem as a whole.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either Motorola is acting independently and carrying forward a battle that started prior to the Google acquisition, in which case, you have a false equivalence, or, Google is carrying out the attack, but if they are, then it is for Android as a whole, just as Google has attempted to assist other Android OEMS in past suits by asking the USPTO for re-examinations.

To suggest that this isn't about iOS vs Android vs Windows Phone is ludicrous. Steve Jobs didn't scream "Motorola is a stolen product, I'm going thermonuclear on it", he say "Android is a stolen product..." Apple's suits against practically every Android vendor, from HTC to Samsung, Motorola, Huawei, ZTE, etc is obviously part of an ecosystem war

Your suggestion is to act as if the USSR launched a missile at New York in the US, and Washington D.C. ordered California to launch a retaliatory strike, it can't possibly be because New York was attacked, and must be considered a First Strike!
You make some good points.

People are put off by the jargon. The jargon in the test will have been introduced in class by the teacher. For example, "number sentence" is "equation". I support that one. It gets kids understanding the equal sign, probably the most important symbol of mathematics, and making the connection between story problems (in English sentences) and their mathematical interpretation (in equations).

And the idea of a "related subtraction sentence" is good too. The related subtraction sentences for 4 + 3 = 7 are 7 - 3 = 4 and 7 - 4 = 3. That's one way to teach subtraction, as the inverse of addition. Understanding it this way helps to remember the subtraction tables.

The problem is that the test itself is rubbish. (My third-grader has been through this curriculum, in CA, but not with this test.) The worst one is question 12, which asks for a subtraction sentence, but none of the choices are subtraction. D'oh!
just checked how many LOC each project had, only counting the lines in .js, .html, .rb, and .erb files for each project, I got this number

952 LOC - Meteor Travel
4068 LOC - MyWanderLust (Ruby on Rails/Angular)

The numbers speak for themselves
Completely agree with you - and it's what I've done in almost every case. The Library thing is an OpenBSD issue that people who are upgrading need to take note of though.
> And on top of that these are problem solving questions introduced way too soon.

While those questions weren't appropriate for a first grader at the beginning of the school year introducing problem solving is a big part of common core.
Exactly. The concepts are appropriate (maybe not for this age though, I was unaware that NY first-graders could be only 5 in October), but the test is crap.
Actually, just changing it to "wget -O - https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable" would work fine.

Of course, doing it the way you describe creates a /tmp race condition, so there's that.

I'm also curious what you think a partial read of "rm -rf ${rvm_src_path}" might resolve to that would be dangerous.
That's sad to hear about 3rd Ward, thank's for pointing that out.

You are right about the dead spots around the city, like Midtown East and Battery Park, there are a few dead spots where it is really lively during work hours but in the evening you have to travel a stop or two to find some action and good grub.

@throwmeaway2525 : streeteasy.com has alot of listings and you can always negotiate with the agent in regards to fee. I just found my cousin one in Hell's Kitchen for $1900 and it's a studio. Also take a look at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, they are renovating all of the apartments and you can get a 1 Bedroom in a 2 Bedroom share for around $1600. They are larger apartments and it's a great size room for the price and location.
Most of the thoughts expressed there are philosophical. e.g. a good UI should work for al skill levels, It should satisfy Gestalt rule, absence of dock, etc. Of these the last is not even correct. You can pin whatever tiles you want on the start screen including many deep links into apps that other OSes don't even offer (afaik)

As for the other two, again they are philosophical. If the user had said that it doesn't work for me because I am novice or expert user then I'd understand. What does it have to do with it following certain design principles? does it work for you as an individual or not? Isn't that the most important question. The comment does not answer that at all.
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I'm curious, you say your child has been through this curriculum. Are you saying your child was in a school using the Pearson curriculum or that your child's school used a curriculum based on common core?
"Can use". Emphasis on CAN. Display Ads constitute about 12% of Google revenues, the degree to which people imagine Google use's personal data for targeting, and the actual reality are far apart.

The reality is, Google makes more money on AdWords through Google searches, and so the default search engine is far more important.
The link says I can't use it because it's a Chrome app, which, as far as I know, is nothing more than a website artificially constrained so that I can't use it on an iPad or any browser that is not Chrome.

This seems worse than Flash websites, what are the advantages for developers or users? They are built using web technologies anyway, why restrict your audience?
As someone who had stuck a pin in a socket as a kid, it was extremely painful for me to watch.
seriously, just put images in divs and use some box to move them around. flat sexy gravity. ken burns effect for web 4.x
I'm not sure whether most 5-6 year old kids even have brains that have developed sufficiently to deal with abstract thought.
> I was unaware that NY first-graders could be only 5 in October

That surprised me also. Here in Nevada the cut off is in September and so any child in first grade would be at least six years old by October. A month or two doesn't make a huge difference so perhaps their cutoff is in October or November.
Oh, I understand your point and I agree with it. It’s obviously about Android using features and designs that Apple (during Jobs’ reign) felt should be exclusive to them.

My question is: why did pre-Google Motorola sue Apple, given that it hadn’t been sued by Apple?
OpenBSD is made for developers by developers. Everything from configuration files in /etc to any system API calls are well documented in the man pages. They treat the man pages just as any other piece of the operating system. I.e. incorrect information in a man page is treated as a bug and dealt with just as diligently.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi

I moved from using Gentoo for 10 years to OpenBSD and have not looked back.

Edit; You gain quite a bit of time moving from Gentoo to OpenBSD because there is no requirement to compile or fix your operating system.
Clicky: http://travel.meteor.com
So there's One Right Way to manage all businesses in a broad category?

I'm old enough to have heard that a few times before ...
Heh, never expected to see patentlyo on here. Upvoted purely by instinct!

For those who've never visited that site, it's a highly regarded blog that covers all kind of patent issues in all kinds of areas. It does get a bit esoteric for non-legal folk, but even for us it's worth reading the introduction to each article just to get an idea of the patent situation in other industries. (You may soon realize that it's not all that different from ours.)

To get back on topic for this submission, it's a good quick read, again if only to get an idea of the patent issues other industries grapple with. For instance, "PARTS Act (S.780)" hints at some dissatisfaction in the auto industry.
Firefox OS?
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These kinds of things are exactly why I am so glad that my parents homeschooled me.
No. If the connection drops, wget will retry forever iff you have Content-Length in the HTTP response, which you always do.
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I swear, as a C#/Java/Javascript developer, reading stuff like this just makes me feel like a shitty developer. I know I'm a very competent programmer and architect but I feel like I could not grasp this kind of low level optimization even if I tried.
I once solved a bug where i=5 didn't execute (single stepping through the assembly also failed to assign the variable), the fix?

i=5;
i=5;
i=5;
i=5;

and, I believe we it shipped like that.
Between that and the humble indie bundles (or just indie games in general), I think it's fair to say Linux gaming is looking much more exciting and healthier than it has ever been in the past (at least the recent past).

Does that mean it's "about to take off?" I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I certainly hope so. Games have always meant pushing technological boundaries, so if games get big on Linux it will hopefully move the whole OS forwards. Finally, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us! (...don't worry about those pesky locked-down mobile devices)

Well... a man can dream, at least.
I ran into this problem as well at first. The issue is easily overcome as described at the following URL.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#noflopcd

Can this easily be done from any Linux distribution? AFAIK it can not, instead they waste resources creating USB installs and images.
"Well, it's marked as 'the moon' in the answer sheet, so that's what we have to go by."

Or, in other words: "We were just following orders. We are not allowed to think for ourselves."

It's tragic that these are the attitudes of the people entrusted to educate children.
Depends on the user, of course. Can't an Android user swap those out? And install ad blockers on their browser as well? You'll never get me to agree that the walled garden isn't user-hostile, but it is true that some users are unprepared or unwilling to make their way in the wilderness outside of it.
That is an excellent question. I just now turned on that feature (I normally keep it off, in case Google is watching it and learns something about an exploit I might be working on) and verified that it correctly warns about both bug #8219321 and bug #9695860. It does not, however, do anything to protect me against bug #9950697. I am now even more impressed with the extent to which they simply do not seem to care about proactively protecting users from these kinds of security issues :(.
Paradox of Choice is a well documented phenomenon. http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...

Many people (me included) aren't willing to spend sufficient mental energy on a decision based on what's available when we want to be entertained.

A related problem is that Netflix does a bad job of managing expectations, but we're working on that with tinj.
>Are you claiming Google puts out Android as an exercise in charity? If not, this is a non-sequitur.

Where did I say that? There's a difference between giving something away for free and altruistic charity. Apple gave away OSX, are you suggesting it's an exercise in charity? Android is a strategic moat for Google's main business, it is not a profit center.

On Steve Jobs, http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-says-googles-dont-...

"We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. ... This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”

The implication in Job's quote is that Google was wrong, unethical, or evil to "enter the phone business", as if Apple has some god given right to own the phone business?

The rest of your post comes down to a disagreement on basic principles for which we will never agree. I have opposed software patents for decades, far longer than I've been a Google employee (indeed, I was attracted to Google because of its stance on software freedom) From your profile and your posts, you seem to have a vested interest in patents, possibly even a lawyer or an employee of IP vultures. That's fine, as Upton Sinclair said "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" My salary doesn't depend on open source or being against software patents, I have hated them since I began programming software in the 80s. I stand against them on principle, and I don't believe in intellectual property in general.

All the other attempted utilitarian justifications are bullshit. They might hold for pharmaceuticals, or other industries where it may take 10 years to R&D a drug, but the idea that software patents represent extreme risks and expenses in development is ludicrous, and anyone who has written more than a few thousand lines of code knows that. The VC justification is bullshit too, I founded, raised funding, and sold two startup companies without patents.

The concept of predatory pricing makes no sense for something owned by the public (open source). I would argue that if companies battling it out is creating and giving away knowledge or information to be owned by the public and freely copied, then it is a good for society and is exactly the kind of thing we want to be encouraging.

Your vested interest is in protecting corporate interests against the public it seems. If Google stood against the public interest in this regard, I would be the first to raise hell. It just happens my employer, for the most part, shares the same view I've always held.
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Surprising Variation Among Genomes of Individual Neurons from Same Brain
The degree doesn't matter if your employer is hiring you for a position with "Engineer" in the title. This works both ways between Canada and the US.
Funny... it was the place for math and CS (in both the math and engineering schools) in the '70s. Hell, you'd have to have been blind to miss the Waterloo-sponsored math contests in high school (only the Society of Actuaries sponsored any other HS contests in those days, and that one was only for Grade 13 students in Ontario). If you did math or wanted to get into the computer world, you wanted to go to Waterloo, the same way that engineers wanted to go to Queens. I find it rather hard to believe that UW fell off of the map in the intervening period.
Now, that explains better.
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The variance of the combined Gaussian will not always shrink with more data. Consider the case that you have one sensor that predicts 100m at a high accuracy and then you get another sensor predicting 10,000m with the same accuracy. At first you thought you had a very good idea of the location then with more information you realize that you actually have no idea and you get a Gaussian with mean of 5,050m and a very high variance.
> It is especially rough for students with special needs who are often held to the same standards.

This is an issue with the law. A student that is behind for any reason be it disability, language barrier, etc, that is in a mainstream classroom must be provided with grade level instruction and materials. If they have an individualized education plan (IEP) they'll also typically get individualized instruction from supplemental sources and/or their teachers. If they are just behind it's really up to the teacher to present the student with materials that they can handle and to find ways to help the kids close the gap. The best teachers will do this all the time, decent teachers will do it some, and crappy teachers won't do it at all. You can probably imagine that schools will be comprised of all three types. As far as grading and evaluation goes the teachers don't have a choice but to hold all the kids to the grade level standards, again due to the legal issues.
We still have bot challenges, and can easily host something like, with the added advantage of supporting a dozen other advantages, and a truck load of users.
From my experience FreeBSD documentation is often outdated and no longer applicable. In my opinion incorrect documentation is worse than having no information as it often causes more problems and frustration.
Also in "Cyberpunk: Outlaws And Hackers On The Computer Frontier"[1]

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Fro...
Nut job here, too. Common core is terrifying. Glad it's getting some bad press.
I don't agree with your complaints about 2 or 11, assumptions are a part of everyday communication. Anyway, wouldn't the question would be unanswerable if some of the jelly jars could have peanut butter? We know the question is answerable, therefor no jelly jars can have peanut butter.
Does RTM frequent these boards?

Assuming this is the real rtm, then he has an account, but he doesn't comment very often.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm
hmm, you've reaffirmed my suspicions. The image suggestions for a google search of Twicsy was just adult material.

The TechCrunch article in 2009 criticised the website for being creepy http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/19/twicsy-is-a-killer-and-kind...

"As you might imagine, this service pulls up a lot of slightly personal pics, such as couples being all cutesy together. Since you don’t know any of them, it’s slightly creepy. But hey, if they don’t want those seen, they shouldn’t be sharing them over Twitter in the first place."