skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never seen one imagine a cardboard box as a rocket ship, or such? That's simply abstract thought of another kind. To be honest, I feel more like rote schoolwork beats it out of them than the opposite, given how many children I've seen that are more capable than the adults, but that's a bit of a tangent.

For the record, it's not actually that hard to teach younger kids advanced mathematics. Just turn it into a game. I managed to teach a ~10 year old about mutually tangent circles, after all. And I was certainly never bound by the imaginary limits of what kids were "supposed" to learn at a certain age. Roughly the first half of the "advanced" branches of math is giving funny names to things and learning a few tricks. Basic set theory, for example, would not be all that hard to teach to a young child, but most don't see any value in it.

Anyhow, yes, that test is fairly confusingly worded (partly just from stupid and partly because we lack the context of the lessons). In particular, I agree that coins & coffee cups are a bridge too far, so they could certainly do better. But I guess people would rather WTF over the strange wording and downvote and such rather than consider whether little kids should be taught that there's more to addition than rote memorization of the addition tables? (For the record, yes, they should memorize the tables, too.)

I found it quite simple to discern that they were taught to split the problems into the part they know and the whole thing, then look for the missing piece and turn the problems into "stories" connecting the numbers to real objects.

Would everyone rather that kids learn that math is a bunch of boring number facts to memorize that have no (apparent) application to real life? Or is it the feeling that the way you were taught is plenty good and nobody should ever try to improve it, especially in a way that you don't understand? Or does this whole line of thinking simply make people uncomfortable and cause them to reject the thought entirely?
- 1kb + jQuery is bigger (or almost the same size) as the other ones without jQuery (except Ember.js).

- Comparing template engines only (with the riot solution having less features) doesn't give a complete picture for comparing speed. There are dozen of other parts to make a web app. The template is only a small part. Benchmarks aren't even a good way to compare speed. It's how the user feels when using the resulting app and interacting with the UI that matters.

- TodoMVC is a very small app for comparing productivity. E.g. your router implementation doesn't take into account IE bugs, and researching such bugs instead of using a proven solution can be less productive.

I agree with you that modular and maintainable web apps can be developed with jQuery only, and even plain JavaScript only. I dislike, as much as you do, "Backbone developers", "AngularJS developers", "Ember.js developers", etc. who can use only one framework, can't properly structure an app without using a framework, and claim that the framework they use is the only good one to solve any problems and build any type of app.

A good developer should be able to choose the proper solution for a particular problem. There's no one size fits all solution for every problem.
He didn't mean she should get a job as an 8 year old but that her long term goal should be a job.
Perpetuating terrible JavaScript practices
Yeah, you're right, I've seen it too.

I've noticed that techies have a tendency to drift into absolutist thinking, probably because we're so isolated from mainstream society, so our brains, being the wonderful bayesian-esque learning machines they are have relatively a relatively small sample of non-diverse data on the subject. And the abstract world we work in is artificially absolute. And maybe it's partly the type of person that's drawn to this field.

Which is just a complicated way of saying that we're often really crappy at modeling the real world in our heads unless we've forced ourselves to get out there and gather some experience.
The projects I've kept grinding on for the longest have been the ones with the worst odds of making me rich. There are many types of projects that are just too seductive and habit forming. "Just one more tweak" becomes an intellectual challenge or a hobby as much as about business.

Though ultimately I think those kinds of projects are also the ones that often lead people to massive success too, because a lot of projects that are eventually successful takes long enough to get there that you'd give up if they didn't have that seductive effect.

The problem, of course, is figuring out when enough is enough (though the absence of commercial success is not necessarily a good yardstick, if it's still fun)
Creating fluorescent word effect
Except that UEFI has "system libraries" (among others for IPv4/v6 networking) that can be used after an OpenProtocol call.

In the future, AMI might add some OpenGL interfaces, too (see http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/8_-_UEFI_S...)
> The government has shown that it, too, cannot be relied upon to solve it.

Except governments in other countries have a better solution for it than the US government does. Denmark, for example, has a very low homelessness rate:

http://www.english.umd.edu/interpolations/3466

Here's some more statistics on homelessness. You'll need to divide by population to get percentages, which are the only useful way to present this data:

http://www.homelessworldcup.org/content/homelessness-statist...

As for the rest of your post: I'm not saying it's a majority yelling "Socialism". I'm saying it's a minority which has the power to, for example, shut down the government by blocking certain legislation because they think a health care plan created by the Heritage Foundation is Socialism.

So:

> When the government wants to spend money on something it seems to find a way.

Not if a minority within the government has found a way to rig the game such that it can make the rest of the party in control of the House of Representatives terrified of being primaried unless they back Ted Cruz.

Our system is full of checks and balances to prevent a majority from running roughshod over all of the minorities. The converse to that is that you do need broad (near-universal, by comparison to some other systems) support, or at least broad acquiescence, to institute major change. A well-positioned minority can halt things, even to the point of disaster, by digging in its heels far enough.
> It's tragic that these are the attitudes of the people entrusted to educate children.

One person != everyone. Most of my teachers were good ones, willing to show me things other people considered "too advanced" for kids like me. Such people were the reason I could do things like purchase ethyl acetate as a child. Yes, that gives off poisonous fumes. It's used in entomology and was recommended by the books I was following.
The Futility of Comparing yourself with others.
This should be true for ANY backend, as long as you don't use a data serialisation mechanism that is really specific to a given language.
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OTOH it seems like a dumb move by the city to offer these tax breaks to twitter in the first place. Were they really going to up and move to mountain view? To save on payroll tax? I'm not sure what the precedence for something like that happening is, but it seems highly unlikely.
I used to live in Seattle and heard people talk similarly about 3rd and Pike, and I didn't get it. Used to pass by there all the time to get to the post office on Union St. Never once felt unsafe. It is a lot like the other blocks in the area. Largely unremarkable. (Though I do recall hearing about a random shooting there once.)

In contrast, I find it much easier to have an unpleasant experience on 6th St. in SF, a place where I've actually been physically threatened with violence. I moved to SF thinking it was pretty culturally similar to Seattle, but there was definitely a "getting used to more visible crime" adjustment period for me. Seattle's CBD is pretty much Disneyland by comparison. :-)
As to your aside: the 2mhz 8086 claim was about UEFI Shell - which is as close to native (usually 64bit) UEFI code as can be.

That, and the "UEFI binaries are unportable" bit really indicate that the author doesn't know very much about UEFI.

(Aside of my own: there are typically at most two places in x86 UEFI where you can find 16bit code: first at the init vector, where it sets up the system to move to 32bit - and then 64bit modes - as fast as possible, even before initializing DRAM at all. The other place is the CSM, which provides the legacy BIOS interface, if necessary)
And here I thought that meteor killed this thing like a week ago.
Fair enough - It's just that I feel like they need to make this really apparent before I would feel comfortable enough to use this as a product.

Purely from a product point of view, I wonder if this is one of the cases where having more friction to send money from one account to another, is a good thing.

Perhaps there is now a stronger motivation to write a javascript browser exploit
Step 1: that detects an active gmail (or other webmail) session
Step 2: then sends out an email of small enough $ amounts from a large number of email addresses
Step 3: send the email to a federated set of email accounts that Square considers legitimate users with associated debit cards
Step 4: Rinse, repeat this for a few hops to make tracing a trifle harder.
Step 5: Make Ocean's 11 bag of tricks look as bad as a O(2^n) algorithm.

If they have indeed figured this part out - then I would be really curious to learn what that gotcha is!
I think I saw your comment was kind of hoping you showed the guy who replied that he or she was wrong.

With Meteor it kind of becomes that the bottleneck is the lack of clarity in the idea. What I mean is if you know exactly what you want to do (design and all) its pretty much a 1 day job tops.
Mid-Market makes that intersection look like a children's playground. It's not even remotely unsafe -- and I've walked through there many times, day and night.

To be honest, there really isn't a comparable area in downtown Seattle. Perhaps down by the Stadiums or over by Chinatown, but even that is pretty tame by comparison.
I'm not a bios expert, and have a few questions:

1) Everyone keeps saying that a BIOS dump will show what's happening here. If the "BIOS Dump" function a feature of the bios/motherboard itself, wouldn't the malware have the ability to exclude itself from the returned dump?

2) The argument about a bios-specific malware not being possible because the BIOS itself is not transportable. Couldn't the malware perform a dump of the bios, inject itself based upon a series of patterns found in the dump, and restore itself with the malware intact?

This is absolutely insane, and I don't know what to believe. I do however enjoy thinking about the possibilities that exist in our world.
> Anyway, wouldn't the question would be unanswerable if some of the jelly jars could have peanut butter?

No, the question is answerable but it's answerable with a range rather than a specific number.

> We know the question is answerable

How do we know that? Lots of real-world questions aren't answerable and even if the author meant this one to be, textbook authors are fallible. So I don't think that's a fair assumption.

And yeah, I nitpicked exactly like that back when I was in grade school too. :-)
It can run qemu.
In Windows backslashes are analogous to slashes in the path.
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Selfishness is caring about yourself. Caring about people who share your nationality at the expense of others is nationalism, in much the same way that caring about people who share your race at the expense of others is racism.
Surprise! An institution created to spy on people spies on them! I'm trying to wrap my head around this discussion where people seem to both want a government that spies on people but is also mad that said government spies on people.

How about this? The government and the NSA are criminal organizations that have no more of a right to trespass on my private communication than Coca-Cola. They are terrorists. That's all there really is to it. They will spy on us as long as we continue to accept the legitimacy of such an organization.

They will continue to spy on us after this media circle-jerk about it is over.. that's for sure.
"A breath of fresh air" is exactly the expression I've used to describe my experience with OpenBSD. It feels so simple, clean, consistent, and well documented. After using it for a while everything else starts to look like a clusterfk.
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Performance-based pay has been proposed and heartily resisted by teachers in LAUSD (Los Angeles). This article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/21/lausd-teacher-evalu...) says the union (UTLA) voted in January to allow performance-based evaluation, but I don't think this is linked to pay yet.

Indeed, the superintendent of LAUSD is at this moment threatening to resign (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/25/local/la-me-1026-dea...) because he and the school board (which is dominated by UTLA) are fighting about this linkage.

The thing I just learned is that LAUSD has been forced to (eventually) link evaluations to pay due to something called the Stull Act. And it looks like that is a state-wide ruling that will eventually force all CA districts to do this.

It's quite a situation. The outgoing mayor had made reform (a loaded word) of LAUSD a priority, but his candidates failed to dominate the school board. The charters and testing have the union grumpy. There were layoffs after the recession and several idealistic and highly-motivated LAUSD teachers I know were forced out under the union's last-in, first-out policy. They are now at charters and private schools.

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I'm actually pretty doubtful about the precision of these test scores; I think they are noisier than most administrators seem to. And once you link pay to the scores, things are going to go downhill fast.
This is more complicated then you'd think https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie...
I missed the original "Phishing with Intro" post. After reading it now, and the update, from the description it sounds like all they did was randomize the ids to make it hard to target the LinkedIn content with CSS. But surely it's still possible, no? The content is injected at the head of the body, so just target it using sibling selectors. You can't override any !important style this way (as the ID selector takes precedence), but maybe you could find a non-!important-specified style that can still be used to affect it. Heck, maybe just set a -webkit-transform that collapses the height to 0.
> Most bug bounties encourage responsible disclosure, which was not done in the original blogpost.

The original blog post basically summed up and condensed that everybody who knows about HTML could have seen. I didn't even blink in surprise when I saw it. It was well executed and written and as such a worthy contribution but the attack vector was rather obvious. Pretty much my first thought when I saw what LinkedIn is doing was "There's certainly a way to abuse this and inject false info.". AFAIR similar feelings were voiced in the HN thread about the original submission.

I'm all for responsible disclosure, but in this case I don't think it was warranted.
Lots of ways! First and easiest would be to simply 'inspect popup' on the icon, and then navigate to the sources tab, though you may not get all of the code this way (perhaps if it was conditionally/dynamically loaded).

Second way, and probably the best, would be to go to its store page, and in the URL will be the extension ID; for Ghostery, it's "mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij". Now, just find that in your Chrome installation directory, e.g. for Win7 the extension would be located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij\.

The last way would be to intercept or otherwise directly down the .crx file (curl, wget, etc.), which is just a compressed zip archive. You can do the same for FF extensions as well, those .xpi files are just zip files.
And yet most people are somehow managing to avoid getting sued out of existence while still building amazing products in small companies and start ups.
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Meh, that's why it's a token of appreciation. If I were the guy, I'd be more offended by money than by some marketing trinket; sending me money implies they thought my involvement was worth that amount of money, and it's unlikely they would send enough to correspond to a reasonable hourly rate. Sending a trinket with no monetary value makes no such implication; it's purely a social gesture, not an economic one.

On the other hand, if some company wants to thank me for something in the future with something more than tradeshow swag, I would not turn down a nice bottle of whisk[e]y, just sayin'.
Take the guidance system from the classic Strela MANPAD[1], proportional navigation[2].

"Simple electronics detect the directional error the seeker has with its target (an IR source), and apply a moment to this gimballed mirror to keep it pointed at the target. Since the mirror is in fact a gyroscope it will keep pointing at the same direction if no external force or moment is applied, regardless of the movements of the missile. The voltage applied to the mirror while keeping it locked on the target is then also used (although amplified) to deflect the control surfaces that steer the missile, thereby making missile velocity vector rotation proportional to line of sight rotation."

Essentially saying that it tracks what is within it's line of sight. This is why later models were equipped with friend or foe identification hardware. Also why more modern systems try to do more than just chase the IR signature.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-7_Grail

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_navigation
Intel wants to introduce in-CPU encrypted memory regions with its SGX extensions for such uses. That would allow encrypted virtual machines that the VM host (or SMM or TXT or whatever other super privileged mode you control) couldn't analyze.

Of course, you're merely moving your trust anchor from code (verifiable, easy to subvert) to CPU (unverifiable, hard to subvert). Pick your poison.
The changes are generational, and to some extent preceded Twitter. If you went back 10 years, even mid-day, there were visibly more angry young men standing around. You didn't have the theater presence that is building up now, or the pedestrian traffic coming from the direction of 5th - which used to mark a clear boundary for mid-Market, but isn't nearly as much so now, as the retail presence has made visible changes more recently, and the traffic patterns have changed with it.

The inner parts of the TL aren't likely to change soon - as with the Mission and SOMA areas, the old population is going to stick around even as the neighborhood is changing around them. The gentrification of those other neighborhoods had its genesis in the dot-com era, and some 15+ years on, it's still nowhere near complete.
As pointed out in another subthread, Python code is practically impossible to sandbox. Most competition isolate player code by running it in a separate process which has the additional benefit of easily allowing different implementation languages.

Making sure the process doesn't use your network to spread malware is not 100% trivial but still easier than sandboxing Python code within Python.

Good luck with your project!
I have no idea where this argument is supposed to be going. In general, Constitutional rights apply to non-citizens within the US, and this has been held since at least 1886, see e.g. http://www.salon.com/2010/02/01/collins_5/. There have been various Supreme Court cases over the last decade about whether they apply to people under the jurisdiction of but not inside the US, namely Guantanamo detainees. Outside of US jurisdiction, there are circumstances in which residents of foreign countries can violate US law (criminal or civil matters), which involve interacting with the US, such as (for better or worse) "cybercrime", in which case the US can attempt to extradite them or take other measures. These are separate issues, but only the one about Guantanamo detainees is at all controversial.
Yes, of course. What is your point?
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Why would a company pay tens of millions to the government when they can either report that same money as profit or invest it back into their company? A company like Twitter would not lose talent by having their headquarters in one of the suburbs in the peninsula (palo alto, redwood city, mountain view). Google, Facebook, Oracle would all be precedence for that case being that they're all located in the peninsula and not San Francisco.
So you've just described counterfeiting. What am I missing?
why would the taxation system penalize apple more than nokia or samsung?

It's not like the latters are made in brazil. Does brazil have special punitive tax rates towards US based companies?

Or is it just that the local equivalent of VAT goes up fast with the phone price?
It's abusive because he is passing the cost of cleaning the place to the user... which in fairness should then be variable based on its usage. 1 OCD person gets charged the same fee as multiple slobs that brought their pets and smoked in the apartment. That 'fee' should be rolled into the rental cost/cost of doing business. He is using it to augment his profit.
I've heard that this was a deliberate limitation so that nobody has the clever plan of trying to run their general-purpose OS without leaving UEFI.

And that accessibility means that it'll probably end up getting created sooner or later.
So where's the chocolate?
Only if you're proficient in C. I think that for a lot of people writing Javascript is the easier option.
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