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Making Math Education Relevant - Conrad Wolfram
These type of articles are annoying. He argues about disadvantages of Bitcoin, then out of nowhere jumps to the comclusion that prices will be $10 early next year. There is no indication that he has done any kind of numerical analysis of any kind. This price has no credibility to me at all. At least BofA put some (questionable) reasoning behind their price estimate [1], by saying bitcoin will have a % of the market cap of Western Union (if I recall), plus a fraction of the US investment market and arriving at a total market capitalisation.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2013/12/05/bitcoin...
It seems wasteful to buy a feature phone if I know I have a phone that works on their networks, though.
That reinforces zsombor's point nicely.
It drives me nuts that Lync does not display the convo history in the IM window like skype.
Census Explorer
I'd love to know how the sales goes if possible.
Why Other Countries Teach Better
Random question, is there a Diff requirement between a draft and a final copy? What if there's only a difference of a few grammatical errors between published version and the one before that? Would the researcher be allowed to publish that "nearly-complete" copy of the paper?
I can't decide if people are overly competitive and frightened with the increase in the developer population, or if we're just bitter and cynical towards anything we can't put our name on.
A fantastic example of this (in javascript) is trending right now on hackernews – myth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6923141

Look at this implementation: it's just a composition of a bunch of other libraries. no logic at all. This is how it should be: https://github.com/segmentio/myth/blob/master/index.js#L37-L...
To go with your point & change the numbers a bit, at 1500 talks over 28 years, that's 50 talks/year. Are we really turning out 50 ground-breaking, layman-accessible, presentation-suitable inspirational discoveries every year?
> Far easier just to shoot down the planes

Not if they are taken control of near their targets.

Prevention is clearly better than response.

> No, I don't think there's anything rational about it

To the extent that some of the actual measures are theater, they are theater that has a real reason for being presented in the particular context they are presented in. Some of them may be irrational as security measures, but they aren't completely arbitrary.
Wrike Launches Enterprise Platform For Project Management
South America Can Now Crowdfund With Bitcoins
Are you serious?

Where did you get the idea that driving is a human right?
Ultimate 90 Point Split Testing Guide
agree padrino is pretty near to Rails, what's the criteria used to determine if a framework is minimalist or not?
I fear for the people who use these devices in production. IIRC, over-eye VR displays cause nausea even with a relatively low latency (~20 ms[citation needed]), which was one of the reasons why Glass went for the "above the field of view and on one eye" approach. I'm not even sure if it's possible for consumer hardware available today to process/draw fast enough to make users not nauseous, wearable form factor or otherwise.
To put this into context there is a documentary coming out about dirt bikes and 4-wheelers in Baltimore.

http://12oclockboys.com/

I have personally gotten fairly close to hitting a 4 wheeler in ATL and see gangs of them roaming my neighborhood. It seemed to me like they were just having a good time, certainly disturbing the peace and creating dangerous road conditions though. Then again that isn't all too unusual in my neighborhood.
Green Screen Recreated 1950s Christmas music video
Researchers print eye cells for the first time
Impressively flashy, and nice that it comes with a very flat pocketable computer, but that aside I'm much more excited about CastAR (http://technicalillusions.com/ , http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/casta... ). HDMI input, camera, sensors, and a nice RFID system for taggable physical objects and mats.
I had previously dismissed this method for spam-prevention because how many dot permutations can you possibly create, and how would you remember which permutation corresponds to each company (so you know which one to block when you start receiving spam). With just 11 letters in your username though, you could generate upwards of a 1000 unique email addresses! No need to remember them in a database, because you can just block the address that's getting spammed.
Direct measurements of the wave nature of matter
What if that happened to American diplomat in India? What US would do? Cry wolf for sure.
> Why were the police and the criminal justice officials apparently angry with him? Because while he was playing his little game, to "prove" that police profile people and to "prove" that getting arrested and jailed can be a violent and unfair experience, someone else was getting away with a purse snatching, or beating up an ex-girlfriend, or playing the knock-out game, or emptying a cash register.

All of those things would've happened anyway. Every single one of them. If you read the story (did you?) you'd see that the cops routinely ignored him to chase after darker-skinned "criminals" instead, anyway.
I used Scala, which was running on the JVM. The barrier to entry be it Java or Scala is quite high.

I completed the "Introduction to Programming in Go" in under 3 hours and in less than 6 hours I was able to code a full-fledged application. I cannot say/vouch the same for Java or Scala.

I would like to have an enterprise-level language inside my company without the complexities associated. I think goLang solves my problem and hence I use it.

I love the JVM, it's fast, sturdy, reliable. But throw in more JAVA developers at it, no matter how good, you end up with half-baked code, unused classes and unwanted complexity. I wish I could throw in more Scala developers, but it's not possible at the moment within my financial constraints.

Almost 100% of the developers we hire know C/C++ well, so it's much much easier to teach them GoLang, than say, Java. And that is a huge time and money well saved for me.

>If you haven't tried GoLang yet, you should try writing your own framework.

I only say this because I want people to understand how incredibly simple the GoLang is.

Hope this helps.
Brazil will not grant Snowden asylum
I use a free service called Gishpuppy, which operates kind of similarly to the fastmail aliases, except it just forwards the email to your Gmail, so you don't have to stop using Gmail. When you get spam, you simply cancel the alias and it becomes a blackhole instead of forwarding email to your real address.
In Pakistan, a lot of the classier places use tablets as menus.
Could dark matter be hiding in plain sight in existing experiments?
As someone who has never liked TED (take my word for it, for a moment) I think there is an "emperor has no clothes" moment going on. As a critical bystander, it is my impression that the talks have been getting worse, and (as a result of TEDx) the brand has been getting more dilute. As it becomes more and more plain to see, people begin to realize.

(I mention my continuing personal dislike because it means I have been a third-party observer of the TED phenomenon for many years now- my vantage point has been distant and generally not changed)
Thank you, I think when I measured the GoLang framework was roughly about 25x faster than the rails 4 version.
This looks very interesting. I can see it allowing developers familiar with C-style languages to start hacking away at JavaScript without first having to learn prototype-based programming.

Are there any examples of applications built with POOF.js?
But those packed routes have to subsidize lower volume routes where off-peak cars will be nearly empty.
1) Free SSL certificates: http://www.startssl.com/

2) The benefits of SSL far outweigh the inability to serve XP and Android 2.X clients. Use a dedicated IP if you can and its cost-effective, if not, use SNI.
I'm sorry, it's become a habit, because if I used Go here instead of GoLang, someone else googling for articles/forum posts may not come across this thread. It is in good essence that I always make sure to use GoLang instead of Go.
Judges and juries and awful politicians have been carving out little chunks of those amendments for the past 200 years. There's very little left to chip away.
4.3" Trio Stealth Lite Android 4.1 Tablet - $29.99
A virtual laptop is unconstrained by weight requirements, need to stow easily on an aircraft, etc but no way should the display top 15"!
US would unleash it's army of drones.
Vintage: A block caret is now used

Yeah, finally :-)
1) Not free for commercial use per their terms of service. You have to use their $59.90+ paid product.

2) No, the benefits of SSL do not "far outweigh" the cost of not being available at all. If 1 in 5 people can't reach your site, it doesn't matter how secure you are. That's about how much of the web you would be shutting out by deploying SNI today.

If those were reasonable choices to make, at least some companies would be making them, but not a single well-known site has done so.
Lawful Hacking: Using Existing Vulnerabilities for Wiretapping on the Internet
- The "Sign up for early access" input box thats in the last section (not the one in the first section) disappears as you scroll past it.

- screenshots in "Find dream jobs and let jobs find you
by telling your story" are left aligned on large monitors (should be centered aligned as they are on smaller resolutions.

- the background image on the first section should load sooner. The text-shadow'd text shows by itself for a couple seconds. the background iamge there should be prioritized over the social buttons and over js etc.

Just my opinion on that last one.
Right now it's a mess, I will open source it pretty soon :)
I'm curious as to why Finagle has 0's across the board for everything.
Aha, yes. This is pretty damning.
anyone herd of vim - MILES away better AND it doesn't annoy you to REGISTER ERYtime you wanna hack

if you're not cool enough use Geany again MILES away better than this wanna-be
In terms of number of customers, yes. In terms of money, enterprise software is a much bigger market. Oracle's revenues alone were $37 billion in 2013.
And yet, when I opened wired.com, I was instantly greeted with an auto-played video ad.
How about: your studio apartment feels like a mansion, your hellion offspring seem like perfect angels, and your car always looks (to you) as if it's just been detailed?
Very interesting. I once felt an interview starting to go poorly in the final stage and tried something similarly unexpected. I asked, " Honestly, what reservations do you have about hiring me." The interviewer answered, and I rebutted the three concerns. I started the next week, and it was a disaster. Then I decided to become a programmer, it was for the best.

Aren't anecdotes fun?
There should be an organization that provides a seal of approval to apps, something like IAP-free, marketed similar to gluten-free foods, et. al.
In Asian markets, cheap tablets aren't news at all. You could even get one for $30. But the society in general doesn't trust such low-end products. Asians are very skeptical. Yes, loads of peoples still buy them. But no one would choose this over a high end device just because of the price. If they happen to beat the IPad sales, it's not because people find this more attractive than the ipad, it's just that those people can't afford to buy an ipad but would still like a piece of the game.

So it's not exactly a competitor of main stream tablets, its more of a niche product. And in US they are trying to be "disposable". Aiming for more niche markets like schools. It's a pretty good strategy. In fact they are more likely to get more sales in US because as you can see, a lot of people here are considering buying it. In India, most people would see the price and would stop reading. They wouldn't even bother with the specs. Inherent skepticism.

DISCLAIMER: Not criticizing indians or asians in anyway. Just explaining a cultural phenomenon
So many comments but only one passing mention of "Eurail" in this discussion.

http://www.eurail.com/

So, help an American (potential tourist) out. Does using Eurail for a European vacation make sense? For a family of 2 adults and 2 children?

E.g. getting the "15 days continuous" pass is $548 + $548 +$276 + $276 = $1648. That doesn't seem unreasonable for being able to go pretty much anywhere except UK.

Does that make sense?
If this is $38 and includes a touchscreen then I wonder how much it would cost to produce a similar device but with a DVI-out and a USB port instead? In other words a sub-Rpi priced desktop.

I suppose the hardware would struggle to drive a 1080p display.
Spark (http://www.sparkjava.com/) is the java sinatra
Left to its own devices in a modern America, a human will typically become obese from overeating and eating unhealthy foods (guess how I know!). That doesn't make this behavior adaptive. Humans didn't evolve under an environment of plenty, so their behavior in such an environment does not necessarily maximize survival value. Ditto for an environment where parents don't pay attention to what their infants put in their mouths.

In summary, it's a long, long shot to claim that babies being willing to eat anything constitutes evidence that bacterial exposure is beneficial.
Ask HN: Resources for good iOS apps architecture?
Most books don't really deal with that aspect of development. Maybe something along good design patterns?
My main counter-example is how they do compensation. Everyone does a peer review, and then the founders sit in a room and decide everyone's salary. That doesn't feel like self management to me. I think a self-managed way to do salary is to either say everyone gets the same thing, or everyone in the company decides and agrees on everyone else's salary. Neither of which seem very tenable.
There is a long history involved. You could have looked it up.

OpenBSD split from NetBSD in the 90s. FreeBSD is separate from either one. IIRC FreeBSD and NetBSD both have some roots in a project called 386BSD, and before that, some releases from UC Berkeley.

In practice, though, even today they tend to share a lot of new code. When one of them gets a good idea it's often ported to the others.
> It's not food or a drug

What do you call antibiotics, then, if not drugs?
I don't doubt the hardware can exist and work well. The question is what is it for?

Okay, I have a display on my head that is aware of the world around me, with perfect latency and extreme accuracy (still two of the biggest unsolved problems, but let's assume).

I'm walking around on the street. What would this thing be doing? I'm cooking dinner. What would it be showing me? I'm hanging out with my friends. What would...?

There are certainly a lot of niche, professional uses: technicians and engineers can get information hands-free while on all fours or strung up on a high pole. Realtors can use it to show prospective tenants virtual layouts (as you brought up). Professional drivers can use it to get dispatches without taking their eyes off the road.

None of this particularly compels the everyman to wear one regularly. What does it do for the average joe, in their average joe lives?
I'd love to know if there's a good way to program an Android on an Android. I haven't found a satisfactory answer yet. On the other hand, programming for kids is probably a good use, as it doesn't have to be massively processor intensive.

One problem is lack of a keyboard, though I've got a $20 Bluetooth keyboard that's a clone of the Apple. But I wonder if kids really care about that. Maybe not.

I'd love to have something that was as simple as the good old BASIC of old. In fact, as I'm typing this, I'm downloading a couple of BASIC interpreters to play with.

If you come up with a good way of doing this, that the kids enjoy, please share!
I don't have any data either way, but these statements felt wrong.

> If you hold purchases stable, incomes have to go up with prices because every price someone pays is also a price someone gets paid.

Assuming that is true, that doesn't mean that poor people's income grows. Maybe it just further consolidates income and wealth on the other end of the socioeconomic spectrum.

> They're in the opposite position, statistically, where the losses to purchasing power from savings is outweighed by the gains from the reduction of debt.

Poor people likely do not have meaningful savings so it's their very fixed incomes that is losing purchasing power, and their debts are often short term instruments that will compound the problem.

Speaking of inflation and savings and the poor, there is an episode of the late 1970's tv show "Good Times" where the family encounters a windfall, and one of the kids asks the dad what they should do with it, and the dad replied, and I'm paraphrasing, "We better spend it right away [perhaps on durable goods], becuase tomorrow it won't be worth anything." Having lived all of my life with relatively low inflation rates, as I child, I just assumed, as a comedy, it was just highlighting the foolish short-sighted decision making of the poor. Later in life I now appreciate what a powerfully poignant economic anecdote that scene represents.

Does anyone happen to know which one that was? Now that I'm thinking about it, I can't think of any modern TV shows that come close to depicting the lifestyles of poor people as "Good Times" did.
Academic publishers generally do give explicit "consideration" to make the contract valid. I don't remember what Elsevier does exactly, but the "consideration" is typically discounts on copies of the journal or conference proceedings where the article will appear or other types of discounts on the publisher's products. Yippee. The contracts typically don't actually promise to publish anything (they don't want legal liability that way).
The Promise And Pitfalls Of Connected Classrooms
It's in-store only, on clearance, so good luck finding one, they're just clearing out stock. Even if you do, 4.3" is smaller than the screen on new phones -- that's hardly what I'd call a tablet. It has pretty terrible reviews online; bad screen, slow responses, high failure rate. I don't think this is particularly interesting for HN either way.
It's pretty interesting when technology that was 2-3 years ago pretty novel costs now the same amount of money as a dinner at a slightly better restaurant. Given idk how usable it really is.
Knuth wrote (somewhere?) that he prefers to write with pen and paper, and then transfer it to a computer, because he doesn't think as quickly as he types; his handwriting speed more closely matches the speed with which he actually comes up with things to say.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Instrumental music for the holiday's using keyboards...If you like this video, or find it useful please feel free to share it with others...Thanks...:)
just leave the damn labels there in the first place!

placeholder text is not to be used as field label. that is bad practice and only ever useful for a small "search" bar, when there is a clear "search" button next to it!
I don't think this is what the author was talking about. I think his complaint is less about control over his spending, but about the intrusiveness and confusion the constant up-selling causes.

He's not afraid of Nana spending a boatload on IAPs (though that has happened...), he's frustrated that these games are bombarding Nana with bright flashing buttons that have nothing to do with the core gameplay which he has already bought (either upfront or via IAPs), and making it harder for her to play the game.

This is basically the native app equivalent of complaining about intrusive omnipresent banner ads, overlays, and interstitials. They're grossly damaging to the user experience. It's the mobile gaming equivalent of "okay, I clicked your ad and paid a subscription for your online magazine, can you stop bombarding me with even more ads now?".
Ask HN: What are the best freelance tools of 2013?
I really like the idea of floating labels. I did the same but almost without JS using AngularJS directives: http://maurizionapoleoni.de/blog/Float-label-pattern-with-an...
Similar to the HP Touchpad, I don't think this price is representative of how much it cost to manufacture it.
Apple will require all new apps to be optimized for iOS 7 from February 1
> They say this is real footage

This _really_ bugs me. It's pretty clear that the UI is simulated footage _maybe_ recorded through some strange projection system, so that they can claim it is real -- but only by a technicality.

It's one thing to promise a delivery date based on a simulated product, that could be passed off as wishful thinking. To claim that something is real footage, under a technicality, is dishonest. It's especially sad, coming from a YC company.
Ask HN: hardship of being a tech entrepreneur
In the wake of Aaron Swartz death there was a blog post posted on HN about the hardship of being a tech entrepreneur. The article referenced some of the pressures Schwartz was dealing with which might of potentially lead him to make the decision he made. The author provided his contact info in case any other tech entrepreneur was in a similar state of mind and needed someone to talk to.

I have lost the link to the post and would love to refer to it. If you happen know what post I'm talking about will you please share the URL with me?

After reading this (http://hitthewoodline.com/bridgingthegap/2013/12/17/on-assimilation-you-are-not-alone) I bought veteran.io. I'm a veteran of OEF. I want to build a site using veteran.io that has a philanthropic function but I need the link described above for research.

Thanks guys.
It's too late to add an edit comment, but I'll agree with all of the replies - this was a gross overgeneralization of how these companies structure their advertising programs. They _use_ your detailed browsing history and social interactions sell other services to advertising companies. Their internal properties (at least Google's) have direct access to this data to aid in their own advertising programs (not 3P, but maybe not what you expect).

I didn't explicitly say they give that data to 3rd-parties, but I'll clarify that they do not give the unanonymized data to third parties (analytics from campaigns provide a fair amount of anonymized data). To the best of my knowledge, there is no method of getting discrete, individual specific data directly from these companies unless you have a subpoena.
Listen 2 (gesture music player for iOS) released, acquired by MacPaw Inc.
Obligatory link to xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1279/
That chat pop up on the site is super weird. I mean I knew those things existed, but still.
3D Printer made entirely within Minecraft
Ah ok, that makes sense. I think "View the code on Github" is the best way to say it. Star on Github reminded me of those people who bug you for reviews on the app store, which only helps you and not them. View the code is a two-way trade.
$8m+
I think it was just six or seven years ago that 4gb of flash storage would have cost $30 by itself
Major +1. I find it so much harder to grok the overall gestalt of a development environment than to just understand the classes and data types. Same goes for Angular, which I currently find maddeningly awkward. Have trees, need forest.
Ants That Can Flow Like a Fluid, or Move Like a Solid
Chance of nuclear war is greater than you think
Calling it a tablet is silly but it kinda resembles an iPod touch which surprisingly remains a major gap in android lineup.

Available online at Walmart for $50: http://www.walmart.com/ip/22587332
Happiness is overrated: It's better to be right
I did App Academy in the summer of 2012, and learned iOS from them, in fact. I used all my vacation from my employer to take the class, and when it was done I successfully interviewed with our mobile team. I've been there ever since.
1) Was under the impression that NYC subway system receives massive subsidies?

2) Private minibus, illegal everywhere in the US, would be cheap like a city bus and of course much faster than the subway.