skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from proprietary software being antithetical to education - I think that schools never ever should teach a product. It's not necessarily wrong to use products in order to teach something, but it is bad to teach a product. Like, using a book that you have to buy in order to learn algebra is fine (though cheaper/more easily available education is better, of course). But teaching MathCorp[tm] Algebra[tm] (patented by MathCorp[tm]) is not. Any knowledge that requires you to buy a particular product from a particular vendor to make use of is not appropriate for being taught in the classroom/for being a requirement for a passing grade. The school has particular power to force you to learn stuff, and that power should never be used to the advantage of a particular private entity, especially so when that private entity bribes the school by providing the product for free.
Witnessing the Nairobi mall massacre
Reading some more:

"http://www.newsweek.com/why-parents-may-cause-gender-differe...

This one clearly states that infants induce different attitudes in their parents - for example baby boys being more irritable, making their parents spend less time with them. I don't think it warrants the conclusion that everything is just socialization.

I have no opinion on brain differences - it seems unlikely to me, as I think the brain is a rather universal machine that can adapt to a lot of situations (such as being stuck in a male or female body). But what about hormones? Afaik hormones induce behavior changes, and boys have more testosterone than girls?

To be sure you could inject all girls with testosterone. This is possible: http://www.oddee.com/item_97013.aspx

Should we do it?

I also re-read your link about the classroom. It also clearly seems to indicate that boys receive more attention because they demand it. The teachers explanation is "Boys have trouble reading, writing, doing math. They can't even sit still. They need me more." - what if that is actually correct? Are the smart girls really left behind? After all girls tend to have better grades than boys.

As I said I find the research interesting and valuable, but crying "sexism" and "girls are being shortchanged" (as they do in their article) seems biased and unnecessary.

If you can learn from such research how to better educate boys and girls, I am all for it.

If you are interested in continuing the conversation by email let me know, I think this HN thread is too deeply nested already...
Older English man still use indirect speech when referring to themselves and the person they're talking to if there's a significant class difference or even gender. Sometimes they'll even avoid posing questions altogether: "One would like to request your company for tea if it not too inconvenient...".

Makes everyone sound like a wedding invitation. :)
Add bought products to the Prestashop Order list in the back office
You can post your bug reports here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/bugs

You can also try to implement a fix by forking the project and sending them a pull request:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit
There are some similar mechanism in Japanese. "Anata" is generally considered to mean "you" (more formal than the informal"omae") -- but it is too familiar for general use (it can often be translated as "dear", depending on context). The safest approach is usually name+san.

Japanese is also often used without pronouns (in general it can be a surprisingly terse language for having rather few grammatical markers).

I have no knowledge of Sinhalese -- but from the description above it sound surprisingly similar to Japanese. Incidentally, Japanese is so different (grammatically) from many other languages that it is allowed as a "other" language when studying linguistics -- along with Maori and certain tribal languages. I wonder if Sinhalese wouldn't qualify as well.
What's your point? Braid is a vasly more ambitious concept, with complex puzzles, unusual-yet-intuitive game mechanics, and very elaborate visual design, as opposed to a quickie game like Flappy Bird.

And again, I don't think anyone hates Flappy Bird because it has green pipes, they hate it mainly because it's addictive without really being satisfying.
I live in the north, but when learning Italian, we were taught that 'lei' is the correct one, while 'voi' is sort of archaic. You see/hear it in, say, comic books like this one, set in the 1800's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Willer
I donated a small amount, hopes that helps. I hope it's not some "Save Walter White" scheme :)

My grand father got diagnosed with cancer recently and my mother got cluster headaches. We are in France so everything is mostly taken care of and I couldn't imagine what it would have been otherwise.

FWIW it's retirement homes that broke family around here.
> Then you build yourself

Or you could just buy any car which you like and not waste time building one.
Benchmark of Ruby Frameworks: Sinatra, Padrino, Goliath, and Ruby on Rails
For any programming language or platform without macros, a Lisp frontend appears.
I guess I had become so used to NAT it just seemed the natural order of things. I do think the security is still a major issue but then I like building my servers as if they are alone on the Internet so it makes sense

And yes, a good point about the reliability of cloud services - but still at 50 bucks for 2 TB and iCloud costing me 20 bucks a month I think Shared infrastructure savings have a long way to go !
> I think that Thou, Du, Tu have all the same origin as they sound so similar.

I think they're all Indo-European in origin, not a result of the Roman empire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
Ask HN: Ideas on making money?
So my last freelancer job ended up with me working for free. I put up some contact forms on my freelance website to get clients but don't know where to advertise my services, and don't have any money to do so.

I go on craigslist but my area doesn't seem to have a whole lot of jobs or contract jobs.

Job interviews I went to for software were hiring seniors only. I'm at junior/intermediate level.

Any ideas? I've been trying to make money for the past few months and coming up dry again and again and I'm losing all hope.
This has always been done. Very view of these will actually get any real world use.
> How are MORE bad examples an argument against what he says? If anything they reinforce his statement.

These are not bad examples. It is just normal to use short identifiers in many programming languages and command interfaces.

princ is in Lisp for decades. Emacs Lisp:

ELISP> (princ 'foo)
foo
I have an account on StackOverflow and I linked it to my new english.stackexchange.com account, but I didn't get any free rep.
A new method for reading
You might as well give them password-less sudo. Also, why are you changing permissions on the socket at all? The default is 660 which seems perfectly fine to me, if it's currently 666 you just gave everything on your box free root access.

Read this https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/1369
Wasn't this also the time that it became clear lots of apps (including Twitter and Foursquare) were doing the same thing - Path was the only one to get in trouble for it though and the others silently removed those 'features' from their apps.
There is mention to stay tuned for the continuation of the audit. Hopefully it gets more interesting...
That's two different things. The thing below is literal syntax for hash-table objects.

It's easy to add to CL, btw.
Proofreading is a form of oppression, or so I'm told whenever I venture to critique its absence.
Thanks, I read that article. Even that article agrees that Kiva's rate is suppose to include interest + fees. The article makes some claims that Kiva's reported rates are not accurate. If that is true that is very bad and Kiva should fix it. But the evidence provided seems questionable at best, to me.

I do agree with the article that reporting rates for that loan would be better than some average. If I were in charge that is what I would try to do. Given that I am not, I am willing to accept average - though I wish we didn't have to. I do not think we should accept wrong data though.

There claims about Kiva under-reporting the rate are worthy of response from Kiva in my opinion, but the claims don't seem to be proved to me. It is possible, in fact it should be the case, that Kiva loans from a lender are less than the average portfolio of the lender. Part of the idea of Kiva is to provide interest free (to the "BANK") capital. The Kiva partner "banks"/financial charities... still have other costs of servicing the loan that have to be covered with interest but they don't have to add to that the cost of capital for Kiva loans. That is my understanding about the concept anyway.

If I understand the post correctly they are taking a 2nd organizations estimation of loan costs to borrowers from lenders. And showing those are higher than Kiva reports. But part of the idea with Kiva is that the lenders can loan for less because they are getting free capital (with other capital they may well have to pay interest) so it could be perfectly accurate that Kiva's rates are what Kiva borrowers pay and those other rates are what averages for the whole portfolio of the lender without. In which case it doesn't mean Kiva's rates are wrong.

If Kiva is not managing the financial data well enough to accurately report those figures that is bad. I don't see enough evidence from that post to say they are - though as I said, I would hope Kiva addressed (or will address that claim).

While I am mainly defending Kiva here (because my opinion is that it is mainly good, though could be more transparent) I think it is good that people challenge Kiva. And I wish Kiva was more transparent.

To get good data likely costs money - Kiva has to hire people to assure the accounting is accurate, train people, etc. Given the challenges it may well be hard to do it all at once. If I ran Kiva I would do so with a set of long time parters now. I would indicate that they have this higher level (more accurate and more current) portfolio yield. I would make sure we had good ideas on how to do this from working with a set of partners. Then I would deploy the new improvements to more partners.

People sometimes forget Kiva is doing some pretty amazing stuff. Many of these partners barely have internet connections, they don't have CPAs working for them, they have some very well intentioned people. I do also believe there are probably scams going on. Kiva has quite a challenge to keep that all under control.
Physicists create synthetic magnetic monopole predicted more than 80 years ago
Do you have to relocate for the comunity champion job? I still have a semester of my Computer Engineering Degree... and plus I am Europe based, so it is this an opportunity for European Citizens too?
Basically he is playing the game optimally. Problem is, optimally playing this game isn't really that interesting.
It was a whatthehell moment for me too. I started learning German a bit later than English (we had to learn 2 foreign languages at school). Pronunciation exercises brought the epiphany here, haha. Was strange at first but then we thought - hell, after all, these languages have much in common going back some centuries.

God but I hated pronouncing the umlauts.
See everywhere Google has tracked you (I just released this)
thine is also the prevocalic possessive, "thy anvil" must be written as "thine anvil", similar to a/an.
Would you recommend the book for beginners with minimal knowledge?
My name is Florian, I'm one of the co-founders and CEO of https://usersnap.com
Since we're competitors, I won't add specific advice. However I'd like to encourage you to stay in business as I'm absolutely convinced that the market we're in is big enough and that the idea behind the products we're building is a great idea.
Help your friends and family get off Windows XP
https://www.sparkfun.com/ - get some toys and start playing. Hands on approach.
> Can we observe a gene?

This implies that unless you can physically see it, then it's not observation. Trivial examples, such as the fact that you can tell that a door was open in a room because it's far colder than it should be and the door was the only way for cold air to get in, show that this is not generally as complicated.

This is pretty much what happened with classical electromagnetism, too. I didn't pick up the example with Ohm's law just because I like it: it actually predates the discovery of the atom's structure. It made valid predictions about how things happen, based on observing only effects, not the underlying structures. They actually got much of the underlying structure wrong, but the predictions based on nothing but observed phenomenons rather than wishful thinking about ether turned out to be correct, even though their mechanism was explained about a century later.

> Can we observe an electron? Or quantum particles?

Actually, yes for both, we pretty much photograph them to know they exist.

> And where do empiricist get to the point of deciding that observing the world is something they can rely on?

They don't; or, rather, if any of them claims they do, they're full of shit IMO. For all we know, the world could indeed be an intricate illusion, in which case we're only deciphering the strange mechanism of our illusion.

> I don't genuinely hold any of these sceptical world views (nobody really does, do they) - these are mostly hard to answer/explain questions I keep getting thrown at me when I end up talking to serious creationists.

Yeah, I know the feeling. I've been asking myself all these questions, too, and many more, for years, since I began to seriously study philosophy. The abyss stares back at me every day :-).
Immunity Project (YC W14) HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Reach $462K Fundraising Goal
I had no problems. the upx command is only decompressing it. you'd have to do: `chmod a+x godot_x11.64` then you can run it with ` ./godot_x11.64`
Composer / packagist php is down (504 gateway error)
Tagtree.tv – screencasts for full stack JS programmers
TypeScript support makes me want to take a closer look.
Live ID With Windows Phone 8
If you haven't fixed your NTP server, it is probably part of this traffic amplification attack.

Here's a description of the necessary configuration changes:
http://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/news/meinberg-security...
The point is that it's highly likely the subset of Hacker News that has studied comparitive-historical linguistics is small, and that the usage of field-specific jargon is exclusionary and obfuscatory.

I studied rhetoric and technical communication for some time, and know quite well the usefulness of field-specific terminology for initiated readers. This, however, is not a comparitive-historical linguistics symposium and, as a multidisciplinary forum, I find no reason we should not to expect commentators to write to their actual audience.

Down-vote all you like, it doesn't change the fact that jargonistic writing for general audiences is rarely necessary and most often laziness.
On the other hand, he also does his own dishes
I was really hoping for something... more. This looks like a mediocre blog template, not "the future of journalism on the web". (I don't think anyone's actually claimed it will be, but given Greenwald's track record -- even before Snowden -- I was hoping it would be.)

The second article (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/new-ph...) is a bit closer to what I had imagined, although the lack of cohesion across the site leaves a lot to be desired.

At the end of the day, though, I guess the only thing that matters is the words.
I meant likes on particular posts on the page. Not the page itself.
This one is going to win the Darwin awards in 2014.
Thanks for buying! Sorry about that, but I'm unable to issue a partial refund unfortunately
I wonder if a high percentage of illiteracy in each place coincides with a high amount of alternative language forms being used?

47% of Australians are functionally illiterate - http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2012/09/07/3585457.htm

Illiteracy in Texas (still ranked #1 in US?) - http://www.literacytexas.org/literacy_in_texas/facts_statist...
I'm not getting any feedback in Chrome or Firefox (Mac OS X) that my signature has been registered... what a shame!
Now that Glenn Greenwald has pretty much only himself to answer to, it'll be interesting to see what he publishes that he might not have, had he stayed at The Guardian. I'm a little concerned that his domain name firstlook.org is hosted through GoDaddy. Anything particularly damning could have authorities asking GoDaddy to take his domain from him, and the fact that his servers are hosted in California provides a second potential point of government interference.
Same for me (Firefox on Linux).
> I go on craigslist but my area doesn't seem to have a whole lot of jobs or contract jobs.

Some advice that should be obvious -- move to where the jobs are.
How smoking weed is still legal for tourists in Amsterdam
Transit Fare Arbitrage: Case Study of San Francisco BART
I support this effort 100%, but... there's something a bit off about the messaging that I can't quite put my finger on. Perhaps "the day"? This is going to be a long haul, not like killing SOPA or some other bad bill. This system is entrenched, and has a lot of support. It's going to be a long fight, and it's going to be a slog.

For those in the US, though, please do call your representatives.
I suppose it's common knowledge now, but a lot of people seem to think a phone call will get more attention then an email in political scenarios.
What helped for me:

* Play with circuits all day

* Learn to grok math. No, really. Learn to understand the physical meaning behind what you write. Time integral of some signal? Oh, yes! It's energy = ability of that thing to do work. Fourier series => this signal written as a sum of sine signals which you can analyze separately (with all the implications that has for linear systems). That kind of stuff.

* Learn to look at circuits in terms of transformation of magnitude, phase, frequency, shape and nature of signals, not in terms of connections, adapting this to various use cases in circuits. There's no general answer for this; an inductor is sometimes there to "insist on keeping the current to a constant value", sometimes it's there to exhibit a greater impedance to high-frequency signals, therefore allowing -- along with the capacitor over there -- only signals of a certain narrow frequency band to pass.

* Learn circuits in terms of idioms. Try to look at schematics and understand that "this part" is a filter, "that part" is a preamplifier, "that part" is a current mirror used for biasing and so on.
I think their new direction for journalism is not about design aesthetics. It's about journalistic integrity and a business model that supports it.
still prefer reddit though. facebook is really a bleak thing to use.

I don't care about a replacement, maybe there won't be any, I just want to see it die. I just think other social networks are less evil than facebook, that's all.

Being an asshole is not mandatory for a corporation.
This website is the epithome of what's wrong with the free software movement.
I'm reading it from my devilishly closed iPad and I can't watch the video because it's in a format incompatible with the devices many people use to surf the internet everyday.

To hear what Stallman has to say, I should switch to a PC, which would probably have a closed system installed on it anyway.

Given that I gain access to the content I'd be still baffled by a website that looks like it's got some CSS issues, unless it was designed in 1993.

All of that considering that I know who Stallman is, what's
Going on with the website, why I can't play the video and what's exactly a .ogg video file.

In other words, these guys are still pushing hard to spin themselves into oblivion and irrelevance. That is really sad.
Steve Jobs introducing the personal computer (Feb. 1981)
IceHouseCorp Launch Festival
Same in french, in this case I think it implies that God is "part of the family" so to speak, someone very close, not a stranger.

"Vous" is formal but it doesn't necessarily mean that "tu" is informal, it just implies a certain form of intimacy.

Also, I'd like to point out that using the plural "you" as polite/formal also kind of works with plural "we" as in the "royal we": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we

I'm not sure if both are directly related though.
You say "I'm surprised more strategy hasn't come to play until Arthur."

This might have something to do with the selection of players by the show organisers. If your goal as a show organiser is to get as many spectators as possible, there are proven player profiles to optimise for...
henrik_w, the professor's attitude is not puzzling once you consider this... the teacher in question intentionally wants to make the students struggle, because it validates their own achievements.

Then you will see that it's not about the teacher doing the most to help the student succeed, it's all about the teacher's ego. Of course such an attitude is not one worth promoting, but everything in the article suggests this is what we're seeing.
I'm an anti-ads person, even though I know it hurts some of the sites I like who depend on advertising.

I'm anti-ads because the kind of ads that I am being exposed to are invasive, especially re-targeting ads. I.e. those ads where you've been on a website and thought about buying something, then decided against it? Then you get the same product advertised to you on random other sites you visit.

I cannot stand it when those ads follow me around. In fact, assuming I didn't buy the product or service for a good reason, and I do want to buy the product, I will deliberately buy from a competitor, because fuck you and your invasion of my privacy. It is my own little way of silent protest.

I assume I'm in a minority though and most people don't care. Most of the time I use an ad-blocker. iPad doesn't have a solution unfortunately.
Well, then make a startup and do it. But I still think facebook has to die first. Google+ and other are just imitating facebook to introduce some competition.
As far as I am concerned, fighting back for a day is useless. The NSA is probably going to find they have already lost this battle because we now trust their co-conspirators a lot less. It's the slow, relatively minor pressure over time by billions of people that will change things.

But the real danger is with the next battle. I think we are going to see a major showdown over legality of encryption generally within the next few years with a push for legally required back-doors (since it will be harder to guarantee cooperation unofficially and there is almost certain to be a lot of effort into guaranteeing better security). That's the one we should be steeling ourselves for.

So I won't be participating in this "The Day We Fight Back" not because I think it is unimportant but because I think it is too important than to relegate to a day of action.
I play around a lot with OTP. I'm really interested in rrrr. I'd really like to code something super-easy to configure and run in Go though
"Cloudflare did not return a request for more information..."

lol.
It's worth nothing that the FCC has a speed test app which is trying to gather exactly that kind of data:

http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-unveils-mobile-broadband-spe...

(source available here: https://github.com/FCC/mobile-mba-androidapp ).

It's currently more focused on mobile networks, but it also gathers Wi-Fi performance data as well. And given recent developments, I wouldn't be surprised to see the FCC broaden that focus.
It was intentional. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls#Languag...
"pkgfile jpeg" || echo looks like a good name. Maybe not.

(I don't have pkgfile but I think the above command would echo the string). I do understand that naming a program is every day harder, but mbox is a really famous format, the de facto standard for storing e-mails. Please consider a different name for your impressive program.