skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your point. I suppose I'm fortunate enough to also agree with the goals of Common Core as they are today.

Onto that article, however:

1. I never use an academic degree as an indicator of intellectual capacity. I find that some people are so objective-driven that they zoom right past the point and straight to rageville when they don't understand something.

2. A simple Google search on front-end estimation would have helped this mom realize that the example given on the sheet is incorrect. I will concede that an effective teacher would have realized that the example given is incorrect and would have corrected it.

(In front end estimation, you round the leftmost digit, so the example should actually be 400 + 300, not 300 + 200). IMHO 700 is actually a decent estimate for 645, so I don't think there's a problem with the math itself. It's not really feel-good math, but I think some people take for granted that estimation is not an innate ability.

Now, it becomes another discussion altogether when the teacher is so horrible that they refuse to accept that the example is wrong. But, I don't think I've seen evidence of that, so I won't accuse anyone of anything.

EDIT: I just read some of the comments in that article, and it looks like some districts teach front-end estimation with truncation rather than rounding, in which case 300 + 200 = 500 would be correct.

Here are a few more things to note: the parents here assume that estimation and rounding are the same thing. That in itself isn't true.

More importantly, though, look at the goal of the estimation -- to see if the actual answer, 645, is reasonable. That's not the same thing as asking if 500 is a reasonable estimate of 645. I think the point of this exercise is for kids to say "ok, if I add these two numbers together, I expect to get a 3-digit number somewhere in the ballpark of 500." That is to say: if I add 354 and 291, I shouldn't expect to get 20000 or 7 or 81 or 9750. It's just a simple way of checking your work using a quick, easy method that you can do in your head. Again, I find the value in this -- adding "common sense" to the curriculum is definitely something I can get behind, but I understand that parents who aren't used to "common sense on paper" will struggle.
Goto fail; was unnecessary
As if read from a script, the discussion now flees to abstraction and hypothetical. I'm not interested.
Seems rude to return None instead of False for an is_. I think I would have written:

def is_file_for(is_nagyker, type):
return type == KIS_ES_NAGYKER or \
(type == KISKER and not is_nagyker) or \
(type == NAGYKER and is_nagyker)
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These things turn subjective pretty quickly. That, and, "this is the way most people do it, so just do it this way."
Disclaimer: I only skimmed this solution.

However, it looks like you don't/can't address all of the counterpart's liabilities. So salaries, tax dues, rents, loans, and other obligations denominated in fiat currency don't appear in the calculations. But any of these can destroy a counterparty as surely as insufficient reserves. Crucially, depositors don't really care where the risk is, they care that there is some external entity (like the SIPC or FDIC) that can insure that risk.
Gold and silver certs are negotiable debt instruments, covered by the government's power to borrow. You lend them a gold or silver coin, and they write you a note promising to repay the bearer of the note one gold or silver coin of equal weight on demand.

It's sort of a bogus loan, with a variable term and zero interest rate, but it's still allowed, and certainly makes things more convenient for a lot of people. And the government can still profit from the seignorage from the mint.
Yes the author is apparently writing about "Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony 16"

http://data.iana.org/ksk-ceremony/16/KC16_Scripts.pdf
Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch – MIT News Office
+1 Incompetency and emergency are the root of the "Google/Web tax" and any other delayed/rejected actions.

Italy is inside a "thick fog", politicians would like foreign investiments while italian big brands are abondoning the country FIAT / FCA, STM Microelectronics,..
>>Ever heard the adage "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?

I'm pretty sure the opposite is also true though, as in "don't split all your eggs among thousands of little baskets." I mean, at some point the overhead of managing all of those wallets must outweigh the risk of having everything in one wallet, right?
How to turn a phone into a covert bugging device? Infect the printer
Seems like this is pretty comparable to Vagrant using the Docker backend. Anyone have thoughts on pros and cons of each?
Facebook to Benefit from WhatsApp Acquisition
Tell me about it! I Was in Montego Bay for about 2 months in the 90s and the only thing that reminded me that I wasn't back in Accra was the Jamaican accent Lol.
I did try it on my laptop, but not for long enough to hear the fan running. However the CPU does go pretty crazy just using Chrome on my laptop, so I fear it'll do the same with Atom.
Supposedly this looting went on for years, death by a thousand transfers. It will have dissolved into the sea by now.
I think that mass shooters want to kill a lot of people before they die, so the prospect of being stopped before they can do so could be a deterrent.
Server A is trusted by server B. Danny uses his iPhone to manage server A - ie he accesses server A in a privileged state from his iPhone. If we treat his iPhone as compromised, then the rest of the chain of trust should be treated as comprised all the way through server B.

And that's the more difficult exploit to engineer. If Danny is using OSX for administration and we treat his installation as compromised we get a much richer stack for exploiting server A.
What’s Not Being Said About Bitcoin
It is equally possible that Apple is a giant conspiracy dedicated to concealing the grey aliens who actually control human civilization and are harvesting our brainwaves, which actually function as the raw compute for a giant intergalactic payments call center application, via Flappy Bird. Think about it.
There's definitely that, too.
I just don't see how they missed it. Since they used a hot-wallet system this had to be over a pretty substantial period of time. Surely if you're running an operation with that much cash involved you've got some kind of rolling reconciliation between debt owed vs reserves available?

Who misses a 500MM hole in their assets? Or is reckless enough to hide it (trading whilst insolvent)?
Thanks.

I think that your defense hinges on this being the only thing that they are doing. As one of many things, with no risk and little expended effort, why not?

>There are myriad easier ways to conduct individual surveillance if that was the goal

What's easier than getting a call from somebody placed at a tech company indicating that one of the most security critical pieces of code didn't have test coverage and wasn't statically analyzed before going into the build has a spot where an errant line could be inserted, in a way that could be argued later was accidental.

The total marginal cost to that hypothetical situation would have been to say 'ok.'

>these same agents already apparently have legal carte blanche to intercept traffic in other ways.

intercepting traffic != decoding traffic
People seem to forget that NSA is not the only player in town. When you plant weaknesses into things, you need to make sure that you're not actually helping your adversaries. You need to carefully weigh the chance/cost of discovery by an adversary against what you get out of the weakness. The perfect case is when you're guaranteed to own the weakness, ala Dual_EC_DRBG.

Consider that the NSA has already been known to burn stolen certificates for malware code signing. It's therefore not a stretch to assume they can easily MITM TLS without needing the help from bugs.

If they planted this bug, they would have been effectively democratizing TLS MITM to virtually everyone. This would help their adversaries more than it would help them, so I'm not convinced. It's easier for me to buy that the Chrome Pinkie Pie bugs were planted, due to the hardness of their discovery, than this could ever be.
Wow. I'm "Senior Level" and I absolutely love speaking with people who are interested in entering my field. I even teach classes and hold relevant meetups.

I expected the comments about her reply to be exaggerated, but they aren't. At all. That was absolutely disgusting to read.
Given all of the rhetoric around the distributed, untraceable, unregulated nature of BitCoin, I think an initial assumption of hypocrisy is still not a bad place to start.
Yeah, I was wondering what it was, and it bears no obvious relation to spreadsheets. I'd love to know where the name came from?

(It can't really be criticised for its name though, I can't find anything to link 'excel' to spreadsheets either)
The author has been fooled into writing a dramatic story about a total nonevent.
It's definitely slick. While comparisons with ST are obvious, I find it a touch more polished. One example is that the "find all" results page is automatically updated whenever you modify the results. So, if you replacing a bunch of text, the results are updated in real-time each time the files are saved.

Two gripes that I have so far are:

- The actual integration with GH does not work for me. E.g. Git blame does nothing. I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot yet.

- I can't open files (or even see them) if they're in .gitignore. I can't figure out how to turn this off.

All in all though, I like it so far. I'm excited that the community seems to have hopped on it so quickly with packages so it will be interesting to see where it goes.
Author here. Must give credit where it's due:

These patterns come from a talk by Vladimir Keleshev, author of docopt and excellent Pythonista. These are NOT my original work.
:)

I am definitely visiting this place, when the next time in SF!
At least Reddit and 4Chan can't haul you off to prison nor freeze your bank accounts.
Congratulations on getting a polished looking game out so fast.

Some feedback - the game is unplayable on my iPhone 4s, I'm guessing because the screen isn't as long as on the iPhone 5, there's just not enough time to react to incoming obstacles.
There is a print function in Python 2 either!

http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#print
I don't know what you're talking about, or what you're responding to that I've said, so your lack of interest is not hurting my feelings.
We do this at Grooveshark for song rows. Pretty fast but it could definitely use some optimizations by the browser since we still have to hit the DOM a lot to update the divs.
Edge cases are exactly that; not typical and therefore need special consideration. But these are rare in the general public.

I didn't say its ALL about energy, just that nothing comes close to the contribution of calories in weight-loss. The type of food you eat is completely drowned out by how much food you eat. So you CAN eat only cocopuffs and lose the exact same weight you'd lose eating a "balanced diet" consisting of the same # of calories (which means both diets contain the same amount of energy), although you risk becoming malnourished over time.

If a dieter's goal is to lose weight, the amount of food they eat (or more precisely the amount of food + amount of activity) is most important. This fundamental principle makes it easy to decide what to eat next. However if the goal is long term health, athletic performance, or growing muscle, then we need to modify how we choose. But it's really not that complicated for almost everyone; just eat mostly whole foods.
Netflix opensource tools a developers must know
Mind, he doesn't actually have to be a plant. It's surprisingly easy to find fans of an administration who will go after critics with amazing single-mindedness.
It actually does let you build libraries, but those libraries also depend on Apportable's improved libc and libc++ environment and other libs you link. Admittedly the documentation is lacking how to do that exactly. That will improve soon.
I'm not sure how to interpret this chart:

For an average annual hours of 2000, how can we know if that person works 40 hours a week during 50 weeks or 66 hours during 30 weeks ?

Also what jobs are represented here ? For instance for firemen or soliders it seems logic that statistically the more hours you work the more premature mortality will happen.
Must Ponzi schemes guarantee returns? Madoff, for example, pretended to be a normal financial trading operation, just one with unusually good returns.
> There is no list of "recognized" religions kept anywhere.

Recognition of your religion would likely be determined at the time of your trial.

Should that be the courts right? I would argue no.
In principle everybody can decide for themselves which bitcoin they are willing to accept (there's no need for a central authority to do this).

If enough participants agree that bitcoin from a certain source are 'tainted', they become less valuable (similar to what we have seen at the Mt Gox exchange).

Bitcoin are very clearly distinguishable and thus there's no reason for them to be long-term fungible.
TypeScript's ES6 lambdas are actually closures over `this` as well, the compiler will insert `var _self = this;` in the enclosing scope if you have a lambda.

Yeah, you do have to know JavaScript, since TypeScript only adds a few ES6 features and types.
Very nice! Keep up the good work.
Ask HN: What public API to use for language detection?
I’m looking for an API that I can pass it a paragraph of text and it tells me what language it is.

What do you use for your language detection?
They should have written a check that runs periodically to check that the sum of all wallets equals their total BTC according to their ledgers. You have to write that process anyway, it shouldn't matter too much if it has to examine 100 wallets or 10,000 wallets.
Whenever someone talks about wanting "unbiased news" my assumption is always that they're trying to used it as an excuse to justify enforcing their specific bias.
Several of these are generally applicable to programming:

* Keep functions small and composable

* Keep functions at a consistent level of abstraction

* Use constructors to ensure objects always exist in a complete, usable state

* Use meaningful method names in place of comments

It is nice to see that other people struggle with functions with lots of parameters + lots of partial state variables. I don't suppose anyone here has a better solution?
Bob Marshall: What is Value?
you might have to shift your perspective a bit. if you work in a bigger structure(e.g. government) a managers job might be to keep as many people working as possible. also, his measurement of success is by how many people he manages, not how much he delivers. ever heard people say "i manage a team of 100 people"? i've heard people say that, and i can assure you not a single person (that mattered) asked, but how efficient are they in return.

so if you start optimizing so that a single person can do the job of 5 people in less time you not only threaten their job security, you also question the manager, and you become trouble for accounting. therefore you become a liability.

you could argue that, wait a minute, by freeing up their time, and yours we can make more money and more other things, and in theory you would be right, but in practice that's not how it works. there's a certain budget, and you as an individual won't make more that that budget.

also for the institution it's better to keep that budget split up for those 5 people. that way they can charge 5 people on that budget, and accounting won't have to cheat. if you don't, then suddenly you'll have to find other jobs for those other 4 people otherwise they're kinda cashflow negative on their salary.
grid virtualization for the web has been around for a long while with things like slickgrid/extjs (google docs is a great example), maybe there's a good open source project opportunity in writing a virtualized+paginated+history friendly infinite scroll
Why did you pick that name for your website?
Shaver: Copyright and Inequality
I see people saying they get into the beta within 15 minutes of signing up, but I still haven't gotten one and I signed up day 1. Anybody have an extra invite they're willing to spare? Email in profile. It'd be much appreciated!
I'm actually banned from there after calling Tony out for DRM. Really.

http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/27/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-ton...

http://tkware.info/blog/2013/01/29/honor-among-thieves-the-t...
Here is the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZNUfkVIHAY
The groups where article was removed:
/r/news and /r/worldnews

and the article was news if there ever was news. Sorry, you lose!

Let's review the GCHQ/NSA slides to find which ruse this was intended to be ... hmmm, I can't find "red herring" amongst them. Are we sure they released _all_ the GCHQ/NSA slides? [it's working already! Paranoia is setting in! Aaaaargh!]
Sci-Fi Tech Throughout Film History: An Illustrated Timeline
It's certainly a great reminder that I should (as should everyone) make a living will.

If you ever end up in a persistent vegetative state, it's grueling for your family & loved ones. We now have the tech to keep you sort-of alive for many years, but it's not cheap, of course.

There have been ridiculous controversies in the US (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case for a good example) about families that have decided (with the support of medical professionals) to pull the plug after years of suffering... and there may be protests from the devout (because to some people, any action or explicit inaction that causes a life to end is murder), political interference all the way up to high levels, etc..

It's also somewhat sad that if it's time to give up on restoring a person to working order, the ways of doing that may be limited to somewhat slow & cruel methods (like removing a feeding tube) rather than more humane methods, due to the legal terrain.

There's a certain level of brain damage from which it's not possible to recover a functional person; it's hard to draw that line (see OP for emphasis on that), but it's a line that people in real life are obligated to draw on a regular basis.

If you make a living will that specifies that you do not wish to be kept on life support if your brain activity is below X for Y time (a bit of research required here), you can save the people you leave behind a great deal of heartache by not foisting the decision on them.
“As it stands, the Firstlook story is almost entirely comprised of analysis and a lack of objectivity. Not to say that’s necessarily a bad thing—in fact, the Firstlook story by Greenwald is, at least in my opinion, a great piece of investigative journalism.”

This, honestly, seems like a perfectly reasonable response.
I'm not sure what you're arguing. I never said mass shooters expect to get away without being killed. I said they want to be successful - kill as many as they can before they're either killed or shoot themselves when they hear the sirens.

My Kamikaze example was merely demonstrating that suicidal people can be rational. In this case, their mission was to attack the battleships, not to attack an unarmed populace.
Some light:
http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
I've saved the name for a design project as I was looking for it's meaning. Quoting wikipeidia;

Geisha (/??e???/; Japanese: [?e??a]),[1] The word consists of two kanji, ? (gei) meaning "art" and ? (sha) meaning "person" or "doer".
R-squared of 0.2? Not a stats major, but that seems like a pretty low correlation to try to draw conclusions from, even though it may be statistically significant.
XAML doesn't necessarily have strong IDE support, either. Although integrated into VS, it really is no comparison to the "REPL" of HTML/CSS + your favorite text editor and a browser.
Some light: http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
I just picked it up on the 4s, and Im with you on that. I'm going to fix that now. I tried it out in the simulator, but nothing beats the real device. Thanks for the feedback.
Any reason why this has completely disappeared from the first few pages when it was at 25ish a few minutes ago??
I certainly could be wrong here, but wasn't Terry Schiavo in a persistent vegetative state?
Ask HN: Why is Apple App store asking password for free apps?
I get that Apple should (and does) ask password when you want to download paid apps. But even in the case of stolen iPhones, why is it important to check identity for free apps ? Is is anyhow related to avoid fake downloads / bots ?
mbq, I would not contradict your points.

Though first sense 'correlation' could well be useless in many cases at least I know what it means.

The second sense is perfidious as it's virtually impossible to deny there's a 'correlation' between any two things since the term so poorly defined.
The problem you'll find when asking this question is how little emphasis is placed on the location of an event rather than the event itself. Most people don't pay particular attention to the location of a foreign event because it holds no substantial significance to them.

Ask this question to a forum of military veterans that have deployed to these locations and you will most definitely see the response in which you were searching. As a veteran, I can say that most people will neglect these details until faced directly with the necessity of remembering.
Show HN: Add smart notifications, digests and read receipts to your app
http://geisha.io/app/item?id=7318947

Clicked on a linke and it broke?

Edit: I think it was the [ask HN] about missing bitcoin
"Banning the article _was_ censorship."

Technically, that's correct. But technically, you can call those square things floating in my coke "water cubes". It's not the term I would use, but it's technically correct. Most people would refer to them as "ice cubes" because it's more accurate and more descriptive. Just because a term is technically correct doesn't mean it's the most accurate.

In the same vein, I wouldn't use censorship to describe what happened on reddit and instead use "content curation" or even pruning. Using censorship implies the intentional suppression of information. The mods of /r/news were actually recommending other, more suitable subreddits for users to submit the controversial article, and pointing out places where you could find it (like in /r/worldnews). That, to me, shows they were more concerned with content curation and not actual suppression of information.
I think games are different for everyone. For some it's recreational, while others, not so much. Some people it's a stress relief or a learning tool, but I can see how some games can be a waste of time as well.

I agree that whenever I have kids, I'll be sure to teach them coding or editing. The way society and the future job market is evolving, it looks like those tools will be way more beneficial then learning Spanish or French in high school. A moot point, but somewhat realistic.
I would report Google to him, but I'm afraid he's not planning to act fairly/consistently ...
Looks great, shame about the name and logo. If you wouldn't call an app "Hookers", I don't think you should call one "Geisha"..
I think this is where the semantics of the word come into play.

Is the subreddit community mods banning the article censorship? Yes.

Is it a violation of first amendment rights or worth getting upset over? Absolutely not.
The problem is the outcome measures for these sort of things are always kind of murky. "Signs of Responsiveness Not Previously Seen Before Intervention" might mean more eye twitching than average, etc. These aren't people who suddenly wake up and start talking after tDCS