skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It takes a lot of research and work though.

Yeah, absolutely. In fact, I'd say that it's just as important that students receive confirmation of this history and motivation in their other subjects. For example, in various history classes, we learn about kings and wars and important philosophers. But we rarely learn about mathematicians and why their contributions were important, of if they were polymaths, we discuss their non-mathematical contributions, but omit their mathematical ones entirely.

Then in writing and literature we spend endless hours on appreciating tiny non-relevant symbols, but don't read something like Ringworld and spend part of a session calculating and relating the size of it. Conversely, in Math class, writing a paper on the history and influence of Platonic solids or similar would have been an interesting break and let kids struggling with crunching numbers take an interest and shine a little.

Or imagine a math course that analyzes things like agricultural output from Roman times to modernity, involving geometry, arithmetic, algebra, percentages (taxes to the king!), nutrition, etc. Extend out to how greater agricultural output per unit land produces surpluses that enable people to take up other labors like politics or art or music.

Off the cuff examples that would need more careful thought, but hopefully the idea is sound.

Bringing math into other non-math subjects, and bringing arts into non-art subjects I think helps prop up what students see as isolated subject "silos" that have nothing to do with anything.

Literature and history courses mutually reinforce each other, and math and science course mutually reinforce each other, but there's a tremendous gap between these two groups of courses where they don't reinforce each other.

This really needs to end because it all is connected and builds relevance for students.
I've seen that but just took another look. No doubt they should have the dates on the pages otherwise it's hard to get the full effect.
Yes, the Italian cashmere wool is quite expensive, as well as the shipping and customs fees out of Spain. I wish that I could sell it for cheaper!
In doubt use watashi, it's hard to go wrong with it. The more formal watakushi is also good but you need the keigo to match, and there is such a thing as excessive politeness, even in Japanese.
Talk about how you convinced CloudFlare to use Go for core products.
This industry is completely ridiculous lets hope it stays that way
using a cat to kill mice on a ship is a hack. i would argue this is much more relevant than the political stories that make the front page.
Ah! A trick question game. The correct answer is to wipe off Windows and install Linux off your flash drive, right?
Oppia: a tool for creating interactive online activities from Google
AdFly is not adware. It's an ads website that displays you some ads for a few seconds before you can continue to a download, do not confuse it with adware.
What OSX are you on? We're 10.9 only since we're using NSURLSession
That was easy. I just wrote one of the core products in Go :-) Then someone wrote some SSL code, then we rewrote our DNS server in it.

It's a pretty easy drug to get hooked on, if you do things with lots of concurrent connections all doing similar things.
Absolutely unreal.. The cultural history plus geopolitics has combined into something really scary.
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The author has credentials, but there is absolutely no expertise demonstrated in cryptocurrencies, much less regarding the specific issues of MtGox.

It was all speculation, and it is inconsistent in its inputs -- on the one hand it disbelieves what MtGox claims, but on the other it takes historic claims of security (that keys were in cold storage) as proof of other conclusions.

Speculation that is based upon cherry picked belief and disbelief might yield the conclusions that one wants, but it adds little to the information pool.

And regarding claims that keys were in cold storage: Maybe, but one thing I think we're all learning from these amateur hour platforms is that a lot of claims aren't backed by reality. They have "Top men" working on their security. "Top men".
> I still don't understand where you're going with this.

This is a useful technology only because it is inexpensive. If it were more expensive it would not have value.

Because it relies on rare elements it can not be used in scale because as soon as you do the price goes up, it is no longer inexpensive, and no longer useful.

This feedback loop has killed every solar technology I've read about except silicon.
Putin's biggest mistake so far.
> Some nice angles in the article, but now I feel obliged to defend C++ (and actually C# and F# too, but I'll let that to others as I'm sure it will turn up in the HN comments) since the author seems to make no real points to support his view of it as a monster.

C++ is incredibly popular, the term "C++" is even known among some non-programmers. This might partially explain why it gets a lot of flack .... oh, that reminds me:

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses - Bjarne Stroustrup, http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that

I take the view that all languages are ugly and stupid, especially languages like C and English.
I think you it is better if you put a short tip for beginners. The introduction that you show after entering number 2 is long. I prefer to learn how to use a service fast and simple.
Ask HN: Angry/hardcore rock music to code by?
Any recommendations of angry/hardcore rock music for working? I'm getting bored of my usual choices...
I kept hearing it in 7/4, so I put hi hats and snares in 4/4, 7/4, and 13/8 against the motive ... now what does everyone think?

https://soundcloud.com/noisegroove/terminatortimesignatures
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This is a fundamental mistake of UI design that will just keep being repeated forever in favor of "clean" design.

The word for what is missing from these interfaces is "affordances": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
Nearly all of those are software related - software is perhaps half of Apple, but is a very small part of their profit and revenue. That is in stark contrast to Microsoft. Browett - sure, a Cook misstep. How is Forstall anything other than Cook dealing to a problem of Jobs' creation? I'm not sure that one can seriously compare Cook and Ballmer. Maybe in 10 years, but not now.
Thanks for sharing, it's an interesting survey. Some of the data visualization is really hard to parse though. The shell visualization for "How much of your coding time is spent writing them?" is particularly unclear.
Can you work as you're listening to a hardcore music ?!
Show HN: Terminator Theme in 4/4, 7/4, and 13/8
I think there's 2 reasons:
Often times the services are contracted out and those contracts are often subject to "lowest bid wins" rules. It is very difficult to judge a quality like competence especially when there's differing interpretations of purchasing legislation involved.

The other reason is that it is often difficult to fire people in the public sector. I believe it to be due to the impact of unions, which will protect even the most egregious offender out of principle. This builds a culture around being hard to get rid of people, even if it is a non-union position the HR process of dismissal is often the same. For example public bodies often have a lot of employee supports (Employee Assistance programs,etc) and before you dismiss anyone you must allow them to avail of these supports.
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Ask forgiveness not permission? :-)
All I could find was a disappointing mosaic version: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BEETHOVEN-MOSAIC-35-X25-INCH-B-W-WAL...
MtGox: Ponzi Edition. We lost our customers' money but we can make it back as long as we keep trading.
The NSA specifically isn't the point, though I do believe their blanket surveillance of the Internet (and the similar surveillance by other government spy agencies such as our own GCHQ) should be considered a hostile act and incur a proportionate response. I simply don't accept that there is any ethical legitimacy to such dragnet programmes or that they bring more benefit than the risk they obviously pose to free, peaceful, democratically governed civilisation.

In any case, Google aren't a part of any government. They are a private, profit-making corporation, and they are in the business of collecting as much data on people as possible for their own benefit, and they evidently cannot comply with the restrictions on handing personal data required by UK law even if they want to. Providing this kind of treasure trove to them should be unthinkable.
If what bushido said is true, then I'm glad that those executives are still in charge. After all, they took a very bad situation, combined with a boat-load of money, and turned that into a bigger boat-load of money. Imagine if they were all fired, and new inexperienced decision makers took their place. That big bucket of money dumped into them could have easily evaporated.
No, _your story_ is cool. Its amazing how dogged a kid with a vision can be. This sort of attitude and environment needs to be passed on to future programmers, and preserved in the current ones. Kudos.
Standard automatic transmissions don't have a clutch disc. They have a torque converter.
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Hopefully the image below is broken. If not, then it likely will be soon because of a browser update.

Yay it's broken! I can't help but be impressed by this.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

A small diagram on the home page showing x cores * y threads would be interesting / helpful. Such a diagram would also highlight that this adds to the multi-process approach (i.e. I don't have to give up my multi-process approach, but get to add multiple threads to it).

Anyway, the solution sounds interesting.
http://reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem

There's a subreddit for everything.
All this is so damn sad. After such a hard, hard history you really wish the Russians and Ukrainians would get better than such corrupt thieves for leaders.

At least those leaders seems Hellbent on exporting the suffering, so the Russian/Ukrainian populations won't have to be alone... :-(
So you follow up with a post on how you made $500 from posting on HN? Classy.

Oh, and using affiliate links without disclosure is, indeed, wrong. Just ask the FTC.
It's like jailbreak for Xcode, that's the metaphor
>The increase of current liabilities may be linked to a loss of bitcoins and customer funds.

Perhaps they do accounting differently in Japan but surely a loss of bitcoins would result in a reduction of assets not an increase in liabilities?
How long take to make it? How many persons are in your team? Is it a kind of side project?
it should be taught as two different subjects: arithmetic and mathematics

just like painting and decorating isn't called interior design
50 x 50GB blu-ray discs, for over 2TB of storage, only costs $126 at Amazon.

A 2TB portable USB drive costs $100.

But no, let's just upload everything to Google Drive.
They say that it supports other apps. I'm sure that one of the many other GPS app makers will release a carplay app like they did for iPhone.
I'm in New Zealand and it isn't increasing. Neither are Mac prices. Our dollar is increasing in value and the US dollar is falling. Maybe relevant.
Taking a sentient human being and throwing them in a cage is a profoundly violent act. I find it troubling that you guys so casually reach for it as a punitive tool, particularly when the subject has neither committed physical violence nor poses such a threat to others. Surely you clever people can think of forms of punishment/deterrence less destructive to both the individual and society as a whole.
What is it? Can you describe a little?
The fact that they are missing fiat (JPY) from a bank account(s) seems to scream that this was, at least partially, an inside job.

That could also explain why they are so eerily silent and not forthcoming. That is, either they are hiding something or earnestly investigating and don't want to tip off the insider(s) in question.
I thought that was why google hosted a lot of stuff in Ireland? So that companies could host EU data there without running afoul of the privacy laws?

I don't think the duty on a company is all that strong - the data has to stay in Europe, on a properly protected computer. Providing you needed a password or equivalent secret to get to the data they are probably okay legally.

Given the NHS is planning to sell poorly anonymized patient records at 10'000 for $10 imminently, I think we are complaining about the wrong problem.
>Macintosh LC II

It's actually a Quadra 700. Business class all the way at Jurassic Park.
Or the same need to make it a top priority
A challenge: what would the best remedies to this situation be? Should we be pressuring OSes to come with PGP ware and other basic tools by default, for instance?
A few tips for the infrequent Perler:

If you have a more recent Perl available, use it and it's newer features (use 5.014; at least, hopefully). It's a small thing, but being able to call keys/values/shift/unshift/push/pop on the reference versions of their subject is very nice. There's useful new features in every new version now.

Additionally, Function::Parameters (or some other module that does similar, take your pick) will make your life much, much simpler if you tend to write a lot of subs.

Use Moose (or at least Moo or Mouse, if you want it lighter weight) if you are using objects.

Enjoy!
> It might not cause the revolution that the Internet has, but it's gonna be damn close.

Ubiquitous autonomous roving robots will lead to a revolution at least as big as the Internet, but probably bigger.

Like the printing press, the Internet made distances shorter, but in a low-fidelity way since reality has much higher bandwidth. With self-driving cars, suddenly “real” distances become smaller since 12 hour trips become routine†. The differences between, say, a middle-class Oklahoman, Texan, Missourian, Coloradian, et.al. start to disappear, and this scenario will play out all across the U.S. and other large regions (Canada? India?).

†If we raise the speed limit to 120 mph (mostly afforded by a change in energy policy), then I could trek from Oklahoma to NY or LA every weekend.
Where did you get that flash drive of Linux?
The biggest thing for me with grokking LINQ was understanding the difference between IQueryable and IEnumerable types of operations. Most of the complexity in the runtime with it is with IQueryable. I don't know if there are a lot more resources out there but the best one for me was understanding Expressions and that namespace in .Net and trying to grok the ASTs that were being passed around to understand how it was all working.

There are a couple smaller LINQ implementations out there like Linq to Amazon that you can take a look at (Linq2<insert whatever here> libraries seemed to be coming out of nowhere for a while).
If you think you're safe: it's the same thing with Linux. Yes, good distros sign their blobs and you can probably verify that with builtin tools.

However, consider how distros generate their signed binaries:

1) A packager downloads a random tarball off the internet, often over HTTP and/or unsigned and unverified.

2) The packager uploads the same tarball to the distro build system (you trust them, right?)

3) The packager's script for building the program or library is executed by the build server (you trust all of the packagers, right? they have implicit root access to your machine during pkg install.)

4) The packager's script likely invokes `./configure` or similar. Now even if you trust the packager, the downloaded source has arbitrary code execution. You verified it, right???

(Not trying to advocate for webcrypto. And I'm a Linux user. But I'm also a packager, and I have some awareness as to how one would go about pwning all users of my distro.)
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I wish I could believe that, but at this point it's difficult to imagine an outcome that doesn't include Russian possession of the Crimea, with only diplomatic (i.e., nothing economic, political, or military) repercussions.
Not always, but today is definitely one of those days!
A huge congrats, I've been working with Alcatraz HEAD for a while, with helping out with the design, and occasionally wanting to make my own plugins.

I'm super excited to see it out and one-click installable again. Looking forwards to seeing what Marin/Delisa/Jurre do with the blog.

I use this regularly, it's not felt any less stable for the few plugins I use mainly; open in github, one in appcode & fuzzy string matcher. They really make Xcode easier for day to day life.
^^^ typical hacker news reply, everyone
Tough situation for the Ukrainians to be in. I wonder what Russia's response would be if the Ukrainians pulled out as demanded but then cut electrical power from the peninsula. It would put Russia in a serious bind with no shots fired.
If you haven't looked through Quora yet, here's a decent place to start: http://www.quora.com/Web-Marketing/What-are-some-good-web-ma...
Ah, doh! 10.8 :(

#EnterpriseLife
I went to public and private schools in NYC.

There's absolutely two tiers of private schools and the secular and protestant schools are on one (top) tier and the catholic ones are on another.

Many parents end up sending their children through catholic school because they would otherwise be (or have been) removed from public school for behavior or are not performing at their grade level. Many of my classmates' parents donated their childrens' way through school. I met a lot of kids who couldn't hack it but their parents exploited every trick to get their kid passed through unimpeded. After I finished things in the diocese got even worse.

Neither my public or private school experiences were very good. In fact, now that my former public school principal is now the NYDoE Chancellor of Schools I have no hope or positive feelings for the education of anyone in NY... ...unless you can test into the super-exclusive private & public schools.
Thanks for your interesting comment! I really love John Holt's writings about children and learning.
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I really enjoyed your link too. So thanks for posting. But I do have some qualms about the article's position.

> Two weeks of content are stretched to semester length by masturbatory definitional runarounds.

That Lockhart describes trigonometry as "masturbatory" I find ironic. Lockhart argues that math is fun for its own sake. Personally, I think that math is fun per se. I.e. patterns and ideas and puzzles are fun. But historically, much of math was invented as engineering-shortcuts. E.g. trig identities for navigation, newton's calculus for friction, etc. The philosophical Greeks and their geometry I think are the exception. So I think most people would rebut that math's actual raison d'etre lies in it's tangible application. The manner in which Lockhart describes math is why physicists joke that theoretical math is nothing more than masturbation.

> In certain of the arts and crafts, we sometimes do precisely this--requiring a child to "express himself" in paint before we teach him how to handle the colors and the brush. There is a school of thought which believes this to be the right way to set about the job. But observe: it is not the way in which a trained craftsman will go about to teach himself a new medium. He, having learned by experience the best way to economize labor and take the thing by the right end, will start off by doodling about on an odd piece of material, in order to "give himself the feel of the tool." [1]

I do agree that math curriculums are excruciatingly insipid. And Lockhart makes some good points. But I think this other link makes a strong argument too, which is contradictory to what Lockhart argues. So I was thinking: for each unit, maybe teachers could explain what problems the unit was actually solved historically. This differs from the article, because 6th graders don't really need to know about Riemann Surfaces if that's not what the unit covers. This differs from your Lockhart, because I don't think it's as "masturbatory". But it still affords students a glimpse of where all this pedagogical grinding is headed, allows students to reify to something relevant, and retains that "puzzle" feeling.

Again, I like puzzles. But teachers have a responsibility to teach everyone, not just the select few who solve rubiks cubes in their spare time. How much of that would be solved by removing the educational mandate on math, I don't know.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/36325362/The-Lost-Tools-of-Learnin...
You think Siri is bad, try the ones built into 5 year old cars.
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Haskell too much syntax? That's a very weird claim. Haskell's syntax is one of the leanest around.

You could even argue the lack of syntax can be confusing sometimes. Beginners often mix up types, patterns and expressions, because there isn't a huge syntactic difference.
cnn is provoking

http://goo.gl/u6Fbe1
There is a collection of 3D interfaces here http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml

With modern GPUs and processing power these could be made silky smooth. Still mostly pointless, which is a shame.
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It would also really hurt the civilian population, while not particularly hurting Russia's military. I'm impressed so far at Kiev's maturity in not rising to Russia's provocations.
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- Moz.com hosts an overwhelming amount of information.
- Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
- UnMarketing by Scott Stratten
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff

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