skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having the speaker write out things on a board also has the advantage of giving the listeners time to think through what has gone before. In my experience this leads to more interesting discussion.

I'm a teacher of economics and the only time I use slides is when I have to present a lot of data or literal text like the statements of theorems. Even in these situations I think distributing printed handouts works much better. But that involves logistics and expense.
Fun. Sad that I got a combination that sounded like a project I actually worked on.

Aside: I'm not getting an error message upon entering the same app name multiple times. Am I stuffing the ballot box, or is the error message (e.g. "we've already got that one") not written yet?
It's the way I learn, too.. But it doesn't make me write things as a guy who's knowledgeable.

I'm a total noob, yet the first few paragraphs made me cringe because I felt there were some odd things. I had a weird feeling about it. It wouldn't have bothered me if there wasn't this "A periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C"..

Or using the word "great contributors", etc. I mean, one has to be humble because unless one really knows his stuff, he shouldn't talk that way.

If the writing style was more in the "I'm learning and journaling my progress", it would've been more than okay, and knowledgeable people wouldn't have a problem with it.

I was in forums and learning to design my PCB's, I'd post my design and ask for feedback, and people who'd spent 30+ years would comment on them and point flaws on what I thought was nice and would find a thousand flaws in it. And I got back to wrok, iteration after iteration.. Until these really great guys who do that for a living would say "Beautiful work".

Had I posted something like "advanced PCB design" in the "this is how it's done" way, they'd have ignored me and I would've stayed more ignorant than I still am.

There was a question on the Python mailing list asking how long it takes to say that one knows how to program. People with 40+ years actively programming said: I'll let you know when I'm there.

Humility goes a long way. Heck even when I read things on the nmap mailing list, I don't feel that tone that they consider they know more than you do even though they really, really know their stuff.
I stared at the example and something kept catching my attention but I didn't know what it was until I compared it to my usual coding font (xterm6x13, modded with slashed zero) - the zero is slashed backwards!
I've questioned learning styles ever since I was introduced to it. To say that all people could be separated into visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles seemed far too good to be true.

This article[1] asserts that the style of teaching should fit the content, not a vague notion of learning styles, and the best teaching should cater to students' background knowledge, interests, and abilities – all real and definable things.

[1]http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/September-Oc...
Instagram for college freshmen studying poetry. Seems legit.
Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200
That actually looks terrible to me, but I don't program in C#.
Mostly it's because there are three blocks, but it only looks like there's one.
I'm up in Knoxville (about 1.5 hours north of Chattanooga) and while our startup scene isn't as web focused or developed (the Co.lab is awesome). We do have some fairly major businesses, Scripps Networks, Regal Cinemas, Pilot Flying J, Bush's Baked Beans, PetSafe, Alcoa, SeaRay boats, MasterCraft boats and Ruby Tuesday top the list and really smart people at The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab - one of six national labs. If you ever want to visit, I'd be glad to play tour guide of my adopted city.
Beautiful. I'd be curious how this shot was taken. Typically if you look to the top/bottom you can see the connection point where the camera was resting but I can't seem to find it in this pic.
To say nothing of how we're supposed to take his denial of being Satoshi, as evidence of his being Satoshi.

See if he can float?
Why was this story deleted? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363923
I was able to zoom in and find my apartment building all the way down at Coney Island.
Hmm.... There appears to be a water-mark box around the moon. Wonder if it was inserted as an Easter egg.
Reminds me: The days before 9/11 I played with some webcams that let you pan and zoom a cam and take turns if others were using it. There was one on the Empire State because I used it that day... There may have been one on a wtc tower, and I may have tried it too... Already down? Can't remember that well. Anyone else remember that? Or that type of webcam? Later on they got better, but have not looked into them any while. (I'll need to look into it.)
Check out these people
Check out this band and vote for them to be "Kpop Music Monday!!!
That's cool, have you already looked at SitOrSquat, which did this in 2010?

https://sitorsquat.com
I got one of these for free at a tech convention and I had a pretty bad experience with them as well. The wireless setup process is a nightmare.
That's true. But I don't have to print and ship bags myself at all. It's all automated by the good folks at shopify and Printful. They take a good chunk of each sale of course, but the net results are worth it.
These are always really awesome. But for the love of god, invert the controls. Or maybe a button to switch between methods
Wow, some of these are quite offensive.

Edit: and some hilarious ones. Snapchat for Congressmen? I can think of at least a few that should have used it. Spotify for Dogs? Dogs need beats, too.

And pets.com for investment bankers. Hmmmm I wonder if they're foolish enough to fall for that one twice.
Atmosphere42
At Uni we had a book called "Computer Networking - A top down approach". One of the best teaching books I've ever read. The amount of detail is very nice balanced, and as the title says it's a top down approach where one layer at a time is discussed. Very interesting.
I've never been to NYC but this is beautiful.
I can still remember a time when monospace, aliased bitmap fonts were preferred by the majority of coders, but it seems things have changed especially in the past few years... but I still prefer the standard X fixed fonts with their zeros slashed and find antialiased fonts more difficult to focus on.
Wait, so you're equating the risk of allowing someone to be trained to fly an aircraft with the risk of allowing anyone to fly an aircraft without any training?
http://time.com/10672/making-the-world-trade-center-panorama...
Type-System Criteria (2011)
Who has a shortage of ideas? Also "Dropbox for Creepy Uncles" sounds highly illegal.
Had it gone that way, they would have been slaughtered by Macromedia's offerings (Authorware and Director). And Macromedia somehow managed to "shock" their tech onto the web when the little disks mostly went away.
Account created 1 hour ago...
Not in aircraft itself, but a technical interest in why aircraft goes down. When you are in a plane you are not flying you have zero control, and as safety measures are improved by each failure I would say I feel just a little bit safer after they learn why something failed.
Perhaps equally exciting is that the inertial navigation system on the SR-71 is calibrated by looking through a telescope at stars in broad daylight. Apparently quite simple, but still cool.
Wow might need a filter there of some sort.
Consider contributing to Debian! We've got tons of wicked hackers working on issues on a massive scale. If you're keen on it, feel free to join #debian-mentors on oftc and say hi!
> things have changed especially in the past few years

In one word: Retina.
PowerPoint encourages and rewards a particular style of communication (the "pitch") which is unsuitable for most uses. It also actively discourages many more effective forms of communication. As such most of the time using it does degrade the quality of communication and not using it is an easy route to improving the quality of communication.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to use powerpoint well. Hell, it's possible to write world class code in Perl. It's possible to build skyscrapers in a swamp. That doesn't mean you should force yourself to do so. It's always smarter to stack the odds in your favor as much as possible.
What's amusing is all the attempts at injecting <script> tags into the fields. :)
Yes, quite offensive. If not childish. The N word caught me off guard.
So Instagram.
I'm very much willing to bet the Solaris man page is NOT grossly misleading, since I know the past and present authors / maintainers of the cryptography framework on Solaris personally :-)

Also, one of the Solaris Security Engineers wrote about random number generation on Solaris extensively just last year:

https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/solaris_random_number_...

Some blogs from other Solaris Security engineers:

Valerie Fenwick:
http://bubbva.blogspot.com/

Dan Anderson:
https://blogs.oracle.com/DanX/

Darren Moffat:
https://blogs.oracle.com/darren

...and last, but not least, Enrico Perla (doesn't have a blog at the moment as far as I know) did author this book and is a Solaris Engineer and someone that works on Solaris Security-related things:

http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Kernel-Exploitation-Attacking-Co...
http://wtc.gigapan.com/wtc/?xml=wtc.xml&view.hlookat=3.86&vi...

What is up with the glass boxes there? Staircase? Elevator?
Police officers in Newsweek Bitcoin story confirm Nakamoto quote
How is an irregular laser-cut shape less materially wasteful than a sheet of slotted rectangles?
As a side note, I always wondered if the Creative Suite product offering (which bundled ID with photoshop) was just hype or also really got people (especially students) to just forget about Quark. That seemed to happen around the same time, give or take some years of overlapp.
There's also a Y-12 on display in front of the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It's actually the one pictured in the story (second image down).

Unfortunately, it's in kinda rough shape right now. It's been outside for years and the paint is starting to fade.
Coding headaches are actually good
"It's like having sex for free" gave me a chuckle
Currently out-of-service greenhouses, maybe?
Google is “pretty sure” its data is now protected against government spying
> optimized to stack objects (Fixnum in Ruby for eg)

I can't find any information on that, do you have a link on that subject?
<tinfoil>The camera didn't capture the moon (out of shot, poor lighting, whatever), and they edited that in.</tinfoil>

Or maybe they just wanted to tweak it with a filter to make the moon more visible, but applied the filter to a rectangular area.
The audience for slides-alone vs slide-accompanying is vastly different. I often see them confused when a presenter has a 12 point font on slide meant for 100 people, or when I download a slide deck and there is a single word slide. Doesn't jive.

We need both formats.

The medium is the message, if the medium is slides plus presenter, the lecture needs to be recorded.

We are at this amazing point in history where the avenues for communication currently outstrip our ability to use them. We should all be finding ways to fill that gap.
Why not just make one out of a single transistor and some resistors? #overkill
Eric Schmidt to dictators: 'You don’t turn off the internet: you infiltrate it'
88 upvotes and only 3 comments. Am I missing something or Friday?
DNSSEC – Helping Secure the Internet
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted (well, maybe the tone), it's true that YAML is a superset of JSON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#JSON
"Does" get sued all the time these days. Its about time it came around.
overhead projectors are a bit dimmer and can't make nearly as big (or uniform) an image as the document cameras can.
http://wtc.gigapan.com/wtc/?xml=wtc.xml&view.hlookat=-189.12...

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/
This. Being a slow writer, it was a constant struggle for me through out school & college to keep pace with the instructors. I can imagine the same problem for the instructor as well - you need to be reasonably legible and fast to be able to cover everything.

On the other hand, I have often found PowerPoint based presentations to be boring and uninspiring. I remember a class on Thermodynamics from college that I found so boring for this reason that I nearly flunked it.

The best classes I have taken have been once which are primarily PowerPoint based with instructor jumping onto a whiteboard to flesh something out as required. PowerPoint provides the peace of mind that it will all be available if I need to refer to it later and working on whiteboard brings in the engagement and chance to go off track in between.
Nice, sounds like more or less what I've been doing. I got a few books from the lib (one on Quantum Chemistry which is kinda cool), and then on Hulu I've watched What the bleep and other such oddities. Have yet to meet someone who has a real degree in Quantum Physics/Mechanics/Chemistry (though I know Harvard has a department)
Why do you find it limiting ?
Repeating tasks for TaskPaper
I live in the West Village. I zoomed in all the way to my building. I zoomed in more, saw myself zooming in on myself.

Strange loop.
This is what sometimes makes me wonder if the US Air Force came into contact with alien technology ;). Imagine going to this in just 60 yrs of flight being invented. Incredible, inspiring engineering.
There is an A-12 (trainer) at the California Science Center in LA. Apart from the shuttle I think it's the most interesting thing there... and it's outside next to the parking lot!
Udvar-Hazy really is amazing, the scale of the place is just mind blowing.

At one point you can swing a left and see a jet, which looks decent sized but not particularly special compared to planes around it, until realize that it's a full sized 707 jetliner...
I remember using those when I was just a kid! I'm pretty sure that there was some sort of search term or operator that I used to find them through Google.

I used to have a huge list bookmarked, and they weren't just on famous landmarks. It was actually kind of creepy because some were located in offices, small businesses,etc.

One time a friend and I constantly rotated one of the office cameras until a guy got up from his desk and covered the lens with a piece of paper. I'm guessing that the owners didn't realize that they were accessible by anyone with an Internet connection...
I wish this feature would be available in Youtube and other video sites. I worked through half the Graphical Models course on Coursera at 1.5x and it was very comfortable. This would be a key feature to allow people to learn at their own pace. Literally.
> The problem I have is that Stripe, a competitor to Balanced, seems to keep the (YC S) emblem every time they have a story.

That doesn't seem to be the case:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Stripe...
i got "measure my cock" for "preteens" ...
Not sure if this is #startup, but surely #humour.
Some ideas are worth a shot though -

- eBay for hipsters
- Flickr for Academy Award winners

Just wondering why does it always start with Spotify for Dogs for me or is it for everyone?

Also, the ones I add I dont see the apps and the demographics appearing although some are getting repeated 3-4 times.
Just tell me if the burrito deliver network is now possible!!
MH370 just vanished without a trace
Although I would recommend watching the entire thing, the relevant bit is around 5:30.

Spoilers:

For anyone who doesn't want to watch the video (or cannot watch the video), they took all of the pictures they could with the camera mounted in one direction, then turned the camera rig upside down to finish taking the pictures. Since the rigging was now in a different location, the boom could be removed from the final product.
Bitcoin might be the new printing press
Am I gonna be paying for my clothes via Bitcoin?
What about my Snickers bar? Everything physical seems to be going away nowadays...
It's offensive because anyone can submit an app or a demographic:

http://projectgenerator.herokuapp.com/#/app/new

http://projectgenerator.herokuapp.com/#/demographic/new
From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/vetscor/1981814/posts?page...

"The plane was flying a mile every 1.6 seconds, well above our Mach 3.2 limit."

So asked Wolfram about this

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+mile+per+1.6+seconds...

2250 mph (3629 kph)

Mach 2.956 at Sea level (340.3 m/s)

I couldn't figure out the magic English sentence that would get it to calculate the Mach at different altitudes.
It's the same way with ICBMs. Once they've gone ballistic they look up at the stars to get their bearings. Then they switch to their gyroscope to guide themselves in. It makes sense, in a chilling way: you can't rely on radio signals like GPS, because in a nuclear exchange your satellites are likely to be destroyed or jammed. You can't rely on surface features because in a nuclear apocalypse those might be changing too. The only things that can be trusted to work are the gyroscope and the stars. And the payload.

(In case you're wondering, I know this because I was wiki-ing around after my iphone's accelerometer went nuts to figure out how state-of-the-art gyroscopes worked. Turns out that there's a special type of gyroscope, the Ring Laser Gyroscope, which uses relativity and interference patterns to achieve ~0 drift. RLGs were developed for ICBMs.)
> but to say that's unreachable is bad form.

Hear here! I think there's something profound here. Not to put words in your mouth in what follows, of course.

As a physicist, I'm really tired of the attitude that some things are just too complicated for the "common man" to understand, and I can easily see how crypography is similar with respect to public perception. This idea that "not everyone can understand" is propaganda put forward by the most intellectually insecure among us, and it does us damage in the long run.

Inevitably, someone comes by that sells the public a load of snake oil under the cover of being "too complicated". When they're eventually proven wrong, public trust erodes. Eventually, the very idea that expertise exists is in jeopardy.

Thank you for calling out the bullshit, even though you might not have meant it as such. These "technical" topics are open and understandable by everyone that cares, and I'm convinced that anyone who suggests otherwise is not worth their salt.

(edit: No offense intended whatsoever to declan. This is just something I've been meaning to get off my chest for a while and bennyg just reminded me of it.)
Edit: the top reply made me realise what has probably happened. Awful :(
Would be really cool with a Google Map data overlay
Looks like they just located it, and are sending emergency teams now: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=vi&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
If your work is more important than the social obligation, it's always more polite not to go than to go and not be involved. If the social obligation is more important than the work, leave your work at home.
those reports were already confirmed false (insane, less than a minute later)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airli...
This is interesting. Is Facebook "pretty sure" of this as well?
EDIT: The Guardian has a pretty good live blog feed giving constant updates - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airli...

Very sad. Only the third crash of a 777 since being introduced in the 90s.

[1]Confirmed 14 nationalities amongst the passengers, including:

China - 153 (including 1 infant)
Malaysia - 38
Indonesia - 12
Australia -7
USA - 4 (including 1 infant)
France - 3
Canada - 2
New Zealand - 2
Ukraine - 2
Russian - 1
Italy - 1
Taiwan -1
Austria - 1
Netherlands - 1

[1]: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html
GPS position must be calculated on the plane and transmitted off the plane. You can't see how that connection might be interrupted?
Your project: It's likeBitcoin for the 1%

Your project: It's likeCrowdfunding for the Government
On a serious note for me there is no shortage of ideas. I have 3 I would dare say good ones but only time for 1. I would imagine others feel the same?
The term you're looking for is "natural selection". No, seriously, that's exactly how it works.
Any one remember already seeing this a few years ago?http://itsthisforthat.com/
It's not clear from the article: what happened to the flight?
This can also have a section where some people can post their ideas thats worth getting "opensourced" so that others with time, wish and resources can build that.

This will be helpful for non-tech people or techies who are too swamped with other things.
"Skunk Works" by Ben R Rich is a great book about the Lockheed guys and the SR-71 + F117. They were basically running a startup at Lockheed.
GPS just means the plane knows where it is. The equipment necessary for the plane to inform the airline ops about its location is still vulnerable to all sorts of problems, even with the kind of anal development practices required by FAA and equivalent agencies. Airports usually have have radars that track nearby airspace, but otherwise, I think most planes are tracked by the ADS-B signals that they actively transmit (insecurely).
"William A Thornton III" "Anthony M. Marotto" developed Bitcoin
I brought my brother-in-law from Korea to there one time not long after it opened. After spending the requisite half-hour drooling all over the floor by the SR-71 we went into the space flight hanger.

I pointed to the shuttle there and said "look at that! it's a space ship!" Another visitor looked over at me and said "no that's just a...." eyes widened in sudden awareness, "I guess...I guess it is a space ship!"

My brother-in-law excitedly asked "this is a great model, where's the real thing?"

"That's the real thing, you're 5 feet from an actual, real space ship."

Mind blown, we next walked over to the actual Enola Gay...which sits not too far from an actual Concord.

It's an absolutely mind-blowing awe inspiring place.

edit BTW, the shuttle flew at 17,500 mph (28,000 kph) so fast you could see the sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes. That's Mach 22.
The timeline the CEO gives for Cocoa is full of pooh. It has been a lot longer than 4 years ago that Apple said to use Cocoa over Carbon. 64-bit just forced the issue. Unless you are Microsoft or Adobe, Carbon was a very temporary waypoint as far as Apple was concerned.
Normally, you are right.

'Lost contact' therefore suggests something very wrong has happened.
I wonder what the viability of a similar OS would be on the nSpire platform, which is fully ARM-based IIRC. nSpires have some very nice options for mathematical programming (the CAS being a standout feature) but as far as I know lack anything like this. (Most of the advanced nSpire dev is done on a french-language site that I can't fully understand through Google Translate).

That said my nSpire CAS CX is pretty kitted out even in the TI Kernel with overclocking, file readers, etc. It even runs Doom!

I'm actually amazed that the SAT allows nSpire CAS calculators on their tests (The ACT does not). Apparently the SAT's defining factor for approval is a non-QWERTY keyboard to prevent note input, despite the fact that the nSpire platform allows notes to be transferred to the calculator even before you sideload third-party utilities onto it.

The CAS system also allows pretty much any problem to be solved without complex problem manipulation. Most SAT tutors urge students not to solve algebra on calculators because they invariably make mistakes when transforming functions for solver(), but the nSpire's algebra functions will do all kinds of transformations and solve multi-equation functions without much work. You could even solve a lot of geometry problems with the (built in!) geometry program if you forget theorems, and a little competence with things like modulus will take care of the rest of the test without any human computation (though this is slower than solving on your most of the time)