skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had similar success teaching Shoes to fourth & fifth graders in a series of 3 1-hour lessons. I liked Sarah Mei's lesson even better, but for another datapoint, here's my report: http://teachingkids.railsbridge.org/2009/07/20/fifth-grade-s...

I think kids find programming more natural than adults do. They are used to learning many strange and arbitrary rules :)
Prototype: Voke
While very neat, I'm not sure entering these with text is the easiest approach. As soon as the automation fails to pick the right flow, you're basically stuck. A combination of text input and graphical manipulation might work better.

For a nice graphical approach, I've found http://lucidchart.com to be excellent.
Uh, I've had "Augmented Reality" via Layar on my Android phone for quite a while. In the US.

So instead of "first", they should probably use the word "second".
I used to noodle with Ruby GTK+ bindings - ruby was a nice language to lay out screens, write controllers and utilities etc... so it would also be nice alternative for DOM work (and perhaps building up composable widgets). Interesting...

I think the startup Appcelerator has a product called "Titanium" which kind of does this as a desktop/ria client platform (but not just ruby).
I have a friend in (software/consulting) sales who uses it a lot.
Hall of Shame: companies violating the ffmpeg license (GPL/LGPL)
Also, an interesting Economist article on mathematical models, epidemiology, and policy, which sheds some light on the CDCs vaccination policy: http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?...
> I want copyright to be just and defensible; I write software for a living, and I like being able to profit from its sale.

You've made three separate statements here, and linked them together:

1. I want copyright to be just and defensible.

2. I write software for a living.

3. I like being able to profit from its sale.

These three statements are not necessarily related. Since I assume you know your own mind reasonably well, I'll assume that 2 and 3 are related in this case: you write software for a living, and (in part because of that) you like being able to profit from its sale. This does not, however, necessitate that copyright must be just and defensible (as you seem to admit, at least tentatively, in following sentences). Since that connection is not necessary, it is not really the case that the cause you identify for wanting it to be just and defensible is the real reason for that desire. Perhaps the actual desire is that you do not at this time see a way to make a living at it that is as easy to get started -- especially since it has already been started, and all you have to do is maintain it.

Of course, as time passes and copyright violation becomes more prevalent, it may become the case that maintaining the already established business model becomes more expensive than establishing a new one that will be easier to maintain.

> However, I can't explain that copyright has any moral basis when it clearly doesn't. The only reasons that I see not to violate copyright today are fear of legal reprisal and personal feelings of loyalty towards individual content producers. Loyalty is good, and fear of punishment can be effective, but I'd love to have a law that's founded in some sort of morality.

I love it when someone can see my side of the argument, even when having just stated a desire for the other side of the argument to "win".
I think of myself as having average or even low IQ.

I'm curious. Did you actually know for sure that your IQ score was below average? ( or the score from similar type of test, like the SAT). It would be interesting counterpoint to the validity of IQ/SAT testing if you actually tested below average, and then ended up in a career that requires much greater than average cognitive skills.
FBI investigating laptops sent to US governors
"to iPhone Store". No one is claiming this is the first AR app.
A Socratic Dialogue on Theoretical Computer Science
"I want a divorce.":

"Hold up, let's backtrack and work this through step by step to see if we can isolate this bug."
Yeah, they told me too. I wish I'd have seen this paper... though I might not have taken it seriously enough. But still, it's probably better then some old guy who pesters you to work more without any obvious reason.
How is pausing an entire slice and thereby killing ALL services better than just shutting down one daemon?
Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the clarification.

My hesitation to just take the answer and run wasn't so much succinctness as that it was open to interpretation.
Yes; the true humour is in the comments.
Aha. English needs more parentheses to disambiguate the parsing. I read "Yelp brings (first US AR app) to the iPhone store".
yep, I'd agree entirely with that :)
Sure, let's count learning to read, write, and spell correctly.... oh wait, you use that for programming too. ;-)

Also, you should probably revise your thinking so "English" isn't just everything that has to do with books. It's critical theory, complex analysis, and a bunch of other things. The stuff most people do in 1st through 6th grade is to English as learning how to type is to programming.
I think this is actually the heart of the matter. No one (or almost no one) is arguing that a hosting provider shouldn't be able to take steps to prevent one customer from negatively impacting others.

What is at issue is whether the tech should have stopped the instance, or logged in and located and stopped the offending service. The privacy nuts among us (I'm one of them, but with a healthy dose of "hosting industry reality" thrown in for good measure) are crying foul that anyone should ever be able to login to "your" server under any circumstances. The other side of the coin is that a large percentage of hosting customers have no idea what they're doing, and rely on the host to occasionally step in and set things right.

Hosting providers tend to default to stepping in, because that's what the majority of hosting customers want and expect. Rackspace has built a ~$1 billion business on this premise. "Managed hosting" is more expensive because you get this kind of intervention (hopefully in a more positive direction most of the time) on a regular basis.

The only wrong, I think, in this case is that the tech at Rimuhosting did not respect Aaron's specific wish to not allow him to access his box. And, since I know Rimuhosting has a good reputation that spans a decade or so, I must assume it was a mistake made in good faith. It is entirely possible the tech didn't reread the full conversation about the problem, and missed the bit about "over my dead body", and just assumed Aaron would want to keep email spinning while he figured out why his website was causing problems.

To turn this into a huge political struggle is pointless, and casts aspersions on a company that is by most accounts, one of the really good ones in their industry.
The history of economics is littered with such examples.

Perhaps you want to start reading Against Intellectual Monopoly in which you read lawsuits by James Watt against his also somewhat innovative competitors, the lucrative bargain between British authors and American publishers in the era of no foreign copyrights, the extremely innovative porn industry, the patenting of plants toward the end of explosive productivity growth in the agriculture industry and even more.
Yes, that is some truly wretched writing about some very interesting phenomena. In some respects it's reminiscent of the article about the Placebo effect becoming stronger that was posted the other day. We have lots of evidence, but the organizing theories are all much more fuzzy than they ought to be.

It's very clear that our beliefs about ourselves do influence our bodies. But the mechanisms are obscure, and most of the experiments that could shed some light on the topic are not feasible from an ethical standpoint[1] and most of the explanations are waiting on a better definition of consciousness.

1. Could you get a an ethics board to approve an experiment in which you told a random group of people that they had an incurable and fatal form of cancer that would kill them in a year, just so that you could observe how many of them died of the fiction?
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 100 - The Century Mark
Coaching Coaching
Polymorphic inline caching. This article might give a bit more insight into how modern JavaScript virtual machines like V8 and SFX use it.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20090106/163620/
How Vizio Went From Nowhere to No. 1
Would everybody be onboard if someone released a free/supercheap version?
I make almost exactly $420 an hour when I teach training classes.

Of course, there is much work that went into developing those classes that I get no hourly wage for at all. So I think of it in terms of, "I need to teach x courses a year" rather than $x/hour.

But technically, that is what the client pays.
The referred-to slide, http://bryc3.com/post/172703130/i-ganked-this-slide-from-joe... is totally on the money.

I've heard every one of these, and then some.
The latter - deeper comments have a longer delay before you can reply.
"If the fucker doesn't cost your your life, it isn't a quest." Which I lifted from gapingvoid.com
Stop using emotive language like "breaking in". They just killed a runaway process on a user account. Nothing more. I guarantee you they could not care less beyond that.
- Will we still use domain names in 25 years?

I'd argue end-users barely use them anymore now. More and more the trend is to treat the gunk in the browser's location bar as an opaque blob. Navigation is done by searching, bookmarking, and clicking on links - not by typing domain names, which barely seem to need to exist anymore except as an implementation detail.

- How will addressing "things" look like in the future?

I'd bet on more and better kinds of search, and less having to remember stuff.
Pay $250/month for an account at Rackspace (or whoever) and you will be treated very differently.

Actually, the reason you pay $250 (more, probably) at Rackspace, is because they will login to your box on a regular basis to "manage" things. Rackspace is focused on "managed hosting"; they help you administer your system, which is why people pay a big premium for it. Most hosting customers have no idea what they're doing, and they need a lot of hand-holding, and a "grownup" to make sure things stay sane on their systems.
How to Build Sinatra on Rails 3
All the more reason to have a failure-tolerant scenario with backups!
great comment on the page:
"trivia: molecules have no color"
They don't? Then where does color come from?
Why wouldn't gold atoms be golden?

i'm hoping the guy was being sarcastic but...
Shit, I hear the same stories about shipping companies. And cell phone companies. I now know never to use FedEx, UPS, or DHL.
Sigh, what you dismiss as cocktail-party Freudianism is social psychology that you fail to understand.

You are taking the idea of sexual motivation too directly.

Sexual motivation underlies status awareness, which in turn drives ambition. Steve Wozniak was status aware, but his perceived social environment was computer hackers. Therefore inventing the Apple I and II put him right at the top of his social circle, which exemplified by you mentioning him.
You can't possibly break into your own box.

Yes you can; I've broken into my own house before.

Personally, I'd like it if they gave you notice before doing anything to a VPS you may be using so that you have the opportunity to shut things down gracefully.

Even a sudden CPU throttle would be better than shutting down services on the customer's VPS.

Edit: spelling
have you had good luck with Layar? I can't get my Android to notice that I'm turning with it and I always see the same landmarks
TwoFoods launches an instant food nutrition comparison app
Ask HN: What would you ask Mayor (of NYC) Bloomberg? 
If you had a chance to meet and chat with the mayor what would you like to ask him? Give me some good questions folks.
The only wrong, I think, in this case is that the tech at Rimuhosting did not respect Aaron's specific wish to not allow him to access his box.

The thing is, that's just Aaron that thinks that. I'm sure other customers would be delighted for tech support to access their boxes to fix problems, indeed annoyed if they didn't.

Aaron pays $20 for a cheap-ass VPS, uses too much CPU, and they go out of their way to fix the specific problem instead of just nuking his account, and he complains on some BS privacy grounds. You just can't please some people.
For a current successful commercial expert system see for example http://www.zenprise.com -- Zenprise is a rule-based expert system that monitors Microsoft Exchange and Blackberry server deployments, and Active-Sync (Windows Mobile, iPhone, etc.) and Blackberry phones. It automatically monitors system configuration and real-time telemetry to find where problems are in a corporation's message system and help administrators avoid those 3 a.m. phone calls from irate CEOs who aren't getting their emails while working/traveling in Asia.

There are several thousand rules actively monitored and rule violations trigger alerts with resolution plans ... IT personnel can go through the resolution to further troubleshoot and fix their problems. It also identifies the underlying cause for a particular problem (root-cause analysis) ... when one link goes down there are many symptoms. The system's set up to identify the most likely common cause for all those systems. Pretty nice.
"I thought I would try an experiment of my own here. It goes like this: feel free to provide a review of my paper! I know this is not for everyone. Send it directly to me or comment here. I will take serious comments as seriously as those of the official reviewer and will incorporate changes into the final version of the paper before it is published."

I love that - crowdsourcing of peer review. Interesting experiment.
Hmm Im starting to think that the really interesting articles cant be recognized by high karma points but by the lack of tens of comments. (tho obviously HN is best for the comments!)
This is really interesting and nicely written article!
A web app I made.
Actually, they haven't. For the most part, they've never read anything critically (or even really read anything period), and the crank-turning and hoo-ha that goes in math class certainly isn't mathematics.

So by the time they hit Calculus and Shakespeare, they're in year 11 of their time in a velvet jail and have learned to very adequately mimic the bizarre squawking the guards insist is requisite for passage to The Island.

What they have not done is mathematics or reading in any real sense.
Color is the wave length of light you can see. Red is one wavelength, blue another, infra red and ultra violet yet another. But you can't see those last two.

Molecules have no color because they are smaller then the shortest length wave of light you and I can see.

Think about dropping a stone in a quiet pond. Think of the waves that are created. If they bump into a large obstacle they are reflected back. If they hit a tiny one, like a thin blade of grass sticking out of the water, they just flow around.

Gold is golden because a whole lot of gold atoms bunched together reflect a yellowish range of light. Gold the material is gold colored. A single gold atom does not have color.
You got it. Also, never visit America, Mexico, Canada, Britain, or any other country on earth.
…want to release/sell your application through Ad Hoc Distribution…

Note: This isn't actually an option to do, not unless you want to limit yourself to 100 customers per year.
So, the cat killed curiosity?
Hmm, I think it's cool, but I am not sure it has ever been useful. I would rather just see a map.
I don't think you're familiar with the common uses of "bordering on".

I'll promise to read up on it, if you'll learn the meaning of "not even close".

Nothing you say in your hypothetical examples in any way justifies accessing the customer's data, particularly by breaking in to the system. Shut it down? Sure, if circumstances call for that. Start meddling with server configuration and establish what amounts to a rootkit on the system (in effect, if not in technical truth) without the client's permission? That's just shady.

I will merely mention that most hosting provider customers not only accept this kind of thing, they demand it. If you spend a little time on web hosting forums (as I must because it is my industry) you will notice a very strong tendency for complaints to be system administration related. The customer expected more involvement than the hosting provider offered, and thus things went horribly awry.

I agree with you, entirely, that if you ask the host to never login to your system, they should respect that wish. But, I can also state without hesitation that you and I (and most people here at HN) are thoroughly in the minority in wanting our hosting provider to never login to our hosting systems. The default mode for hosting providers is to drop in on the box within a couple of comments in their ticketing system...if it can't be solved with one or two replies, then it's safest to simply drop in and fix it. For most hosting customers this is not an invasion of privacy or "breaking in", it is "great support".

Finally, as a security professional, I'm sure you're also aware that with access to the hardware, your host has root all the time. There is nothing you or I can do about it. Even more interestingly, the host also has the ability to login, poke around, and never tell you about it (and not leave a trail...just boot up a live CD, mount up the disk read only, and poke around til their heart's content). Also nothing you or I can do about that. With someone else having access to the hardware, you have nothing but good faith on the part of the hosting provider.
Currently use it to find those hiring(seeking work now) and then find them on Facebook and message them there. Ppl use facebook everyday and supposedly recruiters and HR people are perusing social networks to help with their hiring decision, so I'm using such too to highlight myself from the crowd.

I use LinkedIn to gather info only, then find them on Facebook; they reply awesome, if not move onto the next one! I did subscribe once to LinkedIn and let them continue to charge my card. Though once i tried to cancel it i ended up in web consumer cancelation purgatory; they let u in but make insanely difficult to leave. All web services do this - ick. Have a dislike for LinkedIn and all that pull such crap!
True. A rackspace account is more like $450 for a single server. They keep their prices secret for a reason.
Will you fund my startup?
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Anyway I love cats since I was a kid and I am male! Worth the infection if I have it and perhaps the reason that so far I have not catch AIDS!

I like cats too, but I feel like I am missing something here. How did you get from "I love cats" to not getting AIDS?
Don't be depressed, it's the top link on science reddit. Though, sadly, the top comment is grammar correction :/
MediaCoder is a really great piece of freeware encoding software on Windows. The author is quite clearly trying to understand and help out with the licensing problems and instead comes up against the free software Spanish inquisition:

http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162

Some people just have no social skills!
> Modern couples cohabitate before getting married

some modern couples cohabitate before getting married
How do I know whether I am infected or not?
Emily Post is rolling over in her grave... but good luck to them, anyway.
What is with the top option being $500/month? It's ten times the price of the second best account type but is only marginally more powerful. Are 15 extra requests for introductions and 40 extra InMails that valuable?
My friend who's a 24 year old (extremely cute) female, who eats your Standard American Diet (but on the healthy side), took a 40 day juice fast about a year ago.

After about day 30, she passed a huge ball of worms in her stool. Let me emphasize "huge". Like, a babies fist. Needless to say, she had some parasites.

I now fear the juice fast... and, in a weird way... her :)
Now That AdMob Bought AdWhirl, Will Anybody Trust It?
> You're literally saying that having a government is a net loss. Are you serious?

But that's not what he said. He said:

1. ...an ever growing government sector does not lead to long term prosperity

2. ...[despite a couple useful things like infrastructure and science] overall [our current government] is a definite net loss.

OP wasn't advocating anarchy. He thinks USG is not doing a good job with their resources, which isn't a particularly radical point of view.
Nil alivd quam pictura mota.
Lit: It is nothing less than a moving picture.
Col: It's only a movie!
I don't know for sure, I've never taken a real IQ test. I'm making this assumption based on few things. I had to study very hard to do well, but there were not many things that stumped me, but I have a feeling that it took me a lot longer to understand and get to the "ahhh ha!" moment compared to others. My spelling is horrible, as is my vocabulary. Speaking of vocabulary, I did horrible on the GRE verbal section, maybe 450, possibly lower. On the math, I made around 680~. I didn't study at all for the GRE, except for one practice test. Other than that practice test, I walked in and took it. I would usually be at the top of the class in math and sometimes be the one that kills the curve, but I would study for hours and hours two weeks in advance of the test. My friends would study very little, if at all, and do just fine. Usually listening to a professor didn't help, I might as well tune out. I wouldn't learn the subject matter until I read the book or online texts, while it would snap for others in class. I forget things very quickly if I don't continue to use them. For example, I couldn't do a partial derivative right now, but at one time, I was able to do them in my sleep practically. All of these things, plus my families background are indicators to me that I'm average or below in mental abilities.

What I do have is self-discipline, which is why I relate to this paper. Although I was surrounded by drug users, smokers, and alcoholics my entire life, I've never done those things. I wasn't around smart people or people to encourage me to grow intellectually, but around my 20's, I knew what I had to do. Since then (I'm 30 now), I study something nearly everyday, and have learned a lot of valuable skills. I work really hard at it because of the things described above.
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Ask HN: What accelerated your understanding of how the world works?
In the last year I've become mildly obsessed with understanding "how the world works." This is basically a combination of understanding human nature (and things like evolutionary psychology), how/where money and power flow in society, what are the "underground" things that really have an impact on people succeeding or failing, etc.

Many of the links here on Hacker News and stuff like Paul Graham's essays have been invaluable and I wanted to see what specifically HNers recommend along these lines. What books, articles, etc. have you read and afterwards said "Now I get why this is that way."?
there's that word again, "heavy". why are things so heavy in the future? is there a problem with the earths gravitational pull?
I have an easy win for you. Stop reading the comments! They are almost universally awful.
The only wrong, I think, in this case is that the tech at Rimuhosting did not respect Aaron's specific wish to not allow him to access his box.

Do you think this is more or less wrong than simply halting the instance?
I have $3. I can afford a bag of peanut M&Ms, a small bag of goldfish crackers, and a ham sandwich --- but not all three. Therefore, I should get all of those things for free.
Because the argument you actually chose to promote here was weak.