skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co...

It looks like a link is sufficient, or a list of all authors, optionally omitting those with only trivial edits.
I noticed your main editor is emacs? I consider myself a Terminal Native as well, but why dont you like using GUI Emacs and Eshell/m-x Shell instead?
I really hope you don't treat everyone who makes mistakes like this. While the content is definitely interesting you're being quite demeaning.
The joke is that the new "Common Core" standards are presented as the "Old-Fashioned" way, and vice-versa.
Apple aims to prevent misdirected text messages
Eich strongly opposed DRM and patent-encumbered formats like H.264, but he also understood the realities of the situation[0].

The writing has been on the wall for a while - as soon as Mozilla realized that Google was going to renege on their promise to remove H.264, Firefox was bound to include it (since H.264 wasn't going anywhere). As soon as the W3C enshrined DRM in the HTML standard, it was a matter of when, not if, Firefox would be forced to, assuming the media industry adopted it (which they will).

The only alternative would be for Firefox to hold out and refuse to adopt it, watching their userbase shift away to all the other browsers that did support it.

[0] http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/11/bre...
> Creating some form of standard around the use of DRM is the lesser of two evils when compared to the use of a multitude of proprietary decoders.

I have nothing against the media and proprietary software companies getting together to make a DRM standard. It would have precisely zero impact on my life, since I already avoid all forms of DRM.

I don't see what that has to do with Web standards though, since their goals are completely incompatible. EME shouldn't exist.
Read the comments in the Reddit link. It was apparently posted on the 1st of April. Now I'm seriously confused.
I am currently building a static-file blogging system based on Prismic.io and Middleman. It's going pretty well.

The hardest part is that we are going to have a build server that rebuilds the stale parts of the site every hour or so - I don't think that's been done with Middleman before, so we're building that from scratch.

I'll post the details on https://tech.bellycard.com when we're done with it.
The point is that politicians are so entrenched in the establishment that the conflict of interest in inevitable.
Why don't you just exclusively use something like Arch Linux
I use DropBox and so does a lot of other people I know. Their decision to hire Condoleezza Rice does not affect my decision and obviously has no impact on the decision of many others.
What do you mean "without a bezel," do you just take it off?
Wow, a whole "security" industry unmasked as a security theater prop shop. Considering the stakes in food adulteration, etc. you would think the FTC would shut down ineffective products in that category, especially since VAT at Argonne not only defeats defective seals, but invents ones that work.
>sexist

Oh boy, here we go.
You're kind of missing the point.

Rote memorization of times tables doesn't lead to understanding. So, early in the learning process, you give children techniques that give correct answers, boost confidence and increase understanding of what is actually happening.

Thus when they see 4x = 2y they'll know that 4x means 4 xs and 2y means 2 ys.
> If Joe Sixpack or Aunt Tilly uses firefox, wants to watch Netflix, and can't because of this, they're going to switch to Chrome.

They won't switch because they are already using Chrome.

Most Firefox users I know (perhaps I'm biased?) do so not because it's the best browser (it is absolutely not!) but because of Mozilla Foundation's values.
Penflip looks interesting! I'll have to play with the math jax options, but do you have any examples of it being used with figures and equations? Any plans for reference management?
I can't tell if you're serious, or trolling?
You're being ruled by fear. Fear is not a place from which good logical decisions are made; if the research says it's better, then it's better; you don't keep doing the worse way just because you're used to it and fearful of anything new.
Well, they have anime, so why not hentai? And if they have hentai, why not extreme hentai like incest? And then you end up with a "Heartwarming" trope where someone sleeps with their mother.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110118061340/http://tvtropes.o...

I think porn examples are banned now.
I saw a relevant post in an older thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7746442
The "right to be forgotten" shouldn't be decided by a high court
Consider that Mozilla is a non-profit that relies very much on the community goodwill, while Dropbox is a full-blown for-profit corporation that cares first and foremost about maximizing revenues.
I'm doubtful about paid accounts having a significant impact on their bottom line. Do they publish numbers on that?
These are peoples' lives they are affecting. "Hope" and "politics" shouldn't be a part of the decision making process.
> They'd have me if they had stood up for me. I'll just stay in Chrome I guess!

The fact that you so readily admit that you'd rather just use a non-free browser[0] makes me doubt whether you'd actually be using Firefox even if they held out against DRM, rendering an increasing number of websites unviewable in Firefox.

[0] Chrome, unlike Chromium, is not free or open source.
We're saying the same thing. I understand that children need to understand the underlying concepts. I'm saying there are already well established methods for teaching those.

Waving a hand and saying the "old way" is simply an algorithm and a poor method because it glosses over the details is like saying teaching someone how to use a calculator will make them forget how math works.

That common core method for subtracting 12 from 32 definitely doesn't teach you anything about how or why it works.
Wikipedia binge (programming languages) -> Greenspun's Tenth Rule -> Paul Graham Essays -> YCombinator.com -> HN
How would targeting W3C change anything? Browser vendors have a final say, and at the end of the day it matters what they've implemented, not what W3C wrote in some document.
Frankly, all those cries that having DRM somehow destroy open web are at the same level as the claims that homosexuals are destroying families.
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That's mostly the case for me too, but not exclusively. As it is, I'd guess Firefox is maybe at most 10-20% power users who are likely to understand privacy issues etc.
I think this quote from a parent at the very end of the article is quite telling: "To me, math is numbers, it's concrete, it's black-and-white. I don't understand why you need to bring this conceptual thing into math — at least not at this age."

I am not a professional mathematician, but I get the overwhelming impression from professional mathematicians that "this conceptual thing" is really quite important in the big picture of math. To me this reflects a parent who hasn't used mathematical concepts in a real way and who doesn't understand the value in anything but arithmetic. It's the same mindset as people who throw their hands up at algebra because suddenly letters are mixed with numbers and they aren't doing multiplication tables anymore.

Edit: I don't mean this as a personal attack. It's just a problem of educating parents. People need to understand that conceptual math and abstract reasoning may seem like strange things to teach children, but that they will, in fact, provide the competitive edge for our kids. Perhaps the Common Core way of teaching this is terrible and makes children cry, but we shouldn't throw it out based on poor implementation.
I'd rather use the best browser.

If Firefox sucks (I really don't want to rant about it) and doesn't even fight for their user's rights... why shouldn't I just use Chrome/ium[0]?

I'm a switcher. I will stay with whoever offers the best browser or added value. Chrome is blazing fast for me and IMHO has better dev tools, which is why their browser is so popular. Mozilla's added value is their Foundation's goal, which they kind of betrayed accepting downloadable DRM blobs in their browser.

I come back to Firefox from time to time just because I love Mozilla Foundation. DRM would be a great excuse to finally ditch Chrome forever. I'm not even mad about it and completely understand Mozilla's decision. I'm just sad I'm not coming back to Firefox because I'm having DRM blobs anyways.

[0] When I said Chrome I meant Chrome/ium.
I just wish Go would let me compile and run with a flag -allowing- unused imports. I find myself wasting a lot of time hunting down unused imports or variables and commenting them out.

Maybe that'll be a non-issue the more I use Go, but so far it's a bit of a time waster.
I think you are better off using higher-level 2D library. For example, SDL will do the same, while reducing the amount of boilerplate code.
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The HTML working group at W3C has clearly rejected Google/Microsoft/Netflix proposal on both technical and ideological grounds, but the decision has been overridden by group's Chair, and further objections have been bypassed by forming a new, pro-DRM working group out of public view.

The EME spec draft has been published almost unchanged, even though it has known significant flaws, e.g. most of the spec is non-normative and it's been acknowledged (without a fix) that the key diagram is factually incorrect (shows that the browser is trusted).

It seems like corporate interests within W3C are much stronger than W3C's integrity.

I suspect it even goes farther than Google and Netflix using their market share and influence to pass the spec — they've probably been blackmailed by MPAA & co. that would pull the plug on Netflix and Google Play if they didn't do what they've been told to.
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wait, what? I'm not an oncologist but I read that muscles are the one tissue or place in our body which does not get cancer - this has to do with the way muscles are so 'greedy' for blood vessels that they do not allow angiogenesis to cancer cells.
Another example regarding [1] (by rms, not exactly the FSF) is actually supporting a non-copyleft/permissive license for libogg: http://lwn.net/Articles/299016/
This is an April fool's day post.
Note of warning: the book is not complete AND is in this state for a few years already.
100% agreed. It was a very clever play by a search engine company.

What intrigues me about the Android-equation and the way it entered Googles' playbook is that, indeed, the game is not over. Any other young upstart can arise, almost immediately, and challenge the hegemony .. all you have to do is be willing to commit to a real platform strategy.

I believe the Android vs. iOS challenge for the mainstream is a very vibrant industrial action; echoes of this gameplay can be definitely observed, elsewhere in the F/OSS eco-system. A fundamental difference between iOS/Android: one is closed, the other is open. A new, open challenge to Android could indeed eat its lunch, if the open challenge were won in such a way that it would attract the hunger-economy of the giants.

I personally would like to just have a phone that is 100% open source. I've had both Android/iOS in my life, equally, since inception, and ultimately I find the industrial-baggage load to be pretty high. In the new NSA era, what the hell is the point of trying to hide anything any more .. the new cool is completely open.

I bet it would solve the immense-cruft problem we can easily witness in heft with iOS/Android, as both platforms NIH/NIMBY their way across the 'developer mind-control' table.

Imagine this: someone builds a challenger OS, for free, that runs on everyones' phone, regardless of manufacturer-lockout/lockin. Methinks there are ways to do this under the radar right now ..
Publishing date of that post was April 1st, for what it's worth...
I can't seem to find anything on the link OP provided, either due to some sort of rendering issue, or because it's not actually there.

The source link points to a post on Reddit which points to this article:

http://bgr.com/2014/05/13/fcc-net-neutrality-comcast-twc-ver...
@andrew.cmu.edu doesn't work
It's not unheard of for smart TVs to snoop on you. LG did it.
More than Enough Arel
It might be parsing through logs to find out last login information.

So, like any unix os, ensure you do this:

touch $HOME/.hushlogin

That will short circuit that stuff. Like you said I've not had issues with terminals opening fast but it can't hurt. I don't give a rats when I last logged in on any unix os I log into.
https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
As for symlinks from your home: I prefer to add aliases for directories I move to a lot. For example:

alias cdss='cd /Users/username/somewhere1/somewhere2'

then I just go 'cdss' to get there from anywhere.
You nailed it. On the other hand, it's a bit double-edged.

As I am the parent with the CS degree, my wife is already referring our second-grader to me for help with math homework. Sure, after calc I-III, diff-EQ, linear algebra, etc. I can readily pick up on what they are doing and why. I also absolutely agree that they need to go beyond rote-memorization and help kids with a fundamental understanding of numbers, their relationships, etc.

But, here's the other side: I don't know that, say, a first or second-grader is really ready to grasp some of the concepts (at least as they are currently being taught). My daughter "handles" it pretty well and can get the job done, but it sometimes seems that they are simply moving the rote-memorization ball, so to speak. That is, now, instead of just remembering tables, she may be simply remembering these new methods of arriving at the answer. I'm not sure she really knows why though. And, it can actually be kind of difficult to test where their level of true understanding is. For instance, asking them to explain gets into their verbal skills as much as math. So, they may actually understand it, but are unable to really explain it. One clue is the kind of mistakes they make, but it's still kind of murky.

In any case, in the end, I'm not altogether sure that her comprehension has been expanded. And, it sometimes seems that the result is that she simply has to labor harder to arrive at the same answers.

On a side note, what's funny is that I learned the "old-school" way, yet I somehow managed to comprehend and am now trying to help my daughter understand the "new school" way. Something ironic about that.
Open standards (and free software as well) do not directly fight closed distributors (both media and software) or ask them to change their ways. But what they do is give a more open upstart a significant advantage; an advantage that helps them offset some of the other shortcomings they have.

So if my company had average content that could reach 2 billion people against Mediaflix's 50m with closed silverlight, I'd still survive. Once I start making better content, Mediaflix is forced to do something or they'll slowly die.
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> Numerical calculations are powerful, but they're also subject to a whole host of issues related to finite-precision arithmetic; it's quite possible to set up a numerical calculation that returns nonsense if you don't have a solid intuition for what's going on.

Very true, but I think that is another argument for students doing this right away - it's a great opportunity to teach students about the issues with numerical methodologies.
>For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has.

Why is 30hz a limitation for video? Most video is 24 or 30fps, so 30hz should be fine, no? I can see 30hz being a limitation for gaming but you wouldn't be able to get good fps at 4K resolution anyway. So basically you should be able to run this at 4K all the time.
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[topcoder] acquired Coderbits
Solar wind 'triggers lightning on Earth'
Between this and forcing Eich out of a job over a political issue, I've lost a lot of love for Mozilla in the last month.
Is it actually common to limit users on cpu/memory use this way? I'd expect the limitations to simply be based on the resources made available to your processes...
Dont worry,Mozilla already betrayed Adobe once with this whole Tamarin/ES4 fiasco,with a little luck they'll change their mind for the best this time too.
Probably best to add "...for PHP Wordpress sites" to the title.
Understanding math concepts might be trivial for us but math-untrained minds such as grade schoolers and probably their parents, it could be an almost impossible high-bar to reach.
I scroll using the mouse in tmux all the time in any mouse capable terminal (aka not Terminal.app, also regular linux terms).

I have a toggle to turn it on off in my tmux.conf, have a looky:
https://github.com/mitchty/src/blob/master/dotfiles/tmux.con...
how do you get one of these?
> Mozilla's added value is their Foundation's goal, which they kind of betrayed accepting downloadable DRM blobs in their browser.

Chrome's goal is to use your browsing data to make money. I guess we can count on that principle to never be betrayed or compromised...
We're rather talking about Youtube going under DRM than Netflix.

Youtube without DRM was an advantage for a couple of hackers: They could download vids for offline viewing (iPod/iPad and p2p-sharing after takedown).

Youtube with DRM could change the game. The impact of a movie being pirated on Youtube is much more contained if users can't download it.
cmd+shift+eject
Just Rolling with Asana and Trello
Maybe Go is trying to tell you that the "move fast and break things" methodology is not how it should be used?
I guess I really don't understand her mobile strategy. Yahoo is a constellation of tons of different services and they all belong in different apps. Are they going to have one big "Yahoo Mega-App?"

That makes even less sense than Facebook's central app, because at least you can look at Facebook as offering a cohesive, singular service. But even Facebook is unbundling because it realizes that it can offer a better experience if each app just focuses on a single component of their platform.

What is she thinking?
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Arduino unveils their newest board, the 32-bit Arduino Zero
Did Chrome promise not to use your browsing data?

If I'm going to get non-free blobs in my browser anyways, I'd rather use the best one.
I think this is a case of you get what you pay for. $10/month is extremely cheap for hosting. Cheap hosts are great for sharing simple sites or (in the case of digital ocean) simple services with little foot traffic.
if your a vi/vim user in you're .inputrc set:

set editing-mode vi
set keymap vi-command

see more settings @ https://github.com/shawndumas/dotfiles/blob/master/readline/...
I agree. Why can't google just ban the content farms or let users specify it. I can list 5-10 sites that if omitted from all searches would vastly improve my results.
Neural networks and a dive into Julia
I think that's very true. Azure websites is overall a great ASP.NET solution (one I'm planning on moving my SaaS product to).
“Cancer” is a very wide classification. It’s similar to classify the illness as “caused by bacteria” or “caused by virus”.

It’s not very useful to know only that you have a disease that is caused by a virus. It could be a common flu, melease, ebola, herpes, hepatitis, hiv, ... http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#mediaviewer/Archivo:Viral.... Each one has a very different treatment and prognosis.

Some cancer would kill you in a month and some will kill you in 100 years (if you don’t die from other cause), some cancers are easy to operate, some are easy targets to chemotherapy, some for hormone therapy, some for radiation, ... A cancer diagnosis is a bad new, but it’s a very wide range of bad.

Also a new “cure” will probably be useful in a very few specific cases, and not useful in a general case like a broad spectrum antibiotic, that is useful against a lot of kind of bacteria.
Sadly not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoma
It's trivially easy to implant false memories. Here's Aza Raskin doing it to an audience just using a single question: http://vimeo.com/15886853#t=21m27s Also, you should look up Beth Rutherford's story. Edit: Oh, her story is actually earlier in the video. I guess it's pretty famous by now.
16 hour day at 30% output Vs 8 at 70%.

I have maybe 6 good hours in any day which I jealously guard for programming, the other 2 is side work (no brain required for a lot of it), emails, financial stuff, general office work.

I guard my sleep like an ultramax.
Without responding to your specific point, many people say "people who disagree with me (just) don't understand," but in reality the people who disagree often have just as good an understanding of the basic facts, yet disagree anyway.
Teaching concepts as well as techniques is definitely the way to go. The problem with "Common Core" appears to be that complex procedures have been selected as the way to teach concepts.

Taking the problem in the illustration, subtracting 12 from 42, the four-step process is ridiculous. The way an adult would look at it in a real-world situation is to recognize that the 12 neatly coincides with part of the 42. The relevant concept is units of 10 and of less than 10. One might use a somewhat different concept for a different question.

I'm not sure of the best way to teach the concepts - cover base 10 and places first, I guess, and then talk about how and why adults who are good at math perceive problems in certain ways. "Common core" looks like about what I would expect when the USG takes a basically good idea and mashes it thru a bureaucracy.
That's what I'm stating.. They promise nothing, and delivery nothing. I'd rather see my positive moral get challenged, then no morals be maintained.
Also we almost need a search engine that has reverse SEO rules. For example if my search term is in the domain name I can actually be pretty sure it's not going to be valuable content.

However google actually rewards that.
More Women Board Members is Good for Business
I've wanted to share this story for a while and now is as good a place as any. I found Hacker News from you via the Motley Fool. You wrote a long post on the Fool and mentioned it was copied from another internet forum. I picked a particular unusual-looking phrase in it, searched, and found it which turned out to be on HN. I stalked through your HN comment history and then I was hooked.

HN clued me in on how technologically backwards my then-employer was, and led to Stack Overflow Careers from which I found my current job, so yes you've substantially affected the direction of my life.
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Everyone is not the same. I am definitely in the 8-hours-a-night camp, but a small percentage of the population seems to have a genetic variation that allows them to sleep much less.[1]

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870371250...
They just forget one very important problem: You can try to buy people by buying the company they work for, but chances are they will not want to stick around after the company culture has been trampled over.

Been there a few times over my career: Those acquisitions are, in almost all cases, a disaster.
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That was one of the reasons OpenStreetMap moved from CC to the ODbL. There are ~1 million OSM contributors and it is unclear if they all had to be attributed. So they changed the licence.

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_U...