skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper on TweetNaCl lists him as an author, and its a subdomain of cr.yp.to: http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/papers.html http://cr.yp.to/papers.html#tweetnacl

The bugreport was actually acknowledged by Peter Schwabe.

Did djb actually write every line of TweetNaCl? Probably not.
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ULA's other rocket, the Boeing Delta IV uses engines designed and made in the US - the Rocketdyne RS-68[1]. The Delta IV is more expensive to fly than the Atlas V, for missions both launchers can do. Also, it is not manufactured in large numbers, though it can be, but only if given enough lead time.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-68
I don't doubt that it happens; just not for the reasons you ascribe to it. It's probably just the fact that the wiring boxes are usually a complete mess and totally inconsistent from job to job. The contractors get paid by the job, so their attitude tends to be "fuck it, rip it all out and make it work so I can get to the next job".
All of a sudden MyISAM has become transaction-aware
I remember playing Portal without knowing anything about it. The game mechanics drew me in at first, but my interest waned as it got more difficult, because much as I like puzzle elements, I'm not a hardcore fan.

And just at that point the story took some turns and I was hooked. Amazing game, and I can't imagine the amount of tweaking involved to get the balance just right.
Why Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is A State Of Matter
Using virus infections against cancer has long history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncolytic_virus
An open source JVM Sampling Profiler
The FSF refuses to compromise their principles. They refuse to negotiate. I respect them for that, morally its nice to have a fixed point to hold the line and refuse to change, it gives you a benchmark against where to judge yourself. Even if sometimes you think the old guard ate a bit to much paste.
There is also a WordPress plugin for generating static pages to upload later, but it's got a lot of gotchas and doesn't seem to have been updated recently. I'm using on my site.

http://leonstafford.com/wordpress-static-html-output-plugin/
Does that really not work by default? I would figure it's only an issue if you have your disk formatted as case sensitive, which is usually a bad idea because a lot of devs don't test on it.
Congratulations! This is the best implementation of narrative form builder I have seen. And, it is admirable that you are releasing the code for your service with Apache license.

We (JotForm) tried to do one on an internal hackathon ( http://www.jotform.com/narrative-forms/ ) but it didn't work really well and we didn't receive much excitement from our users about it. So, we didn't develop it further. But, I've always found narrative forms amazing. I wonder why more sites are not using it.
Edge of the Creative Commons (2013)
Navy SEAL team tech
We Out Here, a chrome extension
Good article. One quibble:

"But of course, Vim isn’t perfect. ...[Y]ou need to install a half-dozen third-party plugins (and a third-party plugin manager at that) to get basic functionality working."

I've been using vi and now Vim since 1980. I don't use any third-party plugins, so I don't need a plugin manager. I do almost no customizing. I have much more than "basic functionality" with a bare-bones Vim install. Why? Because Vim is installed on pretty much every *nix system. When I ssh into a server I can't afford to be helpless because my favorite plugins and scripts and key bindings aren't there.

I can skip hours of "on-boarding" because I'm happy to work with bare Vim and other command-line tools on OSX or Linux. I don't need to spend a day getting Eclipse configured or setting up a bunch of other stuff just to edit and build code.

Emacs is almost, but not quite, as ubiquitous as Vim. I use Vim because I learned vi a long time ago and have never wanted to put that much effort into learning another text editor.
The teardowns are really interesting :) . I agree that they should sell you the book after seeing those ! Or consulting :)
Monitor running processes with Perl
Yes, I was using open source as a catch all term for free, both because free is far easier to misunderstand, and because free tends to create negative connotations for many people, especially at the large scale end. I know the FSF disapproves of that usage, but it seems convenient to me, it's one of the most common descriptions I see, and the alternatives are primarily acronym-based like FOSS, FLOSS, etc. and don't roll off the tongue as easily. None of that invalidates the point; namely that the FSF thinks that only free software should be allowed to be promoted to users (and possibly other software outright discouraged), which I find identical to DRM mindsets, just in the opposite direction
Is there anything more modern that also does this (generates flat files from a database that can then be uploaded/served statically)?
NB the linked page is currently for the MiTV 1 (1080p, 47"), but the topic is about V2;[1]

On the SOC side, it's 4x cortex A9 @ 1.45Ghz with Mali 450 MP4 GPU-- h265 decode at 4K/30fps, 2GB RAM

supports miracast, airplay, dlna, widi, SMB, dual band ac wifi, USB3, micro SD, bluetooth 4 (BT LE remote with finder). 15.5mm thick and 6.2mm bezel. It has everything, except the HDMI version is conspicuous in its absence-- so I'm guessing it's not 2.0, which is required for 60fps at 4K. Also not completely clear if it could actually play back 4K 3D-- perhaps this would work with h264, but for h265 it states 30fps. Released on the 27th in China, no mention of elsewhere.

1. http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&p...
I still feel Portal 1 works very well as a kind of introduction to the much bigger (and in most ways better) Portal 2. I also usually suggest people play the first one, especially if they're not that into FPS games, because it's less of an investment and focuses a bit more on just the puzzles.
tldr The real story in 8 bits:
A long time ago....
it was True, then
True, then
False, then
True, then
False, then
True, then
False, then
False.

The end.
I actually didn't know he wrote any line of it; I feel like I remember him writing about the person who actually wrote it. But I think I'm wrong about that too. It's a neat post you wrote.
You'd think they would be happy that their kids are taught something they can't do themselves. Instead they're whining in order to make their stupidity hereditary.
Yes, it's disappointing that Mozilla is adding DRM to Firefox. No, that does not mean they hold "misguided fears about loss of browser marketshare".

People have the freedom to disagree with you, FSF. Just because they do doesn't make them misguided, especially on a future prediction.

How is this any different from flash/silverlight plugins we already have?
The parents rail against the new style of teaching because they were taught with the old style and never properly comprehended math other than by rote memorization. This is exactly the problem the new methods are trying to fix. I bet most people on HN are math-minded enough that they could pick up the new ways of doing things and actually understand how it is teaching total comprehension rather than just being able to get the right answer with no idea of why it's the right answer.
4 Reasons Why Early Startup Traction is Deceiving
I did a piece on using Clojure with Go recently. For me, it wasn't a switch but using them along side each other to tackle different problems more efficiently. Here's the link -- http://www.quantisan.com/simple-easy-quick-using-go-along-wi...
I have checked the book on Amazon through the look inside and it has not convinced me. I have the impression that it is the kind of book that spend loads of pages to talk about a simple idea.
I am more inclined towards books that are not very thick and that force you to be a quite active reader. My personal choice for 1st year physics text book is Physics by Alonso Finn. Their attempt to build all the concepts from basic ideas is what appeals to me most. It also present some rather challenging problems for an undergraduate.
Isn't it fairly obvious that there are two categories of companies that they buy: the ones they count on for strategic business (Flickr), and the ones they acquire just for the people? I have to imagine that the latter is mostly just to infuse Yahoo with young, energetic people who are willing & able to work long hours if given a proper vision. Sure you can put out a lot of job reqs, but this seems like the way Mayer has chosen to try to infuse Yahoo with talent & energy.
Could you imagine Apple would have gone for BeOS or a custom developed kernel with no significant terminal-based userland when making OS X? It would probably still be used by many casual users or those doing graphical work, but I doubt it would be used by hackers at all.
Their Math1a uses Apostol as its textbook (http://www.math.caltech.edu/~2013-14/1term/ma001a/#text).

This is the classic proofs based text, in other schools what's commonly used for "honors calculus", including MIT but not with such a name. I suppose in theory a really mathematically adept student could start with it, but that's not what I remember any school I've looked into, including CalTech, requiring before you start it.

The link you cited is just an attack on a particular contention; it's entirely unrelated to my examination of it, except second hand reports of it (some of the phases quoted are familiar) probably in part prompted mine.
While I too am inclined to hate Yahoo, perhaps out of envy that a shitty, failed idea I might have come up with wasn't acquihired for tens of millions of dollars, their stock tells a different story. Not that a successful business is defined by its stock price, but she is performing in a way that the board and its investors are likely quite happy. The price has nearly doubled since she took over.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

That is surely worth something?
As a parent with a a first grader and child in kindergarten, my observations of the Common Core isn't that the basis, or theory, is unsound, it's more that the teachers were not given adequate training on it.
What's it like to own a Tesla S: A Cartoonist's Review
Good idea. Since what I'm suggesting is essentially a hybrid of the subscription model and the pay-as-you-go model, a certain amount of free content per month could be a useful feature to borrow from typical subscription models.
Actually, I don't know if she's overrated or not, but she inherited a huge mess in many ways. The biggest mess is the deal Yahoo! did with Microsoft effectively kneecapped Yahoo's potential growth for something like a decade.

Yahoo no longer controls their own destiny in search or search advertising. Yahoo had a better search advertising system (I was a customer) and probably a better search engine at the time.

I'm sure she would be the first person to want to invest in search and search advertising, but Yahoo basically can't do any of that in a meaningful way unless they can get out of their underperforming Microsoft contract.

Just remember that the benchmark for a CEO is not if they are doing a good job. It's if they are doing a better job than someone else would do in the same role. It's like NFL QB's. There's a small pool, so being good doesn't mean you get to keep the job if someone else thinks you should be doing GREAT.

By that measure Marissa has done a pretty great job in areas that the previous revolving door CEO's didn't. Hell, the fact that Yahoo! is even part of the tech scene discussion is an improvement.
I think he meant scale. Competing with Apple in Apple's niche isn't good idea.
Damn, now I'm wishing for a remake of the original Jedi Knight with this mechanic as an integral part of it. Not only because it was by far my favorite game in the series, but also because Jedi Knight always felt like more than 'just' an FPS; it had a lot of puzzle elements in it.

I also would like to one day create my own level. I tried doing this for Jedi Knight, but the Unreal Engine-style negative-space engine and the incredibly buggy (community-created?) editor foiled my attempts :-(.
Funny how today's leaders in math and programming all learned basic math the old fashioned way; now it's not good enough. Yet no one preaches teaching kids economics, basic taxation and interest rates, and how investing works. So we wind up with people who know math but get fooled by politicians and scammers.
If you don't learn your math tables by rote memorization, how are you ever going to be adept at algebra or anything based on it?

If you can't just look at something like 2x = 4y and instantly simply it....
Not sure if I buy this history.

Most BB users I know absolutely loved the keyboard, and thought it worked much better than a touchscreen. It was also considered by many business users to be the only phone useable for business use because you could actually type quickly on it.

Those users also abandoned the phone, but I don't know if it was because of the touchscreen.
When I was 19 I got 250,000 downloads on the Android Market Here's How
Marcus Aurelius and the Mountains Within
Hi, author here. That was exactly my motivation for writing it. There's all sort of middleware and plugins out there for throttling from the server side, but I found nothing that would let me control my own outbound API calls to a an external service in Clojure. I also wanted support for burstiness, and that was even harder to find.

I bet you could come up with other uses for it though. Someone told me over email they're planning on using it in traffic simulation for a game, for instance.
>Then why do you care if you finish projects?

Because there is more to life then money.
>If this could happen there it could happen just about anywhere.

"Could"? This does happen everywhere, routinely, every day. Most of it happens to people nobody cares about (foreigners, displaced, lone wolfs, drug addicts, mentally ill, smalltime crooks etc etc). Some of it is corrected with time (which is why you have appeals and counter-appeals in most systems). There is just no incentive for a police force not to incriminate, and little for a judicial system not to convict.

>For the past year, the 486-page report [...] has been sitting on a desk

... and it will likely sit there until all the implicated people have retired and/or they are 100% sure the Icelandic equivalent to the statute of limitations will cover all of them. Because people with related responsibilities know that, in a few years, the same could happen to them for whatever reason, and then who would look after them? At the time, "persuading" a little crook to confess a crime he didn't commit was a perfectly acceptable standard; who knows what standards will be in 20 years time? So invariably these institutions will "let bygones be bygones".

The whole concept of institutional policing is extremely flawed.
Wow, that teacher to student ratio sounds seems like it would make for a great educational utopia! That's crazy and I have never heard of such a thing! :)

I asked this question more so for potential-start-up research purposes. I have already graduated from college, though I did think about getting a graduate degree, but I am not so sure I want to do that anymore. I concluded that it would be more effective for me personally to study on my own (if I were to pursue computer science). Classes sort of make me lose motivation. It feels so forced much of the time.
Exactly.

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 understand why, and won't care even if they did. I'd have thought the FSF would be more concerned about them potentially switching to Chrome in that use case...
> There's no call to action at all

There's a giant blue button that says Check out the Book
The idea seems to be that they're teaching children to maths in their head rather than needing a piece of paper to work it out. The example is extremely odd though, I can't imagine why you would go through that process in your head. I'd probably do something like:

12 = 2 + 10
32 - 2 = 30
30 - 10 = 20
No. People who choose GPL choose not to publish their software in the App Store.
> and distros should have the sameright to choose to tell the user about closed osurce[sic] software when it would be helpful to them.

Of course they should. That's why they have that right, and are using it. The FSF isn't stopping them; in fact, by supporting development of GNU, they're indirectly helping such distros.

What point are you trying to make, that the Free Software Foundation should not complain about encroachments on Software Freedom?
The developer was also very secretive about how it worked as he was scared someone would copy it and release a clone. It was impossible for the longest time (when the price was actually much higher than it is now) to find out how the thing actually worked.

Much of this was because there was no white paper or documentation, and when pressed for details beyond the most basic, the developer just told you to read the source code once he open-sourced it.
I think this summarizes all the rails against common core pretty well: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/21zdln/the_common_core...
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At first, I read this as an imperative, and tried googling the phrase, "a million miles away from the search engine of my dreams".
Read the US Military's Counter-Zombie Dominance Operations Plan (not joking)
>Chrome isn't a business, so much as another way to search the web. But instead of automated crawlers it has people who will do the searching, do the crawling. Kind of ingenious if you think about it.

Google will make more (indirect) money off the average chrome user than the average firefox user, simply because they get far more metrics, analytics and data from them to make a profile for advertising. Obviously, the average firefox user is likely to have higher technical skill so possibly go to some lengths to confound tracking attempts, but that is beside the point, especially since comparable privacy addons are generally available for chrome too, with the primary exception of NoScript. (Edit: NoScript itself for chrome may not exist, but there are still comparable addons).

Back when google signed the Mozilla deal, they didn't have a browser, and the stream of data they get from directing firefox users' searches through google was and still is more profitable to them than letting mozilla pick another default and denying them that data.
Watch the Ultimate Mashup of Game of Thrones and Super Mario
Lackluster SVG support doesn't stop with browsers. Even Adobe Illustrator manages to royally botch SVG support -- try anything with transparency.
Funny how small is the world, I reported them the same bug on February 13th, you might have been first though :)
That's the most obvious one - yep :)
Only if you think most of them are Samsung Galaxies or Moto X's. Most of them are just replacements for the low end Nokia's that used to be predominant. A billion cheap phones is not a new statistic.
Introducing Mozilla Winter of Security 2014
To Dream in Different Cultures
The viruses didn't have to evolve specifically to fight, it could have been a side effect. For example, maybe cancer cells make better viral hosts because of their unchecked metabolism. So the virus evolves to exploit cancer cells first, killing them in the process. Here the virus "cures" cancer by accident, with no interest in the fact that it extends the life of their host.

I'm not saying this is likely, I'm just pointing out that your restatement of the question is a lot more narrow than the original question.
Spike And Die: Why Products Created By Ad Agencies Fail
There was this really great documentary talking about the way kids should learn math (and also how useful maths are in today's society):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1etsod_how-i-came-to-hate-...

I don't know if there is an english version of the whole documentary, but if there is, I strongly recommend it (plus, there are strong contributions by Villani who won Fields medal).
I have a folder of bookmarks and while I am getting breakfast ready I right click and open all of them in different tabs. I can't eat too quickly first thing in the morning so this is how I start my day:

http://gawker.com/
http://www.dilbert.com/
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://www.macrumors.com/
http://www.wired.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/
http://9to5mac.com/
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Natick&sta...

There is another one that is removed from this list to save me some embarrassment.
The Right to be Forgotten? Europe's Orwellian Internet Time Warp
Personal accounting should be required from kindergarten.
How is this any different from flash/silverlight plugins we already have?

It's a W3C standard, for one. Whereas Flash/Silverlight are completely third-party, EME can be argued to be "browser-endorsed" or "web standards-endorsed" to a degree.
Ask HN: How would you invest $1M?
Let's say you have $1M ( and you won't need any of the cash for more than a decade ). How would you invest it?

Curious to get the hacker perspective on this.
FWIW I reported mine on 2014-04-22. Was yours about the sizeof(u32) issue, or the carry bit?
I have experienced this first hand with my daughter (2nd grade).

She's doing 2 and 3 digit addition and subtraction by breaking the problem into chunks (I tried to cook up an example, but I don't remember how they do it exactly). I learned the "carry way", so the chunk thing seems cumbersome (and I didn't really know how to help her, since I keep reverting to my own proclivities), but it seems to work, and I see the value in the way she deconstructs the problem instead of just doing the mechanics.
Here's my post-mortem on Australis: I stopped using Firefox.
Nice catch. Fixing.
Honestly, I think the w3c should've just told Netflix et al to get the heck out of the browser.

Really, that's what this is all about... but those companies are already building fully native applications for every platform other than win32+Web. Telling them to go make a native application (or keep dealing with Silverlight/Flash) for that one last platform would be completely appropriate.

The world of software has changed - now we have major companies building applications for multiple different platforms instead of "just windows" or "just web". The web doesn't need to do everything.

It doesn't need to do this.
As a person who works with K-12 educators, I agree wholeheartedly.
Yes, Mozilla needs funding, but I'd rather pay a one off fee to purchase firefox if it really became necessary.

Note that this alone would not make Firefox proprietary software. It'd still be free, just not gratis, provided redistribution and modification rights are still present.