skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being slightly overdramatic. I too wish that Google was more transparent with how they farm our data. But you do have a choice to stop using their products you know
Long distance lovin'? There's an app for that
1) "counting on". 19 + 7 is (starts counting on) 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (realise that 7 fingers have been used, stop counting on) 26

1a) "partitioning" 8 + 7 is 8, jump 2 to 10, then jump 5 to 15.

2) "thinking and estimating". 3998 + 4997 is nearly 4000 + 5000 and is exactly 4000 + 5000 - 5

3) traditional columns with units, tens, hundreds, etc.

Note that these are teaching small children how to manipulate numbers in their heads before they reach for paper and pencil. This builds up understanding of what numbers are, what the processes are doing, what the relationships between numbers are etc. these techniques are also building up skills for subtraction. Subtraction is not just "taking one number from another", it includes finding the difference between two numbers and techniques involve addition.
Does anybody know what Brendan Eich's stance on DRM is? I can't help but wonder if this would have turned out differently had he still been in charge.

Eich helped found Mozilla back when it was just contributions to Netscape, and then helped break off as a fully-fledged project. My guess is that he understood the loss here. On the other hand, Gal wrote PDF.js which replaced the proprietary PDF reader, so you'd expect him to get it, too.
The W3C could have told Netflix et al to get the heck out of the browser, but the outcome of that would have been a different DRM mechanism in each of the main browsers. There's enough money in digital content distribution that browser developers will implement it regardless of what the W3C want. So the W3C had to decide between a standard they have an element of control over that's widely used, or several different DRM mechanisms that they have no input in to. The choice was not between DRM or no DRM. It never will be.

The W3C maintain web standards. They do not maintain what browsers can and can't do.
This is 6 months old, so it doesn't seem like it went anywhere. Probably because the greater internet has no motivation to oppose moving content to a non-commercial license.
> Yet no one preaches teaching kids economics, basic taxation and interest rates, and how investing works.

No one preaches it for much the same reason that no one preaches that people should breath regularly -- its not in dispute. What you ask for has been a standard, noncontroversial part of the curriculum for decades (at least in CA.)

Certainly, people do debate whether the way its taught is effective, or that it should be taught earlier or in more depth, as they do with most subjects in the curriculum.
This is the story behind the news that made it to the top of HN a couple of weeks back, when Notaz ported Starcraft on ARM architecture (for the Open Pandora) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372414
you missed two most important methods:

5+9 = (((((((((5+1)+1)++1)+1)+1)+1)+1)+1)+1)
5+9 = 9 + 5 =...
I just had a look and all the methods that were listed were taught to me as a kid. Then again, I went to "British" schools in the third world when I was a kid, so that might have something to do with it.

The methods that the Reddit user was saying was the "normal" way were completely alien to me. Both because they had no instructions, and because I wasn't taught them as a kid/ever.
Did you find yourself enjoying the Ivy League environment (being around other high achievers) more? Has being at an Ivy League changed your world view? Which one did you like more?

I don't know if MOOCs will take off (in terms of being reliable for hiring). Just an unjustified gut feeling. Maybe they already have. I know they offer "certificates" that you can pay for.
I don't think it's a zero sum game and I'm pretty sure other factors are involved e.g. stress, alcohol intake, volume of exercise, etc). I do know that my perceived quality of life is improved when I'm getting plenty of sleep, and for me that requires about eight hours.

As I wrote in my initial comment the occasional disturbed night is not a big problem when I'm well rested. Under those circumstances I never feel the need to get extra sleep to compensate for the lost hours.
Whenever they release a new gadget, they make the announcement and then make you to wait. Their online shop has this queuing system which is super hard to get in whenever they make a new release. And it usually get "sold out" in a matter of minutes or even seconds. The majority of the consumers won't get hand on it months after its initial release. And interestingly, when this happens, usually the component price has dropped quite a lot where the price/cost ration is far less impressive. However, they still get to keep the reputation that they sell "quality" stuff at an insanely low price.

The whole process sounds like a shady business to me, but apparently they grow super fast with this kind of strategy. So yeah, I guess what do I know.
The media companies would have no issues whatsoever with continuing to use outdated, insecure and otherwise broken technologies to ensure that their content is delivered with some form of DRM. Those technologies already exist, and already ensure the media companies have a future of distribution over the web.

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.
Most users are not technically savvy enough to have the choice to stop 'using' Google Analytics. Is it really possible to exercise a choice about something when you don't even know it exists?
Isaac Newton's religious side
"There's roughly 10 million words that Newton left. Around half of the writing is religious"

Interesting that such a key Enlightenment figure was so religious. Also fascinating how this side of him was largely written out of history for a long time.
OP describes himself as a professional mathematician and then fails to notice that common core produces an identical result in the third picture.

(-5/2)-sqrt(57/4) vs (-5-sqrt(57))/2

Looks like op is biased towards one side.

So why downvote my comment if it is apparently an April fools post?
Show HN: Check in your position and find nearby cyclists to ride along
I was actually expecting this question. I have spent several hours looking for it already, but it seems that mine was missed. I do have a Sysquest cartridge (tape drives like Zip disks) from that period that might have a lot of it, I just need to figure out how to interface with the SCSI reader.

If anybody happens to know something I don't about finding websites, the title of it was "Slasher's Realm" and I believe it was in TimesSquare somewhere, maybe under chasm or tower.
Edit: ahh yeah, it seems like mine wasn't crawled before it got deleted http://www.reocities.com/timessquare/chasm/1788/
What about the attribution clause? If I copy an article from a CC-BY-* wiki, am I expected to cite every contributor? That doesn't seem reasonable. How does Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA) deal with this?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/content_violation_reports.php?r=1

I'm at work, so I won't follow the inner links. The page itself is OK.
> There is no exclusive relationship between the content (users) and content providers (facebook et. al.).

Really? You can export all your Facebook data and switch to another social network that will import it all? Please tell us all how you do this.

You're ignoring the huge effect of lock-in for a site like Facebook: they have all your data, and there's no way for you to get it back in a non-proprietary format. Functionally this is basically the same as DRM: you don't control how you can access your social network data, Facebook does.
Any idea if this would be sold in the US?
15 toys, games and tools that make learning programming fun
xiaomi creates hype through scarcity.

Last year I wanted a xiaomi box (a bit like apple tv but optimized for China)

They only release x amount of units on a certain day at a certain time on a monthly basis. These will be sold out in seconds. I'm pretty sure most of these items are bought by scalper bots then resold on taobao.com etc. I never successfully managed to order and eventually bought on the secondary market for a small markup

This is great for xiaomi. They create hype and each of their sales are a sellout. The next month they come out with a slightly improved version of their product based on user feedback

As their founder said Electronics are like seafood you don't want it hang around a warehouse too long

to sum up

your chances of getting on of these from xiaomi.com are really really low
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.. I wish these jackazzes would just secede.
As a current scientist, I have mixed feelings. I'm a neutron scatterer and at an increasing number of facilities, our raw data is available to the public as we take it (or after an embargo period) unless it's proprietary (that is, someone like GM is paying to use the facility). Personally, I think this is a good thing if someone needs to check a result later. It's also convenient for accessing data after an experiment (we have a model where scientists go to different facilities to perform experiments).

I do try to put code out in public repositories, but I will say that often what stops me isn't a question of a competitive edge, but rather the fact that my code is ugly. For example, I have developed a small code (relatively slow) that calculates an instrument resolution. I wrote it back when I was first learning python and it is truly ugly and there are a number of things I would do differently today if I had more time. Recently, someone from another facility asked for it and I had some reluctance because of that ugliness. Eventually, I just made a git repository and pointed them at it (along with an offer to help if they got stuck) because I realized that otherwise it would never get out.

However, I have met people who refuse to share their code and figure that it's an easy way for them to get added to a paper...

BUT--I will say that while I'm working on a paper, it's an entirely different story. I wouldn't want to put code that's being used to reduce a specific set of data (along with the data) out in the wild before the paper was accepted. I would say the same thing for drafts of the actual paper, grant applications, etc. That would seem like asking to get scooped.

As for the question of it breaking the bank--I do pay for private repos, but if you want to change the practice of people just swapping files back and forth, then the barrier to entry needs to be extremely low....

On a final note, I will say that my facility does develop code for general use and we do put it out on github/googlecode, but that's different than "adhoc" code...
Google search is an enigma to me. I oscillate from being blown away by its intelligence and accuracy to being gobsmacked by its stupidity and inefficiency. For all tech related related search terms I usually have no issues with Google, but that is in large part thanks to stackoverflow. As soon as I venture out of anything having to do with tech I find myself lost in a wilderness of content farms a million miles wide and only an inch deep. I'm pretty internet savvy so I can eventually navigate my way to half-way decent answers, but I can only imagine how frustratingly useless google must seem to people who can't recognize the tell-tale signs of junk content.

I find the most effective way to search is to already know where the most knowledgeable people gather around a specific topic and use google to search those sites specifically. I will often search within the context of content aggregators like hacker news, reddit, stackexchange, and other various forums before I rely on a naked Google search but it's a kludge at best and not something less tech savvy people are going to know how to do. And if I'm completely new to a topic it's often a chore just to even find the place where the experts actually hang out.

I think the approach that Stackexchange is taking is going to be far more valuable in terms of search over the long run than Google. Time should be spent on figuring out how to reward domain knowledge experts and making sure they stay untainted and motivated to share their knowledge rather than tweaking a search algorithm in an endless cat-and-mouse game played with content farms.
The answer, near the end: "Yahoo ... has little to lose by shutting down an also-ran competitor like Blink"

There you go.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/tsavo-media-to-pay-yahoo-4-...

They send bot traffic and mix in PPC traffic to make it look "legit". when too many advertisers complain, this is the result.
> I'd have thought the FSF would be more concerned about them potentially switching to Chrome in that use case...

How is Chrome(/Chromium) worse than Firefox, if the latter starts encouraging DRM?

If the FSF should compromise their principles for this, should they have also encouraged everyone to use KDE back when Qt was proprietary?

How about admitting that GIF, despite being patent-encumbered, was OK to use because there it was on so many Geocities sites?

Shoud we all give in and sign patent licenses, so that we can access all of those Bzip1 files?

Maybe we should stop improving our Javascript engines, since clearly Flash won the battle for Web multimedia.

Heck, we could increase the average level of user Freedom if we stopped all of this distracting GNU/Linux/BSD busy-work and concentrated all development effort on developing our Windows and Mac builds.

Clearly no. The FSF have been playing this game for 30 years; they're in it for the long haul.
Sadly, I think you're right. Silverlight is effectively dead now, but still in use for a lot of streaming video. Netflix et al will probably only ditch it when it can't even be installed on many computers any more, and will probably go for some other third party framework when they do.
We choose my son's school based on the curriculum. They use Saxon maths, Spalding Reading (which includes phonograms), traditional teaching methods and the children wear uniforms. Its a Charter school and we love it.

My son (kindergarten) is loving math and has 2 or 3 worksheets of math a night as homework. A lot of it is just repetition from previous days concepts, but he feels really good showing us how well he knows "1st grade math." Its not really 1st grade math, but its more advanced than the public school kids that live in our neighborhood... AND way less frustrating it seems. I have yet to hear anything good about Common Core from my friends who deal with it on a regular basis.

Basis is a school here in Tucson that is one of the top 5 in the country. They use Saxon math as well: http://educationnext.org/high-scores-at-basis-charter-school...

If my son wants to go to Basis after grade school he will be prepared. If not... he will be so far ahead of the CC kids, we will probably just sign up for classes at the community college. We go here: http://www.legacytraditional.org/district-home/northwest-tuc...
Looks very cool, this is going on the list of libraries to play with!
>"I mean, could write Scala in TextMate, too, if I had the jones for it. But I could also not, and use IntelliJ, because I value having tools that are able to improve my productivity."

I would argue that it would depend on the person behind the keyboard. I love VS but I happen to be working all day on vi at work and here I know colleges that are as fast or even faster than a lot of people relying on Intellisense. So my guess is that YMMV
That's a pretty horrible attitude to take to learning.

It's like asking why ever read a book, with a level of english past the level of a memo asking if you have completed a task. This article also seems to suggest that people don't understand how to preform basic mental arithmetic.

In the states there also seems to be this insane way of thinking that you should learn an algorithm to do things in a particular way, if you can do it one way you should understand it and all the other methods should just fall into place.

This is a pretty good explanation of the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZED4gITL28
The key insight for me is this one: "Popularity is not an end in itself. This is especially true for the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit with an ethical mission."

Even though non-profit organizations like Mozilla do not seek to maximize financial gain (by definition), they often seek to maximize their relevance in the world. As a result, they ARE susceptible to corruption: most if not all are willing to "compromise" -- that is, sacrifice their mission and values -- in order to remain "important" in the eyes of society.

The folks running Mozilla are sacrificing the organization's mission and values because they're afraid of losing market share. They do not want Firefox to become a niche platform.
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> Bah... I can tell you why the [...]

You are not a six year old child learning arithmatic. You have missed the point.

> The problem with that method is that if I ask students to explain why it works, they’d have a really hard time explaining it to me. They might be able to do the computation, but they don’t get the math behind it. For some people, that’s fine. For math teachers, that’s a problem because it means a lot of students won’t be able to grasp other math concepts in the future because they never really developed “number sense.”

Mental methods are taught so that children do understand numbers, which gives them a better grounding for future learning.
Because the same mathematicians and programmers haven't changed anything else in the way they are taught?
You know when I in my job try something new and it doesn't work out my company might lose a contract or in a really bad case I lose my job. When we as a society decide unilaterally that we are going to change a few century's worth of teaching style for something new we risk raising a generation of children who can't do simple math. I am not worried about if this method is "better" according to research. I am worried if it works, because if it doesn't we will have an entire generation unfit to do anything but manual labor.
They'd have me if they had stood up for me. I'll just stay in Chromium (edited, used to say just Chrome) I guess!

If I'm going to get binary DRM blobs anyways, I'd rather use the best/fastest browser.

EDIT: Please explain the downvotes! I won't know why you disagree or why I'm wrong if you just downvote and don't reply.
Native apps have a huge set of their own problems. People don't want to have to install junk just to look at what should be a website, especially not when so many love grabbing all the personal data they can. If it had to be watched through an app, I'd bet any sum of money you'd find many/most accessing things like camera, mic, location, messaging, contacts, device ID, and other things they have zero business intruding in.
Actually, I think that for most students they hit a wall in Algebra regardless of how they learned basic mathematical operations. This wall has to do with abstraction of principles not with mechanical operation speed.

If what we are trying to teach is this abstraction, then the rote table method is arbitrary* and a time sync. The students will still learn basic sums over time, it just won't be the focus of the practice.

*For instance, my education with the tables went up to 12s. Why in the world did we choose 12? 16 would have certainly helped me out more.
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Agreed, that does make more sense. As TheCraiggers said, CYA seems to be more likely the more that I think about it.

I mean, if you're streaming BluRay 24/7, I'd imagine that's one thing - but for a normal person with a few hours of personal streaming bandwidth consumption per day, I'd hope they wouldn't even bat an eye.

The difference between running a service locally and in the cloud has pretty distinct implications in either scenario, not the least of which is overall cost. AFAICT, OVH is certainly well in the minority in terms of offering significant storage at a reasonable price. "Unlimited" storage hosts, like Bluehost for example, require that your storage use be part of the "normal operation of your website" (which I assume they mean "public use"), etc.
another one of these resource lists sites eh (do we have a general list/information curating problem?)
Normally I would be in this posting http://modernstatic.com/ as a long standing index of static generators but hm..seems to have been neglected/let expire..and I can't remember who created it.

http://staticgen.com is a decent alternative
The idea that you can be healthy, productive and sleep less practicing polyphasic sleep is controversial and deserves empirical study.

I just sleep whenever I feel tired, wake whenever I wake up. Big surprise: I naturally sleep for around 8 hours a day.
Everyone keeps repeating the claim that "most users don't care" but I think the more accurate characterization is "most users don't understand". Teaching people is much harder than blithely complaining about their motives, so I can understand the appeal to HN commenters, but I would have expected Mozilla to see above that.
> Funny how today's leaders in math and programming all learned basic math the old fashioned way

Evidence? Just because they were school age when that was standard doesn't mean that that's how they learned it. School isn't the only place people learn, not all schools follow the normal curriculum (which is, after all, what is mandated for public schools), and even in schools that follow the normal curriculum as a base, not all instruction is limited to it.
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Because Wikipedia makes the complete edit history of every page available, they suggest simply giving a link to the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co...
So you're saying "There is no such thing", not "She's not one of them". At least be consistent with your argument.
> I really don't get the culture here sometimes.

LGBT community has a very strong support network and is a visible target. In case of Rice, her evil-doing is less apparent and diffused. There's no "minority" to protect - everyone is affected - but not in a personal discriminating manner. Wars happen, but some place else. Surveillance happen, but we don't really see it. Hence, public reaction is a lot less emotional.
It happens in the best families... :)
Really, "home economics" should be a required skill learned by high school (at least in the US).

The US is a capitalist society. We do a significant disservice to our citizenry by failing to teach fundamentals of how money works in the public education system.
This is actually rather cool! There has been a movement in some fields towards reproducible research (http://reproducibleresearch.net/). If people were required to provide source code in their publications (by funding agencies), it would be rather useful for those cases where there are questions about the data analysis (for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Potti). It would allow a serious referee to check to see if there were either obvious or subtle mistakes in the analysis. Also, it would allow subsequent researchers to see what previous researchers actually did in the reduction--not just the final figure.
I think the point of the grandparent post was to praise Bostock for his prodigious output, not harp on D3.
>How is Chrome(/Chromium) worse than Firefox, if the latter starts encouraging DRM?

Because chrome will too for exactly the same reason Firefox has, but chrome comes with the bonus of tracking the user's activity, creating profiles, and sending pseudonymised data back to google, which with google's analytics and profiles, is as good as personally identifiable to them as they can just link it to maps, gmail, youtube, etc to get a full profile.