skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! Having a human being available to stress-test your assumptions and uncover hidden weaknesses in your mental model is one of the biggest failings of both the "hold-your-hand REPL" tools currently used by many learn-to-code programs and the "broadcast from above" approach approach to classroom-style learning that the MOOCs embrace (though are trying to alter to be more student-centric).

We noticed this awhile back and tried addressing it by setting up The Odin Project[1] to give students a way to self-organize around an opinionated and comprehensive curriculum. But, as the project grew, we found that many students dropped off due to lack of commitment and others who progressed far still had some major conceptual blind spots.

A combination of these realizations and our successful work with small remote teams who helped to build Odin (which is OSS) led us to try a much more people-focused virtual approach -- highly supported online classes comprised of small teams who pair program on project work. The Viking Code School[2], in our first cohort right now, has so far managed to short-circuit those familiar issues. Our students are progressing at a phenomenal pace, especially considering that many of them are holding down jobs at the same time. One student build CLI Tetris in Ruby in week 2...[3] But the key difference between this and what we saw before is the human-to-human collaboration.

Mental models are not learned one-way. We've invested a LOT of time trying to come up with the perfect way of explaining complex topics but no amount of videos, diagrams, and code can substitute for the 10 lines of back-and-forth you get when speaking to an instructor or another student which uncovers the true error of your thinking. All the other one-way teaching methods simply address the symptoms of the problem -- "You got this wrong, here's the right answer" -- when the real issue is almost always a slightly incorrect mental model. The future of online isn't better one-way tools, it's a conversation.

</rant>

[1]: http://www.theodinproject.com
[2]: http://www.vikingcodeschool.com
[3]:http://www.geminstallmichael.tumblr.com/
Let's see:
- passwords (terrible, I know)
- funnel analytics
- list of SDKs in apps
JavaScript Promises and AngularJS $q Service
i think the symbolics 3600 had 4 or 8 bit for tags, ocaml is borrowing some more lisp ideas.
A single price index/ticker doesn't really work since every country has a different price. A lot of buyers on these sites are importing cheap MDMA from Canada and Europe where it's plentiful to their city where it fetches 3x the price. For example right now cocaine price in Canada is 2.5x what it costs in the US, and at least 4x more in Australia. Reason I know this because every week there's been shootings here of gangsters jacking each other to get their hands on high priced product. Before it wasn't worth it to them to risk a shooting but now the payoff is $80k per kilo so the streets are a warzone.

When weed is fully legalized guess we will see it as a traded commodity on the NYSE. Invest in a dope portfolio, freedom 35 retirement plan
Doesn't seem that odd to me. I love stumbling on things like that. Makes me learn a bit of something I wouldn't have learnt otherwise. I think this kind of knowledge is of common interest to so called "hackers" or people that like to know how things work.
> I'm glad to see Apple rapidly responding

It seems we have different expectations concerning the term rapid...
I don't think it is actually an equality, even there.
Solving multithreaded raytracing issues with C++11
Check out witch? It helps with alt-tab
That was not really an "idea", but the result of collective actions. This is to previous extinctions [1] as premeditated murder is to negligent homicide.

[1] with the possible exception of smallpox
> Silk Road allows them to be distributed without any violence.

Yeah, what's a few contract killings among friends...
Yes and no. Bash gets used in many, often invisible, ways. Even a piece of compromised software run locally, or a web service accessing local data may present a problem. Admittedly this is a remote chance (and not in the wild afaik), but better safe than sorry. Patch took all of a minute to install. Let's hope it's actually a complete fix.
Can't teach her Alt+Tilde? (er, Alt-Backtick really)
The study says "The exclusion criteria included special educational services related to cognitive or attentional disorders ...". So kids diagnosed with ADHD had been specifically excluded. This should be tried on ADHD-diagnosed kids. If they're physically healthy, 70 minutes a day of mild exercise won't hurt them.
A Short History of the Executioner
Many businesses have multiple offices, each of which might receive deliveries.
That title looks like something you'd see in a HN parody.

Serious question though: why "Rapid MVP" instead of just "MVP"? I thought the whole point of an MVP was that it required less time and effort - the rapid seems redundant to me. Am I missing something?
> But this doesn't fix all the issues known to exist currently.

Apple's certainly gotten a late start, but the "1.0" part of the update's name speaks to an expectation that this isn't the end of the line here.
You are the only person who basically answered my question in a reply. Thanks!
The signature can be a perfect match and still harm your system. Do you reverse engineer every binary that you run?
If there could be some sort of graph for the prices of cocain, heroin, lsd, etc... similar to this one: www.davidwong.fr/ltc/

this would be pretty awesome.

I'm also really surprised about the numbers of german sellers in Europe.
Bingo: "Length + data strings have various disadvantages. For one thing, how wide should be the length? Two bytes? Four? Eight? "
DNS spoofing is the most trivial attack there is on a public hotspot. The 'dnsspoof' tool was packaged with DSniff over 13 years ago. Even if you don't directly spoof DNS, there's a bunch of ways to intercept or change DNS traffic on a public hotspot, like ARP, IP or access point hijacking. Any 'how to hack' book will cover it.
My guess, at substantial risk of being wrong:

CD stands for "controlled demolition", and "all 3 NYC skyscrapers" are World Trade Center buildings 1, 2, and 7.

And my understanding is that it is still controversial, and still the minority opinion, although I'm not sure what the thresholds are for "very few".
I'd learn Swift and use it for something non-trivial before saying something like that. I haven't yet, but what I've seen makes it look pretty good, with a whole lot less bullshit and bad design decisions to constantly keep in mind (I'm looking at you, "this")!
Obligatory shout-out to Apache Curator: http://curator.apache.org/

Curator implements a bunch of algorithms often implemented on top of ZooKeeper. I like to think of ZooKeeper as the distributed systems equivalent of peer-reviewed implementations of cryptographic primitives. Curator is a like a whole cryptographic protocol / cryptosystem. In both cases: don't implement your own!
To put this in context, the Krakatoa eruption released energy roughly equivalent to a 200 megaton bomb, which is roughly four times larger than the "Tsar Bomba", an H-Bomb which is the largest nuclear weapon detonated to date. The globe's average temperature fell 1.2 C after the eruption due to SO2 increasing the Earth's albedo. The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of the Krakatoa eruption was 6, and it's estimated to be a roughly once in a century eruption.

When you think about it, we're living on a extremely thin crust that's formed on the surface of a molten, roiling ball of rock and metal. People are strangely obsessed with the threat of asteroid impacts when what's beneath our feet presents a perhaps even greater danger, one which we know next to nothing about!
Before:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)

After:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.3.26(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0)
Multitouch guestures aren't mandatory, good old mouse and click will work just as they always have.

CMD-~ cycles through windows.
hold-click or right-click on a Dock icon displays a list of Windows associated with the application

Alternatvely, perhaps she might like Exposé (try F3)
To get caught up in, What is truth? isn't just a philosophical journey, it's often the first trap in another's scheme.
But C combines the power of assembly language with the ease of use of assembly language!

Or to quote Bill Joy, "C is really just peek and poke with some syntactic sugar".
It is too politically expensive and difficult to build dams and reservoirs in California's eco-sensitive environment. There were more dams and reservoirs built in the 70s (18) than the 34 years since (11). Also, a lot of the easy/obvious sites have already been built.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in_...
You've missed the point.

The purpose of this project is NOT to be a static site generator, but to be a dynamic site generator.

The only step in your content creation should be the addition of the md file to the posts directory. No running "make" or "update" or using git/rsync/symlinks to move static html to a web directory.

The blog is made live by PHP every time someone visits it.
We do -- they're called reservoirs.
That's easy, it should be of type size_t. Yes that is wasteful for short strings, but then again I believe null-terminated strings are the most widespread and worst case of premature optimization, and correctness & safety should take precedence.
Disclosure was on the 24th, today is the 29th. The patch had to be developed in-between (released on the 26th I think?).

3-5 days is pretty decent considering that the DHCP stack on OS X isn't vulnerable and only customers that had enabled the apache2 instance and configured it with non-default mods were possibly affected.

More often than not Apple is removing GPL code from OS X altogether in the face of issues (example: samba is now replaced with 'smbx' in-house implementation).

I felt it was 50/50 that they'd update it vs. remove/disable it.
I just reproduced this on 10.9.5 as well.
Web intents would allow new competitors to open existing docs.
Huh?

I didn't get that at all. Are you running ports maybe??

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.53(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Hahaha. I've been writing this exact thing myself on-and-off for the last couple of weeks. This does literally everything I wanted my own project to do. Oh well.
Since the "photonic fence" was developed by known patent troll Intellectual Ventures in 2009 and does not seem to have been ever deployed outside of their labs, the cynic in me thinks that it was only created to boost their PR efforts (there were dozens of articles at the time about how the laser system would eliminate malaria) and possibly increase their patent portfolio.

https://www.google.com/patents/US20100186284

http://www.malariaworld.org/blog/will-laser-technology-rid-a...

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120903/0...
This is a really good point. This could easily turn from something that is a remote exploit to some sort of OS independent malware/worm.
Why the hell would you choose LESS when it's so much worse than both SASS and Stylus.
He mentioned the "exact antipode on Earth", so he's probably thinking of an effect similar to antipodal chaotic terrain [1]. The fact that sound was only audible up to 3000 miles in radius is not enough to rule it out, you need other arguments.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloris_Basin#Antipodal_chaotic... ("It is thought by some to have been created as seismic waves from the impact converged on the opposite side of the planet.")
Well to be fair, we are not living paycheck to paycheck. Are water reservoirs and dams function as our emergency fund. We have (had) years of water stored within these reservoirs. And many years in unregulated groundwater. The problem is, even if you plan a large emergency fund, during an epic drought, the emergency fund is eventually going to run dry.
> Photoshop used to be a product, now its a service. This isn't an "injustice" it's normal business.

Well, it isn't injustice. But it doesn't change the fact that this sucks, very badly.

The thing about personal computing was that when a company goes out of business, the software they made still remains on machines. It can be 3rd-party-patched. File formats can be reverse-engineered, so that you can use your data with a new program. Software can be cracked, so if a company tries to make you pay too much it is the company, not users, that is going to have a bad day.

All that move towards the cloud serves companies well, but sucks for the user. You don't get to tinker anymore. You don't get to do things your way anymore. Technologically, are being literally enslaved.
That doesn't say a lot by itself; it's not crazy to imagine that additional reservoirs become less worthwhile as your stock of existing reservoirs grows.
That is true, and to the extent that those cloud applications don't use an open interchange standard you won't be able to share documents with them. Having lived through this from before[1], it isn't as dire as you might imagine. What happened last time is that it forced a lot of interchange formats. Will be interesting to see if it does that again. All of the market forces are still there, person A wants to send a document to person B, etc. Of course everyone can send HTML or RTF documents like they do today.

[1] Intel used MultiMate for its documents (as did a bunch of lawyers) while nearly everybody in the tech space was using Interleaf. Xerox was trying to be the paperless glue for the middle. We got PostScript out of it, which was an interesting compromise.
Children with ADHD, previously mislabeled "young boys", respond well to physical activity, previously mislabeled "recess".
There's no way they're pushing out a GPLv3 version of bash, you sure you didn't confuse it with a brew/macports installed version?
We're three years into a drought and there's still some water in the reservoirs. Perhaps the cushion was too small, but it clearly existed.
I much prefer GAN (Wifi Calling) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network) to LTE Direct. LTE runs on licensed spectrum, which means the licenseholder (the cell network) can squeeze you for as much money as they want. Unlicensed spectrum is always cheaper, and you hardly need LTE's range advantage for femtocells. Why use licensed spectrum for short-range stuff?

I also find it suspicious that this article emphasizes how much buy-in LTE Direct has from gigantic corporations, without making much of a case for why actual endusers would like it. A good clue is that there's no equivalent for Wifi MAC randomization (which iOS 8 does by default) in LTE Direct: spoofing your IMEI is a federal crime. There's no way to avoid being tracked by LTE Direct femtocells, short of shutting off your phone and sticking it in a metal box.
Because this is about speed. LESS comes native with Bootstrap out of the box and using it with Bower, FontAwesome, Gulp, and other tools is so easy and quick. The asset pipeline is so nice here I think (still can be improved though with `gulp-jade-usemin`).
In a way controlled by yet someone else.

Contrast with files, which I own, can open in anything I want and that I can reverse-engineer in order to write a custom app for them.
Share and collect snaps of a trip through an album name from your friends
Share and collect all snaps taken by different friends in a trip using a simple album name. No need of a profile/phone number/email to share the pictures. You guys can choose an album name and all your friends can upload the snaps into this album. Its very easy and simple.
This optimistic outlook ignores the pesky reality of latency. Using VNC, X11, or an equivalent protocol over a connectiion to a data center hundreds or thousands of miles away isn't the same as an X terminal connected to a server in the same office buildinig.
Extra emphasis on speed here. Normal MVP's in the tech scene seem to lack the "rapid" aspect (at least IMO). A majority of MVP's take a ton of time to build (perhaps due to lack of skill). This is about using the fastest tools possible. I've proven this stack through the showcase projects in that post among others built in a weekend like https://getprove.com and https://wakeup.io.
See also discussion here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=The+Most+Expensive+One-byte+Mistak...
Intrade was a popular one, now closed. The big problem I see is lack of liquidity in the less popular markets.
>> .. taskbar-style way to switch windows
http://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar

Apart from that, even on 10.6, you can do the update of Bash yourself, you're not required to use the Apple patch:
https://github.com/ido/macosx-bash-92-shellshock-patched

This has been compiled on Mavericks, it may run on 10.6. If not, you may need to install Xcode
Have you seen the Serval project? There may have been a talk at LCAU this year about adding a little USB dongle to extend mesh networks over 433MHz(?)
We have an enormous cushion and can survive multiple drought years. The current water restrictions are just mild precautions against the chance that this will be a multi-year drought.

Right now we are at the "please let your lawns get a bit brown" level. In the 1970s, the multi-year drought got to the point where the restrictions were "do not use more than 50 gallons per person per day."
Yeah :/ That's the reason a lot of publications are calling this worse than heartbleed. Another problem is that it's up to individual users to fix - not just the people running servers.
This is the third year of unusually dry conditions, so reserves where already somewhat low to begin with.

Dams generally store water from excess years to be used in lean ones, but like anything there is major cost benefit analysis going on. Usually, they trade some power generation capacity for water in lean years, but they can't let dams get to low or you risk structural problems.

More importantly, one of the major, but less talked about issues is evaporation. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5252/section2.html

Suppose you built a standby hover just to store water. Assuming you found a usable location and outside of the direct costs for construction and ~125,600 acres of land. It's going to cost you 791,000 acre-ft/yr * (1 acre-ft ~= 325,851 U.S. gal) = 257 BILLION gallons of water every year just for a standby. Considering water is already in short supply in good years it's just not worth it.
Apple boycotts German newspaper after Bentgate Video – open letter to Tim Cook
"OS X Mavericks v10.9.5 or later" doesn't include Yosemite.
Well, that sucks. DuckDuckGo run a Tor exit enclave. I hope this doesn't put them off running an exit node, even if only to their own servers: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
The format is amazing, however the document is not well written. You have to read about half of it to begin to understand how the format works. I had to read it whole for a project and it was really time consuming, though I don't think I could write it any better than it is right now.

There were some blog posts that were far clearer to understand the file format, but unfortunately I lost track of them.
This is a great example of how privacy is not optional, even in "opt-in" systems such as Instagram and FB. That Instagram does not require you to have a Facebook profile, and Facebook does not require you to list gender means very little in terms of your own privacy.

Merely choosing to withhold information about yourself does not insulate you from a breach of privacy. That others do disclose such information allows 3rd parties to make really good guesses and inferences about you.

There's a strange morality here: at what point is it unethical to voluntarily disclose data about oneself, if it could be used in a way to harm someone else's privacy? Short of drawing a moral boundary (it could very well be impossible), we might do well to at least acknowledge the cost to these methods, alongside their benefits.
yeah, despite the statement: "OS X Mavericks v10.9.5 or later"
I think you are thinking about a different trick called NaN tagging.

http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/05/18/value-representation...

The basic idea is that there are 2^53 different bit patterns that are counted as NaN by the computer but only one is actually used in practice. This means that you can "steal" the rest of the NaNs and use them to encode numbers or pointers.
Not defending phone operators but the problem with unlicensed spectrum is precisely that it's unlicensed. You're power limited and everyone and his uncle messes up the spectrum.
Farewell JSON API Gems – Testing JSON Responses in RSpec
Why do you feel entitled to use proprietary software with no restrictions?

Yes, Adobe and Microsoft are going to charge you rent. So what? Just use free (as in freedom) software instead. Adobe and Microsoft were never your friends, and if you feel bad about this recent development I don't know why you were using their software in the first place. They were always looking for a way to do this to you, all that's changed is that they've figured out how.
you have taken a highly condescending and counterproductive method of argument.
You list neither the specific provisions in the TOS, nor does you cite any law or custom to validate your position.

1) messages sent through chat are not specifically covered by Facebook's TOS, as such, the individual's premise that it is is false

2) whether or not the content is Facebook's property is irrelevant, privacy laws in QC forbid publication of this content under most circumstances (exceptions being public safety etc

finally, anyone who honestly thinks anyone working for Facebook has any occupational need to look at their chat logs has a rather inflated opinion of themselves
I would suggest "Investment Banking" by Rosenbaum and Pearl. Very informative book that gives a great overview of valuation techniques used in investment banking and private equity as well as discusses the deal process using examples. It requires some accounting knowledge.
Profiling student behavior in the classroom could in fact be used to improve software. Teachers often construct a profile of students. If you go to a parent teacher conference, the teacher will often present you with a dossier of boiled down things your child does well, things they do poorly, and how to improve, and this is often culled from examining classwork and homework.

Giving a teacher a kind of dashboard based on profiling work habits, could be useful for both the teacher and the student.

I think it is better to enumerate what you don't do, rather than enumerate only what you will do.
Or we could breed GMO mosquitoes that are the same as ordinary mosquitoes except they have somehow been made inhospitable for malaria.
Simulate Arduino online and create custom circuit boards
He's presumably referring to the contract killings Ross Ulbricht is alleged to have tried to arrange.
Apple releases OS X bash update 1.0 addressing Shellshock vulnerability
3 Essential Sublime Text Plugins for Node and JavaScript Developers
'Dota 2': the 1,000-hour review
By 1998 (when I was there), I don't remember ever seeing anything like that (we used normal Unix 'talk' to communicate with people logged into the Digital Unix servers).

Go Engineers!
It's a theoretical/legal thing. In practice, you own software by having executables on your drive. You don't have to ask anyone whether you're allowed to run it or not. If authors have the audacity to enforce some checks on you, you can go ahead and crack the app. It's still code saved and running on your local machine.
It's worse in Washington. Legal weed is 3x the cost of medical and 6x the cost of street. It still brings in a vast amount of new consumers who won't pursue other methods, but the other methods will not die off until the price is more competitive.
5 Steps to Producing a Great iOS App Preview Video
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/21/alleged...