skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes and no. I can only speak from my experience of doing grades 1 through 7 in a Ukrainian school and then 8-12 in Canada. The year I went into school I was placed into the "Sapling" (Rostok) programme, which was a very accelerated "experimental" programme. I remember that in Grade 2 we were learning Venn Diagrams and basic set notation. And so on. By Grade 4 we were allegedly 2-3 years ahead of the "regular" system. Now when I got to Canada in Grade 8 I honestly did not know what to do with myself, the level of math I was exposed simply eclipsed what was being taught (Integer beads, the fuck?) and this has been my general experience of the school system up until Grade 12 where we started doing Calculus (which in "Sapling" was supposed to be done in Gr. 9-10).

The problem, I think, is not that kids can't learn (in fact the amount neuroplasticity in young children is simply off the charts, to the point where 6-7 year olds who can play really good violin are not something special), but is that the educational system simply does want to go there, to increase the levels of math taught in schools.
Any sort of learned tells from human psychology could be extended on that principle then.
Rather than down-voting, open to hearing otherwise. Didn't mean to offend, just an understanding of what is possible out there.
> Those folks get killed in war in airstrikes that are totally consistent with international conventions.

The deaths caused by the aggressor of a war are not consistent with international conventions, they are, in the words of a judge in at the Nuremberg tribunals, the consequence of the ultimate war crime.
Missed it :( Anyone feeling Christmas-sy and want to let me donate their gift card on Watsi? :D
My excuse is that I'm getting older and I just don't want to deal with the fiddling anymore. It gives me nothing but stress. All my IDEs and text editors have the default config (modulo a few settings), and I'm OK with that. I don't use emacs or vim.
rayiner isn't the one being disingenuous. CIA interrogation techniques are not the equivalent of the police beating up someone in a cell, the purpose is to gain valuable information. It isn't done for revenge or in situations where the stakes are anything less than the life and death of innocent people. Someone who has information on a literal ticking time bomb is the very definition of a threat to the public. So is someone who can reveal information about the plans of a warlord to subjugate a tribal village, or sell people into slavery or provide financial resources to known killers. If US intelligence isn't willing to hurt bad people before they can hurt innocent people, then what the hell is the point of any of it? You've drawn a very false equivalency.

The moral high ground is very valuable real estate indeed, and the US does hurt itself by doing things that reflect poorly in the eyes of the global public. But we're rightfully and pragmatically more concerned about artillery and soldiers occupying plain old fashioned military high ground. We interrogate to prevent people who openly wish us harm from gaining the power to turn their words into deeds. You can always earn cool points by pointing out historical atrocities, but in the end what matters is that we're still here, alive and prospering. Do you honestly believe that if the US government always behaved like perfect angels that N Korea or Cuba would suddenly listen to our moral lectures? That our behavior would somehow inspire them to change the fundamental cultural mores that come from decades of national poverty and the mindset that comes along with it? Because I don't think it will. Human rights violations will still exist even if we behave with moral perfection. Sometimes the best way to stop the bad guys isn't to set a good example, but instead to waterboard someone until he tells you where to send a SEAL team.

For better or worse, the US has the sanctioned role of providing security for the world. If that means we have to strip someone naked and throw them against a wall then so be it. It's unpleasant, but it sure as hell beats the alternatives.
HP will release a "revolutionary" new press release every couple of months.
So on the slight chance the people involved are seriously unethical, you're willing to dice with a disease that could well kill billions prior to discovery/proof of effectiveness, mass production, and mass distribution of a vaccine, all together which will take years at best?
>> Geneva Convention states clearly - either POW status or suspect in the judicial system. There is no 3rd option.

>None of the Geneva Conventions actually say this.

One way or the other it is mentioned in various places through the Conventions. In particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention :

for internal conflict

" The passing of sentences must also be pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognised as indispensable by civilised peoples. "

for international:

"It also specifies that when there is any doubt whether a combatant belongs to the categories in article 4, they should be treated as such until their status has been determined by a competent tribunal."
Falling with Style: A CSS3 Animation to Mimic Gravity
I was using C function pointers routinely in 1991, way before I ever touched Windows. It was a straightforward thing to do after using them in assembly language throughout the 80s.
people admit that their goal is to launder their money?
Fascinating... I never heard about this side-effect of disabling zoom! I did some googling and from what I can tell, this only applies to some Android browsers, not iOS?

If that's the case, it seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater, since it does have the accessibility issue and removing the delay can be better-achieved on ALL devices with some of the JS libraries that others have linked to.

Here's a blog post I found that talks about the limitations of this "avoid touch delay by disabling zoom" technique: http://timkadlec.com/2013/11/Avoiding-the-300ms-click-delay-...
Unlikely performance. Google search results page is relatively heavy, with Google+/etc. And this one, is a simple change of a few lines of code. Yes, sure, it is a default behavior and I also don't assume malice (evil = lazy / stupid / don't care about users, not malice). I'm just surprised about the oversight, that they apparently don't care about having slightly better click types data and also making the user experience slightly better.

(And BTW, this is again compliment to Google, as I'm surprised. Not assuming that by default, as any other big co they've just filled with bozos.)
What about Right Click > Open in new tab?
Linux systems restart for kernel updates, and even that can be avoided with ksplice or kpatch. In terms of high availability, the Android model is from the nineties, even if it is perfect for the problem domain it is applied to.
I'm not following the Perl community, but I loved seeing some of Damian Conway's talk (mostly on very very fine and inspiring first class grammar) on P6, do you know some good articles about Perl6 new/weird ideas ?
I haven't heard of this being attempted, though I would surprised to find that it hasn't.

However, one reason it might be avoided is due to the potential negative effects tracking [1] strategies may have on some students. In my public school district, any form of tracking at the elementary level was difficult to implement due to pushback from parents, even in situations where the educators felt it was beneficial.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_%28education%29
That would make little economic sense since shipping is cheaper than trains, and container ships keep getting bigger and more efficient.
Is there an actual benefit to having this on web pages? I see it a lot (unfortunately -- makes it very difficult when I'm on my iphone sometimes), and am not sure why people do this.

There’s more than that specific viewport option, but often this kind of technique is an attempt to defeat mobile browsers that rescale your site when you rotate between portrait and landscape orientations.

If the site is designed to adapt gracefully to different screens using media queries, then what you probably want instead is for the browser to just reflow the layout according to the new page width.

In practice, many sites don’t adapt using media queries, and so popular mobile browsers may adjust the zoom level instead. That means whatever you could see horizontally before the orientation change is still what you can see afterwards but bigger/smaller.

One way to force the adaptive behaviour is to use the viewport settings so the zooming isn’t allowed. However, that also interferes with deliberate zooming by the user. Sometimes you see all kinds of complicated workarounds for that, such as detecting an orientation change and temporarily blocking zooming, or detecting an attempt to zoom and then disabling the restriction temporarily so if the user repeatedly tries to pinch-zoom then subsequent ones work. Sadly, a lot of developers just copy-paste the viewport hack without realising the full implications, and that is when we see problems for users who really do want to zoom in.

None of this is ideal, but as far as I know we still don’t have a reliable, standardised way for sites to specify how orientation change should be treated for best results, so for now viewport hackery seems to be the best known workaround.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8677980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878949
Tinker and Alliance are looking pretty shaky in the long term - Tinker just dropped out of a tournament and Alliance was unable to play games of theirs earlier today. It looks right now like they'll soon see major changes, disband, or become one team. Alliance also sponsors a League of Legends team and a few other teams in other scenes though.

EDIT: This also includes D2L - a relatively large DOTA league, as well as parts of CLG (CounterLogic Gaming) - http://clgaming.net/news/611-kelby-may-steps-down-as-general...
So this is how the Zombie apocalypse begins...
The part I quoted says exactly that. I think you're just not very used to finding overt references to sexual assault offensive, since this site is full of 22 year old kids etc. with very little life experience. I hope you have a daughter some day.
Binary Metal – fairly servicable song composed out of coded binary messages
Thank you for considering this. Skeleton is a great framework and I know a lot of people use it as a boilerplate. Regardless of your ultimate decision, I really do appreciate you looking into it.
I wasn't sure if "Fright?" was meant to ask if there was a freight rail line with a connection or if you were suggesting that freight traffic would provide the demand.. If the former, the Alaska railroad does not have a rail connection to other railroads in North America. It looks like barges are used to link it to the North American rail network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Railroad
Do you have any tips as to how to get kids to sit down and work on math stuff again?
I did plenty of graduate work with speech recognition; and detecting cognitive states based on speech is not much better than a coin-flip. Depression, drunkenness, deceit, happiness, etc. are hard to detect for an arbitrary person with accuracy. Speech signals for latent states in human behavior are highly idiosyncratic. The answer I always give when asked if something can be detected by speech (most requested - lying): "Yes, but only if you have a lot of time and want it to be accurate for at most a couple people. And it's going to be expensive."
I've been waiting for this for years. Thank so much for this!
Big congrats to Emmett and Alex. I'm thrilled to see EG and Twitch join forces. Alex is one of the best in the eSports business and this will provide a great home to them.
Off-topic, but I have a hunch that the answer could be toxoplasmosis.
competitive CS is dead, it's CS:GO now.
Yeah, it would be quite a feat for an http server to force another http server to inject content into it's TCP stream :P (aka, cross origin)
Perhaps you could pre-render a blurred version to a new image, and switch to the focusing animation just when needed? Granted, that may have flicker.
Thanks a lot! This seems like something I'm going to use a lot. Is it available in bower? That's how I manage all my front-end dependencies nowadays.
Swedish Police raid and shut down The Pirate Bay
Ask HN: Which iOS app design do you prefer?
Hi!

I'm developing a social drawing app for iOS, and I'm hoping that you could give me feedback on which interface you prefer (along with any critique you could offer).

I'll post a clickable link in the comments.

Thanks,
Mike
Agreed, but it also narrows down on certain things. For e.g. it could mean that the computing power required is small, and that you don't need an expensive microphone that captures a wide frequency range.
The skills in Hearthstone are in place in form of powerfull and rare cards. It is not like adversaries using the same cards as in poker.
Site, different presentation than skills, but the same role
This is the new Nokia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSS2GdaUJQg
aderol works pretty well
That's fine but not especially relevant to the GP's point. The Google redirect and <a ping> don't require JavaScript.
In theory, centralizing such requests with a ping should make it much easier for a browser to disable the pings, so if anything this improves security. Of course, if Google wanted to detect the lack of clicks from a given user and fall back to redirection, they could, in which case the net benefit and harm for security would be zero.

As others have said, there is no way to prevent Google from gathering this information, so adding the capability to a browser doesn't change the situation.
It may be "fair game" in that you won't get hauled off by the Internet police, but it certainly doesn't work to convince people.
Seymour Papert is a big name in Constructivist learning circles and "Mindstorms" is, indeed, a great text. Constructivist learning can work wonderfully for motivated learners, but it can run into problems with low-motivation/maturity and/or a results-oriented school system (which we have in the US).

In the US, students are expected to know/be able to perform a variety of standards-based tasks when they finish each grade. Constructivist learning is typically too exploratory and inefficient for these standards to be reliably fulfilled for every student within a definite period of time (and, as we know, teachers are expected to get every child over the line regardless of interest/ability/stability). Whether or not the learning is authentic, meaningful, long-lasting is besides the point - teachers are incentivized by standards-based testing to focus specifically and efficiently on those limited topics/skills.

Accordingly, you are more likely to see this style of learning in the earlier grades (simply because the expectations/rigor are different for primary vs secondary ed. with the former having a stronger focus on social-emotional learning than the latter) - but most often it springs out of informal learning environments (like home, after school clubs, camps, etc.). Constructivism is great if you're trying to foster creativity, self-management, and teamwork.
Thousands and thousands

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/torture-victims-in-el-salvado...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9551.htm
How can one not believe in God after seeing this?
I have an HP Envy laptop; it was, I believe, the highest end model at the time when I bought it (i7, 1080p, dedicated GPU, etc.). It is the worst single device I have ever owned. And, in this context, it's worth mentioning the HP shovelware it came equipped with...the "recovery" partition didn't work after a Windows crash, so I had to purchase restore media from HP and wait for it to arrive before Windows worked again on my system (I work under Linux, so that wasn't a huge deal, but still, no games for over a week).

The last HP printer I owned was also garbage. Literally. I threw it away after about a year of frustrated use. The software for that was kinda crap, too.

So, why would I consider trusting HP with building an operating system?

I think memristor tech is exciting. And, I hope that HP can become a research juggernaut again. But, I don't have very high hopes of them making anything I would want to use, given my recent past experience with HP products. It can be easy for a company to get segmented into "consumer" products that are crap and "pro" products that are supposed to be high quality...but, I lose faith when QC in the consumer end is so poor.
It'd take a lot of speech data to make a diagnosis, and I'd imagine it'd be error-prone at first.

As for how to differentiate hypomania from excitement, I'm skeptical that it can be done. But if someone who usually talks 50% of the time in conversations is taking 95% of the time, and this persists over weeks, there's a signal there. Also, hypomania tends to produce a lot of run-on and deeply-nested (even Lispy (as in having multiple levels of implicit parentheses)) sentences.

Not enough personal experience with actual mania (as opposed to hypomania) to opine on it or guess what its signals might be. Only had it a couple times and none recently.
eztv.it is down too (imho much more useful than tpb) interestingly enough seems they used cloudflare.
Show HN: OpenCast – a Mac framework for Chromecast
What I Like About PHP
A couple of the things I like about PHP, to counteract all the negativity it gets.
Thanks Dave!
I've been using a modified version of skeleton in all my projects for a long time. Glad to see it get a proper update :)

Also just an FYI noticed that your link to the noun project on the github page doesn't work properly.
But the president is hardly a neurolinguist. To get any real profit out of coding and scripting, a lot of training is necessary in the first place, so that for a lot of domains the effective benefit remains debatable.
The same level of intellectual challenge like every traditional sport.
California cities sue Uber for misleading customers
I totally get what your saying about it being link baitish. However,if the manic compression in my voice could be caught by my phone before I make an urgent call, it would be most advantageous, as opposed to a microphone on my computer.
Just seemed weird to me to mention doing it in a secretive/unconsenting manner, of people you're supposed to trust, and handing off private conversations to third parties without asking. It says a lot about respect toward one another.
There is a jet aircraft, the A-10, with a gun so powerful that it provides more thrust than the jet engines.
As does "beautiful" and 99% of the word's use in the tech world.
I don't think that copyright (or patents) are the only way (or even a good way) to allow creative professionals to have lucrative careers. Copyright may be "what's easy" but it isn't what is right and it's only been around for a relatively short cultural time period during which is hasn't been particularly successful in supporting artists who weren't "picked" by the gatekeepers (publishers, record labels, etc).

Enforcing copyright pits the artist against their audience and limits the access of impoverished people to our cultural commons. Relying on copyright (ownership of information) to provide revenue steams tends to benefit that 0.1% (owners), not the 99.9%.

We are in the process creating new ways to reward artists for their work.

Non-attribution is an entirely different beast from piracy. Passing someone's work off as your own is despicable. Sharing someone's work, with their name attached, should be lauded.
That is not a minor tweak, it changes the entire meaning of that statement.

It's also factually wrong, because Uber has launched in Detroit, plenty of other apps have launched in Detroit, and Detroit is a cultural nexus. Virtually all of electronic music has origins in Detroit house and techno. Detroit is still a center for cultural innovation along multiple axes. And it's a city dominated by the young.

You are:

1. Not understanding my point in a factual manner

2. Implying that you if you swap "black" and "white" or "men" and "women", sentences retain any meaning, even though you've totally changed the context in which they exist

3. Very literally a white supremacist apologist, because every one of your HN comments is attacking progressivism.

Please leave HN and the tech community. Racists are not welcome here.
I believe this is also called 'business as usual'... but you actually put it much better.
I'm guessing it was "err on the side of overkill". Probably better than "err on the side of someone dying" while not wanting to bill too many hours doing detailed analysis to figure out what the cheapest solution would be that would still meet safety requirements.
His tone sounds quite defensive with all this "CoreOS and container runtime" ordeal. That being said, it doesn't make him any less right. Heck, I don't know all of those forum posts you are talking about, but on this specific incident I can confidently say if I was him I would pretty much give the same kind of response.
Drawing your own Windows was great because every application had its own character and style. It was an art. Then Windows came and made everything boring. (I see Zuckerberg following Gates footsteps--let's make the interface boring.) My mind was blown by Amiga--the music, multitasking, deluxe paint, video editing, 3D animation, it was a machine for real professional artists that made Windows & Mac look like a Timex Sinclair.
Thank you, I know you're trying to help, but this issue as the other commenter replied is not one due to inaccuracies of projections per se, but specifically the method by which layers are divided for use in web page interfaces.
Chromebook Performance Comparison charts
Some interesting conversations happening in the league of legends subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2osl1p/evil...
Agreed that this alone would be insufficient but there's value in sharing this information with the patient's doctor, who could choose to ignore it if there's no other evidence.

Besides, we have to start somewhere, right? If I had the opportunity, I would release it as an open-source project for other medical professionals to improve upon. I certainly wouldn't go as far as submitting it to the app store for the reasons you mentioned, i.e. the detriment to the user.
This idea of a future where everybody knows your name is creepy and dangerous. It's a world I would not want to live in.
Reading the report leaves me slack-jawed considering my own history. My great uncle was an officer of the Geheime Feldpolizei, a secret state security organization developed to combat native resistance against Nazi occupation during WWII. His job was to infiltrate and destroy Maquis French and their supporters (the resistance). The means they used were mass betrayal, example executions, torture, even the wholesale destruction of entire villages.

In 1946 he was charged with Crimes Against Humanity and sentenced as a war criminal by an allied tribunal consisting mostly of official American personnel. He deserved exactly what he got. What he did was utterly unconscionable even in a time of war.

I cannot, however, imagine representatives of today's America having the same kind of tribunal against war criminals with the same kind of standing. It is now simply unimaginable in anything but lurid, obscene terms. Dark days indeed.
Ah okay, I didn't know that. I thought that Google returned direct links when you disabled JS.
lemme guess.. it will run 'javascript'..
We do have quality games and movies, but not all movies and games are going to be considered of a high quality by all people.
XKCD did a whole article along with the math about this topic specifically. Great read.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/
And the A-10, SR-71 circlejerk begins.
Thank you, that makes a lot of sense!
Joe Armstrong, on modules in Erlang: "Why do we need modules at all?" [1]

[1] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768...