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There are no teacher unions in Texas. Texas can not only get rid of incompetent teachers, it can also get rid of any teachers that rock the boat or question the administrators or make someone look bad by going an extra mile for a student.

Public schools will never pay $100k+ to someone to teach Computer Science, so how will they ever get someone that actually knows Computer Science to be a teacher[0][1]? Instead they are offering a $1000 stipend to current Science and Math teachers to take a 1 semester course in Java so they can pass the Computer Science Certification Test and teach Computer Science.

So the future computer science high school students will be getting taught computer science by 10+ year Physics teachers that took a 15 week Java course.

[0] I left a $100k Software Engineering job to become a Computer Science teacher... hoping to make a difference with the diversity issues in our field. Luckily I am married to someone that has a job that can pay the bills.

[1] There are at least 3 open Computer Science teaching positions in my district right now if anyone is interested! And in the next 2 years we will have enough students that we will need another CS teacher at my school.
I'd have to disagree with this. First the baseline: windows is very slow. Second I found later versions slower. Third (and most maddening) every version of windows I've ever used has gotten slower over time (including not installing new s/w and defragmenting).
Even a small (4-6%) change in revenue can wipe out inflationary increases in funding for education. Even if they're counter-cyclical, the evidence is that replacing education funding with something more volatile is risky, because it's replacing consistent funding with something that is based on market dynamics.

In the case of marijunaa, it's largely cultural.
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>The last time you bought something on eBay or Aamzon Marketplace, do you know the actual shop's name within the marketplace? Probably not. This is not desirable for publishers and thus, I don't believe that Medium will be the future.

I agree.

As Ev enters the b2b space, he is making some crucial mistakes RE: understanding the psychology of his customers.

* Businesses don't want to be anonymous (and being on Medium, no matter what, increases their anonymity, simply because of the "uni-branding" that you mention)
* People don't want to buy from anonymous businesses.

People like identity. They like to identify with things. They like to personify things, to "humanize" them, to project themselves onto other objects and understand them that way.

Medium has no identity. Medium's value is about its lack of identity. That's not necessarily a bad thing: Facebook's value is its lack of identity too.

But Facebook and Medium have different customers, and their customers have different desires when it comes to managing their identities.

Facebook's content-producers are primarily PEOPLE.

Medium's content-producers are primarily ORGANIZATIONS.

And while PEOPLE are fine being "uni-branded," ORGANIZATIONS fuckin despise it.

Evan Williams doesn't understand the psychology of his customers.

After reading this, I would not invest in Medium.
This is not an indictment of the Fed, but with respect the Federal Reserve == the banks.
Shouldn't he have done proper presidenting to make sure this didn't happen? I see only PR here.
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>Or maybe I hate paying school taxes because the schools promote sports as far more important than academics.

Unfortunately, this is unlikely to change given that sports bring in revenue and academics do not.
Even if pseudonymity is as required for dissent as you say (I doubt it), you can easily build it on top of anonymity with, e.g., PGP.
Of course there is an inherent problem with it: it's fraud. Just because it's fraud we are used to doesn't make it any less so.

Demand deposits should be covered via reserves. Loans by banks should be duration-matched to financial instruments offered to the public. Presto, no bank runs and the interest rate is driven by a market expression of societies time preferences.

Economic stimulus is done via government spending, rather than jamming money into an already bloated financial sector. I would favor a universal citizens dividend for this, to minimize corruption.
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The economy doesn't follow natural law, or - in many ways both literal and figurative - any laws at all.

If you think it should, then it'll appear to violate all sorts of principles all the time. In some cases it behaves like a closed system (employment in countries), in others it's an open system (companies). Some cases money is conserved (double entry booking), in others money behaves more like a Banach-Tarski ball (think bank money multipliers).
Why is having a lower reserve ratio far worse?
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Windows has been around for 35 years and Microsoft had 61,000+ employees (ok, that’s not only software developers and they don’t work only on Windows) in 2005; and it’s only ~50M LOC. I don’t think the number of years + developpers really show something; you don’t write new code everyday.
Yes, but also the issuer of any perpetuity will go out of existence.
You can't have an anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto (as in untrackable by the government) if you don't have the anonymity capability to begin with. If you have that capability, building a new "persona" online that people can trust is the easy part.

But right now it seems very hard to do something like that, especially if you're the US government's target, and Tor isn't quite adequate for it, either.
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People are also moving to NH for the free state project[1].

https://freestateproject.org/
I think sometimes it's actually the opposite. I was able to make a breaking change to an API and update all of the callers to use the new one in a single commit.

Tests would run on all the clients and, since in my workspace the server was updated simultaneously, I could be more sure it would work.
It really is different for everyone. I found that milk protein was actually the lynchpin of my diet troubles. But both our medical practice and food culture don't speak in terms of food sensitivity outside of "you swell up and die immediately". There are lots and lots of bad things that can happen that don't involve swelling up and dying.
See above.

Or, ask yourself: why is there any reserve ratio at all?
That's really interesting. It sounds like that is very much a symptom of ingrained racism; something these people have been encouraged to do for most of their lives.

I grew up in a pretty diverse neighborhood, so I know the people to fear are not divided along racial lines. Someone who came from a wealthier area would probably not have that opportunity.

To the point I made elsewhere on this page, does a program like this help to reduce that perception of inferiority, or just get people riled up about someone getting a perceived handout?

If the problem really is circumstantial, education seems like the obvious solution to me. In your specific example, the symptoms are fear driven; the more diverse experiences someone has, they more they will see how little there really is to fear. Travel is one of those obvious things that reduces bigotry.
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> Probably but my point is all about fear of getting caught before succeeding.

My point is that the fall back is not "go to jail", the fall back would be "blow up the security line."

Also, are random chemical checks (which are looking for something very rare by sampling a very small population, hmmmm) any more helpful than the screenings that are also taking place, notably X-ray imaging?

> Does the truth matter as much as the fear?

No, it matters much less it seems :(

> Well finding a bomb doesn't mean it will actually explode

In context, the hypothetical headline meant a bomb had gone off.

> as the number of death is way smaller, they would have way better target than that (one that doesn't have a ton of security guards and multiple layer to stop you).

Smaller than what? 50 people vs 100? 100 vs 200? it's still a terrible thing and will have a very similar affect on the public.

> I haven't no but by what I see they aren't in confined space, the walls are far away,

Most of the ones I've been in are basically tunnels are bridges 100' or so across. Sometimes the lines themselves pour out into the rest of the terminal, which is less confined.

> and they are one in front of the other, acting like human shield.

I honestly couldn't tell you how people squashed together would work, from a physics perspective, but I don't think it's pretty or clean regardless.

This all detracts from the main topic: their scanning procedures are antithetical (and statistically suspect) to the handling (and rarity) of what they're looking for.
Would be interesting to know who gets the revenue when using another app.
really appreciated - it's somewhat debounced already, but it seems to be not quite right... I'd be curious to hear about how you went about debouncing (what time delays on which specific actions, zoom, moving the map)
Recently in my workplace (I'm white/male, 11 person team is lead by 2 white males) we've been working on refocusing our branding on "Tech Entrepreneurs". Quick. Name the first person you think of when you here that? What do they look like? Probably white, twenty something, male. This was a problem for our team because we are trying to target more than that. We know we are, but communicating that and reaching more people is hard. It's cemented in our bias, but yeah, still, we realize that "tech" is a lot of "younger white dudes". This effort by YC is just trying to change that by making a safe place for people outside of "the norm" to be acknowledged and encouraged.
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8.1 and 10 run incredibly well even on very old hardware. I will agree a given Windows install may feel slower over time, and it makes sense to rebuild the PC occasionally, though that may, again, be less so with 8.1 and 10.
If one eventual use for these services is as a smart-routed bus of sorts, why can't one of the companies tackling Uber jump straight to that? Or at least make a serious experiment of it?
>There is no Windows RT equivalent of Windows 10

The author didn't mention "Windows 10" specifically but instead, just "Windows" which can include the previous incarnations (both Windows 8 & Windows RT 8). The non-premium Windows RT had "multitasking" several years ago when iOS did not and that was the particular point of comparison to trigger his hard-to-parse statement. He also qualified his sentence with "outside of the Surface lineup" which seems like he was aware that Surface has turned into a somewhat of a success story for Microsoft.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-surface-hits-1bn-reve...

http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/23/microsoft-q3-2015-earning...
I guess you are not familiar with Irving's Mayor, Beth Van Duyne... Sorry to blow your theory right out of the water.
Does free mean no charge to set-up the call or does free mean a toll free number for the call? Is the number that gets issued +1 only or do you offer a choice of which country the call is hosted in? How do you cater for participants from multiple nations?
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> You can't have an anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto (as in untrackable by the government) if you don't have the anonymity capability to begin with.

No, that's not true. You can, for example, go through a trusted third party, e.g. a journalist.
You say that like making an event 'inclusive' is some kind of chore. In fact, what we're talking about is stopping people at the door because they have the wrong skin color.
>Allow that student to go to whichever school they want. End of story.

I was given this option in the third grade. I got a letter from the State Board of Education saying that I had performed exceedingly well on their standardized test and that I was invited to change schools and go to a special program in another town for smart kids.

My parents told me I should do it.

I regret it to this day. I was not equipped to understand the consequences of this choice, was not aware what I was getting into and it basically ruined my education.

Our class was separate from other students at this school. We started at a different time and ended earlier. In general, the rest of the school knew us as "those smart kids" and it took a major toll on my work ethic throughout high school.

No. Please do not give students the choice of which school they go to. They need to learn to get along with students different from them, not self-segregate into classes based on wealth, intelligence, etc.
Thanks. When identifying your initial early adopters, was it easier to go after large establishments or smaller companies?

Right now, we're looking at potentially retailers and commercial real estate brokerages as our target segments.
Cool , How much front and back end each ?
Assuming that Didi didn't have the resources to expand into the US directly (and god knows Lyft isn't going into China any time soon), I think this is a great deal. It allows Didi to maintain a reasonable modicum of pressure on Uber and dip its toes into the US market without any significant resource outlay. It doesn't though help Lyft to compete with Uber any better than the somewhat lackluster job they've done of it in the past couple of years. Perhaps the money, and the advertising it allows, will help. There is still a significant proportion of people who have never used Uber or Lyft, what the companies do to capture them is going to be very interesting.
The documentary "Four Horsemen" (link below) goes into these topics at length, especially money creation. Most people's jaws drop when they learn that 97% of all money in the world isn't in paper/coin form but rather 0s and 1s in a database and that it is all willed into existence as debt by a bank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU
The idea behind the phone call is that it welcomes people into the field. If we want to couch these issues in the emotions of the victims, rather than the (often inadvertent) perpetrators, then yes: it's mostly about ameliorating "fear". I don't know that we need much psychoanalysis, though. Mostly what YC is doing is just neighborly common sense.

Bluntly: people getting "riled up" about "perceived handouts" are complaining in bad faith, and their opinions shouldn't be taken into account. The 20 minute phone call YC is offering today is the least of the excuses people could generate about the persecution of the majority. If it's not this, it's something else.
> Google engineers modify 15 million lines of code across 250,000 files each week
> Google’s 25,000 engineers

So employees modify 120 lines / day
if we imagine a linear growth in employees in 17 years to 25K coders, with 250 work day a year they employ around 6 more coders each work day, so about 55M man day, so around 6,3G LOC modified. But modified != added, so I wound't believe this is all their own lines.
I don't think so. I think they're much better off focusing the product on one specific market. The partnership would let people use the basic service and if they wanted to use market specific feature like Lyft Line or Ola Food, they would have to download the app for that local market.
Just because people are talking about it: I work at MSFT, and the numbers Wired quotes for the lines of code in Windows are not even close to being correct. Not even in the same order of magnitude.

Their source claims that Windows XP has ~45 million lines of code. But that was 14 years ago. The last time Windows was even in the same order of magnitude as 50 million LOC was in the Windows Vista timeframe.

EDIT: And, remember: that's for _one_ product, not multiple products. So an all-flavors build of Windows churns through a _lot_ of data to get something working.

(Parenthetical: the Windows build system is correspondingly complex, too. I'll save the story for another day, but to give you an idea of how intense it is, in a typical _day_, the amount of data that gets sent over the network in the Windows build system is a single-digit _multiple_ of the entire Netflix movie catalog. Hats off to those engineers, Windows is really hard work.)
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> What's so wrong with Rust threads, excepting perhaps them being heavyweight? (Far better to solve that problem directly.)

Nothing. If threads work fine, use them! That's what most Rust network apps do, and they work fine and run fast. A modern Linux kernel is very good at making 1:1 threading fast these days.

> And having written network servers with pretty much every abstraction so much as mentioned in the article, green threads are a dream for writing network servers.

Green threads didn't provide performance benefits over native threads in Rust. That's why they were removed.

Based on my experience, goroutine-style green threads don't really provide an performance benefit over native threads. The overhead that really matters for threads is in stack management, not the syscalls, and M:N threading has a ton of practical disadvantages (which is why Java removed it, for example). It's worth going back to the debate around the time of NPTL and look at what the conclusions of the Linux community were around this time (which were, essentially, that 1:1 is the way to go and M:N is not worth it).

There are benefits to be had with goroutine-style threads in stack management. For example, if you have a GC that can relocate pointers, then you can start with small stacks. But note that this is a property of the stack, not the scheduler, and you could theoretically do the same with 1:1 threading. It also doesn't get you to the same level of performance as something like nginx, which forgoes the stack entirely.

If you really want to eliminate the overhead and go as fast as possible, you need to get rid of not only the syscall overhead but also the stack overhead. Eliminating the stack means that there is no "simple" solution at the runtime level: your compiler has to be heavily involved. (Look at async/await in C# for an example of one way to do this.) This is the approach that I'm most keen on for Rust, given Rust's focus on achieving maximum performance. To that end, I really like the "bottom-up" approach that the Rust community is taking: let's get the infrastructure working first as libraries, and then we'll figure out how to make it as ergonomic as possible, possibly (probably?) with language extensions.

My overarching point is this: it's very tempting to just say "I/O is a solved problem, just use green threads". But it's not that simple. M:N is obviously a viable approach, but it leaves a lot of performance on the table by keeping around stacks and comes with a lot of disadvantages (slow FFI, for example, and fairness).
One thing to remember about hardware support is access to replacement hardware in a timely manner. With large support contracts server parts need to be available sometimes within hours of a failure. HP may not play ball. Something to think about.

I also wanted to say people like your Dad are worth their weight in gold. Good hardware tech's are hard to find.
It's not an accident that America has particular problems with Black/White and Hispanic/White race relations. Comparisons of race relations in America to race relations anywhere else need to be quite careful to identify the correspondences.

The claim that race is too murky a concept to pin down is generally invoked in cases like this; observed preferential treatment for historically disadvantaged races. If race can't exist, the argument implies, neither can racism. Always ask who wins if we allow ourselves to believe this.

The truth is that racism does exist, and we can test for it using methods that are repeatable in experiment. Race is not "meaningless" in this country, and anyone claiming so is selling you something.
Last I heard Google is still on Java 7 precisely because of this, although that might have changed. It's fun seeing the different theologies at Amazon and Google - I remember Yegge's famous platform rant, and he highlighted the Amazon versioned-library system as something which it did better than Google.
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25% incredibly high ? Some European countries have higher VAT than that :(
The silliest tax earmark was for anti-pot education, especially aimed at under 18. Seeing users and magazine ads everywhere saying it is good for adults, but how could you say its bad for teens then?
No matter how far we come, we can't escape the 'phone call' experience.

I've been working at Sococo for a few years. We designed a communications platform for groups that takes it to the next plane - always connected, frictionless collaboration. You don't have codes and conferences and schedules. You click in and out of zones on a map. Folks are organized in teams, in pre-authenticated groups so no passcodes ever to start talking. Connection times are in milliseconds. You can tell who's communicating with whom at a glance. You can bring someone into a meeting with a click.

Alexander Graham is long dead; lets please escape the 'phone call' straightjacket!
As someone who owns two typewriters (a 1949 Royal Arrow and some electric Smith-Corona that I haven't thoroughly identified yet), I'd love to someday build a typewriter-style computer keyboard that operates by actually smacking electrical contacts, just like how a proper typewriter works. Or perhaps have the levers interact with some photoelectric or Hall-effect sensors instead of relying on direct electrical contact. Whatever the case, it would be fantastic (albeit probably annoying to anyone within a 100-meter radius of my desk :) ).
Implicit trust is how to decode 'white privledge' quickly. Point being that it is something to take for granted, unless you have to establish it (or pay for the privledge). But it is very necessary in tech where alot happens by way of informal networking & referrals and lots of heuristic social screening comes into play (buy necessity, not malice). So those who have implicit trust are at a huge advantage (or at least an even playing field). And those that don't are on the ooposite end of that (battling uphill, etc).
His (adoptive) father was white, and Jobs didn't look middle eastern, the key part.

This shows your lack of knowledge of the Middle-East. People in Syria/Lebanon look extremely different from the people in Saudi Arabia. They just happen to speak the same language (heck the accent is quite different too)
During the winter months, the electric heaters that were also performing computation would supplement the normal dumb heaters. The cost of electricity or fuel saved on heating should therefore be subtracted from the cost of running @Home. Likewise, additional cooling costs would have to be added for the summer months.

Once those kWh are used in the CPU, they don't just disappear. They become heat.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/414050/computer-cluster...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32816775
I can't comment on what Google might be doing in the future with RCS. Well, I can't comment but also don't know. I personally like hg.

But if I were to take a poll of the informed and opinionated engineers sitting around me, they would almost all likely take git over hg.

In any case, git is in actual widespread use _now_ at Google, for Android and Chrome, and other open source stuff (some of which was moved recently from code.google.com to github).
I'm still trying to figure out why having everything dumped in one big pile is something worth bragging about. I'd far rather have code sorted well into proper repositories.