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But why are most schools spending almost all their time teaching to the test so to speak. Were all of them miserable failures before?

Why couldn't they just focus on underperforming school and investigagte what is happening there (probably poverty, crime, bad home environments if I had to guess...).

I also don't understand the idea of relating budgets to test scores. It is like they want schools to fail on purpose -- "Looks like you are struggling here with teaching these kids, ok, well we'll cut your budget, that should help..."
Spot on. Since we've been homeschooling, education has become an enjoyable experience once more with the exception of mandated standardized testing. I'm glad that California put a pause on the CAHSEEs because from personal experience, it just doesn't serve a real world practical need. Too many questions are just worded so poorly and often designed to trick students. I've been through the public school system and did quite well. I'm glad not to be forcing someone's antiquated testing and grading philosophies in our home now.
Well yes, some apps exist because software can't talk to us in our natural language. But I don't think it's true for all of them.
Why the downvote? He's using irony/sarcasm!
Apologies, I did not mean to imply that this makes tablets bad. Just that I have a hard time seeing what makes a stock android any better than my fire. In the consumption world, they are both about even. Newer of either is better than older.
Says someone with I'm guessing no teaching experience, and no background in education.

Teach the test, get better scores... Better teacher? Not likely.
Selflessness is not important. What's important is doing things that are beneficial to society. If you can also help yourself while doing that, there's no shame in that. That's great! Too many people spend their resources on the selfless pursuit of useless things.
Some enterprise software already works like that (especially to generate Web/mobile/desktop versions from the same code & description).

But I bet you can tell when you look at it that it has been fit to a limited set of templates, instead of each screen being "properly" designed. There is a lot of devel-in-the-details with UI, even if the general style is similar.

And I would argue against software being "one size fits all". Different styles approaches might make software unattractive for some users, but in the same way can be the critical decider towards your software for other users. Look at the mountains of different text editors out there. They all edit text completely fine and have tons of overlapping features, but they still can be a near religious topic.

> Even if your service is top-notch, people might go with a competitor because you don't support their language, or you don't support collapsing discussion threads.

You can't automate support for different language. And other people might use a competitor that doesn't even have threads, because that's their preferred style.
You can use their mobile site instead: https://m.uber.com

That also has the advantage of not requiring invasive app permissions.
I'm just gonna burn karma and rant randomly at this kind of narrative style.

<quote>Asphaug was not only annoyed; he was inspired. </quote>

For Science articles, what value does all this narration add? Why do we have to sift through 30 years of background biography material before getting to the new theory and subject matter? Is the state of mind of the researchers important? Do we need to humanize and narrate the proposal of a new model in this way?
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It's not relevant to your point about the mower, but people do often put trailers on a couple of acres.
When I was growing up and mom on welfare (80's & 90's), there was a disincentive to work harder: the more income earned, the less the subsidy at roughly a dollar per dollar. I believe that poverty is not seen as a problem by our nation's leaders but instead an opportunity to exploit & control the masses.
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different kinds of CFI have been under active development since 2002 with recent (2013, 2014) deployments to major web browsers like chrome and IE. IE already ships with a forward CFI implementation in windows 10. chrome will probably ship with it real soon now.

before this presentation, the writing was on the wall for code reuse exploits. after this presentation, well, the writing is still on the wall with one more real world system in place.
Another:

<quote> I remember reading about it as a child, in the dreamy pre-Apollo science books I inherited from my older brothers—books that predated Luna 3 by a few years. </quote>

I like, totally don't give a shit what the author did as a child.
extremely cool, you've clearly mastered this
Have you tried DBeaver (http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/)?
One of the weirdest bits of physics is proved beyond doubt
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Given a website as an example, ask for the person that hired the last team/person that worked on it. This could be anyone – the owner, marketing department, IT, etc. – so just cut to the chase and ask for whoever is currently responsible for it.
> I don't think you should use a person's device for anything other than serving that person.

I might have missed something to the contrary, but to me the article only describes how they use a drivers phone to store information about the trips he is making. Which the phone is involved in anyways.

Similar to storing stuff in the session cookie of a web app.
FWIW: I suspect the problem he's referring to is that the debugging agent layers suck in most languages.

IE given C++, or objective C, what gets described to the debugger by the compiler requires the debugger to know and do a lot to get actual values out of.

For C++, it's actually pretty good except function calls/etc require understanding the ABI. IE the debug info i get tells me "if i want to get the value of this variable, i evaluate this expression". I know the layouts of how to interpret it, etc. It's rare the expression is too complicated (though it may require piecing together registers and memory, etc, it's jsut a state machine).

For Objective C, even things like "instance variables" require the debugger understand a lot.
Java has a fairly reasonable agent, etc.

Part of this is that the type systems of the debug info formats (DWARF, etc) are very simple, so even though they theoretically support things like function calls, etc, it's rarely used to provide the functionality necessary, and the debugger is left having to do it itself.
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Propaganda? You're confusing a love for the English language and a little command of rhetoric with something vastly different, chief.

Hell, I don't even use Windows as a primary platform; I'm typing this from a Mac while I'm (quite literally) waiting to meet a guy to sell my Surface Pro 3 that I never use. I'm just not impressed by rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me silliness and knee-jerk, irrational fear. I don't trust Microsoft any more than I trust any company. But I don't rely on the fears of fifteen years ago to evaluate the current state of the world, either.
It's more complicated than that, but refusing to pay $100 per is obviously part of why a business can't pay enough to attract pizza cooks. Ultimately the only way small businesses in a hyper market like San Francisco can survive is to get rid of employees almost entirely. You could do that in a restaurant. It would be harder in a bike shop. Maybe service bike shops will die in San Francisco.
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My severe Social Anxiety doesn't even exist anymore
You have to store data on the client endpoints in realtime logistics applications; its just how it's done.

If you don't, networking failure scenarios will destroy your user experience since you'll end up with frequent irreconcilable data gaps with cellular networking being what it is.
AFAIK (IE my engineers working on it tell me :P) that CFI was essentially too slow in practice (IE > 5% overhead) until new implementation techniques were developed in the past couple years (literally. I'm pretty sure the last good paper on this was in 2014).

" IE already ships with a forward CFI implementation in windows 10"
I didn't think this was true (i thought it was something related to CFI, but not quite), but i'll take your word for it.
I'm not saying there aren't any valid reasons for doing it. I'm just saying the there's a "meta-lesson" there that has to be corrected. I want all my kids to grow up knowing that there's no shame in saying "I don't know," if you honestly don't know. Life is not a sounding smart contest.
Why not today?
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So instead of trying to allocate limited resources to those who most need it we should instead blindly split those resources equally among everyone? And this will help the poor how?
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That's not an NDA. That's a non-compete. What state are you in? Some states like California ban noncompetes (Sec. 16600 of the business and professions code). Others allow them.

The reason companies ask you to sign a non-compete is not to protect company secrets, it's more like they want to keep salaries down in an area.
What you want sounds somewhat like WeChat in China...

Ref: http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
You're right. I put in another pull request to fix the original function, but that's not yet been accepted. https://github.com/facebook/chisel/pull/122
Seems inline with a lot of the other ways they have sneakily taken a greater share from drivers. They used to give drivers the phone and service for a refundable deposit. Then they started charging $10 per week for use of the Uber phone, eventually they allowed drivers to BYOD and now they are using their data plans as a backup service.

The so called "safe rides" fee is another example of Uber dishonesty. The percentage of the fare that goes to Uber w/o having to actually say they are changing the split has gone way up. That was set initially at $1 and it looks like it is up to around $1.50 now. This is in addition to the 20% cut Uber takes off the top of the actual fare.
You're making a number of bad assumptions:

1. The test actually covers what's important

2. The teacher has the time, resources and support needed to fully convey the material to every student

3. The teacher and the school are receiving students who are realistically capable of reaching the expected level

4. The test results will be interpreted in good faith and used only to help students and teachers perform better

In the U.S. public education system, years of simplistic fixes have largely ensured that none of those are true. Instead there are vicious feedback loops: unprepared students will do worse on tests, which is held against the teachers and school no matter how hard they were trying, which leads the most motivated parents to take their kids elsewhere and the best teachers to leave teaching or find another school or district where their efforts are appreciated. After a few iterations, the district may close the “failing” school and make life even harder for kids who now have the same problems plus a more of their day commuting to a school where they'll probably bear the stigma of having come from a bad school/neighborhood.
In case it's not obvious, this is an absurdly terrible service you should never use.

Here is some free software that accomplishes the same task, which is almost surely not more likely to give your password to third parties than just typing it on the same machine would:

echo $(shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom -n 6 /usr/share/dict/words)
But the driver is served by this -- the driver wants the Uber platform to be scalable, available and ensure the 'successfully customer experience' the article refers to, so that they can continue to get paid for providing the rides.

Now, if Uber were offering a free 'lol cats apps' on the app store that surreptitiously ran this protocol in the background of unsuspecting users I think it would be a different case, but running technology that supports the goal of the main app doesn't feel out of bounds to me.
A cursory study of the greats of literature of the last few centuries, and beyond, reveals that rebooting is essential, and one must be prepared to do it a few times in ones life, I feel. We need to be prepared to abandon all cultural and social precepts, and re-componse oneself in the face of the abyss, at a near-infinite degree of potential.

I think rebooting should be required of a lot of your average (and not-so-average) typologies. Breaking the mold is essential to the progress of the species, and doing it on a personal, familial, or social level. Perhaps this is what drives the primordial desire to see the world burn?
Qui-binary arithmetic: how a 1960s IBM mainframe does math
Wastewater injection wells, contrary to popular press, are not used primarily for the disposal of fracking fluid or other drilling waste products. Produced water is, by far, the largest component going into wastewater injection wells.

When you get oil and gas out of the ground, a lot of salt water comes with it. Sometimes, especially in Oklahoma, there can be 10 times as much water as oil. This "produced water" is used for injection into other wells to displace oil, but there's enough left over to require wastewater injection wells for its disposal.

http://energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Wastewat...
Many of us need Skype AND WhatsApp AND Facebook Messenger AND SMS AND Kik AND Slack AND Google Chat AND ... because your customers and friends use different apps. These apps will not be integrated into one because they are controlled by different entities who want to offer their own clients.
So suppose you have a test which covers reading, writing and arithmetic only (3R). Assuming the teacher has already effectively taught 3R, and has time to spare, there is nothing to prevent them from teaching black history.

The problem is that the test doesn't just offer a pass-fail threshold, but is graded on a sliding scale, which means that so long as there is a chance of increasing the class average, kids will continue to be drilled on the test topics, over and over again.

My kids were sent home with worksheet after worksheet of basic arithmetic problems, long after they had completely mastered those skills.
Reading (good) literature does more for your writing abilities than learning about five paragraph essays. That is not to say that you do not need to practice writing, just that five paragraph essays are not a good way to practice.
How do you spend tens of millions of dollars on creating and launching a launcher?

Perhaps they did something else as well, I don't know; I hope they were transparent on their spending – and that the sources are audited.
Much-Touted Deep-Brain-Stimulation Treatment for Depression Fails Another Trial
It perhaps allow you to book 1 ride on an outdated version and warn you its the last one. Then lock account until you've updated so you don't get stranded like that 1 person
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Amazon Mechanical Turk: help for building your Machine Learning datasets
I think its a solid solution from a tech standpoint. Phone (or any end point for that matter) holding on to data/state during a DC failover and being aware of an outage happening at the DC makes the recovery process, so much more graceful. One could argue that if this solution was not in place, driver would have lost the trip data during a datacenter outage which would have cost him his earnings. So this is directly helping drivers in exchange for him allowing to store encrypted data on their phones during such outages.If anything I would explicitly say this to the driver installing an Uber app and seek a acknowledgement. You are also over indexing on what you hear in media about Uber. What you are quintessentially saying is, there were two solutions available for the same problem and engineers ended up choosing this one, because he wanted a dishonest solution over a honest one, so he can fall in line with the company culture, which is dishonest :). That does not make sense at all.
This particular document doubles as both an NDA and a non-compete. I did some research, and it looks as if my particular state does allow for non-compete agreements to exist.
Distributed.net is the only program capable of maxing out all my 8 cores. Not even transcoding video does that. Pretty cool.
Most people are great. Ridesharing is great. There are different mentalities in the coordination organizations, though.

For example, a Lyft driver mentioned to me they had an Uber recruiter in their car the other day. The person was pushy, insistent and distracting, which motivated this driver's loyalty to Lyft and gave me a subtle, mental "-1" for Uber.

The concept is obviously sound, but that doesn't make the companies driving it immune to failure.
You could be right. I'm not sure.
Women tend to have reliable first-hand information as to whether they gave birth to a particular child, so maternity tests occur in different social and legal contexts and have different consequences. (Admittedly giving birth to a given child is not the same as being its genetic mother, but in most cases the distinction is not at issue.)
That's not a reboot.
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> tl;dr; Teachers are unprofessional and just generally horrible people who inflict their problems onto innocent third parties.

… and you have the peer-reviewed studies to prove that an entire field is full of unqualified bad-actors? Or is this just the casual, unthinking racism implied by your decision to use “black history” as your example rather than, say, music or science and the corresponding assumption that it's some how distinct from and less important than “history” rather than being an essential component?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10403159 and marked it off-topic.
> Florence Williams travels to the deep woods of Japan, where researchers are backing up the surprising theory that nature can lower your blood pressure, fight off depression, beat back stress

Is this surprising?
Used to be you could actually book a trip using SMS -- I did it that way for almost a year before I ever used the app, and then they phased that out.
New solar-powered robot plane can stay in air for 90 days
Good point, I've updated my post. For linear and logistic regression there's cubic expansion on the features (which is how they can fit curved problems). The relevant Javascript code is on lines 91 and 96.

PS: It can be changed to "linear" or "quadratic" as well.
Interesting. It's actually a bit harder for me to hit my watch's activity goals on the weekend when I'm not at work. The reason is that—since I got the Apple Watch back in April—I try to make a point of walking to or from the office every day, plus I started running.

I don't think you should leave tech. You should leave an abusive employer who expects an absurd number of hours of work from you every day.
The best solution that I've come across so far is the treadmill desk. Standing desks are not much better than sitting desks. You're still basically inactive. They might be better for your back, though.

Treadmill desks don't get you fit, but they will let you move while you code/design/write/etc. You only have to do an hour or two off and on throughout the day to notice a big improvement. It's not hard to get to 10000 steps.
Is that really true? My recollection is that standardized testing came about because of a fad to improve education by making it more "accountable" and "managed like a business." It was the educational version of stack ranking.
>Apologies, I did not mean to imply that this makes tablets bad.

Oh, I didn't take it that way. I like my tablets but I do think there's sometimes pushed into roles that they aren't very good for. (In general, I don't think they're a great fit for most secondary school educational purposes for example.)
What happens if you refuse to sign it? Is it: "sign or be fired?". Also if you are in a financial position of strength, it may be advantageous and savvy to fight it by not signing. This way you may be able to get the terms modified to be less onerous. If they are presenting it like a contract of adhesion (sign it as-is or be fired). Then
you don't have much choice unless you can live without employment for a while or move to a state with more employee-friendly laws.
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All testing does is measure whether a very narrow curriculum taught in a very specific way with a very specific text and test prep guide as guidance is being taught. Since so much is put on not only passing these tests but improving every year (a near mathematical impossibility) schools define their curriculum by what is being tested, not what constitutes a well-rounded education (backed by scientific studies into the importance of topics and areas of study not tested).

You know what generally gets better test scores out of kids? More time spent studying how to answer questions and rote memorization of test topics. All done studying that stuff? If you study it more maybe one kid does better and we get more funding.
I flat out acknowledged that that is a personal anecdote in my comment.

Regarding the study, it requires that people self-report a negative attribute about themselves. We already know it's basic human nature to lie to cover up faults. Why do you expect a study that relies on self reporting is going to be accurate?

Go try to rent an apartment or lease a house as a foreigner in Japan. You will find it extremely difficult to do if you are not specifically looking in one of the expat housing areas. The Japanese may say they wouldn't mind a foreigner living next door in a study, but they make it an extremely difficult process for this to actually happen. This thread has already discussed the family registry, but another important aspect of it is what replaces the credit check in most Western countries - a contact at the company you work for. For a Japanese salaryman, all disputes with a landlord go through his boss. Didn't make rent? Boss talks with the salaryman. Landlord hasn't fixed the running water? Boss talks with the landlord. This isn't something you get as a foreigner unless you've been with the company for a very long time.

Buying a house? You better be doing it outright, or already have your citizenship. Even permanent resident status isn't going to be enough at many banking institutions.

You can read the accounts of plenty of expats who have lived in Japan the frequent struggles they face as foreigners, with the entire system being set up to put them at a disadvantage. There's quite a few of them that have talked about it on HN, even. And maybe Japan isn't more racist than most other countries - but it certainly is racist enough for people to have valid complaints.
These are not TinyMCE replacements and if you ask me, the trend is that the architecture is going around those huge editors because nobody likes them and nobody wants to use them.

They simply don't have the right thing for their users. They are too complicated for the end user and if you know how to write HTML, you don't even need it, it just complicates things.
I'm afraid I couldn't answer these questions even if I knew.

Blah blah a lot of it I don't know rhubarb doctrine of confidence murmer cough professional ethics mumble mutter SEC regulations yadda yadda.
That needs to apply to _all_ government programs, like Food Stamps.

SNAP cuts off immediately once you grow above the monthly income. So if you get a raise, all of a sudden you lose all food stamp benefits.

There isn't just one welfare cliff to be solved: there are dozens. All of which need to be converted into something like the Earned Income Tax Credit (which more gradually weans people off of the Welfare as their income grows)