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Schools should have to offer nutritious food. They have been doing so successfully since I was a child. How depressing for the overweight students. "Alright kids, no more candy and sodas here anymore, because of an obesity problem in this country." At that point, those poor kids who are picked on for their weight will become harassed because their "fat asses" ruined it for everyone. These people don't think!
All "CFO Act" agencies have these pages, full list is here: http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/open/tool_poc.shtml

Real people at these agencies are using these pages to develop their prospective open government plans, in response to the Open Government Directive (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-06.p...)

These agencies also have their own open government pages where you can find out about their respective plans. Here's NASA's page as an example: http://www.nasa.gov/open
Right so let's violate the privacy of every interesting person who posts things online. Oh wait, that's what was done with _why. Seemed to work out well, didn't it? I don't even want to think about how many interesting Ruby innovations were lost as a result.

Bottom line: the information is meant to be read but decency and common sense should prevent you from probing deeper. If you don't follow these guidelines, interesting people will stop posting online. Unrestrained curiosity in these situations leads to everyone losing.
Is there anything particularly novel about HPHP that would be patentable?
why would anyone want to use this?
Wow, this is a really misleading article. It takes a minor problem caused by a technical mistake, and turns it into something that threatens the viability of wind power as we know it.

There are known hydraulic fluids that operate fine in Minnesota temperatures. There are wind turbines that currently operate without problems in places colder than Minn.

The only problem is that these particular turbines were designed for the California climate and then someone bought them used and moved them to Minnesota without doing a proper feasibility study.

This is at most a story about local corporate and/or government incompetence. It has nothing to do with the future of wind power.
QuakeLive did a great job in automatically raking people according to skill. You can choose to play stronger competition if you want, or just play in your own skill level.
You know you are heading down the wrong track with this when you say "searches Wikipedia, Twitter, and more..."

Please tell me one search engine that doesn't search these. It's almost like you are calling out a weakness in your product.

Google doesn't search Wikipedia and Twitter and more. They search everything, and if you are going to be in the search game, you better follow suit.
the thing you are best at isn't really relevant if there is little demand for that skill. being good at something also doesn't necessarily mean enjoying it. the world's best accountant probably dreams of being a pro baseball player.

it's easy to think like this when you have an awesome job like drawing comics. i've encountered similar sentiments from other people who have awesome jobs.
Sure doesn't seem to make sense. Could be one of the additives. I would want another study separating all the stuff they put in sodas. But staying away from all that sugar
is still a good idea.
I think it might be empty because ed.gov doesn't seem to actually link it anywhere on their site.
That's pretty sad, cause in my experience QuakeLive caters for inexperienced players better than most FPSs.
Driving over is what people invented remote support to avoid doing...
What's the theory behind that?
The difference is that when Google speaks of "anonymizing" your IP information, they are only removing the last octet, whereas Bing is removing it entirely. The EFF argues that this form of anonymizing doesn't go far enough, considering that (among other things) it's entirely possible that only one IP address on a given subnet is active.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/03/googles-new-plan-anonym...
Exactly. If wind power catches on, the terrorists will have won... or something...
Gold's value isn't based in its industrial uses, though; in fact, the faith-based pricing of it inhibits industrial uses.

Real-estate on the Moon is also divisible and un-manufacturable, but no-one seems to be arguing that we should base a monetary system on _that_.
I'm not sure where the submission title comes from? Sure, compared to the marketing hype, the OP acknowledges that ChatRoulette "proves to be a profound disappointment", but then he turns that into a discussion of its alluring offer of internet-based social friction, worthy of a Whitman poem.
I think your missing the point of the demo. Its not meant for consumption by the end user.
The Xbox 360 uses TrueSkill for matchmaking. Not perfect but better than nothing. I don't think the PS3 has anything similar.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trueskill/
And how is linking to this provoking people to "probe deeper"?
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Interesting. Though what really stopped the U-Boats sinking all that ships was the humble convoy-system.

(And Tom Körner's excellent book "The Pleasure of Counting" has the math to back it up. He has a knack for explaining.)
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You seem to have misunderstood Sukotto's comment. He's not protesting linking to the thread. He's protesting a comment posted earlier by a user here on HN that speculated as to the identity of the AMA poster.
+1 for "no comments".
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As far as these comments are concerned, pretty much your entire comment has the least amount of reasoned argument per claim made.
Universal access to education doesn't mean that the government needs to actually run the schools. It just means that funding needs to be provided for those who can't afford it on their own. Bonus points if you can get people to voluntarily subsidize the educations of those who can't afford it rather than forcibly taking the money.

Competition is a pretty powerful force when it comes to improving products, and it seems likely that the quality of education would improve if everyone wasn't forced to purchase an education bundled with their housing.
I wish he had opened it up and shown the insides. I bet it's some fantastic assemblage of point-to-point circuitry.

They may have avoided having to use electrolytic capacitors. Or they might have used especially high-quality ones given that it was a specialized (and probably very expensive) piece of equipment.

I would have expected such a device from 1964 to have at least a few tubs in it, but the fact that it didn't require any 'warm up' time after he switched it on suggests that that's not the case.
They do, it's just hard to find.

http://www2.ed.gov/about/open-submit-idea.html via http://ed.gov/open
The IP address he connects to is 10.6.105.71, I don't think he's overly concerned about other people logging into that machine over the internet (10.0.0.0/8 is a private network IP range and not routable over the public internet, just like 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.0/24). Also, it's pretty likely that he changed the passwords or deleted the example user accounts after he made this video, just to be sure (i.e. belt and suspenders).
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Actually, I'm pretty sure remote support was invented to reduce the rate of justifiable homicide.
The direct translation of that HTML to Haml is

%button#Save.positive(name='Save' type='submit' tabindex='10')
%img(src='/graphics/icons/save.png')
Save Changes

That button in your example, of course, has a lot of attributes, more than most elements in a typical template. Also, if you are using it with Rails it'd be in a form block with a helper:

= f.submit 'Save Changes', :class => 'positive'

which would generate an <input> that you'd then style with CSS (or Sass :-D)

Note that with Haml you can also write any sort of helpers you want, so you could have something as simple as

= button

doing whatever you want it to.

Where it gets really interesting, however, is when you are dealing with full templates. The document structure is instantly apparent, most superfluous noise is gone, classes and ids are given top billing and templates are very short despite retaining all of the information.
Indeed. It's pretty likely that voice number still has a 300 baud modem hooked up to it. Or... not.
You're correct, I've been to both the Island groups and frequently mix up which are where. $4k from what I looked at was covering plane tickets ($1k a person for 2), and hotels can hit $1k for a couple and half-board typically only bumps this to $1.3k, and if you're planning on spending the day at the beach you don't need much more than drinking money and bottled water.
It seems like the real question this article completely misses is who had the bright idea to buy 20 year old turbines and install them without any kind of engineering assessment?
That might be a bit of a stretch. I don't recall the administration of any K-12 school I attended ever explaining their reasons for doing anything (to the parents, maybe, but even that was rare). Though, even if the schools did explain the change, surely they'd be a bit more delicate than shouting "blame the fatties!" over the intercom system.

Admittedly, I might secretly be an optimist.
You could also title the article the "Art of Listening".
Everything always depends on context.

Functions cover a lot of contexts (in languages that support them properly and where they are not a syntactic burden).
Because ~75% of clicks on search results are the top 5 results, we were less interested in the long tail of results, and focused on the top results from the most popular sites.

We developed this experiment to see if the top 5 results in context of the top sites would give a better result set than the top 15-20 results from any single search engine.
I went to cal and work in silicon valley filled with students from stanford. It hurts me. Especially because I am constantly impressed with the quality of the students that come out of stanford. The students I've interviewed coming out from Cal are intelligent and have learned CS but the Stanford students have so much real world experience.
Because of their internships they learn about relevant technologies. Because they understand relevant technologies, they can build fun little web apps in their spare time. Fun little apps like "Zombies".
Also, the grading system is significantly more lenient. As such, a student can afford to spend a little time learning javascript instead of determining if a problem reduces to a k-SAT problem.
So that's my magic formula for encouraging startups (and the startup mentality). Bright Kids + Technology + free time to fool around. I don't think you need a class in that.
"Will you subsidize the "private" schools with government money? That would defeat the whole purpose of having private schools as you aren't allowing them the operate in the free market."

I don't understand this. The most common proposal I've heard is a voucher system that would allow people to defray the cost of an education at a school that has some sort of certification. In what meaningful ways is that not a free market? How will competition be any less effective?

It is clear to me that restoring choice to the education market will allow competition to occur, which will likely result in increased quality.
It's worth pointing out that Wii Sports comes bundled with the Wii console. The vast majority of Wii owners have Wii sports; it didn't sell on its own. I don't know if you can buy it as a standalone title.

Wii Play was bundled with a second Wii controller. People wanting to play family games or have a spare controller bought Wii Play. Wii Fit comes bundled with the Wii's Balance Board. People who want to use the balance board will have a copy of Wii Fit.
I would generally say the same thing, but most of the experimentation I do in the REPL is "is this crazy thing possible", not "is f(4) = 3.23432198"?

And sometimes it's just not worth testing, because it's something like ``hmm, I wonder if 'intercalate ", " ["foo", "bar", "baz"]' returns 'foo, bar, baz'; ahh yes, it does.'' The only reason to test that is because you want your test suite to run slower.
"If you’re one of those hipster programmers who loves Clojure, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, or whatever, you probably deeply loathe Java and all of its giant configuration files and bloated APIs of AbstractFactoryFactoryInterfaces."

Can we just get a moratorium on usage of "hipster" now? Everybody's using it wrong.
A lot of the "real" performant/stable/reliable backends seem to be written in Scala and Erlang these days. People use whatever languages are production-ready state-of-the-art at the time they begin their systems. C++ was state-of-the-art when Google started in 1995; Java was state-of-the-art when Lucene/Hadoop started in the early 2000s; now people are building things in Scala and Erlang.

Anyway, be careful when using "big and accepted" projects to indicate ideal platforms. It takes 5-10 years for a project to become big and accepted. In the process, its technology platform has probably become obsolete, but continues on because of inertia. Your goal should be to shoot for what your role models would do now, with the benefit of 10 years of additional technical development, and not where they were 10 years ago.
Ask HN: Who wishes there was an API for tgethr (Inkling YC '06)?
I just checked out tgther, an email collaboration service initially used internally for Inkling Markets (YC '06).

Almost immediately, I wished there was an API for that.
More specifically, I'd like to programmatically add/edit groups.
Is anyone else interested in this?
We can't. However what will happen is that someone will come up with a hack for it.

The hack will spread and flash will be on the iPad.
well, personally, I think betting the farm on any single external service provider is a really bad idea, but then, like you said, I'm not really in a position to have people bet their farm on me so it's kinda self-serving to say that.

For my education, how much of your hesitation is that it's a tiny operation, and how much of it is that the prgmr.com tools for creating/resizing are non-existent?
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Thanks. Great catch. Admittedly, I'm still disappointed though. If they were taking it seriously, I'd expect something bright and shiny on that front page of theirs.
Yes. The author of the article does not appear to be aware you can add your keys to ssh-agent (with ssh-add) and that way just type your password once.
So, out of several million (>10mil according to most estimates) Flickr users 3 of them have one additional setting available. This is roughly equivalent to the EPA allowable limit for cyanide in drinking water, which is to say: comparatively insignificant. For everyone else (>99.99997% of flickr users) the only licensing options available on flickr are "all rights reserved" and a few variations of the creative commons license.
Seems like an opportunity for a startup: help people get the highest price for their jewelry.
"So, it is clear we have a problem here: we’re holding back the most productive half of our population."

The author completely ignores the most obvious reason for this divide: there are fewer women who enjoy programming. It is quite evident at Universities. The gender imbalance in Computer Science programs is completely evident. It makes perfect sense that this would translate into the business world.
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I agree that they wouldn't be so crass about the whole thing, but kids are smart. It's not hard to figure out why a school might ban candy bars and sodas, then to assign blame to those they think are the cause of it. That sounds rather child-like to me, does it not?
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> Public schools and the belief that education is a fundamental human right are inextricably intertwined.

This is not the rational conclusion. It is possible to provide for an education without providing the education.

> Will you subsidize the "private" schools with government money?

No. Funds come from tuition-paying students.

> How are you going to provide education to the poor without public schools? Will the government give the poor money for education?

Perhaps.

> How are you going to provide education to the poor without public schools?

Fund the poor with education credits that can be spent freely on education. The school is reimbursed by the Fed for its education credits.
That is an overall net positive, but I still think that, in order to be fully compatible with the ideals of academic freedom and reproducibility, papers should depend largely (ideally, only) on code that is fully open source. I recognize that this may not be compatible with the interests of companies like Wolfram and Math Works, but I think it is in the best long-term interests of research as a whole.
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Totally agree. Funny that, in order to diagnose this problem, they probably drove out to the turbines in a vehicle with hydraulic brakes. Judging from the tone of this article, that accomplishment constitutes a major scientific discovery.
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To all the successful,

I've been building websites for about 3 years. I'm an entrepreneur at heart and I have a passion for technology. I've worked every spare moment I have had building one idea or another. I've taught myself HTML, CSS, and a little PHP. I've learned Magento and built several sites with it. Lately I started a web development company and have several clients. But I can't get it going enough to support me and I'm still working at my boring full time job hoping that someday I can leave it and work online full time.

You are probably wondering why I'm telling you all this. Well, I was talking to my buddy tonight and he said that his friend just quit his job because his side business (affiliate marketing) is making enough money to support him. So I figured that this friend must have been in the business since 97' because starting then was like a guarantee to success online. Anyways, I found out his friend started just a year ago. "What!?" I said. What have I been doing wrong I thought.

So, I need your help. Please share some ideas with me, ideas that I could invest every free hour for the next year in and be able to quit my stupid job and start building an empire online.
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A comment I liked, that a reddit user asked:

Question: Do your kids know how much money you have?

His answer: My oldest is 11, and I think she is figuring it out. It's hilarious, because over the last couple of years she comes home and says "My friend is totally rich - can we be rich someday? They live in a mansion!"
The App Store should purely be a signalling message about the quality of apps. A "seal of approval" by Apple. If somebody doesn't care, then they should be able to install anything they want without falling afoul of federal law.
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It's also not clear that it did much beyond look really striking.

"Dazzle's effectiveness is not certain. The British Admiralty concluded it had no effect on submarine attacks, but proved to be a morale boost for crews. It also increased the morale of people not involved in fighting; hundreds of wonderfully coloured ships in dock was nothing ever seen before or since."
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Hey,
So for some one who is starting out with Support Vector Machines, there is just loads of material out there which does not make immediate sense. I found the following resources (may suggest in exploring in the order mentioned) really helpful, maybe they can help you out too :

http://www.tristanfletcher.co.uk/SVM%20Explained.pdf

http://pyml.sourceforge.net/doc/howto.pdf ( Personally, I found this brilliant and it took some effort to dig this up)

Finally:
http://videolectures.net/mlss06tw_lin_svm/

Hope this helps..
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What matters:

If you aspire to do something great, you need knowledge of what you are good at, a love for what you are good at, and you need to be good at something many people care about, but few people are good at.
Pretty useful if you want to do run classification on huge data sets. I didn't know there was a project (Apache Hama) that could do parallel (MapReduce) matrix computations - this would make it easy to do PageRank kind of calculation.
Every growth industry has it's ups and downs. You find out
what works and what doesn't, fix what doesn't, and keep on going. Shouldn't be a big deal.
Maybe. Public education is a good way to mix student though, otherwise you have segregation. Ghetto schools are bad, because the bad students get worse, and the good students don't learn any street smarts.

Cutting school time, then supplementing it with tutoring vouchers would be my preference. You get a bit of both worlds. It would be tricky for teachers, who would need 2 jobs (one of which they would actually be accountable in) but that could be partly positive. Exposing teachers to a bit of business might be good.
Knowing that it was half a century after the reformation but before the English civil war, yet after the establishment of other colonies is important.
Knowing that it was 1620 rather than 1619/1621 isn't important - but that's all you are tested on. Treating it as maths where being 1year out is completely wrong is stupid.
You might want to double check your dates on Erlang. The first version was developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986.[1] It supports hot swapping thus code can be changed without stopping a system.[2] Erlang was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%...
Isn't that the exact opposite of what the original quote was decrying?

And you can always open the eigenclass of any object in ruby for the ultimate surgical operation (THIS INSTANCE, RIGHT HERE!). It's pretty much the ultima ratio regum of special casing in any object oriented language.
I've become very hooked on contemporary sources, especially diaries. Roth's account of the great depression is illuminating because there's no hindsight or sweeping narrative, just one damn thing after another. His attempts at explanations and predictions are frequently contradicted by events, as opposed to later historians who have the luxury of drawing a bullseye around the final results.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/185-...
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If someone wants to produce a great bit of linkbait, make a page where you do the "Google searches done through history" for various famous people like Bush, Hitler, Churchill, Ghandi, and so on. I'd read it!
Ideally you should develop a "velocity" kind of ranking similar to http://www.oursignal.com and merge in results, instead of simply displaying them in individual boxes. That way a user can work out which is the most popular/relevant entry overall, not the most relevant per site.
Calling education a product is tricky. Do you mean degrees or other attainments, or do you mean the underlying learning? Because it's damn hard to separate the two, and private providers have a big incentive to half-ass the second, especially if they are targeting the mass market.

Education is even harder than health to privatize, because you are trying to target kids, not parents, but the parents will be making all the choices.