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I think you meant to write "easier to test", not "easier to teach"?

The English Language Arts standard you pointed to, at p.35 of http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/ELA_Standard... , emphasizes close reading.

Close reading is an example of something which is much cheaper to test at a mass scale. See http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/01/close-reading-20.... for a longer description of what that means.

My short version is that close reading, as meant by the Common Core Standard means that a student is given a short piece of difficult text and asked questions about it, without giving any context about what it means.

This is certainly easy to test. But mostly worthless as a skill since most works are much longer and contain much more context. As that Curmuducation link points out, "Twilight may be a work of light fluff, but a close reading of it unpacks how many truly indefensible and odious subtexts are lurking in its gooey pages".

That sort of close reading is much more important in teaching how to really read, but it's not easy to test, so not emphasized in Common Core.

You pointed me to the Common Core definition. However, a close reading ;) of Common Core is not enough to tell you how it's meant to be used or interpreted. That's why you have to look at, say, how people are being trained to teach in a Common Core system, like http://k12newsnetwork.com/blog/2014/01/14/a-closer-look-at-c... .

Quoting from the Curmuducation link: "Close Reading 2.0 is proof (piece of evidence #2,098,387) that CCSS was built to feed the testing beast."
My Nexus 5 fell victim to the underwater camcorder defect roughly a year back. I had to start flashing a community made patch from XDA to keep it going (which also keeps me from using the stock firmware ever again). There were multiple bugs listed on Google's tracker citing the issue, but Google either remained silent, tried to shift the blame to a Qualcomm driver that they supposedly had no control over, or just silently close the thread with a self serving "won't fix" tag. CM 13 incorporates the patch automatically now, so it's gotten better. But still, the hardware on the Android side of things has gotten so bad in recent years.

All of this makes me want an iPhone as my next device solely for the hardware support.
Even as a paying customer of Google Apps (albeit only for one user), I've got no way out without losing access to all my paid apps - and that's Support's official answer. I suspect in Australia I could take Google to small claims court and get some money back but I'm not sure I have the time or energy.
It's BS speculation. (and false)
Just using cool functional languages has little to do with this work culture. Lets not propagate this notion please.
Other sources have implied the blog in question was hosting something Google considered erotica featuring kids. Unsurprisingly, Google does indeed delete the child porn they encounter, not keep it as a "data point".
The Open Science Framework has Reproducibility Projects for a number of different fields. Like this one for Psychology: https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/home/ and are generally trying to make science more open and reproducible.
Fiji has some similar protectionism in place, but they aren't across the board.

Eg: A foreigner can't own a taxi or handicraft business. If you want to start a business in the fisheries sector, you need 30% local ownership and there's a minimum investment $ amount (I believe USD$250k).

Full list of Reserved and Restricted Businesses: http://imgur.com/a/zx31r
There have to be peer relatively respecatable peer reviewed OA journals that cost considerably less then 3k, though, I'd think.
Here is the article: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.jad.2016.07.010
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But the AU country code is already taken by Australia. They should've gone with FU.
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BBC World in Europe provides a significant amount of air time everyday on African affairs.
The resolution is low and the touchscreen is a decade old, but it's got promise - we'll see what the community does with it.
Feel free to ignore it. Seriously. I don't really care one way or the other. It's a nested comment in an HN thread, and it's actually presented by me as hearsay. (Whoever you are, I don't really need you to define hearsay for me.) It's not like I just reported this in the WSJ. I dropped into a forum where people have informal conversations about a variety of things, and this was my random, downvoted, "hey I heard this thing once" contribution. I've given about as much information as I care to, and people can interpret however they like.
Perhaps academic authors should boycott elitist journals and publish their research on their own websites. They could even ask their peers to review it before publishing.
As Andy Grove said, as a manager you only need to worry about two things: Motivation and Growth. Some of these questions are really good, they give you information that can help you in tricky situations down the road. However, by themselves are not going to create a foundation.
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Electronics are generally well protected from the power grid due to lightning strikes.

If it makes you feel better compared to lighting strikes which regularly hit power lines and are DC this is locally much less of an issue. Sure, if this happened tomorrow it would make the news, but other than some extremely local events where things failed it just the right way it's a non issue.
The lambda calculus was also the first OO language. (William Cook pointed this out in http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~walkiner/teaching/cs583-sp1... and I'd noticed the same thing. I just want to bring in a neat observation here, not fight for either side of the OO/FP culture war. I wish we humans wouldn't do that.)
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> it became very valuable to run millions of simulations of warehouse and transportation operations. After months of pain, I discovered object oriented programming

That's interesting. I think simulation specifically is an area that fits OO too well. It even fits the classic texbook example of a "Car is a vehicle, which enapsulates and engine. Its state has speed and position. etc".
It's not the same because the CPU is much faster than it needs to be for such primitive sound and graphics. A major appeal of fixed hardware is coding close to the metal to get the maximum performance out of it. The PocketCHIP is supposed to be programmed in Lua, which you could do anywhere. With the GBA you're probably going to learn assembly, and because it's ARM the skills will be useful for many other things.
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The post agrees your comment:

"Now, some people (and I feel this group is growing) are going a step too far, by enabling -Werror __unconditionally__ in their software packages. And what applies to me - not being able to anticipate warnings in other compilers - of course applies to them as well"

"squid requires me to __doctor around in its configure__ script, and even __patch some Makefiles__, while qemu-linaro has a central location for it."

The complaint boils down to "-Werror is a development tool, so use it like that".
Why Racket rather than Clojure? I'm surprised.
It's hard to determine when a company is at peak value. Everyone here thinks it's easy - in which case they should spend their lives as short traders, selling the stock of every company that is at its peak, rather than working on their own startups which will see the same success as Yahoo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller
They don't pay their employees though -- if you count the people who generate the actual content as employees. Nor do they pay the academics who do the actual peer review.

They pay editorial staff and tech dudes. I guess a metric shit-ton.
This comment has a great summary of the multiple discussions going on about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12100891
Reading this I'm starting to wonder if they are failing too early.

I've often reached a point in fixing some object, or some code, or whatever, when I'm certain I can't do it. I'm ready to just shut it down.

But I have no choice - I have to make it work. So I keep plugging away.

And so far I've managed almost every time - despite being certain I couldn't. Now I'm smarter and no longer so certain :)

But if I got a bonus for failing - well. In each case I could easily, and convincingly, and truthfully! demonstrate it couldn't be done.
For C, this seems to be implementation defined.

(At least for C as encountered in the wild, I don't know about C the standard.)

Most modern C compilers support tail call optimization.

I don't know about `most languages'. Eg I know Java on the JVM doesn't do tail call optimization. Lots of languages probably do not require TCO of their implementations, though.
Why does this keep hitting the news? Yes, if you grow stuff in doors it's going to end up more athletically pleasing and cost far more. Umm, end of story?
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The inventory-checking robot is an interesting pivot for Bossa Nova, a company that is 11 years old and originally focused on robots that could balance on a single ball (it spun out of Carnegie Mellon where the original Ballbot was created). They struggled to monetize it and made toys, which they then sold off and tried to figure out what to do. They ultimately moved away from their special technology entirely to work on inventory. It seems like a huge market, although I wonder how well it works since its vision is largely limited to the shelf item at the front and it likely cannot tell how many there are most of the time. A much simpler solution I've seen at many stores is to have a simple electronic system for each item and it keeps count of how many there are, I imagine each of these costs around a dollar (although you need hundreds or thousands). It's also simple and reliable, of course the robot scales easier for mega-stores assuming it can handle larger inventories easily.

I think Mashgin has a really fascinating idea which is to automate the checkout counter at grocery stores, although I know nothing about how their algorithms work.
I think most of the comments were just pointing out how much and how fast fortunes can change, but yes, the only right way to judge a decision is within the context in which it was made.

Were they the right choices given all the information those people had back then? It seems that they were.
Yes. This is nowhere near as catastrophic, especially for an emerging economy, as people here seem to think it will be.
Brings up the question of what are some good tools to manage this kind of risk.

You need your contacts, email archive, another credible email address to re-establish contact, alternate credentials for SSO sites, and it needs to be somewhere outside the political sphere that could cause this.

What does a resilient online identity look like? These companies own the primary media of your relationships, which are the things people need to survive.
The tricky part is understanding consumer behavior. McDonald's has been rolling out touchscreens in San Francisco where they are still operating, but they also tried this in Colorado and in under a month they removed most because they were losing customers. Operational efficiencies are always wonderful on the backend, but when you put them in front of your customers it's important to understand their reactions as they may have negative reactions. There are lots of people who are not happy about robots taking jobs, and if they can see these robots it will influence their loyalty to that store.
It wakes up around once a second to listen on the paging channel, but it doesn't transmit at that time.
I would argue its not even accessible to those people. You have to work pretty hard to make text as obtuse as scientific papers can be.
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That is definitely a possibility and the best illustration of what I'm talking about. It's effectively a $10 SoC in a $60 case. Going lower to match the actual GBA hardware specs wouldn't significantly affect the cost of the device even if the SoC was free.

I'm being pretty idealistic, but I like the idea of "This is how actual GBA games were made." The GBA is a very beautiful architecture because pretty much all of it's capabilities were memory-mapped structs. You write to addresses and stuff happens. So, it's very simple yet powerful enough to get really good results even though you have a ridiculously low budget in terms of cycles/frame.

Writing Lua to call frameworks that maybe write to abstracted "ports" on what's effectively and Android from a couple years ago all to get half the screen-rez results compared to a GBA... That just doesn't seem to accomplish teaching low-level programming.

Any embedded programmers in the room? Does this sound actually useful at all? Or, is embedded getting to be more like coding on a RasPi than a GBA these days?
I had a same day repair warranty on my work ThinkPad. The LCD had a known ghosting issue. I called to get the panel swapped, and not only did I get another panel with ghosting, the tech was unable to reassemble the display bezel and left with my system in pieces. I had my company send me a Mac the next mothing. I've had a MacBook Air display replaced at the Apple Store. Took 2 hours, and the machine looked as good as new.
The reddit megathread [0] does a fine job summarizing. What do you personally make of the remarks about homosexuals, many of which are identified and linked in the reddit thread?

You say it is nothing that would be "out of place in any big company or organization" -- it's hard for me to read that without gathering that you tacitly imply it's OK for big company or organizational leadership to banter about their own bigoted beliefs over email, and that since this is commonplace among companies, no one should feel outraged by it.

How does that follow? As far as I'm concerned, the fact that it's commonplace only makes it all the more outrageous. A lot of people doing an indisputably anti-human behavior doesn't somehow make it more human.

[0] < https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4u5ztv/dnc_email_... >
That's my situation as well. The customer service agents pull the "it's not my department" card whenever I try to cancel my apps account and move my Play library over to a standard Google account.
> An EMP attack is a threat, but if someone is firing atomic bombs at you, you have a bigger problem.

That's my take on it. EMP of that kind implies large nuclear detonations at high altitude. One or two will cover a good part of country. Military already tests their hardware for EMP resistance ( know someonw who worked at such a facility, it was really a fun job! ). So the idea is they'd be hardened enough to retaliate but after that it is probably game over and in large with major cities destroyed or population killed.

But if that didn't happen during Cold War, there is probably less chance of it happening today. So one should be more worried about slipping it the shower or eating too many twinkies, than say buying cooper faraday cages for their toasters.
Let's hope some Sony engineer drops an anonymous archive online to try the CD features.
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>The 'conclusion' hints at or indicates the assumption that cannabis use is the cause for increased suicide incidence.

I read the abstract and conclusions closely and I didn't think they were implying that, although this is the sort of result that is classically misreported along the lines you are articulating.

The conclusion is simply that there is an association between cannabis use and suicide ideation (in other words, when you first have thoughts of suicide) among men (let's just leave the women out of it for now). So not only do the authors not claim that cannabis causes suicide, they don't even claim cannabis is associated with suicide, they claim it's associated with suicide ideation. That no link was made between suicide incidence and cannabis is explicitly stated. ("No significant association was found for the bidirectional association between cannabis use and suicide attempts in either sex.")

From that one paragraph conclusion they seem to focus more on the differences this study turned up between the sexes than on some fantastic new conclusion along the lines of "pot leads to suicide".
I bought a Dell monitor from Amazon. It had a defect in the coating, and Dell wouldn't honor the warranty without a dell order number. you can imagine how this turns out. I bought a different brand monitor.
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There was a lot of hype floating around. There still is. It's like the news: Always the same just the names change.
Anybody want to take a shot at a less baity, accurate, neutral title? Preferably using representative language from the article.
Link for perusal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names
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They do a real good job on anything in the 16-bit generation (SNES, Genesis), and handhelds up to the DS, at least in my experience.

I'm not playing anything twitchier than ChronoTrigger, though. I use my Pi to play RPGs, primarily, although I've haven't seen any problems playing Genesis fighting games like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter.
Really? I would have guessed that they absolutely had a copy, if only to hand over to law enforcement - and more likely, to submit as training data for PhotoDNA if they don't have their own similar work.
Ask HN: What are you working on?
What are you working on? Why is it cool? Is it a side project or your main gig?
Domain specific language and formalisms exist for a reason. They enable efficient communication for people who know the field.

Scientific papers are not written for the layman with an interest, but to communicate the results of your research to others in the field.

Admittedly a lot of papers are also just written to keep your University from giving your job to someone else. But publish or perish is another issue.

I agree that there should be more scientists writing articles / blogs that make their research approachable and engaging for the layman, but that does not extend to papers, in my opinion.
The solution probably lies in a decentralized/distributed platform such as Ethereum or Maidsafe.
I think there backend is in java.
>Next time, buy a Lenovo tablet.

After they got caught bundling malware twice, I'm never buying Lenovo again.
You can contact them and ask them to move your account to a different IP address group, after doing that your email should start sending in a few mins (if it doesn't contact them again, or just do this while on live chat).

You'll want to do this real soon as the emails won't be sent at all after 72 hours...

Personally, I'll be moving to Mailgun after this episode. A 48 hour wait for transactional emails from being delivered is ridiculous.
I hope you don't buy Apple.
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What are some of the conventional weapons that can generate an EMP to cover a large part of our country? It has to be a high altitude nuclear blast for the physics to work from what I know.

> being subject to nuclear fallout.

Well, it is a high altitude blast, so fallout will be minimal. The point is after a such a blast the next likely step is icbms start flying. If your toaster is working or not, make a huge difference after that.

> you can have your gadgets fried without being subject to nuclear fallout.

Yes on a small scale they can have "your gadgets" fried. But others' gadgets will still be working. You can go to a hotel to another town and still get your morning toast there
Related story - someone developed a game for it:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/unreleased-snes-playstat...
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We see these stories over and over.

The lesson is obvious: host your most important content on your own server that you control; and make backups.

Some people will say that self-hosting isn't a practical solution. But when the alternative is the potential for devastating data loss, it seems eminently reasonable.
The ability to chill new development through ambiguously enforced law is just as important as the prohibitions actually in law.
>mainly because the wifi chipset vendor refuses to open source their code and refuses to update the BSP

In that case, never. Trying to get vendors to open source anything is a hilarious exercise in futility.
How does cannabis use compare to alcohol use with respect to suicidal behavior or depression?
Unless the vendor is known for exceptional customer service then don't waste your money on extended warranties and make sure you have reserve funds to replace such purchases. Yes - cynicism will not prevent or solve these problems - but it will eliminate the anger and disappointment.
are you joking? you call yourself "thinking", yet somehow can't see how having all your stuff directly on hand is the LEAST complex solution to keeping track of it?

you're an idiot, kong.
The one HTC phone I ever bought was the HTC Freestyle - biggest piece of garbage I've ever spent any money on. The apps would crash constantly, and texts would either send 4 times or never send at all. All of these were bugs that were known and documented, but never fixed in the several updates my phone received. I'd love to know the story behind that phone...
It really only avoids being an issue now because of the nature of surgery, the longevity of typical patients vs. implants, and so on. Hopefully, eventually, both of those factors will change and the law is going to be shown to be woefully behind.
Are you seriously suggesting that when Microsoft made its final offer in 2008, Yahoo was one of "the hottest tech companies"?
Can someone change the title to include the fact that this purchase is for the search and advertising operations part of Yahoo? Everyone here thinks it's for the entirety of Yahoo. It's like they didn't bother to read the article.
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In Javascript functions are first class objects, there are closures, and higher order functions. Having a garbage collector makes it easier to implement persistent data structures. I've always thought that despite it's weird corners it's actually a powerful and flexible language. You can see that in the article, because in just a handful of lines of code it is able to express all of these ideas in an accessible way. I'd be interested to see a C++ version of this.
You have to look at it from their perspective. Why spend money updating something that works? The number of people who care that their device firmware uses a recent Linux kernel version is so infinitesimally small satisfying them wouldn't even move the needle on sales and you apparently bought one any ways so why should they care?

If you want hardware you can tinker with build your own from parts you know work with recent kernels or buy a product specifically marketed at that segment.
Except that's not how the stock market works...

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketcapitalization.asp