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>By comparison, average private school tuition is $6600 and Catholic school tuition is $4254.

Mentally handicapped, ESL, and problem students are easily booted from or denied entry to private schools.
The market for hitmen is currently saturated, so even if he works overtime and does a few extra hits on the side under the table, he still isn't going to make enough to move into the more expensive, more central neighborhoods.

Plus, there's all those fees to keep your contract-killer's license up to date.
Making the first mockups of my site.
why not do something interesting that's not on the list? something that'll make it better in the long run maybe; get those tests running faster, script up something you do manually, try a different IDE or something?
Good teachers are people who are intelligent, communicate well, competent in the subject matter and understands its connections to other subjects and the real world.

These people would do well in a lot of high-paying professions. It is also not a coincidence that the lack of good teachers is most severe in math and sciences. Even if they may choose to be a teacher out of personal desire to make positive change for a few years, most cannot stand seeing their classmates, who are sometimes less capable, earn twice or even thrice their income for decades.

In the society we live in, it is important to pay people what they are worth. Would you personally choose this noble path if it means a 50 or 60% permanent reduction of your income and an almost zero possibility of hitting it rich?
>Good teachers aren't motivated by money, so paying them more just attracts bad teachers

Wow. That's got to be one of the most perverse arguments to continue our tradition of treating teachers like shit.
tuner, tuner, kit car, maybe, kit car
Your citation is about the top 10 private schools in Manhattan with 1:4 - 1:10 student teacher ratios is a bit misleading.

First NYC is larger than Manhattan and there are plenty of schools with 20-25:1 teacher ratios that would provide a better comparison.
I'm the opposite. I enjoy a nice 1:00 - 3:00 drive occasionally because it lets my mind wander and think while keeping my body and the lower parts of my brain occupied. In an odd way it is a lot like taking a hike, only without the fresh air but with climate controll.
Substitute "programmer" for "teacher" and tell me if this sounds that compelling to you.

Compensation issues are never strictly rational.

What do you think it would do for morale at your favorite tech company if all salaries conformed exactly to a published table, and advancement on that table was based solely on years of service and number of Microsoft certifications earned? Rockstar or plodding clockpuncher, makes no difference: you get paid what the scale says. The company gradually attracts folks for whom this makes sense, and the whole culture becomes worshiping that table. One of the most common topics of discussion is how many years you have to retirement (highlighted in bold at the top of the table), how much you'll make in retirement, and what you'll do after retirement.

Somebody in accounting felt up the receptionist three years ago and was placed on administrative leave, but he's still collecting paychecks exactly as the table mandates. He comes in at 9, checks into an office specially prepared for misfits, leaves at 2:57 and 30 seconds, and earns 240% of what you do due to his seniority.

A friend of mine -- a Democrat whose eyes burned with missionary zeal when he talked about the responsibility we have to educate the poor -- was very disappointed with me when I abandoned my career plans as an educator, and took up with Teach for America at one of the worst schools in NYC. They broke him.

I don't say this lightly: there is a sickness of the soul in public education.
Making teachers' unions less powerful would be a good thing for sure. Standardized tests though, tend to be akin to measuring a programmer's ability through counting lines of code in my experience (my wife used to be a teacher).
Reminds me of Dan Pink's presentation on what motivates people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

It seems to me that the only piece missing from the current system is the ability to fire bad teachers.

I'm generally pro-union, but I believe unions do themselves a disservice by propping up bad teachers from legitimate dismissal as well as protecting good teachers from unfair treatment.
For anyone in Michigan, check out the good form running clinics that Playmakers has. I went to free one when I first started running and it did wonders for me. If you're not sure about barefoot, you can try these techniques to improve your current form.

http://www.goodformrunning.com/index.php
I got a lot of traffic to http://bikechatter.com by providing some live tweeting of the Giro d'Italia stage. Ok, maybe not anything great, but I love watching bike racing, and I would have watched it anyway:-)

Awesome stage up Monte Zoncolan, one of, if not the hardest climbs in Europe. Went to see the stage finish in Asolo in person yesterday.
My to-do list for today is to spend more time with my girlfriend and family. All the startup success in the world would not make-up for the love and support of family and friends, if I were to let those relationships slip.

Alright, back to work. Good luck with your 5 items ;-)
Resolving my 2006 taxes.
I have a full week worth of work planned this coming week. I just had a busy week last week. Right now I'm sitting at the breakfast table with my wife and we're surfing and sharing interesting things we find.

These are the moments I work hard for.
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great article from a fantastic conference!
I agree. In fact the society we live in, as a whole, does not value teachers as educators. It values them as day care that keeps children busy while their parents are at work, and pays them accordingly.
>Tuning forks give you an absolute frequency.

Well, yes, that's the point of my question. If harmonics were essential to the concept of "in tune", we wouldn't tune by using an instrument that has essentially no harmonics.
You are right about NYC being larger than Manhattan.

The citation itself was the first I could find, simply to verify the outrageous sounding numbers. At private schools in Manhattan, numbers of 25,000-30,000 are now "normal". I don't know the rates for schools in the outer boroughs, but I'm willing to bet that Brooklyn rates are right behind or equal to Manhattan rates.

My larger point was just that comparing NYC public school to average private school rates was off-center.

Also, just fyi, no matter what they say, those private schools do not offer a 1:4-1:10 student:teacher ratio. 1:12-1:20 is far more common now by high school.
Yep, same here.

He was one of the few Western authors translated and widely published in USSR, so his books were very popular.. I destroyed a few reading cover-to-cover, making notes, etc.

There's nobody out there who could convey the enthusiasm for science like him. He could take the most difficult topics and talk about them in a very accessible ways, so even a 13 year old like me would understand it and become interested.

He will be missed :(
How do you know that most Facebook users think like that? I believe most users have a better understanding than you are giving them credit for.
Does anyone have any suggestions for some shoes like the various Vibram models but which do not have entirely separated toes? Perhaps which only have a separation between the large and small toes?

My second and third toes are fused together by some skin. I'd rather not have an operation to separate them as they are fun and unique, but they prevent me from wearing "five-finger" shoes.
Please tell me that you're not talking about sexual predators viewing pictures of children.
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+1 This is exactly the issue. There are many, many people out there that don't feel like something is a problem until it literally bites them in the ass. This applies on and off the Internet.
I don't mean to be contentious, but it doesn't seem to include the clause the BSD license includes.

From the BSD license:
“Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.”

I don't think the zlib license has an equivalent restriction? I don't see anything that protects the author or the organization funding the author from misrepresentation.

To give a clear example of what this clause presents, I have a friend who wrote a open-sourced library that a company used a few years ago. The founder of that company ran around using his name “Lots of people are excited about our product! We've got a lot of software engineers doing pro-bono work for it, such as <FRIENDNAME>.”

Obviously, this is disingenuous and potentially damaging to someone's representation, but it's not strictly forbidden by most licenses. What's nice about having your license explicitly forbid this practice is that if the user does this, they void the license and it is relatively easy to get them to stop using your library and really firmly disassociate yourself with the organization, should you choose to.
I disagree. Three is better than two. no more, no less.

Look at Youtube as the perfect case study. Jawad, the thrid foudner, gave up operation dutities togo back to school. he still advised, and was paramount in the early stages of the company/product.

If the OP has already found one right partner (it takes more than just chemistry), then losing that person may harm you and your business.

At a same time, a 3rd founder who is a specialist could really help you in this situation. I don't think I can add any more value about that than it's been already said here.

Goodluck and make sure to post updates as to your founder search.
> I have to also confess that I've thought of developing a kids website that my kids can play with. What are your experiences or thoughts here?

I did this once (totlol.com). My kids love it, so do others, but I can't say it brought joy to our family. 2 cents? Don't.
I switch between barefoot and Nike free for my runs. I like 'em. They resemble regular shoes so you could wear them all day.
Today I am also procrastinating -- working on marketing material and brochureware. Ughh. Sometimes I give myself a break by working on an interesting programming problem or just walking around outside. My rule-of-thumb though is to make sure a couple hours of each day involve something (anything) you are really looking forward to.
You basically want a shoe that offers rock and debris protection and not much more. We have a number of clients using Nike Frees and good old Converse Chuck Taylors (low-cut). Personally, I like my Converse more than my FiveFingers.

(I'm co-owner of CrossFit Quantum and we teach forefoot/POSE running as part of our movements.)
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I'm surfing.
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thanks, i'll give it a try
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/08/how_to_lose_your_job_via_f...
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/moron_calls_in_sick_busted...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_failed_inter...

Anecdotal evidence for sure, but my main point wasn't even about what users think, but about them acting based on social instincts without giving it much thought.
I've added the courses from a couple of new universities to OCW Search (not yet live), and now building a social media "dashboard" to help me keep track of what people are saying about it. The latter got me upset at reddit as it doesn't support JSONP, just plain JSON.
Hey - it's your article citation - did you even read it?

That list contains TOP schools some of which were founded in the 1600 and 1700s and who are so selective that some reject 80% of applicants. That was not a typical list of private schools.

And I actually believe their claims of teacher ratios -- at least on that list.

While I accept, NYC private schools cost more than the national average - they are essentially charging taxpayers $20K a year to not educate kids.
Why would you post that somewhere even vaguely public though? The vast majority of people I know are aware that Facebook isn't completely close. They may of course be surprised how easy stuff is to extract.

But the truth is that better and more secure privacy exists today than it did six months ago. And a pretty large number of people are aware of that.
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And since when using a modified runtime environment tailored to the limited resources of the target platform is an innovation?

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=802845 comes to my mind, just a Google query away.
I'm in Israel with my family after finishing spring semester. Sunday is a workday here and thus I completely forgot it was Sunday. For better and worse, I feel better about my laziness now.
I love the writing style. It reminds me a lot of Vonnegut.
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Better late than never. :) What caused you to do this? if i may ask
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> and the risk of litigation acts as a damper on innovation.

Perhaps this risks will end up encouraging innovation on different directions, rendering the initial innovation worthless.

It's a very complex system. It's not obvious how it will react to rule changes. Even the way it functions now is not obvious.
My daughter (11) may be into this, but my son (8) probably wouldn't. He likes games too much. He still plays Club Penguin some, but Garry's mod is where he spends his screen time now.
It's probably to late to care anyway. Google probably has your searches of the last 10 or so years, your email, it knows the places you have been, your parents, your friends, the pages you visit every day, the kinds of porn you like, what disgusts you, what you really like, what you buy, how much money you can dispose of, and so on.

I don't like that. I probably would give that information only to some of my best friends, and maybe not even all of it.
I don't intimately know google enough to trust it with all that data, google is not my friend. The only thing I know about google is that they make cool online webapps, and that they have a great search engine, but that does not make them my friend, so they don't have my trust. That's why I try not to give it too much info about me.
The same holds true for facebook, and every other online service I give info about me.

But this is just me, and what I think is probably not what the majority thinks.
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I vaguely recall reading about a computer chess tournament in the 70s where one program did not have an opening book and was optimized for making moves quickly. Its opponents would use their opening books to make lightening-fast moves early and then take much longer per move later in the game.

This program was beating much "better" programs because it would open in non-standard ways and while the other programs didn't play the non-standard openings particularly poorly, they weren't tuned to manage their time wisely and would use tons of time early in the game, then run into time trouble later.
Who in NYC gets up early, who parties late, good spots, and more.
There's an older build for Windows, and the newest one is for Linux.

1.0 will be available on all three platforms. Shoes 3 is taking a minute to come out, due to some complicated issues, especially on OSX. It's a combination of bad timing with the underlying libraries and a lack of other contributors.
You timeline app seems pretty nice. I love the UI.
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A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter streaming API
AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac
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hey zuckerberg..... LURK MORE
What is your point? They don't belong in public schools either.
I suppose corruption happened. It usually does.
I used to be a teacher also, but in a college level trade school, in a state that consistently ranks near the top in high school scores, in a rural, white, midwestern middle class district that had sufficient funds to produce state champion football teams, where there were minimal poverty and social issues and minimal crime.

I still had a steady stream of high school graduates showing up in my college program that could not read a paragraph, could not write a sentence, who could not add, subtract, multiply or divide fractions or decimals, yet they were proud gradates of the local school district.

What's broke? No idea, but I do know that if that district had done even the most trivial of standardized testing, those students would have been flagged for remedial work long before they started college. Instead the college, with about 40 full time faculty, dedicated 3 of those faculty to 4th through 8th grade remedial math and reading.
And god help you if you've extended the Array or Object prototypes.
I understand. I do now HTML and CSS and have played a bit with javascript. But yes, I a am aware how difficult and time consuming this will be.
Would you then recommend RoR over PHP?
A yaris doesn't compare to an x3. What's the difference between a 1 series hatch and a yaris? Or an x3 and a Highlander?
We've been liveblogging the hacks that use Twilio, and there are videos of each of them here: http://blog.twilio.com/2010/05/live-from-the-techcrunch-disr...
Syntactic extensions, or macros
IIRC, clojure works with 64-ary trees, which are a different data structure, but both share the property that 'leaves' contain more than one object. An unrolled linked list node would have, say, 63 objects and a pointer to another node. A 64-ary tree node will either have 64 objects, or pointers to 64 other nodes. One important property is that because each middle node in the tree has 64 children instead of 2, the depth of the trees are very very shallow in practice.

However, it's possible that clojure uses this layout for arrays and a different ones for lists or other sequences.
Well I don't know but to be honest I would have demoed something I hacked for http://youmixer.com, the site I'm currently working on, rather than staying up and making http://want2know.org completely from scratch :)
I've uploaded a copy of the Google PAC-MAN Doodle here:

http://operandx.com/GooglePacman/Play.html

Enjoy!
re-implementing moving forward in the game history for a local html+JS+CSS implementation of a go game board:

http://github.com/raganwald/go/commit/40800b91b896f17d8371c1...
I don''t think HN would become another reddit. Downvoting would be only available above a certain karma threshold and its worked well for comments, which havent become reddit like.

The alternative could be make flagged have a displayable number that acts as downvotes for position but doesnt effect karma. Display the number of people who have flagged an article. It's like downvoting but more explicitly clear only for things that are objectionable on some other ground than you disagree.
Awesome product!

I have to add a comment/suggestion.
Have you thought of allowing tweets to register as events on the timeline? This is a problem that plagues TV NEWS anchors. Every time they blowup twitter.com to show viewer responses or reactions to a certain event, there's no way for them to manage the tweet other than to have multiple browser tabs open and switch between them.

Terrible experience for the audience and the the anchor as user.

Letting them to save tweets in a fashion that annotates on your timeline seems to be the ideal solution. Keep it up!
A lot of people first learned about Lisp from him. In fact, I bet more people learned about Lisp from him than anyone else.
How “Open” Is Google Really?  [video]
I was going to get through a chapter a day of Kochan's Objective-C book this weekend. That means two chapters today...
Hey - it's your article citation - did you even read it?

Fair enough - also funny. I did read it. I don't think it says that other schools in NYC cost much less. The numbers are normal for Manhattan and Brooklyn now. I can't get you the weblink for every private school in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but here are two more links chosen pretty much at random. The number you will see over and over in articles and blogs on this is $30,000.

http://www.nysun.com/new-york/parents-facing-sticker-shock-o...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
Add a displayable number of how many people have flagged something and have this negatively impact page ranking and I think thats a solution. Down-voting with a more explicit label discouraging down-voting for disagreeing with a topic.
Someone should do a speech like this on the life of the travelling salesman...
Do you still get time to work on client projects with 2 products in hand? How do you manage it?
So search terms regularly contain highly sensitive things like password reset verifications for your online banking?
I hope someone with more experience will help clarify this: if in Firefox I click "open in new tab" instead of simply clicking the link, will the referring url be preserved, or will it be counted as "direct"? If the referrer is lost in this case, that would explain the larger number of "direct" access.
Earlier discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1371335
Possibly declawed. Have to wait for the House/Senate reconcile.

Now, the amendment maintains the $200,000 salary and $1 million net worth -- as long as the primary residence is not included in the net worth calculation.

http://news.google.com/news/search?q=senate+bill+accredited+...
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If they can work through the weekend, more power to them. As for me, I find I work better if I take 1-2 days off a week - my thinking is so much clearer. Clarity makes a big difference for the kind of work I'm doing at the moment (I've even tried taking Wednesday off, to get a second boost of clarity, but I can't quite talk myself into it). However, I think there are some kinds of work that don't benefit much from clarity; and sometimes, if you get into the zone, it's much more efficient to keep that loaded in memory, that taking a break, and having to load it in and out. Some people work really well on 34hour days (and a few days off).
Have a look at Riak. It scales up (and down) very well. And it's been in production use for a while now.
Some of them don't, but what he's really referring to are students with IEPs --- and those run the gamut from children who genuinely need constant individualized attention to kids with no medically diagnosable problems whatsoever.

My son (who is and will remain in public school, though we live in a wealthy suburb and so enjoy de facto private schooling) had trouble socializing in 1st grade and was "diagnosed" by a school functionary as having an "autism spectrum disorder". After consulting with my mom, a full-time LD/BD teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, we argued for over a month against assigning an IEP to him. "You need the IEP to get occupational therapy services" (read: handwriting lessons). Yeah, and, we can count on never getting rid of the IEP, or getting him into any selective program anywhere.

(He's concluding 5th grade now, and besides issues getting his homework in, he's doing great. Late bloomer.)

The fact that private schools can be selective about students and can expel them virtually without cause is not a spurious concern. It's a very real issue.
This is something people have been saying since long before facebook when myspace was the undisputed king of social networks. As early as my freshman year of highschool nearly 8 years ago teachers and administration were telling us to be careful what we put on the internets and the myspace because our prospective colleges and jobs would be looking at them.

I hate to generalize and single out a group, but of the people I know I feel like the only people who didn't understand that facebook had very little privacy were the older parents and family and such who all joined after they saw all their kids doing it.