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The tempting thing would be to use your search engine links instead of Google(Yahoo, etc) , whenever you post some solution/comment in regular(read, not startup related) forums.

Obviously, the link would have to be appropriate and your results not Cuil worthy.
You could actually negotiate the other way around. For example, if your commute is 1 hour each way, and you work 5 days a week, you're wasting 10 hours each week. If you pitch working from home as being able to turn some of that commute time into increased productivity, you are actually more valuable to the company.
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> And surely universality (all-encompassing, there-is-nothing-else) means closed system?

Not necessarily. The question isn't really settled. It seems quite complicated when you get to those scales. E.g. just as an analogy, in general relativity even energy isn't really conserved. (See http://math.ucr.edu/home//baez/physics/Relativity/GR/energy_...) So I don't know whether we can say anything definite about entropy.
Come on. The other guys are like 10% the cost of Amazon.
Data center internal traffic is usually free. Are you talking about datacenter to other datacenter traffic?

In any event. You're wasting money. Reddit could easily be hosted for $3k/mo or so.
I wonder how many decades IBM has been in the top 10?
I'm sure there are some things that are difficult to prototype, but typically you can special case the difficult parts. Regardless, if the prototype is difficult the product will be even harder.

I think there are basically accepted practices. If the software has a UI, use MVC and separate all the UI bits. Test coverage gives a good metric for product quality and everything but the UI should be well covered. Reasonable performance tests should cover multiple users, load etc.

I'm not sure what civil engineer considers robust, but I think this approach basically works.
Have you ever changed a segment register in userland code? Tell me about the code that did it and why.

And while you're at it: have you ever written code that switched stacks? You might have had to if you wrote a userland threading library, or if you wrote an exception handling system, or a coroutine library. This stuff you're critiquing this guy on the Cygwin list about: are you an expert?

I saw your Reddit comments; I believe you're a competent WinAPI C programmer. What I want to know is, do you actually know assembly? Or just have a lot of opinions about it?
The problem with this debate is that if you speak to most teachers, they agree wholeheartedly that procedures need to be in place to fire bad teachers.

The issue is that they are very hostile to the educational administration establishment that has decided test scores are the ideal measure by which to base this.

Test scores, while they are good at measuring some aspects of learning, ultimately tie teachers' hands and force them to teach from only state-approved curricula. Especially scary if you live in a state where Thomas Jefferson has been struck from the books because the board of education has an ideology to push, and is unconcerned with teaching truth.

So if you ask most teachers, they support this sort of thing totally, and therefore the unions would too. But only if they receive assurances that standardized testing - an enemy of free thought - is a minimally important part of the evaluation system. Peer review is the ideal.

Now, this obviously still brings charges of cronyism, and it certainly will create cliques of teachers, but only rarely cliques of bad teachers. And I think it's worth knowing that we pass a widely varied bunch of knowledge onto our children, instead of only those facts that are deemed convenient and useful by powerful cliques in the state legislatures.
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The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum
Exactly what I thought. Here are the first 30 complete with terrible formatting:

UPR8011 Centre d'Elaboration des Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales	187.36

J. Craig Venter Institute	70.09

Sri Lanka Press Institute	56.33

European Molecular Biology Laboratory	43.45

Apple Computer, Inc.	41.84

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	36.47

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics	32.86

Google Inc.	28.5

European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL	28.2

Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)	28.12

Palo Alto Research Center	27.21

Howard Hughes Medical Institute	26.18

Sun Microsystems Laboratories	24.43

Harvard University Harvard Business School	24.35

AT&T Labs Research	23.04

Santa Fe Institute	21.65

National Institute of Genetics Mishima	21.24

Salk Institute for Biological Studies	20.67

Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies Inc.)	20.53

University of California Berkeley	20.53

Weizmann Institute of Science	20.52

Yahoo Research Labs	20.28

University of London	19.69

Stanford University	19.63

Princeton University	19.51

Massachusetts Institute of Technology	19.14

Cisco Systems, Inc	19.06

Argonne National Laboratory	18.81

Microsoft	18.69

National Institutes of Health	18.34
It seems like among the top 4, Berkeley has the highest citation/publication ratio, which indicates they publish less (due to size or just pub frequency), but with more meaningful stuff on average. I wonder if this is related to the laid-back culture of Berkeley that students don't have pressure to "publish".

Disclaimer: I am becoming a graduate student at Berkeley soon.
what's the earliest publication of each organisation?

You can control for that by selecting last 10 or 5 years. That makes Microsoft look even better, though.

it should be normalized by the size of the organisation.

I guess it depends, I think it is ok like this. This shows which organization has biggest impact on computer science.
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Re impact: While it's not strictly correlated, the number of citations does indicate to a certain degree the real world impact of a publication. This is usually how you measure "impact" in the academia.
You misunderstand me. I am not saying that Indian Universities properly prepare you for a lifetime of success. I am saying that it is certain you can get the mathematical knowledge you want from them. As to whether that is the career you want or whether you want to be a mathematician - I have no idea. But if you want to learn and understand proof-based math, Indian universities are as good as everyone else's, and the good ones are quite good.
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When trying to do routine tasks, many of us don't necessarily want to get into a social situation. We don't want to think about how to phrase our questions, or what impression we make on the other person. A machine does not care about that.

On the other hand, when it's not sure what can or should be done, a live chat or another "low overhead" communication line with a real human who can actually understand us is a blessing.
That's for comparison-based sorting algorithms (i.e. sorting objects where the only information you have about them is whether one object is "bigger"/"smaller" than the other. For objects where you have more information about the object (i.e. integers) you can sort faster. My supervisor for my Master's Thesis did just that: http://www.drdobbs.com/184404062
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This is the real issue. I have absolutely no problem with rewarding good teachers and sanctioning bad ones. The crucial question is how good and bad will be defined. Standardized testing is absolutely not the way to do it.
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Has any study been done about the likelihood of people to check-in with one of these social apps? If someone checks-in at the gym on Monday, are they going to be less likely to check in again on Tuesday?
People I know seem to check-in when they are subtly bragging about what they're doing, so is it likely they'll check-in at a non-trendy restaurant on a Tuesday evening?
...everyone else wants to cut their salaries and assign them more work in the name of "eliminating government waste" (while leaving earmarks and military funding untouched, of course..)

Argue with straw men much?
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Also in NYC, Friday and Saturday nights are when restaurants are clogged with tourists, so locals try to avoid going out on those nights.
If you want better teachers, you don't necessarily need to pay much more. What you need to do is make the job better, and you do that by working to remove the things that make teacher's lives miserable.

Teachers already love kids and teaching. What drives them away is a long list of negatives: little support from administration (especially when parents are involved), overbearing and/or micromanaging administration, way too much paperwork, too many meetings, and too much weight put on standardized testing. Large class sizes doesn't help either.

(And please don't tell me that teachers have summers off (technically, contracts end at the end of the year and start up again when the school year begins, so they are not employed during the summer). Teachers spend their summers doing professional development, getting prepared for next year (revising curriculum, tweaking tests/quizzes/homeworks), dealing with paperwork, recovering from the school year, and often doing something teaching-related for pay (running summer programs or summer school). )
Summary:

A new study finds that "[s]tudents who had learned much more in kindergarten" did better in later life.

"The economists don’t pretend to know the exact causes. But it’s not hard to come up with plausible guesses."

"Mr. Chetty and his colleagues ... estimate that a standout kindergarten teacher is worth about $320,000 a year."

Voila, "The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers!"
Sure, I think runmap.net especially offers a great mapping-tool and a good way to discover new tracks, but leaves a lot to be desired in the community area. If you could combine great maps with Twitter (Sending messages like: I just ran X miles in Y minutes RandomRunner.com/runID) and a platform to talk to other runners it could be quite a nice service. Don't know how open for integration these two other sites are.

I thought about something similar a while back, but decided against it when I saw the existing sites. I would love to see/use such a service though.
you dont like lisp syntax? you want to do prototype based OO? they aren't identical. they may share some features but not all features. its sort of like asking back in the 90s- why would i use python instead of perl.
Wow. They changed a name property - something that you probably shouldn't be using programmatically a great deal - and it broke Eclipse.
I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. Obviously no website UI can ever cover absolutely all cases and some queries will need to reach a human, but most companies don't even seem to try. Even if there's a form for other queries it's usually one big text box rather than the more specific questions staff would ask you on the phone. The worst part are the responses combined from canned text blocks, which tend to make no sense at all and don't solve any problems. Or even better, online queries being ignored altogether, or receiving an automated "please call" reply.

One exception to this (in my experience) is amazon. Their help section is pretty comprehensive, each shipment has associated actions you can take which are context (status) dependent and if you do have a specific request it's ridiculously impersonal but very efficient.
Ask HN: Good Javascript learning exercise suggestions
Can you offer some suggestions of good Javascript exercises ? Both for beginner and advanced ?

I was thinking of a web based chat for advanced (this sounded a bit tricky that's why I picked it), and for something simple I had in mind tricks and animations for a form using jquery.

For books I had in mind :

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596101996/wrrrldwideweb

Thanks.
Good teachers are undervalued. Education is valued, but they sure don't give the enough compensation to the teachers. Teachers need more recognition. It's not the institution that makes a school great, it's the teachers.

Thank you to the teachers out there.
Cool stuff. But seriously I need you to move to new york :) So few startups here, I blame you, the people coming up with ideas in California.

I worry about your business model though. It seems nice to be able to safe a thousand or more dollars on wedding invitations BUT here are the problems:

1) When a wedding costs 25k, saving 50-500 bucks on an invitation is going to be looked at as stupid, and cheap. You want the one that takes the most hassle out of it.

2) A big part of the invitations is the printing/mailing. If only the design was the only factor.

3) Often catering halls (im from new york) will do everything from getting the place, getting the catering, getting the flowers, getting the invitations and sending them out, its a full-blown package.

The real way to go about this is to have people design their invitations in an awesome way quickly before their wedding, get hooked to it, and already have that in mind. Makes it less of a headache for them, and sells your product.
Customer service should be thought of internally as the forearm of the marketing department. Instead most companies just view it as a cost center.
Unfortunately, this is not my experience. Just this summer I installed Ubuntu 10.04 desktop on a computer running a relatively new ATI card (It was top of the line a couple years ago, I believe). While in general use its fine, there are plenty of really annoying issues. Unfortunately for us, as we were attempting to use it as a media center, there were significant issues with full screen video, where it would freeze up for 5 - 10 seconds at a time every minute or two. This is a known issue for the entire series of cards, and is a driver bug, but hasn't been fixed in the 1+ year that the issue has been open. Then there are other smaller issues with the card such as a 5 second delay maximizing a window, if you're using compiz. Not a deal killer, but still annoying, and there were a few similar bugs like this. After this incredibly sour experience with ATI, I'm not sure I'll recommend them again for a long time. And I haven't even gotten into how long I had to fight with X just to get dual monitors to work.
Go take a look at a municipal budget over the last 5 years, pretty much anywhere in the US.

It's not a straw man. State and local budgets have been strapped since 2002-2003 or so, all the way through the supposed "boom", and it got worse after the collapse.

The stimulus bill, for example -- it was like 40% tax cuts, had a bunch of earmarks, but the local aid that would've helped teachers was what got stripped out in order to get the last couple votes. Congress can reduce the deficit by cutting state aid. States can balance their budgets by cutting local aid. School districts get stuck with the lack of funding from their congressman's admirable devotion to balanced budgets. In between voting for putting 2 wars and a $50 million senior center for his district on the credit card.

I'm just giving you the truth - you can accept it or not.
Wow—that's a great way to explain those concepts to the layman.
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The Good Parts is the best Javascript book I've ever read. You can't go wrong with getting it. I had people who worked for me ( and who came from a very-algol based language background) read it; in the words of one: 'an earth shattering eye opener'.
On Tuesday, Mr. Chetty presented the findings — not yet peer-reviewed

I'd like to see the details of the study before jumping to conclusions. There are just way too many variables.
A small thing, but kudos for the NYT for mentioning that the research was not yet peer reviewed. Too much 'science reporting' lately presents papers and other publications as sworn fact, often skewed in whatever direction the reporting body wants.
Or as an upsell situation.
"Update: For those of you who can't identify irony: the fake screenshot doesn't actually stray far from the truth."

StackOverflow works just fine, this guy posted a joke screenshot as evidence that it does not. Who's the moron here?
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Working at a startup sucks
This article didn't even touch on the most obvious reasons people prefer the self-serve.

First, the ATM example. If banks in the US are anything like the banks in Canada you can use the ATM for free but pay substantial service fees if you go to the teller. So of course people wait in line at the ATM instead.

For the others dealing with a human, because of past abuse by companies, is typically viewed as having a lot of potential friction. The humans are trained to try and upsell you at every turn (would like like this as well? it's only an extra this amount) and the humans are much better at upselling than the machines so it's no wonder we go for the machines. It's much easier to ignore the upsells and just go with your regular routine.

For me, dealing with a human at a company is nearly always slow and aggravating with them going off on tangents I don't want them bringing me in. The best way of keeping them on track is to be rude which I don't like to do to humans but have no problem with when I'm dealing with a machine.
You get this in milder form in higher-level education as well. If you look at some of the recent debates over tenure, lots of professors will agree that there are dead-weight profs who basically quit working after tenure, and we ought to be able to fire them. But the crucial question is: who decides if they're a dead-weight prof, and who gets to fire them? And will this add a bunch of new non-research work to satisfy whatever process gets invented? Academics have basically zero trust in university administrators being the ones to do that--- the worry is that if tenure's abolished, people will be hired/fired for metrics-based reasons, like citation count and how many grant $$ they brought in in the past 5 years, or even for trendy university-marketing reasons ("I hear X is hot, we need more profs there, not in Y" or "we need more of the kinds of profs who get interviewed on CNN a lot").
There are plenty of tools for dealing with context-free grammars. I'm not sure what distinction you're making by referring to context-free expressions.

I like ocamllex + ocamlyacc, or LPEG for lighter stuff. Flex and yacc are ok, but C is really not my first choice for string-heavy stuff.
You should focus on having the coolest invitations, rather than focusing on having a lower price.
This reminds me of school applications. No news is sometimes good news (it may depend on the school), until the final notification date.
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Grocery stores figured this out years ago with self-checkout. Scanning each item can be tedious (looking up produce codes, etc.), and yet many customers prefer to scan their own items.

I do not mind at self-checkout when an employee helps to put everything into bags, though.
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I got the impression that this story wanted me to be irritated at Oracle, but was left with the impression that this problem has nothing at all to do with Oracle.
What people tend to forget about Node.js is that everyone knows JavaScript. This is really it's killer feature against other platforms. The ability to get a team up and running on Node is unparalleled.
eh, i'm also in a business that is traditionally marketing heavy. Dramatic price differences can make up for a lot of marketing, in some markets. (Of course, my market is about as different from weddings as you can get, so a dramatically lower price might not make as much difference in that market.)
"Who fixes a bug by making something dependent on the dll/exe company name? Stupid...How are those outsourced indians working for you now Oracle and Sun!!!!"

Uh, did Oracle/Sun develop Eclipse?
Coincidentally I just came back from camping. No tv, no phone etc. No matter what else I have tried it just won't give me the perspective I have now. I'm outside looking in - Freedom but also total control actually.
At US banks, there are generally no fees at the teller that you wouldn't also pay at the ATM.
For books I recommend the Javascript Cookbook ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596806132/ ). It was released a few days ago and from the parts I've read so far, covers a lot of use cases for the language as well as lots of HTML 5 + ECMAscript 5 bits.

If you're interested in building something with a client-side js framework, you should check out this tutorial http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb . It covers how to build a simple blog app with node.js and express.
Perhaps we should ask the students and student parents? After all the parents are paying the bill (even when it's indirect via taxes)
Related point: at the same time that the machine allows me to be more efficient, and to be more precise without being rude, it also lets me be less efficient without being rude. An automated kiosk doesn't care how many times I ask it the same question, and doesn't feel like I'm jerking it around if I cancel out of buying a first class upgrade when I'm at the final confirmation screen.
Are you seriously comparing an easy 6 week continuing education course to full time employment?

I'm really not sure why you think the job needs to be made better. Teachers already work less during the year than other professionals [1], get 2-3 months in which they need to work only a few hours (if at all), get incredibly good job security and defined benefit pensions. That's an incredible comp package which most people in the private sector would love to have.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf
A node.js tutorial was also something that I was looking for, so thanks for that.

If you have any more ideas both for beginners and advanced, it would be great.
Looking at meat along (as opposed to animal products), Mexico doesn't make it to the top, but it is still far above Asian levels (even China). The US is cited as being at the top in many places, though it's possible Denmark is ignored due to having a smaller population than some US cities.

United States Leads World Meat Stampede
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1626

It's also worth pointing out that S. Koreans have a longer life expectancy than people in either the US or Denmark, despite being less economically developed and have a much smaller social system. Note that the countries topping the life expectancy rankings, Japan and HK are both big rice eaters, and that #3, Iceland gets most its meat as fish.

That said, after reading your post and once again researching the statistics, I'm absolutely shocked how quickly rich countries other than the US have been increasing their meat consumption. I couldn't find lists that looked at total consumption of animal products, but the rankings in terms of meat itself have changed a lot. I'm still 100% sure that eating rice at breakfast, lunch and dinner is part of the traditional Japanese diet, and that they out-live the heavy meat/cheese/butter eaters in other rich countries.
Interesting. If one looks at your list, which clearly is less "biased" towards academia, it seems like it might indicate more accurately those organizations that produce research that is actually "useful"/influential, no?
And here's the wikipedia article that this was taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping