skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've known a few teachers and I used to be a professor myself [1]. Prep takes up very little time after you've already taught a class.

But I'll certainly take your 2 secondhand anecdotes and some random internet guy over a scientific survey done by the BLS.

Incidentally, your random internet guy is pretty obviously exaggerating. He claims 30 min putting grades into the computer. If he has 40 students in his class, then it takes him 45 seconds to type one number into a spreadsheet! (Entering grades took me 3-4 minutes back when I had students.)

[1] Postdoc, actually. A moot distinction for the purposes of this conversation, but I'm not into self aggrandizement.
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This could additionally be influenced by any number of schemes which increase both the size and number of college loans, e.g., government-guaranteed loans resulting in higher willingness to lend than might otherwise occur. Such subsidies (be they real or perceived) would tend to result in higher tuition rates for private schools, and lower subsidy amounts for state schools.
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Picture too racy to be seen by millions on the internet?

Don't post it to the internet.
Websites get hacked, confidences are violated.
(In fact, if you actually care, you shouldn't take the picture in the first place, as PCs can be hacked as well).
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usually those companies become primarily sales oriented rather than technology oriented. Take Oracle. Yeah, they have some technology... and they even develop some new stuff. But primarily they work in sales. A less radical example would be Microsoft.

The problem with the cya approach is that it minimizes the risk for any particular individual, not for the organization as a whole. They don't take the option that is least likely to fail, they take the option that is least likely to bite them personally in the ass if it does fail.
It’s from an essay of Mark Twain’s* where he talks about how people’s opinions depend on their social situations – where they get their money from, who they talk to, etc. (Corn-pone was a staple food.) It’s a little like the famous Upton Sinclair line: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

So I take nazgulnarsil to mean that the author’s position is a trivial function of who pays him.

* http://books.google.com/books?id=MEX5JlUu60IC&lpg=PA2...
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So, anyone know of startups that need a Ruby/Clojure/Haskell guy that makes mobile games?
Was that satellite technology classified? IIRC the military also invented digital audio and public-key crypto but these inventions weren't publicly known until decades later by which time they had been reinvented by civilians.
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I do enjoy all of the above mentioned games/VNs, but I think Portal is ideal because of its length. I am doubtful students would have the leisure to finish any of the other games. Also, much as I love them, calling F/sn and Tsukihime "games" is a bit of a stretch. "Multimedia text" is probably more accurate. :-)
Not in our tests, and nobody in our beta test period had any comments. The logic around controlling the connection is pretty intelligent in what it does.

A connection that's open isn't problematic at all, assuming it's being used - lots of setups/teardowns can be an issue (which is why polling apps will consistently take up a large portion of your battery life). The main issue is if the app is using a radio when it shouldn't be. Luckily, we can control this pretty well with our handling code and have been able to balance out needs pretty well between delivering a message as quickly as possible and not destroying battery life.

If you're an Android dev, we'd love your feedback on it in general :)
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Not sure why you are multiplying their pay.

Bakery A charges $9 for 9 muffins. Bakery B charges $12 for 12 muffins. Which bakery is more expensive?
[citation wanted]

Not to be wikipedia-style passive aggressive, I'm just genuinely curious and unfamiliar with these studies.
Fair enough. Off the top of my head, a whole host of reasons:

a) I'm unconvinced that my money will make a positive difference.

b) I don't want to reward begging.

c) I don't find interacting with the homeless enjoyable.

d) If I give the quarter to the same homeless guy each day he'll come to expect it and become unhappy if I don't one day.

e) Doing the same thing every day quickly makes it routine and destroys any enjoyment.

I'm just surprised that people always use the "giving money to the homeless" thing as an example of doing good, when there's far better stuff around. (For example, you could save your $7.50 for twelve months[1] and mail off a $90 donation to the charity of your choice).

[1] If you give less frequently you'll minimize the cost of processing your donations.
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it is only a few Canadians and Americans that see it as a US vs Canada issue

No Americans see "it" as a "US vs Canada issue" because "it" is an exclusively Canadian concern. What Americans think of Canada is (a) nothing and (b) (when pressed) that big cold-but-friendly blank space at the top of the map. That doesn't stop them from being warm and fuzzy when they find out you're Canadian.
Reality check: "The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm: California taxpayers don’t get much bang for their bucks." http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_california.html

Excerpt:

California is the only Sunbelt state that had negative net internal migration after 2000. All the other states that lost population to internal migration were Rust Belt basket cases, including New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan, and Ohio.

As Tiebout might have guessed, this outmigration has to do with taxes. Besides Mississippi, every one of the 17 states with the lowest state and local tax levels had positive net internal migration from 2000 to 2007. Except for Wyoming, Maine, and Delaware, every one of the 17 highest-tax states had negative net internal migration over the same period.
XSL became widely usable in 2007 when Safari 4 was introduced (on the iPhone too).

Nobody even noticed.
If you are saying projected cash flows are a bad way of valuing startups, I agree.
Disclaimer: Freakonomics to me embodies modern business writing at its worst. Anecdotal, single case half-correlations that try to pretend they’re something more than fluff entertainment.

In this article, they truly don’t disappoint.

A hilarious and misguided glorification of what, I imagine, is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes.

Written like a recruiting pamphlet, to boot.

And the answer to how a prostitute can earn far more by working far less?

Price elasticity of demand!

Stunning discovery Freakonomics.

/End Rant
$300/hour? That is one of the highest paying job i ever heard of.
What kind of hardware displays do you support? Is there a min or max resolution and display size?
The best part is at the end when the monkey pays another monkey for sex.
I think that's part of the origin of human evolution (this started happening after women started having hidden estrus).
is a soul crushing business for 99/100 prostitutes

How is that conclusion much better than the one you're attacking?
Apparently this professor is better acquainted with the definition of the word posterity than Paul Carr. Thanks again for pointing that out the other day.
Yeah. For example, how about some sort of monitoring device that tells you when it's optimal to chill out in the woods.
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.

—Socrates

These kind of education articles are fucking stupid and only help fan the flames on all sides of deeply flawed ideologies. Beating this dead horse is so common that I've learned to tune these from out when NYT, NPR, etc run these formulaic education scare pieces.

The flaw is that you just can't compare apples to oranges and expect any kind of meaningful conclusion. In this case, it's cross correlating some super high dimensional manifold from 1964(or whenever) comprised of easily hundreds of thousands of variables, against a similar large manifold(2010). There are just too many totally different variables between then and now for it to be a fair comparison at all.

Sure, each side sees what it wants in whatever tiny slice of the data they choose to use. Blame the Mexicans, no blame the Rich, no blame the Liberals, no blame Reagan, ad infinitum.

And this guy, a professional in higher education, wants to step out on a far limb to make some grandiose claim about the status of California education.
I am more fearful of him ruining his own students by teaching them to mimic his own flawed reasoning than I am of any of his exaggerated, inaccurate conclusions.

You know what? More likely than not, the world will keep going the way it has been, people, kids, and education will keep improving, albeit incrementally, and there is not going to be some apocalyptic doomsday in the future of public education in California, or anywhere.

In summary, he's basically following the same pattern so many old people follow: somewhere along the way they lose touch with reality, with the youth, get stuck in their ways, and believe the whole world has gone to hell in a handbasket, and all because of some imagined flaw in the entire youth population. Old people forget what it was like to be young, and lose their ability to rapidly adapt and learn as children do. And without fail, each generation grows up to believe they were somehow better than later generations. Bollocks!

I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

—Abe Simpson
IMO the main reason this overcomplication tends to happen is that many of the Monads for Idiots guides are written by people just out of the period where they struggled with the concept, and they mistakenly think that the entire thought process that led them to get it is the best way to present the topic.

But teaching doesn't work that way, and more often than not presenting the 'long way' through a topic obscures the essential simplicity that actually helps people figure it out for themselves.

That burrito one is a good example; maybe interesting once you already know what's going on, but if you don't it's most likely just going to frighten you away.
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Yes, I have analogies but the very definition of an analogy precludes it being the thing it analogizes.

...

How is gravitational force produced? Is it associated with an elementary particle, a graviton?

You seem to suggest that analogies get in the way of real understanding. But I think at the root of understanding (as opposed to just proving empirically) is a set of nested analogies at an increasing level of detail. For example, if we knew that gravity was caused by say, gravitons, our understanding would be little more than a set of analogies about the gravitons (but ones that have been made rigorous and proven empirically).
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I think his point in that example was that articles that seek to glorify something that supports human trafficking, sex slavery, and forced rape - all of which millions are currently victims - should be based on more than conjecture and assumptions.
What if the students that the psychology profs hired weren't very good actors, and their selfless behavior didn't seem genuine?
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Corny as it sounds,, that book changed my way of thinking and indeed my life when I was around 18yo.
As 'erik' pointed out, there is already an open source program for this. I'll be installing this tomorrow to check it out.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1630247
Two things I need desperately from SimpleNote:

1. not only allow tag each note, but also allow users add customized metadata field. Like {'tag': ['todo', 'work'], 'alarm': '2010-08-25 00:00:00.000'}

The creation date and revision records are readonly metadata.

2. Scriptable event system based on metadata. Like fire an alarm at 2010-08-25 00:00:00.000, or send email to someone as soon as a note is 1000 words long.
We are hardware-agnostic. Our visualizations are inherently vector-based, so screen size/resolution will not be an issue.
I love zim wiki too and since I don't need my phone in the loop I sync it between my laptop and my desktop with git.
very long-winded.

essentially, she charged more and became a high-end sex worker.
Does this idea correlate with the rise of europe as the first part of the world to industrialize?

Was the rate of child mortality lower in europe than elsewhere in the world?
It will be interesting to see how often stories on reddit appear on the frontpage of Digg. Clearly, several stories will make it, but it seems unlikely that it would be near 63% or even half of that.
Does energy cause space/time to sag? Or just matter?

If the universe had no matter, only "empty space", there would be no gravity.

I see it as space/time WANTS to be perfectly flat but any existence of mass causes it to warp/sag. Blackholes cause super-sags to the point of infinity (some say it can tear space/time at the final point) and wormholes in theory can connect two points of the space/time "blanket".

The problem is people want to see gravity as some kind of particle or wave like light but it's not, it's an effect, a result of mass itself.

It's not that we are being pulled, we are actually "falling" into the sag itself because we are supported by the evenness of space/time and without it, we "fall".

In empty space where there are no big bodies of mass close enough, there are no nearby sags in space/time, hence no gravity, hence no "falling into space/time" or at least the effect is very very weak.
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The stories that he's wrong about are really important here, and would determine if this is news or not.

If his site has a higher quality of content, good for him! It's like the netflix prize, except no cash.

If it's worse than digg's page, then he hasn't improved anything.

Also, I'd be curious to see how "63% accuracy" is defined. In an ecosystem where 1% of stories get through, whether this number is based on false-positives or false-negatives will make a big difference. (He could be underselling himself!)
I saw it coming at "pretty much focused on food and sex".
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Err, not even close:

9.6% of the general fund on corrections/rehab programs

43.4% on K-12 education

14.3% on higher education

http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/pdf/BudgetSummary/SummaryCharts.pd...
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I've known a few teachers and I used to be a professor myself [1]. Prep takes up very little time after you've already taught a class.

I'll echo this: I'm a grad student in English lit and entering my third year. I've taught Engl 101, 102, and 109 (the honor version); the first year I taught, I spent a lot of time in preparation, thinking about activities, and so on. My second year, somewhat less. Ditto for this year.

That isn't to say I'm not changing things from year to year, because I am, but the big hurdle is at the beginning.
Fair enough.

Me vs. Professor of Economics Steven Levitt:

Levitt:

1 hand-picked prostitue that was a guest lecturer in his college class.

Me:

- PROSTITUTION IS THE MOST DANGEROUS JOB IN AMERICA. The murder rate is 1 in 490. Compare that to the fishing industry, where the death rate is 1 in 775.

- Eighty-two percent of prostitutes reported having been physically assaulted since entering prostitution.

- Women trafficked to the United States have been forced to have sex with 400-500 men to pay off $40,000 in debt for their passage.

- Statistics show that at least 2/3 of prostitutes began working in prostitution before the age of 16

Like Levitt I decided to provide points that suit my argument.

Sources are from top 3 results in Google for "prostitution statistics":

http://www.bayswan.org/stats.html

http://kiss951.radio.com/2010/04/29/seven-statistics-about-p...

http://womensissues.about.com/od/rapesexualassault/a/Wuornos...
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(edit: reply to _delirium, not sure this might be out of order, oops)

As you mention, those stats are only for the UC system (no source), but leave out a whole chunk of other relevant data. The author is addressing what he believes is the decline of public educaiton in general in California, not just UC.

Some people outside CA may not understand that the UC system (University of California) is only one part of the public college and public education system in California.

As far as colleges, California also has substantial state funding for a lot of other non-UC California state colleges (CSU, California State University -- 23 campuses compared to 10 UC) and community colleges.

Of course, additional funding goes to non-college education as well, and grants that people receive who attend private colleges and schools.

Also future liabilities and pensions which are not included on budget.

So my point being--just focusing on your UC stats is misleading.

1. How about the whole California state college system?
2. How about community colleges, vocational education?
3. How about other forms of public education?
4. How about all education grant totals made with public dollars?
5. Also while you are at that, how about adding in future liabilities/pensions which are not included in the yearly budget?
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Cool! Is the "hundreds" quoted in the article, per month or per year?
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Well sure it will help a little, but if only they would add control flow closures then we could write these constructs ourselves rather than having to build them into the core language.
Based on what I've used with Digg's upcoming engine, it doesn't seem near 63% at all.
He bashes the older generation for not spending enough to support the government. Then he excuses them by talking about how they work 2 jobs just to put food on the table.

This guy should run for congress.
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no direct sources off the top of my head but http://fora.tv/2009/07/05/Transforming_the_System_An_Intervi... is a good start
Hmmmf, $500 is a little less than what I get for one month full time as an English teacher :-/
Better to go to law school and specialize. I once worked with a big time tech lawyer. For three hours work, we paid him what I made pre-tax in two weeks, and I wasn't doing terribly for that point in my life.

Pretty sure he's not getting beat up by any pimps when he strolls into work each day, either.

He worked really hard, too. I mean, I wasn't paying the bills, but he definitely seemed worth the cash. Filed some awesome stuff for us -- you don't often read legalese that entertaining.
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it's exactly what it is.. counting semaphore..just for async calls...great, as u said lukesandberg, no more flags and conditions..
You do make it quite clear you know how to play forum games...

I argued nowhere that Kurzweil is absolved of any putative wrongness, irrationality, or crackpottishness. You inserted a context that wasn't there and didn't do much to relate that context to anything else. In most books, fanatics are the ones that can't tell that not everyone is talking about their favorite topic. You could really use work on your maxim of relation.
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A few things used to make this process a little less painful.

First, Safari used to download things to the desktop. This meant the DMG file was sitting right there, looking ugly, taking up space.

Second, Safari used to, by default, open "Safe" attachments (which included disk images), and open the Finder window to the newly mounted image automatically.

The upshot was that, assuming the developer had made an effort to indicate what to drag where with a big honkin' arrow, after your download was done there would be a pretty clear sign of what to drag where to install the app. Unmounting an deleting the DMG has always been an issue (and the internet-enabled DMGs are better for this), although only the unmounting bit is unique to OS X. Under Windows you're still going to have an installer file lying about that has to be deleted.

Both of these things went away, though, and many developers haven't caught up with the times.
Yeah, Opera Mini 4 not being available on android is a major consoling factor when I decide once again to keep my crappy Symbian phone and spend the money on something else instead. (Opera Mini 5 is available, but it is a horrible usability regression. All the functions I use regularly like "reload"(hi, HN frontpage) and "switch to mobile view" which are at most three key presses in 4 are more than ten in 5, and the font rendering which sometimes seems to use non-system fonts is atrocious, using 50% more space than the small system font while being less readable and still not displaing italics.
When trying to support the maximum number of connections per box the model with the best conceptual fit doesn't necessarily have the best functional characteristics. Actor models can have much higher per-connection resource usage. Message passing isn't free, and wrapping each connection in an Actor/Greenthread structure isn't free either.

At the end of the day storing sockets in a hashmap is a pretty compact data structure. If you can minimize synchronization/locking, threads shared state is extremely efficient from a CPU and memory standpoint. Maybe not so efficient from a developers time/sanity standpoint though. :-)

Do note that this article is purely about an edge server though. Its job is essentially to hold sockets and communicate with internal queues. The message passing model is alive and well, albeit at a higher level.