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Here's an excerpt from the bio of the guy who runs the site:
"Despite 35 years living in Seattle, I instinctively revolted against the suffocating left-coast culture of the Soviet of Washington, and came to revere the four great Germans who helped inspire the Reagan revolution: Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin."

However, he does link to real government sources (near the botton), so you can check to see if he weighs by ideology when posting numbers.
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Sounds interesting. Would love to see the link.
It's one of the most basic concepts in all of chemistry

It has nothing to do with chemistry and everything with physics. If the author gets wrong this simple distinction, what else did he get wrong?
Those nominal budget figures vary widely from the actual budgets, though, and how much varies year to year. For example, the 2009 nominal budget is indeed $119.2b, but 2009 state revenue and expenditures are somewhere around $450b. I suppose an interesting question would be whether on versus off-budget spending was a similar or different ratio in 1965.
I agree your last comment, but I thought this service was for sharing with friends who are intimate enough to care for such pictures.

Also how is sending a link or notification about new pictures different from sending actual images. In case a group link is created.

It is unlikely that without notifications, people will actually go and browse the link for new pictures. In that case isn't it same as posting it on your Facebook profile as an album with appropriate privacy settings?
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If anyone happens to trip across an article casting light on the names of the specific bacteria they are finding in the plume, I would be very interested in seeing it.

Thanks.
It was a TechCrunch policy at one point. Maybe still.
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It's only good if the books are genuinely worth $5000. That was one of the interesting things that came up with Feynman's time vetting school books in California:

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

At first we weren't supposed to talk about the cost of the books. We were told how many books we could choose, so we designed a program which used a lot of supplementary books, because all the new textbooks had failures of one kind or another.

[...]

[During my time on the commission,] there were two books that we were unable to come to a decision about after much discussion; they were extremely close. So we left it open to the Board of Education to decide. Since the board was now taking the cost into consideration, and since the two books were so evenly matched, the board decided to open the bids and take the lower one.

Mr. Norris, the Pasadena lawyer on the board, asked the guy from the other publisher, "And how much would it cost for us to get your books at the earlier date?"

And he gave a number: It was less!

The first guy got up: "If he changes his bid, I have the right to change my bid!" -- and his bid is still less!

Norris asked, "Well how is that -- we get the books earlier and it's cheaper?"

"Yes," one guy says. "We can use a special offset method we wouldn't normally use . . ." -- some excuse why it came out cheaper. The other guy agreed: "When you do it quicker, it costs less!"

That was really a shock. It ended up two million dollars cheaper. Norris was really incensed by this sudden change.
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Well put. I'm currently in a situation where my PM has started to believe he knows more than he does (thanks to the assistance of me and the developers in the office).

Then PM made the mistake of talking within earshot about how he was going to decide the timeline and budget for my team without talking to me. My attitude toward the guy instantly went from "whatever it takes" to "do your own homework next time, buddy".

This is a small startup. We need every win possible to succeed. And I just don't give two shits about the guy anymore. Am I wrong to think this way?
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Edit: You know what? This post sucked. Here's a good link I used while babbling thoughtlessly (unless it wasn't good per _delirium): http://www.dof.ca.gov/budgeting/budget_faqs/information/docu...

See my reply to reynolds, which was the only valuable part. The second paragraph is my real point, and I mean that "if" clause.
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I think there are about 666 parentheses in those code examples.. I don't get the appeal of Clojure?
Teaching is a weird beast. Computational techniques have improved, but we haven't improved educational techniques much beyond "smaller class sizes" and "online lectures."

We can talk freely about the academic labor market, but it's hard to pin down what that labor market produces.
Wow, this is a really impressive batch of startups. I thought our group (S09) was pretty good but I am awed by this batch.
He mentions in the article that California has plenty of money but aren't spending it on education.
Good way to capitalize on Facebook's privacy snafus. But the problem is, what's to stop someone in your trusted group from leaking the pictures?

What we really need is a photo-sharing service that delivers the photos on that self-destructing paper they use in Inspector Gadget.
Budget chart: http://www.dof.ca.gov/budgeting/budget_faqs/information/docu...

It's from a ca.gov domain, so I'm not sure it gets much more authoritative.

You can do your own analysis, but one snapshot would be 137B total spent in 2000-1 to 200B total spent in 2010-11. I chose to include federal funds on the grounds that for the topic in question, that would seem the relevant measure since a lot of those federal funds lately have been for public services, the topic in discussion. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl shows the inflation rate across that time frame as a 1.27 multiple, vs. a 1.46 multiple in California spending.

You can make the numbers somewhat worse by using 2009-2010's expenditures of 221B; how fair you think that is is up to the reader, I guess. Given that our author probably still thinks that's not enough, arguably that would be a more fair demonstration of what is still apparently not enough money.
I know why I haven't cut the cord yet: sports. AppleTV doesn't solve this problem either. ESPN360 only kind of solves it since they black out any big games and it's kind of a pain to get on your TV. Until there's a way to say "I want nothing but a selection of every currently playing sporting event, and those I want in the highest possible quality", then it will be very difficult for me to avoid forking over money to Comcast. This despite the fact that I have developed something I can only call genuine hatred for them over the past 8 years.
Ah, so not open source at all. That's a shame.
> on expenditures growing faster than inflation and faster than the growth of the economy

I can buy that they've grown faster than inflation, but have they indeed grown faster than the growth of the economy? I haven't been able to dig up good data on what CA state expenditures were as a percentage of state GDP in, say, the 1960s. (They're currently around 24% of state GDP, if you can find something to compare that to.)

Incidentally, the document you linked doesn't appear to cover most of the actual budget; it's the kind of fake official budget that's passed every year, which currently covers about 1/4 of actual spending. This site has better estimates for the past 20 years, but doesn't go back past 1992: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=19...
One quibble: those "balanced" budgets included pension guarantees and other contractual terms offered to state workers (1962: health insurance) which

a) cost "nothing" to just write in the paper -- quite easy to balance

b) were actuarial suicide

c) will never be repealed.
It can even vary within schools. At my university, the classes in my major (Chemistry) were graded as you describe but other classes I took (like Psychology) used the inflated scale.
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Probably no reason that Clojure and Scala can't be ported to their own VM, especially with Clojure's self-hosting push. Yeah, the JVM has a lot of libraries, but the libraries will follow the developers when the dead-ness of Java starts getting in the way.
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If I just wanted to go out and buy 40 books, spend the next year or two reading and working through examples/models/etc, what would be a good starting point?
I've got an invite, and I was not impressed. A lot of the recent content is still only available through the web site, and the recent content is the only reason to get hulu in my opinion. If you want old shows, netflix is the way to go.

This will probably improve over time, but I don't anticipate keeping it much longer.
> In that case isn't it same as posting it on your Facebook profile as an album with appropriate privacy settings?

Exactly. I think the point is that FB's privacy settings are difficult for the average user to understand. FB also has a public-by-default policy, whereas The Fridge appears to be the opposite.
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Conversely, a good workout or a walk in the park is exhilirating.
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So I went ahead and did a calculation of my own: revenue by all taxes per capita in the state of California between 2005 and 1964.

All following figures are from US census data:

Total revenue from all taxes per capita 1964: $2182.85 (helpfully provided by the 1964 census).
Total revenue from all taxes 2005: $146,692,000,000
Total resident population of California, 2005: 36,250,000
Total revenue from all taxes per capita 2005: $4,046.68

1964 number is also adjusted using the CPI calculator
I guess the users who don't care about which drive the installation targets don't have multiple drives. Few things irritate me more than installers which don't ask that question, as space on my primary drive (SSD) is precious.

Actually, I get the impression that most Mac users have laptops.

Meanwhile, junctions on Windows largely solve the installation location problem, except for those apps that use hard links behind the scenes (especially for transactional installation changes) and expect those hard links to work, especially across temporary directories etc. In practice, I've found this is only Microsoft apps.
Alternatively the market will force Internet-only TV subscriptions to raise their prices. 10 dollars a month to Hulu isn't going to pay ESPN's bills.
>It's not so simple as 'developed world' vs 'developing world'

Of course. These are just useful categories. Humans like to put things into categories so we can make statements about ideas. Saying it's "not so simple" is a strawman as I don't think anyone is claiming that a country is a data structure with the capacity of 1 bit (developed or developing).

Maybe if you said or quoted something about how the act of using this categorical construction in analysis when performed too often is the physical cause of some sort of injustice.
We have a number of big screens hanging in our office. We loop an ugly powerpoint with stale messages. Regularly, I walk by the screens and wish we had a Panic-style dashboard for key metrics. Of course, we could build our own, but we always seem to have more important priorities (like our own products). Even thought about a startup opportunity in this space- if we would like it, we're probably not alone.

I've signed up for the beta and I'm very interested in the product details. Wish them the best of luck.
Indeed. I had to do a web search to discover how to install apps on my Mac mini.
It should be noted that government is expected to get relatively more and more expensive because it's most of it's duties are of the service type. Services like schools, public transport, health care generally defy automation but costs still rise to stay on par with other industries. As the costs of other products become lower, expect to pay more for services.
I will admit I'm reading into things a bit by assuming that he's not advocating cutting government back when he says things like "your parents and their parents lashed out at government (as though there were something else that could replace it) with tax limits, term limits, safe districts, throw-away-the-key imprisonment no matter the cost, smoke-and-mirrors budgeting, and a rule never to use the words taxes and services in the same paragraph." That doesn't sound like a fiscally-conservative libertarian to me.

If he believes in refocusing the priorities and perhaps even seeing a net spending drop while ending up with more education spending, I would consider that defensible and the numbers I produced can certainly support the position that there is some room for rethinking here. If he believes this should manifest as yet more money given to this government, no, I don't think piling more money on is the solution. That's why I'm looking at the total income for the state rather than exactly focusing on the exact amount dedicated to the worthy tasks. It is only one part of the story.
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I think that this is somewhat disingenuous for the reasons noted by others, but also the failure of the writer to acknowledge that colleges and universities have embraced business models and focused on revenue generation in ways that distract from the core mission.

I hate to say this but while most of the guilt should be borne by fat-cat administrators, faculty are greedy whores who are easily divided and conquered.
working through examples/models/etc:

http://www.exinfm.com/free_spreadsheets.html
See bokonist's post(s), caveats and all.
Why are those people in your trusted group, then? It's hard to force things to be private with technology when sharing with people is involved. At the end of the day, you just have to make expectations clear and then rely on trust.
The numbers on total state nominal income are here:
http://www.bea.gov/regional/remdmap/REMDMap.aspx

So it looks like state spending rose from 11% of total income in 1977 to 14% today. And total income usually grows slightly faster than the economy (economic growth = change total income - change in the price level). Thus state spending has been growing faster than incomes rise, faster than inflation and faster than the economy has been growing.
A very good idea. I'm not sure those statistics exist at the moment.
It's not actually simple - that's the key. The alleged simplicity is an abstraction, and most PC power users are more familiar with the underlying mechanisms. Efforts at hiding these mechanisms are all well and good, but if and when something breaks, or you need to do something unorthodox (e.g. automated installation - many setup.exe's take a '/?' flag - or moving installed apps from one drive to another, etc.), lower level knowledge is needed.
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Actually, I think you have to go back further. My grandfather, a poor kid from west LA, went to UCLA and then UC Berkeley as an engineering student back in the late 1930s / early 1940s.

He learned Latin in high school (think inner city kid learning Latin). Grew up with all the airfields in LA and mechanical engineering seemed like the thing, I guess. So despite being interned (he was a Japanese American) he went on to be a very successful engineer and eventually businessman (owned his own hydraulics company, etc.).

It's arguable that a lot of this happened because of a golden age in California's educational system. Same thing with my parents. I've met them and they're idiots -- but at least my father benefited greatly from UC Berkeley (he's a philosophy professor).

I think PG is right to question what exactly is going on. But there really was an extraordinary investment in higher education (for whatever reason) in the early- to mid- 20th century. And arguably, that affected a lot of things which we Californians take for granted.

I think what the OP is trying to say is that our attitude about public education has changed. It was irrational, the level of investment that was made into higher education pre-1980s (both raising and allocating funds). And today's set of challenges may require a different emphasis (e.g., charter schools, leaner campuses, more online learning, etc.) -- but that generous spirit that, afaik, built California into a great state -- that's not worth overlooking.
Interestingly, in many of my middle- and high-school classes, grades were not based on standard deviations from the mean of actual class performance; they were a fixed scale: 90% or better was an "A", 80 - 89% was a B, 70 - 79% was a "C", etc. So you really could have the entire class be "better than average" (by the more usual method of computing a "C" grade) if the teacher made an assignment too easy.

My son's school still does this, though they've slid the scale up a bit, you need a 93% or better now to get an "A", and they've added a safety net: if you turn in any kind of reasonable attempt at all work assigned you will not get lower than a D- in the class.
This is the best list I've seen so far. Does anyone know of additional resources similar to these?
To rephrase what you just said: Mexicans, because of their ethnicity, are less able to understand (for instance) mathematics, even when given the same amount of instruction, than people of the ethnicities that characterize the population of California circa the 1960s (i.e. predominantly white). Did I get that right?
In general if you look into correlations between education spending and test scores, there is very little correlation. If you look into the correlation of ethnicity and test scores, its very significant.

Good job, you just discovered that our standardized tests scores are biased in favor of white kids.
I applaud you for making an observation which could easily fuel an ad-hominem attack on an obvious partisan, and then holding back after observing that regardless of his biases, he is just tabulating official numbers.
This is hilarious and I'd love to know how many new people sign up after this article (and how sticky customers are in the coming months).

Also, I know it's simply a rhetorical flourish but:

or, for $7.50 a month, you could give just a quarter to a homeless person every day and feel real good about yourself.

I wouldn't feel good doing this at all.
I've already been to Perth, so I'm not making any excuses. Even if I was, it doesn't make the flights any shorter.
> Also facebook album with proper privacy settings is much better option.

I think this is superior due to the simplicity of the privacy settings.

The main benefit I see is for events and occasions where multiple people want to share photos. They can all be uploaded to a single location/group rather than spread out among several different facebook albums. In addition, only the users within the group can view them. You could be diligent in the privacy settings for the photos you upload yourself, but your friend might not be and the photos could still be viewed by mutual acquaintances.
Sorry, didn't mean that as criticism. I just meant you can't really compare the two products/audiences/business models/etc, because they're different (Atlas never targeted "people with no programming background creating complex applications", they targeted Objectie-C developers). NOLOH is awesome, but in a different way than Atlas was.
No you don't. And I often wish that companies would stop trying to treat the employees as some kind of big "family." Company picnics, bowling, golf, Christmas parties, etc. that everyone is urged if not forced to go to (outside of work hours of course). About 10 years ago I just stopped going to these things. I already spend 40 - 50 hours a week with all these people, I don't need an evening or weekend day stolen from my time with my REAL family and friends to spend more time with co-workers.
I think its everything to do with the technology. Web apps are a huge part of the future for mobile devices - this gives them a huge in. Frameworks are really important strategically - they can optimize Cappuccino for their devices and even add functionality specific to their devices.
People don't like to accept but email and email lists are still the fundamental ways people collaborate on important and personal matters. Even though Yahoo and Google groups are not being talked about much, it wouldn't hurt if someone innovate on top of those same old method of communication.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if data (email) is pushed to the user or user is pushed to the date (website). What matters is the quality and integrity of the content and communication platform. If people feel comfortable using your service, if your service is easy enough for them to use, you win.
Mexicans in general score lower on tests of English and math, both in Mexico and America. See for one example: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0883611.html#axzz0xaC7EpRR This data is well known and not-controversial. The reasons for the test score disparity are quite controversial.

My point is simple. You have a group A of 10 million that on average score 450 on the math SAT. You have a group B of 10 milllion that score 500 on average. If you randomly move 5 million from group A to group B, then statistically, the average score of group B will fall to ~481.
> what's to stop someone in your trusted group from leaking the pictures?

The problem of keeping secrets and whom to trust is not a new problem. It's a social problem, not a technical problem. The technology just makes the fallout of a broken confidence worse, that's all.