skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There was a lot amount of duplication between racially segregated institutions, and cutting administration costs is a good idea.

Yeah, closing them down isn’t such a good idea. You know that most universities which merged basically closed down their “satellite” campuses in black areas? This simply serves to keep away affordable education from black people.

> The merging of teacher training colleges into universities may be more problematic, but overall, in South Africa, the less institutions, the less chance for waste and looting.

Most teacher colleges weren’t merged, they were simply closed down. Note that waste and looting wasn’t such a big problem before, why is it now?

By the way, you know what is one reason why they were closed down? Provincial governments became extremely corrupt (the funding for colleges came from provincial governments). They simply closed it down to ensure more money for looting.

> I also have to wonder how good the teachers produced by those colleges really were.

Look, they were not the best teachers in the world. But the problem is that we do not need the best teachers in the world, we need a lot of teachers. A good teacher in a class of 40 doesn’t help a thing. Also, the idea of removing teacher diplomas ensures that there are even less teachers (teacher training courses at universities is now 1 year longer).

South Africa loses some 12, 000 teachers a year (6, 000 produced by universities but 18,000 lost due to retirement and immigration). It is a disaster waiting to happen.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&...

> Hendrik Verwoerd's comments about Bantu education clearly indicate,

Hendrik Verwoerd was not the be all and end all of the NP government. You know that many of the policies changed after him? In any case, I do not care what someone has said (or what the motives were) but what happens on the ground.

> Migration and the migrant labour system are two very different things. The Apartheid ideal was black men in hostels, black women and children in Bantustans.

Can you give a citation for that? During Apartheid, there were a lot more industries closer to the living area of black people. The industrial zones (of which there were numerous) are an example of that.

Today the economic activity near large centres of black population is a lot lower. The economic outlook in rural areas also forces people to become migrant labourers.

> that it has been abandoned, but one has to question the sustainability of those developments.

Whatever the motive, those developments worked.

> If they had provided job opportunities close to major economic centres, those jobs might have proved to be sustainable.

There are many reasons why those businesses moved (from high crime to non-functioning municipalities). The fact of the matter is that work and businesses are now far from where many employees work. So they have to rely on non-existent transport (such as taxis or horrible metro lines) each day to commute 30km+.
As usual, when discussing popular anthropology, this reveals the writer's prejudices more than anything else.

The ordinary protestant would hate being confused for a Catholic, especially when a chart listing GDPs is concerned.
> > "Sajeonogi," or "Knocked down four times, rising up five."

> Is Korean really that much more efficient than English, or is that word a label?

No, it's a 사자성어 (sajasongoh), or 4 character idiom. They originally come from Chinese, in which they're called chéngyǔ (成语 or 成語, in simplified and traditional characters, respectively), meaning "set phrase", and also exist in Japanese, in which they're called 四字熟語 (yojijukugo, literally "four character Chinese idiom").

Because of their origin in classical Chinese and their brevity, they're impossible to understand unless they're explained to you. In Asian countries, memorizing/understanding these proverbs is a big part of schooling.

I don't know the details of this particular sajasongoh, but I'm guessing that it either comes from classical Chinese or is a modified version of one that does. Modifying these proverbs to fit a particular situation is a common form of wordplay in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. For example, the Chosun Ilbo (a big Korean newspaper) loves doing this in their headlines.
Plugin-free, yet it looks like I need Flash to see the whole page. Also, I don't see any demo/game.
This actually reminds me of the old Klik&Play software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik). I wonder if it's easy enough to use to create a community of its own.
Prostitution ranges essentially from crack addict street walkers up to 'chat' call girls who are frequently educated enough to maintain conversation with wealthy businessmen.

It's exceptionally naive to think the Russian mob is going to start trafficking in university graduate hookers.

What needs to be done is establish an agency to govern and regulate the sex trades, including the money handling. You want to be a prostitute? Sure, but you'll need to sign a waiver allowing us to monitor where your money is going; 'oh you're spending it on groceries, rent and something at bestbuy' vs 'oh you're spending it on groceries, rent and oh look you just transferred $2,000 to an offshore bank account'.

You want to be a customer? Sure, pay the agency a certified check, by credit/debit card (something with a paper trail) taxes are immediately taken off and the money is transferred in whole (less taxes) to the worker.

There's reason to legalize prostitution without even getting onto the matter of the ethics of allowing a woman to have sex for money. Namely that legalization of prostitution is expected to lower the rape rate significantly (IIRC by ~25% in the US), would help decrease the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and most of all, would help prevent the murders and serial killings of women.

Criminalization allows for corruption. Why does organized crime still manage to rear its ugly head in government? Well, perhaps because criminal gangs are orchestrating prostitution through pimping rings and only have to get one picture of an official with a hooker to ruin a man's career when 1/2 their voters are puritanical, evangelical morons.
The Game Changer is the recent successful combination of the two processes by a small Australian company, Linc Energy, that has lead to previously stranded coal, either too deep or too remote to mine economically, being now both economically viable and environmentally friendly for energy extraction, with one ton of coal producing between 1.5 - 2 barrels of oil equivalent.

LINC Energy ASX:LNC an underground coal gasification company that has demonstrated that coal can be burnt underground and the resultant gas, SYNGAS, can be converted to a range of ultra-clean liquid fuel products including diesel and kerosene. The process is named UCG-GTL meaning Underground Coal Gasification Gas to Liquids. Both technologies have a long and successful history. LNC's UCG project has been running for 10 years and its UCG-GTL project for 3 years.

Linc Energy have several billion tons of UCG suitable coal (Arckaringa, South Australia) and a suite of projects around the world. Moreover LNC's Arckaringa coal is both deep and in a dry arid region of Australia far away from agriculture.

Linc Energy is currently developing a cookie cutter design for UCG-GTL plants designed to produce 20,000 B.O.E per day and is currently building a 20,000 BOE per day plant in South Australia.

Another exciting, much lesser known, emerging UCG play is Central Petroleum ASX: CTP who have around a trillion tons of proven UCG suitable coal in the even more remote, dry and arid and very sparsely populated Perdika Region that just happens to have a railway line stretching from Adelaide to Darwin nearby. The railway gives them access to S E Asia via the Port of Darwin and the Australian domestic market via Adelaide. CTP have a long term interest in both UCG and above ground coal gasification and the conversion of the resultant Syngas to liquid fuels and fertilizers.

While LINC has a respectable market cap of $890m and a lot of cash, Central Petroleum has over a trillion tons of coal, approx. 250,000 sq kms of unexplored coal and oil prospective basins across central Australia and a market cap of just on $58m and about $20m cash making CTP one of Australia's best speculative investments.

If LNC and CTP were to team up Australia would rapidly become both a major oil exporter and liquid fuel independent.

(I hold LNC and CTP)

For more information about UCG and GTL please see www.ucg-gtl.com.
Hint: Not everything on the world wide web is a HTML page.
I totally agree. I joined Forrst about a month ago, and this is one of the things I like the most about it. I can see that you are listening to the community. I have seen other examples (no need to get into names) when the people who built the community think that they OWN it. That they can dictate exactly what's gonna happen there and that the community members are in a way puppets in their own great show.

It doesn't work like this, of course. As a community builder you can - and should - set the rules and the guidelines. You can - and should - be proud of it. But you don't own it. You should leave your members enough space to be themselves, and you should listen to them and be ready to adjust your system if you think their input makes sense.

One other thing I like about Forrst is the diversity. There are experienced people next to high-school students. From many paradigms of web development and design and many corners of the planet. I learned about Forrst from an NYC tweep who asked "how can I get invited?". In the few days when my invitation was pending (and I still didn't know anything about the community), I was afraid that it will turn out to be a Silicon-Valley closed clique. I am very happy to see that I was absolutely wrong!

Keep up the good work, Kyle, you and the others who work on Forrst. Many thanks. Any my excuses for the lengthy reply :-)
No offense, but because you're using Windows 7.

It's mentioned later in the thread, but this image explains everything: http://typophile.com/node/70216

Short answer: Windows has always had crappy font rendering. (Though some people like/prefer it for whatever reason. I'm not one of them.) It's going to get better eventually – look at the image for IE9 and FF 3.7.

You may also want to be sure you have Cleartype on.

Maybe it's my own status as a Mac user, but it's almost distracting to see the differences in font rendering between platforms.
Logo worked for me. If you want to teach a "real" language (Logo is practically a LISP! It's real!) then Python has a turtle module.
Umm well if you have the money go for lego mindstorms, if I was a kid again I'd want to play with legos and robots. (Hell they are still cool)
For an engine that's supposed to support mobile, it's sad how I can't submit the "interested" form on my N900. Also odd that I need flash when it's plugin-free.
Since you're mentioning the denomination for everyone else, Russian Christians = Eastern Orthodox.
The blog post can't answer anything - the author doesn't work at MS.
The test givers must be quiet stubborn to, can't imagine something like that ever happening here for some kind of similar test, she would just get passed or turned away in the first 10.

Interesting question is that now that she got 60/100 does she understand things much better than 3 years ago, some form of understanding would spike the scores quickly, while the slow improvement can only seem to be the result of slightly better memorisation of question->answer each time without much better understanding.
http://www.mail-archive.com/parti-discuss@partiwm.org/msg002... seems to indicate there is no current way to specify nonstandard ssh port.
"accepted as a deficiency" and "have found subversions merging support to be good enough" are good indicators that you are optimizing for easy-to-train rather than the-best-system. That's fine. In your case, you've probably made the right choice.

The author is explaining how this one feature that is accepted as a deficiency by svn is handled properly by git and he barely ever hears about it. He never said this is the only reason to switch to git. He does however think this one feature is representative of git's superiority.
My 8 yr old has been doing lpthw with some success. I'm partial to that method since I learned by typing basic listings in from books when I was a kid.
Ah, a feature chart... The source to Unity3D is available, and it also has a very comprehensive iPhone deployment option. Apps made with Unity3D are still being approved. Unity also released version 2.1 a few months ago that added a ton of features for MMO games: http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-2.1.html
Firstly, I commend you on
1) realizing that doctors are not responsible for your health.
2) finding a solution to your health problem.

The first thing you need to IMHO do is to gather emails of people who are interested about the information you have.

1.) This will give you the motivation to progress further - ie you'd be helping all these people.
2.) Also you'll have a way of getting feedback on your efforts from these people in the future so you know if your making headway.

Maybe you should be targetting the people who love/care for people with CF ? Because of this disease, they may have studied more about the illness than the patient herself?

About the haters - if your doing anything of significance, your going to have people who hate you. This how the world is. And seriously, if you have haters then you should realize that you might be on the right path.

One way to "prove", to yourself and the world, that your ideas work,is to have someone else follow your methodology and keep a detailed log of what they did/when and the progress/lack-of-progress that they saw.

Whats your website? I'm curious to see it.
Ian Poulter, Social Media, and the changing customer service dynamic
Social media impact on customer relationship management. How one bad experience can turn into millions of messages heard around the world.
I have a dishwasher magnet like that, the problem is people forget to change it often enough that you need to check anyway to be sure.
Just some thoughts I've had on USA vs. Europe R&D.

I've noticed that computer science research/development in Europe tends to be more theory-based, as if the goal is to create a little world where everything makes sense; like the courtly protocols of a medieval sovereign. I'm thinking Dijkstra (who wanted a respectable profession), German academics I've known, and strikingly in some French papers and software I've come across.

Whereas work in the States seems to be more outcome-based and pragmatic. There's Edison, BASIC and Microsoft, and also Ethernet (which is deliberately non-deterministic.)

Of course these are just statistical patterns, and every individual person will exhibit both tendencies.

So, my theory is that, culturally, not having a sovereign or a court gave people the freedom to do whatever works, without it looking elegant. But it's also scarier to live that way - hence, religion.
What does the 10 year old want to program? Most likely a game, which is challenging but which fortunately may be satisfied by a working snake or Space Invaders rather than requiring stereoscopic 3d with a physics engine. But a simple interactive graphing calculator can be just as much fun as a game. Tools and diagnostics are good too - instead of teaching arbitrary-seeming practices for problems the kid has not encountered yet, let them run into the problem (eg having to check the dimensions of the window on loading) and write a tool to make the computer do the work.

As a kid, I found the logic relatively easy, and the control structures moderately easy. Abstraction and complex types were the difficult part for me, and I still tend to evolve them by trial and error rather than defining them in advance (though having done so, I usually enjoy refactoring as soon as I have a working prototype).
This sounds like he is the kind of guy who in less than a year will be writing about how he wished he owned one and will be first in line for the next revision later blogging about how awesome it is.
The position of the TV manufacturers reminds me a bit of the ISPs. The ISPs don't want to be just a dumb-pipe so they add on "features" that few want. And the TV manufacturers are the same way. They no longer want to be just a dumb monitor, so they're embedding these features that would be better implemented in an external box that's replaceable.

As far as user-friendly, my experience is that the interfaces look flashy on the surface, but once you dig deeper, you'll find poor integration, bugs and rarely a new release. All the better reason to rely on an upgradeable, external box for these types of features.
My feeling is that you should produce a lot, but that doesn't mean you need to publish everything you produce. Writing every day is a good way to keep thoughts flowing (most writing self-improvement books recommend doing so). Publishing every day can be a good way to oversaturate your audience with drivel.
ACCESS ORKUT ON Your MOBILE
I grew up with airplanes being old hat. But still prickles run down my spine when I look at that old photo of the Wright Flyer's first flight. What an incredible achievement that was, and how long man had dreamed about flying!
There were several Christian denominations who fled from western Europe to Russia during the time of Catherine the Great, as she provided them with asylum. Many of those groups fled from Russia starting in 1917, including Eastern Orthodox, Jesuits, Mennonites, and many others Christian denominations, as well as quite a few Jews.
There will always be outliers in any population. Assuming you are a genius so you only need write once or twice to be universally read is a good way to never be read. Assuming you are subject to the equal-odds rule means you will publish more and have a much higher chance of being read.
Okay, you can take your comment to Reddit. I know complaining HN is turning into Reddit is a very catchy meme, but it has still, as of yet, to turn into Reddit and as music is a frequent topic on HN this is worthy of note. If you don't agree, either don't upvote, don't make a HN=Reddit complaint, or go to Reddit for 5 minutes and return in horror and feel strangely comfortable again on HN.
Call me greedy but the fees associated with money transfer systems like PayPal for amounts of $500+ are just too big for me to bother using PayPal for anything but small stuff (mind you I do love it for that and online shopping cart payments). Unfortunately there isn't much else besides old school cheques or money wiring (which is inconvenient for the client).

Pros of PayPal IMO:
~Handles multiple currencies well (I get paid in CAD, USD, and EUR).
~Easy for clients, takes care of basic invoices, keeps a history of everything.
~Payments from other accounts or credit cards are nearly instant
~Decent API for implementing a 3rd party shopping cart quickly (selling goods, donations).

Cons:
~Bank transfers take 6-8 business days (very inconvenient, I understand things take time but c'mon, we live in a very automated world now).
~It's digital money, PayPal could go bankrupt and you'd be, well, screwed over.
~Support emails generally take awhile, from other peoples experiences, this seems to be a Canadian thing.
> and regulated by the health industry just like in Europe and most of the rest of the world.

That's not true. Don't know exactly the case in the Netherlands/Amsterdam, but it's not wide-Europe thing, and surely not 'most of the rest of the world'.

Other from that, it is a really great comment.
I was talking to someone about this article on IRC a few days ago. He mentioned that Apple has something similar to this, NSZone (which has been around since 10.0 (likely NeXT)). However, NSZone's usage isn't really recommended anymore (if ever). Nor is it very documented -- just function and parameter names, not usage patterns[1].

1. Search for NSZone on http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/R...
I personally started by learning basic when I was about 9 or 10 years old...thing that got me interested was an open source game I used to play a lot. I accidentally stumbled onto the knowledge that changing the voodoo magic text at the beginning before launching the game (it was written in QBasic i think) managed to change things around in the game itself. If they like games, that could be a good way to start? It gives early rewards, as they're modifying something that already exists. From there I started getting ideas of things I wanted to make myself...and just experimenting here and there.
I think he was just pointing out an alternative conclusion. I think it is an interesting point that the world's only superpower is also unique in the relgion-to-wealth factor. I'm not convinced that's what causes it, but it's certainly possible.

Australian, btw.

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Ayjay on Fedang
If you're not weird, you're really weird
No personal problems with them, but I found it unsettling that despite repeated attempts to report a what I considered a rather severe vulnerability in one of their services a few years ago, I could get no response from them.

It was more of a privacy problem than a direct monetary one (able to view the registered address for any user given their email) but this made it clear to me that they had some serious problems with security.

I continue to use them to make payments as a user, but prefer not to trust them with access to my full bank account. As a business, I'd avoid them if there was a reasonable alternative.
Why the iPhone will fail (2007)
Nogood, checkout the robots.txt
IPad: the perfect computing device for children?
Ah, too bad :/ Thanks for the info!
what would be the best way of sending large files server-to-server ? this is a question that has been puzzling me.

Is there like a library or a protocol that is tuned towards transferring multi-gb files ?
Agreed, and at the $99 dollar price point, you can tell they're trying to make it work. Unfortunately, I don't know anybody technical or non-technical that would enjoy it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29
Logo also worked for me as well, I was in the 3rd grade when I started to program with it. It is a lot of fun
Samsung Favoring Android Over Windows Phone 7 And Bada
Ask HN: Nifty Server Naming Conventions?
I thought it would be neat for everyone to share their server naming conventions. Usually people come up with funny and/or interesting methods of naming their various servers.
I'll start off: Calvin and Hobbes.

We had to add a third...so it was named Locke.
so it's like Brangelina