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No teacher in the US is off for 3-4 months (summer break in the US is only ~10 weeks to begin with). During summer breaks teachers take classes, renew certifications, prepare lesson plans, tutor, return early to setup classrooms and otherwise prep for the upcoming school year. During the school year, teachers work before and after the students arrive, meet with parents/school officials and get things ready for the day. They also as work weekends grading papers/projects/etc and otherwise organize the upcoming week ahead. Hours can be long and arduous during the year and the amount of actual vacation time available to be off is equivalent to a typical office worker (3-4 weeks at best). Source: in-laws/wife are all teachers.
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This is disproportionately unfair to small business in the space, tho.
Agreed, lol. I’d say let Tech Darwinism take its toll on the weak.
UK geezer again: and reading about various things in the US, I've realised what a drag on business health benefits are. In UK, you just don't need to think about that.
But they were spraying the aerosol around when they pressed the button. Are they some kind of robots who are immune to the stuff?
Suggestion: stay away from them. Opening the browser and typing in a URL followed by a short code is way faster than getting all participants to download a QR code reader.
> Relativity makes less possible, not more

That's not strictly true. Before relativity, time dilation was not know to be possible.
> They said computers would never be able to understand natural language. Then Apple built Siri.

I think it’s a stretch to say that Siri understands natural language. You need to form your sentences very specifically to have any luck, dramatically different than talking to a human.
Are you criticizing the naming of the television show? If so I don't think the makers (can) read HN comments...
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You mean like the untold number of bacterial and viral infections with the ability to kill their hosts?

Plenty of animals and plants alter their environment to the detrinent of others.

Trees are tall and shady in order to reduce the sunlight in the environment and starve nearby plants to death at absurd individual expense: it takes a lot of nutrients to make those trunks that serve no purpose other than spite.

Beavers construct big dams to turn meadows into swampland, often clearing out the local plant life. I know from personal experience that operating a large farm in a wooded area is a constant battle of construction and destruction against the beavers.

Yeah, humans are better at altering the environment than most everything else, but altering the environment at the expense of other life is hardly unnatural.
...has the UK changed governments since then? I must’ve missed that.
QR code reader? I believe most native photo apps can read them now, it shouldn't hurt to have both the URL and a QR code
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They sprayed it on the door handle. Being careful not to inhale would probably be sufficient. It's not a risk I'd be willing to take, but those guys were not in a risk free profession.
>desecrate Russian Federation in the eyes of the world and nothing more

Russia Today does that by itself just fine.
"The existence of an exploit" will undermine literally any system and you can't meaningfully use that argument.
The first two are logical problems that can be approached systematically, because go and chess are idealized systems with simple sets of rules. They're about as relevant to understanding subjective and culturally dependent, ultimately irrational notions as "They said computers would never draw a million triangles per frame"

To say that Siri understands natural language is just laughable. It can analyze natural language in a way that is extremely error prone and contextually insensitive, just barely well enough for it to parse Zork-like commands and google stuff for you, set alarms or call people in your contact list. What's at all slightly impressive about it is its voice recognition, and even that is very error prone.
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I'm not sure it's that odd a comment - I've seen arguments that China is going to run into problems with too much debt, poor infrastructure projects and the like for 30 years or so and it so far hasn't really happened. There are a number of reasons why:

Firstly as mentioned there has been a lot of real economic growth. I was there around 1983 when GDP per capita was about $300, there were almost no cars and hardly enough food. Now they are the worlds largest economy by PPP GDP with 4WDs, air pollution and the like.

Secondly the debt is mostly in Yuan which the government can print. 3rd world countries typically go bust when they borrow in foreign currency. With China I believe it's the other way around - they hold a lot of US bonds so the US effectively owes dollars to China, not the other way around.

Thirdly the socialist system for better or worse means the government can just delay paying debt. In the west if developers borrow billions to build empty flats them and or the banks that lent to them go bust, in China they just give them another decade to pay. This can lead to misallocation of capital - all the resources going to useless empty flats rather than productive stuff but seeing the first point about GDP it can't be too bad.

The above is economic reality. Some stuff does keep going up - entropy, US GDP per capita with occasional blips and maybe Chinese GDP with blips also.
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if a reaction can occur in the presence or absence of stimulus, how in the heck are you saying you "have" it. it could be a reaction to a caffeine stimulant heavy diet for all anyone knows.
this seems to be in the same realm as micro-aggressions for how provable they are to be a real problem
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It is a shame that a lot of critical projects (including compilers, browsers...) still try to do things a la CVS/SVN (even if they use a DVCS).

Please, stop it. Do it the way the kernel does it. A hierarchy of maintainers that reviews the work sent by others and a single person with commit access to the main repository.

I am amazed that these smart people have not realizead yet that unrestricted commit access is simpy a no-go, with or without signed commits/tags.
In fairness we're conversationally sarcastic at everyone's expense, including our own, and especially our fine politicians.

It's just that Americans miss more of it than most. :)
> The universe will end some day, but there's no point in letting your civilization end before that just because someone else decided to kill you when you were being generous.

But that's a philosophy of life that, taken to its logical conclusion, means that you should be doing your best to kill everyone that isn't you just in case, for instance, their progeny could hurt yours.

It is, frankly, very silly.
This article discusses German beer production and Japanese milk production as being less efficient than their equivalent industries in the US as a result of legal and cultural factors (Germans liking local beer, Japanese emphasizing freshness).

It seems to suggest that more efficient industries would be more desirable; but I’d argue that freshness and variety are more important than efficiency in many regards.

(I also say this as someone whose dominant regional milk distributor often distributes milk that’s already sour when opened minutes after purchase a week before the sell-by date, probably because it’s more “efficient” to produce milk a full day’s drive from a factory that’s a full day’s drive from the city; and more “efficient” not to clean their equipment thoroughly. Since few stores here carry any other brands of “normal” milk, I’ve had to start buying a more expensive “organic” brand just to get reliably drinkable milk; but plenty of people can’t afford that.)
The self-driving thing is unavoidable. You won't get regulatory approval for any car that has an unlockable bootloader.
Yet almost all public schools, and union rules, fail to account for the market value of their specialities and pay the same amount for all subjects. Therefore while there is often an excess of people with degrees that have lower market value, there are shortages in advanced math, science, and foreign language.
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This applies to other Google services without content ID, like their extension store and app store
Personally I'd rather be stuck in my car than stuck in a train.

Agree to disagree.
> why did not we do that then?

I think this logic is backwards. The question of why the Russians did not kill Skripal back then has no place in establishing whether they attempted to kill him now. The question should not be why did they not kill him then, but rather why did they try to do it now (if indeed it was them who did it).

As for the information war (aka propaganda), I think that's pretty obvious (only Russia is not an innocent victim here, but also a warring party).
they will stop you just the same if you have multiple smaller bottles(personal experience with energy shots) and get a prescription for a non-prescriptive medicine is basically asking a doctor to commit fraud for you non? what is the difference? vague ethical conundrums like this are not worth considering imo

also doesn't everyone study law enforcement policies before visiting a country? i know i never have anything with poppy seeds on me or eat any before travelling as a rule because of mild meanderings into research on chemical detectors and drug enforcement policies in the middle east
I really don't agree with no 11. My reasoning is that the reader should know at each line what conditions are assumed.

Returning in the start is as anti-pattern for me as goto in the middle. both of them leave you with lines of code that only a debug session (in mind or in action) can tell you what lines will be called. I will choose nested code any-day if that means i can simply follow what `if`s are relevant rather than guessing.
Well, show me a link then. We can still run it (not for long).

I’m talking about hardware acceleration, antialias, no dropped frame and in sync with the monitor’s refresh rate.

Even a simple CSS3 animation beats the shit out of Flash in this regard.
Why is "random perks" bad? Isn't the best interest of the company being making the employees happy so they are more productive?

The negativity around giving "random perks" makes it feel like you're running a prison, where the point is to punish people instead of a workplace.
Of course they had to make a second trip. They had to abandon the first trip because of the knee deep snow. That the Met Office say didn't happen.
Yes, but all of those authorities are just people. Not hundreds of businesses with ulterior motives. Plus, compromising one WoT PGP key doesn't break the whole system like one compromised CA will.
Since Salisbury is the LGBT capital of UK, these were two friendly family guys on vacation... ehh, wait a sec, so they are... ? You know...

That's the current narrative Russian TV is trying to push.
Very good stuff here. I totally agree with many of these points. Especially, these 5.

3. Simplicity is king.

5. Naming is hard, but it's important.

9. Prefer internal functions over custom solutions.

11. Avoid creating multiple blocks of code nested in one another.

14. Split your classes to data holders and data manipulators.

To be honest all of them really feed into number 3. The lower the cognitive burden to reading your code the easier it will be the maintain and work with.
That still sounds like potentially useful work to me, I always appreciate it when I'm looking something up and can find those gigantic tables of everything applied to everything. Perhaps not a Nature paper but at least it's something.
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I lived without a car for 4 years in Chicago and it was bliss. If I really needed one, I had a car rental place nearby. I took public transportation everywhere. I walked everywhere. I didn't have to worry about where I parked or getting towed or broken into.

I live in LA now and I miss that sense of freedom every day.
The presence of a software exploit will undermine literally any secure system, including SSL, so this isn't a meaningful argument.
Virtually anything other than C or C++?
I use it on my own server, a dedicated quad-core machine with 64 GB RAM (hetzner.de). Mainly because I host a multitude of different websites that require different technologies: PHP, Rails, Node, Go and Python.
Setting everything up with Docker makes management a breeze and I can easily relocate and backup the entire setup to a different server.

I backup everything daily to my Synology at home.
Here’s[0] a toy from the late 80s or early 90s that used an EEG like interface to let you control moving a foam ball around an obstacle course. You can see it over in Oakland at MADE.

[0] https://instagram.com/p/BZr6F0snJrG/
At a previous job a cow-orker spent literally months trying to get a bigger HD. I had the same issue, so I asked one of the department secretaries to order me a whole new PC that happened to have a bigger disk in it, and it arrived a few days later. This may seem profligate but it would have been much, much cheaper for the company than the hours my colleague wasted dealing with the bureaucracy.
There is exactly one feature that keeps people on skype - it has a wide installed base and recognition and all the alternatives are fragmented. There's lots of good alternatives, they all suck because there's too many of them and the user base of each one is too small. a decade ago I would have said the solution to this is federation but it obviously didn't turn out that way.
I am commenting from a national interests/geostrategic angle.

It is amoral almost by definition.
I love GSAP but find the documentation and explanations for anything more than the basics very difficult.

Another similar example I liked: http://www.themustafacelik.com/
Fuck off back to your state sponsored troll farm.
How do you even know that we’re the only species with a sense of esthetics and able to appreciate beauty and harmony? I wouldn’t be surprised if elephants, dolphins, other primates, and certain species of birds have some intellectual capacity for it.
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I'm doing no such thing. I have issued rebuttals and new arguments, not just new arguments and a tactical ignoring of the counterarguments. If you can't address my points then don't.
Don't acuse me of arguing in bad faith. You can knock that off, thank you very much.
Github lowers barriers to entry for a lot of people and I guess Mozilla likes that.

Compare creating a one line fix for a project on github and having a discussion and review to sending a properly formatted patch to a mailing list and following up on that.

I know that having properly configured mutt and git send-email eases most of these pains but not everyone uses mutt and browsers have better consistency between them than e-mail clients. You don't need to go through a guide to configure your browser to send patches and participate in a review (vs https://nanxiao.me/en/configure-thunderbird-to-send-patch-fr... ).
> an open issue

If only; this is AWS. You pretty much need premium support just to tell them their products are broken. Before someone says "forums", the forums are a joke.
>Most consumers would have no way of knowing they’re running unofficial/modified software

It's right there on the boot screen. They can make it more explicit if they want with a red skull or whatever. That reason doesn't fly. Also, what changes in 30 days ?
I haven't touched Katahdin in the last decade!

Some of the ideas live on in Truffle and Graal.

http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/pldi17-truffle/pldi17-tru...
Yeah, they're going faster on a longer path. It's not immediately obvious which factor would win.
> a civilization having had a million of years to do so should have reached every corner of our galaxy.

Why? Why indeed.

Why should they? Why is it desirable to do so?

Why haven’t we done many of the things that we technically could have done in our timescale by now?

“They should have reached every corner of our galaxy” relies on at least the follow assumptions:

• That it is desirable to them.

• That their ability to reproduce/replicate can keep up with their technology to expand.

• That their presence on every planet they colonize lasts indefinitely.

• That there is no force—natural, adversarial or internal—that counters unrestricted expansion.

• That they even can expand in all directions. (Again, consider our own solar system and how useless, hostile, uneconomic or unstrategic some of the planets in it would be to humans.)

• Following on the previous point, that they’re dumb enough to spread themselves thin by colonizing every sub-optimal planet, instead of cherry-picking the planets which are best suited for them or, indeed, constructing their own artificial habitats in space.

• That we have the ability to detect all signs of alien presence on all stars and all planets, including any possible artificial worlds and rogue planets.

• That we have the ability to detect all PAST alien presence: An species may have already colonized this galaxy once, but thanks to the aforementioned timescales we may have missed running into them by a few million years, like we missed the dinosaurs on our own planet.

——

The Fermi Paradox is a flawed premise that itself needs to answer many other “why”s before its “why” can be answered.

“Intelligent Life -> [Long enough timespan] -> Intelligent Life on every planet around every star.”

A -> [B] -> C, where [B] makes a ridiculous amount of assumptions, then takes the absence of C to invalidate the possibility of A.
I'm surprised to see this posted considering Red Hat acquired it 10 years ago, with little industry interest since.
Wow, so what you are basically saying is that the Russians intended this assassination to be discovered and demonstrated to be a poisoning attack?
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Good luck finding somebody paying them 1b in raw fish...
I have to admit that I did not know that. How does Shell's interest in Rosneft make their loss in the Ukraine acceptable? I get why they don't want to jeopardize their interest in Rosneft, including "advising" the Dutch government to not adopt any sanctions that would harm it. At the same time, they still would additionally benefit from regaining access to the east of the Ukraine. Or are those two goals mutually exclusive? If so, I don't (yet) see how.
Not sure about that, I find it odd to run docker on DigitalOcean. I gave up trying to write my own blog engine for now and decided to use wordpress on a shared host that costs me $5 a year. Way easier and less overhead. No docker, no monthly payments, just a blog.
Yes. Just ask Ignaz Semmelweis.
> I'm also, looking back on a 30 year career, beginning to wonder if a more 'industrial' approach to curriculum design might be useful. Why not simply devise a national curriculum and produce standardised lesson plans and schemes to go with it?

That's what we do in France. In most cases, it works rather well.

The main problem is that it means that every change has to be synchronized nation-wide, which is time and resource consuming. Also, since it's national, it can quickly become a national cause, both for the government (who sometimes decide to change the curriculum for purely political reasons) and for some parts the opposition (« No, that's not how you do Sex Ed! », or such).

Also, we're not too good at handling edge cases (e.g. students with special needs, gifted students, students in places where most parents don't speak French).
Now this makes sense to me, but depending on how much you're paying in the case of DigitalOcean you could just spin up different droplets.
I appreciate the concept, as checking out has always been a bottleneck from my experience, so not having to queue up to use awful self-checkout machine is a nice plus.

However the SMS-based payment flow is awful and a security nightmare. Just give me an app where I can select what I bought and pay for it via Apple Pay.
CloudWatch Events already supports triggering Lambda functions on a cron schedule. You don't even need S3. This seems like a ton of work to basically invoke a function every n minutes.
Or in the greatest pollution event ever - when plants filled this atmosphere with oxygen. The poor obligate anaerobic organisms never stood a chance, they were massively exterminated.
Yeah, he's not wrong about that... A "bad" structure fire is a few hours of work. A "normal" forest fire is a few days.
Working well in the sense of "the amount of unwitting users switching is > the backlash and heat from being an dark pattern villain and turning some witting users off". Aka "helps browser marketshare".
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As member of the public, you should never trust intelligence agencies about anything. Disinformation of the public is part of their job description. If you are a member of the executive or the military, then it might be something different, because these agencies exist to work for you. Everyone else, not so much...
> I’m talking about hardware acceleration, antialias, no dropped frame and in sync with the monitor’s refresh rate.

All supported by flash, I just told you about the possibility of coding your own shaders with a C like language where do you think these shaders were computed?

> Well, show me a link then. We can still run it (not for long).

You know damn well that most flash content has been retired from the web.
If the Russian gay community start popping over for holidays in Salisbury, they're going to be mightily disappointed [0].

[0] http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/15816425.City_s_only_...
For those languages I'd translate such questions to ones about reference types and scoping; these are indeed must-know and a common source of bugs.
>Flash performed better, usually looked more polished than this…

Memory is a curious thing. Please provide some link to support this opinion. It is still possible to run it and prove it.
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Based on the descriptions of poor performance on otherwise fast hardware in this thread, I was really expecting something a lot more graphically impressive. That's the web for you I guess, keep adding layers of abstraction until even the simplest stuff runs like molasses.
Daughters are teenagers, there's a pic in the article.

If her predicament is because of student loans she had to take out to get this job, then the problem is really 'degrees are too expensive', and not 'teachers don't make enough', right? Or are excessive (relative to income) student loans an especially big problem for teachers?

The median household income in Raleigh is 55k (first Google hit). She's making almost 20% more than that. Sure, she may have a bunch of expenses that others don't, but is the story then that teachers make too little, or is the story that some people have high student loan repayments, or pay a lot in alimony, or have to help out family, or have debts from previous bad marriages or whatever?

My point is: if I was a PR guy, trying to gain public support for the idea that teachers are underpaid, I wouldn't show off someone who makes 20% more than the median household income on her own. If you're looking to make a point, you find some good examples of the problem you're illustrating; not even necessarily the worst cases, but surely not someone who raises questions for even a sympathetic reader like myself. So then I wonder in this case, what else is there 'hidden' in this story we're not being told but that would change the narrative substantially?
>>> PS: Are stinkbombs still a thing in schools? Or has zero-tolerance made that a capital crime too?

Off topic, but so d.mn right/funny :-)
What would you do?