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I think a few districts are trying to figure out what makes a teacher good/excellent and figure out how to get all their teachers up to that point. Shortly before my mother had to retire due to early-onset Alzheimer's, she spent 3 years as a mentor to new teachers and helped them cope with the stress, taught them how to plan lessons properly, and made sure that they could maintain order in a classroom. The result was better teachers and lower turnover.
The sad part is that there are people who can keep confidences. There are counselors who would keep his confidence. There are friends who would keep his confidence. I'm convinced there's probably even a girl out there who could love him enough for who he was to help him understand that even though the darkness was present her love was for him and was willing to deal with it's presence.

If anything, this letter, and any suicide, can have the positive influence on the rest of us, encouraging us to reach out to those around us who are pained or troubled in anyway to just kind of try and lift their burdens for a moment.

Sorry if that sounds unrealistic, but there's been two suicides in my neighborhood in the last 6 months, and in both cases I think if there'd been more public discussion of options, more open discussion in society about feeling like there's no way out and what you can do when you feel that way, if there had been people who had been willing to tell people, "Hey, I know you've got issues, but I'm willing to be your friend anyway..." that in some way their lives perhaps could have been altered.
I hate to use an HN thread for this kind of thing, but you don't have your email address in your profile or on your blog. Would you mind shooting me an email? I'm collecting people who write well about colleges they attended. (Nefarious purposes, obviously.)
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I hadn't heard that. Thanks for the anecdote.
But for most people that is also harder to digest. The "sleepy hour" after eating a huge burrito isn't a mystery, it's because you've eaten something that made your body focus only on digestion.

That said, I also know someone with a sensitivity to meat, so there's no one-size-fits-all rule.
From reading the letter you can tell he was suffering extremely from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder throughout much of his life.

I did not feel sad as much as disgusted that, through our politicians, we have:

A) made illegal the most effective treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder : MDMA

B) continue to support the primary generator of new PTSD cases: war

If you want to do something other than sit around feeling sad for a while, help address one of the above problems and prevent the situation from happening again.

[further reading]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/artic...

>Ecstasy is the key to treating PTSD
At last the incurably traumatised may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, the key to taming their demons is the ‘killer’ drug Ecstasy

http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/

>For-profit pharmaceutical companies are not interested in developing MDMA into a medicine, because the patent for MDMA has expired. Companies cannot profit off of MDMA because it is only administered a limited number of times, unlike most medications for mental illnesses that are taken on a daily basis. Consequently MAPS is the only organization funding clinical trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in the world

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5334479/ns/health-mental_health/

>1 in 8 returning soldiers suffers from PTSD
But less than half with problems seek help, report finds
I don't think his intention was to offend but rather to sympathize with what Bill was going through and pay his respects to Bill's life.
The LA times had an interesting series (http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/22/local/la-me-schools-...) on value added metrics in education that was interesting. The basic idea is that you look at the median achievement scores for students the year before they enter a teacher's classroom and the year after and see how they compare (of course this is vulnerable to schools with students who transfer frequently). Then, you can say for example, on average does a student who was below grade level, stay below grade level, or improve? This allows one to get some handle on what the impact is of the teacher--for good or worse--the LAtimes study found that the differences in teacher impact were rather high--within the same school. Also, some teachers were happy to learn about the results--for example, some teachers were enthusiastic, but were not aware that their overall impact was not so high and wanted to know how they could improve. Now, I wouldn't use this as the only metric because it might not be linear--for example, perhaps it's harder to get a large improvement for say a group of gifted kids (relative to their previous scores), compared to moving students who are somewhat below grade level to slightly above grade level--but at least it indicates the direction that the teacher is (on average) sending students. I should stress that the method looks at the same student before and after and then averages the results afterwards.
Many arm chips support both a RISC ISA (the original ARM), and a more CISC-y ISA (thumb2). They consume less power and perform better with the latter. So well, in fact, that some chips don't even bother with the legacy RISC mode.
What are some other sources of data about colleges? I'm interested in similar (but not the same) data mining projects.
This thing has been around for ages (hence the Flash). NNDB is kind of a weird thing, though, being created by the Soylent Communications people. I wonder how many people are charged with keeping it updated and whether some wiki features are in the works.
ha, thanks for the smile.
Read the inserts. There on the net. It contains Themerosal.
Excellent. I think I might give that approach a try. Some extra coding for me tonight, though it will be fairly easy to add to the existing site :)
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used to work at MS and shared a building with the Surface team. Those people were doing some REALLY amazing shit but I don't think it ever saw "the light of day" (read: beyond demos) because the device was so damned expensive.

I did hear that a bunch of places in Vegas have active back orders, though...
I'm working on one. I'll upload it once I have the chance to finish it up.
I sincerely hope you'll pardon the cliche, but you did everything you could.

Thanks for doing that much. A lot of people would be frozen in shock upon receiving something like that.
ARM recommends using Thumb2 for non-legacy software. Thumb2 is denser than x86, so actually ARM is the one with the advantage here (unless you have an existing ARM codebase).
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Harvard covers full tuition for low-income students: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/03/harvard-increa...

"Families with incomes above $120,000 and below $180,000 with assets typical for these income levels are asked to contribute 10 percent of their incomes. For those families with incomes below $120,000, the parental contribution declines steadily from 10 percent, reaching zero for those with incomes at $60,000 and below."

Harvard isn't right for everyone. But remember that nonprofit universities love drawing diverse crowds, which includes the poor (admittedly, only those that make it through the selection process).
I think they could find your search terms from the referring url, but I am not sure how they are able to get their pages with your terms into the search results and get the terms into their meta description.

They must just have compiled huge lists of relatively specific search terms and have pages against each? But I would think this would be easy to identify and downrank..

It is a puzzle :/
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>Windows 8 on ARM won't support legacy x86 code

On one hand I doubt this as MS has a penchant for backwards compat and there is an emulation layer for EVERYTHING in Windows as is.

On the other hand, I'm seeing them move away from their backwards compat religion and CISC to RISC sounds fucking horrifying to me.
If you consider a "nice restaurant meal" to cost $25 or more, I assert it is hard to spend $25 on ingredients for one home cooked meal.

It is fairly easy to spend more than a "dollar menu fast food meal".
Glucose isn't the problem, glucose regulation is. If you eat refined carbs or sugars you get slammed with it all at once, and your body becomes more insulin resistant and fat-generating as a defense mechanism. Meanwhile, you run into the "blood sugar rollercoaster" effect - a high, followed by a crash causing extreme hunger. The blood sugar shenanigans have the side effect of manipulating blood pressure as well, which can make some activities difficult or dangerous.

When you eat fats, proteins and slower-digesting carbs the glucose regulation problem doesn't occur, at least not on the same scale, so your brain and body can perform undistributed for potentially many, many hours. Consequently the only problems come from nutritional content and digestive efficiency.

For elite endurance athletes there is still reason to "carb up" to pump as much glyogen into the muscles as possible, but that isn't most of us, and it isn't something you need for brain work.
"Recommendations and likes (from Facebook) or other places are hard to artificially jack up"

If recommendations and likes are added to Google's algorithm, people will find ways to artificially jack them up. For example, marketers have aligned networks of Digg users to increase the amount of Diggs. I find it hard to believe that Demand Media and others will not be able to artificially inflate Facebook likes.
At most Silicon Valley companys I've worked at, anything less than excellent performance resulted in executives losing their position - the equivalent of being "fired" (In some rare cases those executives stayed with the company in a reduced role, but that was rarely the case - who wants to go from Senior VP of marketing to manager of technical publications - and the requisite $500K+ year of compensation to $125K)

On the flip side, as long as the line employee was performing reasonably adequately - they were rarely fired. Only those who were performing abysmally were part of the typical 10% annual churn.

Your experience may be different, but, that was mine.
Reckless overbooking can get mightily expensive for an airline in Europe (or, to the best of my knowledge, non-European operators flying into, or out of an European airport):

http://www.airpassengerrights.eu/

Technical reasons is, according to a court ruling, not a reason to deny compensation. The court ruled that airlines are responsible for maintenance and the technical fitness of their equipment to fly.

The only way of weaseling out is an event, which is really beyond control of the airline. And even then they need to care for their passengers.

Overbooking can also be an expensive venture, since they must reroute you on demand with another airline on their expense.
The email part of it costs maybe a $1, if that. But throw in ridiculously high privacy, data protection, and access right standards (both for redundancy reasons, archiving, and privacy protections), and $500 sounds about right.
Bergman may be well known but he's a sensationalist, making a living off "exposing unpublic information". Don't be surprised if he gets into UFOs at some point. I would take everything he writes with a grain of salt.
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I could have received a better education from my local public library.

- How'd you like them apples? Sorry couldn't resist some good will punning.

Anyways, I've always said (even when I was in high-school) that I'd just get a bachelors degree from the most reputable University I can afford without going into debt. These days I'm still missing one year of a Financial Engineering degree, but I'm earning almost twice (and quite a bit more in some cases) what most of my high-school graduating classmates are making after getting their Bachelors and Masters, and I just took a new job paying 22% more with an awful lot of benefits as a Lead UX/Systems Developer (yeah I have a weird mix of responsibilities, but they're exactly the responsibilities I wanted to have, as I quite enjoy both sides of the equation) for a big software company in my country. Take in account that I went to a recognized private school, so you could say my classmates where predestined to at least make a modest living without having to resort to flipping burgers at McDonalds.

So there. I learnt everything I know by reading, programming, and designing on my own. I was able to secure my first job pretty easily (I was 19 at the time) since I was one of the three persons out of a pool of 85 people who passed a simple test for a job working for a company that made shopping cart and merchant software. They hired me because even though the other two had degrees, I had done significantly better than they had on the test and trust me, I wasn't/am not a genius or anything or that sort.

I guess my point is that a degree is a must have because it's a great thing to fall back on if you ever need it and it can help your formation and tune your thought process, but it is by no means a silver bullet for actually achieving a great education nor does it make it a given that you'll do better in the job market. Make sure you learn what you need to learn, regardless of where you learn it, and make sure that you really learn to sell yourself instead of letting a piece of paper dictate how you do in life.

Oh and by the way... bachelor degrees are so passe this days. If you want offers based on your degrees more then your proven experience, opt for a masters degree as fast as you can.
If you, like me, wonder about the Windows alternatives; Hexplorer ( http://artemis.wszib.edu.pl/~mdudek/ ) is a very nice and capable hex editor for Windows. The only downside is that it chokes on rather big files. Then again, I don't use it daily for my work, so I might be missing some big pros or cons.
So don't let just any random Joe provide feedback. Crowdsource it to longtime holders of Google accounts who've got a track record.

Recognizing that not all users are created equal is (IMHO) an incredibly powerful insight that Google and many other companies overlook. Qualified, technically literate users will be happy to volunteer, but you have to ask.
This is one of the more upvoted Ruby stories I've seen on HN in some time, and it's a little bit disappointing. Sensationalism and inaccuracy are all it takes these days, eh?
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That's exactly what "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is about :)
a crawler for unsubsidized content

Note that this doesn't require an all-new crawl/engine: just for an existing engine to offer an advanced operator that filters ad-drenched pages from results. Even just an operator that eliminated AdSense sites would be a big win for some queries.
> [how do i make a blueberry pie]

You know very well that this is not how search works. You don't "ask a question" to the search engine like you would ask your grandmother.

You type in words that you expect to be in the pages you're looking for, and the search engine lists pages that actually contain ALL of those words.

One of the main improvements of Google in the very early days was that it used the AND operand by default, whereas competing search engines used OR by default, resulting in an incredible amount of noise.

In essence, searching for "how do i make a blueberry pie" (with quotes) should return only spam, because only spammy and SEO optimized sites would contain the phrase as such. A real recipe would maybe contain the phrase "how TO make a blueberry pie" but not "how do i..."

- - -

I think your point was that "middle aged women" don't know any of this.

It would be arguable (probably wrong, but still) that people who don't know this, who didn't make the effort to understand a little how all of this works, deserve the spam they get.

There is a good way to discriminate between good and bad content, and that is to know a little about what you're searching in order to search for words that will be present in good quality content and NOT in spammy pages.

For example, it's reasonnable to expect a good recipe to give instructions in metric system as well as imperial; if you add "celsius" to the search then the second (informative) recipe arrives first:

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+make+blueberry+pie+cel...
Wow.

Having grown up abused by my own parents (in all ways except sexually), I identify with a lot of what he says. I used to think of suicide daily, now I just think of death. Counseling (sans drugs) is what helped me get there. It's good and bad now, but there's a positive trend.

I think what saddens me most about this note is his experience with counseling professionals (though he does use the word doctor, so "counselor" might not be totally accurate). My counselor's office is where I most feel like myself, it's where I feel safe. If only Bill had a situation like that, he might still be here today.

I didn't know the guy personally, but I've read stories like this before, and one thing that stands out to me is how amazing some people that have been through trauma like this are. He went through all the hell that he did, dealt with it on a daily basis, yet still had the capacity to do great work, to make people laugh, to attract others to him, and to generally do awesome things (http://blog.from.bz/2009/03/01/sudo-make-me-a-sandwich-stub-...).

Do yourself a favor and read the note all the way through. Pass it around. Remember that in general, half of the people you see every day have it shittier than you do. Try not to be a jerk.
Never. Not in the next 10 years.
They are based on extremely different philosophies and gain money in very different ways.
If this would happen, it'd be the death of one of them.
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This is a very serious thing, and I don't intend to start any kind of back-and-forth here and further distract from the real issues here.

That said, standing on a political soap box about drug laws and war when Mr. Zeller's primary problem was obviously having been molested is ridiculous. Yes, it's possible that ecstasy in a clinical setting may have helped him, but he was let down in a lot more ways than an inability to get that particular treatment (as he says in the note, he wasn't even seeking treatment).

It's disrespectful to pin this political issue to a man's final note to the world. Even if this was an issue Mr. Zeller felt strongly about, he obviously didn't mean to be some kind of martyr for it.

edited to add: I don't disagree with your point, I just think your timing is awful.
I for one, thought that it was quite positive thing and I respect his decision to take his own life. It was very well thought-out suicide note; I think most people are quite baffled by it because of the degree of author's rational explanations, extreme honesty and empathy for others in spite of his own pains.

Also, he unintentionally perhaps shed light on programming which a lot of us could relate to,

At times growing up I would feel inconsolable rage, but I never connected this to what happened until puberty. I was able to keep the darkness at bay for a few hours at a time by doing things that required intense concentration, but it would always come back. Programming appealed to me for this reason.

I thought that if I got into to a good college, or a good grad school, or lost weight, or went to the gym nearly every day for a year, or created programs that millions of people used, or spent a summer or California or New York or published papers that I was proud of, then maybe I would
feel some peace and not be constantly haunted and unhappy. But nothing I did made a dent in how depressed I was on a daily basis and nothing was in any way fulfilling.

Like Bill Zeller, I retreated into programming at an early age to right a wrong and while programming is a lot of fun; I hid behind a screen to escape personal problems that I thought that the coding marathon high, money & prestige would solve. And the more fun programming got, the worse the issues got and the more I dived into my rabbit-hole.

This is not to take away anything from Bill Zeller; he is an incredible brave man alive and dead. Anyone who went to Trinity knows that it's a very hostile environment for coming out. The fact that he kept coding software then and beyond and kept a completely normal pretense is incredible to me. And I want to thank him for his iTunes ripping software, his inspiration to me when I was at undergrad and his brutal honesty in his suicide note.
Seems like he was a really smart guy. It's sad no one was able to help him. Rest in peace Bill Zeller.
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When I was looking at the page, I noticed that the example:

{

key: "value",

dr_nic: "The Comedian",

ttl: 42

}

didn't seem to use the :symbols I know but omitted the colon.

Turns out, it somehow works:

> a = {my_key: "my_value"}

=> {:my_key=>"my_value"}

Has this always been there? It's kinda weird because that way they look like regular variables O_o
of course not. I was just saying that the fact that every ASCII document is also a UTF-8 document only makes life easier for people dealing with ASCII.

The moment you leave that safe area, all the usual problems will come and haunt you.
Why is Greenspan so often referred to as libertarian or an ultra-capitalist? Central banking is the polar opposite of both these things.

When Greenspan says something like "capitalism has failed", it isn't some sort of grand ideological reversal, it's an unwitting joke.
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