skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are great ideas, thanks! You have a good point about the marketability perception of the site. We may have to make the site more appealing to less casual readers. We will be watching to see how things play out with reader interest.
Why don't you go into teaching in private practice?

http://www.mackinac.org/953

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/31/us/new-breed-of-teachers-b...

I am a teacher in private practice. I like teaching through my community nonprofit organization much better than I would like teaching with a lot of school bureaucracy, and I can give my clients better service too.
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I need data backup on a personal level rather than for business reasons, and I love what Backblaze offer... except that for my data and with my ~50kbps upload speed, it would take about five years to upload it all to their servers.
As of now it doesn't look like Vico supports the `let` command so setting <Leader> with `let mapleader=','` wouldn't work.

Like so many others, I'll be keeping my eyes peeled.
Whether or not the magic number is 20 or 50 or 60 the point is there isn't much room for productivity growth. The U.S. may gain a one time increase in productivity growth by doubling the size of classrooms but the inherent problems addressed by the parent will still exist.
Yeah, I know those spam emails you're talking about. Usually the type of "great opportunities" where you get to manage yourself and earn "tons of money" on commission, AKA free help.

Most of the internships in my area (Philadelphia) are just like the excerpt I posted. Some are worse -- like the company that obviously wanted an unpaid intern to build them a brand new website -- and very few are better.
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Thanks for that, definitely some prominent folks involved.
Do you use munin or similar monitoring tools? Jazzychad's suggestion will only help you if your apache server is fully saturated, so these monitoring tools would instantly confirm or refute the notion. I completely agree that jazzychad's suspicions are correct, by the way.
We don't blame soldiers, while we do blame teachers, because almost everyone has personal experience dealing with lazy, bad teachers as a student. Many people also have direct experience with lazy friends who became teachers for lack of other options.
If you've got a year or two of internships under your belt already and are a junior or senior in a CS program these requirements seem pretty reasonable. 1-2 years just means you've made something with it, it doesn't mean you are an expert.
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The link that points to [1] states the difference in where the money goes for CDs/donating.
I wasn't aware of this split.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=130322381504860&w...
Rather than using Google scholar, I would suggest looking at papers in ICML, NIPS and Journal of Machine Learning Research.

For vision based research I would suggest CVPR and ICCV conference and IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence journal.
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Repost from remote thread: Posted previously on hiring threads and received a good response from the HN community. Needless to say, still looking for someone to help with my project to catalog every product in existence.

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Who is going to build a school in a poor neighborhood then? Who is going to transport the child to the good school? When the slots to the best schools are filled by children of wealthy parents then what?

We would end up with a worse two-tiered system than what we have now.
> AppSumo.com 24-hour special: $8,120 (keep $2,436)

So AppSumo made $5684 in profits by promoting and selling your book? What a sweet business model..
I suspect the reason is the same as on emacs: scrolling always occurs line by line (i.e., there is never a partial line visible at the top or bottom of the screen), whereas on most modern text editors it scrolls by pixel, so it's more of a continuous transition.

I love emacs, but this is one of the sticking points that's really been bothering me of late.

On a side note, it looks like with emacs's set-window-vscroll command, you can actually make it display a fraction of a line. Has anyone had any luck hacking this into a way to do smooth, continuous scrolling?
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No. Knowing C# is enough for this job; SQL would be good, and Photoshop is a bonus

Employers post everything they use hoping that someone will match at least half of them. Most full timers aren`t even experts in all the technologies.

Don't be intimidated, think about it from the employer POV. Most are DESPERATE!
That's great that it worked for the private school you went to. Does this scale for a country with 300 million people?
no, but i'm going to set that up. thank you. i also realized linode is nothing like the way heroku works--that resize costed me $140. definitely not a cost-effective way to deal with traffic. i'll see if i can get it pro-rated with them since i'm only doing it for one day, and then i'll setup wpcache.
This seems to be a great offering

The pricing is not entirely out of line compared with what I can get in-house, and it's a fantastic solution for storing horribly bulk,low-reliability data.

$10 / 100GB comes out to .01/GB/Month. That means that you pay the total cost of an in-house solution, every month you use their service..

That's 12x the price of doing it yourself, but you don't need to buy replacement drives, pay for electricity, or send someone to go replace drives.

It's not that much cheaper than Amazon in the base pricing, but it looks like you can relax the number of copies for them to keep from 3(default) to 1, and cut the price down to 1/3?

Is this your experience?
Thanks for the link.
How many different 800x600 pictures possible?
Regarding pension, matching 401k is not comparable with a government backed defined benefit pension.
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Exactly. These requirements are not unreasonable at all. I don't think it is out of line for an employer to expect that you've at least seen/touched the tech they use.
>For example, when a teacher has to send a student out of the room for bad behavior, the student should have hell to pay from parents and the vice principal. Instead, what often happens is parents complain about the teacher's discipline and the vice principal calls you in to "have a discussion" with the student and to "hear their side of the story".

I had a lot of teachers with serious personality problems when I was in public school. Not all, of course, and I'm not saying you're one of them - but the implicit suggestion you're making (side with the teacher by default, don't listen to the kid's side of the story) would be even worse than the way it is now.

>Also, grading is a bitch. I left the profession mostly because of the insane hours you need to spend grading (well, high school anyway). Students will nickel and dime you for every point while comparing with their peers. "Sally missed the minus sign in step C of problem 4 but got the same number of points as me? WTF?" WTF indeed.

Suck it up. I TAed a bunch of CS classes in grad school, including a couple proof classes, and yes grading can be a bitch (CS103 was especially rough). And believe me, Stanford students know how to ask for points back. But that's part of the job. If you can't justify the grades you give, and/or you can't grade consistently, then you deserve pushback from students.

>Add to that, you have to be up and out of the house every morning by 6 am or so to be on time. If you have kids, forget about seeing them for breakfast before their school day starts. And that means giving up your evenings too because you need to be in bed early.

I agree that schools start stupidly early in the US, but when your workday ends between 2:30 and 4:00, I don't think you can really complain about having to go to bed early.

I don't mean to dispute that teaching is stressful, and I'm all for much much higher teacher salaries (and the end of seniority, teachers' unions, ridiculous benefits, rubber rooms, etc.). But your complaints don't really seem reasonable.
Teachers are totally underpaid. I challenge anyone who thinks otherwise to just work 1 week as a teacher in front of more than 25 students aged 10 - 16. Then we talk again. (I am not a teacher, nor something close to it.)
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Thekla, Inc is hiring good video game programmers to work on unusual and very interesting games.

See http://the-witness.net/news/?p=815
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I think http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/08/06/on-seeing-like-a-cat/on... is a more insightful analysis of the cat/dog dichotomy. There's nothing particularly cat like or dog like in the roles described in the linked article.
I don't get why people would say Airpush would never exist on iOS. It already does. I have seen quite a few app that use push notifications for advertisements. Not just scammy apps, but popular well recieved apps like Boxcar that hide it by labelling it App Recommendations.

Push notifications' promise always included ads. It is just a matter of presenting them well. It is like nagware. The annoying ones will be punished, the effective ones will be rewarded.
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I agree. WL has been way smarter about PR lately... They are actually defining the message now rather than letting the rest of the media define them.
It is pro-rated. When you resize back a credit for the unused time will be credited. You paid for May is why it cost so much.
It's not the norm, but it has helped us a bit, and to be honest, it's still less expensive than most recruiters. When you're hiring positions between $90-$150K, recruiters want 20-30% of that first year's salary, so spending $24K to build a more organic pipeline makes a lot of sense.
I'm seriously not trying to start a flame/holy war here.
> I don't understand why voucher proposals find such limited support.

A traditional stumbling block (though not the only one) is the question of religious schools. Voucher proposals have historically been seen as ways to get the government to fund religion, leading to various backlashes dating back to the 19th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_Amendment

A solution could be to only allow vouchers to be used for secular schools, but that runs into opposition from religious conservatives, and it's also unclear if it'd be permissible to exclude all schools run by religious organizations from an otherwise generally available program. I suspect conservative support for school vouchers that allowed religious schools would take a huge nosedive as soon as Islamic schools started taking advantage of them though, which is currently what's causing the Netherlands to rethink its voucher program.
It worked for Andy Dufresne ...
Here was another NYTimes op-ed in March, drawing upon the same McKinsey international comparisons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html

Previous HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318265
Boxcar hasn't sent me an ad via push notification in my two years of using it.
Very nice! I'm a vim novice, but I use it a lot to make quick changes to config files. Is there a good vim help resource that could be integrated in to this program for newbies like me? There are many things I like about vim, but I'm always forgetting keybindings.

Excellent program, though! I look forward to watching it as it develops further!
Matt looks good I just signed up - I'll have time to tinker around with it this week. Very promising. I'm very interested in these tools and your competition (psd2cssonline.com, divine, etc.) in this field. I just moved away from Boston to Florida after 25 years but I'll be up there frequently and maybe we can catch coffee and chat.
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I'm starting to really dig coffeescript. Using it in a new project and can see what people are raving about.

I wish there were better examples of creating cakefiles though. Little documentation on this. I think it assumes that everyone has a ruby background. I'd like a cakefile with a task to compile all of my .coffee files. Seems like that should be easy, but I don't see an example of how to do it.
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I disagree, although I think many of your observations are valid. It's unfortunate that our politics have become so polarized that both critics and defenders of teachers often wind up talking past each other.

There are obvious downsides to a seniority system. Younger teachers tend to get offered poorer contractual terms during collective bargaining, be handed the worst assignments (when they have the least experience), and are sometimes even bullied by older teachers with much greater authority and job security. I feel this is true of seniority systems in general, but in education the potential consequences have particularly wide-ranging implications for society. While we don't want to lose skilled veteran teachers, we don't want to raise the barriers to entry too high for new entrants to the profession either. Over longer periods, that leads to a succession problem.

I'm less convinced by your argument about monopsony. You mention that there are thousands of employers in cities (plural) for software engineers, but then refer to a single public school district with a handful of private schools, as if teachers were chained to the first city they work in. On the other hand, there are about 6 million teaching jobs in the US, vs. maybe a million software engineering jobs (going by memory from BLS data). And since, as you say, k-12 education necessarily involves a fairly low student-teacher ratio, the demand in that job market is very predictable based on demographics. While instructional methods may be disrupted by technology (and ought to have been disrupted far more than they have been up to now, if you ask me), a good part of junior education is about social skills and learning to find and function as part of a non-familial social group. Even if we could put a holodeck in every classroom tomorrow along with all other pedagogical disiderata, teachers would still be needed to manage kids' behavior and needs in more or less the same proportions as today. I think that number can be a bit higher than 20 (I grew up with class sizes of closer to 30, and it was fine), but there are only so many children that an adult can supervise and assist effectively.
Let's fire the bad teachers! That's a great idea. Except, how do you define bad teachers?

I've been a teacher for many years. I'm an average teacher. Not great, not horrible. Some students really like me and others not so much. As far as I can tell society wants three things:

1. Almost everyone to have access to a great education.
2. Almost everyone to pass.
3. Almost everyone who passes to know the material.

The fact is, you can have any two of these but not all three and society is not willing to come to grips with this reality. Society is also not willing to come to grips with the fact that the truly great teachers are, well, truly great. A rarity and it will always be this case as long as truly inspirational people can better be fulfilled doing something other than teaching.

Think you know the answers? Then get into a classroom and lead the way. What? The low pay, lack of respect, long hours, emotional stress aren't worth it? I see.
On the other hand, how is it any different from me copy/pasting whole AP articles onto my blog?
This reads like taken right out of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csik..., a book that has had tremendous effects on my day to day life. Actually trying to enjoy the stuff we do everyday, however menial it may be, makes us happy. This simple yet extremely effective idea has changed my entire view of the world to be honest. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
I have a genetic disorder and have had great success reversing the negative outcomes that i am supposed to be "doomed" to. A few thoughts of my thoughts on genes are posted here: http://healthgazelle.com/genes.shtml

My understanding is that most genetic disorders cause problems via a protein being misfolded. I have read that proteins will also misfold if PH balance or salt balance within the cell is way out of whack. I have had good results with reversing my symptoms by addressing the PH and salt issue that my genetic disorder is known to cause. FWIW: My father happens to have Alzheimer's and I know of someone else with my genetic disorder in the family whose father had Alzheimer's. In recent weeks, stuff I am reading indicates that things that have potential to help with my condition also often helps with Alzheimer's. I haven't specifically researched if there is a link between my genetic disorder and Alzheimer's but I begin to speculate there probably is. As I understand it, both are inflammatory conditions.
Previous discussion from when this story was posted a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389622
Actually it is. There is an easy way to compare them from an actuary point of view. Both types of systems have a present day value and both are calculable expenses to the employer. Some 401Ks are much nicer than my pension. Some are much worse. But they are comparable.
I feel like I'm reading the contents of a self-help infomercial.
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If an article complaining about teacher salaries doesn't mention that most teachers get their summers off, I find it difficult to believe any other points it tries to make. I knew a few teachers that worked jobs in the summer to supplement their income and that seems pretty reasonable given that the vast majority of people I know work all 12 months.
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I was up there as well, I used instagram on my old iPhone 3G (as well as rocking a DSLR) and had barely any problems at all. In fact I found the whole experience of the app very liberating, literally taking shots on the phone, styling them, uploading them and having people commenting, liking and following me within in minutes of them going up. I can't say I've tried Color, but I see it struggling to beat the penetration that instagram has achieved.
I have read somewhere that the ratio of administrators to teachers goes up constantly. That would also explain the rise in college tuition. More and more administrators and consultants to pay. Wish I could find hard numbers somewhere. But as with all political discussions real data is hard to find..,
Here was another NYTimes op-ed in March, drawing upon the same McKinsey international comparisons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html

(Kristof included a link to the McKinsey report, http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/Social_Sector/our_prac... , and supporting material can be found at http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/Social_Sector/our_prac... .)

Previous HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318265
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Because you have not asked for App Recommendations. Like I said, it is about presentation. Boxcar does it right with an opt in service that provides value.
That wouldn't be useful except for debugging. You can already do this if you also include the compiler. You'd never want to include uncompiled coffeescript in production, it can't be minified to the extent that js can.
I guess the answer is that it might not scale to a nationwide level when 300 million people are involved.

Saying, "At my school...." is sort of like saying, "I got a web server to work on my home machine and now I'm ready to handle Amazon level traffic." You gotta think about how it's going to scale. You gotta think about unintended consequences and whatnot. Pointing out an example of how one particular school worked and how it worked well is not an argument for nationwide policy changes.
Is this the same as non-parametric learning?
NSD (Name Server Daemon) is a nice addition. It's used by RIPE root servers.

http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/trunk/doc/CREDITS
Why would anyone go with RAID 0 for a server? At least do RAID 10.
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Wow, I'm not sure how I missed this project. This project solves a lot of the issues I'm grappling with in my current VM lab.

Anyone here using Ganeti?
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