skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I afraid then, it's hard to reason whether something is "fair" or "not fair", given the sheer compexity of the system. Which is unfortunate: when you don't immediately understand what's fair and what's not, you have to apply rules first. And rules are just like violence: If they fail, add more rules.
TL;DR;

"I gave up sugar, coffee, and alcohol".

It was a good read.
Ken Robinson has several talks regarding education on TED. I really love them and find them very inspiring. I listen to them regularly. If you never looked at it, I really recommend it. It opened my mind on a new type of education.
This is pretty slick!

Screenshot if anybody wants to see what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/BH3yd.png
Neurone article
Try logging in with Bank of America's credentials. Also use a lot of headers so that your HTTP request is too big to fail.
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A good strategy is to start with a fairly week LOI like this one and reduce the “escape clauses,”...

Sounds like good advice. In Ries's recent book on Lean Startup, there's a story of one of Votizen's unsuccessful pivots which were based on letters of intent.
The title of the article is misleading: it was mostly about Internet companies in China.

That said, I think any serious predictions about the global economy right now is silly. Europe could crash (even with more bailouts of Greece, etc.), the USA could crash (not as likely) or China could crash due to social upheaval, etc. Everything could be OK for years, who knows, and the interconnected financial world seems like a study case for chaos theory.
Are you seriously proposing we go back to pre-public schooling society - you know, the one where the vast major of the population was completely uneducated since education was strictly reserved for the wealthy?

Laissez-faire brings out some admirable qualities in people, but it is also an extremely unequal system with many detrimental effects on society (including the rich). There's a historical reason why we invented public schools, public libraries, public parks, etc.

I find it difficult to understand how someone with an awareness of history can support a completely laissez-faire society where the default answer to everything is "let the market figure it out". This is not a new idea, and the present state of the world only exists because we had to suffer through centuries of unbridled capitalism and classism.
Is it pretty fast? Any lag?
This is true to some extent. But on the other hand it is the most important setting, because every other option depends on it (that is also why it is sitts on top).

Most cameras are used by more than one person with different expertise in photography.

One of the many things I did not show in this video was the function of the camera teaching you how to use it. Now try to imagine the satisfaction the user would get when he/she could goes to the next level by switching a physical switch.

- Miha Feus
Interesting idea. Thing is it would sound like one of those scams. Hope you know what I'm talking about as I'm too tired to explain any further. =]
Forty years ago, I remember hearing from a neighbor that the Arizona school district she had worked for took some pains to see that the snowbirds didn't just drop their kids off for instruction. Her oldest child was probably born in 1951 or 1952, which suggests a terminus ad quem for her teaching days of about 60 years ago.

Now and again the New York Times will write about the efforts New Jersey districts will take to investigate suspicious enrollments. I've never read of such investigations resulting in more than a kid shipped from one school to another.

And it strikes me as utterly disingenuous for the WSJ to be going on about this.
isaacsu, great idea and I hope you gain a ton of traction. I just submitted http://phinish.me/
How is it disingenuous for the WSJ to talk about this issue?
Why would it be in the interest of private schools to hoard their products from me? I only make $18000 (about half the median wage) and food companies don't price me out of the market. Car companies don't either. Given that nearly every human being is in demand of an affordable education it makes no sense for companies to not accept low income students. The only reason private schools are expensive now is because the government monopoly makes it imposible for them to compete on the low income section of the market.
It's an interesting problem, in the abstract.

If a government could drastically improve the lives of its citizens by applying a negative incentive (an indirect freedom limiter) to perform one particular act, should it?

Or should people make the right choice on their own, and/or let the market sort it out?

What if the act is so fun that people typically don't forgo it?

What about the Slippery Slope? Where do you draw the line and restrict the governmental power?

I don't know. I know there are ideological answers here, but I don't think those are the best answer.

Madison posed a similar question a long time ago.

Would it be wonderful, if, under the pressure of all these difficulties, the Convention should have been forced into some deviations from that artificial structure and regular symmetry, which an abstract view of the subject might lead an ingenious theorist to bestow on a Constitution planned in his closet, or in his imagination?

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers/No._37
> If TDD is your "process" at work, then you are being forced to write your tests first.

Not necessarily. Usually you're only required to write a test before you start working on a specific feature. If you just want to research something I've never seen anyone who'd get in the way of you pulling up a REPL.

But even so, saying you're forced to is like saying your company forces you to check your work into a VCS before they'll give you credit for having written it. Or forces you to fix bugs/add features from a list instead of just ad-hoc.
Now that we have things like affluence, the 'primed pump' of an educated society, the NEED for an educated society, and finally, the Internet, I don't see why we need nearly the government involvement in education that we did 50-100 years ago.
His causality is off, way off. That's really the main issue. Both parents here have the same motivation, admirable enough, but one chooses to subscribe to an unreliable predictor for his decision making.

A predictor that is toes a really fine line between statistical reliability and outright bigotry.

In any case, we know that socioeconomic status is a far better predictor of educational success than race. There is a Hugh correlation between race and SES but it's far from causal. I think the main objection here is that he seems to claim it is.
I was corrected in another post and neglected to update this one. I just couldn't see the options for some reason (perhaps because they were super secret :)).
I honestly have no idea, but I guess so. Here's the page http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ link to dmg is on the rhs. I was very pleased to see it looks just like gedit should (they haven't os-x-ified it)
Welcome to the hivemind. :-)

I have grown very accustomed to the control-click motion for 'right' clicking. I don't think right-clicking is very alien, at least in the programs I use.

Best of happiness in your new Mac!
Just as an anecdote, I found Django much easier to get started with than Rails.
Feels instantaneous to me. Application startup time is still nice and fast too.
IRS criticized for releasing app using open source and Objective C
Haha yeah, maybe I should make them less of a secret via a redesign.
> "What if the act is so fun that people typically don't forgo it?"

Then the revenue goes towards mitigating the negative effects of the act.
Cool. But yours outputs 16-bit signed audio whereas by default /dev/dsp outputs 8kHz 8-bit unsigned audio, so it sounds a little bit different. Also, http://www.bemmu.com/music/index.html beat you to it and http://wurstcaptures.untergrund.net/music/ also does URL-formulas :).

(As an aside, bemmu's is creating a 16-bit signed .WAV data from 8-bit signed functions, so it isn't doing it quite right either. Why not just create an 8-bit WAV data block? I've done so here: http://a1k0n.net/code/audiogen.html)
You've piqued my curiosity. (and exposed my seemingly limited imagination) What are you using a text editor like sublime for other than coding?
iTerm2 and MacVim are now my primary tools (IMO, Xcode 4 has lost the plot as a useful IDE.) You can define the behaviour of :make in vim, plus there are a variety of vim plugins that turn it into a complete development environment.

git for source code management; gdb for debugging. bash can do anything I need it to; never really got into zsh.

Dock seems more customizable and immediate than Launchpad. The way Launchpad takes you completely out of your current context is really distracting to me.

BTW, the Dock should always go on the left or right edge, rather than the bottom of the screen, so windows use the maximum vertical height.
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Yeah, I edited after I saw the confusion.
Very exciting, loving sublime text2. I think once this is stable it will stop any reasons to switch to a full blown ide. I think I need to fork this and add scala support!
Google Digitizes The Dead Sea Scrolls
Forget Big Banks, BankSimple Provides Same Services w/o Screwing You Over
Sorry it fell over - its back up.
Drive moreso than education. My Grandfather has a 5th grade education, worked the trades his entire life, repaired heavy equipment in his spare time, raised seven (7!!!) children and his net worth is somewhere in the millions. Drive.
Neat, neat, neat. Will there be a directory?
What is your background, if you don't mind me asking.
I know the article you mean but couldn't find it. But the Schelling Segregation Model seems to fit the bill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling#Models_of_Segr...
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Tesla Model S "Will Be Faster Than A Porsche 911"
Here are my quick thoughts:

- Do a search on each big blog for "why I hate PR people" and learn from those mistakes (there is an infamous one on TechCrunch from Arrington)

- If you want to learn the basics just get a book like "PR for Dummies" to learn the 101

- In my own experience with PR you need to care about results: If that's the case unless you are willing to invest the time and have the skills there is actual value to hiring a PR pro. If you look at Apple back in the day Regis McKenna really helped to put them on the map (http://www.regis.com). When you hire a good PR person what they bring to the table is a good rolodex, not the ability to pump out press releases and the like. The rolodex and the doors that open are what you're paying for IMHO.
If this is matt@, I really enjoyed the internal tech talk at the SLU campus a few months ago. During Q&A, I asked if any of this was going to be open sourced, has that changed?

Also, did you fix that javascript code execution vulnerability I found during the demo? :P
I think you're being a bit overly sensitive. I'm describing what you can do other than quit if you don't want to do pair programming. Nobody ever says no to carte blanche to do whatever they want, and if you give them your keyboard, they won't even know you're mentally watching YouTube videos involving rainbows, a repeating soundtrack, and pop-tarts taped to cats.
You're probably better off asking around at local startup events.
Giving up the Chromebook
Are you using a one-button mouse, or no mouse whatsoever? OS X is pretty right-click friendly out of the box.
I remember during the dot com implosion, for six months straight section 115 was entirely absent from the local classifieds. The numbers jumped from 110 (clerical) to 120 (accounting). As you might guess, 115 was the catch-all for anything computer related.

During the same time frame I saw a job post looking for all of the following: 8 years of unix systems administration experience, 5 years of MS Server, Exchange, 6 years of network administration, 5 years of perl, 6 of VB, bash scripting, and 8 years of experience as a DBA. The advertised wage for the titan that qualified for the position? $10.50 an hour.
Okay, so you kissed up to Color's PR team, got access to the app early, participated in a carefully staged demo, and it seemed cool?

The problem here is that you have no incentive to tell us that Color sucks. Doing so means that you'll never get access to any previews or exclusives from them. Meanwhile, since we're just a bunch of anonymous nobodies, you can bullshit us about how Color's stupid idea about personal video broadcasting is "surreal."
“Occupy Wall Street” and the History of Democratic Finance Protest
Still not open-sourced. Amazon-licensed. Yup. ;)
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I suppose the Free Market would make sure that their 'customers' had input into how tuition money is spent. After all, if the government isn't involved and you're free (Free Market, remember) to move your student, then the school needs to cater to your expectations or lose tuition money.
> when I write a test and it fails, about half the time it's an actual bug in the code, and half the time it's a bug in the test.

Well yeah... You'd expect otherwise?

Do you mean when the test fails that it's some sort of not-bug like you changed your mind about what the method should do since writing the test?
Same process in Poland (start by enrolling anywhere, later exams from the previous school matter), yet the difference was big. High schools in my home town got between 98% and ~10% people advancing higher. I guess 98% wasn't 100 because kids moving to schools abroad were counted as "not on the list of local universities".

For primary school you pretty much started in a mixed, local group, without any visible bias, so chances were really very similar for everyone.
I can now start my Monday very happy.
Certainly true given the analogy as stated, but if the overall quality/quantity of goods available has gone up by a factor of 3, then both are better off than before.
Yeah, I installed this and just opening a new buffer and triggering the completion a few times in a row causes ST to crash, repeatably.

With the editor crashing over and over, I don't think the completion will save much time. (Although ST recovers from a crash with everything pretty much as it was, unsaved buffers included (at least on Lion).)

Hopefully this plugin will continue to improve, though.
I wish Google had at least released the sources for Listen. I like it far better than the three or four podcast apps (including BeyondPod), but it needs maintenance.
Some of these issues arise because SublimeCodeIntel triggers the auto-complete prompt automatically, which it wasn't designed for. I'm planning to rework the auto-complete system at some point to make it more appropriate for this scenario.
Ok so maybe I'm just cranky tonight but... Color me sick of the word "pivot".

Pivoting = failure, trying idea #2.

There is no shame in this, but trying to wrap it in a term that implies that it was part of the plan all along and everything is just peachy is disingenuous.

I give "pivot" a few months before it is a synonym for "failure". As in "I was trying to hit on that girl but she shot me down so I pivoted to the girl next to her."
Is this dividend scheme materially different from a VC simply paying 20 million directly to the founders in return for a lower valuation?
Yes VinzO for me was same.
He probably self-educated though. Which is really the only kind of education there is.
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This was demoed to Amazon developers internally, and is immensely cool. The main demo involved having all of the developers pull up the slideshow on their laptops, and everyone's instance of the slideshow followed along with matt's instance (when he advanced a slide, we all did automatically).

The latencies were fantastic, too.

If you're looking to do real-time many-user interactions on a website with minimal effort, try this!
1) Validate email address. 5-10ms

2) Send a non-blocking request with a flag, eg "Good" "Bad".

3) Return message to user that email has been sent but can not confirm if the email is true for privacy reasons.

While yes, it can be down to a timing attack, the trouble is that this vector can be used against sessions, logins, etc. It can be a standard that Mozilla should adopt.
>Ms. Williams-Bolar last year used her father's address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood.

This is not civil disobedience, it's just plain old falsification of records. If she had falsified another crucial piece of information - say, income level on a scholarship application - would Ms. Williams-Bolar still get all of this "end justifies the means" sympathy?
just create them on-the-fly as submitted. The problem will be spam, I would have an API key that's created upon captcha signup that's attached to a submission, and opens up new capabilities. Maybe too complicated.

Ideally I could create a plugin, that would load a new random page from category UI after every press, then at the top of the browser would display some metadata attached to a page, like a "further info" link.

Perhaps you could create a category tree that users populate, and then allow random tags to associate -- like YT videos - choose a category but then attach madeup tags - that would be best.
It can also be looked in this manner.

It costs a society to have sick members, by taxing products that cause sickness the government can use the money raised to offset the cost of the sickness.
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Ask HN: Where are the web jobs in SD
Would think that with it's close proximity to the bay area that there would be a lot more start ups here using the cheap office space and looking for talent.

I know StockTwits and a few other companies are here but I am still shocked that the "scene" is not a lot bigger here.
"the health of the average dane (which is about as bad as the health of the average American twenty years ago)"

- Could you elaborate on this a bit more? I have lived both in Denmark and in the US and you really can't compare an average Dane to an average American (average Dane lives far far more healthy life than an American counterpart and has by far higher level of health care service). Not to mention the Danish health care system which is far superior to any other health care system I have ever witnessed. It should be a role model for all the other countries.
Actually, I expect every Color pivot (including this one) to be a trojan horse to execute the original big idea. The invite mechanism via FB is still "take a picture" and post to FB, so the implicit network is still being built.

The truth to the question "what problem does this solve?" is a constant for this company: "this" solves our problem of trying to get a critical mass of users to take metadata-rich pictures all over the world.
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I wanted the "I was made with LaTex" feel:-p

Yours looks nice, and has less of the LaTex feel to it:)
Ontario Municipal retirement fund (OMERS) to launch $180MM early-stage VC fund
The book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" (Taubes) provides solid evidence (i.e. well-referenced studies) against various forms of the lipid hypothesis. While Taubes' own theory of obesity hasn't really stood up over time, the book contains a lot of good research.
Looks like a fairly light slap on the wrists to me. People malign the IRS but they do a lot more innovation than most agencies.
No mouse. Laptop.

Occasionally I plug in a two-button mouse, but that's limited to fairly specific occasions when I'm actually mousing around. Most of the time I am either scrolling or keyboarding.
Learning Management System (LMS) APIs
Loads a nice fat blank white page in Chrome. Works in a private windows. It's not ABP and it's not Disconnect. It's just one thing after another with these guys.
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it is like I tell my future employer in an interview, that I won't cheat or do anything misconduct. but that also reserve my right to cheat and do something misconduct, and that is expected.
Yes. In Edmonton, although schools have "attendance areas", there's always spots for students outside attendance areas. If a school fills up there's a lottery to determine who gets in from outside the attendance area, but only one high school ever goes to lottery (Harry Ainlay) and there's schools like Lillian Osborne that are just as good as Harry Ainlay. Even students in the Edmonton suburbs can go to any school in Edmonton as long as the school doesn't go to lottery. I've always found this to be a good system.
I guess it sucks that these issues are spoiling your experience. But this is obviously a new thing and the bugs will be worked out eventually. Can you tell us more about the good things it does for you?
tl;dr The IRS built an app for the iPhone. They built it using tools and libraries that hadn't internally been approved by the IRS. The team in charge of the app could have requested a waiver to use non-approved software, but decided not to because of time constraints. This was detected during a security audit. The audit was performed because this was the first time the IRS developed an iPhone app and they wanted to make sure it had been built securely.

The project wasn't criticized for using open source software or Objective C. They were criticized for using non-approved software and for not getting a waiver to use the non-approved software.
your analogy is apt: in your opinion, a poor person will never be able to afford a Ferrari or a Porsche, so they shouldn't be able to afford top-class education either. Ferrari will never be interested in "competing for the low income section of the market"; they'll happily keep making exclusive and expensive cars, reserved to top dogs, popes and the like.

The "voucher" sort of scheme will inevitably result in the State giving everyone enough money to buy a Nissan Micra, with rich parents "topping-up" to get a Mercedes, Porsche or Ferrari. Which is not much different from what you get now, just a bit worse.
> "The solution to this problem is clear . . ."

It's not clear that this would solve the problem. Particularly, instead of only being able to send their children to bad schools, the poorest would instead perhaps not be able to send their children to school at all.
Why are you citing fiction in the support of your argument?
I love how companies play up the security theater they have in place in their datacenters. If someone is going to try to get your data, the last place they're going to get it from is in person at your DC.
I really hope that they come out soon. I have been waiting since summer last year for it.
Yes.

I'm sure there's a solid handful of us.