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Absolutely. But I also question the criteria of the hypercompetition, and the judges' valuation of the signals. Volunteer work in a Guatemalan day care center may indicate altruism and awareness, right up the moment when it becomes an aid, or a requirement, of Harvard admission. Likewise the school paper. Maybe the insistence on being "well-rounded" pushes kids outside a purely academic focus, and gets them exposed to things they might otherwise miss. But how much will a kid get from an experience without an interior interest? "Gotta go check the 'well-rounded' box."

But given there are a fixed number of slots at a place that a lot of people want to attend (which may not be the case forever, with online education) how else do you propose they judge the students?

The idea they have is that they don't just want the 4.0/1600 SAT students. They want students who have interests and passions outside of the class. The person who wins the Westinghouse competition, or the IMO gold medalist, or the 17 year old NY Times best seller, or the kid who toured with the Marsalis' on sax.

Sure all these things could be application padding w/o passion purely to get into Harvard, but how do you distinguish? How do you select for passion/competence, but not look at their actual accomplishments? What's a better way to do this?

You could ask them to code on the whiteboard. :-)
The solution is that you perhaps should be making bad schools less bad, instead of making the awesome schools more shiny and then digging moats around those.
Early-stage investors aim for a 10x return on capital, yet AirBNB has consistently delivered 15-20x compound annual growth. That makes ten million per founder significantly less than their first few months of foregone salary if you compound the investment at the same rates investors are getting.

This guy is getting skittish that 1/100th of the valuation of the company is going in a payout to the founders? That's only 100k over a 10 million round. Seems pretty conservative to me.
>Black and Hispanic students have shown no signs of valuing education and the schools usually plagued with violence.

ALL of them? Almost certainly not. You're just being plain, old fashioned racist. You also sound ignorant and naive to claim to have never met a black or Hispanic student who shows a single sign of valuing education.

Do you live in the Bay Area? If so, take a trip over to San Jose and visit some of the high schools schools there with predominantly white & asian students (there are only a few). They're not garden parties. They're rough schools with gangs and drugs.
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No, they definitely do. LoveLinux is basing his/her decision on racial bias, the other guy is not.
There is no entailment relation from the second fact to the first. However, nothing Facebook does in service of their goal to own people's online identity and experience would shock me.
Sure, but my debt is in USD.
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Lifeboat ethics demand awful solutions like this. If the best school in the region is known to let this slide, it will be besieged by a population it won't have the resources to support. It's almost like tax evasion, only you're required to move before you'll be allowed to pay the tax, and that particular school is not in a position to fix that. The list of applicable laws must have been pretty short if they had to resort to "grand theft", and at that point the penalty was driven by the amount of money at issue, from a law mostly aimed at car thieves.
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I use Jedit. I find the ease of macro creation and the ability to edit the subsequent macro file to be the big seller for me.
Don't forget that as a felony (before the Govenor intervene), she could no longer vote and loses many other rights. Basically not a citizen anymore.
Admittedly they do say "It is a myth your entire Google account will be suspended because of violating the G+ real-name policy".

But they do not say, and would have to to make me comfortable, "we will not force any G+/real-name policies on users of other Google services".

They're just saying they won't just suspend you over it, not that they won't force a transition at some point. I don't fear for my data with Google like I would with other companies, but the continuity of that address is its value. If I'm forced to change it I won't bother coming back.
I had a similar experience. But at college reading a play. Very depressing.
I agree with you that it's ridiculous they'd go to prison over it. However, "holding all schools to the same high standard" is impractical with the way the system is now.
If government is not involved in education "at all", then you have the situation that people pay $$ for schools and then have no say in how the money is spent. This would not go down well...
Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease:

http://www.ajcn.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009.27725...
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Really, so if someone stabs you in the arm on purpose, and then bandages it up only after you alert the public, you'd thank them?
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"It's not like that his taxes are of a different color than her taxes, right?"

I'm not sure, but I believe that people with children in their household pay more school taxes.
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FWIW the greater Department of Labor (of which the BLS is a subordinate unit) has a pretty okay web API with several "SDKs" (most of which are API wrappers for particular languages). Weirdly, no Python wrapper yet but I wrote one, as well as another for Clojure

https://github.com/mattdeboard/python-usdol
https://github.com/mattdeboard/clj-usdol

edit: A couple of the BLS's databases are available through the DOL API:

http://developer.dol.gov/BLS_Numbers-DATASET.htm

"This Dataset contains historic data (last 10 years) for the most common economic indicators. More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://bls.gov

http://developer.dol.gov/DOL-BLS2010-DATASET.htm

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces occupational employment and wage estimates for over 450 industry classifications at the national level."

That last one is actually a pretty interesting dataset. I pulled it to tinker with at work last week.
You know, I was gonna write this on Forbes but I didn't want to sign up for it, so here goes, Mike:

According to your Forbes bio, line one, you "shatter limited thinking." Dude, you just shattered my limited thinking about bipolar disorder. You've turned "hypochondriac needs a girlfriend" into a heroic journey of self-discovery...like Woody Allen without the humor. Just the heart. You've delivered a tour de force through the causes of this widely misunderstood and under-diagnosed syndrome; you've given a whole new generation of overstimulated hackers a whole new disease to research on the internet; and you've left humanity with an earth-shattering, blow-by-blow account of what it really feels like to experience spoiled-manchild melancholy, all the way from a loft in Williamsburg back to your parents' basement, by way of Buenos Aires. I don't know which you deserve more -- a medal, or a decent lay -- but at least now that you've honestly expressed to half the western world which one actually matters to you, you'll surely get the credit you deserve.
Will these be linked to say, a singular G+ account?

EG: I have multiple Gmail's for different youtubes, websites, etc. One singular G+ account. I don't want all of that information linked to my G+.

This is confusing and frustrating.
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This is really nice but wasn't this already linked somewhere on here like a day ago?

I haven't been able to try it out much besides playing around in an old ruby project. It doesn't really seem to do much unless you are coding pure ruby but it's convenient enough.

makes Sublime Text 2 even better and I like that :-)
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oh man, I JUST switched to sublime this afternoon and was wondering if this was possible... DESTINY!!!
It's not a tax then, but rather a teaching fee. A conditional tax is a fee. Why can't she choose a school freely and pay a fee where she wants to?
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Why would any programmer ever risk learning a proprietary/closed source text editor? You're putting your most important tool at the mercy of some corporation or individual.
The solutions lies with IT? Look, what needs to happen before you log onto match.com? You first have to want a relationship. Why do you want it? Because you see an attractive future. It's the same with education. Students first have to believe in the narrative of a better future. Certainly, IT is a useful tool, perhaps even a necessary one, toward a solution. However, we first need a compelling narrative, an invitation to the new generation to imagine a better future. Best IT solutions will leverage this yearning and marry it with the right technical tools.
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In a sense, you already have, by requiring the content to be hosted elsewhere and releasing the pulling code. There is beauty in simple tools like this one. Kudos.
What decision? He simple stated, accurately, a fact. How can a fact be racially biased?

White and Asian neighborhoods generally generate higher property taxes than black neighborhoods. Schools are largely funded by property taxes. Therefore it should come as no surprise that White and Asian schools are on average better.
Thanks for noticing. Yes, my adblock is configured not to allow facebook to get my surfing data. Disabling allows color.com to open on FF just fine.
> the zealotry of some of its evangelists who insist that TDD is some kind of moral imperative and is the only "correct" way of developing software and anyone who doesn't follow that path or make respectful obeisance to it is "unprofessional","dodgy" etc.

Well, it is (the only correct way of developing software). If you're writing software without a test, even if only a mental one, you're just goofing off. And if it is mental, write it down and let the computer check it for you.

It's like not writing specs. (Not necessarily the executable type.) If you don't know what you're trying to do how do you know when you're done?

As for what people who confuse specs with acceptance tests think, I wouldn't judge a product/methodology by those who don't use it well.
TED talk from few years ago is at: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...
Their technique differs, but their motivation is the same. They both just want to be good parents.
Don't try to send them to a 'good' school, certainly not an 'academically good' school. Bluntly, the K-12 teachers don't know anything worth much serious study or effort.

The best can hope for from a K-12 school is that it will do no harm.

Find a school that has a nice 'social atmosphere' and otherwise is RELAXED, e.g., with as little homework as possible.

Then for the real learning, have your children do that at home -- evenings, weekends, summers, and/or school study hall.

What materials? Sure, academically by far the crown jewel is just math. So, get them through math to the college sophomore level ASAP. The next best subject is physics. So, get them through freshman physics based on calculus ASAP. How? Get the best texts (good used copies are FINE, especially for the math) and work through them. If need some help, ask some friends who know the material well and/or find an appropriate, helpful college prof. Or have one parent enroll in, say, a community college course and there learn enough to guide their children and be able to ask the prof questions.

After math and physics, emphasize writing, say, letters, notes, blogs, whatever.

Sure, get 'computer literacy' and also learn the basics of programming.

Then emphasize geography, history, and art history. For English literature, at least learn about the basics of 'drama' and 'formula fiction' and touch on the more famous works. For as many of the works as can, start by watching a movie of the work. For more in drama, understand how movie and TV dramas work.

Somewhere get some basic coverage of 'people and personality', especially about human emotions. E.g., lacking anything else, read E. Fromm, 'The Art of Loving'.

For more, have the child take some community college courses, e.g., biochemistry and biology.

For more, look at the International Baccalaureate program and pick and choose from that or, maybe, just go through the whole thing.

During the last 2-3 years of the 'high school' time, review what else, if anything, is required to do well on the SAT tests.

For more? Maybe learn piano?

Likely could study accounting and take the CPA exam. A CPA would be nice to have.

For more? Jump into college material at the junior level and keep going. Get through college ASAP and then go for graduate or professional school.

For K-12? Don't ask for much and mostly just circumvent it.
Why do you associate this with becoming more liberal? Seems the reverse should be true.
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This guy is an interesting read, he's a medical doctor and there's a lot of technical stuff that you may need to lookup to see if hs's actually BSing or not - http://www.archevore.com/

There's a lot in there about why the Common Wisdom is built on bad science - the big one is the 7 Countries paper that cherry picked the countries to get the results they wanted, and ignored the 14 countries that didn't show the required results. This is where Saturated Fat = Bad came from.

The book Good Carbs, Bad Carbs opened my eyes to why Atkins works - lots of science references in there.

With personal experimentation this year, I'm beginning to work out what I can eat and not have problems in the short term. This experience is lining up with the paleo diet. It's much harder to tell if the long term problems will follow the same way, but if I feel physically better now, that can't be bad. I am thinner, healthier, more muscular and have better endurance than at any other point in my life, and I'm 44.

YMMV
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Not in the district I live in. Except that the city does collect a sales tax, which someone with 15 kids would presumably pay more of than someone with no kids. But in general taxes and school levies aren't at all correlated with number of children.
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How are screen edges no longer infinite? If I ask you to tap something and drag it off an edge of the screen, you don't have to aim.
Efforts must be made to eliminate systematic biases in standardized testing. When we are reasonably convinced that has been done, as far as I'm concerned it's all just how the cookie crumbles. Make sure that you're acceptance policies are merit based, and damn the consequences.
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That's right, poor people shouldn't have an education!
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That's what you are advocating with "Government shouldn't be involved in education." Is that really what you mean?
Would you (or your kids) play a violent math-based multiplayer fighting game?
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No. A good professor (and I'll leave it as a lemma to determine if the majority of professors meet this standard) is able to package up information and ideas in such a way that they take root and flourish in the student. A professor can take years of mastery, introspection, and mistakes and present a simple idea to a student in 5 minutes which will keep that student up all night.

I have very rarely found this on the Internet.
After they die, I don't see why someone would want their family to have their passwords. Every email, IM and Google search? Even if you don't do anything "wrong," there's still probably a ton of stuff you wouldn't want anyone reading (especially out of context).
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Switch to using honey as a sweetener

Not such a great idea. Honey is full of fructose -- this indeed gives it a lower glycemic index than sucrose, but causes other problems. Watch this (long but very interesting) video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

My takeaway from this talk is that it's best to avoid all sugars, but if you must eat something sweet, eat it with plenty of fiber to slow the absorption of the sugar. Of course, the easy way to do this is just to eat fruit.
Eh, my understanding is that everybody (over a certain income level of course) pays it, but some people pay more and some people pay less. Kind of like how different people get taxed different amounts for different property.

I'll have to look into this, I'm not terribly familiar with it since I have someone do my taxes for me..
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The problem is that American cities are structured to keep the poor and minorities in nominally independent cities or suburbs that are geographically indistinguishable from the richer areas, but just independent enough to ensure that property taxes aren't shared.

It's also hard to escape the fact that many, if not most of these suburbs were explicitly set up to keep out blacks, latinos, Jews, and other undesirable groups. Until the sixties, houses in these communities often carried a restrictive covenant that explicitly prohibited sales to non-whites.

Canada shares a lot of the basic educational structure as the US, and sadly a good share of the racial baggage as well, but our cities are far more monolithic than most American cities. There are only two school districts in my city (pop. ~1 million) and students can register in any school throughout the district. The only choice I make as a taxpayer is which district, public or Catholic, I want my property taxes to fund.
Schools are in general funded by taxes on real estate--which in my opinion is not a good thing, but is the way it is in the US. The couples with infants on our block and the empty-nesters pay taxes for the school system, just like the families with kids in the public schools and families with kids in private schools.

I don't object to paying taxes for schools without having a child enrolled in them. However, I think that real estate taxation is not a good way to fund the schools.
I really agree with your original comment. We're in serious trouble when Forbes starts letting the patients run the asylum and promote herbal remedies to serious psychological problems on their website (with links -- hopefully not paid affiliate links, but links nonetheless). Self treating patients are bad news all around; if the guy's crazy and treating himself with herbs then giving him a microphone is basically "spreading craziness". If he's not crazy, then this is just bunk, self-aggrandizing BS that wouldn't get past the editors at the huff.
All applicant pools are almost entirely bad candidates. If you got every single good hacker looking for a job to apply (very unlikely) you would still be left with an applicant pool of mostly people that suck (By the way, the worst place to hire people is actually not Monster, it's job fairs where all the people who can't hold down a regular job go).
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I've been using it for the past two weeks. It's very buggy but quite good when it works. I'm using the most recent version from git.

To give a few examples of the bugs I encounter every day:

1. If you use it to auto-complete css files and you want to type "text-shadow" the moment you hit the dash the text gets replaced with "text-align". So if you type quickly you end up with "text-alignshadow:". The second time you type text-shadow it does work. This goes wrong for all definitions that contain a dash because SublimeCodeIntel (or the libraries it depends on) considers a dash a separator and separators trigger code completition.

2. It autocompletes on empty matches. If you start typing and for one reason or another the auto complete window pops up (and it does so automatically) and you hit space, or colon, any other separator what you just typed gets replaced with the topmost match in the completion list (even if 0 characters match).

3. I think it messes with my undo/navigation buffers, but I'm not quite sure.

4. The python completion crawler keeps reindexing and reindexing. So in practice the Python completion is nearly useless. It also doesn't give hints for parameter order (which I consider the most valuable hints by far) even though Komodo does (the library is ported from Open Komodo afaict)

5. ST crashes a few times a day after installing this plugin. Not 100% sure if it's to blame, though.

6. Unlike Komodo it doesn't index jQuery properly.

These issues aren't dealbreakers though. I just hit escape whenever the auto-complete window pops up.
So, it takes the same amount of time to tap something on a touchscreen, no matter what size it is and how far away it is from your finger, then?
One interesting point that the Archevore points out is that the reason Very Low Carb works is because the lack of insulin spikes causes the cravings to go away, and you tend to eat fewer calories. If these calories have a lot of saturated fat, this tends to make you fuller sooner, and without cravings, you stop eating sooner during a meal.

I have experienced exactly this phenomenon.
I recently (about two weeks ago) bought my first Apple ever, a Macbook Pro.

It took forever to find out function+backspace=real backspace not delete

Everything seems to be arranged around single clicks any right-clicking seems alien on a Mac.

It's very glossy and cartoons but you can tell the hardware and OS were made hand-in-hand or at least work very well with each other.

It's pretty but annoying at times it's has a hint of like Linux, I opened Terminal to feel at home, but it's like Linux out at its grandmothers on it's best behaviour.

I wouldn't say either is better than the other but different for sure although like I said very similar way more so than Windows and Linux or Mac and Windows.

Now if only I could stop that creepy "killer clowns on acid in a dark alley" start-up sound.
Are you kidding me? Parents will give their money to the schools who do a good job and will stop giving money to schools that do a bad job.