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New York, NY

Coursekit (http://coursekit.com/) is trying to bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it.

We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education works. We always try using the best tool for the job. For now, we use CoffeeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, as well as a still-unreleased CoffeeScript framework. If working with these technologies excites you, talk to us. We're very detail-focused, and are especially looking for someone who loves working with front-end code (heavy Javascript/Coffeescript, as well as HTML/CSS) to create beautiful interactions/pages.

Apply here: http://coursekit.com/jobs

Or if you have any questions, shoot me an email at dan@coursekit.com
A little bit of both.

There will be a hard cutoff, in which we are only considering score.

With that said, in the profile (which hasn't launched yet), we let you fill out fields / github accounts to further flesh out who you are. Companies are given a complete profile of students, and then give us their preferences on who they'd like to interview.

We liken ourselves to the Common App. Consider the contest portion your SAT score, and your profile page everything else.
Why does there have to be a strategy? Individuals and organizations can and do make (rationally) inexplicable decisions devoid of strategic thinking.
If the quality we're interested in is "being Harvard," then no, Harvard is not fungible. But if the quality is "providing a college education," the Harvard is extremely fungible in many cases.
We spent quite a while playing with live video broadcasting from mobile phones at Justin.tv. The fundamental problem is that your Facebook friends are very rarely sitting on their newfeed during the 2-3 minutes you happen to be broadcasting, so they miss your broadcast. We never fully solved this.

For example, after looking at the data from a few hundred thousand iPhone broadcasts, we noticed that over 90% of mobile phone broadcasts were viewed after the broadcast ended. Not quite the interactive experience we (or our users) hoped for. This is exactly why we built Socialcam.

Anyways, best of luck to the Color team. This is a difficult problem and I hope they manage to find an innovative way to solve it!
Sorry about that. Just went out. Had some urgent fixes I needed to get done before the send.
At datamarket.com we have put all of this data into our system, see http://datamarket.com/data/list/?q=provider:225 which makes visualisation a snap.
I don't see how skepticism is a bad attitude to take when approaching alt-med theories. The vast majority is utter fiction.
I'm curious to know which online school you went to, why you chose it from other viable options (if there were/are any)?

Thanks for the input. I was not aware of the regional/national accreditation differences.
Sublime Text 2 is the cat's ass. Oh, how I've longed for multi-file editing in Textmate for so many years...
Sweet idea! I'd love it if this becomes widely used, and I can keep track of nearby hackathons more easily than the haphazard mailing-list/invite method of today.
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Any specifics as to the content or genre of the movie? (Many companies wouldn't want to be associated with certain kinds of content.)

How large (as % of the billboard) are the picture, logo, or text?
never saw that "sue out of business" in Europe.

There is just no way to protect "your business idea" unless you deliver + expand fast. If the German copy-cat industry is faster, you just lost and have to pay a lot (groupon).

I personally don't like copy-cats but that's the way it currently goes.
Noir is awesome. I've been hacking on some small web apps and web services and Noir is just a pleasure to work with.
In 2002 someone offered me "stock options" to build a remote control web interface to a dentist chair tricked out with dildos.
Is there something wrong with groups of people wanting to self segregate?
It seems that Chrome is indulgent with the font-family declaration. There is an error in the CSS.

font-family: 'Istok Web' sans-serif;

should be:

font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;

Firefox 7 ignore the above declaration showing the page in the default font. I have forced 'Istok Web' with firebug and yes it looks ugly.
> It doesn't tell me what is going to happen in this new release

Even without any other information about it, it's safe to assume new and current versions of everything.

> why they're making a fuss

Because they are launching a new version in 9 days.

> why I should care.

That's one question only you can possibly answer.
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In general, "Better school" means a school with more whites and or Asians. "Bad schools" means a school with more black and Hispanic students.
And a week late on the TextMate 2 announcement: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/whats-next/
I compare it to boxing matches. If I'm watching a match between someone who is identified as German, and someone who is identified as Italian, without other influences, I am going to tend towards cheering for the Italian, because I identify more with Italians. Never mind the fact that I'm 3/4th German and only 1/4th Italian, and certainly don't have anything against Germans. It's purely a unconscious tribal reflex, rarely even noticed unless given a chance to magnify (time and numbers provides this magnifying factor in communities.)
Hacker news readers from Toronto?
Are there enough hacker news readers from Toronto to set up a meet up?
Sounds like a great deal for a poor startup. Isn't it?
Mountain View, CA

Addepar (addepar.com) is a software company looking to solve challenging problems in the financial industry.

We're looking for exceptional engineers to develop our revolutionary technologies. The job description is broad, and you'll do everything from accessing and exploring complex sets of financial data to sculpting the finer points of the user interface. The position is perfect for an engineer who is passionate about coding and enjoys solving difficult problems. If you want to transform an industry, work around the most talented individuals, and be challenged on a daily basis, Addepar will be a great fit.

Our CEO, Joe Lonsdale, is a founder of Palantir Technologies, which is known for revolutionizing technology in other key areas of the world's international defense and finance communities. In his early twenties, Joe helped to build a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, where he was one of the top traders. Our technical team is led by CTO Jason Mirra, and is composed of computer scientists from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon. Addepar is supported and advised by a group of international billionaires, and some of the most respected Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

http://addepar.com/careers.php
More interesting (to me, at least) than the query analyzer and debug tracing (to a proprietary tool which costs money) is the mysqlnd_ms plugin, that can seems to be able to gracefully handle switching between multiple mysql connections to simplify query routing for master/slave or load balancing setups. Handling that on the driver level (I'm already a big fan of mysqlnd async) could help you ease your code into a replicated environment.
If by "wrong" you mean "leads to worse outcomes" - then very possibly yes.
+1

I was think something along the lines of, look at this stupid person who needs 64 lines of code to do a simple insert in a binary tree.
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Semantic web :) Solves everything, not kidding.

Although is a few years when there are a million new standards I guess I can keep my job :)
Not sure by your statement if you have children or not. But I just finished enrolling my children in a private school instead of the local public school. I really don't care if they are black or white I want my children to go to a school where the parents value education as much as I do.
The article neglected to provide any rationale whatsoever for the "other side" which may be the triggering the WTFs. I'm not saying the logic is good, but here it is: A proportion of the school's budget comes from property tax. I found a pdf that says it is about 20% of the budget in California [1]. Thus:

Expensive neighborhood -> lots of property tax -> rich school

So essentially the laws punish freeloaders of education. Out of all the things a person can "freeload" education is probably the most noble, which I guess is why the law seems so dicey.

[1] http://www.edsource.org/pub_QA_BudgetProcess06.html
Looks like some form of cross domain message bridge, along with some DOM code to transparently turn the messages into events. Odd that something so simple would have a proprietary server.
Here's a basic Java skeleton for experimenting with these code snippets: http://pastebin.com/C0pKEjyN
>> In case you needed further proof of the American education system's failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft.

I'm not sure if it is entirely fair to single out the education system here (once again), or at least batch it in with "yet another failing". I believe more is at fault here.

Unless I'm mistaken, tax payers in a particular school district (or county) fund the school district they're part of. A consequence of this fact, in the name of fairness for the parents, is the necessity for your child to attend a school that you are directly funding (and not attend a school you're not funding, which is what the mother in the story is doing). As long as we're sticking with this system of funding our own schools in this manner, we will naturally be encouraging segregation of classes and have no choice but to turn down those who try to get around it.

So I agree a woman shouldn't be jailed for trying to circumvent the system in this manner, but with the above knowledge of how the system operates, it doesn't surprise me that she would be punished, as I'm sure many others are as well.

Allowing people to attend any school they like (which this article is arguing for I believe?) is a pretty fundamental shift in the system.
Interesting link, thanks. I remember some worry about the "diagonal movement" issue during the OS X transition, e.g. in Siracusa's DP2 review:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/1999/12/macos-x-dp2.ars...

I hadn't realized that while this was "fixed", it was not actually made identical with the older Mac OS behavior.
I think the main problem of Color's products is the motivation behind them. Bill Nguyen seems to design their products (2 so far) on going after money in the social space not a deeper, more organic need. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Foursquare had founders who were intertwined/empathic to the problem their products solve. Nguyen strikes me as an armchair social analyst - analyzing the social space without using, understanding it deeply. But this impression is based only on a few interviews and Color's movements.
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It depends. Is it because they don't want to be in an unfamiliar environment, or because they don't want an unfamiliar environment to be around them?

If they're hostile to other groups in some way, that's not a good thing (I don't want white/black/pink/red/... people around my house). But there's nothing wrong with staying in some area because you want to be close to your family (which leads to "natural" race concentration within that area).
You are right, although the billboard would only be used to thank everyone who downloaded the movie and not necessarily used for the movie promotion itself.

More information on the movie and the billboard options can be found at http://bit.ly/n4XQG0
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""How on earth is Google, armed with a cash-printing machine and the best software engineers on the planet, getting outsmarted by a tiny startup?""

I've asked similar questions with regard to Google App Engine and other Google services that can't compete with the competition. It's discouraging that a company with Google's resources and supposedly pro innovation/fun attitude keeps developing subpar software. If not even Google can get it right, what hope is there for the rest of us? Do startups succeed simply because of their small size or can businesses keep delivering great software as they grow in to behemoths?
>We do not consider code elegance or code length for the score, but do provide employers with a time-lapse of your coding sessions.

So all coding necessarily must happen in an in-browser editor?
This is hardly anything new. 20+ years ago, I knew kids with parents that did the same thing (though often for athletics instead of academics). Even within the city (where, at the time, you were required to attend the neighborhood school), parents found ways to game the system.
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No, it isn't ridiculous. I've seen many projects available for multiple OS's that choose to advertise themselves with a Mac screenshot (or a Windows screenshot, or a Linux screenshot) at the top. The screenshot by itself says it runs on Macs, but doesn't establish that it's Mac-only; you need to read all the way to the bottom to make sure of that. It's disdainful of a non-Mac user; that may be accidental, but I've seen this more often on Mac product sites than on Win/Linux product sites.

Your "giant ONLY ON MAC OS X disclaimer" is a strawman; what would be normal and courteous is simply mentioning that it's for OS X somewhere at the top. There are many, many product sites that do it successfully (e.g. http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom).

The post title on HN is a separate issue that's actually less of a problem. A random link to a product on HN doesn't carry an implicit assumption that it'll run on my OS. I don't mind clicking on it and discovering it doesn't (and besides, the author can't control the text of a link that leads to their site). But when I need to scroll down five pages on the site to ascertain I can't actually use it, that's irksome.
"Immediately-Invoked Function Expression"!? Seems like a pretty wordy way to say "let".

Insert snarky comment about Lisp macros here.
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I'm currently going to the Florida Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, they don't have an online degree in Computer Science, so I am majoring in Computer Information Systems. One of the reason's I chose to go here is because it is regularly listed in the top 200 schools on the U.S. News website, so there wasn't really any question about it's legitimacy. That being said, there were lots of other schools that I could have just as easily ended up going to, and if I can't afford to finish once I get out of the military(we get a huge discount), I'll probably switch to a cheaper school with a Computer Science program.
How do we define "segregate"? Is it just across 'skin color' / 'irrelevant heritage' lines? What if I identify with and want to live around entrepreneurs? atheists? 'survivalists'? Homosexuals?

I think I can make a fairly strong argument for homosexuals preferring to live among themselves as being ultimately detrimental to society (reduced exposure to homosexuals allows intolerance and misunderstanding to fester), however I would never dream of calling the desire to isolate themselves from hatred "wrong".

Edit: I take it from the downvotes that we're just talking about segregation across "'skin color' / 'irrelevant heritage'" lines for some reason...
If you think Zuckerberg is evil and that we're all just going to try to screw you, there's nothing I (or anyone else) can tell you that is going to change your mind.

Nothing you can say, perhaps, but here's something Facebook can do: establish a years-long history of having new privacy options/controls default to the setting which reveals the least information to other users. Doing that for several years should help Facebook overcome their reputation for not doing so (a reputation which it has for a reason).
I don't really care about the other side. Why are we putting people in prison over this? Having the law/rule is one thing, I guess, but the punishment is extremely excessive. 10 days in prison, and 3 years of probation? She's lucky she got commuted by the governor. Not everyone will be so.
I don't doubt this guy's assertion that the data could be formatted better, but if I were working on something like this I'd just be glad that I could access the data at all.

And 64 lines of code... bfd? That's much better than the bad old days of custom binary data formats where you have to write a thousand line data loader in C, worrying about issues like lsb vs msb, whether the number storage is properly following IEEE 754, etc.

I guess I'm just...old, because my first response to 'I had to write 64 lines of Python code to get this data into shape' is to shake my head and think "Kids these days!".
Why not just sell the movie via itunes, if the movies good enough people will buy it and recommend it to their friends.
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Basically, applying the scientific method here would be a great idea, but keep in mind that correlation != causation. Just because many geniuses you've heard of could pick up a difficult instrument and learn it quickly, it does not follow that learning to play an instrument is a necessary step towards geniushood. The idea that I latched on to "We've tried to domesticate genius, and lost it" suggests that parents are shaping kids that exhibit secondary characteristics of genius, but we've failed to nurture the spark that pushes someone to do amazing things.

I offer the hypothesis that an important factor towards developing very high talent in a field is a love for it and an opportunity to explore within it, make mistakes, do "some costructive play." If this is true, it seems quite possible to me that training someone to exhibit all kinds of secondary signs of genius (that they may well enjoy, but not truly love) can take up time and energy that they might otherwise dedicate to developing their true genius.

Sometimes genius isn't where you expect it. What if the next Jim Hensons are currently practicing tuba between lacrosse games and advanced calculus courses, admonished whenever they "waste their time playing" and painting their WarHammer models?
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I have mixed race children and do whatever it takes to make sure that they are in schools that made up of mostly white, Asian, or Indian (India) students. Black and Hispanic students have shown no signs of valuing education and the schools usually plagued with violence. I'm not alone in this thinking; every single Asian family I know does the same.
Apart from installing the plugins (details depend on the plugin, but basically git clone into the right path), I've not done anything else but learn the shortcuts. Sublime Text 2 works the way (split views, Command-T, pyflakes etc.) that I wanted without all the configuring that was needed in (Mac)Vim.
Good examples of the effects of government getting involved in education, particularly tying it to location. The solution to this problem is clear but politically difficult: limit government involvement in education to vouchers at most, preferably none at all.
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The internet seems to love the notion that fatty foods do not lead to fatty people. My personal experience is that it does. Fat is slower to metabolize than any other macro-nutrient. If you don't exercise, this might not apply. But if you do, you need carbohydrates for energy, and you don't need much fat. Any excess fat you do consume is harder to burn.
Self segregate means less communication between people.

Thus communication problem directly impact the frustration of each party about others. Then more violence will occurs.

To be more precise. Yes, everybody want to live with people which share the same values. But this local optimization have a bad effect on the society viewed in its totality.

Taking my own example, I believe that not being segregated in school had made me lose some hours of good Math. But I believe this experience made me more tolerant. And it is also certainly true for the others.

There is no perfect society model, but my inclination is to believe that more communication is never a waste and that any lack of communication is potentially dangerous.
OK, so here's the evidence of the argument with myself.

http://homonculus.net/blog/2011/10/02/how-i-build-emacs-now

You might find this useful; you might find it laughable. On my i7 15" MBP it's about ten minutes start to finish, so I usually build first thing in the morning while I'm brewing my coffee.
Real genius is usually narrowly focused, but smart enough to pick up a reasonably good variety of other skills, like music and languages, on the side (see Richard Feynman for a good example). But you do not become a real expert without lots of dedicated practice, and if you are dividing your serious practice time between multiple subjects, you will never become really good at any one.

Richard Feynman's "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" and Jagdish Mehra's biography of Feynman, The Beat of a Different Drum all show the combination of focus on physics and his ability to easily pick up the side interests, safecracking, drawing, drumming, Mayan arithmetic, that exemplifies real genius.
My apologies for tone. It was uncalled for.

I cannot comment on that EPA document yet, since digesting that takes much longer than a day. I think its safe to assume that the NYT wouldn't lie about this, so point taken.

As for the boreholes intersecting all layers from surface to source location, this is true of all boreholes used in oil and gas production. These are legally required to be sealed from surrounding aquifer layers. I say legally here speaking as an Ontarian, I do not know what the case in individual states are. Which is not to say that this is a risk-free process. But the risk is no greater or worse than with conventional oil and gas production.

I am not sure what you mean by depressurizing aquifers. I either understand this as causing subsidence by soil consolidation due to decreased pore fluid pressures, as happened in New Orleans during the 20th century (which to the best of my knowledge they are now trying to control). I can also understand this as generally depleting an aquifer, as is going on with the Ogallala Aquifer in what I would describe as the south-central United States. Some clarification is perhaps in order.

You are correct that the recharge time on many aquifers of importance is thousands or more years. The Ogallala Aquifer, for instance, is usually considered to be a 'fossil aquifer' since it is not expected to recharge on a human/engineering time scale.

As for my use of qualifiers, I was just trying to be honest about the unknowns. From my understanding, limited as it is, I see cautious development in the field as a reasonable course of action. There is risk. I would even agree that the risk is probably greater than that of conventional oil and gas production. But we are also in need of more energy. I fully support renewables and conservation and would like nothing better than to see humanity moving beyond fossil fuels. Unconventional gas (and natural gas as a whole) is seen as a stepping stone to help bridge between oil and renewables.
Why do you think they put it overseas in the first place? They've planned to take it back under these terms all along. They're betting on a tax holiday at some point. Exactly what they did in 2004.

Give them this one, and rest assured, every company will take this bet and let the cash sit and rot until they can bring it back again.

The backstory, and why this is a terrible idea:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/evil-cor...