skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm taking a "wait and see" approach. App Engine has been a disappointment for its entire existence, but now it seems to be one of Page's chosen hyperxylopygian arrows. I tried launching one project on the platform a couple years ago, and it didn't work out, but I'm willing to try again for my next one.
This is one of the most chilling short audio essays I've ever listened to on NPR. de Botton blasts a huge hole in the idea of pure meritrocracy.

Commentator Alain de Botton explores the darker side of a western ideal: meritocracy.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3200029

I wish there was a transcript of this. I think he covers the basic topic in some of his books.
Would have killed them to come up with a name other than "Pages"?
This is what I'm thinking. They could reasonably be unable to divulge your secret to a fourth party. The decryption could even be done client-side. They just generate a pair of (encrypted-secret, key). They store encrypted-secret and send you a pointer to it and the key, then destroy the key on their side.
The third alpha release for the 2.0 series they talked about Eyeo is out: http://code.google.com/p/processing/downloads/list , http://code.google.com/p/processing/source/browse/trunk/proc...
Sure it does. If you get off of work at 5:00 year-round then DST give you an extra hour of daylight where you can use it. In the winter it gets dark too early to use that hour so it switches back. Winter's non-DST clocks also save energy by allowing people to sleep/heat/drive after sunrise.
Details please.
Can I beg we avoid the term "good parenting" as it is
semantically very poor in this context. For example a kid from a loving and conscientious poor and illiterate parent may receive better parenting than a more perfunctory well-off parent - and yet the latter will undoubtedly be ahead by the time they reach kindergarten. The issue is not so much, I believe, in the "goodness" of the parenting, rather, it is in the richness of the environment.
> ... I don't really see how it can play out well for them.
> Can the expense of running brick and mortar stores for
> customer service possibly be worth the added cost to
> the customer? Seems doubtful.

Certainly hasn't worked out well for Apple. ... Oh, wait ...

Combined with free wifi, books that can be browsed, in store returns, they've possibly got a chance.

Will it convert me? No, I'm a Prime user with some positive AMZN customer service experiences under my belt. So, maybe B &N needs to do more courting of the tech crowd.
You're probably thinking of ISO 8601.
The $25 plan from Virgin Mobile offers 300 minutes of talktime.
Sure, the measure you're looking for is GDP per capita:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

Inflation is a separate phenomenon that occurs through time and can be influenced by the money supply. The government encourages inflation to encourage investment (i.e. prevent people from hoarding cash) and for various other reasons.

I'm only looking at a snapshot: imagine you work for a year in 1985 and spend all your money the same year. Can you buy more or less than if you work for the same amount of time (with the same skills etc) in 2011, and spend all your money the same year? Turns out you can buy much more in 2011.

If you really want to look at the "through time" case, calculate what your $1.00 in 1985 would be worth if you invested it and what it could buy in each case.
In other words, it's plain old CA.
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"I am very interested in seeing data against the KIPP model - what sources would you recommend?"

There's very little data, which is the main problem. In terms of books about KIPP, the one I've read is Whatever It Takes, which is about Geoffrey Canada, who founded the Harlem Children's Zone. I'm not sure if this school is technically affiliated with KIPP proper, but it used the KIPP model.

It's very difficult to explain the problems with KIPP. Basically you need to take a really good look at how the kids are actually spending their days, and then compare it with what we know about child development, educational research, best practices in various fields, research data on student achievement, etc. I don't think there is any way to understand it without having a solid background in education theory, education research, cognitive development, psychology, early childhood education, history, and even things like organization behavior and management theory, etc. The problem of what makes a good school and a good classroom is insanely complicated, which is why we've been using basically the same model since WWI.
You guys raise an interesting case we hadn't thought about yet.

Devil's advocate: how would that be better than the algorithmic approaches (weak, medium, strong indicators implemented in javascript etc).
Okay, I'll bite...what did Jobs create that wasn't just an improvement over something someone else had already done?
Asynchronous Processing in Windows 8
Finally something that resembles foobar2000! Awesome.
Cached by the browser?
I think a page from this was submitted to HN before because I remember reading part of it, but thanks, I haven't actually looked at the blog till now and this guy seems very interesting!
Cinder looks nice but the last time I checked it didn't support OpenGL ES 2.0 shaders. Has that changed?
Right. Wealth has both absolute and relative terms. The poor in American today have it better in many ways than even nobility in millennia past. But there is also a relative component to wealth too. If Bill Gates and his class can pay for their children to receive personal instruction from the best tutors and at the best schools, that does price/crowd out the less wealthy. But that's because the tutors and schools will naturally seek to get more money rather than less money. I think most people would. So it's hard to know how to solve this problem short of forcing these tutors to do what others want at the point of a gun, or cloning them, etc. None of these seem very satisfying.

I pump this from time to time, but MIT's OpenCourseWare does a great job of making a fantastic education widely available. Perhaps this is a model others could adopt more widely.
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I did not realize Virgin Mobile used Sprint, or I would not have asked that question. The fact still remains that the proposed plan is unlimited and less expensive. Plus they intend to branch out to other mobile networks as well, so they could achieve better coverage.
I guess for all those people who can't figure out how to live on 20k a year, they should take a look at college students, haha. I've heard that a lot of money can be saved simply by never eating out, so if you can get by on 13k, then it should be VERY doable on 20k, especially without eating out.

Thanks for the reply!
I assume you are afraid of reprisal from Google by not mentioning which application(s) they allegedly removed. When trying to rally support, more evidence is better than less, more detail better than none.
So, other than "gold plated LP", what format this was this actually encoded in? It's designed to play back completely analog, scanned to a screen? Are the pixels shown only once or scanned repeatedly? What kind of screen / machine keeps those pixels lit long enough to see?

Does NASA actually have a terminal that reads this thing somewhere?
That's a neat idea. Kind of like geographically localized chat rooms?

We've been considering that as a demo app for the platform. The initial idea was just to mark a point and a radius for a chat room, then when users enter the area they'd get a notice pushed to the phone like "geochat app has a chat room here. want to join? [yes/no]". The app developer would use our api to tie a (lat,long,radius) to an action (geochat-app/load-chat/{chat-id}, for example). Combined with our own app that monitors user location, we can run the appropriate action for the (lat,long,radius,app,user) set and launch the developer's app.

A specific bounding box instead of a radius is a good idea, and we'll add that to our to-do list.

Would something like this be useful to you?
"NewSQL" basically means "old guy desperately trying to stay relevant in a post-relational world" See also: VoltDB.
The worst offender is NVidia. They have half-a-dozen different developer logins for different bits of their site - and they all have different rules = your CUDA one must have a symbol but the parralel Nsight one must not etc
What details would you like?
It feels like one's opinion on this is fundamental. The way people respond to it seems more like built-in bias rather than reasoning by logic. For example, I believe I disagree with you at a premise level rather than a reasoning level. The evidence that working hard helps you get ahead is legion. The evidence that having connections helps you get ahead is legion. Who is right?

I've always thought that you got ahead by hard work, even while I spent most of my life being lazy. I didn't turn in home work or pay attention in high school; I couldn't afford college because I wasn't a protected class (unlike my best friend) and my parents simultaneously made too much money and had too many kids to pay it; and I scraped by as an adult, always being able to declare exempt on my taxes. But I knew that if I had really wanted to, I could have done something. Even the college thing was just an excuse.

Finally, when I was 25 I decided to work really hard. Within a couple years I was able to get a programming job, and a couple years after that I was making 90k. You can say all day long that it's an anecdote, but seriously, the only luck involved is superficial. If it hadn't been those "lucky" events, it would have been some other ones.

I had no connections. I hardly had any friends! My parents didn't help. They wouldn't even let me stay with them while I tried to make something of myself! Hard to say that it's just an anecdote when you lived it.

Finally, whenever this issue of how we measure economic mobility comes up on HN, I object. What is the ideal mobility from the bottom quintile to the top quintile, anyway? Genes matter. Parenting matters. Those two things matter way more than anything government has been shown able to do. It is absolutely possible to imagine a society, one with a lot of interventionist and redistributionist policies, where economic mobility is higher because it is more arbitrary rather than merit-based. How far are we willing to take economic mobility? Parents matter more than schools. Should we redistribute children to different parents?
A Before-Its-Time Machine
I can't open this website at all in Internet Explorer. Not that I'd want to, of course, but why is that?
Thanks. Sadly I haven't had the time to keep running with it. Maybe someday.
We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless response to this petition.
Looks very slick. Please move "Cached Album Art" to Library/Caches though, for better backup behavior.
And the kinds of solutions that might actually make a difference: financing every school district equally

My state has had a state law that finances districts equally by enrollment since the 1970s.

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/mnschfin.pdf

Actually, the districts with the highest concentration of low-income families have long received extra funding per pupil compared to the majority of school districts in the state. For more than twenty years now, all public schools anywhere in the state offer open enrollment to all students anywhere in the state, up to the limits of the capacity of each school district to receive students.

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/Academic_Excellence/School_...

So if students don't like what is on offer in their local school district, they can shop around, and take their state funding with them, by trying out another school district's offerings of courses and teachers (and classmates). More students enrolled means more state funding, so school districts make efforts to provide attractive programs that will bring students across district lines. This competition among school districts has promoted innovation in programs and resulted in a fair amount of interchange among students who live in different neighborhoods. School districts compete with one another by offeringprograms for fine-arts-inclined students, or students who desire language immersion programs (Spanish immersion and Chinese immersion programs are both hot programs in Minnesota), and students with many other characteristics. Some school districts gain almost half of their enrollment from open enrollment, and correspondingly some of the historically worst school districts in Minnesota have lost large percentages of enrollment to families crossing district boundaries to look for better schools. (Minnesota also has a huge number of charter schools, which is a distinct form of competition for publicly subsidized students, but they cannot offer some of the programs that public school districts can.) This competition keeps all districts accountable for providing a good learning environment, and helps change the psychology of teachers and principals dealing with families from one of treating learners as a burden to one of treating learners as an opportunity to be grateful for.

Any other state in the United States could do the same, and a few already have.

http://educateiowa.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task...

http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http%3A%2F%2Fww...

abolishing private schools

Abolishing private schools is a distinctly bad idea (as shown by the example of the Netherlands, where multiple kinds of schools receive public funding on a per-capita basis) and anyway is unconstitutional in the United States. The last major effort to abolish private schools in a whole state was sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan (which didn't like Catholic schools) and was overturned by the United States Supreme Court.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6094501649208458...
Good points, all of which I agree with, and I'll check out those sources. The book I snapped the pic from was Equality and Achievement, which is similar to the book you're linking to.

"reviews a lot of research studies from a lot of countries and suggests that that view, although it is conventional wisdom, grossly underestimates the importance of schools. "

I do think it's important to note though that you can believe that the achievement gap is mostly coming from home factors, while also not underestimating the importance of school. That is, you can believe that all kids are basically receiving an equally crappy education. You're certainly right though about the kids from the worst home conditions getting stuck with the worst teachers within schools.
Cool. I hadn't seen that. I like the way they handle the password.
This is interesting. I've been toying with a darknet idea, but it's not going to mirror the internet. "My" version is limited to plain text and packets no larger than 1kb, if even that. It'll show up on TechCrunch eventually, but I want to talk with some people first.
Nothing evil about that. It is their app store.
My expectation is that people assume people get what they deserve and/or don't care what happens to other people so long as it's not them or the people they personally know and care about.

This is more about sharing a story of a behavior which I had no idea Google practiced. Will it be ignored? Probably.
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None of the information listed is private.
> and no outrage at all about how easy it was for this voice to be silenced

I think it's for two reasons - a: They are not that silent - they released everything they had and the US couldn't do anything. So there isn't all that much to be outraged about.

And b: I don't think that most people actually support them (their goals) anymore. I certainly don't. I did, but not anymore.

Personally I think their leaks harmed things, and helped nothing. Especially the ones about Abbas. If people had actually believe the leaks were real and not US propaganda (yes I know how funny that sounds to you) those leaks could have easily started another Palestinian civil war (well a Fata vs Hamas war anyway).

You may argue that the leaks actually did help, but that's not the perception I have. Maybe I'm manipulated by the media, could be. But it doesn't matter - if I am, then so are lots more. And that's why people are not more outraged.
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Actualy is it so wrong to use table (like we're not supposed to) in a profesionnal css design? They do great in every browser from ie 6 to opera and they don't nead clear:both or other tricks.

I miss designing with tables... And I just don't do anymore because I was told not to, for maybe no good reasons.
"Have you tried out Riak 1.0? It’s awesome."

There appears to be a bug in Riak 1.0, rendering it totally useless, at least with the NodeJS Driver:

https://github.com/frank06/riak-js/issues/97#issuecomment-25...

tldr; Executing a save then remove then a getAll yields a 500 error.

...so we moved our app to MongoDB. Critical mass in the community and the myriad of 3rd party drivers and tools that depend on each other means I'd vouch this kind of issue has better chance of being fixed quickly if it occurred in the NodeJS MongoDB native driver.

In our case, we are yet to have any specific needs of a NoSQL DB, just one that works, and this experience gave me no confidence in the Riak ecosystem. Sorry guys.
You misunderstood. (and others did too, judging by the downvotes).

I meant that they could better than finding copyrighted images. As they are standard images, they can surely find non-copyrighted materials.
Sprint operates two nationwide networks. Depending on the device and the services it provides you could be using the CDMA network or the iDEN network that is mostly used for prepaid phones and direct connect.

Sprint itself also has a CDMA voice and data roaming agreement with Verizon, which MVNOs and subsidiary brands do not benefit from.
Being a tweaker is a fair assessment of Steve Jobs merit. One month after his death, this article is the first balanced article I've read among more than one hundred hagiographies posted all over the web.

History will judge.
Fake - F# Make (for any .NET project)
Wow.. Thanks for the long writeup. Still seems there is an element of luck involved..
Computer gamers develop problem-solving algorithm that beats scientists
Are there PHP examples for using Mailgun?
or mobile scaling. or changing the design. or changing a detail on EVERY PAGES of your websites (like the font).
You're right about good parenting being a bad term. However, it is the qualities (value neutral) of the parenting that determines outcome rather than the richness of the environment. To quote Paul Tough, who gives a good summary of the research:

"The disadvantages that poverty imposes on children aren't primarily about material goods. True, every poor child would benefit from having more books in his home and more nutritious food to eat (and money certainly makes it easier to carry out a program of concerted cultivation). But the real advantages that middle-class children gain come from more elusive processes: the language that their parents use, the attitudes toward life that they convey. However you measure child-rearing, middle-class parents tend to do it differently than poor parents; and the path they follow in turn tends to give their children an array of advantages. As Lareau points out, kids from poor families might be nicer, they might be happier, they might be more polite; but in countless ways, the manner in which they are raised puts them at a disadvantage in the measures that count in contemporary American society."
There have been some psychology experiments that cast doubt on the naive econ treatment. In behavioral economics, the alternative hypothesis is called the "endowment effect". The short version is that people get attached to something they intend to keep (as opposed to trade onwards) and demand a significantly higher price to sell it than they did to acquire it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

http://endowment-effect.behaviouralfinance.net/
What were the apps? What did they do?

There's no way I'm writing to Google to complain about something without knowing more about it.

Your apparent reluctance to specify those details in your original post makes your request seem dishonest in some way.
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FLAC support is #1! Been looking for a great iTunes clone that supports FLACs. Hopefully this will be it! I'll report back with my impressions.
I might have just found my weekend project.
Not all missing people stories have a happy ending. I have a relative who's been missing since Sept. 16, last seen in Riddle, Oregon. More info at http://findmark.org. We recently realized that he had his iPad with him. If you have any ideas on how we could use it to find him, I'm all ears.
I wonder if they have any kind of soft/hard limits on how many minutes / how much data you can actually consume over the cellular network.

Theoretically, couldn't one could not join WiFi any networks and use Sprint most or all the time?
More details: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/07/362705/krugman-sola...
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True. I was infatuated with the hyper expensive lemur for a while. Then came the iPhone/iPad. Jazzmutant must have had some terse meetings around that time.

http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php

Edit : just browsed to their front page.. "ceasing commercial activities".. Oh dear..
Tyranny of the old: Wealth gap between young and old is widest ever
I love and would use it all the time...except it crashes when I try and import my itunes library :(
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I have that too. The speed sucks dick but it's cheap.

Thoughts:

1. I really hope it knows to just use cell while driving instead of trying to connect to random passing APs.
2. Am I the only person in America constantly surrounded by secured/non-free Wifi?
3. Why wouldn't I just pay less for my phone and $10 more a month for Virgin Mobile?
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Could you explain how to measure the various concepts you are describing in your post? It would help the rest of us understand what you are talking about.

I.e., if we "reconceptualize education" to connect it to hinduism's 4 life stages [1], what outcomes will change? How can we measure the "soul" of a lesson, and what happens when a lesson lacks "soul"?

[1] As far as I know this is only a meaningful concept for Brahmin and Kshatriya men. But I guess since they are the highest castes, they are the ones who's mysticism we should adopt.
There's a recent Railscast about this: http://railscasts.com/episodes/296-mercury-editor

Looks very slick!