skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've discovered over the years is that organizations are designed to do what they did yesterday and that people and institutions follow the cheese.
In order to get high schools to begin offering programming as a core offering, colleges need to recognize it as meeting a core educational requirement. Second, schools need to be provided funding to offset the cost of offering a new subject. And finally, the educational systems need to have the flexibility to hire people who haven't gone through the traditional certification process, i.e. masters or bachelors in education.

Until those change, it's unlikely we'll see significant changes.
If this were the true intent, you would expect that the college grades of AA beneficiaries and normal students would be similarly distributed.

As a natural result of AA or as an AA policy? The existing discrimination is with access/opportunity. The intent of AA is to counter balance access/opportunity discrimination. Over (much) time, results of counter balanced access/opportunity will equalize and AA will become less essential. The goal is equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.

Perhaps college admission practices might be limited to a point system, but then you ignore the bias that exists in primary school. A point system itself is discriminatory against minorities. AA counter balances that.
writing code during an interview is great, but almost a 180 degree experience to writing code in real life. there are a couple of factors:

* psych pressure

* unrealistic timeline

* googling is usually not allowed, whereas EVERYBODY uses it writing code in real life

* editor/environment is usually not "yours"

* etc..

hence the _way_ you choose to conduct a code test will, in most cases, matter a lot less than the actual _problem_ you choose that needs to be solved. the more applicable this problem is to what your business does every day the better. e.g. sometimes a "red-black tree" is crucial, other times things like a simple mobile CRUD app with a REST web service OR a thin, high throughput TCP/IP based protocol could be a lot more relevant.

of course you can't realistically expect a 100% bug free or even complete code from candidates, especially if you ask for things like an "app" or a new "protocol" => what really matters is _how_ people "get to it".

github or not, I hired several exceptional people not that long ago using a piece of paper and a white board. If it is not a face to face interview, skype and/or google docs are also effective.
Agreed. According to my secret source (wiki-p) UK has 8x more people per mile than the US. Germany has 7x more. Total population of these two countries combined: 143,799,308. Get translated into French and Spanish and watch users roll in. Potentially.

EDIT: The copy on the site needs work.

. The expressions used (meet to your mood, break barriers, you in the driving seat) are either non-standard and odd, slowing down the reader, or cliche, losing meaning and impact.

. The punctuation is mixed - periods slow down readers, make them stop reading at times.

. You obviously get that you need to keep it short, but IMO you've picked the wrong words in a bunch of places.

And to couple these critical thoughts with the helpful - I'll offer to sit down with another copywriting colleague and go over the main points we see at no charge. This could increase conversion, but no guarantees.
tmux is amazing. A really handy command is send-keys. I use a fullscreen split pane setup with VIM in one and elinks in the other.

Inside my .vimrc:

command W :w<Bar>execute 'silent !tmux send-keys -t 1 C-r'<Bar>redraw!

This saves the buffer then sends ctr+r to pane 1 (elinks in my case), which causes a page refresh. It's very useful when debugging web scripts.
The unemployment rate in Japan is low, but the (arguably more important) labor force participation rate has been dropping a lot lately: http://i.imgur.com/WJiUx.jpg

Of course, a big explanation for the lower labor force participation rate is the aging population.
Those sources are definitely not unbiased. I'm sure you know this, so you need to either temper them with some Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, or seek out some neutral reporting (sadly hard to find).
Yeah, I'm on about that setup too. Now if I could only convince CBS to actually show at least one of the games they're carrying. Half the time it's paid programming filler.
Organizations are designed to do what they did yesterday. In order for schools to attract and retain highly-skilled professionals they need to begin to offering more flexible work schedules/careers for people like you.

And while startups can offer great financial rewards, just think of yourself as an angel investor mentoring hundreds of startups each year! Even ycombinator can't match that output!
They do not. Extensions are required to list out the permissions they need in the manifest file. Go to the options page for managing extensions and enable Developer Mode. Then expand the one you want to check out and get its ID. I believe the following paths are correct though I can only confirm the one for Windows 7. The extension will be a folder with the ID as the name. You can see exactly what it's doing, and even make modifications that will be reflected in the installed extension. Note: any modifications you make will be reverted if there is an update.

Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions

Windows Vista
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions

Windows 7
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions

Mac OS X
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions
Thanks for your feedback. I'm going to add it to our backlog.

- About the bitbucket projects, maybe the crawler didn't get all the links, you can send us projects to add going to "Missing projects? Add a project"

- About the link to go to your profile, there is a tab named
"go to your profile" on the main nav-bar

- The progress bar needs explanations and also some work because is not working properly right now.

- The chart is ordered by the number of files. Probably we should order it using the number of files, commits, and the time but right now this's the order and maybe this is why is confusing to you.

Again, thanks for your feedback, appreciated.
> Firstly, yes there are many people with fancy clothes. What the author does not say is that a lot of those people live with their parents - and their whole income is expendible. I don't know if this phenomeneon started after the bubble economy, but it is quite shocking.

Living in larger family units is actually very efficient. The way we do things here in the U.S. is actually shockingly inefficient. Parents buy big houses in the suburbs when they have kids, and don't down size when the kids leave. So you have an older couple using one floor of an oversized house and the kid maintaining a separate household. Then when the kid has kids, they buy another big house in the suburbs, then pay someone thousands of dollars a month to take care of said kids after school. Meanwhile the grandparents sit around their big house bored and lonely.

There are a lot of weird cultural taboos in the U.S. that create this state of affairs, but the end result is vast inefficiency in resource usage compared to societies where bigger households are the norm.
I use a Stylish style ('more minimalist') that removes everything but the inbox list and the search box. I'm not sure but I think this is safer than an extension. For my personal taste it's finally made Gmail pleasant to use.
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The Education Next blog includes some thoughtful responses to the tenth anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

http://educationnext.org/five-thoughts-about-nclb-on-its-ten...

Like the blog author, Michael Petrilli, who notes that the trade-offs build into the law were real from the beginning, "Personally, I’d prefer a policy that aims for more balance: achievement gains across the performance spectrum, not just at the bottom; and a more holistic view of what it means for students to be well educated. Literacy and numeracy are (obviously) not enough."

AFTER EDIT: Other comments here write about the funding level for some of the federal government inducements to school change at the state level that were built into the No Child Left Behind Act. To be sure, the act never promised that the federal government would pick up the full tab to fund the state school system of any state, or anything near that. The United States federal government devotes substantial resources to K-12 education through various programs, but the main funding of primary and secondary schooling in the United States has always come from local and state governments.

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html

(A FAQ prepared by the previous administration)

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html

(A FAQ prepared by the current administration)

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66

(Current National Center for Education Statistics page on spending for public elementary and secondary schools)

If states are in earnest about raising student achievement, they could of course target the larger amounts of money they spend on activities that are best evidenced as activities that raise student achievement. To do that, of course, the states would have to have some kind of reliable data on what activities of their school systems best raise achievement, which is part of what NCLB was about.
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If it really does what they say, I think the metaphor flips. "This Apple TV thingy, isn't it just an oversized HDMI Dongle?"
Personally, I've always liked creating a simple web server as a nice step in learning a language/stdlib. Some concurrency, some I/O, some string parsing, etc. Obviously it's not the first thing one does, but I find it a nice package to put together that actually achieves something real.
That's not a very good summary, as it glosses over the fact that these hormones are evidently activating a latent mechanism for producing a specific class of ant body fulfilling a niche role. They aren't just proportionately larger ants.
Those are numbers from Statcounter [1] and not conclusive by any standard.

According to another web analytics company, Hitslink [2], Symbian mobile web usage share went from 8.9% to 5.8% in the last year.

Also, even in Statcounter's numbers Symbian has little usage share to speak of in first world nations (6% in N-America, 10% in Europe, 4% in Oceania).

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201012-20111...

[2] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...
I've had some success by asking a late-stage candidate to take a day off of work, then to come and pair program for a half-day with each of two developers. I paid them the appropriate consulting day rate.
Is there a site that lists all of the candidates running against pro-SOPA/PIPA representatives? Better yet, a site that allows me to give money to their opponents for the next election cycle (provided they're not pro-SOPA either)?
This could be a long list: SPOJ, topCoder, ICFP, google and Facebook etc comps,

Language specific: 4clojure.org, blow your mind etc

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind
This was hard to read, I mean that about the actual readability of the article not the content. Here's my constructive criticism and simple css fixes.

The paragraphs need some line-height, it seems too much like a heavy wall of text, space it out a little.

.entry p {line-height: 1.5em;}

Black on white is hard to read for too long, something slightly less black can help.

.entry p {color: #222222;}

Maybe it's because of the way it renders on a Mac but that font isn't the best for long text. I'd keep it simple and just stick with sans-serif.

.entry p {font-family: sans-serif;}

before: http://i.imgur.com/JCYTF.png

after: http://i.imgur.com/nerMb.png

just flip between them a few times in separate tabs

Hope I'm not stepping on any toes, just trying to help.
What we need now is the people over at O'Reilly to publish a good book on running nginx. The documentation isn't that great.
Words do not exist to explain errors in this article. The world's most populous island improved internet infrastructure? Wow! Life expectancy increased, just like in every other OECD nation? Wow!

The appreciation of the yen is a result of the deflationary pressure that crippled the Japanese economy from 1995-2005.

He links to shadowstats, a known internet cook hangout. It's like linking to a global-warming denial site.

"Japan leapfrogged the United States in the space of a few years in the late 1990s and it has stayed ahead ever since, with consumers moving exceptionally rapidly to ever more advanced devices."

On what planet does the author live? The smartphone was invented here and the US leads the world in smartphone adoption. The Japanese are still texting on 9-keys.

I can't go on.
OP said: We tried to follow every piece of advice we were given, learned to be humble, continued to believe in ourselves but feel like all is useless now because we can't geotarget specific cities with the iphone like SF Bay Area or San Diego!

Why not just call the app "Groovy SF" and brand it as a SF-local app, so that people's expectations are set correctly? You can't technically geotarget, but you can hack it.
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The net result of a biased filter is that the victims of the bias must perform at a higher level to pass through the filter.

I.e., suppose the filter were set to exclude students of quality Q < 10, but were biased against black students to the tune of 2 points. Then we'd expect non-black students to have a quality distribution bounded below by 10, and black students to have a quality distribution bounded below by 12.

If we gave black students a bonus of 2 points, their quality distribution would again be bounded below by 10.

Of course, if our original filter was unbiased, then we expect the quality of black students to drop to 8. What do we see in the real world?

A point system itself is discriminatory against minorities.

By definition, a point system which ignores race cannot be discriminatory. It literally lacks the ability to discriminate.

admitStudent :: Student -> Boolean
admitStudent student = -- code does not refer to student.race
...

If you disagree, you should be able to provide a pure function for which this test fails:

admitStudent ( student { race = Asian}) == admitStudent (student {race = Black})

(In Haskell, x { a=b} takes a record x, makes a copy, and sets field a equal to b.)
From a historical perspective, the Democratic support for corporate media stretches back at least as far as Lyndon Johnson. He and his wife were television station owners, and over their lives continued to grow their media holdings.

That, presumably, is one of the reasons Johnson knew how screwed he was when he (reportedly) said "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."

Interestingly President Johnson's wikipedia page doesn't seem to make reference to the media holdings, but his wife Lady Bird Johnson's page does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson#Business_care...
I know a lot of people like that where I grew up. My sister jokes that if nothing else the USA is number one in self esteem.
I have some axioms:

1) One man's complexity is another man's simplicity

Often what we consider complex, is just what we are unfamiliar with. If you've been working on something for awhile it gets simpler. Keep in mind that what at first appears complex, will get simpler.

2) He whose work is most incomprehensible, is most respected.

Unfortunately, this is the bane of our industry. The ignorant are impressed by incomprehensibility. It all seems like magic to them and the more incomprehensible an aura you surround yourself in, the more respect you will get. This is not the same as arrogance. Arrogance will not get you respect. People may put up with you, but they won't respect you.

3) Never be a maintenance programmer. Always be the original coder.

For me, it's very easy to take a spec and create a system. It's much harder to clean up someone else's mess. I call it, "Being handed a turd and told to make it float". In fact, just the fact that a "maintenance programmer" is needed means the code is more or less a mess. Unless you are about to get thrown out on the street for lack of money, never work on someone else's code. It's 3 times harder but you get paid less and get less respect.

4) All programmers hate other programmer's code.

It's always going to be too complex. Other guys code always sucks. You can always find a better way to do it than they did, at least in my experience.
You don't need this. Turn on the 'Labs' feature called 'Preview Pane'. I've been using it for a while now and after a bit of getting used to it, it is great.
See also: XHR Poster (Chrome extension) [1]

I couldn't live without it.

[1] http://goo.gl/UFSdZ
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Ask HN: Is there more, like HN?
I wonder if there are other networks like Hackernews in the web. Maybe more language and/or location specific?

I stumbled across HN quite a while ago and following it constantly since then. It is fascinating how this network made me a better coder, get more creative and even quit my job and start an own company together with a friend.
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I don't disagree with this. But I read your comment as moving people to another team couldn't make that new team any better. Perhaps I just misunderstood.
"Not all developers have existing online projects they can point to when you're interviewing them."

After 15+ years of doing open source and being in Sr. Software Engineer positions where I've been responsible for interviewing hundreds of people, I'm convinced now that I would never hire anyone who doesn't have some sort of public online project. I don't care what it is, you must have some code to show.
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Make one end a 16GB USB and the other a HDMI, put some CPU in the middle so I can play 1080p videos from the USB straight to TV and I'll buy it in a flash.
> the onus falls on the woman to bear the career hit

Yes, women have uteri and lactate while men don't. It really is that simple and societies have compensated for this for millennia by putting (or pressuring) an obligation to provide for a woman on the father of her children, a practice later institutionalized and extended in marriage.

Is there a better solution? Perhaps, perhaps not, but the reasons for that one are pretty clear.

Also, I'm a little concerned with the fact that this private family matter now involves government and employers. There is a worrying, at least to me, trend of corporations and governments regulating more and more of our private lives.
Seriously? Installing a network printer on Windows 7 is super easy and almost completely automatic.
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Funny, I'm pretty sure when I saw them at the Maker Faire they used one base station and an xbee on the sensor units. That was a few years ago, so maybe they must have "simplified" it.
I've been using http://vimium.github.com/ for a long time now. They seem very similar, I may play with it see which I like better.
Yes, it was underfunded (not 'unfunded' - it's just that there weren't additional funds injected for it), but that still doesn't make the testing part a good idea. What you end up, even if the resources are there, are pupils who pass tests, not necessarily pupils who are fit for a job or even for life. Pupils who pass tests are not necessarily what you want to boost your economy.
Once you have experienced the open internet, the restricted internet is quite suffocating. Whats more disappointing is that governments in most places around the world are converging towards the Chinese style of access controls and restrictions.
Exactly. Throw in a ~$200 subscription to NBA League Pass and you're now probably not saving that much money. Live sports is still the biggest challenge to cutting the cord, yet the author spends just one paragraph touching on this. For anyone who watches live sports on a regular basis, dropping cable just isn't an option. And no, driving down to the local bar to catch a game isn't an option either.
I know nothing of HD over the air, but ESPN is available? In my oldschool mindset, that's a "cable" channel and not available over the air. But I could be wrong.
If I manage to spend 1-2 days on cleaning up and documenting my framework (be warned, it's PHP based) I will open a github project and post it here on HN.
> Try asking a teenager how many people they think work for Facebook, or Amazon, or Google.

How exactly is this related to knowledge about programming?
Well, the alternative is Euros, so it's not that bad. Not worse than any German or French entrepreneur, I guess...
How should one call or use it? Any example or a link?
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Wow, just spent hour reading this. Thanks.
Kessler is undaunted, saying HBO regards cord cutting as a temporary phenomenon that will go away once the larger economy improves.

That is a profoundly terrible research on their behalf. Yes I cut my cord because it was cheaper for me, but i didn't do it to save money, I did it because cable tv simply isn't worth the money for me. paying for streaming hbo would definitely be worth it however.
The context of his response was that there is this belief on HN that "programmer" is a title reserved for certain people, and that belief is often predicated on an erroneous/incomplete understanding of his writing.
>Why should I waste my time traversing 10 different sites looking for a particular episode of a particular show I want to see when I can go to the same torrent site every time and have a virtual guarantee that the content I want will be instantly available, and in HD, at that?

Because one avenue is legal, and the other is illegal. I'm not saying that that will serve as an incentive to change your (or others') behavior, but that's the answer to your question.
I would like to hear about the actual problems in the Elisp runtime. Does anyone remember a reference to an article that details the implementation of Elisp in more depth?
Any specific language or platform you're looking for?
If you were to say perl, I'd say to have a look at perlmonks.org, reddit.com/r/perl, and others.

Which other networks are you familiar with? Slashdot or StackOverflow? Maybe take it to IRC and idle a few channels relevant to your interests?
Great arguments! I still don't think that paying 50% of your tax revenues in interest rate is sustainable (especially not when the interest rates are as low as they already are). However, your point about capital gains combined with high level of domestic creditors certainly changes the math.
Anyone who cut the cord a women or live with a women? I live with my girlfriend and don't watch our cable except for live sports and the occasional show I can't (easily) torrent. But my Girlfriend has no way to get all her favorite cooking shows. Those don't show up as torrents - I think cause most people who rip TV shows are men/nerds.
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