skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like they walked in looking for proof of their already established conclusion. If you look at Finland, Australia, Korea, Japan and New Zealand you see a cluster of countries who are paying their teachers well and who aren't getting results (Edit: By this I mean the countries below them aren't getting results yet are paying the same amount). Compare Denmark to Finland or Spain to New Zealand and then explain to me how the authors' thesis rings true.

Plus we have anecdotal evidence that contradicts their conclusion in the U.S: Individual State salaries vary pretty significantly ($37,000 to $59,000) yet education results don't seem to reflect those salaries

Teacher Salary By State: http://www.teacherportal.com/teacher-salaries-by-state

State Education Rankings: http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/september/state-education-ran...

I don't entirely disagree with the thesis that making "teacher" a more revered position will draw better people to it. But there are clearly other factors at play that the authors chose to disregard because they wanted to prove their already established conclusion.

(If it were me I'd be comparing Switzerland, Germany and Sweden and trying to figure what the differences are there)
HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices
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A connection
Ask HN: Playing the role of a "jack of all trades" in a self-funded  startup
Hi,

I equally use both sides of my brain: from the initial concept + Web Design to coding the apps using PHP. I manage to do everything on my own, even customer care and marketing on social media platforms. I'm passionate about doing everything on my own! :)

My first startup was http://mybiz.lk & to be honest it was a failure since I didn't have a proper business model at that time. (the site is still functioning though :)

That being said, I'm now about to start off a new venture after learning from the mistakes. I'll be following the Lean Startup methodology as explained by Eric Ries.

URL: http://hireme.lk

So far I have been able to plan and launch the "magic page" for my new startup on my own. For this time also I'm thinking of following a learn-as-you-go-along approach. This has granted me a lot of freedom to take my own decisions and plan the way I want my startup to be in the future.

What are your thoughts on this approach? Will my approach have negative effects for the future of my startup?

Cheers!

PS:
* Please note that I'm not trying to do a self-promotion for my startups here, just wanted to let you know what I've been up to so far.
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That's what I figured they should do -- just kill the offending script automatically. They confirmed to me after several hours of outage that they had their best admin working on it. Not sure what there would be to work on that would take that long.

The shared hosting chart you mention sounds great! Is that available somewhere?
If you read the details of that particular case it's a lot more complex. GMO isn't like that because there are lots of genetically modified organisms that come with out licensing agreements.

One farmer in particular decided to see if he could use normal plants to reproduce Monsanto seed which he succeded in and then got sued because its a violation of the agreement he agreed to. The neighboring farmer bs is just a smokescreen.

All the food we eat is GMO because the genome of a plant naturally changes, now we just do GMO efficiently. Yes, there are risks, but natural GMO could produce a terminator gene as well. As much as I don't mind GMO I'm fully in support of labeling, especially the idea that those that don't use GMO can label as such.
I was worried it would come off as spam. shrug

The design firm he works for does very high profile work. He expressed he enjoyed making the logo for my startup. According to him smaller companies like progressive and exciting logos. I just thought I'd post it here. Hackernews has been a great community to me and this seemed like a really nice opportunity.
Everyone stops thinking about it after 4, because connections are measurable and thus reportable by the media planners at whatever agency the brand has hired to do their social. It's simply a metric and few people at real companies think about it, they just see the numbers and think it's working. This is because agencies tell them it will and that's the worst part about it all.

Social's value is seeing how people react to your brand, absorbing their feedback, connecting directly... but the planners have reduced it to numbers, like they do everything, and sucked the life out it.
Correction: LuaJIT is not yet supported on consoles. I'm confident the remaining legal issues can be resolved soon.

Note this is referring to the high-speed interpreter written in PPC assembler which gives you a 2x-6x speedup over plain Lua. Not as good as with a JIT compiler, but definitely something to consider.

The JIT compiler will be disabled on the consoles for now. This is not the last word on that matter, though.
Well, to be fair, I've been dealing with a fubar'd system since Monday that is all Apple -- macbook air, time capsule for backup, full disk encryption w/ Lion. Apparently there's a huge bug that prevents the PGP key from properly mounting the drive on reboot (as of 10.7.2). Restoring from time machine AND doing a fresh lion install have both failed, so I'm not convinced the "Supported" flag helps much :/
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Monsanto has been suing farmers for years over alleged theft of GMO--it's nice to see them sued in return. I get the impression Monsanto's legal team is as over-reaching as that of the RIAA.
There's a site devoted to turning Dell's into Hackintoshes. I happened across it some days back, coincidentally. Don't have the URL at hand, but I think it had "latitude" in it.
Someone explain this logic to me - I'm not seeing it. There were 150 companies on the list of SOPA supporters. The internet went after exactly one of them, Godaddy. I'm as happy as anyone to see Godaddy sweat, but who is going after the other 149? Are we saying the mighty mighty power of social media is that limited? Yes, that's exactly what we're saying.

Like SomeCallMeTim, I have reservations about targeting representatives in this way. I'm surprised no one on any forum is talking about targeting the other 149 companies who deserve some backlash. We're saying they can do what they like with impunity. Who is talking about this? Why are we not talking about this instead?
You are right. Excessive consumption can get in the way of creation. However, I think consumption can also inform creation.

I have recently made a conscious decision to comment more-often and submit more links to Hacker News. I want to create, engage, contribute and create more content. The transition from using HN as a tech RSS reader to actually engaging more with the community has been a really refreshing one. I do not feel that time spent writing this comment is time wasted. It is time contributed and, hopefully sometimes, appreciated.

PS - Upvote for the _why quote alone :)

when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

PPS - I enjoyed the effects of reading your post ;)
Apple is doing what they have a legal right to do. The real problem, in my opinion, is that patents were issued for software in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, but this is such an ignorant comment. Try it once and then you see why Badger is different (as I said before: the domain search is awesome).
I would think one would dedicate N*2 nodes for a dataset N and just copy the data in any given node to its closest neighbor node. If the lookup for the primary node fails, try its closest neighbor, and if you really want to get snazzy then have that failover neighbor start to copy data to its closest neighbor until you get a replacement node up. A failover daemon on each node will detect when a neighbor goes down and block writes to a copy of data until it's sure the neighbor is down, and won't accept new copies until both it detects the neighbor is back up and has resolved time-based differences in datasets. Probably not foolproof but it's a start :)
Site was down for a few minutes, but it's back up. How the hell is it a "spam blog?"
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Apple History Finds a Home at Stanford
Without getting into a distro debate, the immediate justification for RHEL to Enterprises is that there's somebody to blame if it doesn't work, and that there's a vendor to call if their generally mediocre onsite staff can't solve a problem.

Compared to Solaris, it's cheaper, package management is much easier, and it has all the Linuxy goodness that corporations feel make them more agile.
> Update:YouTube provided Ars Technica with the following statement: "Our partners do not have the right to take down videos from YouTube unless they own the rights to them or they are live performances controlled through exclusive agreements with their artists, which is why we reinstated it."

So, certain companies have access to some sort of Youtube backend and they can shut videos and such without prior Youtube/Google permission (due to time limitation, I'd guess). Although Youtube/Google has the power to overwrite any changes made by these 'partners' (don't know which word to use).

Does that seem right?
You are right, this aspect is not new. More like half-baked.

I'm not sure what you mean by bidirectional. If this suggests having a separate copy for the old data and the new data then, in ChronicDB at least, no they are not bidirectional. Which is what one wants ideally: data consistency.

If you mean that updates on the old version are immediately reflected in the new version, then yes.

Basically, there's a single version of the truth, while old and new relations can have different names, for all DML operations.
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So people who wouldn't buy something don't, how does that affect revenue?
1and1's Stance on SOPA
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I don't believe the Mayans, but I do think that 2012 is going to be a huge year.

For one, the Occupy movement is going to rise back up in some form in the spring and will be an interesting juxtaposition to the campaign fever in the U.S. I don't know if the social network idea is going to catch fire, but something on the internet interesting is going to happen in this regard.

Also, the Reddit/SOPA idea is an interesting one (Paul Ryan is great choice). A lot of people have learned from the GoDaddy fiasco that boycotts organized on the internet can work. This year we've also seen people moving their money to credit unions and now a boycott of Comcast.

Next year there may also be a conclusion to the Assange case that may jump off another round of hacktivism and let's see how far the Stratfor hack goes.

Overall I'd say 2012 is the year that the internet really becomes more than talking to your friends, email and buying and consuming crap. Two generations of people that grew up on the 'net will overwhelm the rest that don't understand it.
You cannot build and sell / distribute your own devices with OS X on it. Apple has been very aggressive with companies that tried that, in particular with Psystar, the first company that sold "hackintosh" computers [1], which they sued into oblivion.

So no, OS X is not open and there's nothing vague about it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
It's on our radar. Stay tuned.
I'm no crypto guy.. is there any conceivable situation in which their idea works? I mean, when is it actually more secure to say 'I'll let you know if you got the first half of the password right before you enter the second'?
I found the conclusion of the movie "Waiting for Superman" interesting basically the major obstacle for improving education in the US is that you can't fire bad teachers because of union contracts.
I agree with this. Plus GoDaddy you can always find domains for very cheap due to all of their "promotions" or "coupons". I've gotten so many $2 domains from GoDaddy that it's ridiculous.

But I moved my domains away about a week ago. No discount is worth supporting GoDaddy.
> So if we insert a total of 64 elements, the first one 0, the second one 64, the third one 128, the fourth one 192, etc., all of those elements will have the same hash (namely 0) and all will be put into the same linked list.

This doesn't seem correct, or I'm missing something.

Upon the first insertion, PHP doesn't know that you intend to insert 63 more elements. It shouldn't allocate a 2^6-element underlying array until it exceeds 2^5 elements, right? So the first 2^5 insertions would be constant time, and only the next 2^5 would be linear.

I'm not sure how PHP performs the reallocation to increase an array's capacity. Maybe it allocates a blank array, and then inserts the existing elements using the standard insertion algorithm. In that case 2^6 linear-time insertions would occur -- half during the reallocation, and half afterwords. But it still bears mentioning that performance wouldn't tank until you inserted half+1 of the values.
It used to be $35 a year at Network Solutions.
no, OSX is not open. you can't take the published source code and compile it into a useable copy of OSX.

you can take the published android source code and create a useable copy of android from it. the entire operating system is there. android is open source. the people criticizing android for not being open are either lying, or have forgotten that we have moved on from the 3.0 branch which was not open.
Transcribing from reddit so the HN folks don't freak out:

THIS IS ONLY FOR DOMAINS WHERE THE OWNER HAS REQUESTED EXTREME PROTECTION and has agreed that this sort of verification is needed to make any changes to the domain information.
Please don't feed the trolls.
http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nu48a/godaddy_gone_ful...
Details on this service are here http://www.godaddy.com/domainaddon/protected-registration.as...
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My first thought when I read the article title is that teachers would have more money to pay out of pocket to get materials for their students.

A lot of teachers do this, from kindergarten to high school. I've had to hang out in a educational supply store more than once in my life when I and <pick any friend that is a teacher> have passed by one. That teacher then blows a sizable chunk of coin without fail.

Arts & crafts, books, lined paper, sci calculators, and of course... stickers for that job well done.
I think we are slated to see a renaissance of writing due to the ability to self-publish with much less overhead and a much higher share of revenue.
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Sailthru (https://www.sailthru.com/) is a good one. API is easy to use and they offer a level of analytics that is far more advanced than what most other companies can offer.

Disclaimer: I am not a Sailthru employee but I have done a number of integrations for clients of theirs.
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While I appreciate the debate over the article's thesis, as the editor of that piece and of Wired's Threat Level blog, I'm going to quibble with you about Wired's coverage.

Threat Level has been all over Occupy:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/tag/occupy from Scott Olsen in Oakland, to Boston to D.C., to the NYPD refusing press passes to reporters. Quinn Norton and Sean Captain have done great work.

As for Bradley Manning, Threat Level's Kim Zetter did an outstanding job covering the Manning hearings. It was so good she was accused by a commenter of having insider sources at the open hearing.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/tag/bradley-manning

Cops shooting dogs. Well, we didn't really cover this.

Military leaving Iraq - Well, Threat Level didn't cover this, but our excellent sister blog Danger Room was, when it wasn't documenting the FBI's anti-muslim training program.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/tag/iraq

And finally, the essay you take issue with was written by David Kravets, whose beats are civil liberties and copyright issues. I think his end of the year piece is really strong, juxtaposing two bills from Sen. Patrick Leahy as a way to talk about a year full of security/privacy/protest/copyright news.

Or, should have I just said, read more Threat Level. http://wired.com/threatlevel
An argument could be made that intellectual property is in fact a civil liberty itself; the right to own private property is a common and well-established civil liberty. Proponents of intellectual property argue that while obviously intellectual property is different in nature than other types, it is property none the less.
GD is definitely trying hard to win over their existing customers aren't they?
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Your image logo dude looks pixelated.

So far I have been able to plan and launch the "magic page" for my new startup on my own.

Magic page as in LaunchRock? I have no clue what you mean here. I also have no clue how to answer your question in regards to your approach as it basically doesn't say anything. Its super vague.

As for can't afford to partner up with another co-founder, that also makes no sense. If you partner with someone, why would you need to pay them. Why would your bootstrapped money earned from 99designs matter? Unless you were talking about "hiring" someone.
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Wow - speechless :-)

The correlation with my program's results is clear (the coefficients are my last column) - any references as to why?
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which is actually crazy, because if I were to design a malicious ad that gets included on the page where you have your stripe form on, it would be as easy for me to extract the values the user has entered as it will be for stripe.js.

So - even if PCI compliance doesn't require it, I would make sure that the page that the form is on doesn't have any JS dependency that is hosted on a server I don't control.

Longer term, it would probably wise for stripe to host the form in an iframe.
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Apple is not suing everyone, only a bunch of Android devices, though I never said Apple's not suing them to make their life harder, only it's always good to gain some perspective. If anything it could very well be both, that's not incompatible. But arguing they're trying to ban every single competitor is ridiculous. Apple does not aim for market share dominance, they aim for margin, and they make boatloads of profits through margin already.

> What they had to do, to put round screen on triangular device?

We're not talking about the general shape, which is obviously constrained (and would be like saying a Ferrari 456 and a Lada Niva look the same because both have two doors and four wheels), we're talking about design (which does not restrict to looks). Still, Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 look nothing like an iPhone (neither hardware nor software), even with bad eyesight. Same for Palm/HP devices, or a Nexus One, or HTC Evo or Legend. Squint a little and you can't make the difference between an iPhone 4 and a Galaxy S2 laying on a table. I'm not even talking about the Tab 10.1.
I have 2 friends using mailgun and I'm playing around with it myself. Cool stats, and it handles sending AND receiving email, not just sending.
As a Kindle DX owner, and Kindle Fire owner since launch day, I'm unlikely to buy another Kindle Fire again. I heartily recommend the Kindle Touch, and if someone on a severe budget, who has never owned an iPad or iPhone, wants to cut their cable bill by watching Hulu+ and Netflix while reading the occasional book, I'll recommend the Kindle Fire. I recommended it again just last night.

But if they want mobile computing (web, email, photo importing and editing) or mobile gaming, I urge them to spend a little more and pick up an iPad refurb. Twice the screen size, dramatically better web and "personal media" capabilities, multiples of storage, and a touch UI that does what your finger does, make the device become indispensable instead of just a book and commercial video viewer.

(I say "commercial" video because Kindle Fire's Gallery is the worst personal video organizer and viewer I've seen on a device since the Compaq iPaq days, and even that's generously assuming the user can figure out why video they put in their Videos folder doesn't show up under "My Videos" as a first class media file.)
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What is an 'Android device'?
All HTC devices since September, most devices from <=2010 (and many, many more with community support); all Samsung/LG devices; some early Moto devices (and all if you don't count the kernel via the community) can have custom software installed.

And if that's Marco's point, it's pretty damn poor. How does what Motorola does with the bootloader of their phone have to do with the code that Google puts out exactly?
If you have ever read a review of a new gadget before it launches: think about how ridiculous this activity is

Maybe I'm "too far in the rabbit hole", but exactly what's wrong with this? Is it a bad thing to be informed before spending my money?

I have been burned by buying things that have reviewed well but I ultimately found not up to the task, but I'd rather find out something is a dud before rather than after (e.g., Kindle Fire).
"Compared to old-school, trial-and-error cross pollination, GMO is like using a word processor instead of a manual typewriter."

I think that one shitty analogy holds everything the author is trying to convey. And it's the same lack of reason and actual argument with a blind approval of technology that any biochem company would love to fill your ears with.