skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We tried requiring schools to ensure each and every student achieved literacy and numeracy, under penalty of having the school labeled as "failing" and potentially being forced to allow its students other options.

It was called "No Child Left Behind", and sadly is now overwhelmingly unpopular. The kind of disciplined (and occasionally rote) learning that leads to success in some of our peer nations is called "teaching to the test". Well-to-do parents don't like hearing that their children's school is "failing" just because poor children are being shuffled from grade to grade without learning much.

I really don't know what can be done. Money isn't the answer: Look at the DC public schools.
I remember first hearing about pinterest a few months ago then not hearing anything else for a while. Then all of a sudden a few weeks ago every female I knew with a few exceptions was using it. It seemed to hit some gender specific nerve there and just took off.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/27/gorillaz-ipad-album-now-a...

Over a year ago.
Very few Google projects allow outside contributions. Go is one that does; no surprise there of course. There is an attitude pervasive at Google that open source is a great marketing tool, but that it's a one-way street. I think it's because of the high employment standards at Google; they cannot fathom how someone without an @google.com email address can do better than them.

Dart is the perfect example of this: developed in secret, in a dark room, and then dumped on the open source community. When no one was excited about it they shrugged their shoulders, confused about what they had done wrong.

I have no interest in Java, and I really hope someone forks this project and treats it like a real open source project.
How do you know it? Do you know parents who did it, or people who have accepted such letters?
A guide to flirting with geeks
Criminality and lack of education are correlated, but the relationship isn't necessarily causal. It's just as likely they're both influenced by other factors.
Interestingly I heard that the Java people at Google rail against using Python for large projects because they supposedly get out of hand..
Which Facebook billionaire will buy NYT?
The Sequoyah add-on isn't really necessary. Here's a page that boils down their instructions on how to set up ndk-gdb in Eclipse without anything extra. http://mhandroid.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/using-eclipse-for-...

I managed to get this to work, but it was so slow and fragile that I gave up and went back to command line GDB. It's easier to deal with ndk-gdb's problems on the command line than through Eclipse. Meanwhile, it has been long enough that I should give http://www.wingdb.com/wgMobileEdition.htm another try...
This is awesome, but one question/suggestion: when a user is going through the "How to Use Flutter" tutorial, do the gestures work then, or only once the tutorial is closed? I kept trying to do it, but there wasn't a response until I closed the tutorial.
This is the problem with being arrogant: apart from being unkind, you often miss really good things. Arrogant means never needing to listen. Never needing to listen means not being awesome :-)
Why do humans have to re-submit these? If a post is 1. Timeless and 2. Popular shouldn't this be automated?

Surely this post adds to the experience of some as do many others like it. The first step in this trend would be a Hacker New reading list composed of posts that fit this profile.

Secondarily you could have a way to inject each of the posts on that list into each users front page based on if they had seen it before (followed link checking or HN logs). If I'm new to HN perhaps my front page would have these scattered throughout.

Next you could use them as content on slow news days in combination with the per user information above.

I, for one, would love it if my local movie theatre re-ran Star Wars during slow months, and I wouldn't mind being (re)exposed to classic posts on Sunday afternoons :)
It's still super early for the professionals to see any utility (if any) the website offers. We've been contacted by a few wanting to talk in depth about some of the problems they have and solutions they think might work.

Could you explain your widget idea a little bit more? If everything goes well in the CRE market, we would like to branch out to different industries.
More international cooperation? International competition got us into space to begin with.
A different but functionally similar idea would be an automatic pausing of all other services when you start playing one (i.e. when I start playing a Youtube video, automatically pause iTunes).
I'm being pedantic, but "roots your Facebook" is a massive misuse of the word root.

I doubt Sony has the ability to do anything it wants with your account (It can't change your password, it can't revoke permissions of another app) so they haven't gained "root access" to your account.

I also doubt that Sony is hacking or getting this access through illicit means. Sony doesn't "root" your account through some sort of exploit, Facebook has most likely given them that access. (As a few others have mentioned)

You're right that this is disturbing. Poking holes into the security model in other to make the user experience more convenient is something companies do depressingly often. Here's an example that surprised me recently, if you activate your android phone by signing into a google account it ignores two-factor authentication and only asks for your password.

[edit, removed a patronizing paragraph]
What devices don't have a browser? When I first get an Android device and need to add my Google account, the browser opens to handle the login flow (which requires my 2Factor key), and then the phone is authorized. Alternatively, I can create an application-specific password and use that.

I don't understand why Facebook can't do one of these two things.
One problem with putting so many people in prison, and keeping them there for so long, is that you end up with a large number of prisoners with dementia like illnesses.

The routines of prison help to mask some symptoms of those illnesses. And because some of these prisoners are in for serious, violent, crimes it's hard to release them to nursing homes.

Here's one prison's response:

(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/health/dealing-with-dement...)

I submitted it to HN here: (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649276)
You're right. I don't see footers on each Fry meme attributing the character to Matt Groening. And yet, when you add 24-point Impact font saying something witty, you own it all of a sudden? Give me a break.

If it's fair use to put the text on the image in the first place, then it's fair use to use the image with the text. People can be upset all they want about it, but it's not going to change the fact that the entire spread of memes occurs without respect for (and in fact despite) copyright law.
Should be titled, "Pinterest's first investor explains nothing."

Not only does he make no offering of a "secret to success", but in reality says:

'there’s no way to explain how the company that has done no PR, no marketing and is still operating on an invite-only basis is “captivating so much of the conversation”'

It's the old bait-and-switch article title.
Pinterest definitely has popularity-and for good reason; it's a well designed site/service-but "success" has a very broad definition.

Whilst it may be a black-and-white view on things, I don't think it's a success yet. If I were an investor, I certainly wouldn't think so. They have two big questions over their head:

1) How are they going to turn a profit, without degrading the quality of the service or UX?

2) How are they going to deal with potential copyright lawsuits and/or DMCA takedown notices?
The link in the post to which you replied covers that; it's the section of the man page which deals specifically with differences between xargs and parallel. Having used neither of these tools before, I think two relevant lines from that link would be:

>xargs can run a given number of jobs in parallel, but has no support for running number-of-cpu-cores jobs in parallel.

>xargs has no support for keeping the order of the output, therefore if running jobs in parallel using xargs the output of the second job cannot be postponed till the first job is done.
Microsoft warns that OnLive Desktop’s Office streaming app violates license
I'm not googling for them just now, but I know I've seen graphs that show that as we've spent more and more money on education, we've seen no affect on educational metrics (test scores, basic competencies, etc.)

I don't think it's a money problem. It's a problem with an intractable public education system in this country that's only really concerned with its own power and growth. We could solve that problem with the stroke of a pen by eliminating the monopoly that the current public education system has upon our educational tax dollars.
*Do note that for those applying to YC, the styling does not carry over to the application pages. The entire page is orange.

This is not an unbearable problem or anything, but just wanted to point it out!
"Which allows you to take bigger risks", reads as if risk taking is an good thing in itself. Presumably you meant to write "necessary risks"? I was going to point out that rationality would alleviate the reluctance to jump off, post-education, but that supposes that doing a start-up is typically a rational act...

Generally, I think education allows you to lower the risk of achieving a given return. Or, it could be seen as allowing a higher return for a given amount of risk.

Maybe that's the definition of a start-up: a company that sets a level of risk, then tries to maximise the returns on that risk? A "normal" company does it the other way: sets a level of return then minimises the risk required to achieve the return.
Saw the best explanation in a college newspaper:

Girl: “Do you know what Pinterest is?”

Guy: “Yeah, it’s like porn for girls.”

Girl [blank look]: “What ...?”

Guy: “Girls enjoy that as much as guys enjoy porn.”

http://www.mndaily.com/2012/03/08/overheard-around-campus
I am not sure but I think you may have missed the irony in his statement.
Seems like even now, there are still problems. Here is a link to their blog post which they are keeping updated:

http://status.namecheap.com/?p=7309
I'm not sure this quite makes sense. The buffering can already be disabled, clearly, since that's what's being discussed. The non-buffering implementation could be easily placed atop FILE (I don't know the details, but I can't imagine a FILE-based iostream implementation being at all complex) at which point you have a buffered implementation that also cooperates with pure C stdio. iostream would need buffering for other operations, but could just leave it off permanently for stdio, and the switch already exists.
Hi—I'm Adam Ernst, the iOS-side developer of the Khan app.

Your assessment of the app's hybrid nature, and the performance problems that result, is correct. We know that the performance is subpar, and it wouldn't have been much more work for me to do the rest in native code.

Khan Academy recently hired John Resig, with whom I had the pleasure of working on this app. John is the inventor of jQuery and a core developer on jQuery Mobile. He's amazingly talented and has really pushed the Javascript world ahead.

It's no surprise that John is eager to improve jQuery Mobile, and his work at Khan Academy is a great real-world project on which to use it. John tackled the jQuery Mobile side of the project, and I filled in native code for the parts (like the navigation) that would have been far too slow in Javascript.

I'm sure John will continue optimizing jQuery Mobile to improve its performance. So just stay tuned; the jQuery Mobile project has been moving incredibly fast. And thanks, John, for the opportunity to work with you!
Am I the only one who is really annoyed by links to Google+ that can only be seen after signing in? I thought it was considered bad style to do that for NYT links here. Maybe the same holds true for G+ links?
If you're interested in this sort of thing, you should watch the BBC series "Connections".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g
Here's an example that surprised me recently, if you activate your android phone by signing into a google account it ignores two-factor authentication and only asks for your password.

Are you sure about this? Perhaps you have the "Remember this computer for 30 days" cookie around?
Why would we want to take the perceptions of the criminal into account when sentencing?
News paper reports aren't peer reviewed scientific research.

How many journalists do you think even have a rigorous enough understanding of statistics to even begin to be able to answer these sort of questions ?

Do you think before this data came out that the Telegraph or Daily Mail were pro-CCTV ? - or do you think that they'd already decided their position long before and were just looking for whatever data would back them up ?
Have they actually stated that they are going to implement the exercises in iOS? The videos are great but the exercises are my favorite part. If they implement the exercises in iOS I might finally have to get myself an iPad.
54% is an astonishingly high number. Any idea what the false negative rate is? I wonder if the scanners are any better than just flipping a coin....
Is having opinions Gruber's job or reinforcing them?
Interesting discussion. Definitely something for the Lua programmers to keep in mind, as the default number implementation type is a C double. I did a quick test on my ancient MacBook, and the translation of the C++ code into Lua showed a slowdown for the denormalized case, although not as dramatic as the original problem (note: I changed the iteration count from 9,000,000 to 900,000 because the original count took way too long).
Applying the concept of leverage to the legal system is intriguing.

Leverage compels the innocent to plead guilty, and the thought exercise of "crashing the system" will not work because the stakes are too high. There's usually evidence such that a refusal to plead guilty will not affect the outcome very much. Applied to purely innocent suspects, there is no guarantee that refusing to plead will result in a not guilty verdict.

The same sort of problem is present in the investment markets. The fact that something might be over-leveraged as the fundamentals deteriorate does not guarantee profits if you try to short. To quote Keynes, (possibly the one thing he wrote that I whole-heartedly agree with) "Markets can remain irrational far longer than you or I can remain solvent."

It's quite possible that overworked juries and judges would wrongly convict more people by rushing to judgment if they had 10 times the caseload.

Crashing the over-leveraged legal system by flooding it with not guilty pleas may not cause the system to blink; instead, it might cause the courts to degenerate into a Kafkaesque nightmare.
Programming with RSI
OBAT ALAMI ALERGI
Dimusim musim penghujan seperti ini banyak sekal orang – orang yang mengeluh terhadap suatu penyakit yang mungkin akan dideritanya, salah satunya adalah sering ada yang mengeluh karena Penyakit Alergi yang menyerang tubuhnya. Obat Alami Alergi Jelly Gamat Luxor adalah solusi yang tepat, aman serta tidak menimbulkan efek samping apapun terhadap organ tubuh sehingga sangat cocok sekali untuk mengobati serta menyembuhkan Penyakit Alergi yang diderita.
This is the same company (albeit a different division?) that decided it was OK to install rootkits on users computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
How to Get Windows on the iPad (With Microsoft’s Blessing)
Cheap Tods Moccasin Gommino Shoes Blue On Sale
Discount Tods Moccasin Gommino Shoes Blue will offer you the top service!Cheap Tods Moccasin Gommino Shoes Blue On Sale is up to 60%-70% off on our website.Tods Shoes Fast shipping and NO tax.
The writer certainly doesn't quote Thiel's actual views:

"The elitist view in the U.S. is that even if people concede that college is not for education, the caveat will be that, well, surely it’s for all the smart people. What we want to suggest is that there are some very smart and very talented people who don’t need college."

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257531/back-future-pe...

"...are there 20 of those 60,000 who should perhaps not go to college--that does not seem like a terribly controversial statement. That the more talented you are, the more narrow the set of choices you should make? And that if you're a really smart person, the only thing in the world you can do is to go to Harvard?"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20114584-281/talking-tech-...
Obat kanker payudara alami
solusi aman unutk pengobatan dengan obat kanker payudara alami XAMthone plus... testimoni kesembuhan dari penyakit kanker payudara setelah menkonsumsi obat kanker payudara alami... dan untuk jelasnya silahkan kunjngi web kami atau hub no 081223204256
Exhibit B: We code in Ruby, but are open to engineers with strong backgrounds in any interpreted or functional languages (Python, Lisp, Scala, Erlang . . .). Even a Java background might be OK, if you can show us that you are still learning and growing as an engineer. No C# /.Net engineers though: there are limits!* Ad for Principal Engineer at Slideshare
Only when tutorial is done and you're using iTunes or Spotify. First time you bring up either of the apps, it will notify you through top menu bar that Flutter is controlling it now.

Once that happens, you can control in the background or even if it is minimized.
It is totally opposite, a year is much more precious to me now.

Count the number of good years you have left, with the health+energy to do what you want. I heard this week that the knees are failing on a relative of a friend, which is my age.

When you were young, the years stretched in front of you, endlessly.

These days I think things like "Japan is so fascinating that I would love to live there a while, but I just can't use a work year to learn the language and the writing system. I need that time for other things."
Here's the secret: they guessed and it turned out people liked it.
IANAL, but I think marijuana is specifically mentioned in the U.S. Code and it would take more than an executive order to change the law. While it might be removed from "Schedule I", that would just make Schedule I incomplete.

(21 USC 841)
I don't understand why this is downvoted. Is there anything controversial about the above?
Guava is one of the best Java libraries available today, and the fact that the bar for submitting patches is so high is a simple consequence of that.

You can't have it both ways.
Soooooo. Doesn't this open up a whole new realm of privacy concerns? Who cares if Path has my contacts list, I'm more concerned that you guys are watching me surf for porn!
Hear Eric Ries and Dr Werner Vogels speak on Lean Cloud online event
Article didn't say much. Waste of time.
He doesn't like universities because he thinks they're too costly and not good at preparing students for the real world. He now intends to teach a class that prepares students for the real world and will not increase the marginal cost of their tuition. There doesn't seem to be a contradiction.
Have online comment sections become 'a joke'?
Pinterest items started showing up consistently in my facebook feed sometime back in february (at least), so I'm guessing they got a spike in popularity when they implemented some FB feature, made wall-posting more frictionless (less permission-based), or some other technical development.
They are coming to the iPad app. However they won't be implemented in native code; they'll be jQuery Mobile-based.
Marketing Wigs Via Squidoo
Then there's laws against profiting from it, or taking part in any settlement, or something like that. It's not a free-for-all.
I don't understand why we should make prison suck less.

You do realize that if you make prison overly "humane", it eliminates prison as a form of deterrence.
GOOGLE GUAVA, GUICE AND OTHER FRESH FRUIT
There are a lot more possibilities than just those six. It could be almost anywhere, really. For example, how about somewhere in Florida? There have been lots of foreclosures there, and it has a large conservative population.

Also, the poster said "conservative" but didn't explicitly say "Republican", so you can't necessarily rule out counties with Democratic DAs. The poster also didn't give a timeframe. It could have been well before the housing bust for all we know. They were obviously being intentionally vague.
Legit concern. This is why we've built an app w/o a server component, so everything happens on your machine. We do not capture anything from your webcam. It all happens on your machine. On top of it, there's a turn off capability which will allow you to turn it off for time being.
Infusionsoft??
I don't see how the author is missing the point because of your claim. If the justice system is already crashing, then massively asking to go to trial would crash it even more.
Actually, we bootstrapped for 2 years. We had launch coverage in lifehacker, mashable, the atlantic and entrepreneur magazine. We had over 10,000 users the first month. We got to the point where we needed some funding to go all-in, but everyone we spoke to was really burned on the task management space. Based on this experience, I'm really interested in how someone can take on the task management space in a way that gets noticed.
But of course, doing pen-style operations instead of declarative markup is precisely what gets you the speed and fluidity of a native app.

When you open a video with many subtitles in the current iPad app, the UI freezes for a couple seconds. Why is that? Well, WebKit is laying out the DOM for a few thousand <li> tags (the subtitles). That takes a lot of time. I'm the iOS developer of the Khan app; I worked with John Resig who did the JS side. Ultimately we decided poor subtitle performance wasn't a big deal.

UIKit could easily add a table class that didn't have such complicated requirements. But then it would be slow, just like WebKit.
The simple solution for dealing with Google-scale bureaucracy is to fork and continue pushing forward. Then when that fork gets locked down, create a new one. Not every project is going to be bureaucracy impaired, but there is a correct procedure when it is. Multi-round "grueling" code reviews, and API review meetings? W.T.F.
I'm the iOS developer on the Khan app, and not having to maintain a codebase for multiple platforms is one of the main reasons why we went with jQuery Mobile.

Khan Academy has a lot of custom logic (badges being awarded, points being accrued, and so on) and duplicating that across platforms would be a nightmare.
After taking a gander at Pinterest's Terms of Use I deleted my account. The legal disaster that is Pinterest's terms is just epic. It's bad for its users and awful for the sites that had their content pinned. It puts everybody in a bad spot. I realize they drive a lot of traffic to sites but still they have some legal issues to clean up.
Rocketballz fairway
Agreed. $4.99 sounds ideal full a fully functional accurate version.
Can you elaborate? This is just a naked ad-hominem.
Numba - A NumPy aware (LLVM-based) optimizing compiler for Python