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>My point is that it doesn't matter if standardized testing has "meaning" or not, people still want it. They will continue to want it. People want to compare student and school and district performance, and standardized testing is how they're going to measure that.

That isn't an argument. That's a status quo fallacy. It doesn't matter if people want it or not, it's nonsense and should be abolished. Also, I highly doubt that people actually want this. The ones who want this broken system are businesses and corporations, because it saves them time and effort, and society as a whole has to shoulder the cost for their laziness. The education system must not bow to the demands of businesses and corporations; it has be the other way round.

>The tests are here to stay. You have to do well on them. This is not something there is a choice about.

Sorry, if everyone thought and acted like this, we'd never have any progress. This way of thinking is exactly the reason why this broken system is still around. Stop telling people that you can't change it and that they should shut up and accept it. That's cancerous and harmful. Speak out. Voice your discontent about this nonsense. Tell other people to do the same. People who just accept anything are everything that's wrong with the world, and the ones who propagate this attitude are even worse.
what is odd about admiring noam chomsky?
Thats an extreme case. The problem, is that after a certain point in your career it will take nothing short of that nude photo to get a teacher fired. No matter how ineffective or incompetent they are.
And am I going to get paid for it?
Even worse is when you describe your game by the technology it sues. This is something that tends to happen a lot in the open source world: “X is an SDL/Python platformer for Linux, Window$, Darwin and OS/2 licensed under the GPL (version 3!)”
Solution from the comments: tinyurl.com (or similar). This should be instinct for many twitter users by now
Me too. iirc Alex Gaynor as well
OTR is all about encryption, it is a plugin which encrypts the messages themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
As more and more of this surface in critical times of SOPA/PIPA/ACTA etc. we will see an "outer net" emerging soon based on a p2p solution and highly encrypted. I know there is TOR but it`s not cutting it yet.

Maybe one of the big players (Google?) will join this battle for free speech and an open internet. Most of us do not want to be censored in any way.

The Unstoppable Force vs The Immovable Object.
What are you on about? OTR is pretty robust encryption.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
My two favorite metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of teaching are whether the students can teach other students, and whether they can create something new to share.

They are very simple metrics which completely disregard test scores, a metric I reject.

Gatto has some good things to say about this. So does Neil Postman, in his book "Technopoly."
C makes me the most sad to use. It is only useful if I want to high performance apps - since I don't need to, I don't use it as much.
When I did had to work in for school projects, I just hated the part that I had to write so much code just to do simple things.
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sorry i deleted the post because i thought it was not useful.
i was referring to this article
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/21/machine-vm-cloud-...
I think the GP was thinking of Google Talk's feature to disable logging, which is also called 'off the record'.
Exactly. Apple doesn't care much about desktops, and they really don't care about traditional tower PC. The Mac Pro exists to milk users who are locked in to the high end Mac ecosystem. For everyone else an iMac, mini, or MacBook Pro is a much better value.
While I'd be willing to bet this is due to some malware flag (as that pretty much always ends up being the case with IM provider X is censoring Y), I am baffled as to why people would consider it scandalous that a multi-billion dollar company who makes pretty much all of its revenue from selling intellectual property licenses might drop links conveyed using its free service to a site that is unabashedly one of the world's foremost facilitators of intellectual property rights violations.
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Too bad. The stick is the only thing businesses understand.
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http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ the OTR protocol mentioned in the parent does provide encryption.
Skype is owned by Microsoft.
To be fair, there is a lot of malware masquerading as The Lion King.torrent. They may not care about the piracy aspect; they may just want their users to have less malware on their computers, especially since Windows machines seem to be a prime target for botnets.
The article loses a lot of credibility with the old "10% of your brain" myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%25_of_brain_myth
Seeing as how I've been developing for the last 15 years on Windows and haven't found the lack of a *nixy command line to be an issue I'd love to know what you're doing that I'm not :)
Why i don't care
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If I had sufficient karma, I would up vote you, but alas, made the mistake of bringing up a pro-Scala perspective in a why-did-Twitter-leave-Rails thread.

At any rate MonoDevelop is actually quite awesome in some respects, particularly code completion, which is unbelievably snappy (VisualStudio is rather sluggish in comparison, but assume that is due to running in a Windows VM)
And, once Obamacare comes in, people who actually want to be doctors (and there are enough of them) will get in.
This has been reported for at least 2 weeks. Surely, they found out about it by now?
From the site:

The World Wide Web...trivializes our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents.

WE FIGHT ON.

And from the song:

The dream that came through a million years
That lived on through all the tears
It came to Xanadu
(The dream you dream,well it will happen for you)

Godspeed, Ted Nelson.
I am 70 f*ing years old and have kicked butt on many platforms. And I am amazed at a current revolution being missed by many: Javascript Everywhere. Browser, desktop, networking (JSON for transport), server (node.js). One Language To Rule Them All.

I'm a student at UNM and took a graphics course which was opengl based. I asked if either GLSL or WebGL would be OK for homework. After all, webgl had finalized its spec 3 days earlier! Yup, why not .. the prof was even interested enough to write several webgl demos himself.

Processing, the wonderful 2D/3D system approachable by designers was converted to ProcessingJS by John Resig.

HTML5 is mind blowing.

So in short, I've left all the rest behind. This brilliant ecology is no longer just a language .. its far too rich for that. Imagine the surprise when someone asks: "What's a JS library" and I answer "A URL".

Biggest fears? I'm concerned that some of the attempts to "tame" JS may screw it up. Will "Require" make JS as hard to deploy as Python with a web of interdependencies that end up being intractable? (i.e. nearly O(n^n)? And will classes be as bad as I think they may be? And will Google go all evil on us with Dart?
I complain about python all the time, but I'm in the minority.
"BitC isn't going to work in its current form"
A spending control is such an obvious feature, and wouldn't exactly be difficult for them to implement. For some toy project it doesn't have to be thousands of dollars for this to be an annoyance to me, I have no desire to get a surprise bill of $200 at the end of a month even though I can easily afford it.

Doesn't it seem bizarre to give your credit card number over and agree to pay some undisclosed sum with no cap? If it's my money and I'm paying for some nonessential service, I expect to never be surprised at how much I'm charged, even if its $10 when I expected $2.

> I'd challenge your assumption that Amazon is intentionally trying capitalize on mistakes

I actually worked at Amazon (not on AWS) and I've worked at a few other BigCo's and you might be surprised by how many things exactly like this they do have the time and desire to worry about. You have it backwards; for a company as big as Amazon it's worth paying an entire salary just to worry about things like this, since a fraction of a percent of increased AWS income will more than pay for itself. It's extremely likely they are at least trying to capitalize on people who sign up for the free tier and accidentally go over their limit, or else they would have a "trial" mode that only confirms your credit card and won't ever charge it without your approval.
Great article on location based workings from betakit.com
> It was built as part of the museum's Giant Paper Airplane Project, designed to get kids psyched about aviation and engineering.
People who frequently have to clean out their parents' computers because they wanted to watch something, and ended up joining a botnet.
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I know - the next step is CNN.com (or whatever) "Scientists say you should keep your kids as dirty as possible" then you have, I don't know, parents smearing pig shit over babies or something. You get the idea.
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Spend a lot time in the command line on Windows. Powershell, GnuUtils, and the Windows server resource kit make it much less of a joke than it used to be.
The only problem I have with AppleScript is its verbosity, but it seems to do what it's meant to do well (script the Apple GUI)
1. So there are 100% guarantee that ZeroVM does not and will not have exploit? The OP point was kernel can have exploit so kernel is inferior than ZeroVM. My point kernel can exploits, so can ZeroVM. You just don't know yet.

2. DOS on ZeroVM indirectly DOS on the host. There are so many way to DOS a system. How do you handle an app running in a tight loop access all the memory randomly? Queuing the max payload in a tight loop? Spawn off new instances across the entire cluster in a tight loop? Claiming DOS can happen in kernel and not possible in ZVM is just naive.
Retroshare, I believe:

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
What would you use in place of PHP to build a web app? The only requirement is that you have to be able to hire developers just as easily as you can hire PHP developers. This might be where rubber meets the road. It's easy to dislike a tool based on all kinds of criteria. In the real world one has to be able to get work done and, if needed, find developers to expand a team. Proposing a subjectively or objectively better language that does not have a large enough developer base to call upon when needed isn't really a business solution as much as it is an interesting academic exercise.

To clarify, I have no feelings either way. I've had to learn so many languages over the years that I just see them as another tool in the toolbox. Life goes on.
>Isn't that why the tests exists - so that we aren't?

False. Tests don't serve education, they hinder it. That's my entire point.
I wouldn't be surprised if it happened more than usual with PHP, but in my experience programmers always curse the language/framework/api that they use heavily. You always learn the seams and hit issues with the design if you work with something for long enough.
The comment section always have people informing if it is malware or not, besides; in that line of logic they would have to censor all file hosting services (those don't even have comment section)
The content on Pinterest almost always leads you back to the source site. I doubt that comes under pirating.

Or am I missing something?
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Skype? No:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/microsoft_skype/
The would consider it scandalous because:

1) they consider their communications private

2) they think that what they type into an IM client will pop out on the other end unchanged

3) they believe that their relationship with the facilitator of their communications media should not be subject to relationships that provider has with other commercial parties.

Where does it end? Being unable to share the link of your favourite restaurant because it hurts the interests of your communications provider?

The amount of modification of any messages by two parties that trust each other enough to engage in one-on-one communications should be set to '0' by default, unless they request otherwise.
Because people consider what they send in their email to be theirs, not something a faceless corporation has graciously allowed them to utter. People are also beginning to correlate these mega-companies with government-type power, especially over information (hense the use of the word "censor"). Combine these, and you get the outrage.
Google needs the cooperation of the content industry to make its media service, Google Play, anything approaching successful. If the choice is between censoring content and having a successful product then kowtowing to the other entities will always win.
This is great, I am also getting a little annoyed with this "Why I didn't/can't/won't" business... how about some originality HN?
Are you afraid we've been Gladwelled? I often think about problems but I have a really hard time thinking up problems that need solving in my life. My problem is that I can't think of problems.
Shortened urls are trivial to check, and could still be easily blocked. Or else the url shortening services will just be flagged themselves as being "bad" links.
Bad teachers teaching bad tests is worse than bad teachers left to their own devices.

"Factoids" is a laughable metric for learning. (Especially when you're looking for factoids in a long-form response. If you want factoids, you need to ask for factoids. This test asked for complex thought, the grading should require complex thought.)
Yep exactly :D
What I was talking about is the multi-user as a capability to run untrusted code. You were talking about it as a policy and procedure. The multi-user capability allows one to use permission to create a lock down, low privilege area to let anyone to run in it. There are open Unix accounts out there that allow anyone to log in to play around with it for a long time. The multi-tenant problem claim is just not a valid one.
I wouldn't be so sure. When Microsoft tries to do something like the following, their intentions become very suspicious:

http://www.conceivablytech.com/8108/products/microsoft-may-a...
Thanks for commenting on this. Glad to hear you are tackling what is definitely a hard problem without turning it into a completely walled garden.

Do you discuss this problem space with the Android Market/Play team? It seems to have not only a lot of overlap in terms of problem domain, but likely a lot of overlap in terms of actual users.
that was a bit short, strange cut of on the movie, love the idea tho, makes me want to build a plane.
I thought he was suggesting hiring Iraq veterans to manage data centers.
Facebook is a digital representation of people's real-world friend connections and social graph. It only makes sense to include people's children in that graph, as they're usually a pretty important part of people's lives.
Um, instead of using Python and the pexpect module, just use /usr/bin/expect by itself. The Expect language is very simple [1] and could cut this script down to less than 10 lines, if all you need to do is automate a couple transfers.

The paramiko module is the "right" way of doing this in Python, and probably only appropriate if you need to integrate SFTP transactions into a larger, longer-running application.

Edit: I might add the use of a password in a command line argument is not advisable because it will get logged everywhere and show up in things like top, etc. Probably better to hardcode it or put it in a 0600 file.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect (In fact, there is a complete example for automating SFTP right in the article).
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Yep, I just looked and I can't see this either. It's not true.
I think fortran77 should have been listed separately.

Any language that requires six spaces at the start of the line in order to maintain legacy punchcard compliance makes me gag.

fortran90 or hpf on the other hand are pretty useful in their domain.
Thank you. This is a solution I've been hoping for.
MSN/Live Messenger is blocking all URLs ending in .torrent for years already. But blocking a FQDN like thepiratebay.org is even stranger... who makes/maintains these censoring block lists, and why is this not explained to users?
I'm disappointed to see the destruction of property rights (intellectual or otherwise) being lauded on HN.

The RIAA and MPAA make deals with artists to distribute their music, and you want to interfere and just steal it instead. It's dishonest, it's juvenile, and it's eroding at the basis of society (equality under the law, property rights, basic respect and goodwill towards others, etc.).
Firsty, comment sections are usually full of noise and it's next to impossible to distill any valuable information out of it. Secondly, don't expect an average person to bother checking for potential malware.
Because now they have taken a role of pro-active censorship/moderation of private communication. Will Hotmail allow such links for long? How about Bing? Can I paste these links in an Excel/Word file on Office365? What about non-free services like MS Lync, Exchange, and Outlook?

Forget the need for deep-packet inspection. If major web services stop users from linking to TPB and other sites, MPAA etc. will have accomplished their goals of restricting legitimate users' activities. Who else is going to follow their lead now?
Sublimetext 2 + sublime lint plugin makes for a very nice python programming experience
I'm not very familiar with the legal community, but is there a reason they would have to clarify this? I feel like this undermines their position significantly -- from "we will actively try to stop this" to "we don't like this and really hope people don't do it."

Without the legal threat, why would an offending company give this a second thought?
I'm going to sign in as a partisan here. I firmly believe that Python is the worst language that people actually use.

DuckTyping is the most deeply misguided aspect of python. With the discover of Hindley-Milner type inference 40 and 30 years ago, this sort of sloth is simply inexcusable.

Pythonistas will say "Oh, I don't care if it's a duck or a swan, as long as it quacks." Guess what? You can treat function calls as a statement that an object is an instance of some typeclass and that typecheck that. With a sufficiently intelligent compiler/interpreter author this is transparent to the programmer.
A coworker of mine wrote a series of posts on how to build a consistent hashing ring and expand it with the concepts or weighted nodes and availability zones.

http://www.tlohg.com/p/building-consistent-hashing-ring.html

Those ideas for the core of the consistent hashing found in Openstack swift (a large-scale distributed object storage system).
Facebook has apparently allowed married couples to announce expected children for over a year now.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/01/facebook-expecting-option/
Crediting the source doesn't mean it automatically falls under fair use.

Pinterest's ToS state that you cannot pin material if you don't have copyright permission. Of course, this is probably a large percentage of what gets pinned.
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I'm not saying that 100+F degree air is not livable, just relaying non-medical personal experience. I'm not doubting there were other factors, other then the heat, but it was more then just unpleasant. I've been to arizona in the summer (though I'll admit, I didn't go for long runs), but being inside that datacenter was considerably worse. Could have been the shock/drastic temperature difference though, I suppose.
Just because you use the word property doesn't make intellectual monopolies property.
Well I for one hope they roll out this "feature" in Skype too, ASAP. I've been preaching to (some of) my buddies for years now why it is not a good idea to rely on a closed, centralized platform for communication, but they keep on telling me that Skype is just "so convenient" and they "don't need anything else".

Making Skype less convenient (by means of censorship) would mean that open and decentralized alternatives like XMPP get more attention, and that's a good thing IMHO.
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I'm sorry, I might have miss-phrased my comment or poorly expressed myself. I didn't mean to say that what I described is actually history. I'm well aware that history is about a lot more things than just dates. What I described is the crippled shadow of history that they cram into kids in school.

Anyways, it was just an example, and maybe a bad one. My point was that the current education system is most efficient at destroying any semblance of real interest in the subjects which are taught. Actually, I should have chosen math as my example, which is by far the worst offender. That thing called "math" in school (and which has nothing to do with real math) made me loathe the subject, and now, as a CS student, I still have a hard time to get rid of this attitude towards it.
I can't believe you don't have MUMPS on this list!
So I had previously wondered about this "minority of the population" claim and I looked up the stats. Apparently 35% of the population has better than 20/20 vision without any corrective measures. With glasses/contacts/etc that numbers jumps to 75%. I think it's safe to say "heroes" is a bit of an exaggeration.

I don't know why the expert you're quoting is specifying an 18 inch viewing distance when the article you appear to have quoted from was speaking of the iPhone 4; Apple claims a 12 inch viewing distance here as far as I'm aware. Then he makes some vague statement about it being possible to do better and this is simply the closest we've gotten to a retina resolution so far. Sometimes academics just want a bit of press time because it makes them look good.

Anyway, it's great we're getting increasing DPI on our devices, I'm just a bit afraid we'll get stuck and not progress to true retina displays because the consumers will be convinced they already have it anyway.
It's kind of sad that most IM clients do not provide OTR out of the box, I would use it all the time but unfortunately most people do not use pidgin or Adium.
I think that trend will continue in the future. Either other companies or the Government itself trying to bypass laws by just partnering with other private companies to censor stuff for them. (Remember what happened with Amazon/Paypal/Visa and Wikileaks?)
Airbags and "degloving" -- it's time to do away with steering wheels as UI
Unlimited copyright terms are eroding the basis of society (the Constitution). 5 to 10 years would be reasonable.
This pretty surprising. Given the industry standard with mining similar communications I'm surprised that Apple gave up a gigantic pool of user information like that.
Your interpretation of the word "backfire" is unconventional.

Also, you're trivializing the challenges likely faced by the kind of venture. It's not always possible to find all bugs, unless you want to code in Ada and formally verify things with OCaml and are trying to fly a plane.

The problem could have been caused by a strange hardware defect, a rare bug in a library, etc.