skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one has to look at the history of teacher's unions in the US. For example, unions were formed because women could be fired as soon as they got pregnant. The role of unions is to protect their members from arbitrary firing. In the current era, you have issues such as teaching evolution, etc. Unions can protect their members against arbitrary firing--what schools need to do is document truly atrocious behavior and then fire teachers that engage in it. However, one should consider that top scorers in PISA, such as Finland, have teacher unions--they also have well educated, well paid teachers, with a lot of autonomy.
They are using Moai (getmoai.com) which is a cross-platform LUA based open-source game engine. It outputs to Android, iOS and Chrome. From what i gather you can develop+test games on Mac or PC but it doesnt compile to them much more so for Linux. The Chrome part may play in linux but not so sure about that.
It wouldn't surprise me if that was the developers themselves and that was the money they used to buy their rights back.
The same convenience can exist on a different platform, that doesn't have the same abuse of its members/participants.
1) http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/10/microsoft-a-tidal-wave-of...

2) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57410476-37/apples-securit...

3) http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/new-java-attack-rolled-in...

Oracle has been irresponsible if not reckless on the security front; between them and Adobe, you have the source for most of the malware attacks out there.

If a company sold locks to everyone in America, and failed to notice that their locks accepted any key, I'd like to think they'd be held accountable in some way for the ensuing wave of burglaries.

I know, security isn't trivial. But if you're deploying software this widely, you have a duty to the public to hire yourself a security aware dev team and make half an effort.
A Java programmer uses a fun chalk drawing game to create a tutorial
This guy explains how REST web services in java works using a pretty interesting tool.
It is very interesting actually.
Hmm, where are the auctions for all these weapons?

I mean since they are seizing thousands of nailclippers each month across the country and then auctioning them, they must be seizing the handguns too.
If for no other reason then do it for the hilarity alone;

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154511

Old money in germany is getting seriously nervous about the pirates, increasingly resorting to FUD like the above.

It seems we're close to a tipping point where the established parties will either have to break their ties with the content mafia and similar establishments, or face severe election losses.

I hope other countries can follow our model.
if they stopped an actual weapon they would certainly do a full press release about it

It's so common they don't even bother doing a press release anymore. Sometimes they write about interesting finds on their blog:

"Over 1,200 firearms were discovered at TSA checkpoints across the nation in 2011. Many guns are found loaded with rounds in the chamber. Most passengers simply state they forgot they had a gun in their bag."

"Small chunks of C4 explosives were found in passenger’s checked luggage in Yuma (YUM). Believe it or not, he was brining it home to show his family."

http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/01/tsa-top-10-good-catches-of-2011....

Not convinced this really makes travel safer, but they do find a lot of stuff...
You're not arguing against the point you think you are. You're talking about the setting of micro-incentives to meet a goal by someone interested in a domain. I'm talking about generalized goal-setting by bureaucrats. I'm talking about why the bureaucracy isn't necessary and why we need that individual touch to decide what our goals are or if any are needed. I even admitted that certain subdomains are conducive to goal-setting. I generally include these in 'non-formal' goals because you don't take them from the Central Bureaucracy, you make them up as you go.

For instance, say you proposed creating music according to micro-goals. Say we live in the late 1800s. You look at the classical music and you come up with goals regarding tempo, intonation, meter, and some higher goals regarding fit and feel of the music. Then your Central Bureaucracy says, ok, this is the goal for creating music. Congratulations, you just killed jazz, and rock and roll to follow. All musical producers will have their acceptance criteria for recording a track, but it will be different from producer to producer, from musical style to musical style, more formal or less formal, and in general musical innovation comes from moving the goalposts or tearing them down. And yet these are the "creative professionals" you talk about.
No, not a word of what you said holds.

You're flat out wrong, and it's clear that you don't understand what a strawman is. It is more than just 'misrepresenting' your opponent's argument, which in any case I didn't do.

A straw man is where you present a weakened form of your opponent's argument in order to more easily defeat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

As you have now acknowledged, I did not present any form of my opponent's argument at any time, let alone argue against it. What I did was to ask a question to put his statements into context.
They want the next Angry Birds/Modern Warfare, full of DLC upgrades

I chuckled at this as one of the kickstarter levels on this project gets you enhanced abilities.

Really, though, does everything have to be so binary? Isn't HN above this "stereotype the worst of the worst and cast it as the only alternative" false dichotomy?

There are plenty of incredible games that publishers have supported. And in this case these guys are claiming that they're going to create a PC and a Mac version for $400,000? Really? Most "real" game cost many millions of dollars to bring to fruition.
I heard there was a difference between factory unlocked phones and phones unlocked some time later (let's call them store unlocked phones). Such that the factory unlocked would retain the unlock if you wiped/reset the phone (for instance, to sell it to someone else), but the store unlocked phone would need to be re-unlocked (because its factory settings are of being locked).

If someone could back me up or refute this, go ahead. For me, I just buy the factory-unlocked phone straight from apple.com and don't have to deal with it. (I go out of the country enough that it's worth it to me).
Unless you need to leverage SharePoint functionality then I would suggest anything else would be faster and less painful.

In the .Net environment an MVC3 application is the closest you will get to RoR, and if you are looking for a lot of pre-built functionality the Orchard Project will give you a good foundation.

www.orchardproject.net
Interesting, I had a quick look at the moai docs and the library mostly looks like a wrapper for OpenGL and it already targets android which has a Linux kernel.
Which is likely to be their name, following the same format as other corporate accounts.
I have never used zmq, but while working in finance all the servers I worked on used a comercial messaging package to communicate with each other. It simplifies communication between processes running on the same or different machines by abstracting away network topologies. See it as a simplified UDP.
If you would like to be treated like everyone else, why make an effort to start a group that separates you?

I would not have any problem working with (or for) someone who is transgender.
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http://video.qlbak.com/10920.html
Where the TSA sells seized goods by state: http://www.eyeflare.com/article/where-buy-goods-confiscated-...

This articles says they don't sell the handguns (perhaps that varies by state?): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46934445/ns/local_news-lancaster...
Shadowrun is such a great universe, that mixture of classic fantasy elements like elfs, orcs, magic with cyberpunk ala neuromancer really hit a nerve.

wonder why there never was a movie or tv series in such a setting, seems way cooler than vampires.

kickstarter seems to become the ycombinator for gaming, which is awesome in its own. will be interesting if they'll ever compete.
$400,000 seems like a reasonable amount to make a game.
Maybe not a super polished AAA game, but it seems they are being ruthless about cutting features to keep it in budget.

for $400,000 you could easily retain 4 people to work on it full time for a year.
The page renders horrendously in IE10. Might be the font but I suspect there's problems in the CSS.
You explained the subtract 50, but not really the and double.

Revised:

"You ask 100 people the question about illegal activity, and explain they're going to toss the coin and follow the protocol. That gives you 100 "yes" and "no" answers, of which ~50 "yes" answers are yes due to the coin being heads, regardless of whether true yes or false positive, so subtract those yesses out. The remaining yes answers are from the tails results and are not false positives. Because heads/tails is 50% chance, half of your true yesses were on tails, and half on heads. To get back the "hidden" half of yesses you tossed out with the 50 heads results, you double the yesses that came up with tails. That's the data you use to get a final answer."
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The explanation was missing a crucial point:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3810854
College dropout advocate Peter Thiel to teach course at Stanford

http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/pr...
In that case, "Traditional Media" might be a better term.
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If you have a fixed amount of money to spend, you can either buy fewer items, or pay less per item. It's due primarily to union contracts that schools are buying fewer items.

If they reduced the compensation of teachers (i.e., reduce price in response to a demand decrease), there would be no need to reduce the number of teachers.
However they didn't follow the policy for iPhones for a number of years.
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I'm surprised. I wrote this essay a year ago and it's still getting attention. I've received occasional upvotes for that post since I submitted it but I have no idea why it made it to the front page again.
Thanks for posting this. I have been having similar feelings recently, and it is always good to know you aren't the only one.
The poll numbers are pretty meaningless without some further info or breakdowns. How many of these are Tesco/Walmart employees? Or at companies with card swipe entrances? I'm not saying someone couldn't use a password in that scenario beneficially, but it changes the dynamic compared to a VPN password for someone with the authority to approve large transactions.

I'd mostly guess that no-one is offering to sell a (to them) meaningful business password on the cheap, but perhaps they underestimate what could be done with it. Or perhaps they see their IT or building infrastructure as sufficient to catch unauthorized people standing at the tills, or at desks (and they may be underestimating again how straightforward it can be)
That doesn't make any sense. They're going to claim their own $10,000 slots and pay Kickstarter their cut on their own money?
You fix the metrics.

You can't argue that metrics should be the be-all and end-all of everything, and a teachers' intuition should count for nothing, when there are all these problems with the metrics we have. Here's a good story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/creative--moti...

This teacher was by all accounts a phenomenal teacher, but she was fired because her batch of kids came from a school that had suspiciously high scores the year before, and is currently under investigation for cheating. She didn't maintain that high level of scores so she was fired.

Our police system is dominated by metrics and we got The Wire as a result. In education, you hear about cheating scandals in DC, good teachers being fired due to unfortunate statistical conflagrances.. if you're gonna advocate turning your brain off and delegating all decision-making to your metrics, they have to be good.
It really depends on what you're used to. If you like Visual Studio and are productive with it, you'll find Linux cumbersome. Visual Studio is very powerful and dependable.

What I don't understand is the comment about the "Microsoft" tax as he seems to work on Windows.
Aha.. I see, great point, thank you. You are right, that definitely needs changing. You should still be able to reset your password, but obviously that's a pretty poor process. I'll look in to changing that right away, thanks again.
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There is no way Windows could be useful? Oh c'mon, don't be fanboy. xD
"Why is he so threatening?"

I used to think Stallman was an abrasive fanatic but now I think otherwise. The reason he makes me uncomfortable is because he highlights the compromises I have made. I think this is part of the reason why some people react so negatively and emotionally to him. He vocally refuses to use non-free software and this, in my humble opinion at least, makes him a constant reminder of how many of us sacrifice security and freedom (as he defines it) for usability and ease of use.
Many thanks for sharing your story.

I think this may happen or is even happening to most of us now, many of us are too just scared to admin it in front of themselves. Just like you was.

We live in crazy times. And it's sometimes hard to keep this awarenees that we are just humans living their lives and at end of the day your health, happiness and self-comfort is vastly more important than money, business deals and pleasing others. I don't say the latter are not important but they are less important than you because our live is a one-time experience and it is going to end one day. And still - we know how to produce money but we are helpless trying to extend our lifespan.

I really liked the response of your co-workers, it's good to find them being more friends than just co-workers, isn't it?
Quite simply, network effects.

It's possible to organize things through email etc but if your group of friends check their facebook (to play farmville or whatever) more often than they check their email then that becomes to most reliable way to communicate with them.

Especially for creating say a "group" for some hobby activity or whatever. You could setup a forum etc which is what people used to do but now it's easier to just add a group to facebook on the assumption that 90% of your members will have an account and the rest can be peer pressured into signing up.
AFAIK the lock( or unlock ) status is stored in a special area of the baseband and should survive updates/restores.

The best people to answer this is probably someone from the Dev-Team.
I felt something similar last year, and negotiated with my boss a few months off work. I went travelling round Australia, NZ and SE Asia and completely removed work from my mind. I just returned this week and I'm feeling enriched, refreshed and eager to get stuck into work again.

Time off like this really helps with burnout, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Of course he does. I think it would be quite a task to bring a Wikipedia Article up to "featured article" status and not understand such a basic fact about Wikipedia. I suppose my inclusion of that bit was more about the oddity of seeing things you wrote, copied verbatim into hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and online articles. I think that when we discussed this, his point was also that Wikipedia was not credited.

The web was built for referential text. It's one of the basic concepts of "Hypertext" - that it's 2012 and so-called journalists fail to use this simple process to give credit where it's due is kind of sad.
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I agree. I can't see anything Lisp does that I can't do in Blub.
How long have you been away?
Your right I guess, I didn't think about that.
Having said that if I was going to donate that kind of money to something I'd probably just cut them a cheque rather than putting it through a website.
A good way to think about it is "email for applications". Email is a convenient asynchronous way for two people to talk, and (with a bit of formalization) it can be a good way for two or more processes to talk. "Email" here usually means a formal XML message with a standard header and app-defined body.

For example, a process can do part of a job, and pass it along to a mailbox. Another process can (perhaps later, or on a different machine) pick up work from this mailbox and finish it. This can hide the network topology (although in practice, that's not really so true) and also makes it easier to manage because you can take down or restart systems without losing work.

Messaging systems like Apache / Red Hat's qpid are getting very advanced, for example offering guaranteed latency, guarantees against loss of messages, and multiple ways to set up communications. You can set it up so one process "publishes" data while other processes "subscribe" to that feed of data. You can have 1-N, N-1 and N-M mailboxes. You can have edge-triggered or level-triggered data in some message systems.

In the majority of messaging systems, you have a process known as the "broker" which runs on all/most machines, and basically acts as the mailbox, persistent storage and router. It's kind of like sendmail on steroids.

Zero MQ is unusual because there is no broker, and it acts more like an advanced sockets library. There are reasons why this is both good and bad compared to ordinary broker systems.
Perhaps it might be worth examining one metric: IMPACT--championed by Rhee in Washington DC public schools and also used by the LA times to judge teachers publicly. Here's the basic idea--one should try to determine the "value added" of a teacher. It's not fair to look at a teacher teaching the gifted class and the teacher teaching a remedial class and look at their absolute results. However, one could look at the test scores of students before they come into a class and after they leave a class and compare. If the teacher adds value, then one would expect the scores to go up. Because an individual student may have a bad day, you average the incremental gains across multiple students.

What are the problems with this? It seems rather fair right? A few problems:
1) The teacher in the previous year cheated on the test results (or the test changed), so that the students scored unnaturally high in the previous years
2) Gains may be unevenly distributed--is it as easy to move a student from 90% to 95% as it is to move a student from 20% to 40%?
3) Stability of the measure--if you look at this metric over say 5-10 years, is it consistent for a given teacher, or does it fluctuate?
4) If you run the metric backwards in time, is it still predictive? That is, if we look at this year's results, can we predict what the student would have achieved in the past?
5) What about background issues? This in some sense assumes that the background of student achievement is flat in the absence of a teacher--but middle class parents will spend a lot of time working with their kids, that poorer parents (on average) do not. This means that even if the teacher does nothing, the middle class students will likely still perform better. If these students are not equally distributed (which they won't be), this will also effect the metric.

I could go on, but my point is that this is one of the more objective methods of valuing student performance and it fails--I think there are several problems with schools--I think that professionalizing the teaching profession would go a long way in predominately middle class districts--for example, requiring teachers to obtain a masters, offering higher salaries to recruit more talented teachers into the field, requiring subject matter competency (my family has a friend who's background is teaching middle school math who got drafted into teaching geography! With relatively little time given in advance to prep.), etc. I think setting curriculum standards and tests that reflect them and allowing the teachers autonomy in how they teach the required subjects would be useful. Generally, promoting more understanding and less drill and kill--but just saying, "throw the whole thing out" is not terribly useful. There's a fun read called "Surpassing Shanghai" which offers a brief review of education systems in other countries that is worth reading...
When you don't have metrics, you also can't decide if a teacher is good or bad. This allows bad teachers to continue to teach.
Something this article doesn't mention, is identifying the success of an individual in the culture of the organisation they've applying for. Roles and job descriptions change, in startups and MNCs alike. Sure, do technical evaluations, but explicitly, do not assume:

1. An analysis of factors which make someone in your organisation successful, and be critical, an example in being critical may be 'manage explicitly conflicting goals'
2. Map candidates both to the 'now' of what is needed, and the factors of success needed in your organisation short medium and long term.

It is quite easy to find great people through technical questions. It is bad for all when great people don't fit. This is not behavioural interviewing stuff or psychological surveys, simply match proven success and/or evidenced motivation.
Fixing the metrics rarely works. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html

OK, if you want a metric that might work ... testing a year after the teacher is gone.

If you test while the teacher is in charge, they will encourage the student to game the test. This has short-term gain and long-term pain. If you reward teachers for how well the student retains their knowledge (long term), it should work better.

That won't stop teachers pressuring their co-workers to teach to the test, or principals from telling teachers to teach the test, but it helps reduce it. You could rate schools on how well students do 1 year after leaving, to keep the principals in line. I'd guess teachers will just fob off their co-workers.
> "Why the nerve, living a life different than I would choose!? IT MUST BE STOPPED."

That's what RMS is basically saying.
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A 330v outlet just requires a transformer and says nothing about the power drawn.

As for making tesla coils in the garage, I suspect you might be surprised if you bothered to search this at all.

Also, there are such things as generators and if you want to, you can build them from scrap.
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At one point, it was a pretty good idea to travel with a checked in gun to keep photographic equipment safe. You buy a starter pistol which is considered a gun by their rules. Put it in your luggage with your expensive equipment. Since losing a bag with a gun is a no-no and those bags were locked - no "lost" equipment.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/expensive_came...