skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you're incentivized to punish your students for disobedience, and not respecting The Test. That's not a bug, but a feature. (At least from the perspective of those who formulate policy.)

Would you want your employees to seriously disrespect tasks they morally disagree with, like sabotaging your advertising system because they think advertising is harmful to society, or changing your website to admit how you're raiding people's pensions? Telling off your big corporate/military customers? (If you did, you probably wouldn't last long in your position.)

I don't know many bosses who want their subordinates to rush through their tasks, in order to read some book of personal interest, or to build a competing company with better service.
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Just a quick recommendation for "A Mind Of Its Own" by Cordelia Fine (especially Chapter 3 = The Immoral Brain) for anyone who would like to read more about this, or for anyone already familiar who would like a short, readable book on the subject to recommend to other people.
Surely people aren't paying a lawyers hourly rate for them to cut and paste around spreadsheets?
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Norway will soon introduce the DTD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive).
Ask HN: What do you find tricky about Public Key Cryptography?
The other day I was explaining the Diffie-Hellman_Merkle-Williamson key exchange and public key crypto system to someone, and while they understood every individual step, they didn't really seem to "Get It". They really started to struggle as I got into the connections between this an P versus NP, and they finally lost it when I was talking about NP complete and various algorithms.

Of course, it may have just been me, so I was wondering about the audience here on HN - is there anything in this area that you just don't "get", and would you be interested in having me try my explanations on you?
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> I think I should point out that I don't commit to the claim that TIR posts actually are valuable - I just think it's plausible that they are.

Not in this community, which is the context we are discussing this in, after all. Given the other tools available, and given what is valued here, TIR are no better then the comments they reply to. Something you seem to be ignoring is value. Value in terms of respect, and of time, both yours, and others.

A TIR post is not respectful. It's used as an insult. It's an open insults. Given that their are other, more effective means to communicate disapproval, and that be replying, you are removing those means from your arsenal, it's clear that your intent is merely to insult.

A TIR is not respectful to others. By highlighting the post with further discussion, it wastes others time. Not only are you not operating to remove the parent comment from the discussion, but you are asking people to read your comment in reply, and to judge the merits of what is now a discussion. See, if the TIR post is left as is, then I must read the parent in order to understand context. If the TIR post is left as is, it's also a symbol that the comment is a good comment, and worthy of reading.

Do not confuse the intended goal of a TIR. I agree, the intent is good. But even if it accomplishes it's goal of having the parent retract his statement, it does so in a manner that is immature and rude. Being able to bully people into a position is not valuable.

I guess we'll continue to disagree on it's value. That being said, HN has it's policies, and I tend to agree with them, and will continue to down vote both TIR posts and the posts they reply to.
Iceland is a special case here, as they built that into their constitution as part of their fight against the EU-attempt to control the country during the financial crisis. Or so I read. But as wikipedia is stating that icelands ISPs censor the internet currently[1], I'm not sure about the current situation there. But still, maybe a country to look further into.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Iceland
I think Finland is good, but Denmark isn't.

Denmark was one of the first countries to require ISPs to block sites like The Piratebay. The government have expanded the blocking to sites selling illegal drug( or at least illegal in Denmark), I'm unsure about gambling sites, but it's been a topic.

The Danish government also require ISP to log customers internet activities and store the logs for one year.

I can't comment on the other Scandinavian countries, but no, Denmark doesn't have a good record in this matter, in fact I would claim that it's only slightly better than China.
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> "Smart people don't assume others are stupid".

FWIW: This is Chersterton's fence fallacy. This states that you should not criticise a viewpoint without understanding the reasoning behind it. The reasoning may be unsound, but without knowing it at all, criticism is useless.
Education is at least as much about helping people learn about their role in the world, as it is about learning facts, concepts, and tools.

Could you explain what this means more precisely? Specifically, how can I differentiate a student who knows "about their role in the world" from one who doesn't?
If anybody would leave feedback so I can improve the content I would be very thankful.
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Probably so they can extend the service life of their own soldiers.
The military needs to improve the quality of life of its own disabled veterans
We can. Rule 110 has been implemented in CSS3[1]. (It can be done without any HTML, but that’s just silly.)

[1] http://eli.fox-epste.in/rule110-full.html
P.S. This is not untrue for software in many cases. Some products get a big boost out of screenshots. Many don't, and instead get big boosts by e.g. showing pictures of users or the team which wrote the software. (Whether a screenshot helps is surprisingly uncorrelated with my subjective impression of which products are "pretty", even given that I have less artistic sense than a mole rat.)
The link to the mobi versions still works, but not the epub link. After some quick Googling I can't find a working source for them.

Still, it sounds like a great resource. If anyone knows of a working link for the epub, please let us know.
I live in Germany and I have gotten into a habit to completely ignore Youtube links. Looking forward to an interesting video and then only see the blocking page is highly frustrating.
Net Neutrality has little to do with "censoring" the Internet
Poland is quite good, but we have to be wary of our government as it tends to pass laws that we just hate (and they wonder then why tens of thousand ppl are on the streets protesting against those laws [they worry more about being reelected next time than about IP rights so they take them down]). But we are also most invigilated country in entire European Union. Though who knows what will be happening soon, as it seems that we will once more end up on US Watchlist (this time because of big pharma).

From what I know Iceland is very good place in this regard.
I get that detachment from the DOM but jQuery has useful tools beyond element selection and manipulation.

For that matter, why doesn't App Script expose an interface that expresses page components as part of a DOM? The Sheet app could provide an interface to a cell with classes for its particular column, row and sheet, allowing access with jQuery / CSS selectors. Instead users have to learn a new interface with stuff like Spreadsheeet.getRange().

And maybe they've revised the docs, but I spent a fair amount of time in them and didn't see any discussion of what JavaScript tools would not be available. I had to figure that out by trial and failure.
Absolutely awesome blog. Pretty sweet ( excuse the pun) execution of an idea into a profitable business.

Do you think you automate the packing and shipping?
Great quote by Steve Jobs:

"A reporter asked Steve Jobs, "How many man-years did it take to write Quick Draw?" Steve asked Bill, who said, "Well, I worked on it on and off for four years." Steve then told the reporter, "Twenty-four man-years". Obviously Steve figured, with ample justification, that one Atkinson year was the equivalent of six ordinary programmer years."
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All quiet on the South African front.
Honestly I don't see the draw to this type of technology. It's a cool piece of hardware but it basically just allows for remote control and monitoring of electronics. Past the "that's cool" stage I don't see many people finding long-term use for such technology. The hacker in me hopes they prove me wrong, but I see this type of product continue to live serving a niche market.
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The indian govt is trying to get the UN to regulate the internet with help from countries like Russia and some Arab countries . Its trying to form a 50 member UN Committee called the Committee for Internet Policy . They re saying its to end the US dominance over Internet Policy .. Im suspicious..
ubuntu1104+Chrome: perfect
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I like how you've used my IP address to tell me that delivery will be free 'even to the United Kingdom'.

May I suggest using the same code to also convert the price from $23.95 to the users local currency as this will help increase conversions. £15.10 feels a lot less than $23.95!

Other than that, great idea and I wish you all the best!
Huh? Value Added Modelling explicitly takes home environment into account, at least as much as is possible. (I.e., it usually controls for income, race, whether parents are married, and similar statistically available facts.)

The teacher discussed in this article was not a teacher of students with poor home environment. Home environment and past test results suggested her students should perform at the 97'th percentile. They actually scored considerably lower, at the 89'th.
It's already outsourced, which I'm very happy about since it was very time-consuming when we did it ourselves. I've gradually grown a nice relationship with the nearby supermarket, it's almost a drop-ship operation at this point, although I do still meet with them face-to-face every week as our process isn't totally perfected yet.

If you mean automated as in having robots do it, that would be fun, but moving oddly shaped objects from sealed bulk packages into narrow envelopes isn't a very easy task to automate that far.
Can you I just question your line: "As a final point, the speech makes no attempt to address the bear in the room, i.e., the question of whether it is right to take by force from one person and give to another, regardless of how beneficial the effects."

I think you're talking about tax. I would have thought that most people would agree that tax is necessary for a functioning civilisation. Those people who don't want to be taxed can use a different currency/road network/law system.
More details here
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/internet/article2604526.ece
there's also the issue that manual processes tend to have a consistent rate of small mistakes whereas automated processes are more likely to have very occasional gigantic fuckups without warning.
So inflation is the primary concern?
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I'd like to see a chart of that 200 years of debt accumulation.
Ask HN: Is patenting lines of code the same as restricting free thought?
Since i'm a programmer, I can dream up lines of code here on the other side of the world, that someone simultaneously thought up in the USA.

This would mean that I would have to have knowledge of all the other code and patents out there in the world to prevent myself from writing it exactly like someone else. How in the earth would this have to work?
No, it's a travesty that Gary Rubinstein used an inappropriate plotting tool and then declared the metric flawed.

See my previous post on the topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3749530
No, hitting them where it hurts is by cancelling your subscription. Speak the language they understand, vote with your money.
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Now Anonymous - operation India have protested by taking down the websites of supreme court of India and AICC (ruling party of India) websites.
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answered my own question.

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
I wonder why only Europe is discussed here at the moment. What about Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan? South American countries?

(Myself, can only comment on Russia or Ukraine. Not aware of any Internet filtering in these two.)
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That's a great idea, I get this gut feeling/fear though that it might introduce some extra complexity. I might be able to do that at least for EUR/USD/GBP but I suppose have avoided it until now to keep things simple. Will have to think that through more.
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Politicians who get their information from lobbyists lobbying on behalf of the test makers.

Yes, the politicians are clearly in the pockets of test makers. After all, the test makers are the #5 and #10 biggest politicals donors ever.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A

Oops, my mistake - it's actually teachers (generally opposed to accountability) who are the big political donors, not the test makers.
This is funny, because MUMPS actually ticks the modern trendy boxes of "NoSQL" and "DSL".
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"C++ (gets translated into C)" - oh really?
Australia wanted to block pictures of women with small boobs so they are out of the running
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Just remember that the attitudes of any country can change in the drop of a hat.
Australia has some Internet Censorship issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...), but I don't live there so not sure how bad it is on the ground.
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That seems like explaining gene heritability with a quick detour through organic chemistry to explain on a molecular level how DNA gets unzipped. Did the person need to know those details? Were they obviously capable of understanding them? If there are not two "yes" answers here, one might question the likely success of attempting to cram half a college class into their heads in a session.
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When did google say that they would factor microdata into SERP ranking?
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The post is a parody. It points out the flawed reasoning used in the parent.

It appears you are claiming that when you taught the output was the same each day. Each day you taught your students learned calculus and understood it. Each day you may have taught an aspect of calculus but the topics varied from day to day. Furthermore, assuming undergrad level, it can't be believed that each of your students understood each topic you taught.

The dichotomy you've laid out between programming and teaching is not apt.
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As a counter point it doesn't matter too much if you live in a country that doesn't have SOPA, if America ever brought it in it'd still ripple across the net for every country.
Presumably the booking would be done though an API.
This is exactly the sort of thing a programmer might add as a joke when demonstrating on a local copy and forget to take out for the live deploy.
A quick look at the documentation seems to indicate you could build that in.
Maybe it isn't possible to adequately measure this. I'm reminded of the, "I know it when I see it" reasoning famously employed by the Supreme Court. (IN reference to pornography.). I doubt that it is possible to develop adequate metrics to measure teacher ability.
This one even had lights.
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Any tips btw. for content I should have on the site for SEO purposes? Even though I rank for the generic term "japanese candy" and also some specific candies, I haven't been able to convert people except those searching for the site specifically (http://i.imgur.com/OnVIF.png)
Yes, good point.

Once the photo sharing app market dries up, people will have to look into other areas. I know that in the next ten years we will have startups (even 1-2 person teams) building much more than simple web apps. Innovation will slowly seep to other areas.

(And thus, Jeff, that is why people need to learn how to program)
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Well if you bought a 0.001% stake for $1000, then the valuation would be $100M, not $1B. You probably mean either $10000 or 0.0001%. Regardless, that's the idea, yes. If a company had a million shares, and you bought one for $1000, you're essentially saying that the present value each of those shares is worth $1000, so the company is worth $1B.
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Do you think a master's degree was worth it, in terms of extra salary as well as in terms of general life experience?
Interesting. Packaging and shopping seems to be your biggest pain point and cost. Reduce these and you have an easier business to manage and can focus on getting more customers.

Good luck. I imagine there are other goodies from Japan you can offer.

No robots, but rather outsourcing.

Edit: just read your recent post on face book adverts. Really clever. Would you share more details on conversion numbers.
The output was the same each semester, not each day. It was the same for me and the guy down the hall. It was the same for every person teaching calc 1 between the last curriculum change and today.

Not every student understood every topic. So what?
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I'm just a bit skeptical since I have never encountered a program so far which I couldn't decide whether it would halt or not. You would completely convince me if you could describe such a program. Also, this is not an extraordinary claim. According to Wikipedia, it is an open question:

> It is an open question whether there can be actual deterministic physical processes that, in the long run, elude simulation by a Turing machine, and in particular whether any such hypothetical process could usefully be harnessed in the form of a calculating machine (a hypercomputer) that could solve the halting problem for a Turing machine amongst other things. It is also an open question whether any such unknown physical processes are involved in the working of the human brain, and whether humans can solve the halting problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
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NZ recently passed a 3-strikes anti-piracy law: http://3strikes.net.nz/
Not in India anymore. Vimeo, YouTube even Facebook are being targeted.
http://torrentfreak.com/india-orders-blackout-of-vimeo-the-p...

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-21/socia...
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After doing some hunting, apparently I imagined them saying that. What I did not imagine was that it impacts score in results for their "recipe search" product - and it caused some consternation among the recipe blogging community at the time.
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"I don't think it's much to ask for the API documentation to be totally complete."

Sure. So, wait until MOAI 1.0 is released (its currently in beta status).

Be grateful, however, that its been released without documentation already so that those of us who can get along just fine by reading the open source code can use it. If we had to wait for docs, we wouldn't be talking about MOAI now at all .. maybe in a couple more weeks.
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Calling others stupid is just a toxic thinking which tricks our brains to rely on easy and quick-fix pseudo “feel-good" but it is an addictive dangerous practice for our mental and general health in long term.

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationships/2011/07/seven-to...
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

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Consumer focused products are about user experience as it should be. Serious engineering can only help achieve this goal.
If you can't measure it, how do you know it exists?

https://iandravid.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/carl-sagan-dragon...
The question isn't about net neutrality specifically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute
When we're talking long term First World, Commonwealth etc. countries none seems to have as bad track record of Internet stewardship as Australia. It's also very expensive, they're at the extreme end of a few pipes.
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That's a nice graph, but it assumes that the Congress would have just gone along with surpluses and done what they never do -- stopped increasing spending. Both parties are to blame and sites that claim that the Republicans or Democrats are to blame for the national debt are just exposing their biases. We are where we are because politicians can't help themselves and they can't stop spending.
"test results have proven to be a better predictor of long term outcomes"

i'm not sure what long term outcomes you're referring to and how they were measured, but if they're education related the measurement was probably more test results. Yes, test results are a good predictor of future test results.
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^ This may be the hardest I have ever laughed at something from Hacker News.

Context: joshu founded Delicious.
Too controversial? Really? This is a pretty mainstream point of view, although perhaps not the one in political ascendancy at the moment. Hardly the stuff of censorship.

I strongly suspect there was some other reason it wasn't posted.
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