skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this discussion with a guy who is now the state superintent of public education. Our discussion led to classroom visits of about 10 minutes per instructor, multiple times each semester. Evaluation criteria were: 1) Are learning objectives for the lesson clearly visible or otherwise available? 2) What percent of students were on task? 3) ... I forget the others, but there were five. (It's been about five years, but I think they included the students knowing how they were to be evaluated, and the teaching style used, e.g., lecture, group work, etc., and whether the instructor was using data to inform the approach. It came down to the standard description of leadership: vision, expectations, support, feedback)

He was pretty firm that this method would be better—he'd spent years thinking about it—but we both agreed that it required a level of intervention by the administrator that although it could reasonably be expected was unlikely. Using just the test data is the lazy way, which means it's the method most will use.

Still, I believe _some_ standardized testing is important. ... but there are two types of tests: norm testing and standards testing, and both types have their uses.
Seriously? The first time I encountered the phrase was at a picnic while talking with an Eskimo tribal administrator and a physics professor from Khalilabad. For the life of me, I can't remember which one used it first.

I was under the impression that it was an acceptable short-hand for distinguishing which culture/ethnicity is being referenced when either is equally likely. Do the PC-police now disagree?
Huh, never saw this! And it does seem to support SCSS (I don't like the SASS style at all). I'll have to take a look at this more closely.

Thanks!
FYI, I run Chrome with the Better Pop Up Blocker extension, and when I first loaded your site I got nothing but a gray screen. I see "Uncaught TypeError: Property 'scrollTo' of object [object Window] is not a function" in the developer console.
Cookies: Majority of government sites to miss deadline
shrug As I said, I hear that from people, but I don't get it.

If you're writing good software you should have a nice Model, and a nice clean high performance visualization core that renders that model.

Scripting engines should be an easy and quick way to modify the state of the Model, not something you _write the model in_.

There is everything from speed to memory usage to testing and verifiability wrong with writing your model in your scripting language. Don't deny it; it's absolutely true. The only possible benefit is flexibility, which you take at the cost of all the other things I've mentioned.

Arguably MOAI actually provides you the tools to do this properly with its C++ api, and a real project would implement the state model and rendering code in C++ and build it as part of the moai binary, correctly using the scripting engine to modify only the state of the game model itself.

I can see some use for the low level operations as part of the scripting language for doing _clever things_ in a game, like cut scenes, where one-time-non-state-based operations take place.

...but writing the whole game in it? No.

On the other hand, people seem happy to 'hack away' with it and have fun, and I approve of that. Would seriously hesitate to recommend it for a professional project.
I wish it were common place.

From what I understand, many school districts in the USA have rules against this. Or, they have no advertised route for early completion, which is effectively the same thing.
Ask HN: Great book that you read recently?
It seems his only argument for using Stylus is because it doesn't use brackets nor colons? That's it? Sorry, that's not a good enough reason for me. That's just a coding style opinion and does nothing to suggest it is superior to other options. What "real" features does it offer that the others do not?

Can we get past this silly attitude that my coding style is better than your coding style even though the outcome is the same?
Well, a lot of people are stuck in Photoshop, unfortunately. That way there could be some transition from PS to straight HTML/CSS.
We're using libcloud as a unified interface to the EC2/RackSpace/OpenStack API's. We'll only support VMs at the beginning.
Cool. Maybe Google could acquire Novamente or Numenta next.
Hi guys, I'm one of CSS Hat devs and I'd like to thank you for your interest and show a little bit more:

This is the output of current version of CSS Hat:
http://jsfiddle.net/tomaskafka/ZXgqN/
Let me re-phrase that:

Would you want your employees to hack the current process, because they morally disagree or are bored, or simply curious.

Maybe not. But someone will. Welcome to Schumpter's law.
A brief interview process is fine. You do the HR crap that justifies their existence and move to the technical rounds - I'll do 3. If after the third round of technical interviews the decision maker can't make up their mind, then I'll help them out.

As was written elsewhere, if google was so great, then why were their recruiters apprehensive/defensive when asked. If the answer was "Yes, sure we provide the equipment - I'll send you our plans, policies procedures, practices, processes, duties and scope, roles and responsibilities for that area!" - but it wasn't.
Some good photos of Afghanistan this year: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/05/afghanistan_may_201...
Here's another photo album on that topic:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...
Why is the page calling me a fag?
Asian stationery is often pretty peculiar. Bizarre and cutesy characters, Engrish slogans, colour combos and so on. I think someone could put together packs of pens, pads, erasers, etc and have a crack. Wish I were over there to try it.

Would partner with someone who was there on the ground and handle design and so on if anyone was interested.
Interesting photos of life in Kabul in the sixties.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...

Quote: "A half-century ago, Afghan women pursued careers in medicine; men and women mingled casually at movie theaters and university campuses in Kabul; factories in the suburbs churned out textiles and other goods. There was a tradition of law and order, and a government capable of undertaking large national infrastructure projects, like building hydropower stations and roads, albeit with outside help. Ordinary people had a sense of hope, a belief that education could open opportunities for all, a conviction that a bright future lay ahead. All that has been destroyed by three decades of war, but it was real."
Flatulence may have led to extinction of dinosaurs
Deals And Prioritization
"Nobody mentions that an economy has a hypothetical failure mode (like the game of Monopoly) where all of the money ends up in one person's hands -- and then trading stops."

Stunning level of ignorance.
The reality distortion field is alive and well.

Really, considering their strict policies and controlling nature how could this be a surprise let alone a mistake?
If you think that ADHD boys are running around half the time like some sort of sugar rushing lunatic then you do not know what ADHD actually is.

It is not generally a problem of too much energy and lack of focus. Rather it is a problem of inappropriate focus, frequently very intense. For instance my nephew would get so interested in whatever he was doing that he would fail to realize that he needed to pee, and then after he peed his pants he would get very upset that people were making him change his pants when he wanted to do something else.

It becomes a problem in school when children are unable to follow repeated directions because they are unaware that directions have been given, because their interest has been caught by something - anything - else.

Disclaimer: I am the parent of a 7 year old who has been identified as likely having ADHD, though I have not yet done the official screening.
The Benefits of Being an Apologist
> It's difficult for me to respect a community that feels entitled to someone else's hard work (and without their permission).

Are you talking about pirates or the media lobby / "watchdog" organisations?

While I can't speak for the US based organisations--though it would surprise me if it were any different--the Dutch organisations such as BREIN and BUMA are well-known for being unaccountable money black holes, most of it not ending up at the producing artists, but .. well .. I can only guess that there must be quite a bunch of quasi-non-government-employees living very comfortably.

Other examples, the BUMA feels entitled to be compensated for the hard work of artists paid by Stichting Gastvrij ("Hospitality Foundation"), hotels and restaurant chains that commissioned uncopyrighted ambient/background music for use in hospitality settings (classical, italian, japanese, elevator, etc) free for use by all in the hospitality business. Normally they have to pay some monthly fee for the right to play any music, which, supposedly, in some mysterious sense finds it way back to the proper artists. But the restaurants, especially the smaller ones that could not afford lawyers, of course got threatening letters when they stopped paying this fee, because even though the music they were now playing was rights-free, the BUMA still felt entitled to be compensated for other people's hard work.

And then there's Stichting BREIN, the chairman of which feels entitled to other people's hard work in the form of police-confiscated laptops.

I'm pretty sure that the actual music industry and artists would be much better off without these criminal types ensuring their "protection".
> Album sales are not the only way they make money.

Album sales are, in fact, a pretty minor way to make money for most musical artists: unless you can reliably sell tends to hundreds of thousands of albums live gigs (and merch sold at live gigs) are much more profitable.
Jython was frozen in the 2.2.X state for the longest time but then Frank and his team jumped to 2.5.X a few years ago and its has been a modern Python ever since.
What about exporting Stylus (/w nib) or at least LESS?
CloudKick is no longer available to new users. Mist.io is mobile friendly, supports private clouds & the monitoring agent will be released as free/open source software.
It's excel on steroids.

Try learning OPNET's modeling and simulations tools without the benefit of books or their classes.
Apple, on Siri complaints: Buy a different phone
i think we all agree passive income is the bomb.

the difficulty comes in building the passive income while having to be realistic about health insurance, and well, having food to eat.

i wish these sorts of articles would spend more time on the bootstrapping portion of this journey instead of the "glorious future" when everything is all running smoothly.

i mean its just as easy to write a article about Facebook and say "just build one of those" but obviously the devil is in the startup, so to speak.
Where’s The Money? #12 – ‘The Instagram for Video’ Episode
Senators to Unveil the Ex-Patriot Act to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin
How mobile phones are phished [Infographic]
It is likely that googlebot is running the chrome browser, so anything you can do in chrome, googlebot can do too.
I'm a for profit company--I would hire employees not request contributions. I don't want crap code--I code entirely differently from everybody else.

I'm in jail--it doesn't matter.

God says...
wine.

16:2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba
said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread
and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as
be faint in the wilderness may drink.

16:3 And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said
unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day
shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

16:4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained
unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may
find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
A mistake in wording on my part - I should have said "the desired outcome is the same". Sorry for the confusion.

Two different people don't teach the same way even if the curriclumn is the same.

So what? The goal is the same. It is meaningful to measure whether my students know more or less calculus than yours.

If the goal of programming were to re-implement merge sort over and over then it would be an effective metric to count the number of correct merge sort implementations.

The inability to compare a realtime monitoring system to a web scraper is what makes programming harder to measure.

But in many cases one can measure programmers by output. For example, at Styloot, one task we have is building web scrapers. They all have a pretty straightforward (and identical) goal. An effective metric for programmer performance on this task would be to measure the # of scrapers written or (better) the # of items correctly scraped.

See also quant traders - the goal is homogeneous (increase profit, adjusted for risk), and your code is measured by how well it achieves that goal.
http://url2png.com does have the best API and simple/easy. There are others like http://www.shrinktheweb.com/ http://www.websnapr.com/
Additionally I make sure that the money I pay goes as directly as possible to the record label and/or artist.

Usually the music I find worth buying is from smaller labels or independent artists, and I really wonder how any money I could pay to, say, Spotify would hypothetically find its way to them.
The photos of overt discrimination against African-Americans in 1962 remind me of the overt discrimination we are seeing against gay people today. I hope a similar retrospective in 50 years will see people saying "I find it surprising that there was discrimination against gay people at one time."
but it does get on the every mainstream media outlet. And on the lawmakers' desk.
That says "Faq". Notice how the loopy part of the descender goes to the right. I don't know why it's lowercased.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack
But the 2005 valuations should have accounted for the fact that by 2012 there would be far more internet usage, and priced it in accordingly. In fact, like many things, they could have over-estimated internet usage. I doubt they were saying in 2005, "well, this is all the people who will ever use the internet!"

Anyway, I think the OP here is spot on. It's not that these companies are crap or worthless. It's the size of these valuations. We throw around billions like it's nothing now, when less than 10 years ago it was rare to see valuations 1/10th of that. Name something else that had it's value grow so greatly over such a short period of time. Houses maybe?
Definitely want text-transform:uppercase on that acronym with that font.
Always Photoshop first. Last time (admittedly a while back) I read about someone creating their design directly in HTML/CSS, it was a rubbish design.
Hi sktrdie, we considered this, but we think that the output would become just a mess of absolutely sized and positioned divs - and that's not how websites should be made.

It is a coder's job to bring in the semantic structure and we merely aid to assist her/him - so CSS Hat will 'only' transform layer's fills and styles to CSS3. Hope that's cool :).

Tomas - one of CSS Hat devs
the amount of coin change is never more than a dollar.
We'll look into it, but it appears to be related to Better Pop Up Blocker http://code.google.com/p/betterpopupblocker/issues/detail?id...
G2 - your friendly git cli
I'm referring more to the "like wild Indians" comment, which is qualified by a cute remark intended to clarify exactly which culture is supposed to be offended there. I'm not being PC.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank

Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

Business Model Generation - Alexander Osterwalder
well, I liked it, well done
So much suffering, so much cruelty, so much wealth, and then moments of real humanity and connection, especially in the children.

I started to tear up several times, staring into some of the photos—and I realized how alike our world is today. We have a lot of work to do, here.
I thought libertarians were a fringe group of idiots until someone on HN said they were libertarian while saying something sensible. It's been hard to fight the habit of ignoring them. It doesn't help that the Koches and their institute are cited in the stupid babbling of the more vocal ones.
Blogger earns $50K in passive income in April
Thanks - I'll pass it on to Peter who made the effect ;)
Amen.

On the same line, I hope 50 years from now, people will be amused that marijuana was illegal just like I feel amused when I heard about prohibition.
I know you're right. I know the term isn't "stealing" and that it's incorrect to use that term (and you'll notice that I didn't). But it's not me you have to convince. You have to convince everyone who doesn't understand the subtleties and swooping in to correct casual usage is not going to help you convince anyone, it's going to make you look annoying.

It's as if you correct everyone who uses the term "soccer" by saying "It's actually 'football'" or correcting everyone who conflates a alligator and a crocodile in casual conversation. In the end people will just ignore you.
Perhaps the most important difference between employees and students is that employees get paid for their time.
Rails Console Tips
Excellent pictures.

50 years ago, some countries were moving ahead with science/technology and some were in the midst of war crisis. 50 years later, its still the same.
Universal Web Design Principles You Should Know
Did youtube make HTML5 Video the default on chrome?
In case any Jython devs are reading this, I'd like to also express my delight that Jython isn't dead. In the next few months I'll be expected to recommend a programming language for a large-scale enterprise project, and while Java--sad to say--seems to be the most responsible choice, I'd like to also have a JVM-compatible scripting language waiting in the wings. Glad to see that I'll have more options to evaluate when the time comes.
We're working on it. Meanwhile we would like some feedback on the business perspective.
Agree. All you can really ask for is feedback on the landing page not your startup. For all I know you're in the first stages of determining whether there's enough interest in this to pursue it.
WRT 2.1, more importantly can the Facebook platform serve those 1 billion in the same way that it serves the rest of the world? China has a very different culture from the US or Europe.
> Of course, smart people don't go around whining about it. But they do KNOW they're surrounded by retards.

Indeed...
I asked some folks at NPR about this a few years back.

I can't seem to find the exact message they sent me, but I believe the issue is that their licensing of content (mostly the music) on the show has specific rules about how that content is distributed (or not distributed).
That is exactly what I though :)
I won't nitpick the astronomy bits, but I would like to add something historical to the discussion.

In "The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples," Herwig Wolfram asks the question of why the Eastern Roman Empire outlasted the Western Roman Empire by so long. The answer he comes up with is that the Western Empire had much greater concentration of wealth in the hands of the senatorial class. This meant that it was hard to collect taxes to pay for things like an army, and at the time of the invasions of the Goths and Franks, the Eastern Empire was collecting three times in taxes what the Western Empire was collecting, and thus spending more on their army than the Western Empire was collecting in taxes.

Without sufficient tax revenues he military machine could not sustain itself, and when three senatorial households had a budgets that combined equalled the entire tax revenue of the Western Empire these super-wealthy were just too politically powerful to tax. Wolfram also suggests that this is what doomed Ostrogothic Italy when they fought the Byzantines.
Those sites are showpieces. No one ever checks or updates them. I don't think most people in the govt would even know of the existence of those sites.
Featured on 1st page of HN. New customers from it? Zero.
Hi erable, I can show you a sample CSS generated by current version: http://jsfiddle.net/tomaskafka/ZXgqN/
Coffee drinking linked to longer life
I would like to thank pg for inviting the barrage of these stories and the type of users it brings to HN. Kill Hollywood? You might as well have Henry Ford saying 'Kill Horses'. When a viable alternative exists it will gradually replace the labels. Just like every other industry.
I recently graduated from college and found a job. My manager is one of those people who is a brilliant programmer but doesn't help the greenhorns like me adapt to the working world.

I believe I have potential to be a great programmer, but it's difficult when you're being told your code is "all sorts of wrong."

This was exactly what I needed to read right now. Thank you for posting it.
In the next few months I'll be expected to recommend a programming language for a large-scale enterprise project, and while Java--sad to say--seems to be the most responsible choice

What about Groovy?
I remember reading a blog recently where the author actually had more ROI on the webOS platform than Android.
By threatening to not vote for a party?
You can. if you read the github readme, is shows clearly how to both disable the mouseFollow and set a global light source.
International Collegiate Programming Contest Final Results.
Google launches new search with Knowledge Graph
Without my $250 / month they might have to cancel the IPO :)
Accelerated Scrolling In Firefox: Past, Present And Future
Chrome 19: The Best Web browser just keeps getting better
Stay on your game: Lessons from The Settlers of Catan
Official website is: http://www.icpclive.com/
How do you know your measuring device really exists?

How can I know a calculus test exists? Very easily. I look at it, feel it, etc. How can I know calculus ability exists? Again, very easily - it predicts outcomes on a set of correlated exams, the existence of which I verify with sight, touch, etc.

You seem to want to argue that education only produces vague, immaterial and unmeasurable outcomes. Lets take that as a given - in that case, why not just eliminate education spending and save $900B/year?
"Suppose you were already very comfortable with passive income, just like I am. Imagine that you had many thousands of dollars coming in every month, more than enough to cover all your expenses. Whether you work or not, fresh income keeps flowing to you month after month and year after year, based on streams you set up years ago."

Aye, there's the rub.

Not sure what his point is after that supposition. The verbose fictitious conversation is rather ... absurd.
> "It is likely that Madras High Court judgement was rushed through"
I would get worried if this were the case. Serious cases take years to pass through Indian courts. If Copyright Labs (which I increasingly feel is a facade company) got this rushed through the court AND got the ISPs to block access at such a blanket level I would start getting worried about the integrity of that court.
Top Business Travel Apps
Great, we'll look forward to that.

That definitely sounds fair. I would get that pricing page up as soon as possible, users always want to see that.
I'm not sure about this study, but there are cases where 'illegal' downloads have actually helped the producer of the product have better sales. When Radiohead came out Kid A the reviews considered the album "Just Awful"[1]. And I think that they never had any music videos or singles for the album, but a leak before the official release of the album gave people a chance to give the album a real shot. They liked it and they bought it. Kid A was Radioheads first release that became number one in the US and it also went platinum in the UK.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,,371289,00.h...
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