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I like The West Wing, too, but what evidence is there that requiring teachers to meet the same professional standards as, say, doctors would actually be worth the cost to society and their time and effort?

Remember that even with what they pay now, teaching positions are in high demand. Quadruple what teachers earn, and you'll have even more demand. How are you to be sure you're getting what you're paying for? In medicine and law, that's achieved through a series of very expensive gate keepers.

In any event, I think it would be great if a young hotshot from Harvard could be paid $90,000 to start at some godawful but trying to improve school, with a 50% bonus potential if his students show improvement. But the unions would never allow such a program.
Awesome idea. The site desperately needs some HN help though. No call to action, not even a form to be notified through a mailing list; Twitter link is hidden.
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I long waited for something like that. Good summary in the forbes article and even better links to other authors.

The hive minds opinions (reddit cough) regarding Edison/Tesla always reminded me a bit on the absurd "Moon landing history theme ride" in Futurama or the UN-Dinosaur-War-against-Nazis in "Idiocracy".
I have to call bullshit -- he could have made those games in Unity3D and gotten a better environment and better (and more extensive) math libraries.
I don’t just refuse, I don’t tolerate a-holes fullstop
Yeah I don't think there is anything which prevents a font from being both monospaced and serif (indeed it must be either san-serif or serif, right?)
Thanks for your great feedback. We will try to bring in changes that you suggested. You make sense.

The links to the left are meant for public pages.

Every product category is now crowded, you name it :-)
I think he means Steve Jobs
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To say this is a port of Node is to misunderstand 99% of what node is. In fact i dont really understand why you even relate this to node at all and why you use the node logo. Call it evented php or or a port of Tornado or something but its not node. If you want to learn what node is listen to Nodeup. Its an awesome podcast with core node people in it that talk about what node is and why it is what it is and why javascript is so integral to it.
Personally, I strongly dislike PHP and yet I still choose it for new projects sometimes. The main reasons? Being able to use `<?php ... ?>` blocks inline with HTML, and not having to add any boilerplate import statements just to get to basic CGI functionality. Such small trivial features, but they provide enough pain relief that they're sometimes worth it.
Ha, good point. Okay, well amend my brainstorming to just being a live feed that goes to an independent agency that can make the video available at a later date.
Most teachers (almost be definition) aren't earning the "starting" salary. Salary scales fairly nicely with seniority and "professional development" (those summer workshops and conferences).
Good point. But if you were a ZNGA owner who wanted to buy FB at a lower price than the expected one, you would know that as soon as the FB price was lower than expected, the ZNGA stock would slide (as everyone was using it as a proxy). Subsequently, unless you sold within 2 minutes of the FB price being known, it wouldn't be a good strategy (as you would end up loosing money on the ZNGA sell).

That said, as long as you acted fast enough, that strategy was win-win. Either FB stock was too high and ZNGA rose too, or FB was affordable and you could quickly change to that, before ZNGA fell.
I liked the play-by-play refutation of the comic, he really researched the whole thing (so I didn't have to). I learned some new things!

I enjoyed the tone of the comic, however, even if it was inaccurate or disputable or at times just plain wrong. For me, Edison is one of those figures, like Christopher Columbus, or George Washington, that you learn about every single year growing up, since kindergarten, and whose myth is so grand and ubiquitous that every teacher I had from elementary school up until junior year physics said the exact same thing about him. Tesla was just another of a dozen names in the textbook.

So in a way I understand the sentiment. You grow up being told that this is guy, Edison, is the most awesome inventor in the history of America. And because of that I always felt a certain distrust about his accomplishments (even if I'm wrong), because so much of what my teachers taught me growing up turned out to be wrong.
It's not that doing action to a person of certain demographics makes the action immoral. What makes it immoral is the idea behind those actions. For example, there's no problem in saying all people are stupid, but saying all black people are stupid IS immoral, and doing actions based on that thought is also immoral. In that way, the "plough the fields" was a reference to black people being slaves and by selling Legos in that way, you are propagating the almost dead idea that black people should be slaves.

I was not referring to men and women being equal to the law, but being equal as humans. Black people and white people are biologically different too, but no one says that black people eat fried chicken because their brains are different. So, until a scientific study proves that women's brain account for them liking dolls instead of Lego, I will still think that's society that makes them that way. In fact, I think many sociological studies have proven that differences between men and women are different between different cultures, but I have not seen one article that stated that women tend to like accessories because of their brain.
Luvit, Vert.x and React! A lots of projects from NodeJs.
This tells how revolutionary NodeJS is.
I bet React is the slowest one.
We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Edison was no different.
From the comments section: "Precisely how Doctor Emmett Brown created the Flux Capacitor, had he not bumped his head on the edge of the sink we would've never had time travel via DeLorean."
So, why do they then quit? BTW, technically, we all start out equal. I was more referring to the progress they are making. Certainly, there is more than anecdotal evidence that women just aren't as good as men in chess. The simple correlation is: you like what you are good at and thus you stick with it. Couldn't it be that girls figure out that they just don't have what it takes to compete and thus quit?
>>I think you are confusing "raw power" with the sound an idiot makes

No replies to ad hominem attacks.

>>when they write bad algorithms, in languages with questionable language design.

From when was that any criteria for success? Worse is better won a long back. Fighting that has proven to be futile.
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Yep. I did. Thanks. Looks like I've upset some fanboys with my comment. ;)
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28821.0

The topic ended by:

"Sci fi fans taking on NASA engineers is too funny, but also a waste of time. We deal with real hardware here.

Locked."
nice - this works much better than the apps
>it's certainly possible to create a quality game under time constraints in C++, Java, what-have-you, my thoughts however are that HTML5 is the optimal platform for that.

you should probably substantiate that, at least in the article if not here, as you have not given any reason for why this would be true (I have no idea if it is or not).

It may well be, but nothing of what you wrote in the article supports this.

EDIT: let me clarify:

* Mobile Support
(large support is not speed of development)

* No compiling
(the only thing that seems somewhat related. Many things don't need to be compiled this days though)

* It’s not a plugin
(irrelevant to the speed of development, at most a distribution issue)

* It’s not controlled by a single corporation
(irrelevant)

* More active development
(doesn't make you faster)

* HTML5 games get more attention
(irrelevant to your speed)

If you meant "wanting to support gaming in mobile and desktop quickly html5 is the best solution" then it could make sense.
Please if you are going to say that girls are "wired" differently and that's what causes the different likes and dislikes of children, back that up with articles. I have yet to see a study where this had been shown. In fact, I think you are also falling prey to "post hoc ergo propter hoc", in that although women and men's brain are different, that does not mean that they like different toys biologically.

I'm sorry that you group all feminists together, but if you had bother to search for women in plumbing you would have found a lot of women and men who call for more women in that area. For example: http://www.my-plumber.co.uk/userfiles/file/Winter%20Newslett...
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کنفدراسیون فوتبال آسیا نام باشگاه «پرسپولیس» را به رسمیت شناخت
كنفدراسیون فوتبال آسیا پس از بررسی مدارک ارسال شده با تغییر نام باشگاه پیروزی ایران به پرسپولیس موافقت كرد
We've started building one which is going well:
http://www.scirra.com/arcade

Not as big as Flash portals obviously but people love playing the games
In OS-X scroll up and scroll down have been switched, to more closely mimmick touch controls on an ipad/iphone.

So, the wording is wrong .. you need to scroll down. But don't bother, there's not any meaningfull content there.

Just a bunch of empty buzz words. No explanation to how this cloud is different, what technology it uses, which principles are being applied.

Here's the full text text, feel free to puke:

>What is Stormio?
>SCROLL UP TO FIND OUT

For everybody on older versions of OS-X, Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. you need to scroll down.

>Stormio is from wanting to make greater meaning out of the profusion of tools and content on the web. Going a few steps further.

Yeah. That's great. Nobody else is trying to do that. Good thing those guys have that intention, right?

>Stormio is from reaching past the functional and the reliable, into the realm of the convenient and the enjoyable, so users and developers alike can get to the meaningful.

Still don't what it is, or what it does. But hey, if it's fun and enjoyable, it must be the perfect solution for our everyday problems, right?

>Stormio is from rethinking the basics of computing and development for the cloud, so creators can focus on pushing the limits and on great user experience, not technical details.

Wow. I'm impressed. No technical details. Yeah! Thank god, somebody finally solved the magic code.

>Stormio is from seeing in the cloud an opportunity to build a sustainable economy based on what the consumer finds valuable, not annoying. An economy that benefits to everyone, from those providing value to those consuming it.

Unlike, you know, a normal economy, where we are bothered with empty marketing speak.

>Stormio is from staying hungry. And foolish.

Spelling and grammar are also 'technical details' you do not have to focus on, apparently.

>Stormio is about doing to the cloud what a great OS could do to personal computing: providing extraordinary scaffolds, for greater value.

Well, at least here's a hint to what it does. Scaffolding?

>Stormio is for the crazy ones. If you are — developer, creator, enthusiast — be part of it.

Yeah, it sounds great, because of the ___
(insert actual feature powered by groundbreaking research here)

There are hundreds products that all make the above claims. I wonder how this one is any different, except for it not being nothing more than a mailing list, at the moment.
At least having more scripts like this could be helpful in improving PHP's memory management.
The core of quantum physics is that everything is "fundamentally random". From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg%27s_uncertainty_prin... "...the uncertainty principle actually states a fundamental property of quantum systems, and is not a statement about the observational success of current technology."
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I think this is what I've been waiting for.

Ubuntu Mono is nice but my eyes are not really good at detecting soft curves, I wanted something like Terminus[0] but with larger font sizes. (For some reason, I was unable to go beyond 10px with Terminus on Vim.)

[0]: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html
"I found that the company I work for is putting a backdoor into mobile phones"
I have no idea , but one of ESR's favorite topics of conversation seems to be bigging up how important he thinks he is.
Really? I haven't seen a study that have proven this. Please, citation needed. In fact, most of the studies that have been mentioned here point to the difference in IQ and math related skills. But none of them, and I repeat, none, have shown that likes and dislikes are cause by this difference in biology.
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I agree - that smart-ass tone for me was the fun thing as well.

Edison, as a larger than life figure in the past 100 years seems to be untouchable. The Oatmeal comic was a rush because I was thinking "you can't say those things about Edison".

Of course, the real story is more complex than either hagiography.
I have mixed feelings about this post. The advice is good, but the tone is negative. Ironically, I'd suggest the advice be relied upon if one became wealthy.

On the one hand is the hubris of it all. Dejected over not being a billionaire? More so than money, what one needs in that context is perspective.

I have colleagues, friends and business partners who fall in the category of highly financially successful. Extreme wealth comes with more trouble than one might expect. Anonymity? Good luck with that. Jealousy from friends? A lot. Thrill quotient goes way, way WAY up? Like clockwork. Your personality changes? Big time. Still feel unfulfilled? Almost guaranteed. Biggie was right -- mo money, mo problems.

On the other hand is dealing with your goals, and whether or not you have attained them. If your goal is to acquire a billion dollars...well, shoot for higher ground (not higher dollars.) Financial happiness and comfort is one thing, but a specific number has more to do with ego. Money, as a goal, just doesn't equate to feelings of accomplishment. Instead, set your goals to non-financial things; it's the only way one can ever really satisfy those feelings of reward.

BTW, all those I've know who generated their own wealth did so without a primary focus of acquiring wealth -- it was a byproduct of their actions. They were driven by something else, the money was just a consequence.
First, thanks a lot for your honest feedback!
I resized the right hand side font-size and corrected the errors in the text (and will keep doing that).

About your first question:
You'll see the interest related images, though if you'll get inside his profile you'll see all of them.

About the 2nd one:
As said above, you will only see the interest related pics on your feed, that means you won't see the dogs pics at all (on your feed). Getting into his profile will make you see all of his collections.

Your suggestion may fit, and if so, will probably be active on a later stage.
I can ensure you that most of facebook's users do not use this feature. Even if they do, it's far away from being the feature I'd like it to be.

Thanks again!
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The unsolvability of the halting problem has a slightly weaker version of Goedel's first incompleteness theorem as a trivial corollary. You can use Turing machines to prove a stronger statement very easily as well. Therefore the CS perspective is very enlightening. See http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=710.
It's the wizard, not the wand.
I'd have to agree with you there - the content of the post, and the anonymity of its author, do indeed make it seem like it's not someone just spitballing, but someone "familiar with the situation".
I thought that we had already beaten biology in many aspects. In fact, biology has changed because of how we act. As we began to use tools, evolution-wise, we began to develop more traits relating to using tools.

If you think that we should only do or act as biology dictates us, and that trying to change biology doesn't lead us anywhere, you should probably stay away from medical research and sociological studies. Those are two areas where although biology is important, changes in them are also important too.
I'm actually working on one myself - http://clay.io - let me know what you think!
Glider pilot here. That does make it less likely, but it is no guarantee that there were no rising air currents. Thermals are sustained by an atmospheric temperature differential, not "hot air rising". They are usually _triggered_ by the local temperature differences caused by the sun, but can also be triggered by a gust of wind.
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The client platform's implementation of scrolling is entirely irrelevant here. The content is still beneath the fold, and thus the user must scroll down to view it.

You've managed to ruin the single — and critical — piece of user interaction required to view your site's [meaningless] content.

That said, it is pretty.
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"In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states a fundamental limit on the accuracy with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known. In layman's terms, the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the other can be controlled, determined, or known."

It doesn't tells us that physical process is fundamentaly random (as in that randomness is objective reality)
It's very simple: Complexity keeps the dishonest weasel in you employed, simplicity, once designed properly, makes the weasel dispensable and redundant. Or so the lazy weasel in me thinks.
Yes and no. If the camera is on and then shuts off for a few moments it does make the officer look like they are trying to hide something. Also, just having this step in the right direction will hopefully set up a time in the future when all dealings with the police have to be recorded by law.

A similar thing happened in my home town. A state law said that all police cars must have cameras for DUI stops. One of the counties in the state that wrote the most DUIs kept saying they couldn't afford to put cameras in all of the cruisers. Finally, a judge started throwing out all DUIs where the camera wasn't installed. Cameras were all installed and working in short order.

Technology has made it so easy to record all interactions that if the police are not doing it then the default reason is they are trying to hide something.
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I think I can shed light on what being a "DSL for the web" means.

1. PHP has built-in templating in that it's a language that gets embedded within other text files. If you go with PHP, you don't have to decide how you're going to output your content into your front-end design. So, PHP (as a language) has made the decision on templating much in the way that frameworks like Rails and Django make that decision for Ruby and Python. And it's possible to override that decision in any of those frameworks and even PHP has alternative templating engines, but it provides a built-in default decision.

2. PHP puts many useful things into global variables. One can debate the merits of this (and I'm not here to do that), but when you're new to things and can be told "anything in that form will be available in $_REQUEST['var_name']," that can get you off the ground fast - much in the same way that params[:var_name] does in Rails.

3. PHP provides built-in "routing". Heck, it's files on your filesystem. You know how a static site works? Great! You know how PHP works (in terms of routing) as well. I appreciate having reversible routers, but one can see how PHP's approach is simple, especially for new users who might have experience with static sites.

I could go on, but it would basically be re-stating the same concept. PHP as a language includes many micro-framework features in the language itself and they're usually implemented in a simple way (even if one argues that it's not an ideal way for long-term maintainability). It gets people off the ground running fast and because its micro-framework-like capabilities are widely used, it's easy to google for information.

I don't program in PHP much, but I can understand why it could be called a "DSL for the web". It has many of the things that users grab a framework to handle built into the language. I personally much prefer to work on a site in a framework in Python, Ruby, C#, or Java, but PHP's thin layer of framework tools built into the language is very easy to understand and fast to learn.
that's why i assumed i actually had to scroll up, because i was expecting more info.
Oh dear… looks like my fix during work yesterday was too hasty. I just updated the code, and tested it in Safari with my useragent set for an ipad. Here's the diff:

- var isIos = navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone|iPod)/i);
+ var isIos = navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone|iPad)/i);

Thanks for letting me know it was still broken!

Unfortunately, as I said above, it will not play the music, but it will still shoot out waveforms from the piano. I spent several hours experimenting with different dataURI settings and then trying falling back to static .wav files. The latter was the most promising, but there was still a huge lag between calling .play() and the sound actually playing. Looks like you still have to rely on actual "apps" to have good sound on iOS. (If someone knows otherwise, please share!)
> it must be either san-serif or serif, right?

Not necessarily. This font is a monospaced hybrid of slab serif (fat serifs, regular line width) and sans serif.

See here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif
It's pretty overall, but the one character for which the illusion of proportionality really breaks is the lower-case L, which consistently appears to have a space after it.
While Unity is extremely powerful, the point that it's plugin based for browser accessibility remains.

My biggest draw towards developing games in HTML5 is that it runs natively in (almost) all browsers.
And that's just one of his companies. Let's not forget PayPal and Tesla, which, while not as important to the future of humanity, both represent successful leaps forward in technology and economics.
I didn't downvote you and I agree in some ways with you, but your comment didn't really say anything. Perhaps you could edit it to point out some of the similarities you notice.
Do a Google search on "IT needs more women", make a mental note of the number of hits you get, and then do a search on "Plumbing needs more women". Please report back which number is bigger. For extra credit, calculate by which factor the first claim is more often made online.
That was an interesting discussion. It's a pity the forum rules are strict there. I'm no spaceflight/physics pro but he did have reasonable arguments.