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> The 'let's give parents the ability to shop' ethos

There's no way to avoid it, even in principle. What if you move?

In the US, home prices are elevated in certain areas because people who live at that address get to go to a good school. So there's still school shopping, when it comes to deciding where to live (it's often a key factor in that decision).

I think that's how it is most places, actually. At least where I grew up in California, I was assigned to a certain high school based on where I live. We could have applied for a transfer, but those aren't often granted. This is all for the public school system, of course. There are private schools as well, which operate differently, but I think for the most part people go to public schools.
"In fact, it's usually used as the TP monitor in TPC-C benchmark systems because it's more efficient than .Net or Java and much cheaper than Tuxedo or Encina (which reduces the $/TPM)."
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It's true there is marketing benefit from HN. Not just directly, but many bloggers read HN and sometimes feature the service because of that (btw. if you're thinking of doing that, you can reach me@bemmu.com).
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"...it's representing the real world, which is async and parallel."
"Thus, this callback spaghetti is not Node's problem it's a problem of the reality."
Are you really trying to defend node's callbacks saying they represent our physical reality? The same way people defend object orientation saying "the world is object oriented".
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That's a marvelous idea.

If they are the same as those I once ate in Barcelona—really tiny, perfect details, like small artworks and excellent shape and colors—you should go for this.

Question is: how long is the durability. Probably you have to find expensive delivery services for food with a cold chain distribution.

But the idea is good, I never saw such pastries somewhere else again. Are they the same in Portugal?

EDIT: I found a link (think it was Bubo): http://www.cocoonbarcelona.com/blog/favourite-pastries-barce...
I was shocked how hard it is to find any books about ordoliberalism in North America, even though it was a driver of economic thought and policy in Germany for decades.

The only book I found was at a major university's library, in German.

It was a "WTF" moment.
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Perhaps they're not censoring much, but in Sweden you're constantly wiretapped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
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> I do think it could work out well for people that aren't really heavy data users

Is there an option for a cheaper, low data tier? Last I checked, the cheapest option was the same price as the current unlimited data option, but with a cap.
Slovenia currently has no bans, no filtering, nothing. Broadband widely available. However, this might not be guaranteed in the future (but right now the government has too many other issues to deal with).
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Sorry but no. Most people are cattle. Utter retards. The only thing missing them is drooling on the floor and making feces. They're little more than animals that can speak. Anyone even remotely smart knows most people are stupid compared to himself.

Of course, smart people don't go around whining about it. But they do KNOW they're surrounded by retards.
How about giving the test on a computer and having it automatically change the difficulty level on the fly? (Obviously this may be a lot easier for math than for other subjects.) Test every grade level using the same program, just with different entry points based on the knowledge they are presumed to have learned at that point.

Right now it sounds like they are awarding the teachers based on the percentile level of their students compared to other students in the same class level, which is pretty much guaranteed to be useless noise if your students all start at the 98th percentile. It would be much more meaningful to be able to say, "Each of your students clearly knows more algebra than he did last year."

The other issue is how to motivate the children to actually want to do well on the test. Somehow rewarding a kid who does better than he did the previous time he took the test seems like a good first step...
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No it is not. I am on Tata and all the mentioned sites are still accesible.
If it's important you'll find another way to contact them.

The logic behind using it to show if they fail or not doesn't work. The system that would identify if a message was sent would be tied into the messaging system; They should have this if it's possible, though they don't need to make the results known.
Just to confirm, it's working well on Chrome 20 on Mac for me (no lag, not maxing out the CPU, very smooth). It's interesting from a technical perspective, although design-wise I can't really see any practical reason to use it. Fun though.
Looks very nice in Chrome.
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Just something that caught my eye, being french...

This sentence is not correct:
"Je n'ai pas aller au bibliotheque pour manger le fromage."

You should write:
"Je ne suis pas allé à la bibliothèque pour manger le fromage."

Which, in case you wonder, means: "I didn't go to the library to eat cheese."
What about all the copyright holders, such as Getty Images, that are circling the water, waiting for Pinterest to start making money so the rights holders can charge licensing fees? Any business model they come up with has to factor in the costs of legally acquiring all the photos they use.
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A while a go I saw this article that told that strongest correlation with economic success now is with reading skills within that nation in 1900. (sorry I lost the article)

What is the reading of today? I think it's coding and here's why: A young person is good at school in two things, math and biology. She thinks that a career of mathematician would be little boring, so she chooses to become a biologist. She doesn't ever think about becoming an engineer because she never had to do anything that would have indicated that shes good at it.

Now how about a school where people have to learn to code just a little. Suddenly the people who are naturally talented at it start to do it. Not just the people who think it's cool because their elder brother codes. People have a strong tendency to do things they are good at. But only if they know they are good at it.
Though we don't have to. The real point of the web is that a poor view (standard html view) should suffice. That is what make WWW and Mosaic instead of Xanadu. It is a pain to have to close browser tabs to stop my fan rotating, since most of the times mplayer wont activate it. Bigger apps than anyone ever dreamt? Everyone dreamt them. It's just small apps are better. Worse is better.
My dual socket commodity Dell server also has multiple CPUs connected by a high speed interconnect. Cluster?

The top TPC-C cluster has 27 database servers, each with 4 processors and 512GB of RAM. Can your Dell server host 108 processors and 13.8TB of RAM?

The Sun cluster is exactly what most people think of as a "cluster" -- a scalable set of servers that vastly exceeds single server performance.
Anyone tried the same idea but with Asian stationery? There's always been a huge array of crazy stuff when I've browsed stationery sections of department stores in Thailand, China, etc. I'd try it myself, but I think there'd need to be someone on the ground with direct, cheap access sourcing the product.

Lightweight, should be cheap to ship, etc.
Oops, sorry I didn't answer. I was talking about an omnibox yellow warning, not full page red.
How do we change that?
Crazy stuff at stationery sections? What do you mean exactly?
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Jetpens.com does this but not as a subscription model.
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Which is odd, because it's visual design feels uncomfortable for me. On my laptop which is a 15" Thinkpad with a 1280x800 display - I can't even read the text on Pinterest without zooming. It's also too bright for my eyes. The multi-columns I find hideous to try and track (I can't stand Facebook's timeline for the same reason - which shows as two columns on my screen.)
I was surprised not be greeted with high quality photos of examples of past candy. To see any of your product I need to find the 'past candy' link then decide on which unfamiliar product to click on.
Exactly, I just see the PHP problem repeating itself. Yes, you can get a PHP developer for £7/hour, but are they going to write good code? Unlikely.
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Estonia prides itself on running a progressive show with first class support for the Internet (voting for the government takes place online, for example), they stream almost-hard porn on TV before the watershed (it's just not in their culture to care about these things – as a UK citizen, was shocked to find a lesbian movie playing on terrestrial there), English literacy is amazing in the capital (Tallinn) especially among young people, rental and general prices for everything are dirt cheap, and intra-Europe flights are dirt cheap (return ticket to Ireland for €100), with easy access to Russia too (visa free 3 day trips to St Petersberg by ferry).

Not to mention Tallinn is one of the most amazingly relaxing old towns packed with coffee shops with free fast wifi.

Finland (next door neighbour) also has awesome broadband/free wifi penetration, only the MPAA's paw marks have been left all over their courts recently (The Pirate Bay is blocked by several major ISPs in the country)
I am using Airtel in Mumbai and the sites are blocked. Crazy stuff!
I don't use coins not because I use bills instead; I don't use coins because I don't use much cash.

I just came from a 3 week business trip in Europe, and at least the people I was around use the €1 and €2 coins all the time. I wish we'd get rid of our $1 bills and go to a $1 and $2 coin as well; very convenient. From what I understand, it's cheaper for the gov't in the long run too.
If you have the wrong metrics, you cannot make the right decisions. If you are throwing away good teachers because the rest are really good at gaming the tests then you have done far more harm than good.
No doubt this is amazing. But a question strikes me... why is a military organisation funding this research? By their very nature, are they not in the business of disabling enemies (a.k.a people)?

Just strikes me as odd but I can see the potential of weaponizing this technology.
It's not hip and exciting anymore and generations of poor Perl coders have everyone convinced Perl code must always look ugly.

I'm a fan of C and Python myself, but I always chuckle at all the Perl hate.
> I think a truly "smart person" is someone who is always staying open to the possibility of people changing radically, however unlikely that may seem.

But a truly "person who is currently acting smart" may realise that they simply do not have the time to continue treating this "person who is currently acting stupid" as if they're simply acting that way, and may make a temporary value judgement about that person fully in the knowledge that it's an over-simplification and useful only in the present situation. Doing so may also be a smart thing to do, as it allows said person to actually get something done.
Yes, also intuitively to me it would make sense to have such photos, but I found the same thing as Manpacks did (http://mixergy.com/manpacks-ken-johnson-interview/) that showing product photos on the main page lowers conversions. It seems people are in it for the surprise factor.
But it's a Gnome 3 FORK.. They won't be able to keep up with mainstream gnome. They even forked Mutter, the window manager! They should build on top of Gnome 3, not freakin fork it
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Hey cool, that's a great idea for another subscription club I could launch off the current code/customerbase.
The real question is what to do with stupid people?

I usually try to hold it as their defense. Something like: "It's OK he said something like that because he's -- well, like that. Now let's change the subject quickly." This makes me look like a bad person but hey, it's better than pick on people because they didn't use their brain.

And then I try to avoid stupid people. There is only so much time.
you realize that the semantic web is not about the semantics of the data, but instead about the semantics of the schema, right?

The meaning of semantics (semantics of semantics?) can get philosophical real quick. Here I'm just rolling with the OP's notion of things, not strings.
When did gzipped responses stop being accepted?
$2k per month profit (before tax) is not bad. There are some costs that cannot be avoided per order but imagine as volume grows, so will efficiencies. This model looks like the mens shaver business. Can see this working for any niche - shavers, stationary, fruit, nuts...

How can we see earlier blog posts?.
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And on SQL Server < 2008 where TVPs aren't an option and the data set is large enough (I was importing millions of rows from user uploaded CSV files) I've had good experiences building chunks of XML (couple thousand rows at a time) on the client side and shipping that off to the client as a single XML parameter.

Although, in practice, when importing complex data in real-time there's a lot of experimentation required to determine where the real bottlenecks are and this article skims the surface of the complexity involved in a real import.

For example, do you do your lookups inside your stored procedure or does your application layer deal with all of that and send off pre-prepared data? If the latter, you reduce the amount of time the table is locked whilst adding rows since there are no joins and lookups in the insert, and this may be more performant overall than the alternative.

You can also reduce the duration of any transaction lock you may need to hold for importing all the data which ultimately makes the system more responsive during large imports. Furthermore the "prepare-first" approach makes error reporting more practical since it's generally easier to do and report validation in the application layer.
I'd say you could do some serious work on your site. I have no idea what amazing candy could be sent. Your site is very bland for a site about CANDY. I really like the idea and I think you would totally increase conversion if you actually did some selling of what you're giving (GIANT PICTURES OF CANDY LOOK AT THIS AMAZING CANDY IT COULD BE YOURS TWICE A MONTH). Videos are cool, but I don't see a single beautiful picture of candy on your site.

Also, based on the demographic of people who will want candy from Japan, perhaps toy with the 8-bit nyan-cat-anime-retro geek-style vibe? Cute rainbows and hello kitty and all giant eyes and all that. Perhaps do huge detailed 8-bit renditions OF THE CANDY.
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> 1. Price is hard to figure out. ... Which price should be shown?

The numerical value that will appear on my credit card statement if I were to actually purchase that single item.

Any other value for "price" for that item is a falsehood.
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and it's trivial to write view code that can be compiled in both Node and browsers even without a framework.

Nonsense. It's far from trivial to have the same code get binding and validation right on both sides. That's why it needs to be wrapped in a thin abstraction, which apparently nobody in the node-community has been capable of writing.

Instead we see dozens of rails-clones (oh, exciting..), and a handful of very half-baked full-stack universes that are nowhere near production ready.
Any chance for getting into the alpha?
Your post is a logical fallacy. The fact that a bad metric exists does not mean all metrics are bad.

To address your specific fallacy, the output of coding is heterogeneous while the output of teaching is homogeneous. If I code today, it's a realtime optimization system. Tomorrow it might be a search product. When I taught, the output was always the same: students who understand calculus.
I started this to learn and to provide some basic source of income in addition to software, so it has worked well for that purpose. It has involved writing more software than I expected, though!

Earlier posts are at http://www.bemmu.com/ with currently no easy way to see only the Candy Japan related things. I was still feeling a bit undecided where to put them, wondering if it's a good idea to expose customers to income-related posts.
Romania is OK so far, plus it has cheap internet with great speed. There was a discussion to add some sort of (low) monitoring but haven't heard anything about this for some time, but so far no blocks or other internet limitations.
I'd stay away from DE if you're looking for a free net.

I'm a supporter of the Pirate Party, but the recent history (think Ursula von der Leyen, who constantly tries to ruin different ressorts with braindead ideas) shows that the state considers censorship a viable approach to 'problems'.

In addition, the EU/Brussels are delivering far too much to the US on a silver plate (travel data was the last news) and really like their data retention laws.

The EU is not yet lost, but tries hard to make a lot of wrong decisions.
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There is zero need for shortened links on HN. (Also, this one goes to http://www.copyrightlabs.in/index.php/ceos-desk, which is down for maintenance now.)
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Thanks a lot for the feedback. I agree that might be cool, although would need to test it against current. If you know someone who could such a mockup for me, let me know. The current site was just designed by myself, I wanted to do more cute / sweet style design, but couldn't come up with one that I was satisfied with. You definitely have a point here.

Update: added some example pics
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> a lot of assessments (too many, IMHO)

I definitely agree there. Just the other day, one of my mother's kindergarten students was drawing pictures of her and her teaching assistant and decided to caption the assistant's with "she helps us with our work" and my mother's with "she tests us."
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