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No worries, just thought i'd point it out is all, technically they'll both work.
That's a thinly veiled piece of advertising for a Facebook analytics startup.
As a non-native speaker, what is the difference and why is the former (I'm guessing) mocking/derogatory?
One reason both are in my results blacklist.
So he gave away records for a ridiculously low price. Do you think this is a viable business model?
I don't think this is about the schools, but more the curriculum. The author's argument is that children should be taught all the disciplines at once rather than sequentially; the fact that he's sending his daughter abroad to achieve that is tangential to the core point.
It's complicated. Government funded schools (they are funded by a combination of local, state, and federal funds) are tied to a district.

Some districts have multiple schools, in which case you have a school based upon your address that you are supposed to go to (typically based upon highly gerrymandered boundaries since school quality has a large affect on housing prices), but you can usually apply to go to a different school within the district, for which there are various rules that decide which requests are approved assuming there are more transfer requests than the school can accommodate.

Where I grew up, things weren't quite so bad, since the school-system was county wide, but you still got things where parents "in the know" would have their kids transfer from less desirable "school A" to more desirable "school B" based upon manufactured reasons like "My kid wants to take Japanese, and school A doesn't offer it.

Where I live now, things are much worse. For example:

1) The wealthiest part of town has a school district with exactly one school in it. As a large fraction of school funding comes from local property taxes (split among the district), the budget for that single school is much larger than all other schools in the town

2) The boundaries for determining your school in the main school district are badly gerrymandered. There are many cases in which people living in traditionally hispanic parts of the town will have to cross-through a the region for a more desirable school in order to get to the school to which they are assigned.
Don't magnetic connectors on deep fat fryers famously pre-date MagSafe?

MagSafe (according to Wikipedia): 2006
The above CNN article: 2001
You get what you pay for -- the 'likes' you got from countries other than U.S. and UK were very cheap, so don't expect such crazy value in terms of brand awareness that turns into dollars. The reason 'likes' in U.S./UK are way more expensive is because it's competitive, that is, brands are willing to pay that much for 'likes' because over time they see they're getting something from it. The fact that your company is non-existent seems irrelevant. You created a funnel and some percentage of people who see the ad will convert, plain and simple.
I would think that's because Quake3 is held up as one of the best multiplayer FPS games of all time. It really had a buttery smooth feeling to it that's never present in modern games like BF3 or CoD.
Projects keep migrating/being built in it because it offers things other languages don't (for example being relatively close to the metal while still being Object Oriented) and it's available.

On the other side you have web people who hate javascript or would like a solution more suited to their needs and can barely do anything about it since it's the only browser language. I find C++ just as messy as anyone else but its context is so different from javascript's that it doesn't even make sense to compare them.
T connectors are better than L.

https://plus.google.com/107376902684111594494/posts

Had an L connector - I can either cover my ports or have it dangle towards the back. Towards the back, it picked up a lot of heat from the heat vents, because they run a lot because I use the laptop for heavy duty computing quite often.

I got some crap about "potential abuse - we'll switch it this time, but they're not meant to withstand abuse" (or something like that). This is normal every day use for 1 year. Old T style - have had multiple of them - never had this problem.
I'm not sure Microsoft has the balls (or legal foothold) to repeat their mistakes from the 90s.

If I became Bill Gates in the early 90s, I would make every one of their "mistakes" all over again. A law suit is just the inconvenience their lawyers dealt with on the path to domination.
Have you tried Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (http://learnyouahaskell.com/)? It's not as comprehensive or full of practical examples as something like RWH, but as an introductory text, I think it does a better job than any other Haskell book I've come across at keeping challenging concepts understandable.
We had the same experience. We were able to get a "like" for our page under 10 cents (In Indian market). Number of likes grew from 500 to 5000 in matter of days. But drilling bit more, it seemed like most of these people were having hundreds of likes. As a business owner at the end of the day it was hard to quantify value of these likes. We waited more, and started measuring engagement of these users for our subsequent wall updates on our pages. Results were disappointing. Engagement of people generated from "organic" likes was 10 times higher than the one generated from paid advertising. We also found that very few of those 5000 people ever engaged with our page in subsequent weeks.

Bottom line: We were happy to generate 5000+ likes with little money, and that helped us look like more legit and popular business. However, real value of generating business from these ads was minimal.
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This probably applies to start-ups as well. I wonder how many would-be start-up founders changed their minds after realizing they would not be able to afford health insurance without a full-time job.

Reminds me of an article I read last year about how there are more start-ups in Norway because the country has a really wide and extensive social safety net, so people don't have to worry about hitting rock bottom if they quit their job to pursue their own endeavors.
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The quoted line was from going back, editing, and even screwing that up. haha

I can see what you're saying. I still feel like intuitive code == simpler, but we'll have to agree to disagree.

This has made me more interested in diving in and learning some lower level stuff since you believe it is more simple. At the very least it'd be a great learning experience.
Gender roles are a problem because they mean that anyone who doesn't fit into them nicely gets screwed over. This affects, oooh, probably pretty much everyone because the odds of someone matching up with them exactly in every possible regard are pretty damn low.
"Some women are golddiggers, but more importantly, all women, as a rule, have golddigging tendency."

Exactly. Women want a man that can provide (this is usually achieved through money and power). Just like men want a woman that's attractive.

I don't know why people want to go against human nature or try to pretend that it's a bad thing or it doesn't exist.
Magsafe is the thing I hate the most in a MacBook. Maybe this is a third world problem, but this connecter is a dust magnet, and it routinely attracts so much dirt that I have to clean it up before the circuit is established. I so much prefer the PC connectors.
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Yeah, for me that was physics. 11th grade.

In my highschool, (to graduate) everyone had to take calculus, normally in 12th grade. Unfortunately, physics (required in 11th grade) makes a hell of a lot more sense if you have some basic calculus first. All the kinematic equations are just random terms until you see that they're all derivatives/integrals of each other.

On the other hand, My wife went through the british school system, and didn't have any math or science after age 13. It was all languages and such.

The american system delays specialization for a long time, generally till the second half of college. (or even into grad school). The UK specializes way earlier, and you can get away with a small handful of related subjects after A levels.
Is the type of magazine more important than the article content? The subject of male bias in programming, work balance, brogrammers, etc. comes up here all the time. This article fits right in.
Did you have AdWords ads running on the "Content Network" (i.e. other random sites)? I was getting a bunch of click fraud on some Google ads a while back. Based on the referrers, it was pretty clearly someone who set up a bunch of sites and then was generating a ton of automated traffic to click on their ads and generate money. The bots even went so far as to fill out the contact form on our landing page once getting there (I guess to trick Google's conversion tracking script?).

The worst part is I submitted some of this data to Google and they basically said, don't worry we've already detected all the click fraud and filtered it out so you never were charged for it. Uh, ok. No way to prove or disprove that. But if you identified these bozos as fraudsters, why do they still have AdWords accounts weeks later?
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I've been using the 2012 MBA near daily since it came out. I have definitely noticed that the magsafe feels significantly weaker than it should, but I think it's simply a matter of Apple not cranking up the magnetism.

There is nothing inherently wrong with the T design (at least, in that it would outweigh the pros vs. the L design), and as others have pointed out, it has a number of advantages.

Speaking from personal experience, his exasperation is very over exaggerated. Sure, it's annoying, but I would much rather have it too weak than too strong.
Microsoft shouldn't just look at the iPad, it's short-sighted. The reality is that Android has become the most common OS on smart-phones and both Google and Amazon are subsidizing tablets so that lots of people are able to buy their first ones with Android cheaply.

When it's time for these people to buy their second tablet, which one do you think they will choose: a Surface, an iPad or one of the many available ones with the OS they know? A classical Microsoft strategy turned against them.

It's not enough to compete with the iPad on price. If Surface is cheaper than the iPad, but the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 are cheaper than both of them, people will buy the Android ones, and probably no feature will change that.

Apple is comfortable with their first-mover advantage and respected brand, they can continue selling devices with high margin profits to people with disposable income as long as they don't damage their brand with a poor product.

Companies using Android are comfortable selling in bulk and making tiny profits with each device.

Microsoft cannot be Apple, they are entering the market almost three years late. They should compete with Android subsidizing heavily their tablets or risk becoming a niche product on this segment, as Windows Phone.
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No: this extension provides functions that allow SQL queries and store procedures to make outgoing requests to a memcache server; the functionality that was being experimented with in MySQL (HandlerSocket) and was recently implemented for the upcoming 5.6 turns MySQL into a memcached server, providing direct read/write access to an InnoDB table using the memcache protocol, bypassing the SQL parser and query optimizer.

(FWIW, AFAICT, the main reason MySQL needed this is because its prepared statements functionality is subpar. In specific, it does not seem to support preparing a parameterized statement and then saving the query plan to be used for a later bound set of arguments: when the arguments are later bound it is forced to re-optimize the query. I imagine that most of the same performance benefits of HandlerSocket could then easily be obtained using the PostgreSQL v3 protocol, albeit with obviously different client support.)

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2011-07-16/planning-for-r...
I have to echo the sentiment of some others here. Facebook ads are not useless -- far from it. However it does seem that a lot of people are trying to game the system in overseas markets. My theory? The bots are coming from blackhat ad services like these: http://www.buyilikes.com/

Perhaps they have bot farms that try to drive up the likes of ANY ad targeted to those countries? I'm not sure, but the summary of the posts over the last few days seems to be that ads perform legitimately in the US and EU, and with some questions elsewhere.
Yes, I'm sure most men learned what they know about feminism from Atlantic articles. That is the simplest explanation here.
> Just what App Engine already offers

No, it doesn't.

"The Memcache Python API
High performance scalable web applications often use a distributed in-memory data cache in front of or in place of robust persistent storage for some tasks"

MySQL memcached is not a cache, it's a persistent storage with memcached API.
And it's fast.
You need 25 likes before you can get a branded page, plus no business wants their facebook page to look like a ghost town. People on fiverr have been capitalizing on this for a while at dirt cheap cost/like:

http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=facebook&x=0&y=0
And inside that tar.gz file is a spindump.txt file, which will have the samples of whatever application is spinning at the moment, just like if you used Activity Monitor to sample it.
Very cool!

Worth mentioning that id Software deserves a ton of credit for open sourcing their engines. Most open source 3D gaming stuff, like Warsow here, is based on their code.
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P.S. Anyone still experiencing stress at the end of the day will be fired.
I remember reading the original article and thinking that we're slowly moving toward a situation where you could just replace "women" with "men". I've scaled back on my career because I have two small children, and I can't leave the house before 7:30 or get home much after 6pm if I want to stay involved to the extent I choose to be as a father. I want to help them with homework, music practice, sports, and just spend some time with them.

Now a lot of people may notice that I (very deliberately) used the word choose. Not everyone will make this choice, and some people have a tougher time with a choice than others. But as I remember from the Atlantic article, the author did have a husband who was available and willing to provide a very high level of domestic support. She wrote, with some hesitation, that she things women may be less inclined to spend time away from their families and at the office even when they do have this level of support (she cited both social conditioning as well as the possibility of basic biology as a factor in this).

I don't know if I'm unusual. I actually argued about this with my wife, who insists that I'm unusually at ease, as a male, with stepping back from my career to do domestic things. Personally, I have trouble believing that I am especially unusual, and I definitely know plenty of men who have made the same choice I did. Yeah, I can't have it all. If I want to limit work to 8:30am to 5:30pm, and at times have to shorten even those hours, that will affect my career. At times, I do look at other people's achievements with some envy, but I'm clear that this was my choice. I can't have it all, of course I can't. There are trade-offs in life.

There are of course still some big differences for women - I do think that it's probably harder for a woman to find a male partner who will fill the domestic gap than it is for a man to find a woman who will do this (though even if they do, they'll still have to accept the "understudy" role as a parent as they spend more time at the office than their husbands). If there truly is a deeper, biological pull here for women on average, then maybe we should look into better "on ramps" for people in their 40s (the author said she is frequently asked about this, and her honest answer is that there aren't really any good on ramps for middle aged people, at least not in her field).

I still see differences between men and women around the question of whether we can "have it all", but this does seem to be converging - and ultimately the answer will be "no, you can't."
Can you describe this in the form of a testable hypothesis?
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Problems:

(1) Slow

(2) Sprockets' C-style require directives because the people working with ruby don't want to get their hands dirty with crawling the javascript AST and parsing out commonjs or even Harmony-ES module system requires.

(3) Incompatibilities between various JS-focused gems because of sprockets issues. Getting Require.js to work took a long time and then it took a lot longer to get the require.js gem to work with jasmine.js, and even then it ended up being a jerryrigged approach.

In general, sprockets is a mess with respect to Javascript handling versus what you can do in node.js.
Decent question. And I'm happy to respond.

We drop him off at 8 am and pick him up at 5 pm (that's 9 hours). He goes to bed between 8 and 9 and wakes up at around 6:30 am (that's about 10 hours). Both parents drop and pick him up. So we spend about 4 waking hours per day with him and he spends 9 waking hours at daycare. Obviously there is no daycare on weekends.

On the question of values: my daycare lady's values are in sync with our own, so I don't worry about the values.

Wrt connecting emotionally: i used to wonder about this too. whether he'll get confused about who his real parents are. whether he will be close to us, or whether he will think the daycare people are "his family" etc.

I'm happy to report that that's absolutely not the case. When he gets hurt in daycare he cries for 'dad' (and has never asked for his daycare lady at home). He totally groks that we are his parents and his identity as a member of his family is the one only he has. He thinks of his daycare as a sort of playground that he goes to meet his friends.

I hope I answered your questions. You should talk to the couples you know too to get their perspective.
Is Flask catching up with Django in terms of preferred python framework?
Disclaimer: I fiddled with Django (personal only) and then switched to Flask. I love it so far!!<p>I do notice a trend lately that the number of startups using Flask is growing (ads on HN jobs etc.). It is still way behind Django but something interesting. What do you guys think ?
Start with funding. Pay teachers well. Make being a teacher the same as being a lawyer or a good engineer.

> For example, I would expect much, much more science to be recommended by the typical HN commentator than by the typical teachers' union.

Great point. I understand that some teachers wouldn't really understand a bad science text book/curriculum vs a good one, because they are not that good at it. Associate schools with local universities. Ask university math and physics professors to rate a curriculum., don't just rely on English majors being influenced by book publishers to determine how science should be taught

Fundamentally education is so far down the list after wars spending, elderly care and other issues that it just gets the short end of the stick. If they approached it with the same budget and interest as they approach a new aircraft carrier fleet we'd have a world-class education system.
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>Gender roles are a problem because they mean that anyone who doesn't fit into them nicely gets screwed over. This affects, oooh, probably pretty much everyone because the odds of someone matching up with them exactly in every possible regard are pretty damn low.

Do you have any evidence of gender roles so specific and enforced so strictly that "pretty much everyone" gets "screwed over" for not matching up with them exactly in "every possible regard?"

How do you account for all the people, perhaps a majority, who don't seem to have any problem with traditional gender roles, but in fact, embrace them? They don't seem to feel they are being "screwed over."
I'm using an XFX 6870, two-headed, on my Hackintosh, and didn't have to edit anything. I'm pretty sure hardware acceleration is working, too.
Oh yeah that's particularly scary (if you happen to like bananas). Most commercial bananas plants are clones. This leads to strict regulations on commercial bananas and it's still pretty likely we'll see them disappear one day.
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> "Then who pays for it and why?"

Many people believe social signals help increase their search engine rankings and/or conversion rates. Some of those people buy likes, shares, etc. for that reason.

> "What is the incentive to fake-like advertisers on facebook?"

Perhaps people who offer those social-seo services control thousands of robot-facebook accounts and they want their robots to seem like real, active users? It seems possible that they would automate some random activity (in this case liking virtual bagel's ad) while they're waiting around for orders.

Just guesses.
Encouraging bad behaviour by making it safer to behave badly.
That was fantastic, thanks for sharing. I wonder if they use Celestia or something to create that. I would really like to know how they created that.
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A lot of the professional athletes from my school use their positions to help fund (and/or run) nonprofits across the state of California. Some of them run nonprofits that benefit refugees in Africa. Others fund medical clinics in Southeast Asia. More than a few have helped raise millions for the cancer research you love so dearly.

You know what they all have in common? Their job is to be an athlete. It says nothing about their ability to give back to society.

Indeed, I would argue that the average professional athlete gives back more to society and creates more value than a hacker who wants to give the world Yet Another Useless Social Platform/iApp/SaaS That No One Will Ever Use.

In my opinion, merely creating a startup is not something of value to society--you actually have to create something of value.
"But in running this non-existent firm I have learned quite a bit about the value of those "likes" prized by so many big brands, and the usefulness of Facebook's advertising."

Shouldn't he have said useLESSness not usefulness? It's pitifully useless, let's not be politically correct and say it's not that useful.
> I completely disagree

There's nothing to disagree about. The guy just pointed out what happened.

Besides, "I completely disagree" is just code for "You're wrong".
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For an alternative viewpoint on that article: http://feministing.com/2010/06/16/is-female-dominance-a-succ... Though come to think of it, that's just as bad too. If we deal with women doing worse in some areas through affirmative action and other schemes aimed at compensating for their disadvantages, but deal with men doing worse in others by just trying to do away with the idea that gender matters - which we never consider to be enough when women are worse off - the net result is effectively systematic discrimination in favour of women throughout society.