skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Uncommon Schools group

http://uncommonschools.org/our-schools

appears to be making a difference for learners who don't grow up with the advantages I grew up with in suburban Minnesota and Wisconsin. I suggest readers of Hacker News take a look at the research originating in that organization, especially the book Teach Like a Champion,

http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470...

for ideas about how to fix the problems mentioned in the article submitted here.
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Yes. Totally. Handling our waste is definitely something our top minds should be dealing with. I'm in. I've reached out through your site, but whom should I contact directly?
why the downvote? there is nothing in the constitution about the federal government providing healthcare. Ergo, based on the 10th amendment it is the right of the states. Massachusetts can do whatever they want. The federal government cannot.
Then please, for the sake of the public good, do the following:

Don't drive on the roads.
Do put out your own fires if you house catches fire.
Do hire private police for your security.
Don't use public transportation.
Don't use the Internet (including HN).
Don't use, or have your children use public schooling.
Do pay completely, without subsidy or federal grant, for all your higher education.
Pay for a septic tank if available, or do not use public sewers.
Don't drink water from city water.
Better yet, don't drink water at all: EPA endorses cleaner environmental health.
Don't eat food unless you grew it: All food is inspected by FDA.

Better yet, just go buy a boat and live in the ocean. And don't come back.

Then you can be free from "EVIL SOCIALISM".
I agree with the assertion that few (probably close to 0) programmers routinely write bug-free code, but I think "incompetent" is a bit harsh - "imperfect" is more apt, I think.

Very, very few non-trivial pieces of code are completely bug-free, and building anything interesting under normal time constraints is really difficult and expensive to prove 100% correct.

So, I guess that point is true, but ultimately not very useful.
To put patio11's last comment in perspective .... citing a resource on how some of the most popular sites looks liked in their initial stages:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular...

OP : Thanks for asking this question. I've been pondering it last night since I am in a similar situation. Just my two cents, I've decided to use Themes from Themeforest that leverage other established frameworks (I prefer the ones that build on twitter bootstrap).

I feel like sticking to a well accepted framework allows you to benefit from further releases since bugs keep getting fixed and you can freely upgrade using the new releases without having to wait for the original author of the theme to do it for you.
IMHO you write software to scratch your own itch, then you release it into the world for others to benefit from your work.. with the nice side effect that sometimes you get feedback,improvements and patches on your code.
money is not a must on the open source equation.
Only if red Shadow is behind pac-man. Bashful targets the location (pacman + (pacman - shadow))
What makes you think anyone else would take on the liability of vetting your care for you? And for free?
There are some controversial studies that show that immigrant blacks can do well -even better than 'native' whites in education. Some of it may have to do with parenting, family structure, social status, etc. http://www.bornblackmag.com/Black_Immigrants_Vs_African_Amer...

It's controversial because some people will take the results and skew the findings to fit their pov without taking into account some of the background. On the other hand, amongst 'native' blacks there can appear a class divide as well http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.pitts/ogbu_theory_

In a kind of related story, professional, rich black parents wanted to find out why their children seemed to be underperforming vis a vis their parents' expectations. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/rich-black-flunking/Conten...

The conclusions are a bit controversial.
On the contrary, many believe it improved morale. We had the BBC playing 24 hours a day (working shifts atm) for the Olympics. During the day many of us would break for a few minutes to watch a Team GB athlete, but I definitely found myself not dozing off, as I tend to do when it gets quiet.

What could be an issue is the number of London-based employees who decided to stay away from central London for the duration. Many worked from home or took annual leave, anticipating travel issues.
Mostly opinions of an angry C programmer. Disagree with all of them. Too context specific. For example, testing. It is generally a good idea, but you don't always want to invest the time if it will have a negative return. Small projects or throw away work are two conditions where this would be true.
Unless it used Bootstrap...
Even with insurance it cost $1400 for a bug bite? I just had a baby (my wife) and we paid $40 for a private room. This is pretty much why I will never live in the USA. Which is unfortunate because I do like the country and could see myself living there except for this.
Functional does not in any way mean better. I do not want to wait on a list for my health care. As I noted in another comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466161 - this doesn't just have to be "current shitty system" versus "socialism". I never said that the current system is great. All I said is that I'd rather have it than socialism. So many things we can fix easily about our system without going to socialism. And Obamacare is the worst of all worlds. Halfway socialism while still keeping insurance companies. Please tell me how that makes sense.
Yes. This is why I defined "incompetence" quite carefully.

Finding bugs in Knuth's or NASA's code might be beyond "a reasonably skilled hacker". To find bugs in that code you would likely have to be "highly skilled", above average.

Everyone makes mistakes. Even professionals who are licensed. The idea is to minimise them to achieve a reasonable, expected level of "correctness". Competent does not mean "perfect". It means no stupid mistakes.

In my biased opinion, there's a high tolerance for stupid mistakes in software.
You don't. Watch:

wget http://www.php.net/get/php-5.3.16.tar.gz/from/us2.php.net/mirror -O php-5.3.16.tar.gz
tar zxvf php-5.3.16.tar.gz
cd php-5.3.16/ext/pcntl
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

At this point you should see a pcntl.so in your extension_dir. Add an extension=pcntl.so to your php.ini file and you are good to go.

Of course with non-bundled extensions from pecl or github you can skip the tarball step.
> huge move away from Windows

With Windows 8, even Microsoft itself is moving away from the traditional Windows interface. So I'm not sure whether Gnome and Unity are actually being creative in departing from Windows-like interfaces, or merely following the latest trend. The trend used to be led by Microsoft, and the Linux Desktop followed it at the time. Now the trend is led by Apple, and the Linux Desktop follows it again.
The solar flux is reasonably constant and finite.

Various cycles (CO2, nitrogen, water, soil) are also relatively finite. We've been perturbing several of these for quite some time, with ultimate effects we can't really know.

Not to mention any natural variability within the system.
guys,

>The first language should NOT be the easy one, it should be >one that sets up the student's mind and prepare it for >serious computer science.
>C is perfect for that, it forces students to think about >memory and all the low level stuff,

as one low-level programmer to another, I hate to break it to you, but "low level programming" is not "serious computer science". the two have very little to do with each other.
Build web app, package as smartphone app with phoneGap. Makes users happy.. right?
The high school I attended was ranked in the top 2% of the country as of a 2000 by Newsweek. The vast majority of my classwork came from photocopied packets and we spent half the year focused on standardized test preparation. You make of it what you want (or more likely, your parents/guardians/etc want).

The education system is flawed, but it's also dealt a shitty hand where it's expected to be day care for teens as well.
What I want is to be able to use the Gnome Shell at the same time as a panel. Currently you can only pick one. Gnome Shell (and Unity) suck at managing multiple instances of apps or their windows which covers most of what I run due to a dual screen setup. So I need the panel for that, but then can't use the Shell.

I did have both working in an earlier release, but the panel was from a third party and they break on every gnome release.
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I think Mark Singer's writing is great. Did you think he represented the situation accurately, though?
1865 called. Said that States lost.
2006 called. Gov. Romney supports ObamaCare^WRomneyCare.
2012 Supreme Court called as well. Said ObamaCare was constitutional.
But its still in Amazon's ebook format. Calibre allows you to convert it to something a Nook can read.
In some cases, client code could be written so that new actions can be discovered and utilised without any changes to the client code. There have been many cases when I've written code that renders things, and I've reused that code to render multiple different things. Eg I might have a page that lists blog posts, and another page that lists comments on a blog post. Some of those things can be deleted, some of them can't, but the code to delete is there for both of them, it's just that on the ones that can't, the delete button is hidden. Using HATEOUS, if the server did start supporting deleting something, that could automatically detect that, and automatically support that new feature that the server now supports.
It's just a reminder that "commercially viable" is not the same thing as "possible".
...and not a single fuck was given.

Because this meets three of the four areas of fair use.
The Value of Starting Small
Not to start a Lisp-vs-Lisp side-conversation here, but if we're going to go with a 'modern' Lisp, I'd prefer one that doesn't add syntax and which supports proper tail-call elimination.

It's not like we have a lack of those, either - Racket's my personal favorite; aside from the robust standard library, the scoped languages give me hope that the 'Lisp curse' has finally been reversed.
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If you enjoyed this article and are unacquainted with the world of running, I highly recommend the book "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall.
That's an interesting argument, but I don't think it quite adds up. Complements don't compete, they complement. The reason you commoditize them (like releasing them as an open source project) is not to kill them off as competition, but to let them thrive cheaply so that they build up the product you are selling. For example, Google's AdWord/AdSense product is complemented by monetized blogs, so Google commoditized monetized blogs with Blogger. Many other free Google services like Gmail can be seen in a similar light.

In addition, CPM ads are a substitute for CPC ads, not a complement. So commoditizing CPM or CPC ads would be a very, very bad idea for Google.

Furthermore I don't think that making AdSense CPC can be said to commoditize CPM ads. Nor did it really commoditize CPC ads; AdSense has been close to monopoly status for a very long time, whereas the goal of commoditizing is to increase competition with no regard for controlling the market.
Damn, Loved your hilarious video on angel.co. LOL
Wow. That looks beautiful.

Note that just because there aren't that many planes over Africa or other places doesn't mean there aren't planes there. From their site: "Today about 60% (about 30% in USA and about 70% in Europe) of the passenger aircraft and only a small amount of military and private aircraft have an ADS-B transponder."
If only I had two downvotes for this nasty insinuation, to distinguish it from the rest of the off-topic meta-arguing.
the same goes for Africa
You're right. Clearly because I don't want socialism it means I want 100% anarchy and no government whatsoever. That doesn't follow at all. You also added several things in there that the government doesn't provide, so I'm just really confused by this comment.

(side note I could probably get by without almost everything on this list except for food and roads. I'm disregarding internet, as the gov't doesn't provide that).

Don't drive on the roads. -do want roads, those the gov't should provide

Do put out your own fires if you house catches fire. - i have a sprinkler system installed so it's unlikely I'll need them. I suspect I could get private insurance to cover this though in a free-market. pay small money into pool (just like taxes) and we can all have firemen without your government. Also, if you don't live in a city, it is very possible that there are no firefighters who will come to your house.

Do hire private police for your security. - Police are nice for keeping things relatively civil, but most of the time they are minutes away when you have a few seconds of need. They come and do paperwork about the thing that happened to you that they couldn't stop.

Don't use public transportation. - i don't

Don't use the Internet (including HN). - since when did the gov't start providing me internet? I should really stop paying charter to provide it for me.

Don't use, or have your children use public schooling. - i think our public schools are pathetic, and I'm seriously considering home schooling.

Do pay completely, without subsidy or federal grant, for all your higher education. - i did. I probably helped pay for yours though with my taxes too.

Pay for a septic tank if available, or do not use public sewers. - no problem. will do.

Don't drink water from city water. - city water mostly sucks. I have to filter it anyways, I might as well filter water from a well.

Better yet, don't drink water at all: EPA endorses cleaner environmental health. - I could do with less from the EPA.

Don't eat food unless you grew it: All food is inspected by FDA. - I could also do with less FDA. Turns out Kroger has a vested interest in not poisoning me. It's likely I'll start going to Publix if they do.
I wonder it live or delayed. Its 10.30 in India and past noon in China.
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Menus broken on galaxy nexus of touch Browser. When I tap on a menu item, the tap registers twice, including whatever occupies the same position on the next menu. Example: Quit - No, which loops back to the game. Also, Credits.
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>As far as I know, black-majority schools with black teachers (vs. white teachers) don't do any better. Even the ones with more funding than the white-majority schools.

I don't believe white teachers are somehow incapable of teaching black students, but what you state here just isn't true. Harlem Children Zone is a good example of a school that has successfully bridged the academic gap between their students and their more privileged counterparts(from any race).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di0-xN6xc_w

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/opinion/08brooks.html
School is slavery because it's compulsory. The individual is responsible for their own education. A great tragedy of the public school system has been to convince people they need teachers to learn.

This girl doesn't need her teacher.
Looks like the Virgin Atlantic and British Airways 747's hit 600+ knots on the redeye across the pond.
Honestly I think you miss the point about education. If you are given a chance and you fail, it's not the teachers fault they didn't motivate you enough. Life is not a pony stable ..
Everybody already knows about the existence of a "states' rights" opinion on health care, and it's not consistent with Republicans' ideology on the subject. You were downvoted accordingly for making statements that have no basis in reality. You should reconsider believing or sharing your own opinions in the future.
Here's a little more (well sort of) modern corporate anthem, from Sun.

http://anthems.zdnet.co.uk/anthems/sun.mp3

Lyrics here: http://www.zdnet.com/it-anthems-the-power-of-sun-3002133207/
To be fair she basically called her teachers modern-day slave drivers. She is right that something stinks, but the problem is a lot more complex than that.

She also should do some research on how parental involvement affects education. The school isn't going to be able provide an education if the students (or their parents) aren't equally involved. Nobody gives you an education. This gets into more complex issues such as families that have to work multiple jobs and don't have time, single parents who are overloaded with work, generations who have been conditioned to dislike education, etc. Teachers are not all paid that well and it's not too hard to see them loose their passion of they feel like their work isn't even appreciated.

The school reacted terribly as well. I know nothing about the school but if it is really that bad then hopefully the parents will get involved and start demanding better education for their kids.
1865 - Slavery was something that states shouldn't have the right to. They also shouldn't allow stealing, murder, etc. Turns out after the Civil War we didn't in fact repeal the 10th amendment.

2006 - No, as for a state and nationally are 2 different things. But even if he did, why should that matter here. I never said anything about Romeney, I don't really like him, and he most certainly was not my choice in the primaries.

2012 - now that is a pretty good point. I think they were wrong, but that is neither here nor there. For now I'll just have to deal with it, but that doesn't mean I can't support Congress repealing it, which they are perfectly capable of. Alternately, I can hope for a future non-Democrat court to actually read the constitution and overturn this recent decision.

(Alternately we could amend the constitution and actually add language that makes socialist healthcare part of it. while i wouldn't support it, that would in fact be preferable to me.)
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Because that's how it works in developed countries.
> The way that the tray is triggered has also been changed. The hot corner – which many people had problems with – has been replaced. Instead, the whole of the bottom screen edge now acts as a trigger area; letting the mouse rest there for a short period will cause the tray to appear. We plan to improve this behaviour in subsequent releases, so that a certain about of pressure against the screen edge is required to open the tray (we need to wait for changes down the stack before we can achieve this).

Honestly, this makes me nervous. The Gnome team often seems far too willing to ship a bad experience because it will help "drain the swamp".
Spotify, app fragmentation, and glass houses.
It's not a big deal I suppose. They are supposed to be coming out with their own iOS browser, called Junior

https://air.mozilla.org/product-design-at-mozilla/
I don't. Exceptions in general FORCE a developer to deal with the problem. They can slap a developer in the face if they're abusing the API.

Error codes on the other hand can be ignored.

PutLionInCage();

PokeLionWithStick();

I'd rather PutLionInCage() throws if there is a problem.
The Cray-2 (1985) supercomputers featured 'liquid immersion' cooling - the cubes of processors were dropped into a bath of inert oil [1][2][3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert

[2] Seymore Cray speaking about liquid cooling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfi_gNPuh0&list=FLZwq3bl...

[3] Visible cooling fluid within a 90s era Cray at the NSA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8X8w8a4f4#t=23s
Max Ogden also did a great write up on Web View optimizations.

http://maxogden.com/fast-webview-applications
If you need an exception here, you're just a bad programmer. It's your fault you didn't explicitly check that the lock was functional before poking that lion! /s
Right. I'm currently on a work-holiday visa in Canada (BC). I went to an ER and had to pay ~$825 upfront, before seeing a doctor.

My travel insurance reimbursed everything but you'd better have money on your credit card...

Before getting my work holiday visa, I had to prove that I had medical insurance covering me during my stay in Canada.

[edit: I'm from Belgium]
I would also like to hear an explanation. I found many of the topics thought provoking, such as Single Entry Single Exit.
Yeah, complete fail. Obviously since 6 billion is even, the number's (2^(6 billion) - (2^(6 billion))! / (2^(3 billion))!^2) / 2.
What does Republican ideology have to do with my comment? How does that make my comment have no basis in reality. Also, I will not reconsider believing or sharing my own opinions in the future. I'm quite sure my freedom of speech is covered.

Note that my comment has since been upvoted, so at least I'm not the only one on hn who has read the constitution.
I think you're mostly right about this. Aside from a few items, the south bay can match SF point for point. The big difference is that in the SB you need to know where those places are (they're not always obvious) and you have to drive many exits to get from one place to another.

For example, if I want hole-in-the-wall Mexican cuisine and I want some Vietnamese dessert, I might be able to walk from one place to the next, in SF. In SJ accomplishing the same would mean going from somewhere in north San Jose, to then somewhere on Senter road. There's no way to walk it (ok, 2 hours). If I want Cambodian it's another trek across the freeways. So, yes, things are there in the SB, but you have to know where to find them and they can be very far from each other. But, if you like "discovery" of hidden places, the SB has some interesting hidden in plain sight places. They're hidden because most have a very targeted (ethnic) audience and few people outside that audience tend to know about those places, unless intro'd by someone who knows.

That is to say, the 'ethnic' aspects of SF actually have a diverse audience in mind, while in SJ, for example, most of the ethnic aspects are directed to a select audience and thus are less approachable by outsiders. At least that's how I felt about these things when I was in SJ.
>Perhaps in retrospect, having all the apps tied to a single entity was a bad service for your clients representing a single point of failure.

Yeah I worked at a company the bought an off-the-shelf template for an app from a company that did a lot of customization too for us. They required every client to register the apps at Apple themselves. Smart.
Reminds me of Stephen Glass [1], the reporter who fabricated entire events and wrote about them in The New Republic, as well as the movie Catfish [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulist

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film)
no plane around beijing?
But sometimes it's not just the programmer that gets bitten, it's all the other people at the zoo, too. Exceptions help protect everyone.
Sure but are you telling me you always work on teams where everyone is shit hot?

If you write a library are you thinking that everyone is going to use it properly?

My point is that exceptions help people to learn how to use APIs (its kinda like documentation that appears through use!) and exceptions make things _safer_.

I appreciate you could write the above in two try catches but my point is that it would look more wrong. The code above _looks_ fine and that's my point.
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This is crazy cool. I love the cockpit view!