skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all over the map, and there are hardworking teachers.

I can tell you about my experience in the 90's. There were exceptions, but generally teachers I had would hand out worksheets and assignments, and then class time would be spent doing what was effectively homework. Very rarely would there be an actual lecture. I had several completely incompetent teachers as well, who were completely tolerated by the schools administration.

One teacher, Mrs. Rushing, was completely incompetent. During the lesson on vector addition, she claimed that if you added a bunch of vectors together, it was the same as taking a vector from the beginning of the first vector to the end of the last vector, if you put the source of each vector at the end of the previous one. Well, that's what she was meant to say, she actually insisted that the length of the paths was the same, and she argued for it despite it being obviously wrong. She had at best a weak and often incorrect understanding of the material she was meant to be teaching. She also used her entire planning period each day to sell Avon or Mary Kay or something, which I witnessed every day as I was an aid in the math department and was in the planning room during her planning period. Every day some random lady would come in to the school and chat with her for an hour and try cosmetics during the time she was meant to be preparing for classes. During class she would often get stuck and go ask other teachers questions mid class.

So it would have been great if they had tested the outcomes of the students who were in her class, and compared them to the several wonderful teachers teaching the same subject at the same school. Instead, she is still there.
At Google, "Perv" history is part of the transfer packet, which means that people with average political-success (sorry, I mean "performance") histories become immobile, creating a low-morale underclass that is good for mailing-list drama but bad for the company. It turns average employees and no-fault lack-of-fit cases into problem employees who have to be pushed out. It's disgusting, and people who believe this is okay shouldn't be allowed to make decisions that affect other people. Or drive. Or breathe.

I know that practice is now typical in companies, but it's morally indefensible. Having "Don't Be Evil" as a motto is no excuse. I think Google is a great company in many ways and I have a lot of respect for the engineers I met there, but the people who designed "Perf" belong in jail for the billions of dollars of shareholder value that they torched for no good reason.
No updates for over 2 years:

https://code.google.com/p/xomb/source/list

Nothing to see here, move along.
Functional Programming with Python (slides)
They are good. I'd enjoy reading more from their ops guys - likely others wouldn't though :-( a significant portion of ops concerns would probably appear unsexy to non ops people, but horses for courses, whatever floats your boat and all that. I love it.
These Old Guard guys are studs. They spend hours every day prepping their uniforms for their thirty minute guard shift, even though it's only going to get soaked as soon as they step out into the rain. They shave twice a day and cut their hair daily. No matter how hot, cold, wet, or miserable it is, they're out there and they never miss a step.

If you're ever in Washington DC, spend an afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery and check them out. It's inspirational to watch someone who is so dedicated to their work.
Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic
What's new in android 4.2 jellybean, with video
But Google doesn't make the devices, LG does.
2 things.

1. Where does it say the author is a male? I didn't see that, and the name "Kris" is used as a female name just as often as a male name[1]

2. I'm not sure the parent is saying that this is the best way to test math, rather that it is better for math than any of the other subjects. i.e. 2+2 is always 4 but writing essays is a whole different ballgame.

[1] http://www.nameplayground.com/Kris

EDIT: I think standardized testing sucks mostly, just wanted to offer an alternative interpretation on the math testing part.
This is great. The path to peace is education, high skill jobs and prosperous businesses.
Your version isn't actually very accurate. In particular, note that official Mormon doctrine was at times much more racist and at other times less racist than contemporary conservative US attitudes, with significant changes from one "prophet" to the next. I wouldn't characterize it as following others attitudes, but rather as being controlled by the whims of individual men who were all over the spectrum of US attitudes, and who didn't particularly agree with each other.

Your comment on polygamy is also lacking sufficient detail. In particular, note that LDS polygamy was never convenient or accepted by outsiders; whenever it was publicly known, it led to serious community opposition, and probably contributed to their being chased out of Nauvoo [2]. They also officially denied practicing or teaching polygamy, even as Joseph Smith was accumulating a total of 34 wives [0]; he was actually killed as a result of fallout from burning the printing press that was used to expose the practice [1]. Even their "abandoning the practice" was more of a denial that it ever happened, and a weak bit of "advice" to "refrain" from violating local laws [3]. This came shortly after serious attempts by the US government to end polygamy via asset seizures and other forms of pressure; unlike in the 1850s, there were few uncolonized areas they could move to (but some LDS fled to Mexico, including some of Mitt Romney's ancestors [4]). So it would be more accurate to say that the practice was officially abandoned when it became exceedingly difficult to continue. Even so, unofficially within the main LDS church and officially within various offshoots, polygamy continues to this day [5]; official doctrine still teaches polygamy in the afterlife as well [6].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr. - I have, in the past, found the same list on LDS-run sites like familysearch.org, but it appears to have been scrubbed

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Mormon_War#The_.22Mor...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_Manifesto#The_Manifesto

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_family

[5] My friend Doris Hansen escaped from fundamentalist Mormon polygamy, and now runs a ministry to rescue other women and children: http://www.shieldandrefuge.org/index.htm . The ministry has its own TV show at http://whatloveisthis.tv/ . The show archives contain lots of interviews with former polygamist men and women.

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_polygamy#Modern_...
Really cool, can't wait to see this evolve.
Cutting the head off the snake - Quitting Facebook
Yup, we have more elements in the full builder right now, but we kept the demo limited for aesthetics. More data entry types, more types of media, other goodies :) You won't be able to make anything under the sun, but what you can make will look and feel top notch.

There's lots of monetization models we could use, and part of the reason we're doing the current beta is to find out what makes sense for us. Doing specific tweaks to individual apps is on the table, but it's not as appealing because it's hard to scale and keep the quality high.
I thought Apple's app store makes a fraction of what they make on the phones?

Although Google's profit's are in the billions, so are their users. Their profit per user is actually pretty small to be running an at a loss hardware device.

And we can't pretend that people don't use their ecosystem on other devices anyway.

I honestly have no clue at what Google are trying to achieve sometimes. I mean it makes sense for Amazon, but Google? Not so much.
You're right, it's exactly the same in every way. No strawman here!
And if they were passing out a limited number of Unique or Unusual hats, it'd be like passing out Benjamins. The TF2 hat market is fascinating.
> It never ends for a beginner...I miss programming simple stuff.

It never ends for a programmer. Constant learning and reinventing is what defines us. It gets easier to pick up new stuff, but you never end the process of picking up new stuff.
while i think that the kernel development is fundamentally flawed (just one example: see obscuring of security issues) not only but also because of linus. its governance has some strength. you will not find such horrible code in linux as in other software stacks, say... openstack. wow is that bad code.
> faster than we think

Surface Pro, hopefully.
FYI, on my system (Chrome 23, Ubuntu Precise), the SHIFT key has no effect. I am unable to type quotes, exclamation marks, etc. I noticed a couple of other posters mentioned similar problems, but wanted to call it out clearly in a separate top-level comment.
Quite symbolic. "Hey Nokia - with Elop, you're in our pocket". How's it fell in there?
Philips Announces LIFx Competitor: WiFi-based Hue
Relevant for those thinking that "volatile" will save the day: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/emsoft08-preprint.pdf

It shows that a) volatile does not have to do _anything_ (if that is documented by the compiler) and b) you cannot trust your compiler to be bug-free. The latter is one reason to follow cert.org's advice to read the disassembly output of your compiler.
Yeah, it's really quite sad to see just a lame blog post and very little press at all around what should be a huge launch.

I suspect part of the reason they launched is that basically all of the information has been out there for a few weeks now anyway, so better to kill off the rumor mill.
The alternative method plays fine here on Linux Mint with Chrome, opens a stream in movie player.
Does not appear to have LTE support out of the box. But the chipset DOES have an LTE modem, so there is hope.
Maybe it's

4) They are so caught up in bureaucracy and mindless tasks they actually don't even know what Silverlight is, and why it's dying/dead.
> ...which you recognize by having a copy of that work and specifically matching for it. If I were a copyright lawyer, I'd argue that your algorithm for plucking this value out of the stream of randomness was the infringement.

I don't have to recognize it myself. Say I put all the resulting files up for download on an FTP server, and the RIAA stumble across the collection. Within, say, a collection of every possible 30 second long MP3 file encoded at 128kbps, I'd probably be infringing on a few thousand copyrighted works.

For each infringement there'd be many, many more 'infringing' files (i.e. every slight variation on a work that a copyright lawyer would deem indistinguishable from the original work)

> If you're prepared to pay $35 each to register the copyright on all of those, knock yourself out. I'll enjoy not paying taxes anymore.

Apparently you can register copyright for music tracks in bulk. In any case, where I live you don't have to register copyrights.
I don’t have any idea what a wooden structure is, but I’m building a city.
Oh I definitely understand why Google made the decision, it just isn't a decision that suits me. HSPA+ isn't enough of an upgrade for me to make the purchase, especially if 6 or 8 months from now there's a great Android phone that does have LTE.

I may end up buying the Nexus 4 anyway, but no LTE puts up a big resistance barrier that would otherwise put me in line to pre-order the phone.
Imagine businesses before disruptions became commonplace; that's the state of K-12, maybe even worse.
On a phone, wouldn't you need to also switch the SIM card? It seems to me that switching accounts on a phone might not be practical if the device still answers to the same phone number. Am I wrong?
Intuitive and efficient. You, sir, have too many ideas.
Finally someone stood against anti-consumer carriers.
But you can't buy one of these through verizon, you have to pay the full price. Most people will still get the other phones at the "discounted" price after 2 year contract.... It just seems like the path of least resistance for the consumer.
That's a bizarre critique. It's just more likely she would be working on youtube ad code than self-driving cars or augmented reality sunglasses, which most people would consider less constructive than a social network.

Additionally, I think many people would consider Facebook more valuable than augmented reality sunglasses. If we're going to only build things that humanity "needs", we're going to needlessly limit our scope and put many people out of jobs. After all, our needs are considerably less than our wants.
You might want to consider making it clear that there is more than the demo shows. The demo is great but I was under the impression that I was looking at the full version and quickly discounted it thinking I need more tools than that. I think just a line of copy explaining that would be helpful.

Awesome demo btw.
When I bought my Linux laptop, it _was_ brand-new. But that was in 2009. :)
Usually, yes, but I might just need a guest account for people to use apps/games without overwriting my data, surf the web, etc. It definitely wouldn't be useless.
Google calls it "True RGB Real Stripe PLS", so definitely not PenTile.
I worked for two startups that were duds (in different ways) but I like the idea of startups. I like what we can do as technologists, but have much less affinity for a lot of what we actually do. There's so much, across the industry, that is just waste.

The problem of the wrong people making decisions is almost certainly ancient. Shakespeare called it "the insolence of office" (Hamlet). I like the idea that people can stand up and try to change it. Unfortunately, I don't see VC-istan as being that. From what I've seen (which is not everything) I'm not inspired.
I don't necessarily want a really small phone. Just a bit smaller, that would be nice.

I really do not want a non-Nexus phone, and it just annoys me a bit when Google is able to pick all the right trade-offs for me, except that one.
All hanging by a thread, since random buildings can be bombed or demolished as 'retaliation'.
Why Money Isn't Everything
It's possible that there was a state-wide hiring freeze on teachers. State revenues, like federal revenues, declined substantially during the economic downturn. And since education is usually a major part of state budgets, it becomes a primary target for spending cuts if the state government is trying to reduce the amount of debt they're accumulating. A lot of states have balanced budget requirements, but I don't know if Oregon is one. Even if Oregon doesn't have a balanced budget requirement, there will still be substantial political pressure for the state government to reduce spending.
The school bureaucracy is a symptom of something else, as is the monotonous testing and the union power. The American educational system changed its premise back in the 1960s.

Since that time, we have become addicted to assembly line, one-size-fits-all, bulk format education in which we put kids through a ton of information and measure them by how much they retain. Not the quality of what they retain, and not their actual skills, but what they've memorized.

By prioritizing memorized facts over learned application, we are losing a lot of our most talented kids. To compound the problem further, this one-size-fits-all approach isn't calibrated to the smart kids, but to the average. In public schools, it's also impossible to send home the disruptive kids.

The result is a system that is so hobbled by contradictions that it is dysfunctional. Dysfunction attracts lazy administrators who like to use test metrics to force teachers to teach to the test, thus making everyone look like a success, even when the graduates aren't good at doing anything.

The recent spate of test-cheating scandals should show us exactly why these tests are in favor among administrators. Instead of a broad open-ended task like "teach these kids to reason," all you have to do is make sure they make a pretty bell curve on the standardized test.
> "Given that it is "easy" for people to leave, I would have thought the policies would be forced to change?"

I wish this were true. Certainly, if people were more careful about how they spend their lives, this would be true.

However, you need to consider the average (or even above average) young engineer and how he makes decisions. Sit in a computer lab at a major engineering university and start a conversation with the CS and EE students to see what kind of work they want to do. They have no idea. These kids work themselves raw to get perfect grades in EECS programs that require all-nighters to get the work done, but at the end of the day, they are as confused about The Good Life as anyone.

Most of these kids have had heavy pressure from their families to do well in school, and that same pressure pushes them into a "prestigious" company like Google. Recruiting flyers actually use the word "prestigious" (same for recruiting flyers for the various engineering student groups and fraternities), which I think must be specifically targeted as Asian students' cultural background.

A lot of great minds I have studied with simply shrug when asked what they want to do for a career. Hence Google has its pick.
I think this is something that varies by office and by manager. I was told that maybe they could let me transfer after a year, but that even a low "meets expectations" score would mean zero chance of being able to transfer.
I never understood these live editors. Why throw all the great features of your local text editor out the window?
Speaking as another compiler guy (ok, more into PL), there is a reason many of the top engineers at Google are PL/compiler guys (e.g., Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat)...think of MapReduce. However, we are also sort of dangerous as we see many problems as PL problems, and if the problems require specialized domain expertise beyond grunt programming, we really aren't that effective (e.g., machine learning) without being paired with those domain experts.
Former journalist here.

The news media tends to avoid complicated stories. Sometimes it's because the reporters and editors don't understand the story, but oftentimes it's because of A) space limitations or B) complicated backstories will confuse readers/audiences. Television news has an especially difficult time overcoming these factors.

But this is the WSJ. Complicated stories and cofounders/partners hitting rough patches (or being pushed aside) are the norm. In this instance, there's not enough data to determine what went wrong. But I find it hard to believe an experienced WSJ reporter would gloss over/leave out such important details.
Their press event was cancelled because of a hurricane. Cut them some slack.
> Android already runs Chrome

It runs a browser that is a fork of Chromium and shares the Chrome branding, but Android Chrome is not Chrome.
How are those two easily distinguishable, when the major selling point of your skill set is that you worked on and designed a system whose workings are the confidential information.
This is a test period for the post Jobs Apple.

Apple has a loyal mac user base willing to pay an Apple premium. A business that won't just disappear overnight. They had a good head start on iphones. Combined with the obscure phone prices on plans, Apple can easily get their premium here. The tablet market they pretty much had to themselves.

Now Android really is mature. Great devices at great prices that compete with iOS devices on features and not just on price.

Lets see if they can keep up their margins.
A lot of reviewers raved about the Galaxy S II amoled
Thank you for sharing. I had imagined Google was a place to "shop around" for a good fit. Whilst they seem much further from this than, say, GitHub, I'm glad someone came up with a counterclaim to the immutable blind allocation.
Some TL;DR:

The article speculates that the emergence of Windows Store app platform from the Windows desktop could become similar to the emergence of Windows from DOS, and that newer technologies will similarly only be available on the Windows Store app platform.

It describes the locked-down properties of the Windows Store, and, extrapolating from the current certification requirements for Windows Store apps, it asserts that a game like Skyrim would be denied certification on Windows Store in 2032 because of its PEGI rating.
The desired result is not "X golf balls will fit in a bus" but the process of how the interviewee approaches the problem.

Are they entirely baffled by the question? Are they stuck, with no idea about how to proceed? Or do they ask for more information from the interviewer? Interviews are not about quizzes; they're a discussion. This question is a great way to start a discussion with someone.

"Well, I've never played golf, but I do play squash. So, I'll use a squash ball as a start."

"I have no idea how big a bus is. Let's assume a cuboid of let's say 10 ft by 10 ft by 30 ft."

"Really this question has some sphere packing stuff in there. Being honest, visualising that kind of thing is not my strong point. I'm much better at things like $TOP_THREE_HERE. So, I'll use a weak version first to get a ballpark figure. Let's just line the balls up in a grid (as if each ball is a cube), where each ball touches 6 other balls, or the some other balls and the floor, sides, or roof of the bus."

If anyone is using the question as you've suggested then yes, it's a bad question and they've failed. But you've missed the point of the question.
It isn't a critique. It's about her project Growstuff which she considers more important and valuable than Google's self-driving cars and Project Glass.
What attack is "hovering" trying to prevent, phishing or executing a malicious page?

If phishing, it's much more important to look at at the URL after the page is loaded. URL shorteners already obscure the actual destination much of the time.

If malicious pages, well, if an attacker can present a link with a JavaScript onclick handler they can most likely already inject an iframe or redirect you to a malicious page.
That's awesome, I quoted your comment in the post, hope you won't mind.
http://krislnielsen.blogspot.com/ The author is male.
if it's done right, it's never easy. But it can be and indeed should be fun.
There seem to be quite a few people who want to do away with tenure and seniority rules as a means of fixing a broken system. Is there any evidence that doing this would fix the system or make it better?

Academic freedom, tenure, and seniority (to a lesser extent) have a lot of positives. Getting rid of these should only be done if the reasons are compelling and valid. What is required is not a collection of anecdotes of how tenure protects bad teachers - there are equally many anecdotes showing that tenure protects students and educational integrity - but rather statistics, facts, and well reasoned arguments.

There are large portions of the United States where parents without any training or knowledge on teaching have very strong opinions on what should or should not be said in the classroom. Getting rid of tenure and academic freedom will, in some areas, lead to ignorant people making important educational decisions. Will the physics department stop talking about the Big Bang? Does the geology department stop talking about processes taking millions of years to work? Does the history department only talk about the good parts of Manifest Destiny?

Instead of tenure maybe 5 year, renewable contracts would work. I don't know. I do think it is in society's best interest if teachers treat society as the client and not the students as the client. Doing the latter leads to dilution of standards. Doing the former without fear of being fired, at least in me, leads to grading on knowledge and not fluff.
Creating a plugin for the Visual Studio 2005-2012 development environment
You're thinking of the Gaza Strip, which is under Hamas rule. Israel doesn't bomb buildings in the West Bank.