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Teachers and administrators are actually incentivized to cheat. And sometimes even the students are in on it.

Yesterday: 23 schools penalized for helping cheat tests
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/schools-stripped-o...

Last March: the head of the School District's test security program reported more than a dozen testing violations at the school.
http://thenotebook.org/blog/125270/wagner-cheating-follow

Last Year: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta
http://news.yahoo.com/americas-biggest-teacher-principal-che...
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/07/11/teachers-cheating-in-scho...

I remember hearing about a school where the teachers assigned a letter to each corner of the room and would stand in the corner of the room that corresponded to the correct answer to each question.

In Atlanta they were having "grading parties" where teachers were getting together on the weekend to erase incorrect answers and fill in the correct ones. They got sloppy.
Bring auction model (i.e. priceline) to selecting/negotiating rates with top 1% of Realtors. Currently buyers & sellers sacrifice skill, experience & brand to work with discount brokers (think redfin).
Just to try and pinpoint the time frame: I'm 48, my dad worked the same place for 35 years. He made comments about seeing the implied-employment structure break down during his time.

It probably had a lot to do with the failure of unions, but that's just my guess.
http://tommy.authpad.com/how-to-get-on-the-front-page-of-hac...
While I hope everyone is safe from the damages Sandy brought, I have to agree that deadlines are deadlines. My interview with Google 2 years ago, despite it taking place during a winter freeze when power and Internet was out, was not rescheduled; and neither was my bulk of college work then.
I totally agree. Did this thing have an export function or should I be prepared creating a scraper?
There isn't much beyond what they did, assuming you don't have another datacenter to preemptively switch load to. But what you don't do is tell your customers it will be all good. You tell them what you've done and warn them they may be downtime so they can plan accordingly.
http://glade.gnome.org/
I don't think michaelochurch did a 20% project, which is why it's interesting that he speaks so authoritatively on what happens to someone with one.
I think the YC app should have a crowdfunded question. "How many people have you convinced to buy your non-existent product based on a shiny video and peer hype?"
I guess one of the most famous DCs in Utah is the NSA one: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Why not add: or Fabric or Ansible or something else? I haven't found much that Fabric won't do for me and I haven't found much reason to install Ruby on my system [Python is a system package].

For a non-Puppet and non-Chef user, would someone explain why you'd limit your choices to puppet and chef?
'jonknee, you make too sweeping a statement there. Neither of the circumstances you describe, separately or together, will necessarily make an agreement unenforceable.
That was the post's fault not Twitter's. I had to stop reading because I got so confused.

Tweets in that post start referencing Gruber's response, but Gruber's response wasn't shared within the post, when it should have been. And authorship of tweets within the post wasn't really clear.

Edit: Looking at it again, Gruber's response is there, but I missed it for the authorship issues.
You are too much feared about it. This is just a informational and educational purpose and for the peoples who are not able to pay for data charges and there for cant get the information. This will remove the barrier of cost between poor and information.
No one will stop using email, maps, forums, videos, apps and anything else available on internet because Wikipedia is free. The purpose and aim of Free information for education is completely different than you think.
I actually love Chrome for this use case, as I can use the Task Manager view to kill all my tabs while leaving them "open". I additionally made a one-line change to my local build of Chromium so that when I open it all tabs come up "crashed", so I can now manage a nearly infinite number of tabs with almost no memory usage at all.
Just flip that around. First consider whether you can get data to solve a problem, and if you can get sufficient data, do machine learning. What you basically get is test-driven development with the development part being done automatically.

If you can't get data cheaply enough, only then consider your normal choices. It's easier and less creative to just use the data.
I'm not sure why you think this is a compelling argument. In the unlikely event that CL's TOS was found unenforceable, CL would simply adjust them to comply with the courts.

CL isn't carrying out a vendetta against PadMapper. It suffices for their purposes to shut them down going forward. Meanwhile, it helps PadMapper not at all if they gain lawful access to old CL listings. They need all of them, going forward. It is very hard to see the scenario where the law will promise them anything like that.
> The 43-year-old Mr. Forstall recently told people that there is no "decider" now that Mr. Jobs is gone

I guess they just made room for one.
I guess general awareness among such a tech-savvy community can't be a bad thing tho... that's usually what early-stage startups lack to create traction at the beginning, don't you think?
is that site built with zurb foundation?
18 states have also done their own ACE surveys, with similar results. Many organizations -- from courts to child welfare services -- are implementing trauma-informed practices.
To follow developments in ACE- and trauma-informed related news, go to ACEsTooHigh.com.
> "for some reason the number in USD is equal to the number in GBP for almost everything, even when GBP is 1.6-2.2x the USD"

Price is set by willingness to pay. full stop.
Cost for goods is almost always worked to, backwards, from price targets. Exchange rates don't enter into it, except as pertains to costs.

GBP prices remain 'close' to numeric USD, because people still buy products at those prices. Looking into why they do, leads to interesting questions and analysis about disposable income, taxes, psychology, etc - but it's largely irrelevant.

It is that way because it works.
A lot of people call it Perv

This is the first time I've heard that term.
There is something very wrong with having to "upgrade" your CSS.
There is an export-to-JSON, from whose output I'm now trying to salvage my project notes.

There is also a print option, but that doesn't seem to print the back of the cards so it's pretty useless, unless I'm mistaken.
ahah good one, their product is live apparently
Regardless, typography as a primary graphic element——and to be clear, we are talking about the Web——is not really a trend in my mind.
I like Unity quite a lot and find it very attractive, same for the most commonly used apps. GNOME Terminal looks great with dimmed transparency, Firefox looks the same as everywhere else but integrates with Unity nicely, Rhytmbox is OK, and all the other GNOME apps -- gPodder, gedit, nautilus -- while not stunning, look fairly modern and, most importantly, don't get in the way too much.

> I discovered alt+~ yesterday

Press and hold Super (Windows) key for a list of most useful Unity keyboard shortcuts. Even that list is pretty!
There's a huge difference between code you've written in your spare time, and code that exists in production.

Code that exists in production is often buggy and unwieldy, and doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense. Because when you have a product that makes money, your priorities also change.

You need to become more defensive about your maneuvers, and you have to have a real reason to justify changing code.

To commit to doing redundancy well, you need a lot of resources, and you need to have a justify diverting resources that could otherwise be used to build a better product.

There's a common misconception that you can just throw stuff at the cloud (AWS, Heroku, etc), and things will just stay up. In practice, between cacheing, database server backups, heavy writes, and crazy growth, there's a lot to deal with. It's not nearly a solved or a simple problem.

So people are probably down voting you because your opinion seems naive to them. I've personally migrated a top 80,000 global eCommerce operation, and everything broke in a million different places, and we spent 2 weeks afterwards getting things working properly again.

There's a big difference between the way things are in your head, and the way things are in the production. Don't say people don't know what they're doing because they don't have a perfect system. No system is perfect.
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Most basements are already waterproof (since you don't want groundwater getting in). It's generally the first floor that is the weak point, when the water gets over the basement walls. So if you think about it, it's not that hard to make the basement waterproof to a flood... just make the walls higher.
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http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthrea...

The rounds of contest stories are linked in the first post. The contest was inspired by this: http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Nanofiction.html
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I couldn't stand Unity either, and for me it was more an issue of coming from an earlier version of Ubuntu (gnome).
yep, that's totally insane...
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There is also cdist (http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/).

Some highlights:

• Python based

• Uses SSH key-based auth

• No central server required

• Only requires SSH and a Posix shell on the client
I'm going to fork this and make a new version in memory of Vincent van Gogh, which I'll call Bobross.
There is an api: trello.com/docs/api
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It's already been done I'm afraid — certainly on snooker coverage in the UK, they frequently do VR demonstrations of possible alternative shots, VR views of different angles on the table, etc.
As an applicant myself to YC W13, and leveraging on a very related problem [D'oh! :)], I totally vouch for SketchFab. I showed it to most of my friends working in 3d as soon as it hit HN a while ago, and I always had positive feedback. I would use it myself if I worked in 3D design!
That 90 minutes claim is a bit disingenuous.

We're at the same data center. Internap told us that the fuel pumps were flooded and asked us to shut down at ~9:30pm last night. The generators lasted until 10:52am. So 12 hours+ of warning.

To be fair, at 9:30 they did warn that the generators would only last for 4-5 hours, but customers like us who proactively shut everything down extended that significantly.
Fair enough. I miss my CompizFusion window switchers too (as the default).
> "How could Manhattan lose power?"

Seriously? Were they not living in New York in 2003?
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Not working for me in Firefox 16.0.2 on Windows 7. There's just a black phone sized Firefox window on my screen.
A less baity title: You cannot stop a hurricane by nuking it.
Sorry, should have linked to previous evidence of the fact: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-ju...
You could have rsync'd it with a few days heads up, and freshened that in the last 90min.
Perhaps I should have worded it differently then. My goal was simply to provide other relevant alternatives to bootstrap.

"Then why are you posting on a completely un-related post for Bootstrap, instead of letting it stand on it's own merits?"

Actually, other popular css frameworks highlighting responsive design are very relevant to Bootstrap. Normally, one could let these frameworks stand on their own merits, but it seems that any bootstrap post on HN hops the popularity train right to the front page.
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I use the Firefox address bar as a lightweight version of this. Since it searches URLs as well as titles of sites in your history, you can just type (parts of) words separated by spaces to find old content.
Details of how Huffington Post and Gawker was taken down by hurricane Sandy
but the steps are repeating..getting feedback from client after every step
It's pretty amusing to see you posting this when a couple days ago, you were accusing the media of "blowing it out of proportion". Oh hey, it turns out they were right.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706959
Technology for the 3rd world good
Thanks, and FYI there isn't much of a tech scene here.
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Upvoted. Contrary to others's ocd opinions, I have no problem with you posting this. I wasn't aware Foundation had gotten an update recently, nice to know. And while this thread is about Bootstrap, they're the two most sophisticated frontend frameworks available right now, so it's not totally unrelated.
The greatest barrier to Internet usage in Africa is data charges. The vast majority of mobile owners cannot afford the price of data and are limited to using older "featurephones". Any move to widen access to information is to be applauded. There is no public information that Zero Facebook is actually being charged for the zero-rated access from the mobile networks involved.

Network neutrality is an irrelevance to someone who cannot afford Internet access. First world problem :-)
New York has some of the strictest building codes going, and I wouldn't be surprised if that played a part.

Note that the pumps were in the basement because that's where the refueling location was, which logically it would be for a variety of practical reasons (you can't drive a fuel truck up an escalator, etc.)
If the headline is a question, the answer is no.
I think that's the problem I have. I don't care about a pretty desktop, I care more about functionality. Ingrained muscle memory is hard to change -- if alt+tab was the standard for 15 years, why should it be shifted? Similar little issues plague my Unity usage, not even to mention the lack of default configurability. If I want the right side or bottom of my screen to be the dock, it should be so. Instead I'm stuck with having the left side of my right screen being where I make an attempt to find the dock. Unacceptable, in my view.

Shifting paradigms require buy-in, and Unity just doesn't have it from me yet.
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Could you elaborate about these subtle but very important differences, please?
Yep, being on the other side is the best way to prepare for actually writing a proposal. It's easier to write a document when you know the mindset of the person reading it.
Do you guys do off-site backups?
That means that the fuel tanks will have to be there as well or you're going to need some specialized lines/equipment to prime the pumps. How much would a 3" cylinder of diesel fuel about ten foot tall weigh? (What ever it is that would be a crap load of vacuum to produce/maintain). Then you have the weight of the tanks themselves and refilling logistics. All fun engineering problems. :)
REST framework 2 released: Simple, beautiful, browsable Web APIs for Django
In this case my mental model of "servers" is "the computers that run the specific small company under discussion, who has already said that they can move them if they want to".

We seem to be arguing separate points -- I'm saying that it's not unreasonable that a small company could be moved fairly easily. Possibly as easily as unplugging a blade enclosure and throwing it in a station wagon. There are loads of small businesses that can run on an amount of hardware that can be easily transported. (When I used to gig on electric bass, my amp and other rack gear was in a portable 8U rack and that was more "portable" than the 100 pound speaker cabinet.)

I can't tell if your point is that it's unreasonable for all companies, which is wrong, or that it's unreasonable for some companies, which is obvious.
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> You learned nothing in 2 years of high school? Huh

The type of questions that they asked at a math meet never exceeded the knowledge contained in Algebra and Geometry, which I had learned by the end of 9th Grade. Mathletic events were designed this way so all high school students could participate on an equal footing.

So, no, I learned nothing during those additional three years that increased my abilities on the math team. The only thing that increased my abilities on the math team was practicing solving the sort of algebra and geometry math brain teasers that they asked at math meets within very limited time constraints.

There's not a math meet problem that I ever saw at one of those math meets that I couldn't have solved on my own given enough time.
You can be reasonably sure without being certain. They didn't guarantee anything. If you misread anything they've written as "guarantee" their services will never go down, you're blaming the wrong person. (Full disclosure: I am one of their customers)
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If you try to compete against on Amazon on price - or really ANY company on price - you'll get crushed. Without a unique selling proposition, you're going to have a hard time differentiating yourself in the marketplace.
"Conservative and libertarian types say government shouldn't have any control over the internet, that (it) takes away our freedom. Wrong! It takes away the freedom of the companies that are taking away the freedom from us. Every freedom we have in the United States, every one of them was given to us by congressional regulation."
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And if the teacher does better than the minimum, how is that going to be judged with the standardized tests?
Why bring up nuclear weapons at all? Modern science has brought us the MOAB and the ATBIP, which are non-nuclear.
They were not.

I'm guessing everyone is basing their experience on last year's "hurricane", which was not nearly as bad as this one.
When I taught Intro Chemistry at university, I had a fun bonus project for the students when we got to the unit on thermodynamics. The assignment was to assume that an ideal nuclear device was set off in the eye of a major hurricane such that all of the thermodynamic energy of the explosion was converted to expansion work (and to treat the eye as a closed container). The question was to figure out by how much the diameter of the eye would increase as a result.

The correct answer is: about 8 inches.
I think the biggest argument against complex cross-DC redundancy is that it can add complexity and failure modes, not just during the emergency, but every day.

As a simple example, I've seen at least a half dozen people who had issues because they thought it was as simple as throwing a mysql node into each datacenter, only to discover (much later) that the databases had become inconsistent and that failing over created bigger problems than it solved.

Similarly, I've seen complex high-availability infrastructures where the complexity of that infrastructure created more net downtime than a simpler infrastructure would've, it just went down at slightly different times.

And you really need to think about the implications of various failure modes. If you go down in the middle of a transaction, is that a problem for your application? Is it okay to roll back to data that's 3 hours old? 3 minutes? 3 seconds?

There are any number of situations where it's reasonable to say "we expect our datacenter will fail once every couple decades and when it does, we'll be down for a couple days."
congrats Mehul and team!
I don't understand the "good time" aspect. Are you saying that people are more likely to read at those times? Aren't they more likely to post at those times as well?
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I've managed to successfully failover to our own emergency backup version: https://twitter.com/williamlannen/status/263294924382937090
As a newish customer of Fogbugz, I'm disappointed.

This storm had days, if not a week, of head's up. While I agree "no one expected Manhattan to lose power" (another comment), as someone who heads up development of a SaaS product, I would have spent most of that week planning for worst cases and recovery. I constantly think about the worst case scenarios and how long they'll take to recover, even without huge storms bearing down on the data center.

So, I'm disappointed. I really love the Fogbugz and Trello products. Now I'm in a position where I have to question whether we should depend on them.
How much per call, and how long is the output? Example of quality?
I never use the words that you "quoted". I said "superstorm" was a stupid term. It's a hurricane. Use a well-defined word when it's available.

(The hurricane was also predicted to weaken to a tropical storm before landfall at the time I wrote that.)
It's a much easier decision in the UK. You incorporate.
This website looks like a complete rip-off of this website : http://www.jimmyfairly.com/fr/homme/optique.html
Affected by Sandy? Import your exported Trello data into ThetaBoard.
I live in California, so I know what you mean (s/weather/earthquake/). People were forgetting about events like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965

Humans have a hard time reasoning about events on decadal time scales.
Unfortunately it seemed like I couldn't get it to work on Windows.

How long is it supposed to take before you see anything in the simulator?
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Well, this is something I'm interested in.

AnsProlog, which is Prolog-esque syntax implemented via answer-set programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming) is a language that's heavily derived from Prolog, and an active area of research. It's solver-based, however (roughly like a SAT solver), which comes with pros and cons.

I used both Prolog and AnsProlog in a project to model and query videogame mechanics. The idea is to prototype a game's core mechanics in Prolog, and then be able to both play the game and query properties of it. We use Prolog to actually run the game, and mainly ASP to perform queries (because it allows adding various constraints). Sticking to a subset it's possible to run the same code in both, with some mechanical syntax translation.

Possibly a somewhat esoteric example, and definitely researchy, but imo Prolog and/or ASP still have promise in a number of areas. Prolog retains some advantages over the newer ASP in that it doesn't ground out to a propositional solver, which can make it faster in some cases (especially in large domains), and can do imperative-type stuff (there are even GUI bindings), while ASP is purely a formal solver. ASP's advantage is more flexible modeling (e.g. you can have elements of constraint programming), more active research community, and cleaner semantics in some areas, e.g. circular references can be solved.

A few sources:

[1] My collaborator's blog post on that project: http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2009/06/you-have-to-mine-the-ore/

[2] A paper on it: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AIIDE/AIIDE09/paper/viewFi...

[3] An op-ed I once wrote, "Why did Prolog lose steam?" http://www.kmjn.org/notes/prolog_lost_steam.html
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