skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this up close, and yes, true. By the time kids have left education, they've normally been exposed to (and probably practiced) all manner of cheating, whether it's faking a certificate, copying an essay, cheating in an exam or just straight up lieing.

It's a vicious circle because it's valuable preparation for a society that often demands cheating (ie. if you don't cheat, you can't get anything) but it also produces people whose MO is "get anything you can by cheating, and just don't get caught". Like a society wholly made up of investment bankers :)
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> I don't begrudge anyone the right to practice their religion, but I do wish it had been based on her right to privacy.

As much as I dislike it, most of the times when you are on someone else's playground, you have to play by their rules. When the govt. comes at you saying "internet needs to be censored because who will think of the children", making up another "think of the children" argument has more mass appeal than talking about how free and open is good.

> Like most state-financed schools, the district’s budget is tied to average daily attendance. If a student is not in his seat during morning roll call, the district doesn’t receive daily funding for that pupil because the school has no way of knowing for sure if the student is there.

So if this is all there is to it, why not just have a swipe-in and swipe-out at the main gate? If a student has swiped-in, he has entered the campus. Swipe-out will be just an assurance that the student didn't swipe-in and leave immediately. And is some students are concerned that it's still a smart card and can be used for tracking, or they really don't want it on religious grounds, have a biometric system(thumbprint or retina). That will be cheaper than giving everyone an RFID card.
Yes, absolutely, and not only in the US.

In Germany the legal drinking age is 16, but you need to be 18 to get into most clubs. When you're 16, you get an ID card in Germany. It's relatively easy to change the birth date on those using small, thin stickers that exactly match the font and background on the card.
Now B contacted me, not yet ready to give an offer, but they mentioned that their offer would likely be significantly larger if they would be able to see the offer from A in writing.

I see nothing but red flags here.

It also sounds like you are already dabbling with a bidding war... you are holding back on A, B knows about A, B is "offering" to out-bid A. Now you are wondering if you can leverage a questionable offer from B to up A's offer.

If you escalate this further into a full out bidding war, the probability is high that it won't turn out well. If B wins, you work for a sketchy company just for the money... or they don't come through with a real offer, A drops out (note that you do not have a formal offer from A yet), and you are screwed. If A wins, the person you work for knows what you did to them and resents it.

Sorry to be harsh, but from the outside looking in, B sounds pretty sketchy and your line of questioning doesn't reflect well on you.
> They point out that nobody else on the planet seems to have seen this comet passing in front of the Sun, even though the nearest observatories in those days were just a few hundred kilometers away.

This is 1883 and noone else recorded seeing it? Even in all of mexico?
The full quote from the article covers your concern.

> "A spokesman from the service told Australian newspapers that while some map makers intentionally include phantom streets to prevent copyright infringements, that was was not usually the case with nautical charts because it would reduce confidence in them."
> CCTV does not 'cut down crime' in fact it does the opposite: it increases crime by a small but measurable effect.

Do you know why CCTV increases crime?

I am not doubting your argument. I am militantly opposed to 1984esque surveillance. I am just curious.
There's still a lot of sugar-coating in the US. Obviously we are nowhere near as a bad as China in this regard, but the US isn't utopia of truth. In school we are not taught that Christopher Columbus was a moron, tyrant, and slave trader nor did we cover the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. History texts in US schools tend to focus on things that portray the US in a favorable light.
Of course, because one loon is easily equated with the entire Christian base.

Also notice how the parent never mentioned "Islam". Please don't start a fight that doesn't belong here.
On a tablet, it's easier to swipe horizontally than vertically. I suspect that's the cause of this design decision.
Although I understand your point, there's a fundamental difference between what Microsoft did to Sinofsky and what Apple "did" to Jobs. Sinofsky: fired, Jobs: openly idolized to the point of being reality-distorting.

Apple without Jobs may have to wade through the same wilderness of disillusionment, but Microsoft without Sinofsky (assuming you're correct that Sinofsky was Microsoft's "visionary") not only gets the disillusionment, Microsoft starts by tearing itself apart without any sort of pressure to reform or repair the damage.

On the other hand, even assuming Microsoft is fine without Sinofsky, Windows 8 can't be considered nearly as successful as, say, the introduction of the iPhone, simply by the nature of the release: release a new product that requires a lot of change – and _fire_ the leader at the same time? I don't believe even the "best case" can be considered a success.
> Tipping, for example, is considered bribery in some societies, while in others the two concepts may not be interchangeable.

To clarify for our non-American readers: In the USA, and possibly Canada as well, waitstaff in restaurants are typically not paid a living wage (that is, they're paid even less than minimum wage, which isn't a living wage by itself anymore either) because both restaurants and the law expect them to make it up in tips. In some restaurants, the menu will say that an automatic gratuity (that is, a tip) of some specified percentage is added to the bill of parties of eight or more people. Typically, tips range from 15%-20% of the total bill, but there's no law governing how much people actually give.

Merely bringing this up in the wrong crowd will reliably generate a massive argument. So, uh, keep that in mind, too.
No more meaningless than declaring it unusable without that information.
My theory is that the reason there are much higher levels of corruption in places like China, Mexico and other countries versus the US is because their so-called "economies" are even more broken and unequal than ours.

The United States GNI at PPP (gross national income at purchasing power parity) is $48,890 whereas Mexico's is $15,120 and China's is $8,430. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(PPP)_...

So if corruption is related to relative GNI at PPP (obviously that isn't the only factor, but I think it is likely to be a significant one) then we can expect problems related to corruption to be about 3 times as bad in Mexico as they are in the US. Similarly we would expect China's problems to be about 6 times as bad.
I'm curious about what HN thinks of answer set programming - the de facto language is a Prolog variant but in most implementations solutions are found by reducing programs to SAT instances. Upshot is you can reason about belief in an open world.
The do say in the article about no-one seeing it;

"That can be explained using parallax. If the fragments were close to Earth, parallax would have ensured that they would not have been in line with the Sun even for observers nearby. And since Mexico is at the same latitude as the Sahara, northern India and south-east Asia, it's not hard to imagine that nobody else was looking."

Is this realistic? Also would the time of day matter? If the sun was low to the horizon etc.
Not everyone is an asshole, or on a power trip. But there has been enough instances of cop brutality. The more people you add, the more the number of bad apples increase. Having more people might dilute the percentage of bad apples, but it still increases the number of bad apples. And as another commenter pointed out, when there are lot of cops on the street, and there are no conventional bad guys, the definition of bad guy extends. I certainly won't want to be arrested for jaywalking.
The freedom of a smaller company is the lack of a chain of command full of people who don't understand your job, who are all pushing in the direction of their own agendas, all of whom view you at, best as 'resource' to be harvested, and, at worst, a threat.

I will no longer work anywhere where my boss's boss has a boss.
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> A sobering thought.

An even more sobering thought is that even in the present day, if we detected something like that heading our way, there'd be absolutely nothing we could but sit and wait for it to arrive.
No photographic evidence. No corresponding accounts. No raw data.

Bonilla published his account of this event in a French
journal called L'Astronomie in 1886. Unable to account for
the phenomenon, the editor of the journal suggested,
rather incredulously, that it must have been caused by
birds, insects or dust passing front of the Bonilla's
telescope.

As the saying goes: when you hear hoof-steps, think horses, not zebras.
> Don't worry, they've discovered it.

Oh. No. Don't you get it: The Western World is exactly the same as the Far East, exactly the same as Africa, and so on. For every Great Leap Forwards there's a Holocaust, for every Congolese war there's an English Civil War, and so on, and so forth, tit for tat, with absolutely no difference at all between Winston Churchill and Mao Zedong. Exactly the same. Otherwise, it's just racist.
I know you're trying to say that testing for Confucianism is not the same as testing for how well you can do a government post, but these weren't worthless tests.

1) Passing old Chinese tests required literacy, something we want bureaucrats to have. This is a big chunk of what liberal arts degrees are about. (Calligraphy, too, was included in the test.)

2) Studying Confucianism meant that you at least had to think and respond about moral and ethical matters. Again, I'd rather have a bureaucrat who has thought about morality and ethics than one who hasn't. And according to Wikipedia,

> The core of Confucianism is humanism, the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation.

3) People with liberal arts degrees quite often take posts that are entirely unrelated to their field of study.

Saying that "Confucianists got jobs which they didn't deserve" is just a pathetic jab at Chinese culture.
Good point, subpoena to a domestic company deeply connected to the government would be easier than targeting Google. I'm not sure what Australia's telecom situation is, but I'd imagine that would also be the case.
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Hm. If the US and China are morally the same, why are there so few Americans moving to China?

I mean, they shouldn't be able to tell the difference in styles of government, am I right?
Do the different colors even represent anything, or are they just chosen at random?
As I said, I don't think there is any immediate danger posed by CCTV systems in the UK. You could say I am "concerned" in a largely academic manner.
I was chatting with my dad about this today. (He teaches classes that use graphing calculators.). It's cheap to buy a calculator emulator app so they must allow it soon. Though students sometimes use the camera and email to cheat.
The scrolling isn't an issue. Not only is the expectation to scroll by touch, it also handles scrolling with a mouse just fine (scrolling down scrolls right, scrolling up scrolls left) and feels natural.
> you confuse a republic, with a democracy (the USA is the former, not the latter)

The USA is a democratic republic.
Create feature requests for them: https://github.com/jschr/bootstrap-modal/issues
Thats a humongous coincidence, I work at the end of Cowling road just by the Spinners!

The world is such a small place.
The problem is that there is pent-up demand and an open market is not being allowed to operate. This always, everywhere, leads to what economists call a "parallel market" and what everyone else calls a "black market".
it's when you need at least 2 computers to make a chart
Please tell me you're joking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_checker#History

Grammar checkers are far from perfect, but they've been around in various forms for around 40 years.
MS actually has OneNote in the iOS App store as well, though it's surely severely gimped: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id41039524...
I can change the price :0

http://i.imgur.com/IjwEs.png
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I graduated from that school last year and I totally agree with her decision about refusing to wear it not her justification. In case anyone is wondering John Jay only exists still due to a magnet school called John Jay Science and Engineering Academy. The magnet school boosts test scores and attendance to a acceptable level for the state. This RFID Tracker is one last attempt at saving the school from being shut down.
Listening to a Petersen Quartett performance right now, quite brilliant.
The domain of solutions to the problem of rape and extortion by vehicle operators for hire expands beyond the purview of governments. Do not confuse first world economies (and the regulations that people feel necessary to enact) with solution sets. Just as militaries in third world counties are unorganized and corrupt, so can their private taxi operators. Yet since the distinction between operators of taxis is one of regulated vs nonregulated one tends to view this fact as the defining difference, which may not be the case.
I've mentioned it before, and I'll say it again: hold the artists accountable. They are the one these organizations are speaking on behalf of. Call them out on their tweets about how they support this directly.
It's a bit more subtle than that.

i += i++;
Console.write(i);

could print 0, 1, or 2 depending on the order in which

i++

and

i += <value>

is evaluated. From the winning answer, what's really happening is:

int i = 0;
i = i + i;
i + 1; // Note that you are discarding the calculation result

This kind of nonsense is the reason why Python doesn't have prefix and postfix increments.
You may recall Google being fined $22.5 million for sneakily bypassing Safari's privacy settings earlier this year.

But more to the point is Google's lobbying. Google spends far more on lobbying than do Apple, Facebook, or Microsoft. Google is required to report which issues they lobbied on, but not whether they are for or against proposed legislation.

In some cases we can speculate. Google reports high spending on the "Global Online Freedom Act of 2011," which would make it a crime for companies to cooperate with foreign government (cough China) censorship. I do not know which way Google lobbied on this bill, because they won't say (which is itself suggestive). But I suspect they lobbied against it, i.e. would like to be able to censor, because it seems strange to spend so much money supporting a bill that could criminalize their behavior and make it more difficult for them to grow in China. So there is a potential example of Google defending censorship when it aligns with their interest.

Overall, it's a fair guess that their lobbying efforts are for less Internet regulation, and also less consumer privacy protections, because that's where their financial interests lie.
I haven't tried this yet, but I think the developers choose a store-tile color for their apps.
This is slightly true, though notably the Torino Scale mentions that once an object is classed at level 5, governments may begin to take action to counteract such a collision before it arrives at earth, if the encounter is set to be less than a decade away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_Scale

Edit: NASA's JPL maintains the Sentry Risk Table, which tracks all objects that may impact the Earth, with various data points about said objects.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
Happy thanksgiving to you Yanks from the south. What I find cool is that you say you started your entrepreneurial jaunt at 29. I'm 30 and just taking step 0.23 in my self-employment scheme but I often feel like I'm maybe too old to be trying out for this particular team. It's encouraging that it seems it's never too late to just try building something. So thanks for that :)
Why did they close the question?
Thankfully religious exemption only kicks in for things that ultimately are pretty trivial (DMV photo requirements, for example), or in limited settings (such as schools, where as you said loco parentis is in effect).

There are probably a few counterexamples, but the only ones I can think of are historic. You can now claim conscientious objector status in the event of a draft for non-religious reasons, though this was not always the case.

Actually, (and this surprises me greatly I must say) the US Selective Service System would serve as a great example for how religious exemption in other situations should work.

From http://www.sss.gov/FSconsobj.htm :

>Beliefs which qualify a registrant for CO status may be religious in nature, but don't have to be. Beliefs may be moral or ethical; however, a man's reasons for not wanting to participate in a war must not be based on politics, expediency, or self-interest. In general, the man's lifestyle prior to making his claim must reflect his current claims.

I quite like that; seems very reasonable to me. If all religious exemptions were reworded into something like that, I would be a very happy man.
Moving isn't just a moral decision. You don't see many people moving to Antarctica, either. It's not because they're immoral down there.
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MS Word has had grammar checking for a decade or more. I haven't used it in about five years, but I remember it being inconsistent and irritating.
Have you ever been in a taxi in Mexico City at night? Terrifying. I'll take my Canadian regulations, thanks.

Shafting Uber is not a problem of excessive regulation, but of purposely protecting incumbants.
Hello from the author. Indeed the vernacular has changed, and “systems programming” refers also to the distributed systems server software.

Composable futures and promises are still fairly new in use; I would wager our systems are some of the largest using the techniques described therein.

While this talk focused on composable IO and services, there is much more to it. Finagle (https://github.com/twitter/finagle) is where the rubber meets the road. Its interfaces are described in these terms and it makes great use of their power.

Also, as with any talk, it is difficult to convey the message using only the slides.
Also asking for trouble with PayPal. Which we all know can cause small stores a world of hurt.
Would a long-term promotional deal for a $10-40 gift certificate to Indigo, Marks, BestBuy or somewhere else (or a debit card) of the customer's choice be a possibility to overcome this issue?
It was a completely fictional comedy movie, not a documentary.

To answer your question though, anything could happen. However, the premise of the movie isn't very sound (again, it is fiction). You are correct. A child can be brighter than both parents.
I don't see what the big deal is with this if it's for physical products. You'd obviously just verify before shipping. If it's for digital goods it clearly wouldn't be a good idea though.
Agree. But same design on my Windows 8 desktop.
I can scroll with the mouse wheel, still somewhat a pain. :(

I wonder what made them abandon the familiar web page layout where you can scroll down, and there is even keyboard support for 'Page Up/Down'.
It's funny how concurrent ideas work. I just built a very similar tool in the last few days for our startup.
A biometric system is cheaper than RFID readers?

Not by a long shot.

The simple reason they don't have kids swipe in and out is because they simply won't do it. You can get employees to do it because they are paid. Not only that, but it would create foot-traffic jams at exits.

RFID is just a better solution that is equivalent, from a data gathering standpoint, to the solutions you put forward.
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Also, Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love."
Why? Would you tell your daughter not to sit in her assigned seat when they take attendance?
That is a very good point. Social norms are much more important here than the regulatory punishments.

As to the I would argue, however, that it is exactly the enshrining of human rights into law and the regulation of necessary but historically predatory industries that is the distinction you are drawing between civilized and uncivilized societies.

Those social norms do not just appear in a vacuum.
Do you mean to imply that work of art generally are less 'miraculous' than that of nature, are you speaking exclusively about beethoven?
Also worth reading is "Hungry Ghosts".

Yes.

http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Ghosts-Maos-Secret-Famine/dp/08...
I went looking for more footage of this computer, sans commentary and heavy editing, and found this gem: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OmNRl9hydmw
"Schools did just fine without them for millenia."

Yeah, they did fine without grades stored in a database, too.

This is simply a way to take attendance in a more efficient manner. Would you rather a teacher spend 5 minutes out of every class taking attendance or use a more efficient automated system.

These things don't track every movement. They track whether people have walked through certain doors or not...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13286803/gpl-and-android-...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples...

I was talking about GPL specifically. Signing a binary is a modification that goes outside the realm of GPL.
I believe our communication should have no centralized control. It should tend toward being survivable of anything, incl. people who think they are well meaning.
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I'm finding simple tasks that involve multiple windows challenging. Did Microsoft make Windows 8 so that when everyone hates it, they will bring back Windows Classic and make billions?
Exactly. Even scrolling issues aside, how this is easier than black on white (with colored icons) is beyond me. Aesthetically, it looks like crap.

It is one of those things that can't be explained so well though.
Locking to a specific git reference (https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/issues/11) has been implemented. You can now use `--ref` to lock to a particular git reference. `fresh update` will grab the new version.
Where are they going to put the close proximity bleacher sensor? The parking lot sensor?

These things are not good with open spaces. I suppose they can re-design things to reduce the points of entry for these places but I doubt it. Especially considering that you can defeat it by removing your lanyard temporarily or giving it to your friend that is going to the library.
Almost certainly no. Canada is less tolerant of loophole-exploitation than the USA, and more likely to invoke the clear intention behind rules rather than their literal meaning.
My guess, and I share your attitude towards surveillance, is that installing CCTV cameras increases crime in the same way that broadening the legal definition of rape "increases" the number of rapes.

That is to say, more things are counted than before. Although CCTV cameras may not help solve crimes (I don't know if they do or not), perhaps they make it easier to count crimes.
Oh, did evangelicals distance himself from this "loon"? Did he lose his job? Do you know why not? Because they support what he says.
It's a client side cart, not server side - why does it need to be a node package? (genuine question)