skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lists work well to a certain extent but would not be suitable for a number of cases. Say a team member decides to add an existing email conversation to the list at a later point in time. This would break the original email thread structure when added to list. What happens to an email in a conversation which came from someone outside the company. Someone forwards it to list again? Say someone forgets to do a "reply all" in an ongoing conversation, this email never lands up in the list.

We like using email for most of our tasks too. We use our own product GrexIt's (http://grexit.com) Shared Labels to share information and even collaborate right from our email inbox. Shared labels allow you to share particular Gmail label among a group of people in your company. Every email conversation on which a shared label is applied gets pushed to the user's inbox who were part of the shared label. All followup emails that arrive in an ongoing conversation also keep getting shared automatically. This approach requires minimal effort to share information and works better than lists. Most importantly users continue to access information from their inbox itself.

We use the shared labels approach for a variety of use cases like support and development. As soon as support email arrives to the support@ email-id it get shared with everyone. We have shared labels with every team member's name, say Task:John. To assign an email to someone, we simply apply the user's shared label on that email. This allows us to collaborate easily without needing any
3rd party tools
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Like most everything else, it all comes down to execution.

Typically when educators critique "testing" the critique is in two parts:

1. Why is there so much emphasis on raw factual knowledge - which is easily tested - and so little emphasis on analysis and critical thinking (points mentioned in the article).

2. The amount of testing and test preparation conducted in schools has now reached a point where it is materially effecting the amount of actual teaching that is being done.

If a school or district fails a national level test it typically kicks off a spiral of district level tests, practice tests and separate test preparation which ends up putting the kids further behind.
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> smoking a HUGE JOINT

Or a small amount of something half-decent ... a huge joint of that would practically make your eyes bleed.
In iWork Numbers, you can refer to cells by the column and/or row name, if they have been provided. I believe this works with ranges, as well.
I've worked in customer service, and the reps use 'canned text' all the time for common issues. I assumed this was common knowledge. Not doing so would be a recipe for RSI within a couple weeks.

The problem with canned text is when it's reused on the same person, which leads to anger on the part of the recepient (or suspicions that they're being serviced by a robot).
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I see. Tell me more about "Bing Sucks"?
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>This is unbelievably presumptuous, narcissistic and smacks of technological elitism

>In every period of history, there seem to have been labels that got applied to statements to shoot them down before anyone had a chance to ask if they were true or not. "Blasphemy", "sacrilege", and "heresy" were such labels for a good part of western history, as in more recent times "indecent", "improper", and "unamerican" have been. (From what you can't say).

Mayhaps you can apply those labels, but you skipped the crucial part -- is it true?
> Ok ... 2nd idea ... charge-back the order on your credit card with the already. Claim fraud whatever...at least you'll have your money.

I don't know about you, but perspective of losing all my gmail over chargeback is very scary to me. And I'm not sure I am safe from google just pulling a switch from my email.
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There's a recuse button if you're conflicted.
I'm at a small rural community college. Fall 2012 was the most challenging semester I've had. The students were impossible to motivate for any length of time. I've had to involve the college's counselors who have made calls to parents, had meetings with them. The parent meetings with admissions counselors is the only thing that's had any noticeable effect. It's terrible. It continues to be a challenge to motivate this group. It can't go on like this.
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People complain a lot about union rules making it hard to fire teachers. Since the unions are sufficiently weak in some states so as not to be able to impose such rules, it stands to reason that there should be some evidence that teaching quality is better in these states. Yet no one has ever presented me with such evidence. They just repeat the anti-union talking points.
I wrote a post about this yesterday in which I discussed my two most used apps: Chrome iOS and Mailbox.

http://taylorbeck.me/blog/2013/2/11/my-iphones-dock-is-being...

In terms of where I find my apps, I have three main sources:

- HackerNews (for the big movers and shakers)
- Reddit (for cool and gimmicky apps)
- iFive For the iPhone Podcast (Sarah Lane comes up with 5 excellent apps and/or iPhone tips each week; I have probably downloaded 50% of my most recent apps through this podcast)

As for my current favorites:

- Alien Blue (Reddit client)
- Dropbox
- Google Maps
- Of course, Chrome and Mailbox
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Customer: "When I call a customer back I want my blog to mark his comment 'handled' with the date and time."

Engineer: "What phone do you use to call him back on?"

Customer; "The one on my desk."

Customer has a desk phone attached to a Northern Telecom PBX switch that was installed by a VAR (now out of business) but is still maintained by the property owner using a Win95 based laptop.

Generally the phrase "technically impossible" relates to a situation where a customer is asking for a capability which, to implement, requires either that they change their process, or co-operation by a third party. Often times the 'third parties' here are old school, highly invested in walling off their garden types, like AT&T. Often, telling the customer they have to change their processes to achieve what they want is a 'non-starter.' It can be a very frustrating experience.
Perhaps[1], but have never tried.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/python-for-android/
You should probably contact their customer support.
If I have a lot of money, It does not mean that I am willing to invest a lot of money.
I like the idea. I like the features. It looks nice. But I won't give you my Gmail credentials.
Define "worse". It's an endless pain in the ass to get money from <person X> to <person y>, because I have to mail a check, use PayPal, give out rather sensitive banking information, pay insane wire transfer costs (and delays), or meet with them in person. Now try automating it.

There are reasons aside from "fiat money sucks". The big ones I encounter seem to be "this is interesting", "this has interest, maybe I can make money in it", and "this can do X".
That's just one step away from reasoning form a paradox and patting yourself on the back, how you have proved something (would the same argumentation be as enticing if it were based on misappropriation or misunderstanding like that of using "physics" for arguing for perpetuum mobile?).

My bigger gripe with your reasoning is that using topology 1 and stopping at that (i.e. there are no questions left) precludes (or makes intractable because of combinatorial explosion) reasoning by analogy (symmetry).
Shiny new services will always be popping up with great deals and "faster" servers but I prefer to not move my infrastructure every time the next host du jour comes out. Plus, they're just going to raise their prices once they get a critical mass of customers.

Linode has been there through thick and thin for me. Sounds cheesy, but they report on and fix issues before I even notice them, I've only had to submit a ticket once (for something that was my fault), and their infrastructure is tight as a drum.

Linode is very, very reliable. Another thing that many people who work with larger applications than mine will tell you is that speed is not important, what's important is consistency. Linode's virtualization is set up to provide, above all, consistency (even on a loaded host). So sure your site might run 1.6778 times faster on DO, but when the host server is loaded your site's going to be crawling because the other neighbors are bursting their CPU into your space.

We'll see if DO's prices and performance stand the test of time. My guess is their support is extremely lacking in comparison. When everything's running perfectly, this is great. But when the chips are down can you really rely on them? I guess we'll see.
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If they all speak the same API there shouldn't be a problem...
you have to replace Excel's every possible use case. Actually start with the top 25, and then.. you might have a "decent" Excel alternative.
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If you can't find a solution, change the problem.

I have had great success in re-working the requirement when something seemingly impossible has been proposed by a user. IMHO, this is because what makes something impossible is usually an additional (and often negotiable) requirement.

Sure there are still times when this won't work either, but it should help reduce that number.
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I remember myself in my freshman Calculus 1 class. Wow... I was not prepared.
its illegal - what's your point? If you were hiring ( using your own money ) would you want to take that risk? illegal lol that's a good one
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"You must test if you want to improve outcomes"

Have we not learned by now that people can be trained to score well on tests without really understanding the material they are being tested on?

The problem here is that there is no randomized sampling in these tests. Everyone is tested, and so teachers know in advance that their students will be tested and they know what those tests will cover and even how the problems will be stated. Teaching "to the test" is a practically guaranteed outcome when you start telling teachers that their salaries or careers will be linked to student performance on tests.

There is also the matter of failing to recognize that a student with expertise in math has a great advantage on tests in physics, chemistry, and to some extent even literacy tests. One cannot simply blame a science teacher whose students are doing poorly if the students' poor performance is the result of incompetent math education. If students are illiterate, they will probably do poorly on all standardized tests because they will be unable to read the instructions.
I think people do these things mainly to deal with inadvertent disclosure (e.g., an incorrectly addressed email) or further downstream distribution of an email. The idea is to have some indicator that the original sender meant the communication to remain in confidence (which may be required to maintain, for example, attorney client privilege, or to preserve trade secret protection). When they are affixed automatically to every email (as they are by many firms), I really doubt they work. I'm not aware of any case where the existence of this kind of disclaimer has been a factor, and I suspect most people put this in the "it couldn't hurt" category, rather than really thinking it'll be effective. Would be interested to hear if anyone is aware of evidence to the contrary.
"Students in America are routinely published for any attempt to learn outside the confines of a narrow curriculum."

As a public school teacher, I strongly disagree with your opinion. I suspect your opinion has been formed based on a relatively small sample size. I'm sorry your experience was poor, but you simply don't have to data to implicate tens of thousands of schools.

I do agree with one tiny piece of it, however: the biggest crime you can commit in an American public school is insubordination. No amount of intelligence or work ethic will save a student who refuses to do (or stop doing) what faculty and staff ask.

I don't disagree with this policy because it's a simple matter of safety. My school employs slightly fewer than 200 faculty/staff. We have over 2000 students, most of whom are physically stronger. If students won't do what we ask them, it gets Lord of the Flies in a hurry.
Of course it's not new. It does seem to be getting worse.
My advice to you is to pick the technology that's right for the job. If you don't know it, learn it. Otherwise, don't learn it. For example, if I never make an app in my LIFE that has to do with data processing, why in the world would I want to learn Clojure? What use will it have to me? There are lots of things you can do with any language you described, but I think you'll know a good fit when you see it.

It took me about an hour of writing Ruby for the first time to know that this is the language I would prefer writing all of my web applications (client and server side) in.
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Thanks!

We don't ask for your Gmail credentials though. We connect via OAuth. You can revoke our access at any time from your Google account without waiting for us.
and the problem with CPython is that is wouldn't be compatible with any of the office api's that are likely based on .net technology. so which one do you think would be better for office. I haven't done ms office automation since office 2k7 but that is the way it was heading.

edit: oh I see what you are getting at. a new product from a new company created at mit in 2012. https://www.datanitro.com/

I would argue that a $500 license is also not targeted at newbie programmers either.

can you run native python from excel without shelling out $500 ?
Trust, but verify. With everything that we know, it's silly to not be paranoid.

I got pretty excited about election integrity for a while.

The default position of the defenders of the status quo was "I can't believe you don't trust us. Prove there's something wrong. You 'experts' in computers, security, and elections are just a bunch of conspiracy freaks."

My default position is "show me". That skepticism merely makes me an informed consumer.
What you view as "an opportunity" and what they view as an opportunity are probably very different.

Speaking as a minor, non-millionaire "web celebrity," it's very off-putting to receive emails from people who want me to do something for them. People who want me to read their life story and then give them some kind of "answer." People who, when I've taken the time to do so, never bother to implement my advice or even update me later.

I don't know you or what you've been doing or saying to these people, but from my first glance, what you wrote here on HN sounds frustrated… and more than a little bit entitled. Just because they're millionaires or billionaires doesn't mean they want to be seen as or treated like a cash dispenser. Even if they "believe" in what you're doing. People who have something other people want develop, very quickly, a "user" radar.

It's not the email address, it's what you do with it.
Your first statement on that subject that I wholeheartedly agree on.

I can completely understand that he is trying to circumvent the House on partisan issues (e.g. welfare, health care, etc) and avoiding compromises on his key agenda points.

But if he is unable to create consent on a deeply hawk'ish issue such as defense, then there is something seriously wrong - either with the president or with the proposal. Considering that there he is still part of an active political process - even across party lines (e.g. fiscal cliff) - the problem is not with the president - but apparently with the proposal.
While I do agree that the current system in no way promotes creativity. The current standardize test system is simply inadequate.

The problem with your analysis(IMO at least) is that you believe that learning and doing well on tests are mutually exclusive. While i do agree that these tests do direct students on a direct "compliant" course that does not in any way mean that those student striving to do well and if so learning by themselves would go in opposition to these exams. If anything learning on the side should only make these exams more mundane as they are a "minimum requirements" exams.

Students learning on there own and striving to do better is never punished. Saying they are punished would mean the answers they are provide are technically right but graded as wrong.

All I have to speak of on this are my personal experiences but i was never in a situation where my provided answer was counted wrong even if i used a different method as taught. Unless the specific exam was to test a particular method, in which case it would be given points taken off yes, but I believe thats warranted.

The problem i believe you are speaking to is strict adherence to specific exam related curriculum. In which case I completely agree that this is the wrong direction to go, but at the same time I dont believe a student wanting to learn or learning outside of school would be negatively effected by these exams.

Also i am in no way saying a student should ever skip school to learn on there own.
Exactly. The idea of copying email from one inbox to another "shared inbox" is painful.
Wrong question.

If you can't simplify or analogize enough to explain something technical, you don't understand it well enough yourself.

Sometimes I'll tell people "It's kind of abstract and will take a while to explain. Do you still care?"
I think I we are saying the same thing.

I am saying that a transaction is public, not the details.

I am also saying that dominos will have that transaction tied to the delivery address. This is not intrinsic to bitcoin, its all done on dominos side as part of delivering a pizza.

So let me try again:
If abc transfers bitcoins to xyz, and the FBI knows that xyz is a drug dealer, then it sees that abc transfers bitcoins to DOM, then it can subpeona dominos records and find the address of someone who purchased drugs from xyz.

The assumptions I am making: the FBI knows that xyz is a drug dealer. the FBI knows that DOM is dominos.

Are the assumptions wrong? Would the FBI be able to know that?
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You don't have 160 students at once. You have 30 students for an hour at a time, then 30 more, six times a day. (Or something similar.)
Are you going to keep hosting your email with a company you trust so little you actually think they would disconnect you from their free service over a chargeback on a product they actually failed to provide? I get more and more glad I'm not a prisoner to their "free" services every day.

That said, it would be ridiculous for them to do that. Wouldn't that imply that they can perceive problems and act on them--a faculty this story illustrates they are profoundly lacking?
The trick is to do both. Create one site that's honest and pure (like you have), and a completely separate site where you sell higher placements to companies. You then don't care about what people think about the profit making page.
post your results here in three months :-)
Are you still able to go to converts? If so, do the loud noises bother you, or are you able to use earplugs or anything else to cope with the sound?
Ask HN: SF developer burden rate @ $100k?
Trying to budget how much developers will cost me as a business owner. The technical term seems to be 'burden rate' (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/burden-rate.asp#axzz2KiL9czqZ), but I'm interested in the legally-mandated 'burden rate', not including optional benefits.

For example, if I want to pay a dev $100k or $125k, how much will it cost me as a company with Social Security, and payroll taxes, etc. all included?
Explaining technical stuff to non-technical people is a skill or a talent like any other. Tim Hunkin, Carl Sagan, and James Burke are all great 'explainers.' It helps they have a wide body of experience across a lot of different fields which gives them a lot of material to draw on.

Mapping understanding from what someone does understand, to something they don't understand, is a problem in topology. Many times, if there is enough time to go through it, you can find that path for most people.

Where it breaks down is when you are dealing with people who have never learned to think critically or who are unable to reason about things they haven't personally experienced.

I appreciate the WPEngine guys who have been helping my sister with her Blog, she is smart, but not technical. Generally it just means that having her understand what is supported directly by the software and what isn't is more time consuming but ultimately possible.
Standardized testing is a complete farse.

Here's one reason (amongst many I am sure).

I have a relative who was a Professor at Eastern Michigan and got her PhD in Education. For her dissertation she looked at standardized testing in USA as well as internationally. She was in Finland, doing research at a school there when she noticed a discrepancy in their testing statistics, specifically, the number of students being tested as compared to the total population.

Particularly, she noticed that NONE of the children with special needs were taking the tests. When she inquired as to why, the administrator was pretty blunt: "Well, they are not tested because they are handicapped."

I question why the USA is reacting (maybe even over-reacting) to a situation that is not apples for apples.

EDIT: I realize this is an anecdotal story. But the gist is that education in the USA is an inclusive opportunity for everyone and every student undergoes standardized testing. The same can't be said across the world so how can a true comparison be made?
It's quite correct that people's misconceptions about physics aren't a good guide to reasoning about physics. But they can be useful evidence for reasoning about how people form conceptions.
Well, you can see the benchmarks here. As you'd expect, Digital Ocean does better on IO-bounded tasks (because it uses SSDs) while Linode has better peak CPU performance (because it offers four cores instead of one).
This is probably the greatest issue: teachers are expected to deal with their students in an individual, personalized basis... But they are constrained on all sides by the syllabus, the final exams and the sheer amount of paperwork.

Edit: also, the fact that the tests do not include relevant 'reasoning' questions makes them worthless.