skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always amazed at how artificial the school environment is. In the real world, I interact with a diverse group of people of many different ages. I have a lot of control over who I deal with, such that I can usually avoid dickheads. If I can't avoid them and one of them causes trouble to the extent of physical threats or attacks, I can get them hauled off by the police.

In school, everyone around you is the same age, you can't avoid the dickheads no matter how much you might want to, and they can harass you with near impunity.

I realize that some allowances must be made for children (can't give a 10-year-old total control over their lives the way an adult has it, after all), but the massive differences in something that's supposed to be preparing them for adulthood are a bit crazy.
This is selective enforcement.

All the more insulting when sending kids and innocent people to jail for simple cannabis use in other areas.
It needs a nice name. Hacknium.
At work we are trialling Lyx + Subversion for collaborative creation of developer documentation. The stored data is in a text + markup format which allows for easy diffing. Lyx being a layer over Latex means we can easily transform into a wide variety of formats, but mostly we output to PDF and HTML. Subversion was chosen as we already had a server available and there isn't really the same need to branch/merge documents compared to code. Writing in Lyx took a little time to get used but I definitely feel more in control that when trying to wrangle complex docs in Word.
No, probably not. Most likely there's an uncomfortable process disabled students have to go through to get their disability documented, and then the student brings documentation to the instructor or professor who makes the accommodations stated in the plan given to the student by the ADA coordinator of the school. Trumps the syllabus always.

I was a disabled student. Now I teach. It's how I've seen it work everywhere.
I like Freckle - http://letsfreckle.com/
What? Surely this falls under the free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech distinction? What about RHEL? -- that operates on a paid open-source model.
Is that a hypothesis or based on scientific research? Homeschool kids have plenty of outside activities and extracurriculars. One could argue that spending time on prison introduces you to a lot of people as well, but that doesn't mean it's socially beneficial. Besides, social awkwardness happens with all kinds of people, regardless of academic background and circumstances.
It seems possible someone is revving up the engines on their botnet in anticipation of some upcoming event.

But this is hardly the first time someone has noticed malware spreading exponentially over the network. Correlation to current newsworthy events may be completely accidental.

I do not believe in jumping to conclusions here. It could be location reporting bias or malware attempting to not piss off (or implicate) certain parts of IP space. But compare Greece https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users... to Israel https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users...
Not plenty more benefits for every case in deficit.
Your argument is borderline dishonest. Teachers in Finland don't have to worry about a lot of things U.S. teachers do because they're taken care of by the government via taxes, which results in said utilities and services being cheaper. For example: health care. I also bet that Finland teachers don't have to spend their own money on buying supplies for their students, which is sadly really common here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_in_Finland
Fucking Block Syntax
Wished the Swedish scientists played more video games. Elerium is a way cooler name than Ununpentium.
Take a look at the .pgm images that generate those RF signals. I imagine that's the best we could hope to see leaking from some interstellar civilization's communications.
Nope. I also strongly recommend against using the normal "brew" formulas for haskell tools, its only by PROACTIVE efforts by mac using haskellers that the standard brew aren't a complete disaster (or at least, wont' be a disaster, soonish).

I strongly recommend using standard haskell binary distributions, such as those prepared by GHC HQ, or the Haskell Platform folks, or perhaps any brew Tap that Darin Morrison or Luke Ianni author. Do not use brew for haskell tools (at least until they actually follow Darin Morrison's word to the T, because they do janky stuff for haskell.)
Yup.

G+ is a much better community for online and hybrid class than anything the Blackboard monopoly can muster up.
Even if they keep their word, that word is as good as the next AG /President. The law didn't change, they just decided not to enforce certain laws. In theory it should be a disturbing trend since we're a "nation of laws"
Are you missing the other arm of the 'or'? Try the following, which assumes 'except' returns null if the second parameter equals the first.

(or someone
(except 'Apple some-company))

As a general style, although somewhat inverted, I prefer 'tailing syntax':

(or
(except someone 'pg 'rtm '_sh)
(except some-company 'Apple 'Weyland-Yutani))
All are illegal under federal law.

What's it called when laws are enforced for some people and not others?
You do know that article is an opinion piece that you're using to back your argument.
I just see such a strict requirement, as well as the daily quizzes and attendance grades in the OP's link, as evidence of someone abusing their power in a very destructive way.

These are young adults, treat them like such. If they are smart enough to pass the departmental practicums without coming to class once or doing a bit of your silly homework, then who cares?

Is a diploma meant to declare mastery in a subject(s), or is it to signify your willingness to jump through figurative arbitrary hoops while wearing a tutu? If it's the former, then attendance and busy-work like daily quizzes, homework, etc. really aren't going to further that objective.
The problem with public education is that it isn't typically shaped by free market principals and there's little effective competition. Competition drives innovation. Parents are generally the best arbiters of success because they care about their kids more than anyone else. Adam Smith, when applied to education can have dramatic results, yet public schools are typically about as efficient as a Pentagon procurement office.
What Happened to Traditional Chinese Culture?
Agreed, this is classic Woz. He didn't take any of the offense that others seem to think he should have, nor was he heaping scorn on Jobs here. Just telling it like it is, as is his want.
How do you keep all that so secret for so long?
Same here, FF and DDG. Might have to use Bing or Google a few times but Google isn't /wasn't perfect on every search either.

I now do get referrals from DDG on a few on my websites so anecdotally and from a very small sample I see the increase. Google has become very commercialized and too tied up with the FED big boys now.
>Stupid? Effectively intercepting telecommunications from not only within and with the consent of the 'big players' networks, but also assuring they achieve total surveillance through compromising undersea cables is quite the feat. Storing data until they have the machine power to break encryption strikes me as clever and prudent, not stupid.

the 'stupid' part is that any random contract sysadmin could pull huge amounts of data without setting off any alarms. I mean, this isn't some tiny VPS provider, where you might expect all the admins to have root. This is the fucking NSA. they should have tight control and logging over who accesses what, and if they have a master key, the folks with access to that master key ought to be fully vetted employees, and there ought to be few of those people.

Sure, it's hard to design a system where your sysadmins don't have full access, but not nearly as hard as everything else they've done.

This is what I find so shocking about the leak. We all knew that the government was spying on us. The shocking part is that they don't have any better security than I have when it comes to storing that data.

I mean, this is the leak we know of... how much do you want to bet that someone else has already used this data for personal gain, without the public or even the NSA finding out?

It's one thing to keep all my internet history, and use it for investigations... it's quite another to keep all that data where any random contractor can come in and fish through it without setting off alarms.

No matter what you think about the rightness or wrongness of the spying itself, I think we can all agree that if they must collect data, they must also secure that data, and this leak proves that they have not done so.
Learn to Identify Rhetorical Fallacies
its because no one trusts google and people are moving to anonymous proxy networks as a partial solution
Good. Having spent months (a while back) analyzing where memory leaks were occurring in a fairly big code base I can say that it is no fun without good tools. In that case the issue was that the underlying homegrown library was based heavily on SQLAlchemy. Our SQLA objects referenced each other and when we freed the session, they were not decoupled automatically.

Also beware crappy C extensions. After much debugging I found a quad tree implementation that leaked like a sieve. From what I understand these tools will not help with that, though it is rare.
One of the common mechanisms that homeschooling parents use is a co-op mechanism. A group of homeschooling families in an area decide to school their children together, with varying degrees of cohesion. This, especially coupled with extracurricular activities, can easily address any concerns about socialization. The adults I know who were homeschooled and seem to have socialization issues by and large were homeschooled in a bubble and not encouraged or given opportunities to socialize. Another benefit of these co-ops is that they can allow for shared resources and expertise that replicates some of the other benefits of a more traditional school environment.

An easy example of this might be to take advantage of guided tours of theatres or museums. It's not often easy to get a guide for one parent and one child, but organizations will accommodate a group of 30 more frequently. Another example of this collaboration is electives. Even the best-intentioned homeschooling parent might not know some skill their children have taken an interest in (e.g. cartooning), but if another homeschooling parent knows that skill (e.g. a professional cartoonist), it's common for such parents to make arrangements for lessons in the interest of the group. A parent with an interesting hobby (e.g. model rocketry or electronics) could very easily expose other children to that hobby in an educational way. A group of willing parents can go a long way towards replicating the breadth of educational experience that a traditional school and its resources can provide, without any of the drawbacks.