skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's an accurate portrayal of Clever's value prop. Clever is limited in what they can do with student data because of privacy laws. That's not really their play.

Their value proposition is in providing a common interface to the growing number of systems used to manage student information at schools in the United States.

Schools in the US are free to choose -- more accurately, must purchase their own -- student information system. Many different systems (old and new) exist in the market. If I'm an application developer who is building a literacy app that students will use in the media-lab/classroom at school, the customer (school) will inevitably need a way to get student performance data back in to their student management systems.

There are no industry-wide standards for this, currently. I wouldn't expect any to emerge in the immediate future either. Schools in the US are autonomous, and are structured differently in different areas of the country. For example, here in Florida, schools are organized in to large administrative districts, where decisions are made for groups of thousands of students. By contrast, in northern Ohio, each school is largely independent. Florida school districts are some of the largest, in the country. According to NCES, there were 13,629 school districts in the US as of 2010 [1]. That number is trending downward slowly, but that's still a very large number of independent bodies making decisions. We'll likely see some consolidation instandards, but given the backlash against "Common Core" (an attempt at a standardized curriculum), I wouldn't hold my breath.

1: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_091.asp
Read this: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html -- think most will agree with me.
Xbox listens to players and penalizes them for swearing
I don't know what's "creepy" about it. Any DOD contractor will have high-ranking military people coming in and out. The military is an extremely high-tech organization, and there are lots and lots of people building all that software and hardware.

Anecdote: when I was working at a company developing military radio technology, we spent a month doing field testing on a military base. There were a bunch of military people watching the trials (including a general), not to mention dozens of engineers from other defense contractors. There was nothing creepy or unusual about it. Who do you think builds the radios soldiers carry, the radio jammers they use, the binoculars they use, infrared gear, etc? It's all the product of thousands of projects by thousands of engineering teams, and every year there are probably thousands of occasions in which military brass drop by or check in to see what's up.
Is there a sample chapter or section available. I normally like to see how an ebook containing math looks like on the different devices before buying.
Does North Korea have a future? Is it possible that someday that the current rule is overthrown and the rights and lives of people are restored? Can anyone with knowledge about this comment?
Just saw that the video is on the actual site as well, here's the link: http://apppresser.com/
I had a similar experience with github. https://twitter.com/excelsiores/status/408239093328269312

support@github simply doesn't reply. Apparently, creating https://github.com/excelsiores/geek-misandry was enough to get me onto their "block and never reply to this user" list.

Sad times. Wish they provided some way to export data before kicking off users like this.
You Brits don't have to worry about political correctness like us Americans. :-)
(Clever cofounder here)

We get love from teachers all the time at Clever (which, as a former teacher, makes me incredibly delighted).

Schools are using more and more technology (see http://edsurge.com/ for some examples), but often the burden of tech falls to the teacher. I remember burning the midnight oil manually setting up class rosters in MasteryConnect as a teacher, and fighting "roster rot" as students switched in and out of my class over the course of the school year.

With Clever, teachers get to focus on using the tool with their students, instead of managing data. They love it!
Yeah, I have started to avoid certain events. The Dreamforce hackathon with the 1 million dollar prize for instance looked way too much like a marketing gimmick for Salesforce so I declined. AngelHack is becoming more of a company launching program. I just want to write some code with new tech and meet fellow developers and designers
I can't wait until the rest of the volumes are offered. This particular volume is just a small supplement.
wouldn't you? very little overhead, nice cash flow that is effectively gravy on top of their regular operations.
Firefox's recent image decoding memory optimizations are amazing, especially with so many infinite scrolling pages out there lately.
That doesn't do anything to address forcing people with no skills to do meaningless labor instead of spending their time to learn new skills. And making the labor intentionally hard just to make it undesirable seems unreasonably cruel, especially since the entire premise behind a basic job is to provide a job where none other is available, meaning that choosing to take a private sector job is by definition not possible for many people or the program would be unnecessary. Whereas reducing the pay leaves you in the position of either not providing a sufficient safety net, or having to raise the minimum wage (and correspondingly increase "real" unemployment) just in order to make it sufficiently higher than the amount set for the basic job.
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yeah man. Because people act completely rational when their terrified of dying and would certainly take the utmost care to vet every 'solution' offered to them.
This sounds promising. I upvoted just because I want SF folks to afford cheap and healthy lunch. I hope it all goes well and you can expand to Seattle area.
The "first group" refers to "The people who agree that the project they are working on is unethical".

Telling people to, in essence, 'follow their heart' and do what they think is right is not "posturing and showing off our superior ethics". If they think that their work is unethical, then they should not do it.

The third paragraph is the paragraph that endorses posturing and showing off our superior ethics.
Despite the negative parent, wouldn't you agree that the cost of integration has to be absorbed by somebody? In this case, the application vendors have to pass the cost to the schools (plus a margin).

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The question is whether the schools will be better off having one party in control? That's usually not a recipe for cost containment.
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To put it in math terms, using TAOCP for an intro to computer science would be like using Russell and Whitehead for an intro to arithmetic.
As long as China wants a buffer with South Korea, it will keep North Korea going. Without China's support it would have collapsed long ago.
I'm not going to argue on 'harder' or 'not as hard' as such things are often personal measures that are difficult to quantify. I will however point out the meta fallacy of even thinking about these things in terms of 'not hard.'

The truth is, computers have become exceptionally complex. That is one of the reasons I've been building a medium complexity standalone system (ARM Cortex M based) to give folks something that is somewhere between 8 bit Arduino type experiences and 64 bit IA-64 or even ARM Cortex A9 level complexity. I realized when I started finding ways to teach my kids about computation that I was very lucky to have things like PDP-11's, VAXen, 68000's, and DEC-10s to play with which did not present this huge wall of complexity that needed to be scaled to get to the fundamentals. My target is a self hosted 'DOS' style Monitor/OS for the Cortex M4 series. Complex enough to host its own development environment and tools, but simple enough that you can keep it all in your head at the same time.
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Erlang's VM is very sophisticated and mature, it is at least years ahead of Go, imo. For example, compare Erlang's pre-emptive scheduling [1] to "goroutines".

[1] http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-...
I tried a simple example[1] in C#, .NET 4.5, both 32 and 64-bit, just looping and calling an Add method. The adding the keyword virtual increased runtimes > 200%. JVMs might do this, but the CLR's codegen doesn't.

An old blog post by one of the CLR engineers[1] states:

"We don't inline across virtual calls. The reason for not doing this is that we don't know the final target of the call. We could potentially do better here (for example, if 99% of calls end up in the same target, you can generate code that does a check on the method table of the object the virtual call is going to execute on, if it's not the 99% case, you do a call, else you just execute the inlined code), but unlike the J language, most of the calls in the primary languages we support, are not virtual, so we're not forced to be so aggressive about optimizing this case."

I guess things haven't changed. My testing with the CLR indicates that for best performance, you should make sure your IL is already inlined. The CLR does much better with huge function bodies.

1: http://pastebin.com/98c7Bt7f
2: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidnotario/archive/2004/11/01/2503...
Just playing Devil's Advocate...

but I wouldn't.

Those transfers to the exchanges from the banks are currently one of the few reliable monitors of this activity.

So I would first put the tech in place to monitor the bitcoin network... then I would say that you can't use banks to get to the exchanges anymore. (Monitoring blockchain changes on that scale is non trivial).

Anyway, if I was serious about impeding bitcoin usage... that would be the order I'd do things in.
FYI, it seems like the email you have listed (support@pplfood.com) is bouncing.
tAoCP is not just a computer science book, in a sense It is part of the foundation for the field. That said, it is not so much theoretical as it is descriptive. In it [or them] Knuth describes algorithms. and programs and the mathematics of their execution. The sort of code described is for the things people use every day.

It's good reading if a person is fascinated by the subject. Otherwise it will be very very dry. Among the otherwise's, would be someone hoping to pick up a language or someone who wants an introduction to programming. With a math degree, you should not struggle with the math.
I see. So Adobe Illustrator is useless?
Most catering companies charge at least $12 per head. This is a deal. $5 would be near impossible to sustain.
Seoul is within artillery range of North Korea. It would destroy that city and the global economy to "do something over there".
Oh man, if they expose some sort of API, it could be used to clean up tags in music libraries and such. Being able to give a service the tags you have (or a hash of the song or something) and have what track the result most probably is could be awesome.
I won't downvote you, but I'll disagree with you.

We live in the world we live in, and counter intelligence is necessary. The fact that it's privatized is nothing different that what's happening with KBR, Blackwater, Lockheed-Martin, L3, et al. It's more a function of political realities where critical functions are being subcontracted out.

I'd rather have a Palantir than not have one and be outmaneuvered by other geopolitical rivals.

edit: hey, rayiner, fair point. I think that logistics and 'private security contractors' are in a different category than traditional defense contractors. I'm not really sure where Palantir belongs on that spectrum, so I intentional casted a wide net.
Thanks so much for the support! I also hope all goes well and we can expand to the Seattle area soon :)
For anyone interested in more about Zyklon, Haber, mustard gas, nitrogen based fertilizer and the ethics of it all I highly suggest checking on the radiolab episode that tells their story. Here is the relevant section: http://www.radiolab.org/story/180132-how-do-you-solve-proble...
How can a government mandating the use of well known and open file/protocols if you want to do business with them be a bad thing?

I fail to understand your argument, unless you have some economic interest in keeping things the way they were. If that's the case then though luck my friend.

If you spend your energy in doing the absolute best you can to serve you client (the government in this case - yes i know, is not easy), instead of playing the lock-in game then you should be fine.
Recommended follow-up reading -

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

I know most of you heard of it, but, seriously, take a moment and look a bit closer.
Hmm just tested it and it seems to be working. Also, my inbox is overflowing haha. Try again and let me know if it works!
Simpler? The only case it matters is when a subclass has shadowed a non-virtual method. "Simpler" would be simply disallowing shadowing.
Totally agree here. Pictures of food would help a ton.

Also think you could do a lot with marketing here... differentiate yourself through fresh ingredients or better supplies. Make that apparent if you have any leg up. Convince them you're better with some unique flair and customer testimonials.
"Legal" is exactly what unethical behavior has been hiding behind. Setting your ethics to "legal" is weak.
I preferred "Mode X" for its 320x240 resolution with square pixels and additional pages that could be used for animations. I still have my EGA/VGA Programmer's Guide "Bible" sitting on my bookshelf. I haven't needed it for many years now, but somehow it is a comfort keeping it around.
At least with Blackwater you can raise the complaint that mercenaries privatize aspects of the military that should be under public control. But to the extent that we have soldiers who carry equipment, nobody seriously thinks that the military should build all that equipment itself.
A few questions:

- Do you have a minimum/maximum order size?
- What sort of commitment do you require (the FAQ mentions a commitment but doesn't give details)?
- Can you accommodate my low carb/dairy-free/gluten-free/MOKO* lifestyle?
- Are there any feedback mechanisms so I can let you know what I thought about the food?
- Is there any choice in what I get, or is it all chosen for me?
- Do you guarantee my food will arrive when I want it and not two hours late?

*MOKO: will only eat 'meat of known origin'
It's more about not going into deep sleep, which would start around half an hour for most people.
Not a chance. Gmail is way too valuable for Google to just shut down (and no Reader wasn't as valuable).
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If the ethical case for redistribution rests on the view that (A) inequality is partly the consequence of injustices that need restitution and (B) some people really need the money, and probably deserve it because of A, I can't see why that would leave you favouring a crassly simply form of redistribution like BI over another hypothetical form of welfare system which is better at focusing the redistribution on suffers of injustice and things people really need. That probably wouldn't be identical in design to the current US welfare system, but it wouldn't be difficult to argue that many of the features present in most actual welfare states are better at delivering A and B than a simple monthly transfer of a small amount of income to everybody.

Which leaves us with two main lines of argument against some more traditional form of welfare state. It's "paternalistic", but so are employers when they impose conditions upon people that expect to receive money or expenses from them, and I so don't see anyone making the case that expecting minimum standards of behaviour from people in return for giving them money is in general a bad thing. Secondly, it's expensive to administer, but potentially not as expensive and wasteful as the adverse consequences of an overly-generous basic income (or as deadly as an insufficient basic income). On the whole, better to have lots of subtly wrong things than one big politically-sensitive number that can make or break your economy.

Once you've conceded the case that centralised large-scale distribution is inherently justifiable and worthwhile, saying no to "big government" starts to look more like a slogan than an argument...
Adjusted for effort I don't know of any evidence that they are...
You may be right. Can you think of some examples of products that failed?
Just curious, what for? Seems like you can do the same thing just listening on youtube.
Job boards are a funny thing, it's a fairly easy thing to program, and yet companies will pay good sums of money to post an ad because it is to hard to find decent help AND companies are already paying money to advertise job openings.

Value created !== programming complexity
"You cannot just bolt isolation on after the fact. You must design your language for it from the start."

Yes, I agree, and I'm sure I'm going to have many years of wishing they had. At the moment I don't have a better entrant in this field that is palatable to my coworkers, though. They've rather disliked Erlang (and not for lack of trying, and not for lack of good reasons, for that matter), Haskell's right out, and I'm running low on production-quality true isolation-based languages here. Several additional up-and-coming contenders; I'm sure if I could have used Rust-from-2018 I'd take that in a heartbeat, but, alas, it's 2013.

Go is tolerable, at least the way we're using it.
We were thinking of writing something like this. Awesome!
Indeed, although it's not an easy read, and it takes time for the horror of spending one's entire life, birth to death, in a concentration camp, starving and being tortured to really sink in.
Perhaps even more impressive is that it was written by an Erlang novice. This makes me want to hit the books and start learning Erlang again.
As someone who works as a school with a few SISes and LMSes around, would it be possible for me to use clever to integrate my existing systems and save headache? We're currently knee deep in Moodle, PowerSchool, SchoolAdmin, Active Directory, Google Apps, and even have some Access databases floating around.
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that makes sense. Thanks for the heads up! I clearly read the article with my own biases in place. Best of luck to you!
Because expectations and demands for stability in mobile devices are still much higher than on laptops and desktops.

If I start a game that requires too much horsepower on my PC, then sure, maybe the thing freezes or take a long time to get responsive and if I recieve a skype call in that instance, I actually expect it to fail.

Not on a phone. No matter what I am doing, I expect SMS's and phonecalls to be accepted. No excuses.
See the other comments. If the result pleases Knuth, it probably is good enough for you, too.
I guess I'd rather have freedom than less obesity around me.

Even if you are right, and the only way for people to learn about slow cookers is by banning McDonalds / Chinese take out, I still wouldn't do it.

Although the slow cooker is a pretty good idea.
> sheepishly claim is inspired by The Lord of the Rings

And, for those who missed the reference, the Palantir is the "all-seeing" device used by the formerly good wizard who defects to the dark side partway through the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir
The book on Homotopy Type Theory is quite readable even though the developments are quite new. The purpose of the book is to get the material into the hands of as many as it may be useful to as soon as possible.

I would argue that the book is at least as useful as Categories for the Working Mathematician or Barendregt's Lambda Calculus are likely to be for your typical software engineer interested in functional programming. To be clear, someone interested only in learning how to program in functional languages is probably not going to get very much from either of those books, which are respectively an extremely technical mathematical text on topics in category theory, and a heavily logic-oriented, mathematical presentation of the lambda calculus and derivatives thereof. Not much of the material in either book would be directly applicable to the practice of software engineering using functional languages, but someone with a deeper interest would find them useful and interesting, and I think the same holds for the HoTT book. At the very least, as the other commenter alluded to, a novice reader would probably be able to glean a nice understanding of Martin-Löf dependent type theory from the first chapter.
Jesus, Iowa is cheap I think I averaged $2 a meal last month. Sandwiches and cereal FTW.
What about never again? Are Jewish orgs doing anything to help this situation, given the human rights violations similar to the Holocaust?

edit: Note, I'm genuinely asking here, not implying anything should/isnot being done
There's so much wrong with what you've written (I've listed some of them below), I honestly don't know what to do. I think I might just have to accept people like you exist, but are in no way capable of impacting me.

* Ad hominems would require I disqualify your argument based on who you are. Considering I don't know anything about you, that'd literally be impossible for me to do.

* Presidential pardons don't have any stated intents.

* The NDAA's sole purpose is not to vest a single person with the power to do literally whatever he wishes, whoever not whomever/

* Documents written over 200 years ago would have to be abstracted to the point of mootness to be relevant in the world we live in today.

* The Interstate Commerce Clause is part of the Constitution, so any usage of it is by definition constitutional.

* Same goes with the elastic clause. You're just repeating ancient complaints - people have been bitching about what you're complaining about here (abuse of these two clauses) since the dawn of the US, and yet somehow the US is still here today.

I'll say what I said before: you're not in power, and that scares you. Your reaction (a natural one) is to lash out at those who are in power, and come up with some kind of conspiratorial explanation of why the world is the way it is. Why? Because at least, if SOMEONE is in charge, then there's a plan, even if that plan is nefarious. To you, and people like you, the idea that events aren't being planned or orchestrated is a terrifying thought. No one in charge?! So you come up with these crackpot, "The US government is out of control!" theories to help sleep at night.

But that doesn't make them true.

It's no longer an ad hominem to say you're full of shit and don't know what you're talking about, as I've demonstrated that fact. It's merely a conclusion based on observation, at this point.