skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly the expected response. Industrial food is cheap if you don't think damaging the earth has a cost. Poor people need their high-fructose corn syrup! (And of course, it's OK for the government to heavily subsidize corn production, but when they try to buy poor people whole meals then we hear the conservatives whine about a "nanny state" and how irresponsible people are. "What a waste of tax dollars!")

He also seems to have missed the part of the book where they compare Earthbound Farms(an organic industrial farm) to conventional farms. Same processes, same labor, same yields. Higher profit margin. The difference is in a few details.

(He also specifically mentions the costs of tilling the field before planting, to kill the weeds. "Omnivore's Dilemma" agrees that this is a bad thing. But it's likely that this has less environmental impact than dumping your herbicides in the river. Industrial organic farming is very far from perfect. But conventional industrial farming is farther.)

Finally, what we see here is another example of the tragedy of the commons in action. Is it okay for one farmer to use lots of chemicals on his crops? Sure, they get diluted heavily by the time they run off into the nearby river. No big deal. But when everyone for thousands of miles around does it, then you have a problem. It's not one person's fault, it's the collective's fault. I don't think the author quite grasps this point.
I love the clever quips over at Reddit as much as the next guy, but I've come to enjoy HN's higher level of expectation out of its responses. Just because people are modding you up, doesn't mean you shouldn't try to uphold that standard.
Anything with "quick" and "easy" in the title automatically discredits itself. Language learning can be a lot of fun, but it's on a par with learning to play a musical instrument, or build furniture. You're going to spend a long time on it, and you're going to spend a long time sucking at it.
The title is a bit misleading. Nissan just hopes it will be the first. Mitsubishi is planning to have their iMiev out at about that time or sooner as well. Actually, just about every car company is saying they'll have an electric out by 2011 these days.
Some great hackers took turns tutoring the kid; what a lucky SOB!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640994

--

So the last question is:
-- perhaps you really want to learn to program in PLT Scheme so
that you can see what
elegant lazy functional programmers do,
strict lazy programmers,
OO programmers,
logic programmers,
and imperative programmers
without ever leaving the language.

PLT is entering Mozart/Oz territory here, with clean syntax as a major plus.

Good read.
"and here I am ten years later in Nagoya looking at a stack of bug reports filed against the university entrance exam administration system."

So what would you recommend as a course of self study in Japanese? ( I assume such a thing is possible. I could be wrong)

Anything on the Internet is fine of course and I can buy any books available on Amazon, but I can't really go back to school or attend classes (no good Japanese teachers/schools where I live).
I've been to that tiny part of Patagonia. Sadly Welsh is no longer spoken - the older generation understands it, but for the kids it's strictly Spanish.
Wow, you read the article too?
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Yeah, I was expecting a story of how the hackers had reverse-engineered the device and found details of the skimmers
He does have a point, but something is missing in most such lamentations of watered down academic standards. It's that education, in the past, was not meant to be vocational training and therefore the eoconomic case for broadening access just wasn't there.

Knowing classic literature was not (functionally) why upper class kids of past times went on to earn much more than their lower class peers. It was just part of the symbolic glue that allowed members of that class to recognise each other.

Throughout history, access to good education was by birth, not by talent.

Most analyses featuring Mozart are flawed. It's probably because nobody is quite sure whether the purpose of education systems is to find those rare individuals with innate genius, or rather to teach a large number of reasonably intelligent people something so they are more capable of solving particular problems as a result. I don't think there is one approach that is suitable for doing both.

Mozart is often introduced into the debate by those demanding more stringent standards of admission. However, if it's about finding the Mozarts of the world, radical and indiscriminate broadening of access must be the top priority.

It's the nature of innate genius that it occurs just as likely in illiterate african street kids as in the offspring of english professors. Taking on a large number of totally unprepared kids and exposing them to interesting stuff is probably the most beneficial approach to finding the Mozarts. Demanding good preparation and high entry standards is a social filter, not a talent filter.

So I think, universities must commit themselves to actually teaching students something instead of whining about low entry standards. I fully understand that the author of the article does more than that, and I agree with his other points.

But let's face it, universities are there to bring as many people as possible onto a high level of knowledge and skill. The goals are largely economic ones and that should not be lamented. They are no longer the kind of upper class culture club they once were, and they are not primarily an endeavour to find the Mozarts and Einsteins.
I think he actually does a good job of demonstrating that he does much of what he does because it's better for the land.

As a farmer, the most valuable thing he has is that land. It will be in his family for a long time, so it's in his best interest to protect it. From what he says, it sounds like most of what he does revolves around keeping that resource healthy and productive.
Boing boing and baked-in sociality etc.
> Some others have also hinted at using an array of function pointers and indexing by switch variable.

Doing this explicitly makes no sense -- I'm pretty sure the compiler will compile the switch this way if its heuristics determine that it the fastest way.
I.e., Nissan or Toyota probably didn't sound all that cool in the 70s or 80s either.

Speaking of names (and new Nissan models), I just watched the Top Gear coverage of the GT-R. It performed on par with some of the fastest supercars in the world (and faster than most of them), and also caused Jeremy Clarkson's back to give out while he was driving it. Richard Hammond joked about how of all the cars Clarkson has driven, he was crippled by a Datsun. I thought it interesting that he chose to use "Datsun" as the derogatory brand for the joke, rather than Nissan. I wonder if that name change and subsequent brand recognition loss was a net positive or a net loss, since it meant they could disassociate from the low end, low performance, and very small, autos of the Datsun years.
"My talent for scripts is very unusual"

Your humility is very refreshing Mr Kragen.
Go see Food Inc.

http://www.foodincmovie.com/

Unsettling.
You either created this account and posted your product to:

1. Ask for advice OR

2. Try to market your product to this forum as the audience

If (2), I think this is an inappropriate approach. That's my opinion, and people can speak/flag for themselves.

If (1), we need more info about what you're asking.
Yes, I saw that. But that just zooms you into a specific type of task, where you lose all context. You also gain no extra insight into the differences between demographic groups.

Really, this is just an attempt to put a lot of data into a stacked bar-chart by making it clickable. It's not particularly judicious in its presentation.
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It is a reason for concern the prospect of losing real journalism. I have stopped using adblockers. Please stop linking to the print version of articles.
I feel sooo conservative now after witnessing this.

There is also a business part of that story:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-now-pronounce-you-m...
There are two levels 'blogger', one that creates content and does a pretty good job of it at that, another that does copy-paste with minor rewrites.

If their original source (the newspapers) dries up my guess is they will start to feed of the other bloggers. This is already happening to some extent.
It's the increases in energy density. You're packing lots and lots of energy into a small space. The challenge is to keep it stable. It's a similar problem to an explosive.

As people demand batteries that have much higher densities -- then it's going to push these boundaries... This wikipedia entry isn't a bad reference on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

Edit: .. and the rate at which you can tap that energy too.
As a driver of a car, the most valuable thing is gasoline. So it's OK for me to drive 55mph through a school zone with kids crossing the street, because I get maximum fuel efficiency that way. If I slowed down, I would not be making the best use of a precious resource. So what if I mow some kids down? Me, me, me!

My point is, sometimes you have to realize that what's best for the individual is not what's best for society, and that you need to compromise. (In the case of the school zone, the government mandates that you play nice. You can say hello to a fine if you value your fuel economy over the safety of the children trying to cross the street. In the case of a corn farm, the opposite effect is in play -- the government gives you money to only worry about the health of your land. The planet itself can get bent, it's standing in the way of cheap soda!)
Nine reasons RadioShack shouldn't change its name.
There are good counterexamples though, for instance the netflix prize. Another decent way to go about it would be to open source the result of such a contest.
it should cause us to ask whether food is too cheap, which is to say, whether all the external costs of food have been adequately priced in

This is spot on. Our economy does not price externalities well.
I'm trying to understand why this bothers you. Are they not supposed to talk about their features?
It is targeted towards college age students because they haven't developed enough antennae yet to warn them when they're being used.
Give it time, man. Your priorities will change. Ten years ago you were complaining that you'd never use any of that silly Math they were forcing you to learn.

It took me 5 years before I appreciated the German I learned in high school. I was in Bangkok airport and met a German woman that didn't speak a word of English. She asked me something, and I understood it. I opened my mouth and a complete sentence came out in a language that I'd never truly believed that people actually spoke in real life. That was the moment I got it.

So yeah, wait and see. Ten years from no I won't be surprised to find you backpacking across Guatemala, burned out on writing code, and thanking that stupid university for forcing you to learn a foreign language.
This is a really fascinating sequence of articles discussing the ins and outs of businesses we see every day and always wonder about their market and profitability -- who knew that cabbies pay $18,000/yr on gas? Or that insurance for a yoga studio is only $90/mo? Or that the least profitable customers for a diner are the elderly, since they're more likely to return food?
Google Apps doesn't cut it for more than a casual business user. The spreadsheet is hideously slow and doesn't integrate with the real data sources that organisations use, there is no equation editor for docs (a big risk if you ask me when someone technical comes along) and due to the "cloud" nature, it doesn't deal with the legal and confidentiality requirements of most businesses. It's also lacking in OOB solutions like invoices, purchase orders and reasonable looking templates etc.

Word 2007, Excel 2007 and TortoiseSVN (which has the ability to merge excel and word docs) any day. If you're cheaping out, OpenOffice is still much better.

Google Apps is a step backwards indeed.
How about the most important thing:

You don't actually NEED one.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, are you talking about entity extraction with confidence levels ala Calais? That used to be clearforest before Reuters bought them. I think entity extraction in general is so closely related to natural language quantification that it is one of those generally tough problems. In general, I feel work in this area suffers scalability issues and highly optimized point solutions will do better for a while yet. I guess we'll have to see how Bing ne Powerset does in mainstreaming this whole thing or if it'll be just a bunch of hype like twine.
Candidly, I wouldn't.

If you put a gun to my head I'd say find yourself a copy of Japanese the Spoken Language with the CDs and drill them until your ears bleed. In particular, make sure you practice production (i.e. talk, talk, talk, if you don't sound like the CD keep talking until you do, then drill some more). The lack of somebody to tell you "You're saying everything... wrong" is one of the largest problems with self-study.

The largest is that almost everyone gives it up.
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Regulators want to know who killed the app, and why Voice is different than other VOIP apps like Skype.

How is it that people who are supposed to be informed about this technology still conflate Google Voice with VOIP? It seems that a lot of people are commenting on this story without actually researching it. This also insinuates that the rejection was mostly ATT's doing, which is flatly contradicted by the existence of the Blackberry GV app on ATT's network.
I get what you mean, but if they were priced correctly, they'd just be internalities. Internalities?
Well said. Further, why do Hybrids go so far out of their way to look like Hybrids? How about making one that looks like a car?

I'd happily drive a Prius if only it didn't look so Priussy. It just screams "I'm a smug jackass driving a Prius!" I'm all about saving the planet and all, but I don't want to look like I'm rubbing everybody's face in it.
Should be "The Decline and Fall of a British University".

The only thing this article tells us is the quality of the students that study at Leeds. It's a bit of a stretch to extrapolate from experience of one department in one university to claim that the same is happening everywhere.
One thing Microsoft has that Google doesn't: the ability to keep working even when the 'net goes down. People who think the 'net doesn't go down: haven't used it long enough, in a production environment.
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"Candidly, I wouldn't.

Thanks! What if I wanted (primarily) to read, write and understand (spoken) Japanese? (vs speak without mangling pronounciation) Would that be equally hard? Iow can self study get me to the point where I can watch a video clip or movie in Japanese and not have to look at the subtitles?
Wow, that's a super neat solution. Thank you!
"If Google wanted to own Washington coverage, well, all it would have to do is take the six or seven journalists who are really producing stuff— remember, reporters don’t make shit —and put them in one place and overnight Google would own Washington...Well, why couldn’t we do that?"

This concept would apply to other parts of the newspaper business. Craigslist did it to classified ads, ESPN to sports, now Politico with politics. I'm sure others will come out over time as well.
Somehow, the combination of "grid", "tracks" and "electricity" popped out to make me think you were calling for a National Slot Car Network.

Electric cars running on little slots in the road, with every car having a rigid steel rod fit into it and two metal pads on springs that ride on electrified rails embedded in the pavement.

I'm down, so long as we get to install those cool handheld trigger things in the cars.
After reading the first sentence of said post, I actually thought he was trying to criticize Java.
not true, google docs has offline capability via Gears.

and html5 "fixes" this as well http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/
The reason I stopped going to Radio Shack was because they turned into a bigger version of the shopping mall cell phone kiosk. High pressure sales people looking to sell me a phone, every time I walked in the door, and high ticket consumer items pushed the project kits and electronic components into the ghetto in the back corner of the store. Radio Shack was no longer a fun place to browse, and rarely had the things I went looking for in stock. In Houston I shopped at EPO and in Austin and here in Mountain View at Fry's. I have to drive a little further, but they don't try to sell me a bunch of crap, and they have a wide variety of cool stuff to look at.

I simply never think, "I know, I'll go to Radio Shack!" It's been at least ten years since that's been my first instinct when I needed something electronic.

I also hold a bit of a grudge against Radio Shack because when I was about 15, a sales guy talked down to me about some device or other (maybe an oscilloscope or a DMM or something; both of which I'd been using for several years at that point) as though I was too much of an idiot to even be looking at it, much less touching it. My dad was browsing nearby, overheard, and laughed at him and explained that he'd be willing to wager that I knew more about the device than the sales guy did. I got a lot of that kind of thing from grownups back then (I had hair down to my waist and wore metal T-shirts all the time), but rarely from fellow nerds, and so I was irritated when it happened at one of my favorite places to poke around, and where most of the people who worked their knew me and were always friendly.

Anyway, it's funny that this article brought back this flood of memories about a store I haven't visited in many years (but throughout my childhood visited every couple of weeks).
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"For example, in a biology exam, a question asked whether you see with your eye, ears, nose or mouth -- "

No it doesn't. The question is "which organ contains light receptors?", which although simple, does requires some knowledge of scientific jargon. And this is on the foundation paper, for which the maximum mark is a C - IIRC, the intermediate and higher papers don't include questions this easy.

This type of question is not for A-Level candidates, it's for distinguishing between the weaker students. Of course it's worthwhile keeping track of what kind of questions appear in exams as a benchmark of educational standards, but only looking at the worst examples you can find does not give a clear snapshot.
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I am Australian, living in Austria. My two year old son speaks German and English now. It is an awesome thing to see him understand English speakers, and reply in German, and vice verse. I also speak German, but he is really teaching me things about the language already that I never knew I'd comprehend, after 10 years of speaking German myself already.

Once he gets older, I want to move us to somewhere in Asia, perhaps India, and give him another language to speak, which we will learn together. I can't think of a greater gift to give your child than another language, personally. It really truly opens the world to him.

Of course, I'm a programmer. Language is my bread and butter. To be truthful, I'm a bit ashamed that I haven't learned as many human languages as computer languages, but there is still time for that.. ;)
Or they'll keep on saying them again and again and things will stay almost exactly the same. That's how revolutions fail.
right because the ONLY reason there are repercussions for dangerous behavior is the government.

government isnt magic, it is an extension of what people want. a horribly twisted extension, but still an extension.
That doesn't mean it's not inaccurate.
Downmodded?
you can't call a monopoly overpriced. the only reason monopolies are bad is because you can no longer tell what a fair price for a service is since you don't have competition to bring the price down towards its supply cost.

without competing prices it is impossible to tell what is and is not an efficient distribution of resources.
Never trust a publisher who is willing to offer direct attack on an authors assertions, but refuses to offer the ability for readers to leave comments on said attack.

The lack of (and then rapid increase in cost of) water will end up pushing this farmer out.

Bottom line, his way of life, like most of America's is becoming increasingly hard to sustain. Attacking deep ecology and the Organic movement is the wrong tack.
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