skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is true if you embrace the facts. It seems that many people I've discussed this with merely disregard the scientific process and experts in the field as biased.
I consulted for Bell Labs as my first job out of grad school, and spent a year (1990-1991) working in this building. I always loved the environment, especially the library and dining area in the atrium. Sad to see it all vacant.
> (unless you plan on going to another office later on...)

Just curious, has a president ever done that?
Roughly 125 million people voted in the last presidential election. Had I been among them, I'd therefore have had roughly 1/125,000,000 of a say in who gained the office.

Naturally, that isn't true at all. The President gets all the attention but they can't do much without the House of Representatives and the Senate's approval. Your vote for representatives in those houses is worth a lot more than 1/125,000,000.

If you wanted to have a greater effect, you could get involved. Help campaign for the candidate you favour, effectively multiplying your vote by however many people you convince of your case. Or if you really wanted to make a difference you could run for office yourself.

But yeah, local politics is messy and difficult. It's a lot easier to say you're above it and not do anything.
I think your analysis is a bit too simple, it depends on where you are in the political spectrum. He routinely demonizes roughly half the nation (that's my half, which is why I so acutely notice that), and plenty of those goals are anything but "optimistic" for subsets of that half.

That's one reason he's such a polarizing figure. Yeah, he promised to bring us together, but to bring up one particularly relevant to Hacker News example, look at his "you didn't build that" speech. Coming from an entrepreneurial family and having working in a number of startups, I couldn't take that as anything but an attack on me and mine.
The other half life :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_decay
>> Evolution is a theory that is almost self-evident.

I wish that were the case. To give one example, housecats are so vastly different than monkeys that initial observation wouldn't necessarily point toward a single primitive mammal ancestor. The theory of evolution gets so expansive when you consider billions of years that it's easier to believe in intelligent design.

In a clever twist, many creationists have started claiming that they accept micro-evolution (e.g. the idea that bird beaks would change over generations like Darwin observed) while denying that macro-evolution happens. Thus they can account for the high-school-science-class information that most people get while still clinging to creationism as the overarching truth.
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uplevel allows you to write control structures like if, while, etc... in Tcl itself. Yes, that's something you need to be careful with because it's extremely powerful.
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Business or no, I don't consider this a particular disadvantage for the US. Think of it as track II diplomacy; what looks like leaks to the general public are equally an advertisement for our capabilities and a warning to our enemies about the reach of our intelligence apparatus.
Why are people still pursuing degrees which they will likely NEVER be able to use? This is not a problem that universities need to fix, but it is ultimately a self-correcting problem. If people can't get paid for studying X for 7+ years then post-grad X programs will dry up and disappear. As they should. If you're planning to go into one of these dead-end academic fields you should be required to take a full year course in Economics first.
Ethics are not a subset of emotions.
Yes, a reset/unlock is a bad idea. Keys should be erased, and it should be up to apps/services to determine an appropriate means to re-authenticate users.
> It takes a very very special type of person to run a country. You need people who are basically insane.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Bc1LAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA279&lpg=P...

"She [Thatcher] had no hobbies, no hinterland, and no close friends with 'an old shoe' quality of comfortable familiarity. Recharging her batteries was a practice she had never heard of."
Don't live in Austin. Austinites are pretty good at marketing themselves as progressives surrounded by the 'rest of Texas', but the reality is, as always, a bit more complicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston
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Allowing home schooling is even more sick than that kind of bullshit these Texans are doing.

In public schools one at least knows what the teachers are teaching. Home-schooled kids are not protected from anything ranging from creationist crap to domestic violence (you as a teacher can spot if a pupil turns up beaten every other day).

Not to mention the fact that home-schooled kids are far, far behind "ordinary schooled" kids in terms of knowledge. How should they be other, after all?

Edit: for all those who down-vote, I'm writing this from a German point of view. Here, nearly every non-state/church-schooling effort has been plagued with massive problems: inadequate knowledge of teachers, sexual harrassment, violence scandals. Name the problem, you've had it.
I find it amusing that you are being downvoted, because you are absolutely correct.

In light of what we do know about the NSA, it is completely reasonable to assume (and in fact believe) the worst when we speculate on what we don't know. If people ask, "what evidence do you have?" I just respond with, "I'm sorry, but have you actually been paying any attention to Snowden's revelations and have you done any critical thinking about what they actually mean?" That is enough to shut them up.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And the NSA has as close to absolute power as one can reasonably reach today: in the Age of Information, they have access to almost all information. What makes them especially dangerous is that their deeds are powered by their misguided conscience. They strongly believe that what they are doing is the Right Thing because it protects America. People who have succumbed to such fundamentalist thinking will do anything with the power they have, including blackmailing politicians.
I thought the article mentions that this charter school is taking public money. Therein lies the problem.
I'm so tired of this reply, because ultimately it boils down to "The President of the United States was unable to use the bully pulpit to convince Americans that torture is bad."

That's a reflection on the quality of the president, not checks and balances.
Not really a surprise for someone who was so in thrall to Benoît Mandelbrot, another world-class narcissist.

Here's Taleb on Mandelbrot: "[He] had perhaps more cumulative influence than any other single scientist in history, with the only close second, Isaac Newton."

That quote really says it all.
A hypothesis implies falsification via observation or experimentation. Creationism does not (and cannot) meet that definition. Calling creationism a "competing hypothesis" is an insult to science.
A developer can get a lot of mileage without knowing much math beyond algebra just as a musician can get a lot of mileage without knowing music theory. In both cases however there's a limit as to how far you can go. If you're content with writing CRUD apps for the rest of your life then yeah, math isn't terribly important.
Read the techcrunch article: they support the program even after the details leaked.
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I just don't get why people don't believe politicians.

We are lied to all the time by them.

We don't need the US Congress. We don't even need the President in it's current version.

We can vote on legislation ourselves. We can approve a budget ourselves. We can veto stupid and corrupt laws.

We do everything else online, why can't we govern online?

The people in power don't want this to happen, so they convince us they are actually doing something.
In the UK we have a TV license fee that you need to pay in order to watch television as it's broadcast live. The way the license fee is enforced was by a fleet of detector vans driving around measuring the EM signature of televisions in houses. Allegedly, at least, for there's a theory that the vans never actually did anything. Exactly what these people in the article are doing, but mobile, and since the 1970s.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...
Please get this off the ground. I would also possibly suggest a separate business, website regression testing.

Selenium is WAAAY to painful.
I'm not sure your list consists of good counter examples, with the exception of the first (as the parent opened himself up to that--implementing accounting formulas most definitely requires at least some mathematical ability, but that's a specific case).

The second point isn't mathematics; it's arithmetic.

The third and fourth points are really statements that are as too broad as the statement that "math is not necessary for software development". In particular, were were to employ your use of the word "algorithm" it would apply to literally any activity that can be described as a series of instructional steps. Consequently "how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" becomes an exercise in mathematics, for example.

As a person who comes from an academic field in science that is rich in applied (and some theoretical) mathematics, my observation is that there exists very few cases where a person writing software at almost any level actually needs to have a deep mathematical/theoretical understanding of the data structures and algorithms he employs. And I mean "deep" in the sense that he even has to understand that a mathematically-backed theory is what he's employing. This is as true for computer science graduates having a prolonged bout of anxiety and envy of mathematicians and scientists as it is for the "lowly" CRUD App Developer. At the deepest, one needs to be able to employ arithmetic to compute a rough "Big O" estimate. That's "doing math" I guess, in the strictest sense, but only in the same sense as a child "does number theory" when he writes, e.g. "10" in the blank for "9+1 = ___".
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The people who can freely dispel from themselves the intellectual dishonesty and lies that they've been taught to accept as fundamentals, is low.

You sound like you weren't heavily ingrained into the dogma to begin with, and had a tendency to autodidact, which helps kill off the rest and make your own conclusions. Yet most people don't and they take whatever they're formally taught for granted, or selectively choose to believe whatever fits their ideological predispositions.

Many of these kids will be stuck with lifelong delusions. Their parents may mold them to a certain path, but their schooling will solidify it completely.

Even still, this is a very abhorrent thing to do.

"Hey kid, everything you know about history, geography, geology and natural science is a lie! Read up on the facts and realize you've been living in a matrix all this time!"

I mean, people with perseverance can totally get through it and then in retrospect have a laugh at the bullshit they were taught, but even with this in mind at best the whole thing is a major inconvenience.
> everything-is-string semantics make programming an exercise in quoting.

Is your code filled with literal strings? Otherwise why your code be "an exercise in quoting"?

re Python: Remember that EDA tools aren't libraries, they're actual command line program programs. So those tools will still need a command line language. Python is horribly unsuited as a command line language, so the tool will probably continue to have Tcl to present the text user interface.

So you'll then end up with two interpreters in the same tool. Hardly a desirable state of affairs. So yeah, I think the ROI of embedding Python in EDA tools is probably not doing to be worth it.

A lot of the C code backing the Tcl APIs directly build Tcl objects or store pointers to Tcl objects in C. It will be giant task to make those APIs work correctly with Python also.
One point is to evidence the fact that public money is being spent illegally.

Furthermore, to the extent that we tolerate this nonsense we will continue to miseducate a whole generation who will have no tools with which to escape from their family of community's broken belief systems. And this means we will continue to be divided.

Incidentally, my observation is that it is inaccurate to characterize the country as one 'where each half things the other is evil.' More accurate, I believe, is 'where one half thinks the other is evil, and the other half thinks the other is lamentably poorly educated with a medieval world view.'
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How does one "teach" creationism? Answer: you don't. Simply reciting "god did it" over and over is sufficient. No, this is Christian apologetics that they are teaching. In other words it's a religion class, NOT a science class. If this school is taking public money, those funds need to be withdrawn until the curriculum is properly labeled.
Christianity brings a methodology to this part of our society. At a glance it encourages equal treatment of others, guides for parenting, finding happiness and even tips on raising children. I think the primary problem with it is that it fails to expose the underlying rationalizations and rule set for why these are good things to teach to people. At times that can cause issues, especially where intent or fears are misaligned with the goal of understanding.

Understanding we don't understand how the universe works takes a lot of brain power, so someone somewhere just has to have faith why that statement is true. Unfortunately this also opens up the possibility of someone who, for whatever reason, wants others to have faith that a supreme being created us 6,000 years ago out of thin air. By that same logic, one other individual could state we need to have faith a supreme being created all of this just this morning at 6:34AM EST, just like you see it here and stuck us all in it with our existing memories.

I was raised in a fairly religious household, but thankfully I also had time to think outside the box. If I had to label myself as practicing anything nowadays, it'd be Buddhism. It's much more applicable for me because it maps well into what I believe about the nature of the universe. That's not to say it's a completely accurate representation, but it serves me well enough.
Should we forgive the local thief because there are (maybe bigger, who knows) other thieves elsewhere?

Don't forget the leverage that the NSA have, forcing (in the case they aren't willing to) main operating systems manufacturers, core internet infrastructure and services, and even hardware makers (as several countries and major companies from elsewhere are in line with this) to give the information they want, or insert backdoors in their own products.

Whatever does china, russia, india, iran and so on is child's play compared with what US does, is just several orders below. And the damage of that on internet is also orders higher. There is no great difference between a russian hacker wanting to hack my servers and the russian country, but for US every chip, every router, every service I need to use can already have a backdoor for them, and usable not just by them.
> What would you have us do? -- all three hundred million of us, of course.

Vote. For for better people. That is the basis of any democracy. You don't blindly follow your leaders, and you don't blame them for their mistakes and carry on as if there's nothing you can do about it, because you can do something about it. You can vote them out, and vote better people in.

The fact that those three hundred million Americans haven't done that, is entirely their own responsibility. It is the responsibility of the American people is that they allow themselves to be lied to. That you allow every single politician to break their promises, and re-elect them anyway. That you keep voting for the same two parties.

And yes, of course the first-past-the-post district system makes it a lot harder to have someone else win the vote. You'll have to mobilize a lot of people. But you have to start voting for different people. People unrelated to the big two parties. People who do politics in a different way. Find them and vote them into office.
Here is a more descriptive interior shot:

http://docomomo-nytri.org/event/30/

Chris Alexander is the feel good source for software design patterns and architectural design. But in the end there's something to be said for functional design in programming and in architecture.[1]

If people sit in their office, they don't talk. Putting common spaces along the glass curtain wall also democratizes access to light.

Finally, from a practical standpoint, the first thing people who spent all day in front of a CRT tended to do in a daylit office was draw the blinds and turn down the lights to reduce glare.

[1] What makes Alexander useful in architecture is that a great deal of architectural function is related to habitation and architectural patterns double back on themselves in terms of users whereas software design patterns tend to be focused on the programmer's pleasures.
Do you have a job? It's easy to deal with personal emails (99% of the time they're marketing crap, and the 1% that isn't is something nice from someone you like). It's the work emails that get you (and what I assume this is targeted at, given the "come back from vacation" part)
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If true (all I noticed were "Don't move them into my district!", a legit issue), what does that say about Obama's foresight?

Such objections were predictable when he made that pledge, nothing's changed in your claimed reasons of "ignorance and overall un-literacy" and high turnout elderly. It says nothing good if all this was enough to stop him once he became President, whatever the exact reason(s), and it's remains another broken promise.
Which accusations and why?
Not to mention the fact that home-schooled kids are far, far behind "ordinary schooled" kids in terms of knowledge.

Citation badly needed.
A fair point. I guess just having studied discrete before touching TSQL I happen to see the symbols 1:1 with syntax and assume the same elsewhere.
How do you know you have re-learned all of the stuff that you were taught wrong and not just a portion of it?
Why can't I get this documentary on my Netflix?
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Wiping the slate clean also means repeating the same mistakes. Actually I strongly prefer pragmatic and strong ideology free, realpolitik playing USA than the current state where the US is ... entangled in some mix of ideology and interest that ensure that anything will be done half assed.
These charter school conservative 'Christians' are essentially attempting to destroy the US and turn it into a theocratic state without modern medicine or technology. Forget Snowden and Manning. It's these America-hating hacks who should be charged with sedition and treason for attempting to overthrow the Constitution and replace with mandatory religious practices.
I'm new at programming but I really want this language to succeed, it looks amazing, I would love to use it a lot.

I've made a g+ community about it, who's interested - welcome:
https://plus.google.com/communities/112523471857971507059

Keep it up guys! =)
Cofounder can also do more harm than good. Looking for a cofounder without knowing what you really need is ill-advised. Most of the stories I heard was about cofounder who knew each other before starting up.
You speak the truth. I've never knit a stitch in my life, yet I made this for my wife a couple years back:

http://knitting.heroku.com/

:)
This is beyond depressing. The idea that the USA, currently the world's leading first world country, hosts this kind of medieval nonsense is just depressing.
"I'd be surprised if Obama holds any of the views he expressed during his campaign."

His nomination of the original author of the Patriot Act[1] to be his running mate was my confirmation that we were no longer one choice away from a dictatorship. Geitner & Gates' retention was just salt in the wound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_o...
Current?

I think it's the defining trait of representational democracy.
"I do believe that all private schools (...) have the right to teach whatever inanity they decide"

In a way I agree, because it's kind of like free speech.

On the other hand, shouldn't a society be responsible for protecting children? Schools teach children, after all. It's different from somebody voluntarily picking a topic to learn about.

Seems to me children being taught Creationism might be seriously disadvantaged.

Then again, by what standard? For example, what if being immersed in some cult brings total happiness, even if it looks insane from the outside? Should it be disallowed to raise kids as devote cult members?
That's too hard to deal with and requires good backups.
The Federal government is a byzantine web of regulation, conflicting rules, agendas and actions.

Big programs have tentacles so intertwined into things, it's difficult/impossible to unwind and even figure out what they are doing. Think of it from the President's perspective -- getting someone whom he trusts in a position to actually know anything about the programs probably takes a year.

Say you have someone on top whom you trust and the President says "dismantle X program". The bureaucracy is awesome and effective at slowing things down. Keeping up the pressure to do something that the bureaucrats don't want requires alot of energy. And with something like Intelligence, attacking the people running those programs means that they won't be motivated to make the President look good.

So from the President's perspective, you have to invest massive energy, take body blows when things don't go well and distract yourself from whatever it is that you ran for office for. It's a high cost, and the benefits are minimal -- nobody is going to carve your head into the side of a mountain for shutting down some Top Secret program that nobody knew about anyway.
> If voters only knew that campaign promises are a signal, along with past actions and a lot of other signals!

You might mention that to the journalist who wrote the linked article, since he appears to believe that the change of opinion is remarkable.
Applying common sense should be enough. You as a parent have neither the time nor the knowledge of all the various subjects that are taught in school, not to mention a proper paedagogic/teaching education.
Probably due to my sloppiness, let me try to sort it out...

Free-will is a third possibility opposed to determinism of choice and pure randomness of choice.

But it is compatible with a either a deterministic or a probabilistic universe.
Like I was saying to him, I told him: "Fuck with me and you won't leave."
So I smacked him in the head and downed another Carling.
Bada-bada-bing, for the lads like. Mad fight, his face's a sad sight. Vodka and snakebite.
Going on like a right geez, he's a twat. Shouldn't have looked at me like that.
Anyway, I'm an upstanding citizen. If a war came along, I'd be on the front line with 'em.
Can't stand crime either, them hooligans on heroin.
Drugs and criminals, those thugs are the pinnacle of the downfall of society. I've got all the anger pent up inside of me
I see where you're coming from, but I can't get behind the financing of it. Private schools can get as crazy as they want, but a school receiving public funding that has a fundamentally religious curriculum is a straightforward violation of the establishment clause of the first amendment.
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