skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Principals and teachers usually care very deeply for educating the next generation, and are equally as often stifled or limited in how they can achieve their goals by a political system in which they're demonized from the right (economic and political) and micromanaged from all sides (c.f. NCLB).

To your specific points:

1) Budget concerns make this prohibitively expensive for the majority of school districts. School districts frequently devolve the expense of providing classroom items on to teachers, or parents. Without an increase in funding, this item is a non-starter. Unfortunately, thanks mainly to conservatives (whether they call themselves "Republicans" or "Democrats") in our government, providing extra funding is unlikely.

2) There are a wide variety of online schools (actual, "accredited" schools run by various public school districts or private companies contracting with state Departments of Education) already. Having some experience in this area (indirectly), I'm not convinced it's a good idea or approach for students who aren't already highly capable and motivated.

3) The start time problem may be solvable. However budget issues arise here, too. Starting later means shifting times for running lights and A/C, possibly during peak usage in some areas of the country, and that has to be accounted for. So all the budgetary problems that conservatives impose would apply for this as well. Throwing in school-provided nutritional breakfasts would just exacerbate the issue.

4) Testing in general is an inadequate, poor, and generally poorly implemented way to measure knowledge. The very bright will either be bored to tears (and receive poor marks) or "game" the test with good test taking skills. Everybody else will just have increased stress with little benefit.

5) Again, budget issues would make this a huge problem to implement. Thank conservatives running our government for that.

6) No comments; I'm neutral on this.

7) See: budget concerns. Gym/P.E., debate, home economics, shop, art, music, etc. are all under retrenchment because conservatives in our government refuse to provide the resources to make these things happen.

8) See my comments from (2); this is great in theory but simply put the majority of students are either not capable of or unwilling to utilize such freedom successfully.

Charter schools are little better than vehicles for the enrichment of private individuals at the expense of the public treasury. They're thinly veiled means for a transfer of tax dollars to connected and wealthy individuals, and they're a non-starter, as far as I'm concerned. They don't belong in a serious discussion about reform of our education system.

Private schools aren't a solution for the majority (the vast, overwhelming majority) of the public, who can't afford tuition. Even if they were, there is scant evidence that private schools provide better education than public schools when compounding factors (e.g. selecting for economic or other privileged status) are taken into account. It's easy to have high graduation and college/Ivy League acceptance rates when one selectively refuses to admit the most disadvantaged students.
For you, perhaps, but not for most people. There have been several occasions where I've wanted to try an app that use only FB login, but it asked for too much information, so I decided not to. Anon login would give me the ability to try these things out, and possibly give me the confidence to allow a real login. (For the record, if an app supports traditional username/email+password login, I'll prefer that, but some support only FB, and understandably so: user account management is hard.)

I'm getting a little tired with how out of touch people on HN seem, especially with regard to things like Facebook. Guess what: the majority of FB's user base does not care about privacy as much as you do. Even people who do care to an extent, and don't implicitly trust FB, are at least comfortable with some level of interaction and sharing on the platform. Anon login is targeted at people who are comfortable with what they share with FB, but are wary of giving their personal info to some random app they want to try.
What types of issues are you seeing? From time to time it's easy to get hundreds (or thousands) of containers on a machine. I know docker is a bit slow to start up with a lot of containers, but because of the socket activation that shouldn't be an issue at all if you're starting containers via systemd or fleet.
> Old hard drives that are no longer economical for more intensive service, supported by disk-handling robotics.

I am with the author in that I do not think they are using older disks. From personal experience (working with petabytes of disk based storage), I would put money on the fact that AWS is not using stock off the shelf older disks and then powering them on/off as a method of storage. The last thing you want to do with an older disk (5+ years) is ever power it off. The chances of it coming back to life decrease rapidly with each cycle. Picture seized bearings, etc. Your best hope it to keep them continually moving, but never powered down for extended periods of time.

Also, the GB/power/physical space required ratio does not make sense after X number of years. For example, you could replace 3 shelves of 1TB disks, with one shelf of 3TB disks. Yielding less power consumption in less physical space! When you are at scale, data centre space and power are big factors. For these reasons, I do not think they are using old stock disks.

NOTE: Maybe they are using some custom make disks, but from what I know about standard disks, even enterprise, they do not like being powered on/off when they get old.
Any evidence or reference?

I can't believe this is true, since such persistent, immobile jammers would be trivial to locate (and presumably would be -- cell providers track down problems as the OP's article attests), and hotels would have so much to lose from being caught, and so little to gain by doing it.
The deletion charge is interesting. Does deletion guarantee a scrubbing of the data as soon as possible? If so, I could see that as justification for the fee since some sort of significant work is involved in retrieving data, implied by the hours of wait time. If not though, the author has a good point in that Amazon needs to make at least .03/GB in order to be profitable.
Two comments:

(1) You say it can't be left up to market economics, but two of the big hurdles to new antibiotic development are government regulations: (I) In the past the FDA was not very responsive to the resistance problem, if you had a new drug, you went through a normal review; luckily they have changed their approach recently (II) The way that Medicare and Medicaid pays for antibiotics doesn't encourage investment in novel agents

(2) I have to push back on the "going to the moon" type thing. This is more like we've already been to the moon and we need to go back and do something different. Drug companies know how to develop new antibiotics (not to say it's easy, but they have ideas) and they know how to get them approved. There are new discoveries all the time. We just need to create an ecosystem that encourages further investment.
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I don't think we're missing the point. We are not necessarily arguing that developers should not use it. We are hoping they choose not to use the platform _exclusively_ or as a substitute for their own login.

To use an analogy: we have small cars and someone is trying to sell us a big car. We're saying: 'What's the point?' because our desire and needs are already met by something else we have in mind. We see the product as missing a feature or not adding anything extra to the table. Think of it like wanting a mail provider that offers POP but not IMAP. I want one that uses IMAP - am I wrong?

I do not see this as negativity: it's just healthy disagreement. Otherwise every comment here would look the same.

It is unfortunate that the product we're talking about is offered as an alternative to the real thing (Facebook Connect) and it is what a developer would consider using to avoid writing their own login system. The offering does not meet our needs.
You want to settle a dispute between economists and ecologists? Ask a physicist: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/about-this-blog/
what? i'm having a hard time even understanding what's going on here. there's no logic behind not eating anything that you touched with your own hands, doubly so when they're to be cooked. you need your own pot to boil water in? potatoes take some time but not an hour. multivitamins aren't a replacement for a poor diet.
>the main motivation was simply cost. Google doesn’t publish its enterprise maps pricing, but it’s orders of magnitude more expensive than MapBox.
If you use the device token as the authentication and identification, any other app on the device immediately gains the ability to log into your service as that user. May as well use a single password across all services which do this.
When Bitcoin was at $30 and then dropped to $8 I thought it was a bad buy. At the time I didnt have any money but I am still just enjoying watching the ride.
You can pay to remove that restriction. You're almost guaranteed this was shipped because it showed a stat sig improvement in revenue. While this may seem absurd, most people are not savvy enough to realize there are simple solutions to workaround this restriction and pay up.

You may counter this is so absurd that you wont use LinkedIn anymore. But is that really true? I doubt it.
On the web? There's this great new innovation called cookies that allow for site-based identity!

As for cross-platform and token changes -- well, you can't deal with those situations when you're implementing something that's actually anonymous. You're going to have to implement some sort of persistent identity. At that point, you might as well offer a multitude of options, of which Facebook would be one.

This login creates an unnecessary point of friction for all anonymous applications. Just use an existing token (cookie, device token, etc), allow your user to immediately begin using your app (that's what they expect anyhow), and "ease your user in" to a point of giving you identifying information if you need it.
> people get skimmed all the time and never notice.

Insert Mt.Gox joke here.
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Most of what you wrote... most people don't care about. Honestly, I don't care too much about it, and I'm fairly privacy-conscious (I just have a higher threshold for things that I actually care about keeping secret).

Remember, if it was actually anonymous, you wouldn't need Facebook's help to implement it.

People implement FB login for a variety of reasons, but one is that doing proper account management is hard. If you want to implement a non-FB anon login, you basically have to implement a full account management solution yourself, assuming you want the anon account data to be persistent (that is, it's not truly anonymous in the sense that you sign in, do things, sign out, and it's as if you were never there). This basically fixes one of my final issues with FB login, that it's still not clear what data FB will give to the app. If anon login means FB doesn't give anything to the app aside from an opaque ID token, that's pretty cool.
making a large quantity of burritos at once can be inexpensive, last a long time and they're easy to heat up in the microwave. salads are easy to make at the office as are sandwiches. most leftovers from home can be brought in. i guess i've never seen the office as a place to get your cook on.
Thanks for the link. I'm surprised the EFF wasn't actually specifically calling out OCP rather than the specific instance of one industry at one bank.

Interesting article on the troubles in Colorado for 'scorned' businesses trying to get banking services. [1]

[1] http://www.banklawyersblog.com/3_bank_lawyers/2014/04/the-ma...
The key is this sentence if you don't want to read the whole article:

..."For practical purposes, the two cases mean that lower courts will have more latitude to use legal fee shifting as a way to punish and deter companies that abuse the patent system."
Does anyone know if it would be legal to use something like this if it was sufficiently clear with big signs?

I'm thinking movie theaters or coffee shops that have huge signs "Your cell phone will not work in there. If you don't agree, don't come in", etc.
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Along similar lines, I've wondered whether an enterprising scientist could glamorize the search for null results by deliberately targeting previously published papers. So you don't just formulate random hypotheses, test them, and then report the null hypothesis. Instead, you pick out an influential paper and debunk it experimentally. I presume you'd consider suspiciousness when choosing your targets. E.g. a p-value just under 0.05 would be one signal you'd consider.

If journals like dramatic submissions, perhaps mythbuting previous papers would provide the requisite drama. Scientists out there, how do you think that would go over with journals?
Regarding the first statement, not so: https://www.skepticalscience.com/contary-to-contrarians-ipcc...

And at any rate, if we want to make it a war or words, at least all the statements that refute your contrarian assessment actually seem to get into the nitty-gritty details of their statistical analysis and comparison between multiple proposed models, instead of the purposeful misrepresentation of the climate denialist that say that there is a single unique IPCC model, when that is laughably false.

For the second statement, again: the meta-analysis performed on the research papers shows a 98% consensus rate.

From personal experience, I've spent 8 years in a University where exact and natural sciences are the main focus, and I have yet to hear a single climatologist, oceanographer, or physicist say that there is insufficient evidence of anthropogenic global warming.

The only people who seem unusually unconcerned about it are geologists, however there is an interest bias in them: A) they don't deny it, but they consider the global timescales and for them another mass extinction event like the one that is inevitably coming is just business as usual, B) there's an extraordinarily high number of geologists working in the mining and oil business and their bottom lines would be clearly affected more than any other industry of researchers.
200 Million Workers Want Windows 8 Tablets, Not iPads (Forrester)
Two hundred million IT workers want Windows tablets, a report for Forrester claimed Monday, quite a bit more than the 900,000 Surface RT tablets that IDC estimated have already been sold into the channel.
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http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/28/doj-operation-chokepoint-a...

> Under "Operation Choke Point," the DOJ and its allies are going after legal but subjectively undesirable business ventures by pressuring banks to terminate their bank accounts or refuse their business. The very premise is clearly chilling—the DOJ is coercing private businesses in an attempt to centrally engineer the American marketplace based on it's own politically biased moral judgements. Targeted business categories so far have included payday lenders, ammunition sales, dating services, purveyors of drug paraphernalia, and online gambling sites.

Bitcoin on the other hand doesn't care about these things.
On iOS, this is only true for applications that share the same keychain, which would imply they come from the same developer. This is actually a really great under-utilized feature that could be used to create a suite of apps with different behaviors that reference the same anonymous identity.
Does an ad-free, data-collection free and paid subscription based version of Facebook has any chance in the market?
Stephen Ramsay how did you find this article and be the first to post it on hacker news? This is _the_ most appropriate hacker news story there ever was.
Right, wouldn't it be extremely difficult to modify the ciphertext to create a meaningful change in the plaintext, such that checksums do not fail?
There are building materials that naturally block/reflect/absorb mobile frequencies which is perfectly legal.

That is different from transmitting a signal to jam which is highly illegal.
The real surprise here is that MetroPCS noticed the lack of service.

As someone who has used Cricket [they bundle Sprint and MetroPCS together] ... they couldn't care less about spotty reception within their given coverage map.
The OP has posted this article before, and Sal & others from Khan Academy replied here on HN, but I am not able to find that previous post on search.
So does the iPhone, it's not really that hard to implement IMO.
This is completely incorrect, nations that have halted agricultural mass application of antibiotics have seen a huge decrease in antibiotic resistant bacterial present in the animals.

https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/ID/ID-420-W.pdf

This is because antibiotic resistance has a high biological cost to the bacteria, and they get out competed by bacteria without that adaptation when antibiotics cease being present.
Reminds me of PG saying startups are largely about boring grunt work techies often don't want to do, like going out and interviewing clients about what their problems actually are, etc.. Germany made technological marvels, but lost because they distracted from basic, boring things like logistics.
Certainly not without FCC approval, which I'd doubt would be easy to get.

The big issue (as described in the article) as that the chance of interfering with a legitimate emergency communications system is fairly high.
Yep, Mapillary is pretty cool! But in terms of approaching Google Street View, not close yet. I suppose if I get a dash mount for my phone I can contribute some data, but it'd just be along my daily commute.

If anybody comes close, it'd probably be one of the big mapping companies. An armchair OSM contributor can map out a whole city without leaving the desk, but street-level imagery requires systematically visiting each street.
Nice one. I've been using a Chrome extension called fPrivacy to do this presently on the web, since very few websites actually check to see if they've got all the extraneous information they requested. But it sometimes breaks the login process, so it'll be nice to get rid of it.

Next top feature Facebook should introduce: Automatically generate a new anonymous email address for each app. I can then go into Facebook settings later and prevent any of those addresses from forwarding to my personal address if that app starts spamming or gets hacked. They did have an anonymous email feature at some point, but it wasn't fully ready yet.
> One day, there may be a number I can call to when my bitcoin goes missing.

Why would I even need such infrastructure if I can already do that today with my bank?
yes and no. In terms of street coverage, the general idea is that OSM is pretty good (in large part because both Google and OSM source map data from the US census) and both have active communities that improve that data.

Google is much better when it comes to both places and addresses, but OpenStreetMap is improving rapidly and you can get great coverage in most big cities. Also in theory you could source the POI data from some other place and overlay that on top of OSM street data.

Google used to be much better in terms of ease of use, but with players like MapBox that has changed dramatically. Its so pleasant these days to use OSM to make a mapping product -- try out cartodb.com or mapbox.com just for kicks.

And the big plus of OSM of course is that you can pick and choose what data you want to render, what you want to do with it (my fav new example is this scooter routing engine that takes into account the hills in SF while routing --> https://www.mapbox.com/blog/launching-smart-directions/)

As for "hard data" -- here are a couple of studies that compare OSM with private map providers

- http://eprints.nuim.ie/2476/
- http://www.spatial-accuracy.org/system/files/img-X07133419_0...
I was initially happy about this, but the more I think about it the more I'm on the fence. I'm just starting to get in to using Parse this week, so can someone with a little more experience give some thoughts?

It seems to me that a smaller app would be more likely to occasionally burst over 30 req/s than go over 1m req/mo. Is it as simple as retrying requests that return error code 155 (per the FAQ)?

https://parse.com/plans/faq/
Oh, i just learn about this.

But when i search google for this guilemacs there are no definitive information for this project (as in where i download the program?).

So based on my little browsing, vim and emacs have some kind of different problems? (or are they even problems?)

Vim has the benevolent dictator who prefer supporting backwards compatibility to developing features. And Neovim try to address that.

Emacs is using a "hacky emacs lisp" and "guile emacs" tries to incorporate a scheme based improvement on the backend.
Start with a healthy diet before you start taking vitamins. They are probably not necessary, unless you are already eating a perfectly healthy diet (which I doubt). I suppose it could be helpful if you refuse to eat healthier...

I completely agree with you on the sleep aspect. Sleep does wonders for concentration, creativity... I would also recommend a standing desk.
Sorry, I thought it was clear from saying "scrambled" rather than "fried." It does still spin up. However, reading from /dev/hdX doesn't work, it won't mount, and (obviously) doesn't boot. Not clear what's died, and now with a recovery service.
Warren Buffet said this about gold, but it's still relevant to Bitcoin:

>“If you put your money into gold or other non-income- producing assets [read: Bitcoin] that are dependent on what someone else values that in the future, you’re in speculation,” he said. “You’re not into investing....”

>To illustrate the point, he asked readers to picture the world’s entire gold stock melded together into a cube 68 feet (21 meters) on each side valued at $9.6 trillion at then- prevailing prices. For the same amount, an investor could have purchased all the farmland in the U.S., 16 replicas of Exxon Mobil Corp., and still have about $1 trillion of “walking- around money.”

>A century later, the farmland will be producing valuable crops no matter the currency, and dividends from the companies would probably added up to trillions of dollars, Buffett wrote.

>The 170,000 metric tons of gold “will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything,” he wrote. “You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond.”
Agreed - shared keychain + unique token would work. Was concerned original post was talking about the advertiser ID as authentication.
> There's risk associated with every investment

As things are now (and as GP points out) speculation is probably the right word, not investment. From Wikipedia [1]:

Speculation is the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from short or medium term fluctuations in the market value of a tradable good such as a financial instrument, rather than attempting to profit from the underlying financial attributes embodied in the instrument such as capital gains, interest, or dividends.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation
I've dreamed of doing this for a decade, even found some sources in the U.K. to purchase a few and looked up schematics for building wideband jammers.

Ultimately it was the very serious approach the FCC takes that stopped me from really exploring it, even for fun. Everthing I'd read indicated that you'd be caught and fast, so I'm sort of surprised it took two years, even if it was on a highway.

But lord I still might push it whenever I'm at the grocery store and someone's doing a remote, live shopping list with their wife down every aisle.