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All of the above.

Politics is involved through school boards where an understanding of education is not really considered a job requirement. And at state and national levels it's difficult to fix problems that are uniquely local.

Teachers Unions can create the wrong incentives in a district.

Good Admin people are hard to find and bad ones make the working environment unplatable for good teachers.

Add in money as well for some districts.
> Because of a hundreds of thousands of people paying them already over-priced networking fees?

1. Those people are free to stop paying.
2. Why are they obligated to give something to party A for free, because they overcharged party B?

You're not really offering any sort of logical point here. You're not thinking, you're just reacting.

> If I choose to spend that 300Gb in a week

If you chose to use that 300gb downloading from my website, would Comcast be obligated to let me put a server in their data center for free?

No.

You're just being absurd.

> That's why I pay for it.

Nothing in your contract with Comcast says anything remotely resembling the claims that you're making. If you are mistaken and think you're paying for this, then perhaps you should end your relationship with Comcast. Or, if that is too uncomfortable to consider, then perhaps you should realign your expectations with those laid out in the contract.

No judge would ever listen to some juvenile whining for very long, and god help us all if you get the politicians to do so. We'll be in real trouble then.
Thanks Patrick :) I had to quit my WoW guild when I discovered I could only run a single company at the same time.

Speaking of RCE: Distribution of new FriendNet versions was such a pain that for a while we considered a P2P auto-update mechanism where FriendNet users with newer versions would whisper Lua code to users with older versions, who would then eval() it locally.

It seemed like a much better idea then than it does today...
Looks like it's more accurate to say that the English-speaking world generally says maths, excepting North Americans.
StarTalk Radio (hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson) has covered this topic together with Miles O' Brien in the two most recent episodes. I'm a fan of the show, but I can imagine some might find it too humorous for their tastes.

http://www.startalkradio.net/show/reporting-on-science-part-...

EDIT: By "this topic" I meant science reporting, not marijuana.
In addition, that blog post is another incredibly well written example, in case anyone has been left in the mood.

"So back in ought-whenever-it-was, the general consensus was that print thesauruses were dead, dead, dead, and that nobody would ever buy them again, but, leaving that aside, Oxford being Oxford and having to publish thesauruses much in the same way that birds gotta fly and fish gotta swim, we had to create a new one anyway."
It's a british thing.
I think that this is at least partially attributable to the average understanding of English in those countries. When you are watching a movie with subtitles, but have absolutely no idea what is being said in the movie because the spoken language is unknown to you, it can be very distracting, because you are missing a certain amount of context. I believe an above-average amount of Dutch people is at least capable of comprehending basic English speech, which puts the movie's subtitles into context. In countries where English isn't as wide-spread, this is more problematic, which is why dubbing is more effective there. Similarly, even in the Netherlands movies which target family audiences are often shown dubbed by default in movie theatres, because the subtitles are just not as effective even if the children that are watching the movie can read them.
What percentage of the current US workforce actually draws on advanced (even intermediate) mathematical skills on a day-to-day basis?

I'd wager a guess that most developers on HN don't even touch the stuff.
If there is a better way to evaluate educational systems and educators, then it should become the minimum standard. I.e., it would still be "standardized testing". I don't know why that phrase became a thought-terminating cliché.
You can also find an interview with Julian Oliver here: http://vvvnt.com/media/julian-oliver
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Of course feel players are doing EV analysis, but that's 99% about estimating hand ranges properly. The math is certainly the most simplistic part of the analysis.
There is a big difference though, and it revolves around choice. A casino owner can not claim, that a roulette player can choose to get better. At some point, the "house" gets to a theoretically optimal edge (either by fixing the broken roulette wheel, or kicking out card counters). They will always have that mathematical edge.

In a poker game, any player can choose to get better, so much so you get to a a point where both players are playing game theory optimal. At that point, there is NO edge.

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Just because the player with the band hand folds before showdown doesn't preclude other players from staying in, forcing a show of hands.
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I think US education system is basically broken. Instead of fixing problems you are arguing who is more privileged. Texas versus California illustrates it well.
> Level 3 isn't paying. You're absolutely right, Comcast doesn't want those. If you want them despite this, then the onus is on you to connect to Level 3 directly.

When Comcast stops advertising an Internet connection and starts advertising a "connection to the Comcast network", then you'll have a leg to stand on.

Until then, here's your sign.
> As I've mentioned before though, imagine if you paid a per GB cost. Then Comcast would want more Netflix traffic, not less.

Unless the cost of handling increased Netflix traffic outweighs the minor profit of per-gigabyte billing.

Read my sentence above a few times if necessary.
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Can you explain why "((= a 2) (setq a 3))" has parentheses in that statement? Ideally without just saying "for the same reason as <some other example>"? Because I don't see any value in having them in that example.

(cond (= a 1) (setq a 2)
(= a 2) (setq a 3))

Seems like it could serve exactly the same purpose?
Groovy gets a fair bit of mileage in Enterprise systems where something more flexible than Java for some component was preferred but still felt like Java was desired. I have also seen some startups using Groovy because of Grails.

I use it often personally and it is my goto non-Java JVM language because it's easy to read, write and find people who can maintain whatever mess I create :P
Yeah, let's robo-blame the unions, that will inject some magic Ayn Rand juice into things and make everything better real quick. Sure.
I was also a very poor math student in HS that went on to get a physics degree. I can say that it was the method of instruction as well as my own lack of motivation. Classes were boring and easy to pass even if you did not know the material. In my state you needed a 2.0 GPA to get into a state school. This is generally doable for even the worst students.

The lack of real consequences for not studying and doing homework played a huge role in my childhood academic experiences. I am often baffled when I hear reports of students who are over stressed by the requirements of high school academics. The standards seem now to be even lower than when I was in school yet students constantly complain that they can't keep up. It's mind boggling.
What about it? I've never heard it described as a better internal transit system than the Bay Area has, just a better system as part of the multi-authority feeder into the transit system for the New York City metroplex.

If there was an adjacent New York City-scale metroplex into which the Bay Area fed, it would have very different transportation demands and needs -- and likely a very different transit system -- than it does.
I'm a German and want to say there is no real competition here. As far as I'm concerned we are waiting desperately for a reasonable streaming service! Even watching in English would not be a problem as long as we could have Netflix! There are people here paying VPN and Netflix, so money should not be an issue.
> That means the public is composed of blithering imbeciles who rally to inane causes without even understanding what's going on.

This has been my overall experience when dealing with people on the internet or otherwise.

I agree with you, for what its worth - Settlement only works if traffic is near symmetrical otherwise some money needs to change hands. It's just a matter of who is doing the paying for the extra bandwidth, it all has an incremental cost, and someone at least has to pay for the bearer.
Tutors, I used them in college once I left my parents house. You can find free tutors on most college campuses for challenging subjects, Math Chemistry etc.

If you are still in high school you can find many online resources to help, Youtube Kahn Academy etc...

Just because you are bad at something doesn't mean you cant find someone to help your kid whether its a relative, neighbor, tutor or old teacher.
This is a great list of tips, thanks for posting.
Being a complete nobody is not reflective of one's skill.

That said, luck is the primary influence of outcome given a small enough time frame.

It's also possible to have your mistakes "fixed" by luck. Moneymaker was not better than Farha, I'll give you that.
I got the feeling, that most Germans think subtitles are a sign of bad quality.

Many people I know also say, English (and reading) is hard for them and since they watch movies and TV-shows to relax, they prefer german dubbed stuff.

I understand English rather well, so I don't need subs. And if I watch stuff in English, I get it sooner than people who wait for the german dubs...
And those both seem awfully similar to the stock market. If you're good at poker over the long-term, then you may be better off "gambling" than "investing." And hey, at least when you lose at poker, you may have still enjoyed it -- no one enjoys a stock market crash.

Oh, and don't get me started on naked futures/forward positions...
Why would it count against them theyed still get google search results.
I know :)

I meant "take Java math code and convert into LaTeX, display inline", the first part is the missing one!
Roulette is often held up as an example of "random chance" but this is not entirely true.

There are on occasions patterns in Roulette, especially with certain dealers. In addition, there is a little trick casinos sometimes employ. They loosen the legs on the table to the point it wobbles slightly. The dealer will then lean against the table and watch as the ball is about to drop. They can then pop the ball out of an undesired slot by a well placed shove of the hip. Just something to watch out for if you are gambler.

I firmly believe just like in computing, the entire concept of "random" depends mostly on ones frame of reference.
Humor aside, it really concerns me that so much of the information in mainstream science news articles can mislead readers.

More worrying is that it's often not possible to persuade someone who is swayed in the wrong direction, because they just don't have the base level of knowledge to allow it.

On this point I almost want to say that every person who graduates from High School ought to have gone through a rigorous class in logic and another in statistics. It's all well and good to say everyone should have "critical thinking" skills, but you can't get there without some pretty solid intellectual tools.
Good point. Instead of calling the game poker it should be dressed in Wall St jargon, and it'd be legitimate investing. The players can be called brokers, the cards are securities, a hand would be called a compound derivative, the ante is an investment, and the pot is just a leveraged mutual fund. The only problem is good poker players get a higher return than good brokers do.
Same here in Germany.

So people are using free streaming services and direct downloads.
I'm not saying that greater math ability doesn't correlate to greater wealth. That could very well be true (and it probably is). What I meant was that the public school system is funded by tax dollars. Wealthier neighborhoods contribute more tax money and have better public schools. I obviously don't have any direct evidence, but I would sat there's almost no correlation to wealthy neighborhoods and their residents being good at math. If you don't believe me, we could go knock on every door in my parents' neighborhood and ask them what they got on their SAT math section :P

Joking aside, I'm basing that on the fact that not every high-paying job requires math skills, and not every rich person got rich because of math.
How is a roaming drone network better than simple low cost sensors powered by sun/wind? (ie what's already in use)

Another question: how do you intend to tackle sensor inaccuracy? What about manufacturer biases that cannot be averaged out?
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Strange. I lived there for nearly 20 years and must say they have pretty much perfected the craft of dubbing movies. I personally still prefer some "alternative voices" over the originals, i.e. for Homer Simpson (sounds more like the fool that he is) or Arnold Schwarzenegger (who's English destroys any fourth wall the moment he opens his mouth).
>His study of more than a billion hands of online Texas Hold’em found that 85.2 percent of the hands were decided without a show of cards. In other words, players’ betting decisions were of overwhelming importance in determining the outcome.

It is worth noting that the other 14.8% of hands, where a showdown is reached, are typically the ones where (much) larger amounts of money are exchanged.

So, betting decisions might decide the outcome of a majority of hands, but it's unlikely this corresponds to a majority of the money flow.
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We use index mappings at TaskRabbit, and it does make things a lot easier. It helps with 0-downtime mapping changes (as you point out), and it also lets us combine large indexes. We segment large data collections by time (ie: events_year_month) which we roll up in an alias. This allows us to delete/add large collections without downtime as well.

What's cool about the elsasticsearch api (and therefore the elasticdump tool) is that with aliases, you can read/write to and from an index just like you can an alias.
Read Tyler Cowan's critique of Piketty which was just published today. My favorite bit is near the end, where Cowan reinforces that by Piketty's own admission, the proposed wealth tax would shift up to 75% of national income to the Government: ''Therein lies the most fundamental problem with Piketty’s policy proposals: the best parts of his book argue that, left unchecked, capital and capitalists inevitably accrue too much power -- and yet Piketty seems to believe that governments and politicians are somehow exempt from the same dynamic.''

I took a class from a famous economics professor who had emigrated from the former Soviet Union after its collapse. He made the point one day that there have always been rich and poor - and always will be. In America, the predominant distinction is capital wealth - dollars. In the USSR, it was political power; if you had political power, you had private planes, villas, and servants. At the end of the day, the inequality is always present.

Link: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141218/tyler-cowen/ca...
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Wow, I couldn't believe this would actually be the case. Thanks for the info!
You asked this question in like 3 places, but yes, if you read the blog post written by Level3, you'll see them mention that other backbone providers are making deals with the ISPs, but that they're refusing to.
> If you can't say something nice,

No one else is saying anything nice at all. They're spouting dumb shit, they're directing it at politicians and bureaucrats who will only make it worse. They refuse to stop and think, even though that would only take a moment.

This is much worse than any words I've ever said on the issue. It's worse than any name-calling I've ever done.

> Yes, peering often works the way you describe,

Not often, but always.

It is a voluntary arrangement. And if we try to force it to work differently, even when it's to one side's disadvantage, the logical thing is for them to decide not to peer at all.

But you've not thought it through very far.

> but Netflix tweaking their player to ship back a bunch of garbage traffic to something on L3 (Netflix themselves, or otherwise)

So your argument is that Netflix could cheat and make the world a worse place, and that Comcast should just give in to the implied extortion?

Something's wrong with your head if you can say these things and not give them a second thought.

> Netflix competes with Comcast's other business.

That's even less reason for Comcast to cooperate then. Comcast isn't obligated to give away free service to competitors, either legally or morally.

> Abuse of market power

What abuse? The voluntary agreement was for settlement-free peering for (roughly) equal levels of traffic.

Netflix is the abuser here.
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I haven't read the book, but I have heard people say that the global wealth tax is presented by Piketty as an admittedly idealistic suggestion rather than an imminent policy recommendation. From what it sounds like, the global wealth tax would merely tackle inequality directly, even if it meant lowering the quality of life (or slowing the growth in quality of life) among workers.
I agree with you in principal but there is one difference...

Gambling involves the creation of risk to speculate on for no other reason than the thrill of speculation.
Participants in financial markets (at least in theory) take positions in risk that already exists. In other words, they assume existing risk for others.
60 miles would be just short enough where I would need a gasoline car. That's why I've yet to get a Leaf. Can't afford a Tesla (nor do I want/need a car that big).
Mathematics is one of those few areas where there is only one right answer to most problems. You can have different methods of arriving at that answer, but in many cases one method is optimal and can be proven as such.

Mathematics isn't cultural. Numbers and the laws that govern them aren't going to change in response to how people feel about them or who is teaching them. I fail to see the benefit of working without objective criteria in this domain.
> If some jackass walks up to you and says "I'm selling crap to your customers, let me hook up to your network for free!" you aren't going to agree to that. It'd be dumb.

But as the ISP, aren't you billing your customers for that usage? Does it matter where the bits are coming from?
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ARMv8 is the upcoming 64-bit compatible architecture. This commit talks about adding support for ARMv8, so it is likely that Android will be adding 64-bit support. Qualcomm has already announced a 64-bit SOC, the Snapdragon 810.

Also, they talk about API level 20 which is one level higher than Android 4.4.
Well, I'm not sure that a drone network would be better - it's just a hunch. We have so much growth left inside the smartphone world that our focus is exclusively on smartphone sensor acquisition right now (through our SDK platform approach). Stationary sensors are in our horizons too, definitely.

In terms of sensor accuracy: luckily, one of the most valuable metrics we're watching is actually pressure tendency over time and not necessarily absolute pressure values. This means that even offsets of 2-3mbar are okay as long as the trends are visible (which they are).

Absolute pressure is valuable too, so we're developing some techniques to deal with corrections for altitude noise as well as manufacturer bias - none of this is live yet, though.
I definitely agree. There are some high-performing schools but they're a minority. There's also a minority of very, very low performing schools.

What makes us unusual is how wide the spectrum is, even if the average is bad.
I agree that the web features are not needed. I do not want them, for example. I don't want logins, relying on a server backend, etc. I want a simple app, and yours seems to be. My only complain? Subscription. I do not mind paying a fixed amount one time, but the subscription method kills it for me.
> The fact that they're "human" is a flaw

Ladies and gentlemen, behold! Eight words -- eight syllables -- laying bare why so many engineers tend to have such a hard time dealing with politics and people, on every scale from the picayune to the planetary. I've never seen it put so succinctly.

I'm still baffled as to why it's such a common problem, though. The essence of our shared discipline is to bridge the gap between a perfect idea and an imperfect world. This being the case, in our professional lives we must either be capable of recognizing and accepting such imperfection, or be incompetent; there is no third way.

So why is it that, in the interpersonal realm, so many of us prefer to demand impossible perfection than to exercise the same capacity that serves us so well in the technical work of our field? There's no sensible way of understanding how the imperfect human world works, save to begin by redressing ignorance through observation. Instead, many of us (some days, I think, most of us) flee into any number of idiosyncratic political fantasies -- just-so stories about how that world should work -- and refuse outright even to consider the possible value of discovering how that world does work.

Such refusal hampers us in any number of ways, professionally and otherwise; three of the former sort, right off the top of my head, are office politics, client interaction, and user interface design. Engineers are, of course, famously incompetent in all these areas, and unlike a lot of stereotypes, this one I've observed to be much more often accurate than otherwise. But I'm still struggling toward a conception of how this unhappy state of affairs comes to be.
Not a requirement for me at all. I use both Runkeeper and Strava (long story) and occasionally post times to social media but mostly use them for personal tracking and connecting with friends around running.

Posting an image of my course + time to web would be enough for me and prevent the need for building a web version when some novel functionality might be a better investment.
You, the author, and Joe Armstrong may confuse some of us. I know "intentional programming" from Charles Simonyi[1] and I suspect the two uses are completely unrelated.

On the other hand, this use is more useful and in my opinion, better.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6954...
Yes but what does it mean?