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I'd like to be that optimistic, and maybe it'd happen, but the politics around here would make it unlikely.

Also, wrt the exclusion of religious schools, that'd be a non-starter in the southern states at least. It'd probably make more sense to mandate some minimum curricula or require that inspectors be able to attend the school unannounced if the school is receiving public moneys via vouchers. There'd likely be a tantrum about religious oppression, but, really, man and dinosaurs, contrary to the teachings at many of the churches and Christian academies around here, really didn't live together [1].

[1] Ok, in the conventional sense of dinosaurs, not the XKCD sense of birds as living dinosaurs. http://xkcd.com/1211/
It is rather unfair to lump the "FISC" system in with all the courts, because it is more of a board, panel, committee, in camera hearing, or administrative proceeding. "FISC" lacks the essential qualities of a court, as the defendant has no right to appear, they are not represented by counsel, charges are not presented, evidence is not disclosed, and there is no right to trial by a jury of the accused's peers.[1]

[1] https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/order_granting_governments...
You could, but it would change scope a little. Right now, it's reasonable to expect that information will not be leaked to external servers, but user interactions can be faked.

On an information only webpage (no user interactions) there's no need to have the X-Frame-Options to remain secure. If there's a way to access the data in that frame suddenly, that changes the necessity of that header.
I hadn't thought about TBL that way before. Do you have other examples to help make that point? I'm curious...
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We are funding it at billion-dollar levels! This is the result of funding it at billion-dollar levels!
One of the drawbacks with rendering DOM content to a Canvas/WebGL texture is that interactivity is lost in the process. At the very least an intermediate layer would have to be created that pipes scene input into DOM input.

The nice part about CSS 3D transforms is that interactivity is maintained, and it's still hardware-accelerated. A fantastic example of this was made by the creator of Three.js over a year ago:

http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/threejs/css3d/

As you said above, there are severe drawbacks with that approach. It is very limited in terms of what's possible compared to a traditional 3D scene. Moreover, since CSS 3D transforms are essentially DOM content rendered to a texture, rasterization occurs, and as such there isn't clean scaling, even with SVG content.
At least he's using std::make_shared<> rather than allocating twice for each object.

Though it would be interesting to see what sort of difference there is using make_shared<>(...) vs shared_ptr(new ...).

And also what difference there would be when the vector needs to be resized and the objects are noexcept movable or need to be copied.
Just to point out what may not be so obvious... a lot of the administrative and non instructional staff are not what many of us would consider to be "management".

For instance, at the University of Wisconsin, there is an VERY large, extremely expensive bureaucracy called DoIT. It stands for "Division of Information Technology". Basically... it is the department for all of the IT people at the University. It is enormously expensive because of the nature of the work they do. And that is just one of the operations level bureaucracies that the University needs. There is Facilities. There is Campus Police, which are very important at a place like UW. Student Housing. Health Services. The list goes on and on.

These sorts of costs are not cheap, but they are necessary. Be that as it may, honest people CAN debate whether or not operational arms like DoIT are functioning as efficiently as they could be. My main point here was only to shed light on operational costs that many universities have which tend to be overlooked in conversations like these. Especially as those expenses are most likely the key contributors to the cost rises being discussed.

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It seems very misleading to say that they are being paid $X/hour if the denominator is supposed to represent the number of class hours rather than the number of hours worked actually spent working. Everyone will assume the latter, so you should be explicit about that.

As everyone who has done any teaching knows, the time spent standing in front of a class is just a small part of the total required time.
He'd be better off getting the time in seconds, and then choosing a random number as well. At least then the chance of collision would be a known probability!
googling i ended up here for Nathan bowers article http://web.archive.org/web/20120214085940/http://uxhero.com/...

Guess we mentioned fractals
The trade off is that your patches are for things that you clearly care about, and do not want to lose. Having played this game several times, several ways, whichever branch the "patches" come from is lossy.
I'm not interested in the political side of this whatsoever, but you have to realize that Mother Jones is about as non-partisan as the National Review is[1] and is not going to convince those who would like a more neutral view. I'm not saying this analysis is wrong but could have picked a better source IMO...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Modern_liberal_America...
While I mostly agree with the premise, I'm worried many people will internalize the wrong lesson. It seems to imply that quality, as implicitly defined by the examples provided, is a barometer of success. The reality is that there are numerous vectors that you can compete on outside of quality and still be wildly successful.

I'd be happy to have 3 lines of subpar code if it gave me an advantage on other competitive angles.
Remember when some people said there was no point in buying a multicore system because no one used them effectively? I'm glad no one listened.
> Ruby also has a GIL.

MRI has a GIL; major alternative implementations (JRuby, Rubinius) do not.

OTOH, addressing the downsides of a GIL are not the only reasonable motivations for an alternative implementation, so there's no reason that a better-than-stock Python (or Ruby) fundamentally must remove the GIL (the current "MRI" used to be an alternative, YARV, to the old MRI, and both had GILs.)
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In recent years QueryPerformanceCounter is actually quite reliable since it's guaranteed not to change frequency during runtime.

timeGetTime() and company though operate at the highest frequency that application has specified, and as such can be quite a drain on portable power systems (laptop etc). So when one application calls timeBeginPeriod(1) it means the laptop needs to wake up more frequently and hence is less power efficient.
Maybe. Or maybe your wording was intentional, politically motivated, and equally as out-of-place as the attention it predictably draws.
I immediately thought of jewelweed which in addition to having water repellent leaves is also medicinal - http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Jewelweed.htm...
That's just playing with words and doesn't add much value.

That's why he said "gridded homepage" instead of "homepage using a grid system" (which is 99% of them), and even if it was unclear after that, the visual examples made what he meant totally obvious.
so courts will go on making it up according to the feelings of the presiding judge

Keep in mind: a lawyer tried to attack the crypto credibility of Whit Diffie!

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-cryp...

For some reason patent attorneys wonder why so many of us programmers regard the legalese surreality around patents as a Kafkaesque morass.
Or a GPS disciplined clock
I have actually been in this precise position with this precise linguistic choice.

I am not speaking hypothetically, I am asking about how someone else would feel and respond in a situation I have experienced directly.

Can you explain how my perspective is 'limited'?

It seems to me that you have simply misunderstood the question.
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I don’t find this to be an accurate description.

Yes, quality (often) has this one bad apple spoils the whole bunch property. If we have to have a math metaphor we might say that quality is multiplicative, in the sense that one low value in a sequence still impacts the entire product. Or we might say that quality has an absorbing element, by which we mean that any zero value kills the whole set (100 * 100 * 100 * 0 still equals 0). But fractal means that we see self-similarity at all levels. That hardly seems to be the case.

According to the original argument, bad software implies bad programmers which implies a bad company. That seems not only incorrect but also non-constructive. It ignores (e.g.) the idea that good employees could release bad products under bad management. Likewise, great programmers can write applications which are terrible to use. There are other skills involved in that process (interaction design, for instance). The criteria for evaluating programmers and software are vastly different and thus it doesn’t make sense to say that there’s a fractal relationship between these two vastly different kinds of entities.
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Huh? Isn't Path all about small private social networks? What the heck does business feedback have to do with anything?
Most of the worst software patents do exactly what the court said they couldn’t: present an idea (like hedging risk, one-click shopping, etc.) and say that, because it’s executed on a computer, or a generic piece of hardware, it is not just an idea anymore.

Does this mean Amazon will lose their one-click patent?
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Are you proposing that if my patent containing source code is published by Google on Google Patents, I can sue them for infringing it because they are an "unlicensed third party"?
In contrast, I was given typing classes from first grade, for at least one semester per year, every year up until graduation (2007), and I still managed to avoid learning how to touch type for all that time. When I was 18 I decided I wanted to be a coder and found that my typing speed was a lousy 19-25wpm, and decided to get better. It took about a month of active practice to get up to my current plateau of about 60-70wpm. And it was entirely my own choice to learn - the years of classes didn't seem to have any effect.

Edit for vanity: 60-70wpm tested. I'm pretty sure I can type faster than that sometimes.
All of my podcasts and talks get transcribed at castingwords.com. They've got mechanical Turk on the backend, so occasionally you get a very bad paragraph or two in the middle, but their turnaround is quick, they're relatively inexpensive, and it beats the heck out of "no transcript."
That was untrue even then. Even if no individual userspace program was multi-threaded or multiprocess, you still get a benefit from being able to run multiple programs at the same time (and not just time-shared on a single core).
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I'm still scratching my head trying to understand what principle drives the distinction between an abstract idea and a non-abstract one. It seems to me that the very definition of a computer program is the description of an idea - in pedantic detail, yes, but it will always come back to an idea. If that is true, and if, as many say, it is only a matter of time before "software eats the world", is there anything left that will be patentable?

The court decision this week seems to entangle two things; the fact that the abstract idea was not novel, and the fact that it was abstract. It is not clear to me: had the abstract idea itself been truly novel - would that have changed the outcome? A lot of people are saying this ruling is against patenting abstract ideas but it seems to me that it is mostly about the fact that directly transcribing an idea to a computer doesn't ADD concreteness (or novelty?), NOT a judgement about the veracity of the original idea. Would love to hear any insight about this.
Mind blown! very good idea,the controls are a bit rough,but it could be a great tool to teach geometry and trigonometry in general.I went up to level 4,do you "support" tangents?
I think you are referring to this: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Death_of_Nancy_Benoit_rumour_pos...
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I like the analogy, but is good advice to software startups?

"Finished is better than perfect" is probably a better startup philosophy. I've seen too many friends waste time on the nth refactoring of their code rather than focusing on shipping and proving customer value.
It's going to pay for things that the state used to pay for.

The cost (to the school) of education at a state school has not gone up a lot versus inflation, but fraction of it paid for by the state has gone way down.
"Finished is better than perfect [as long as it isn't crap]"

I've seen too many products become a miserable mess because people believed in "finished is better than perfect". But that's something you learn when you're rewriting your code for the nth time to add the nth feature because otherwise you just can't fit anything new in there.

But as I always say on these occasions, please keep shipping bad code. I make good money fixing it.
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You can drive however you like on "public" roads so long as you are not a harm to yourself or others. You can go where you like, when you like and drive your choice of vehicle.

Please explain to me how a UAV is a harm to someone in national parks.

PS to those down voting me (for as usual on HN no clear reason whatsoever other than disagreement) that the national park service has been using UAS for years. I'm sure their use is "safe" and will continue for years to come.

http://www.nps.gov/fire/aviation/safety/unmanned-aerial-syst...

The FAA has been handing out exemptions to its ban on UAV to sister federal agencies and denying the public fair use.
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thanks for the link. I had lost this game in the mists of time.

I'll give credit to OP's game however, giving you new tools once you have proved how to do something is great!
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Sure, there are many routes to success. In general though I think quality is one of the strongest and can lead to the most enduring products and companies.

Nevertheless, "quality" is an ill-defined concept, and it's easy to be led astray in pursuit of notional quality at the expense of real-world practical improvements to your product. For example, cost and ease of use are not independent factors. Consider VHS vs. BETAMAX video recording as a classic example. BETAMAX had superior recording fidelity, but it was significantly more expensive, and expense plus network effect was a major factor in the adoption of video tape standards.

Part of the "quality fractal" are meta-features such as robustness, elegance, usability, performance, and cost. It doesn't matter how theoretically perfect your product is if it's not practical or it's too expensive to serve the market effectively. A Bugatti Veyron may seem in many respects to be a "perfect" automobile, but it's not. The luxurious interior, amazing build quality, and high performance make it easy to overlook the downsides such as the extreme cost, low mileage, low lifetime of many components (such as the tires), high maintenance cost, etc. In most regards a Toyota Camry is a superior car to a Veyron. That's a result that it's very difficult to arrive at if you focus too myopically on the ideal of "quality" without looking at things holistically.

Compare, for example, consider the world-wide-web vs. project Xanadu, or Linux vs. Hurd. It's so easy to let perfect be the enemy of good. The concept of "worse is better" is on the surface a refutation of the importance of quality but in reality it's just a reminder that "quality" isn't always what we think it is and practicality is always by far the most important quality.
That's not really true. Duke includes finical aid as a cost but that's not actual spending. So from the chart, 10/.76 = ~13% is administrative costs.

Though the Text says out of 90k in spending $14,000 goes to pay a share of administrative and academic support salaries which puts just salary's for administration at 15.5 not including their share of the building etc.

So, a reasonable estimate ~25-40% of each dollar actually spent goes to administration depending on where you draw the line. AKA is a dean Administration or Faculty.

PS: Not that facility get to actually spend anywhere close to 100% of there time on teaching.
Launch team is probably not happy their stress is prolonged for another 24 hours.

Then again, their boss is Musk. Lucky bastards.
In practice it works pretty well. I am nearing completion of a rewrite of X's XCB-based python bindings in cffi, and it has worked out quite nicely.
> Android already uses the OpenBSD libc (IIRC)

It is a mix of code from OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD [1][2]

[1] http://youtu.be/G-36noTCaiA?t=19m40s

[2] http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-l...
One risk the Servo team might have is the end-user latency. I'm wondering how it will play out that having all these asynchronous waits can result in a worse end-user experience. User interaction lag can be incredibly frustrating. Every opportunity taken to perform tasks asynchronously exacts a cost in terms of synchronization latency.

I hope the Servo team is acquainted with the video game world, and the curious optimizations that have been taken in that realm to greatly improve performance in multi-threaded settings.
Similarly, Jython (and pretty much any JVM-based implementation of a normally GIL'd language) has no GIL.
There's a deeply-established credentialing systems that would blend very well with MOOCs and the like. That said, it's not the US undergrad one, and there's a worldwide belief that US university credentials are a big deal.

I don't know what things are like now, but in my grandfather's day European universities had a very different credentialing system from US undergrad institutions. In lieu of course credit, course-based grades, etc., they simply had a battery of (oral) examinations at the end.

US grad schools can be much like that. In essence, there were no course requirements for a PhD in mathematics at Harvard, but rather a three-day Qualifying Examination, a Minor Thesis (don't ask), and a traditional dissertation. Much the same was true of a physics PhD at Princeton then (the 1970s), except that there was an experiment in the mix (even for theoreticians). And in the Princeton math department, the joke was that students were asked the first day "Does anybody wish to submit his thesis?", and the record was 3 months.
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> it's not as if she could know that her emails would be requested in the future.

Really? You do something illegal, or unethical and don't expect anyone to ever come check up on you?

The IRS should be saving emails forever, or at the very minimum for 3 years.
There's a lot of established code built around the C API. It's not like it can just be rewritten using CFFI over a weekend.
Students do default on student loans, even though they cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. 14.7% of students who started repayment in 2010 defaulted within 3 years. (Source: http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/defaultmanagement/cdr.html)

If the government did not guarantee and subsidize the loans, interest rates would be higher and/or banks would be more careful which students they lent to.
Minecraft isn't available on Wii U at the moment, but it might be in the future if you believe this interview: http://kotaku.com/what-nintendos-top-game-creators-think-of-...
If it was taken directly from goog ssl, shouldn't it have the ISC licence?

http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/lib/libssl/src/crypto/evp/e_chacha20po...
About a month ago it was posted an article[1] about why Van Halen requested the infamous no brown M&M's clause in their concert contracts, it struck me as a practical way of measuring overall quality on a complex situattion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754334
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I created a simple Terminal instance that compares Python and PyPy in a performance test:

https://terminal.com/tiny/shkhWWkcEV

(this lets you compare the performance on a real Linux system, without installing anything)
Well, that's the fundamental problem of patents. They restrict the free dissemination of ideas. In a free market, the idea of a patent is fundamentally flawed. Soft patents are the reductio ad absurdum of the whole concept.
> The irs keeps 6 months of emails on tape; when investigators asked for emails in mid-2013, tape was available through late 2012.

IRS guidelines state that official records, in accordance with the Federal Records Act, must be retained (at the very least archived as a hardcopy). So the IRS is institutionally violating their own guidelines, as well as federal law?

> 2011 < 2013, it's not as if she could know that her emails would be requested in the future.

Except for the letter sent by Chairman Camp to then-Commissioner Schulman riiiiight before the crash: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/non_6103_ltr_fin...
I think it's something like this:

Abstract idea: something to clean your windshields in case of rain/snow

Non-abstract (concrete) idea: a device composed by a wipe, mechanically connected to a motor that cleans the windshield with an oscillating motion
I worked at DoIT before graduating and moving out to the Bay Area. And your characterization regarding its bureaucracy and efficiency are pretty spot on.
It is stunning that a public school teacher apparently makes almost 2x what a college teacher makes, at least in California. Mind you, I am not arguing that school teachers should make less, collage profs should make more. This is amazing though, were is the money going.

Anecdotally, I think a lot of the money is spent on outside services through a corrupt bidding process. Back in 2008 I used to run a document scanning company. We did large contracts for the state of California and the Four Seasons Hotel chain. We had glowing recommendations from all of our customers, including a lot of large businesses in San Diego. So, foolishly, we thought we could toss our hat into the ring when UCSD started looking for a company to do their document management. Our bid was (based on what we could find out) roughly 1/2 of the winning bid. We had all the required bonds, same quality, faster turnaround time, and we offered more services. We didn't get the job. So UCSD paid twice as much for the same document scanning service, meanwhile some poor adjunkt professor is eating cat food! Great!
Hopefully. And refund all the money people lost due to being unable to implement the idea and fight it in court.
Depends on where and when it was taken from.
I don't know about US grading schemes, but here in Australia, pretty much every course has some form of assignments or series thereof. The assignments can be a small or substantial part of the final mark, or even the total final mark, depending on the kind of course.

I suspect the same is true in US tertiary institutions, and that railing against exams is just a tired old trope. It's hard to believe that it would be the general standard in the US to have the entirety of the final mark attributable to exams. But, like I said, I'm not familiar with their curricula.