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UCL has been organizing well attended Hackathons, seed funding pitch competitions, partnerships with founders and accelerators as well as running its own mini incubator for the past few years. Even a quick skim on google would show a multitude of student (UCL) born startups that have succeeded: Loom, backed by Google Ventures and acquired by Dropbox this year + Vungle, raised $17MM series B this year. I understand that from a Kings perspective the tech scene looks weak, but to discredit the scene as a whole when UCL has been leading the way with significant success for the past few years, is misleading.
Yeah, I can't imagine a sensible interpretation of the claim on education. You basically need to get an M.Ed. and all the research on teacher effectiveness suggests that they have an effect that is close to zero and is probably actually zero. Subject matter Master's degrees have positive effects on teacher effectiveness but that's probably a reflection of the kind of people who get Master's degrees being interested in their field, not having a Master's making one a better teacher.
Here you go: http://unop.co.uk/misc/sweden-solar-system-photos/

I've also submitted it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181696

Enjoy!
Maybe the title should read: Ph.D. with 2 years exp can earn $200,000-$300,000 a year in the data science field.

There is quite a lot of school (time, money, work, ability) behind getting a doctorate. It's not like just anyone with a B.S. and a couple years experience is getting these jobs.
It's interesting they've pegged the company at a $9 billion valuation. Labcorp at this moment has a $9 billion valuation (with $6 billion in sales, and $573 million in profit...).
The major weakness in using textures as intermediate targets is the loss of precision from the texture formats as well as the intermediate values. OpenGL ES 2 (and thus WebGL) does not require a full 32 bit floating point pipeline, so the results may vary if you run on mobile devices (that are not the latest generation GL ES 3.x devices).

In proper OpenGL, you'd be able to use transform feedback to write in to buffers with no loss of precision. And using buffers is less limited than texture fetches in the vertex pipeline.

For applications where precision matters (ie. everything scientific), WebGL on GLES2 devices is a no-go. WebGL standardization should pick up the pace to better match the development of OpenGL.
> Does everyone really want tolls and meters for every click and paywalls everywhere?

No, they don't. I'm developing a technology to make it possible to share a single subscription fee across websites and apps without having to require users to go through a centralised proxy server.

The design allows users to retain anonymity, enables subscriptions to be shared on a usage basis and means that publishers can still retain their other major income streams (ads & paywalls) while getting access to a new one.

The concept only works because it means the subscribing user has no additional cognitive overhead. No tip button to remember to click, no "read more" button to fret over, no worrying about metered content leading to a nasty surprise at the end of the billing cycle.

A single fixed monthly fee and access to ad-free content or apps anywhere.

I've been working on this since 2008 and in the coming 12 months I am preparing to launch my business based on it. Interested persons are invited to contact me -- jacques@robojar.com.
TFA:

> A sentence like “On the contrary, I think it may turn out that this rugged mountain range trails off at some point” becomes simply “Tram-mļöi hhâsmařpţuktôx.”

Wikipedia:

> Romanization: Oumpeá äx’ääļuktëx.

> Translation: "On the contrary, I think it may turn out that this rugged mountain range trails off at some point."
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I was primarily referring to network.

But:

1. private schools often don't require certificates.

2. At least the testing requirement for obtaining a certificate IS meritocratic and isn't prohibitively expensive. We could standardize the test, or each school could develop a test as part of its interview process. In either case, giving a test and judging potential applicants in terms of that test isn't unmeritocratic. It's actually exactly the opposite.

3. I would be very surprised if someone knew everything necessary to teach in a school -- administrative details such as laws and regulations, pedagogic literacy, and subject matter expertise -- without any formal education.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think that picking up some minimal programming/design skills is sometimes less difficult and always far more interesting than a lot of what educators need to know.

When's the last time you heard about someone who self-taught themselves guidelines for mandatory reporting or how to handle IEPs? The appropriateness of teachers needing to know all of these things is an entirely separate discussion -- they exist, and teachers today need to know them. It's part of the job, so it's meritocratic to exclude applicants who don't know these things.
Similarly, the situation in Cambridge (and as I understand it Oxford) has been very solid for a very long time.

There exist Computing and Technology (CUCaTS), Computing Facility (SRCF), Technology Enterprise (CUTEC) and Enterpreneurs (CUE) societies. The latter two have fallen somewhat out of favour and notice around the Computer Lab the last few years, but are still running strong attracting tech entrepreneurs from Physics and Engineering.

There's a lot of focus on moving out to established tech companies (blame the recruitment fair and regular company events) but this outgoing year appeared to have a high fraction of the CS year attempting to work on startups in one form or another.
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I don't think the post is arguing that the student tech scene is weak, just fragmented. These are amazing successes - it'd be great to have heard about them.

It would be such a boost for the student scene to hear from such student-born startups and learn/look up to them.

I definitely don't think it's about whether UCL is leading the way or King's.
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She is dressed like CEO if a dystopian ruling corporation.
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Pretty nice, I was even able to go out of bounds :)
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This idea, and close variations, comes up a lot. I came up with it in 2008, I've seen I think 6 or 7 companies try it.

Naturally, I think my secret sauce is better than everyone else's. We'll see.
Better link, directly to the video(s): http://2014.javazone.no/videos.html
I wonder how this compares to Vitess, which youtube has been using to scale their MySql databases for years.

Which is also written in Go.

Perhaps this is a direct competitor to Vitess, but I agree the description is in dire need of some specifics.

Edit: adding link
https://github.com/youtube/vitess
>What do you do when you believe that you can do great things but something that you have no control over is holding you back?

Usually after this realization, most people turn 19. Sorry, but you are not unique in your belief that you have the ability to do great things. Every young boy thinks this (I was never a young girl so I can't speak to that). To be honest, this comes across (to me) as privileged only-child whining, a trait probably absent from most who accomplish great things.

As for family, you have to decide on your priorities. I think family is a worthy priority, and I also accept that realistically, because I make family a priority, that I will very likely never "do great things", outside of affecting a handful of close friends and family.

Here's another reality check you have coming. After the age of 25, very slowly at first, your energy level will decline. By 30 you will notice it and it will affect you. By 35-40 you will willfully admit that your days of pursuing great things are over. Sure, there are a handful of overachievers who run their first marathon at 40 or whatever, but to this point you definitely do not strike me as the "conquer and overcome no matter what" type.

TL;DR: My advice: life is hard, grow up
Kivy is great, although its bottleneck is in (python)libraries, at least on iOS -
for example pygame works like charm (the toolchain compiles transparently to user all the SDL stuff), but numpy is unusable:
https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/1161
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/305883-numpy-for-kivy-io...
I can certainly say that I have seen very little of what you describe in the UK tech scene at least certainly not up in the North East where I am - perhaps London is different but I can't believe it is that different.

And as far as "dirty students sinking up the lab goes", this is more likely an isolated case rather than the prevailing norm in my experience.
The networking thing is absolutely true. Networking and "buddy hires" are way more common in CS than in (secondary) Education IME. edit: in fact, in education, network-hires are basically impossible even if your buddy is all the way at the top.

> You basically need to get an M.Ed.

Definitely not true.

At the very least, in STEM most high schools would prefer a subject matter Masters.

Most teachers opt to get an Masters for the pay raise, but it's quite common to be hired without an MEd, and my comment referred to the hiring process specifically.

The fact that Education MEds have no/negative effect but subject-matter masters have a positive effect probably has to do with the salary incentive and the fact MEds tend to be easier to get than subject-matter masters.

An intrinsically motivated MEd student could probably get as much out of it as a subject matter masters (esp. in primary education, where increased subject matter expertise probably isn't so helpful).

Which is to say, MEds aren't intrinsically bad, but because of external incentives might attract the wrong type of person.

> I can't imagine a sensible interpretation of the claim on education.

The literal interpretation will suffice; it's entirely well-defined even if you disagree with its truth value :-)

See also my response to the parent.

edit: higher-education is a different beast, but going way back up to the comment I first responded to, we're talking about education majors, who go on to secondary and primary education -- NOT higher education.
Rumsfeld was also the Chairman of Gilead. I doubt it's a question of "do we want these people involved?" - the reality is there's nothing that can stop it. They're the ultimate insiders. Rumsfeld can easily clear the deck for whatever approvals you need, and solve any problems you have, just as he did for Gilead. In exchange, you make them richer. That's how the FDA system works. You can't play in the medical / healthcare field without having a devil on your shoulder protecting you from the other monsters that will use the regulatory environment to destroy you. That's also how the business world at large works in general now, ala Al Gore on Apple's board, helping to protect Jobs from the options scandal. It's why Dropbox picked up Condoleezza Rice. It's ugly, but it's what you get when you have extreme government regulation, and when lobbyists can crush you by bribing the right people in DC, all major businesses must have their own power brokers.
I've got a protocol design which includes this as a step.
That rant is certainly not definitive, he clearly has a chip on his shoulder. He lists a lot of reasons why Esperanto is not a perfect language, but (obviously) no language can be; when a language is constructed people suddenly set way higher standards, but this is not reasonable and leads to endless bikeshedding.

Still, I'd say Esperanto is an interesting case because it is undeniably the most successful constructed language, with the longest continuous (still continuing) history. It is interesting to learn it for that reason alone, and as far as learning second languages go, it is also one of the easiest to learn. That could make it a useful first step towards learning other second languages.

Why hasn't Esperanto caught on with more speakers? Maybe it has something to do with the reasons in his rant; personally I find it much more likely that it's due to network effects. Even a "perfectly" constructed language would be very unlikely to win over the vested interests and inertia of people.
The post isn't saying there is no tech scene but can we even compare what it is at the moment to how it is in america.

A good example is http://codelaborate.org/ . They went to the same uni(Oxford), same course, both doing programming on the side & yet didn't know each other till this summer in London.

All our efforts before were fragmented, resulting in for example, three hackathons in the same weekend.

Sure great things are happening in individual places but imagine the exponential growth when it's less silo'ed & everyone is working together towards a bigger goal.
Credit card companies are probably the worst, most cynical violators of consumer privacy. They have been selling data on peoples spending as well as their personal details to companies like Acxiom for years before Google or Facebook were even created.

There are almost no requirements in the US for them to "uphold privacy". Most privacy actions (by the FTC etc) concentrate on "online privacy", which is of course only one segment of what the CC companies deal with.

Read [1],[2],[3]. Surprise, surprise: the default narrative of Google and Facebook being the aggressive upstarts pushing the boundaries on what is allowed is almost completely untrue. The credit companies and data brokers have been doing things that Google and Facebook wouldn't dream of doing for years.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/business/a-data-broker-off...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quie...

http://www.zdnet.com/global-consumer-data-broker-plans-to-re...
[3]
I'm glad to hear about your successes at UCL, but I think you've missed the point of my blog post. I am not discrediting the tech scene at all. In fact, half way through the post I admit that we thought the problem was inactivity when in fact it was just being disconnected.

UCL might have done all of these awesome things, but a lot of people outside UCL did not know about it. We want to connect the UK tech scene as a whole and get people to notice all of these great achievements. There are tons of great societies and people should know about what they're doing.

The title speaks for itself, it's about connecting the UK student tech scene.
The shape of lab testing in the U.S. seems to be bad: from the article I get that significant advantages include _upfront prices_, wide network of sampling stations, and results being emailed within 24 hours. In Moscow (recently in other cities as well) we've had InVitro Labs for several years, which do everything mentioned. No doubts there are some billionaires.
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But they're not nearly as big as the dangers of predatory "for-profit" education.

And I'm fairly sure I've never heard anyone say "Oh crap - we've run out of lawyers."
Smalltalk sounds like a very advanced language in many respects. Why did it never take off / why isn't it still around?
I don't know how UDK does iOS but I'd like to mention that was also a big draw to adobe air for me - you can develop/compile/deploy to ios from windows (don't know how it does it either but apparently it's possible).
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What does this politic article have to do with HN?
> On a somewhat related note. Despite the setbacks and the bad rep nuclear gets, fusion really could be a better future.

It sure could be a better future but the "bad rep" problem is bigger than I ever thought. The coalition of green parties in the European council (or Commission? Parliament? EU bureaucracy is confusing-) have the following in their program (paraphrased): "Cancel the funding of all nuclear power projects, like the ITER project".

This is a purely political move that is made solely to appeal to the feelings (not intelligence) of their voters. Nuclear fusion should be the project for the Green movement, but instead they are doing the complete opposite, just because of the reputation issues.
>Stuff makes me happy

The definition of irony. Happiness will exist regardless of circumstances. No one can take it away from you. Maybe you meant, "stuff brings me pleasure"?
Cool - will definitely install!

I've been working on some projects along similar lines. First one is http://churnalism.com/extension

Browser extensions which check news articles against a central database of press releases, and can highlight shared text.
Disclaimers: It's pretty UK-centric and I think the infrastructure needs a lot more work. I'm somewhat hesitant to expose it to HN at all... but hey :-)

There is also http://unsourced.org, which lets you attach warning labels onto news articles. There's a browser extension for that too, but the whole project is pretty quiescent right now while I work on other things. But I've got a lot of plans for both these projects...

Not one of mine, but for a more US-oriented tool, also check out:
http://churnalism.sunlightfoundation.com/
(again a website + browser extension combo)
The biggest fear of carrier groups are mach 7 ramjet antiship missiles launched from hundreds if not thousands of miles away, way too fast to destroy with anything even laser (you barely see them coming at you) and on top of that relatively cheap at maybe half a million a piece compared to the billions a carrier costs, meaning the enemy could launch tens of them at each ship.
I published http://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook via, well, Leanpub.

It started as an itch to scratch: I was being asked the same or very similar questions again and again by friends and colleagues, so I decided to package it up.

Wrote it all in Markdown. Tried Scrivener, but didn't get on with it, so went with my code editor.

Writing took longer than expected, because it was done in the time around helping with my then-newborn daughter, so it's tricky to tally up how much time I actually spent on it.

I'm a former journalist and editor, like my wife, so shaping and refining the manuscript was straightforward, with her second set of eyes proving invaluable. However, useful advice for anyone, regardless of experience, is: set a limit on the number of drafts/reads/edits you do. When you hit it, publish, rather that get trapped in Edit Valley. (And with self-publishing, it's easy to push out updates, after all - particularly with Leanpub).

I've actually done very little marketing for it. Google Adwords didn't prove cost-effective for me, so sales have mainly come via word of mouth/blog posts, HN, Reddit and the like.

FWIW, in the first two months, I made more from the book than the advance was on some print, publishing-house books I was asked to write when I was a journalist (but I turned down).

It's still ticking over fine at the moment, but (in terms of boosting sales) I should really make time to do a big revise-and-expand v2, rather than the incremental tweaks I've been doing. At the same time, I still believe it's relevant and useful as is, so I don't mind keeping my time clear for family, other projects, etc.
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To quote Levinson (2000): "inference is cheap, articulation expensive, and thus the design requirements are for a system that maximizes inference". All natural languages [citation needed] rely heavily on inference — simply because it allows one to minimize what's said. That's not to say that everything maximally relies on inference — politeness phenomena clearly demonstrate otherwise, often being "needlessly" verbose.
I'm surprised that the author made no mention about how big O,theta,and omega is commonly misunderstood.
I just checked out codelaborate.org. What a shitty website! The design is nice, but the font is almost impossible to read. I assume it's because I'm on Windows (OS X usually renders fonts better than Windows), but it's a really good way to quickly alienate half of your target audience...
Neat. Although it's getting more and more complicated when things have different meanings depending on state.
What about then "they" aren't even human!? /s
I have a few 80's books that refer to C as middle-level programming language.

High-level was already reserved for the likes of Lisp and Smalltalk.
Kissinger's interest would be eugenics. I mean, it was Kissinger who said "Depopulation should be the highest priority of the US towards the Third World". Bet he's gleeful at Ebola

Edit: I assume we're all big fans of Henry Kissinger over here then? I fail to see what his interest in this could be outside of the potential eugenic applications.
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It means...

INVALID. You are not eligible for this product/job/life.
I would hope I would call for a peaceful march. Also you are blindly assuming facts which aren't proven yet. I can understand the protesters, but I can't applaud the senseless violence.
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As a practicing doctor (albeit a junior one) I simply cannot foresee any more than 1 or two conditions where direct to consumer lab testing would actually be of practical use.

If on the other hand her technology is radically cheaper than the hospitals own lab then it would rapidly achieve huge market share and help cut healthcare costs. Just yesterday I had 2 sets of coags on the same patient sent back necessitating retaking (not an easy job on an elderly severely demented woman), one because it had clotted (apparently) and another because there was not enough blood. Smaller volumes required would be great for a whole bunch of situations.
There was a really good TED talk (which got banned), challenging the implicit assumptions by science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TerTgDEgUE
Can you link some of these govt jobs that don't have serious competition? I know people that might be interested in them.

And what sort of issues do you think are preventing people from getting government jobs "a lot of the time" that aren't caught by the C&F committee when you are trying to join the bar in the first place?
>I sometimes wonder if the Internet really will bring meaningful truth to discourse, rather than just shifting the echo chamber.

Agree. Since the minute this happened, focus was moved away from what happened at the scene. When people talk of this, it's never about the dead boy (much) but all about police accountability and I'd bet, a week from now, no one remembers the dead boy's name.

I would even bet that half of everyone reading this isn't even aware of what happened on the street and no one here knows of the background around that.
You register an account on your users' behalf, which might be against the ToS of the startups you interact with - how are you getting around Captchas in the signup process?

Is there a list of supported startups?
Do you send an email for every registration that you created or a weekly digest?
What if some of the startups have a free trial which expires after the registration? That's potentially a big waste and also against ToS to register a second account to actually try out their services before using upgrading the account with the desired username with a paid plan.

Hmmm - found some answers here:
https://earlyclaim.com/disclaimer
Pretty much unknown?

Sulla and Marius had a civil war and Marius's nephew was Caesar

Post-civil war US - replace Sulla and Marius with Lincoln and Jefferson...
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Pretty sure you could make your own with a 3d printer and one of those kitchen PCB-etching setups you see people using. There's no magic in there AFAIK.
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This is ignoring quite a few European TV and radio channels that are funded by (various forms of) taxation?
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