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Whats the protocol you use in your own backoffice system? Does it support an import method (csv, xml, ..) or an API to sync with?
In that context, NASA was the customer. They didn't bail them out. It wasn't charity.
Actually, your link states that the orbiter wasn't destructible.
I think the deeper point is not about the highlighting, but the ability to interact with the code semantically. If your editor was completely aware of the semantic structure of your code, it could provide very powerful refactorings that respected line-associated comments and things like that.

For example, it you would type a string, and wouldn't need to worry about whether it is represented as multi-line string or not or how to properly escape newlines and special characters. Your editor would know that you are typing a string and do the appropriate thing.

That said, many advanced IDEs do have very sophisticated syntax parsers which can do many of these things already. Light Table and Lisps evolve this even further. I would imagine that a language designed with this use case in mind would enable even tighter integration with the development environment though.
>the wall/surface is never perfectly straight

Where you got the idea that a wall is not perfectly straight? You mean some marginal differences in curvature that the human eye cannot distinguish from a straight line anyway?

That would be trivial to mimic in a 3D renderging anyway, literaly just a modelling command away.

I'll have to agree with TFA that it's the lighting and textures that give away 3D renderings.
I pioneered the 'live webcam' concept. This has brought all kinds of creeps out of the woodworks.
To paraphrase one Jack Sparrow: "At least you've heard of her."
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The shortage isn't real. It's an illusion meant to drive the wages down.

Most companies are pretty comfortable with the current market. They don't need to bend over backwards in order to find new employees. They all rush to them from all over the world because of the apparent high demand. If there really was a shortage, wages would skyrocket. Instead, they are staying low and barely growing with inflation. Only twice the national average last I checked.

When a company says it cannot find talent, it's actually saying it cannot find talent at the price they are willing to pay. Everybody just wants cheaper workers.
Many people don't have much of a choice where to send their children to school. Public school may be all they can afford.
This is in no way a guarantee against surveillance or even compromise, really. We already know blanket persistent monitoring exists so all communication is already collected between your hosted services and any others outside your network. All unencrypted data is analysed in near-real-time and encrypted data is stored for later analysis.

If you're interesting enough to state actors, there's not much you can do.
Kamcord (YC S12) Is Looking for an iOS App Engineer
Kamcord has raised over $10M in seed + Series A funding and is growing like crazy! We’re building a social network centered around gameplay videos for the world’s 1 billion mobile gamers. Growing the community in our iOS app is at the crux of our company’s vision.

We are only a few months into our iOS app development and have tons of both foundational and crazy ideas to work on. We’re built on a really solid foundation though:

Our app’s first major launch was featured by Apple in the Entertainment category for five consecutive weeks.

We were the first in the world to build mobile gameplay recording technology for iOS and Android. Our recording tech is embedded in hundreds of mobile games and players are using Kamcord to upload 1 hour of video content every minute - that’s 1% of YouTube’s upload volume!

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Do you trust your "trust" and "not trust" settings? Are you sure that there are no backdoors in there, or bugs that could still lead to device getting hacked?
Anyone creating an OSS collaborative authoring platform could benefit from lessons learned in commercial authoring platforms:

http://blog.inkling.com/2014/06/problem-of-structured-author...

http://alistapart.com/column/wysiwtf

We need momentum around one integrated OSS toolchain, including illustration (Inkscape) and CMYK color for printing (Scribus). This would help editors and publishers who want to move away from rental pricing for authoring software.

As anyone who has tried to find good books in a sea of free books knows, there isn't a standardized way of collaboratively improving book Metadata. This needs to include e-production history, translators, print publication history and content objects _within_ books, viz. Doug Engelbart's purple numbers, http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/ohs.html
I don't really support trying to get a broad understanding of philosophy. It's much better to get in-depth with a specific philosopher and then move on to the next, chronologically.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that often, Philosophers of a certain generation are building their theses in reaction to the previous generation. So there's a great reason to read Ancient philosophy, starting with the pre-Socratics.

I highly recommend "Retrieving the Ancients". David Roochnik (the author) was my professor for both Ancient and Modern philosophy. Trying to be unbiased here but this is a great introduction to the pre-Socratics and it even connects their ancient issues with modern ones.
No, they can't. Once you're supersonic, the aerodynamic stress will tear a rocket into shreds if there's even a few degrees of angle of attack.
And their stock price will drop as a result.
At 6 years old, a human is still developing basic skills, that are expected for everyone. The tests at that age give no useful information.
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I like the idea of git for ebooks. That being said, a lot of the free books available from project gutenberg have been around for quite some time.

Besides translations, what can people besides the author contribute? Doesn't it, on some level, ruin the character of these books? If you look at a non-fiction book from 80 years ago, is it worth bothering to correct the information when you can probably find it at your fingertips on wikipedia?
Here come all the anti-testing comments, as expected. In the smartist era and in the meritocracy, we need more testing , not less, to help help identify gifted and slow students. Whether it's an IQ test or a proxy such as the SAT, testing is the best way to assess individual general cognitive functioning for large groups of people, as well as identity exceptionally talented individuals.

More testing raises the stakes for everyone, meaning that the overall population becomes better educated and competitive, in order to do well on the tests.

Furthermore, many smart students find coursework boring an get poor grades, but excel at standardized tests, because they already know the material.

There was a fascinating ted talk awhile ago about how standardized tests, contrary to being useless as often ascribed by the left, can predict lifetime outcomes such as wages, being published in a journal, level of academic attainment, and so on.
OP here. Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

I am quite bad about maintaining conversations on HN, so I would appreciate it if you would email me if you have any thoughts on those questions -- why did you leave CL, what could have been done to improve the community or ecosystem?

I am not promising to fix these things, but I would like to give it another try.
Epictetus: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epictetus/

Marcus Aurelius: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/

Stoicism: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/

Seneca: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/
that's just not true. IQ can be measured reliably from the age of 3 and remains stable throughout life
How does this establish their complicity? Surely agreeing to cover these costs out of their shareholders' pockets would be complicity, rather than pushing them onto the government?
In India they have competitive admission tests for toddlers into pre-school/kindergarden.

The good news is that it did not seem, in observation, to scar the population for life - except perhaps give them an aversion to learning - but it did give me anxiety about school, even though I joined this particular game when I was a teenager.

I was hoping other countries would not adopt such an inhumane way of admitting/assessing children but I see a wider adoption in the United States and I have heard it has been a system for a while in Japan.

When resources are limited I think you should do a lottery (and explicitly say its a lottery) so that children have no shame when they don't get in or destructive pride when they do.

Anyone have a list of countries where they do this kind of testing for pre-schoolers/kindergardeners?
> Since the existence of the program was first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post on June 6, the companies have repeatedly denied all knowledge of it and insisted they only hand over user data in response to specific legal requests from the authorities.

How is this statement anything other than a simple untruth on the part of the Guardian?
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It does matter. I doubt you'll load 300 willing passengers on a 747 if it was widely known it had a self destruct.

I would guess each case has to weigh its pros and cons for inclusion of a system. There is such thing as acceptable risk to population. If FAA mandated them carte blanche, Michael Bay movies would become documentaries.
I think it again depends on what you mean by hacker. If a web developer is passionate about web development, learns everything he can about it, enjoys doing it, and approaches it like an aesthete, then according to the author he is a webdev hacker (or whatever you want to call it). There are many other definitions of "hacker" that wouldn't include the aforementioned web developer (I'm thinking of Eric Raymond's essay on the topic). In the end, there doesn't seem to be a broad agreement on the topic.
IQ tests are a great way to determine the outliers, but those test do not do that.

As a result, school districts have been developing final assessments in subjects including math, language arts, music, science and social studies to give to students, including kindergartners.

They are testing specific knowledge that must be learned at an inappropriate age, not inherent intelligence, and that is the problem.
That seems to be quite a sweeping statement! Any sources for that?
Yes, it makes sense.

The article implies that there are losses of a specific neuron which resides in a specific part of the brain which is thought to control sleep.

The neurons in this story are tasked with helping an individual sleep, thus the title 'Loss of neurons for sleep...' is correct. The neurons in this article are used by the individual FOR sleeping.

I could understand someone interpreting it as a barter or trade. "I will give you these neurons FOR that sleep", however that's not intended. Perhaps "Loss of neurons (for sleep).." or "Loss of neurons which aid in sleep.." would be even more clear.
BBC Updated the video to the 'better video' in @spacefight's link (the original was taken from a more distant vantage point).

SpaceX Statement in full (copied from facebook page):

Earlier today, in McGregor, Texas, SpaceX conducted a test flight of a three engine version of the F9R test vehicle (successor to Grasshopper). During the flight, an anomaly was detected in the vehicle and the flight termination system automatically terminated the mission.

Throughout the test and subsequent flight termination, the vehicle remained in the designated flight area. There were no injuries or near injuries. An FAA representative was present at all times.

With research and development projects, detecting vehicle anomalies during the testing is the purpose of the program. Today’s test was particularly complex, pushing the limits of the vehicle further than any previous test. As is our practice, the company will be reviewing the flight record details to learn more about the performance of the vehicle prior to our next test.

SpaceX will provide another update when the flight data has been fully analyzed.
>With something like $800/month you can have a huge house in some parts of SE Asia, with a pool, and with your personal assistant to cook, clean the house, wash clothes etc. Better than what most of us have "back at home" actually.

Which parts are that? I'm planning to travel this winter and looking for places to settle for a month or two.
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I totally get that different people want very different things, and I do understand that commuting and meetings are part of the rut of compromise that most people feel they have to tolerate, but some people feel a burning desire to escape. I'm probably biased against this sort of lifestyle right now because I have a young family which would make being a "digital nomad" impossible; and perhaps there's a twinge of jealousy in there because I do enjoy travelling and periodically get a little sick of rainy England. (On the bright side, I don't have much of a commute right now...)

I'm not sure having a huge house with a pool and a maid could really be considered a nomadic lifestyle. :-)
Seems like you can already get similar stuff elsewhere for cheaper and with a little plastic around the PCB:
http://smile.amazon.com/PortaPow-Fast-Charge-Blackberry-Char...
This blog post misunderstands the concept of "sufficiently smart compiler". He even links to the c2 wiki page for it, yet if he actually read it he would realize it has nothing to do with what he is writing about...
Complete nonsense.

Also,

"In Florida, the results of end-of-course exams affect the evaluation and pay of teachers."

So I bet low-income areas with less-educated parents working 2 jobs and too exhausted to really help their kids at home probably will have the lowest scores. So any quality-teachers in poorer areas will be less paid, so they'll leave, so the scores will go down, thus the pay goes down, so the quality-teachers leave, so the scores will go down, thus the pay goes down, so the quality-teachers leave...

And what's the end result of that? The kids who need help THE MOST are the ones who get THE LEAST.

>>There was a fascinating ted talk awhile ago about how standardized tests, contrary to being useless as often ascribed by the left, can predict lifetime outcomes such as wages, being published in a journal, level of academic attainment, and so on.

Anyone who is considering tests for predicting people's future potential should watch this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

EDIT: I just noticed you said "the left", so you probably just have an axe to grind and I'm wasting my time with this comment.
Press releases by Arianespace and ESA:

http://www.arianespace.com/news-press-release/2014/8-22-2014...

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/The_future_-_Ga...
I don't think the 'Gutenberg' name could be described as a historical inaccuracy, but there is some truth to it. From Wikipedia:

Wallau adds, "His surname was derived from the house inhabited by his father and his paternal ancestors 'zu Laden, zu Gutenberg'. The house of Gänsfleisch was one of the patrician families of the town, tracing its lineage back to the thirteenth century." Patricians (aristocrats) in Mainz were often named after houses they owned. Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.
> I did write "You won’t legally be allowed to work in the countries you travel to..."

In context, you are clearly talking about working for local companies. In countries like Thailand, it's illegal to work in any way (even volunteering falls into this category in Thailand) without a valid visa and work permit.

> have never been clear in Thailand

That's disingenuous at best. Its never been "ideal" but it's always been clear - if you want to work, you need a visa + work permit. That people working "online" for foreign entities have largely slipped through the cracks is irrelevant. Speeding isn't legal or "unclear" just because you don't get caught every time.

> this week the Thai government decided it's OK for digital nomads to work in Thailand:

Since i first started looking at the options for working in Thailand about 2 1/2 years ago (and moved here ~ 2 years ago) I've read numerous articles about these announcements from provincial immigration staff, only to have them either "clarified" to mean something different, or outright denied as being incorrect.
Like others, I am doubtful that this is the best way to go about it.

But to answer your question, the main area where I've found Project Gutenberg's epubs could be improved is in their navigation outline (the toc.ncx file). For example, they often use top-level headings for each line from the title page, then put the entire book under the last line. Whereas other books are closer to what you'd expect, albeit at inconsistent levels of detail. For my project, I abandoned their TOC's altogether and created a simpler format.

The images are also at a bare-minimum of resolution. In some cases, higher-quality versions are available in the public domain (such as on Wikimedia Commons). Most of the books are also scanned on archive.org, and so can be referenced there in facsimile. These tend to be higher-resolution scans (although those are all monochrome that I've seen).

For corrections in the works proper, I have occasionally submitted corrections by email but never received a response.

Otherwise, they are perfect, and I thank them for their outstanding work.

EDIT: There are also rare cases (I think Seneca was the one I came across) where the id's are not unique across the book, even if they are within the HTML files. I couldn't find anywhere in the EPUB specification that would require this, yet for practical purposes I think they should be made unique across the book, since the division into HTML files is arbitrary.

Further to that, there are some PG books that have a unique (serial) ID on every paragraph. Again, this is not required, but it's extremely helpful when it's there (for anchor referencing). It would make the whole library more usable if this were applied consistently, and the serial id's are apparently mechanically applied.
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its also assumed that tests are good way to measure. We send our son to a Montessori charter school. No homework (he's is 1st grade), its self-guided with teacher persuasion to keep learning new things, its fantastic.
Montessori is bar far the best way I've found for schools to teach.
>The hardest part is keeping work coming in at a constant enough rate. In NYC I was always booked solid, 24/7, but in Vietnam it comes and goes in spurts. Partly because some of the work I did in NYC has hardware requirements that can't be met here in Vietnam (large retail experiential installs) and partly because business is slow for my main client.

The only way I got around this was by building my own platform that brought in clients. I teach the LSAT, and chose to live in Montreal. It's French, not a major city for English speaking law school admissions.

NYC is the major market. I would have been booked solid if I lived there. But I likely also would have hit a local maximum, doing lots of $200 an hour tutoring and teaching $1200 classroom courses.

Instead, I had to develop products to reach students in the USA. Eventually ended up taking a page from Michael Hartl's business model and released a version of my books here:

http://lsathacks.com/explanations/

Now a lot of people find my site and I get tutoring requests organically. I'm about to do nine hours today (I just consult Saturdays).

Not everyone should do this of course – it's a lot of work to create your own product or marketing platform. Local work of mouth and advertising is SO much easier.

But for anyone considering a transition abroad, think about reaching prospects who google solutions.
I like the design, but I dislike the lack of information density as compared to the original wikipedia design that the product is showcased against.

The NASA article, for example. Check out how much data disappears from the right margin like location coordinates and employment numbers. I get that it's not usually relevant to most users, but I don't feel like it detracts from the experience for those uninterested. It's easy to skim right past and maintains a relatively clean layout.

Is there a more data-intensive setting for wikiwand? I'm all for minimal, but the standard wikipedia interface seems to be more data oriented, which is what wikipedia is really used for.
Amazon.* might get less traffic than Google's properties, but it probably has as many or more people with their wallets out.
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many states don't let you choose your own public school. In Arizona, you can send your kids to schools outside your area or district, only if they "have capacity".
I tried this when first starting out. I realized I was selling solutions to problems business owners didn't realize they had.

To sell to real estate agents, you need to figure out what problems real estate agents think they have. They consider how those problems, or perceived problems, can be solved with your skills.

(I don't mean "perceived problems" as a pejorative. It's often difficult to know in advance what will actually be of business value)
Yet more ammunition to prefer non-incumbent candidates over incumbents, and to prefer non-majority party candidates over majority party candidates in local elections.

Too often, local politics gets owned by a single party, and that is rarely a good thing.

Too many people are too consistently party line when they vote in elections. If you live in a R area, vote D locally. If you live in a D area, vote R locally. Just hold your nose and do it.
Standardized tests miss so much useful marketable skills (sales, personal interaction). How many people do you know that "suck at taking tests"? I'd like to see that Ted Talk. Do you have a reference?