skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One test could be proportionality. If the contract is in regards to a loan, major purchase or similar spending time and money understanding the implications of the policy is reasonable.

With Siri, I don't propose anything. I am simply stating the obvious. As an owner of an ipad, I have not really agreed to anything with Apple. They are pretending like we have an agreement, but we don't. If people really needed to read and understand the terms and conditions, 99% of people would not have updated the OS and Apple would have to change the way they do things.

Maybe they just need to make the information available and not get my consent. Maybe some feature require consent and so can't be pushed to my phone without an action on my part. I don't know what the alternative is.

I do know that this agreement between me and Apple is much more like an agreement between Apple and a 6 year old then the one between me an my employer. In the real world, it is not a contact. My click does not really denote agreement.
Statements like "we need new laws" are problematic, because they boil down to "we need completely new people". Laws are written by people--specific, finite, real people. If you tossed out every law book today, you would end up with the same laws tomorrow.

And that isn't an endictment of congress critters and judges. They are of us, selected by us. To say, "we need a new legislature" is to say "we need completely new people." They are the way they are because we have made and allowed them to be that way.

Now, I agree that the laws we have and the legislature we have are objectively bad. But I have come to admit it is because we have a bad culture. We live in a world trapped in a Prisoner's Dilemma over pillaging our neighbors.
What if you declare it up front, in big print. Really. I wonder how many people would still stay. Just put it right above the dotted line on the front page.

By signing this receipt and accepting the key to your room you agree you not place a negative review of this facility on any public accessible site.
Windows Phone is backed by a $500B company. Jolla is a company started with ~$250M in funding.
Wouldn't it work better with oil and also be easier?
My VM is still down (US East). Is anyone else still experiencing issues?
"... free of charge to its citizens...", except for taxes of course
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The way it is presented it sounds almost too good to be true.
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As an FYI, the fine was scrapped (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30111525) following an intervention by Trading Standards.
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Reading comprehension question (not a native speaker):

I read the GP as 'I was skeptical, but looking at the list of rough points in the article might make me to give it a try myself' - as a kind of 'well, if _those_ are the bad parts it might actually be interesting after all'.

Failure on my side?
It is a good idea to plan ahead. The East German gorvernment of 1988 looked at least as secure as the NK government looks now. The West German military draft was extended in 1988 'because the commies are stronger than ever'. When the East German regime fell, it fell so quickly that nobody had the time to make a well-thought out plan.

The West German government didn't have any plan in 1989, despite all the Sunday speeches dreaming of re-unification.
In hindsight, many things could have been done better, eg the rules about ownership of nationalized property. Unresolved ownership questions were a huge roadblock for economic development.
How do you propose a teacher protect a student who they just met Day 1 of the school year who is heavily indoctrinated in gang culture? You can blame the teacher the year before but that teacher never saw the student much because he wasn't in class. It's not about role models it's about survival.

I grew up in a rural area. Farmland. I now live in NYC. This place breeds a hardened tougher person and in the impoverished areas education and schooling are often second fiddle to money that is here, now, that will keep food on the table.
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No. Not even remotely. Teachers do provide a good example for their students, but it's not their responsibility to watch children 24hrs a day to ensure good behavior, to inspect their home to make sure it's suitable, to watch their parents and ensure that they're not abusive or setting a bad example. If we give them a "fair share of the blame," then their share would be exactly 0%, because they are not responsible for the problems they and their students have to deal with.
Now you have an idea for how to extend it with funny fonts as well.
Have you read the book? Because that's what horizons are about. And the second and third book in the series go into life-goals quite a bit.

But yes, it starts from the premise of building to that bottom-up, not top-down. Once you have your flow/sense of control, David Allen said, your brain is unlocked to think hard of the more important things.
So it's probably a good thing that it was brought up then.

Completeness is a Good Thing, it's unclear why you're bent out of shape about it.
It's obviously "All Good!"
As I understand what the parent post's author wrote, the ones who pay for the US school system aren't the ones who use it: their kids go to private schools.

Perhaps this point was missing or too implicit: contrary to what occurs in Europe, there is no "How is my money being spent?" effect as a result of this.
Instead of upgrading my phone to 4G, I bought a 4G hotspot, and now everything talking wifi can use it. Count as an advantage that this way no hijackable baseband processor is running inside your tablet, and as a disadvantage that now also entities that only track wifi MAC addresses can track your movements.

(Also an advantage over using the phone for data is that by using a data-only SIM, your ISP won't do some nasty stuff like blocking VoIP. In the end, I may go back to a dumbphone, too.)
Yeah. I loved playing with the graph function. I felt so powerful to define curves and can see them being plotted.
Agreed. I'm married to a teacher and wince almost every time I read something about what's wrong with education because most of the problems I hear about are caused by social problems (usually symptoms of poverty). The public education system gets blamed for the effects but has very little funding or ability to fix the causes.

There are two main drivers: the most obvious one is that teachers are one of the largest unionized groups so there's going to be a certain level of attack just from that particular culture war.

The less appreciated one, however, is the number of companies and investors who benefit from changes. A major policy change means billions of dollars in new textbooks, curriculum materials, etc. — and almost inevitably follows this cycle where test scores drop (boosters: "see how bad it was"; teachers: "these kids have had the new approach for one year"), improve as everyone has time to get used to the new system and then plateau at roughly where they'd been under the previous system. Each time you repeat, textbooks companies make billions.

The rise of charter schools gives an even greater benefit to attacks. Each student who switches is $10+K/year and there's a lot less oversight on where that money is spent so you have room for modern CEO salaries, dividends to investors, etc. so there are plenty of people trying to jump in.

Attacking public schools also turns out to be a good strategy for a charter school to show results: the marketing appeals to the more motivated, generally higher-income parents, whose children were already likely to perform above average anyway. That helps the charter school and, if this happens enough like it does here in DC where this is about 40% of the students, lowers the public school ratings at the same time.

This isn't to say that there aren't real problems in public education but rather that there are both no simple fixes and many people who stand to profit from ignoring the root causes.
Hmm. You should be using CNAME records rather than IP addresses. Or are you using the new fixed IP features?
I disagree, if you tossed out the law books you would get a very different set of laws. Laws have a long tradition inherited over thousands of years. Contracts is one of those traditions. It's a good tradition. It's just taken a bad turn, being applied badly to the wrong kinds of things.
This appears to be a good, honest and multi-faceted review against real world requirements. It is a shame so many replies are "if it works for me and I have n instances, you must be wrong" instead of truly substantive. The author is bringing up points of concern, not rubbishing the project. FWIW as frequently shared my own summary of the area exists at http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/ and a general architectural response to the same sorts of concerns derived at http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/original/
This reminds me of Computer Modern (the companion default font for TeX) and what is wrong with it. It's even a reasonable explanation of why it is that way - new technology.
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I would love to peek at some of your Dockerfiles if possible?

Tried building a piece of infrastructure with Docker quite some time ago and left when it just didn't click. I certainly did quite some mistakes (at that time I did try to stuff all the provisioning into the Dockerfile for example, which you agree is a bad idea?) and the official Dockerfiles were .. mixed in clarity and not quite useful as examples to me.

So, I would really love reading about how people provision and manage their Docker instances The Right Way.
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The fact that most people would only look at the bottom line (i.e. price) doesn't mean that this wouldn't be a gross infringement of freedom of speech, and unfair trading to boot. Trading involves the possibility of goods not being up to par, and hence the customer complaining to a third party. As long as complaints are not libellous, there is no reason why they could be forcefully restricted.
> This looks like such a better step in the right direction than than the types of tools MS and Google have been putting out. Dynamically discerning the underlying code, and allowing optional type annotation works _with_ javascript, as opposed to attempting to turn js into a completely different (and weakened) language.

Typescript (from MS) sounds a lot like what you describe - it doesn't change Javascript, it just adds types to it (and makes some ES6 features available), and it puts a lot of work into playing nice with the wider JS ecosystem (e.g. via the definitelytyped project, which integrates type definitions for most popular "third-party" javascript libraries).

> That said, I am curious what solutions this solves that isn't already solved by enforcing good code coverage. Full disclaimer, the largest js projects I've worked on were in the tens of thousands of lines, not hundreds of thousands, but type checking just seemed completely unnecessary provided a good coding guide and test coverage were maintained and enforced.

Perfect testing can do everything a type system can. But a type system can do it with less programmer effort, much lower maintenance overhead, and in a standard form that makes it easier to maintain. So you can do the same thing but cheaper - or, more realistically for how software is developed in most companies, you can get better reliability for the same engineering budget.
It's sad that they did not get that mega Casino - I stayed there a coupel of years ago and 15+ years ago Blockpools decline is shocking.

No wonder the political parities no longer hold their conferences (conventions) at the winter gardens.
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I swapped a bottle of home made elder flower wine for my bike. It's made by Peugeot and when I got it it had inner tubes made by Nokia. I have no idea how old it is, but it's still doing fine 8 years after I got it.
No, Lyx is not WYSIWYG, but WYSIWYM. E.g, it doesn't show you how your document will look, but it shows you how it is structured.
The backstory here is that Alexis is a community member who came to Rust with a strong interest in improving the quality of the data structures in our stdlib, many of which had deteriorated significantly over the years through neglect and language upheaval. He began by compiling an enormous list of general cleanups[1] which eventually sparked an RFC for wide-scale collections reform[2] which was accepted and has begun work in earnest.[3] It's an enormously impressive effort that has engaged tons of new contributors, and goes to show what even a single driven community member can achieve.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18009

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/235

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18424
This practice is not new, at least not in the US, although it is probably illegal. Ken White at Popehat has written about a number of such cases, for example http://www.popehat.com/2014/11/11/roca-labs-lacking-a-hornet...
First time developer? Maybe.
First time entrepreneur? Seems like a recipe for failure. I would have thought it is better to pick a (non-IT) niche that one has a deep domain knowledge in and have a go there.
I have difficulty seeing how this is a quality contribution to any discussion and not trolling.

You know I didn't advocate probing the personal lives of entrepreneurs, and if you honestly believe I did advocate that then the problem is you are reading something that I didn't say.

If anything, saying something like "investigating the personal lives of entrepreneurs building real value" sounds more like a sound bite a bad politician or PR rep would concoct to shield a business from public scrutiny. Instances of 'entrepreneurs building real value' is also something that is fair to cover by journalists.
GTD is great, I just wish I had the self discipline to follow it.

David Allen refers to the weekly review as the critical success factor.

And that's the one that I fall down on and then things slide and I get afraid to look in the 'bucket'.
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A recurring theme here seems to be the bottom 10%, or bottom 20%, or what have you, scores in the US are dragging down the other scores. If those were ignored, the US would presumably be way up top.

But that is not the case. If you compare the top 10% of PISA scores in Japan, Singapore, South Korea etc. - or Finland, Switzerland, Holland - to the top 10% in the US, the US top 10% is below their top 10% as well.

http://educationbythenumbers.org/content/top-us-students-far...
… which will be paid at a much higher level for decades by the adults who received a solid education even if their parents couldn't have afforded it. This is hardly a zero-sum game.
Different problem, but someone who knows about unicode will probably know this -

When I paste from microsoft documents into putty, characters will often be transformed to weird versions. Example - emdash is a different character to '-'. It comes through as a weird tilda character instead of a dash. Mmm. Frustating.

Is there a robust program you can run on putty to catch such type and flatten it to ascii?
I was surprised to see complaints about building libsqlite3 and Image Magick, presenting them as tricky. It isn't is it? This is a Linux guy, right?
On my android all the unicode characters (including the title) are blank.
So much for the idea of 99.999% uptime with the magical "cloud" buzzword. I noticed during this downtime in North America that Word Online wasn't functioning as my daughter tried to use it to do some homework.
On the whole, freedom of contract (a characteristic feature of Anglo-American law since that body of law was located only in England) is a feature rather than a bug. Most of what we do each day in Britain, in the United States, and these days around much of the developed world is regulated by private agreements--that is, contracts--rather than by legislation or administrative regulations. That's a good thing. Parties to contracts can dicker until they reach a mutually agreeable deal, or each party can avoid making the deal at all by doing business with someone else.

Contracts have effect in influencing human behavior partly because once in a while a court will enforce a contract against a party trying to weasel out of the contract. But when courts get involved, general constitutional, statutory, and administrative law is brought to bear on the terms of the contract. A court may be very reluctant to enforce a term of a contract that doesn't allow a customer to complain about a company's service. That could be regarded as "against public policy," and public policy can be a judicial ground for NOT enforcing a contract. Moreover, a contract binds its parties, but doesn't bind outsiders who didn't enter into a contract, so a news organization like the BBC can report, "Slimy company attempts to sue its customer for letting consumers know that the company gives bad service," and the contract will not stop that. Parties to form contracts often ask the moon, but the party that drafted the contract language will usually have the terms construed in favor of the OTHER party if the contract is litigated. So I don't worry about this. I look over form contracts as I sign them (as, for example, when I buy an airline ticket or check into a hotel or rent a car) but I also stay aware of actual business practice as experienced by consumers as I buy products and services as a consumer. My most powerful recourse, always, is not to give a slimy company any repeat business, and to tell all my friends through every channel I have that I did (or did not) like a particular company's product or service. Anyone can do the same.

AFTER EDIT: By the way, this is an international news story that I heard on the radio while I was just on a morning drive here in Minnesota, and the latest update is that the hotel has agreed to refund the "fine." I'm trying to find a news story on the Web that verifies that.

http://www.itv.com/news/border/story/2014-11-19/hotel-fines-...
> as it adds 0 things you couldn't do before

That's your opinion. For me it has been life-changing.
I live in France but I always wonder how homeschool could work. How can one parent (or even both) be as efficient than a whole school?
I think that's a decent way to characterize many TED talks.
I found Neil Fiore's "The Now Habit" a great complement to the GTD system. GTD tells me where to put a TODO and TNH helps when the neatly organized system of GTD inexplicably fails to function without my actions :-) Obviously both are only frameworks for solving problems, not magical solvers.
It actually seems to me that they may have copied the idea from that other hotel, the wording is very similar:

From the CNN article:

"Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our Inn, your friends and families may not,"

Guardian article:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/19/tripadvisor-c...

“Despite the fact that repeat customers and couples love our hotel, your friends and family may not.”
You might want to take a look at our 4 minute video (and graphic) on GTD.

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I'm on Yosemite with the latest XCode, and all I do is right click on the title bar, as you say, and it gives me the full path to the file ..
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So much for the idea of 99.999% uptime with the magical "cloud" buzzword

Who was selling that to you? Because I'm pretty sure it wasn't Microsoft…
My general impression of Docker is that for most of us, it adds complexity with very little upside. Only when you have an already complex orchestration does Docker help you reduce that complexity.

I'm expecting that to shift with both Docker and the ecosystem of tools and services around it maturing, to the point where in a few years time Docker may even be advantageous to the most simple setups.

I'm really excited about Docker, but personally I'm not expecting to have any use for it in production for another two years.
As with many things, it sounds flowery and perfect but the implementation would be a disaster.

- You have to build/renovate schools. That alone on a national scale is almost unworkable. In more densely populated areas there simply might not be room to expand.

- You have to agree on the "right" way to teach, as if there is such a thing. Pedagogy is constantly evolving, and frankly you don't want the One True Way to teach any more than you want the One True Way to write computer programs.

- You have to accept that children are coming into school from wildly different starting points. I'm not just talking about poverty; the U.S. has huge influxes every year of people speaking languages other than English.

- In areas of concentrated poverty you need to keep the schools safe and the children engaged when every other aspect of their life could be immensely more stressful than yours and mine.

- You have to completely overhaul how we find, recruit, and retain teachers, accepting that many mistakes will be made along the way.

And you're somehow going to do all of this from a centrally managed federal department run not by the intelligentsia but from rank-and-file bureaucrats.

I support strong public education, I really do. But I think we lose track of how intractable of a problem that is on the national level. People hold up Finland (population 5.4 mil., 93% ethnic Finn) as an education utopia, but no one likes to talk about how different they are from the U.S. (population 318 mil., much greater ethnic diversity and 12% foreign born).
Well, no, not really :) But I am sure you would benefit from creating a quick one-off system for yourself.

If for no other other reason than due to the sheer absurdity of the idea of procrastinating over creating a to-do list. It's something you can't help but do immediately, and is "self-hosting"!

I might have been exaggerating, but I think it's a good exercise in coming to terms with your abilities and task management ideas in general, to create your own to-do system ahead of anything else you're doing.
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> Wouldn't you agree that, in a society where kids are primarily parented by third parties in practice,

No, I would not agree that children are parented by teachers. A child has multiple teachers each year and many, if not all of them, change year-to-year. What more could we ask for such a transient figure to do beyond being a good role model?

> not being good role models

Where has anyone every said educators shouldn't (or aren't) be role models?

> keeping kids protected from that mess?

Yes, my petite, 110# dripping wet friend will protect her kids from gang violence. By the time school security responds, the damage is done.

Additionally, how does a teach protect their kids when they're not in school? How do they protect them from gang violence in their neighborhoods?

These are big issues. Seriously, huge issues that cities and our society face. Expecting teachers to be able to build a bubble is ludicrous when children are selling drugs or worse on the streets to stay fed, when they're being shot and beat in and out of school over gang affiliations.
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My VMs appear to be up mostly, but they are primarily in North Central.
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