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Why is it assumed that to educate everyone to the best of their ability that the traditional public school system, where everyone is thrown together based on where they live, is the best to achieve that goal and anything else leads to marginalization?

I used to work at educating blind children. Most of those I worked with also had other disabilities as well. The school I worked at was a boarding school and first rate. It concentrated experts into one place and offered continuity of instruction beyond anything a public district could provide. Student progress was, on the whole, amazing compared to their progress at a public school. This is an extreme example, granted, but why wouldn't a similar approach work with other kids who need extra help and attention? Why not have behavior specialists at one charter school working with disruptive kids and engineers teaching kids that are interested in STEM?
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>First, charter schools are public schools, not private schools.

Charter schools are funded with public money, but they are run (and often owned) by for-profit management companies.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/cashing-in-o...

Many people see them as just another way to get public money in the hands of a few private companies.
can you talk about your jboss configuration ? We are thinking of building our API stack in java and are considering wildfly (undertow). Honestly, you are the first person who has talked about problems in Jboss and would appreciate some more info.
Congrats to Roon and Ghost! Looks like a good match. I hope to see some Roon inspired features in Ghost in the near future :)
How does this compare with git-fat?
But still it's not Stalin that defended the right, the people were involved. A lot of them. There were 20-28 MILLION people from USSR killed by Nazis during the war.

AFAIK, independent from that Stalin was also responsible for a lot of deaths of people of USSR (at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin "a total of about 2.9 million officially recorded victims in these categories") But these acts don't cancel one another by any logic.
What are the disadvantages to using plain Git for your data?
One consequence of that same (afaik) law is that it's becoming increasingly fun to run a SaaS from EU.

Hand-picked links:

- http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/tax...

- https://docs.recurly.com/eu-vat-2015

- http://theaccountancycloud.co.uk/vat-rules-on-digital-servic...
I still have trouble trusting a company which I primarily know as "that all-round webshop" to get involved withy my tech stack. It feels as-if McDonalds would over night offer server infrastructure and get away with it.
No kidding, when did GitHub turn into Reddit/4Chan/9Gag?
While not always true, you're right in the context of innovation. Many small European technology entrepreneurs come to the US to launch a new startup because of this insulation from personal holdings, which is not available in many European countries.

Perhaps we should include tests for shell corporations, which tend to be fairly obvious. They often have few staff, no 'real' products for sale, and have not generally existed to do business for any real outcome other than 'licensing IP'. It's not perfect but it seems distinct; and although someone else will probably list various legitimate cases that look similar those shouldn't be corps engaging in IP litigation.
Reform can come in many forms, not the least of which is increasing the visa cap. I do think taking a look at companies that are abusing the system is very important, as is taking a look at what we classify as "highly skilled labor". Looking online, many of the companies that fall into the top-100 visa sponsors are respectable technology companies. In 2014, Microsoft was #8, Google was #12, Intel #15, Oracle #15, Amazon #20, Apple #23. At the same time, of course, Infosys looks to be #1 by a wide margin. That's likely a problem.
I love it, but github could supress them behind a click to view (maybe all comments on mobile) because I just lost 10% of my data plan...
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I'm not a fan of this idea at all and I think the title and website are very misleading.
Minor nitpick: 22nd would be an octave not 23rd... mod-7 still works, its just that you get a 1 back because the root is currently defined as scale degree 1
Shipping from warehouses in the UK to UK consumers whilst completely sidestepping UK VAT charges is taking the piss.
Haha, okay. Yes, I just really like the name since it originates from an email sent from one of the project managers at our office: "Don't worry. We can handle both XML and Jason".
Great site. Would be even greater if there were some keyword filters (location, programming language, etc)
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and at that point a complete waste of being in the spec to start with.
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actually, I am not claiming at all that interns are half-able, incompetent newbies. Some of our best work has been done by people interning with us, and I think our past interns will vouch for that. That being said, it is true that intern salaries are generally lower than full time salaries (although the gap is shrinking, IMO), and intern salaries are good indicators of full time salaries in tech.
As a programmer looking for a job? Maybe. A lot of places looking for Perl developers are looking for senior developers who understand the tooling, eco-system and a selection of "modern Perl" best practices and modules, as well as the language itself.

That's probably what you would need to learn if you wanted to be employed as a Perl developer.

Of course, if you are less experienced, you could work for a larger, modern Perl-using company where you can learn these things.
I lost you somewhere around XML...
Detailed release notes from GitHub:

https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic/releases
If you're purchasing outdoor area or street LED lighting from any reputable OEM, they will comply with Dark Sky-friendly BUG (Backlight/Uplight/Glare) ratings.
Not only faster, but better. I love AWS and love how they keep rolling out new features to make deployment easier. My current development lifecycle isn't yet close to perfect because of all the gaps with piecing together different providers and tool sets. To the degree that things can be streamlined and automated, all the better. In the end, I'm hoping AWS comes out with a 1 click continuous integration solution - from dev to deploy.
> denying of health insurance

All the health insurance I've ever had has had cover for pre-existing conditions, required no medical details or medical examination. As far as I can tell, insurance companies have surprisingly little interest in my health, past my age and sex.

I can't see that changing so far that they pay third parties for a genetic screen in the near future.
>Anyone can take the most motivated, compliant, best-supported students and do well with them.

The question is: are charter schools doing better with these students than is being done with them in public schools?

On the other end of the spectrum: would it be better to filter kids with behavior issues to their own school where it would be easier to concentrate experts to help them?

How do we maximize the area under the student education curve? I don't claim to know but at least under the charter school system we have the ability to tweak the dials.
Yep. I don't have any yet, but should I have offspring, I would expect them to die eventually. Obviously I would hope for a full, rich life before their passing (as I do for myself) but I actually look forward to dying. Not that I want it to happen soon, but I am curious about the experience and I'm not scared of it.

Things come and go all the time. I try not to cling to them. "This too shall pass" can be a very comforting mantra. Value things while they're around and know they won't always be around.
That's going to depend on the role, the hiring manager, and the candidate. I can't answer for all those but I'd suggest it's always worth a conversation if you see a role you find really compelling.
Thanks for the reply. Sounds like you guys are up to some cool stuff that is likely to work :)
I agree that what's happening with Infosys/Tata/WiPro requires a serious look. I also think that today demand for high skilled workers far outstrips the 65,000 quota that Infosys/Tata/WiPro abuse. We should be addressing both, and fixing both. I don't know how to address the Infosys/Tata/WiPro problem, but I do believe that not increasing the H-1B quota is not doing anyone else any favors, either.
The outside surface would also be fairly strongly coupled to the ambient environment due to convection. I suspect that coupling the outside surface past the insulation would be a loss in any case where it was hot enough outside to make people care about air conditioning.
"albeit" not "all be it"
50' is 10 floors - quite a deck you have :) Is it better because you're above streetlights?

Agreed re: screening: biggest help for me is shutting off house lights and getting to a part of the garden that's shaded from neighbors.
Has anyone submitted something other than a human sample? I have to wonder if anyone has submitted a bovine or dog sample as a joke.
If only you could post animated GIFs, then you could have added one that indicated sarcasm.
I recall seeing both shadow mapping and volumes in Far Cry. Mapping was generally used outdoors in daylight (parallel casted light), and volumes for point lights. F.E.A.R. used volumes extensively also.
Seems like the sensible solution would be to auction off the immigration quota slots. Decide on some number of business/talent based visas to be issued each year. Then do a rolling auction of the visas. If a person gets a visa, comes to America, but then does not like their job and goes home, the company gets a prorated refund. If the person stays more than five years, they get a green card automatically and are free to work wherever they please or start their own company. If a Facebook or YC want the talent, they can bid up the price and pay for the talent. The government doesn't have to worry about in which professions there is a "scarcity" or a talent shortage. If there is a real shortage of valued workers, businesses will bid for visas for those types of workers. It will work itself out. But this system will prevent the body shops from racing to the bottom by using H1-B's as disposable indentured servants.
"There's a long line of tired and irritated people who have been up since 5am behind me... time to try out something new and possibly line-blocking."
Location: Vienna, Austria

Remote: Yes but I'd prefer relocation

Willing to relocate: Absolutely, I'm looking to relocate to either SF or NYC.

Technologies: iOS, Scala (Play, Akka, spray), JavaScript (AngularJS), Java

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominikgruber

Blog: http://www.dominikgruber.com

Email: mail▓dominikgruber.com

My name is Dominik Gruber and I was involved in creating multiple iOS apps that reached No. 1 in the App Store in Austria. On the server-side of things I am mostly interested in Scala and I am currently also organizing the Vienna Scala User Group with over 200 members.

Two things that are very important to me are user experience and performance. Also, I think that code quality matters–a lot.

I am looking to relocate to either San Francisco (and surroundings) or New York.
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Is this a joke? Literally the dumbest thing I've seen in years. No one, ever, is going to namespace every html element.
Traditionally xdebug/xhprof were pretty decent, but xhprof has been a bit abandoned since facebook uses HHVM now.

There are two new commercial condenters though that came out in the last few months: Blackfire.io and QafooLabs.com

Both have announced support for showing GC time in profiles as a result of today's noise :)
https://twitter.com/beberlei/status/539816149303955456
https://twitter.com/symfony_en/status/539815082881187841
Isn't he just advocating for having a Model (ala MVC) on top of an ORM? That seems to be exactly what most frameworks using an ORM have done.
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Dear lazyhackernews,

What would the night sky look like with the milky way subtracted out?

Thanks in advance!
It's really no more than a matter of semantics, Any interval mod-7 gives you the number of the scale degree on which the interval lands within the current octave. This doesn't change if with zero-indexing.

A Major 10th mod-7 is a Major 3rd regardless of zero or one-based indexing, the only difference is which notes in the current key you're actually talking about (in the key of C it would be E or D for one-based and zero-based indexing respectively)

I don't know that it's any easier to remember "the tonic is 0" than it is to remember "the tonic is 1"
As a mathematician by training (who has done mathematical research), I can confirm that creating names for new objects and concepts is no easier in mathematics than in programming. Creating the right notation (when it is necessary to do so) can be even harder.
It materialized, but I think there were limitations and he ended up not using it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KUw3xr7cA

And it wouldn't be possible for Hawking. Ebert's system was put together using hundreds of hours of recordings from Skiskel & Ebert At the Movies.
>The hard-to-teach students need to go somewhere

Why not a school with behavior experts? Wouldn't a concentration of students with specific needs make it easier to address those needs because you can concentrate those specific resources there? To take an extreme example, look at the success of schools for the deaf or schools for the blind.
A letter from Assembly: "A product built on Assembly called Runbook is launching today. Take a look, and give them some love on the internet if you like what they've built."
Are the color pictures over exposed? I have seen the Milky Way lots of times (and quite clearly), but it always looked more like an almost gray cloud... I've never seen the kind of bright colors that are usually shown on pictures.
The first I remember was https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... , but I guess that was a couple of months later.
Another thing that might interest you:

"lets imagine I'm infinity tough and not torn to shreds due to tidal forces"

In fact you don't need to be infinitely tough. If you choose a black hole large enough (like the massive black hole at the center of our galaxy), you would just need a space suit and you could go into the event horizon without being pulled apart by tidal forces. You would be absolutly fine (their may be other dangers though...).
You are right. The story touches in a thought-provoking way on several of the points raised by the parent comment.
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My grandparents were all immigrants who didn't need to jump through hoops to come in. IMO, this should still be possible. I think we should have a open lottery that meets 95% of immigration demand, and have some sort of competitive/fast-track process for skilled workers that would weed out the bodyshops.

That said, this post is crafted marketing nonsense.

For example, a statement like this from a company founder is ridiculous: "In fact, the restrictions on H-1B visas make that entire topic moot since highly skilled talent must meet strict wage requirements set by the US government based on prevailing wages in the county you're hiring the person into, in the skill-level and profession of that person."

Let's be real here. Every big bank and insurance company has battalions of "Senior Programmer/Analysts" churning out J2EE for $35k/year or less. "Prevailing wage" is a term of art that doesn't mean what it sounds like it ought to.
Please let me know what you think about this app, and the idea in general.

screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/mzZh2s7.png
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This would be such a nostalgia-inducing device. I used to spend countless hours playing and writing BASIC on a Soviet clone of the original ZX Spectrum.

What I don't understand about this device, is whether it will allow for 2 players. Some of the ZX Spectrum games allowed two players, and it was lots of fun.
It's like the foxes that over-populate, eat all the rabbits and then all die. The foxes would be better not to reproduce past the limits of their environment, but each individual fox passes on more of it's genes if it doesn't restrain it's own breeding. And so those genes propagate to the detriment of the community.

You need very strong group selection to restrain breeding, and this becomes less and less likely as the population size increases (so each individual has less and less affect.) See The Tradgedy of Group Selectionism: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kw/the_tragedy_of_group_selectionism...

Even when organisms are selectively breed by scientists with group selection to limit their population size, they often just become cannibalistic rather than restrain their own reproduction. Killing someone else's kids is better than killing your own.

Essentially the same thing happens with viruses, where over reproduction means killing all the hosts cells.
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I never spoke in absolutes, as you are. I said it was a blow to the webapp movement. Webapp movement defined here as a universal application deployment.

Presuming about my intentions or feelings towards the MS ecosystem is ridiculous. I had courses on VB6 in the late 90s, that's the closest and most exposure I've ever had to their ecosystem. I do wish I knew C# now that .Net is merging with Mono though. I see no shame in that. I don't hate MS anymore than I do Google, Apple, Oracle or ANY for-profit. For-profit means not-in-my-best-interests.

"Nothing will stop the web" sounds way too much like the idiotic quote, "always bet on JS". I'm not betting on JS with Eich, but I'm not against the web. Certainly my HN post of what I think will happen, won't affect that outcome.

I'm with (I believe) most everyone in supporting webapps being the universal delivery mechanism for apps in the future. Where did I say I wasn't? I also think there was a limited window of opportunity for this to take off. That window roughly being 2004-2014. Today, native apps are still on top.

Webapps will continue on in some form. But with Apple and Google already having appstores, will a popular version of Windows with an appstore be the closing of that door? That door being defined as webapps becoming the dominant application delivery platform. Yes, I think so.

But as of today, I fully believe webapps were/are hobbled during their glory years by the webstack, the web needed a bytecode.

If someone merely looking at circumstances and speaking on them bothers you so much, you are likely someone who speaks only to persuade others to your viewpoint. I'm not trying to persuade you and don't care where you stand. Frankly, I'm more than likely aligned with your views on webapps. I just personally find the webstack inconducive with the goal.

Action needed to be taken at a high level (likely at Mozilla, to make the webstack legacy and introduce a new bytecode standard), in a window of opportunity while the last major player (MS) was essentially out of the appstore business. I don't see it happening in time now. We'll see, but I predict it is you who has an emotional investment in the webstack.
Regardless of the original reason for it, this policy makes most statistics about the school suspicious. What would you think of a study where the researcher deletes all the data points they don't like? The school is doing the same thing except that instead of deleting data points, they are expelling students.

It is a similar problem to survivor bias when researching financial fund performance.

The incentives to improve performance on statistical measures like test scores will tend to cause overly strict schools to survive whether or not the administrators started out as true believers in strict discipline or just figured out along the way its effect on test scores. Once the relationship is understood, administrators who are watching performance will be reluctant to move towards lenient policies that bring test scores down.
If this guy is starved for talent couldn't he just increase what he's willing to pay and steal people from other tech companies? (There are a number of people who would be willing to jump ship for the right #s I'm sure.) This seems to be where BusinessWeek is correct. At the end of the day engineers should be getting paid more.
The central part of that service is a modal dialog... which does not look very good: https://i.imgur.com/iaxmLis.png

(I have scrolled a bit with my mouse wheel to reach that state)
I believe this was after a VK executive received a bonus from the company and someone had made a joke along the lines of "look you've made it".

The employee responded to say that money wasn't his motivation. Instead, it was the idea of creating and building stuff.

To prove his point, he threw the bonus money out of the window in paper planes.

This could imply that money really wasn't/isn't the motivation.

Maybe, this was slightly foolish given the media's/public interpretation. I don't think this act had a "douchebag" intention.
Is there a solid example of loud overtones being generated by the "barbershop seventh" that you can point to, such as in a recording?

I don't mean to be skeptical in a negative way. It would be great if music has a built-in payoff for singing with just intonation.

I've recently heard some doubt, however, about whether this overtone effect is actually perceptible to listeners, in a way that would pass double-blind tests and stuff. It's not that the alternative is that barbershop singers are delusional or something: the alternative is that barbershop singers -- and some listeners -- have well-trained ears for just intonation, and the perception of the chord they're singing changes inside their brain when the intervals line up.

I don't doubt the power of overtones lining up. This effect is where the entire musical scale comes from, after all. But does the barbershop effect actually physically come from constructive interference (this would limit it to a small number of chords made of undertones, incidentally), or is it just a noticeable auditory illusion that occurs in trained ears?
Funny, I only see 3 companies he listed in the Top 100 on this particular list:

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2014-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

Could that be maybe the H1-B's are not going to the right companies?

Why are interns making more in salary than the H1-B's?

The issue I have is not with Immigration, it is with the H1-B System. Because of the limited supply of H1-B's and the nature of them to tie the visa holder to an employer with the carrot of a green card (some day), is ripe for abuse by suppressing wages, which appears to be exactly what is happening. The supply of H1-B's is not necessarily the problem, it is the nature that they tie them to a particular employer. The offer of a "green card" some day, has value or acts as a bonus that citizens cannot compete with, so H1-B's salaries can be lower because the promise of a green card has value.
No one stops you from entering a fake name. At least they didn't when I ordered some kits a couple of years ago.
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