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> When we have a desperate need like football bleachers that have to be replaced, or turfgrass that isn’t up to par, we somehow find the money. We — through public or private avenues — meet those needs. Why can’t we find funds to address the areas that seem more pertinent to our primary mission?

> Stop by the high school for a sporting event (and I love sports) and you’ll be impressed with the attendance and enthusiasm. Stop by the high school on a parent-teacher night and you’ll see tumbleweed blowing through the halls.

Living in China, the expat community often criticizes how parents are fixated on trying to make sure their child does well; for most Chinese children, every waking moment of their life from elementary school on is focused on trying to get into a university. Childhood often consists of going to class, coming home to eat, going to class, coming home to do homework, and then sleeping.

The irony in the critique is that most Americans (I float around with a mostly American expat community) are unaware how weird their own sports fetish is. I'm American and I love sports too! But it wasn't until recently (like in the last 10 years) it dawned on me how weird it is that Americans love sports so much.

Look at our university system. The university system is just a proxy for a professional sports league, except the participating athletes are not paid and are not allowed to hold jobs. Instead many of them are required to study things they have no interest in, in the hope that they can get by long enough to be able to graduate to a real professional league to begin making a living wage. Meanwhile many schools go bankrupt trying to field a winning team, while the teams that do win make millions that go to university officials.

When a university is mentioned in the news, it is most likely in the context of some sporting event. Imagine what would happen if, instead of focusing on sports, people focused on the actual mission of the university. I think this is a microcosm of American culture and the way we treat education needs to change dramatically. All of these tests and metrics smack weirdly of "sportsification" or "athelitis", where we try to turn education into some sort of game because it makes it easier to understand even when there is little correlation with the original mission.

I don't know if the situation is as dire as I write it to be. This rant is the result of years of incubation in my mind. Hopefully things will change so I don't seem so grumpy or anti-social (like seriously, it's hard to make friends with other guys unless I can say something intelligent about the Big 10).
This is pretty cool, and I'm glad circuit manufacturing technology is making its way to the home. It still has a long way to go - a pick-and-place attachment would be very neat - but it's a promising step in the right direction. However at $9000 it's very much out of reach for average consumers.
Yes. With the exception of some major cities (and even then usually restricted to the central cores) it is nearly impossible to do anything without a vehicle. Areas surrounding cities (the suburbs) usually have some form of public transit but the quality in most cities is so poor that it is impossible to use on a regular basis. Rural areas often have no transit whatsover.

Buying groceries, going to work, doing any other errand outside of the house requires a car. Therefore, if two adults live in a home, they generally need two cars if they are going to be capable of being independent.

All in all, it's a pretty terrible situation.
If you really did find all of these vulnerabilities, you could potentially earn a lot of money by submitting them to Google's bug bounty program.
You're right, it was Irving Crane who won that match. Good catch! I got mixed-up because Joe Balsis also had some famous 150-and-out runs - including one against Crane in their very next match!
I actually miss being an academic. I loved teaching and research, but I hated all the administration. I was lucky in that I had the ability to leave, but if I could spend 80% of my time on research and teaching and 20% on administration instead of vice versa I would probably still be an academic - what I was not willing to do is waste my life on pointless paperwork.
Me too, its a great bit of advice that I had never even considered before! bookmarked!
I absolutely agree with this ,and where I live in the UK has an enormous effect upon hiring.
There is another way, it's called "talking to them".
It is not uncommon to commute 30 miles or more to work (one way) in Los Angeles, for example. My commute used to be 62 miles each way, then I cut it to 45 miles, and now it's about 10 miles. There is no effective public transportation system that could take me to/from work faster than even driving in rush hour traffic could.

So at least in LA, it is definitely a big problem to not have independent cars.

Edit: I should also say that where I used to live in Europe, those commuting distances would take me to completely different cities!
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I could see myself buying and using the device, but not eating the worms myself... The worms would feed pets and aquaponics fishes. Cats an dogs have little in a way of yuck factor. Fishes even less.
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Good idea, me too.

Thanks !
I mostly understand your position, but I have one perspective.

> in essence then you are essentially arguing that it is impossible to test an education.

Education can teach techniques, such as multiplication table or spellings, and that part of education is easy to test. However, education also builds the foundation---of learning how to study, or of how to educate yourself, or of how to be intellectually responsible---and that part is hard to test. The effect might be only visible years after you leave the school, after you go through tough problems as a responsible adult.

I'd love the test-based quantitative approach, and I'm sure there are researches, but this required time span to run test-implement cycle seems to make it very difficult issue to tackle.
Hetzner has a response time of at least 24 hours where you'd have a lot shorter times in companies like Digital Ocean. We use Hetzner, DO and Azure. Looks like they are all similar in terms of uptime. Yet, if you have problem with your server then Hetzner usually takes longer time to recover.
You have capture exactly the purpose of my proposal. If you put people in charge of administration who have better things to do with their time so they don't waste time on administration. When you put professional admistrators in charged of administration then all you end up with is the need for more administration.
Those kits were bought by non-engineers simply because they wanted a computer of any kind, and were willing to learn the skills to assemble them if they did not already have those.

The 'barrier to entry' to learn how to program in those days was quite a bit higher than it is today.

What is a PC is an arbitrary thing, the writer of this article sees the Personal Computer as a computer intended for use by a single person rather than a whole department or company. It being a kit or not isn't all that important.

Even the Apple I, which you seem to prefer came without a case, keyboard, transformer and display.
TeaTime is very interesting: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094861&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFI...
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Outside of downtown urban centers, somewhat yes. Generally you need one car per worker. Part of the reason cities are becoming popular again is because people don't want to have to deal with all this bullshit, and be able to walk/bike/public transit to work in less than 30 minutes.

Here's some of the reasons why it feels like you need one car per worker:

You don't live super close to work because either you can't afford it or it's not very safe. In this case close means like 5 to 10 minutes driving time, which is at most like an hour or so walking or biking.

You could carpool with another worker who lives close to you, BUT jobs aren't secure. If the only person who lives near you quits/gets fired/gets laid off and you don't have a car, you either need to buy one fast or you need to find another job. What ends up happening is you switch who drives to work each week, but that means you still need a car for your weeks to drive.

You could drive with your spouse, but they probably have work in an entirely separate direction since you optimized for both of you to have the shortest collective commute. That means using more gas to go out of your way to drop someone off and either working weird hours or waiting a long time for the other person either after a drop off or before a pickup, Also, not everywhere will let you just hangout at work waiting for a ride.

You could walk or bike to work, but that will take a long time (>30 minutes at least) on infrastructure not really set up to support that and with no cleanup facilities or places to change at work (some places have showers, but its rare).

Public transit might actually take longer than walking/biking because of all the extra stops or because you have to take a circuitous route with several transfers. Not to mention that public transit isn't the best outside of urban centers and a few commute corridors, so there will be a lot of waiting if you miss a ride/connection. depending on where you live, you might need to drive to/from public transit near your house because of how long it would take to walk to the pickup point.

Taking a taxi will be more expensive than buying a car and paying for gas yourself.
But it served exactly the purpose it was supposed to do which was to make more work for administration. You can't expect some administrator to put themselves out of a job by proposing less paperwork. The only way to break this crazy situation is give them something better to do with their time like teaching and research.
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Something tells me that this isn't the full story.

While it may be true that the top 1% of British society has remained constant for 1000 years, Britain's place within the world power system has changed dramatically. They went from a sleepy backwater island during the Dark Ages, to a major European power under Elizabeth I, to the pre-eminent global power during the British Empire, to a sleepy backwater island as the U.S. ascended after WW2. It's telling that the article eventually turns to "But what does this mean for America, the land of opportunity?"

It's also telling that of the three families highlighted - Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Kennedy - Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-grandfather emigrated to America as an indentured servant, John D. Rockefeller was the son of a con artist, and JFK's great-grandfather was an orphan who emigrated from Ireland to avoid starvation.

I think a more accurate lesson might be that social mobility within an established social hierarchy is impossible. You have to transcend the existing social structure, basically leaving your existing place in society to join a different society that's growing much faster.
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You've never seen how students too often get better grades on "perfect" science experiments than on honest reports of "failures" (experment differed from expected outcome)?

You must've been in an elite high school.
It usually works the other way with SSDs: The bigger the capacity, the faster. The reason is that to increase capacity they usually add additional flash chips in parallel, so apart from on the very low end it is not unusual to see peak performance double when capacity doubles except where you're limited by the maximum performance of the controller or interface.
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Depends where you are. Larger northern/coastal cities are often almost European, but elsewhere.. Subjectively speaking, I noticed two main issues:

1) Practical: cities/towns are often extremely spread out/car oriented, often with no footpaths connecting different areas forcing you to walk in the road, and occasionally you'll find that there is no way to travel between two points other than highway/interstates (which does have a hard motorized vehicle dependency).

2) Social: Especially further south, people not travelling by car are often 'viewed with suspicion' (vagrants, murderers, bogeymen).
Arguably this is the Islamic reformation happening. People seem to have a very selective view of the Christian reformation that leaves out all the violence and the fact that the iconoclasts won.
So disappointing. I was expecting robots, bitcoin, cloning, gene therapy, integrated circuit design, space travel, face recognition. Instead it's senior care, making rental payments, social this-and-that, dog walkers, and a lot of companies simply selling on the web stuff you used to buy in a store like furniture and clothes.

Possibly the only business that sounds like it's breaking new ground is uBeam ("beams power through the air to wirelessly charge electronic devices"). I scanned quickly, so maybe there are more.

Certainly great fortunes have been made by simply selling on the web stuff you used to buy in a store (Amazon for example). It might be the economic reality, but I still can't help but feel sad that the top 100 startups--and all the creative energy and capital--are overwhelmingly prosaic and ordinary small business.
Simply put: be curious. As far as I know, the first hackers built train models (http://tmrc.mit.edu/).

Research, make stuff, learn.
30 miles one way doesn't sound uncommon in Tokyo as well, though the extensive public transportation system makes the need of cars much less than US. So I think it also depends on the policy of city design. I guess it's harder to omit cars for the rural parts of US rather than cities.

(I lived in LA about a year without car. It's ok if you're single, but if you have family it's a totally different story.)
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basically they liked it so much they were introducing other people to it (their words).

the people who want the deep discount also seem to like the software.

both were quite demanding although the people who want deep discount seems to be way more.
Nice, however that would remove an incentive for innovation
There is often no difference between the rationale and the instinct. Initially you subconsciously reach a rational conclusion, but you are only consciously aware of the conclusion. We call that instinct, but there is no reason why that could not have rational underpinnings. It takes some effort to get your subconscious to inform your conscious mind of the rationale. You are not conjuring up a clever story: you are discovering the clever story that was already written.
Three arguments against standardised tests:

1) As system, schools tend to teach towards the test, at the expense of a diverse education.

2) The tests essentially test how good a student is at doing tests, rather than what they have understood and learned. Children can do brilliantly in the classroom and badly on the test, then be marked as a poor student.

3) The tests are used to categorise the children as they go though the school system (eg. school entries). It's not fair to hold an 8-year old's test score against them 3 years later as they choose their high school.

For Australian readers: did you know that NAPLAN, the Australian standardised test, is purely voluntary, despite the school system making out that it is compulsory? The form to withdraw a child is online [1]. All you have to do is fill it out and give it to your principal, no questions asked.

You will notice that the official NAPLAN info goes out its way to give the impression that a parent needs a special excuse to decline testing for their children [2]. This is because "All Australian governments have committed to promoting maximum participation of students in the national assessment process" [3], despite what might be best for the child.

[1] http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/languagesuppor...

[2] http://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/school-support/student-particip...

[3] http://www.nap.edu.au/information/faqs/naplan--participation...
This is on my mind a lot. While I have no illusions that I am good at empathizing with those in 'other' groups, I do think my particular upbringing has shown me up close how different groups can be (whether on a country-level or crazy-religious-subgroup-level). And I feel it made me a better, more empathic person as a result.

I've also participated in initiatives that would bring together opposing groups. The primary approach would be talking about the differences or inter-group problems, but the biggest effect came from simply spending a lot of time together doing 'normal' things. And while the effects were not as amazing as one would hope, they seemed to be significant in helping these two groups get along.

I can't help but wonder if this is perhaps the best approach to encourage different groups in society to work together or support each other: get rich (young) people to spend significant periods of time with poor people, and vice versa. Get people from different nationalities to truly experience, over a longer period of time, each other's cultures and lifestyles.

But perhaps this is already very common, or perhaps most people are just not interested in such a thing.
> basically they liked it so much they were introducing other people to it (their words).

That's awesome! Definitely concentrate on them and what they'd like to see improved.

> the people who want the deep discount also seem to like the software.

Most people like Ferraris, too, even if they don't buy them.
The problem with those who make 1:1 comparisons of the US and Finnish public education systems is that Finland is largely (yes, I know there are some Swedes there) a homogeneous culture, whereas the US is a "melting pot" containing a huge variety of cultures.
Apparently with CRC32 you only need about 77,000 items to have a 50% chance of a collision by birthday paradox.
Comparing multiple implementations is a great way to find bugs. Even running the same code with different compilers or platforms helps find bugs.

It doesn't find cases where they are both wrong, but often finds cases where one of them is wrong.

It is a very common testing strategy with maths libraries.
As a die-hard fan of recreational marijuana use I can tell you from personal experience that you really should be sober at work. Not only does drug use at work destroy your productivity, it also blurs the distinction between work and pleasure. While this might seem to “enhance” your working experience at first, it also devaluates your spare time and precipitates burn-out syndrome. That knowledge might be trivial for most people, but this seems a good place to spell it out.
In the United States, it's not the same.

Social welfare programs here are paid out of general budget allocations. This is for things like food stamps, disability payments (one exception, dealt with in a moment), housing assistance, Medicaid, and similar.

Unemployment payouts, Social Security ("Old age pension"), Social Security Disability, and Medicare are paid for through dedicated taxes and charges on employers (in the case of unemployment). That's why we usually call them insurance or entitlements. Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI, is paid as part of Social Security itself.
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This is one reason I approve of Basic Income - rather than withdrawing all benefits when someone gets a job, the earnings come _on top of_ the basic income, albeit with higher taxes.

This effectively gives you a taper rate on the benefits of, say, 40%. Rather than the 100% cliff we currently have.
That's exactly the joke (if you can consider it a joke).
> incentive for innovation

Do you think Alan Kay was incentivised by money to do all the stuff he talked about in this video?
I don't understand how the compiler's implementation language has any bearing on the design of the language it is trying to compile.

You should be able to write an O'Caml compiler in javascript or a Haskell compiler in C.

Rewriting the compiler in C# has the advantage of now being able to offer the compiler as a service to the C# run-time but not sure I see how it could have affected the design of the language.
Try working with map data, where having layers that consumes tens of GB, and having hundreds of layers, is not that unusual. Load that into a database, and watch the size blow up even further thanks to indexes etc.

There are plenty of applications that are still disk IO constrained at those speeds.
In the US, you are only eligible for unemployment if you had a job for a prolonged period before collecting it. Thus people who are permanently not working are not eligible for unemployment. A student, for example, who has just graduated and never held a job CANNOT receive unemployment. It is intended to be a temporary benefit to compensate for losing a job so you can survive until you find your next job. Furthermore, generally your unemployment payments are proportional to the income you received from your job - the more highly paid your job was, the higher the unemployment payment (since the unemployment insurance tax would also have been proportionally higher).

Welfare is different. Welfare is considered an entitlement - you do not ever have to work to receive it. Americans justify unemployment insurance as "not being lazy" because the people who receive it had at some point held a job.
Went to school for 2 years, taking on $6500 in debt without knowing what it meant. (state school in Oklahoma, so I know that's low end for 2 years) Bad grades (staying up all night hacking around on langages, Linux, you name it, on a used 486 I bought) meant I lost my financial aid, had to get a job to live, so started my IT career doing help desk for regional ISP. 15 months later (early 2000) got my first real programming job, and the rest is history. Still paying off that $6500.
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I'm not from the US, but don't many American blacks have white-sounding names? And I assume those blacks are more likely to come from families that are wealthier and better educated. If yes, the other explanation could be that the employers were considering the name an indication of background, i.e. a "Jamal" is more likely to come "from the hood" (poor neighborhood) than a "James".

The point is, "discrimination" is sometimes just applying statistics. Just because some statistical factors correlate with race doesn't mean one is being racist; they are just optimizing their selection process.
It isn't "a study," It is an article summarizing a lot of the data on subconscious bias as it relates to race, specifically white/black in the US. If you read it you'd know that.

Huh? I never guessed that anything happened or guessing at any motives of anyone...?

The same resume experiment has been tested with male/female names as well.
"How do I respond to these price objectors who demand a whopping 86% in discount,"

Say no…

" yet interestingly enough they are the MOST demanding when it comes to support and feature requests."

… because of this ;-) If you have happy customers at the higher price point I'd be investing my time trying to find more folk like those — unless you think that a lower price point is going to give you a much, much larger market.

" would I tell them that they might not be a good fit in a polite way?"

I dunno what & how you're selling — so hard to say. Me — I'd lean towards just saying "Sorry, no. We have a standard pricing structure for all clients." If you're offering just monthly pricing maybe offer them an annual plan with 12months for 11months of money. That would at least help cashflow.
Yeah that's fair. It was sloppy language from me.

The point I wanted to make was that you play hands where your odds of winning is <50% a large amount of the time.
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