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I think you're trying to say that good researchers will tend to be good teachers. In my experience, there is very little correlation between research output and undergraduate teaching quality. (My experience being grad school at two different universities.) You are correct that tenure-track professors will not be "slackers". They will, in fact, work themselves silly. But they are primarily evaluated on their research at research universities, not their undergraduate teaching. They tend to put their energies into what they are evaluated on.

Also keep in mind that teaching and classroom management is a skill, one which is rarely taught to young professors. I had a stark realization during my second year of grad school, when we were interviewing a faculty candidate coming straight from grad school: he was interviewing for a professor position, and he did not have significantly more teaching experience than I did.
That can't be the only law that applies. Information derived from classified documents, that should be highly secured, is very likely to have moved through these unofficial channels.
Again, it sounds like you're basically unaware of the distinction Western European-style democratic socialism, and communism (Marxist or otherwise). Yes there's some overlap, but the differences are greater than the overlap, and are really quite fundamental.
These are fundamental human rights that are being interfered with. It's a big thing when agencies deny people their human rights and Americans should be concerned about this.

Here it's articles 10, 12, and 16.

And the children have rights (although the US, along with Sudan, haven't ratified the rights of the child). Here the relevant articles are 3, 5, 9, and 12.
Mostly anecdotal, which is why I said "suspects". I'd love to see a comprehensive comparison of university endowment growth over the last few decades. I suspect the data's all there, but nobody's pulled it together. I've come across a number of articles discussing large increases in endowment size and a number of universities of late, seems to be a common theme as more and more people are starting to ask why college has become so expensive. For example there was recently a story in the Washington Post about Washington and Lee University which covered how it had gone in the 90s from a school with a relatively paltry endowment to land in the top 30 overall.

These two sources are interesting:

http://www.jbhe.com/features/57_pellgrants.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universiti...

The first source leaves little question that it's happening at top tier universities, but I'm interested in the trend and second- and third- tier schools.

edit: As another commenter points out, most schools aren't sitting on large endowments. There probably isn't a single unified cause to explain rising costs. Endowments are probably part of the story for higher-profile schools, but not so much for others.
> at most schools with sizable endowments.

Well there's your problem, most schools don't have sizable endowments. Endowments for rich schools have performed fairly well over the last couple decades, not so much for those with smaller endowments. So if you use tuition and fee money on things that might have previously been funded through endowments while you attempt to build (or re-build), it's really the same thing.
> I'm not looking for clever, I'm looking for interest.

Not saying this is true of course, but have you considered that some of those times might be that you as the interviewer were unable to pique their interest in what you do? It is a two way street, after all.
I hope that the anecdotes you collect here will simply be a supplement to a review of that research.

Definitely. We're a small alternative school, of about 30 students. We're planning to revise our policy with students. We're going to collect student stories about homework first, then look at some research, then look at a few exemplary policies, and then draft our own. We'll include some measures of whether the policy is meaningful or not as well; a policy that isn't followed well is meaningless.

I feel strongly that people's stories put the research in context. Knowing personal stories around homework makes the research much more meaningful and relevant to students.

All this is to say that your students, especially your smart ones, will rebel against doing their homework.

Yes! They already do, because many of them have been burned by years of bad homework policies. We're trying to undo the effect of those bad policies, and build a positive mindset around doing meaningful work that students are interested in outside of class time.
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Payback? So this issue is made up? Shouldn't all presidential hopefuls and public officials be subject to the same scrutiny? As far as Palin, there's no Republican that I know that cares one bit about Palin anymore. She's a pundit but she's hardly a front-runner for Republican thought leadership. She's all but irrelevant.

As far as Benghazi, it's a legitimate issue for a Presidential candidate. They claimed a video sparked the attack. That was the official word despite evidence that Hillary knew almost immediately that a video had nothing to do with it. That false narrative whose water was carried by Susan Rice resulted in Rice getting promoted to UN Ambassador. All of this stuff is far more relevant than those stupid stories about Mitt Romney and his family dog.

Look! A squirrel. If Benghazi is a non issue, what was the need for the obfuscation of the truth? Why did the admin insist that YouTube caused the attack? Why not just play it straight? It isn't Benghazi that's the issue; it's the culture of corruption and deceit that voters don't seem to care about.

We should demand better.
You've got this, these are all problems we've all had before, and there are solutions to them ;) We will all be here to give feedback, commiserate, and help you succeed. You have a great attitude in this response. An ability to take honest (often unpleasant to hear) feedback and use it to improve your product and pitch is the single most important thing you can do for yourself. Keep on crushing problems and I look forward to your next showing!
For companies who are paid to analyze and predict the future, it seems they should have seen this coming from the outset.
The permanent markers are there to mark the writable disc media.

But everywhere I have worked, the dry erase markers are kept near the whiteboards, and the permanent markers are kept next to the stack of blank discs, or near the disc-writer drives. Keeping them both in the same place is a Murphy's Law infraction.
Transparent, clean and nuanced! I can't wait to start using this...
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I love this. I wasn't aware of how much context I have with each note, but now that I watched the video it is immediately obvious.
I am having a hard time thinking of anything more useless.
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Right on. Somebody should've told Mark about the saturated social media market, or Larry about the saturated search market.

There are so many communication tools, surely its a solved problem right. Ask a knowledge worker today about their favorite communication tool, and you will end up with a dozen answers in about a week's time. Definitely a sign that the problem is solved. There are a dozen solutions after all. :)
The NSA doesn't seem to share much with other agencies. So most of "the government" might not know about it.
You are actually correct that you were scanned by an official, funded project at the University of Michigan. The research team specializes in "internet-wide measurement", meaning they scan for vulnerabilities on a regular basis in order to get a sort of "Internet health report".

Nonetheless, if this bothers you, visiting the IP that scanned you gives you instructions for opting out: http://141.212.122.194
Handlebars doesn't, but HTMLBars does indeed [generate][1] DOM objects from Handlebars AST - it's basically another compile step. Check out section 2 and 3.

[1](https://github.com/tildeio/htmlbars/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE...)
Thomas Edison was not in a position to judge geniuses, but yes, Tesla did work hard.
I think the most sensational aspect of your Show HN is your story, so I'll focus my comments there (seems like you're getting a lot of critical feedback on the product, mine is just that I don't know how to use it). I've done exactly what you have, betting everything, and then put the fruits of my work out to the universe. I've racked up $80k in credit card debt. One mentor once told me that if I was to start my own company, to be completely prepared for $100k in debt and divorce.

But every single time it's been worth it, and I learned and grew in ways I may not have anticipated. Maybe the product will succeed, maybe it won't, but usually there's a great opportunity (consulting, job offer, realizations that lead to the next thing, acquisition, friendships, other learnings, etc.) that comes from building something you know is great. I expect that this will be your story, so I just wanted to say congrats on your journey from a YC founder, 34, and forever at it.
The problem is not that the government doesn't know about them, it's that the PEOPLE don't know about them.
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No actual information on the page, and I have to give you my e-mail address to get more? No privacy policy? No "about us" or contact info linked from your copyright footer? Copyrighted by who?

So many red flags.
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I think the main reason is that there are plenty of people in the USA that don't actually trust democracy all that much, see the plentiful comments to that effect in this thread.

Other than that there is also the fact that, for a reasonable definition of "fair", it is impossible to make a fair voting mechanism. This is known as the Condorcet or Voting paradox.

It is also hard to make an electronic voting system that is trustworthy. You need to guarantee anonymity for the voter, verity that the voter is authorized to vote, ensure no voter can cast votes more than once, ensure that nobody can tamper with the totals in a manner that can't be detected and other similar concerns.

For example, ensuring anonymity of a vote along with confirming a user is authorized to vote, using the same device for both, while communicating over a connection being recorded by an adversary... that is probably quite tricky.
You took one of my points and used it to dismiss my entire post. How does my not liking the index nullify the fact that git is entirely inconsistent?
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Can I edit the phonetic reading of my contacts name? I have a lot of Japanese friends and believe it or not, you cannot read how their names are pronounced from just reading the name. 井上 could be inoue or iue or ikami or a lot of different things.

This is usually solved by adding a phonetic field to the names field, and while I can do it on my iPhone, I haven't figured out hot to do it on Google contacts, which I sync with.
That cannot be right, that explanation doesn't contain enough buzzwords and web-2.0 nonsense. Almost sounds very 1980s...

But really, does anyone else find that quote eye-rollingly tech-hipsterish?
No. You're free to ignore it. But please don't join the cavalcade of armchair philanthropists who think they can fix the world if only they could control enough of someone else's money.
I think it would be useful if the ghost in the menu bar changes color if there's actually a note attached to the document/folder. So that you wouldn't have to constantly check if you actually wrote down notes for it
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I feel that passion is sometimes overrated.

I see a LOT of people with a LOT of passion with their idea, but almost no ability to execute on that idea - which, by the way, sucks.

So, even if passion might be seen in every successful startup, I bet it's not the most important trait. You see a lot of passion in many of the failures too.
*Hillary
Clinton employs a large staff of people, some of whom are apparently email experts. I think that probably helps to reduce the allergy symptoms.
> That's just what kids do.

No, it isn't. It's a parenting fail if you can't control a situation to the point where your child is experiencing emotional distress to the point of kicking and screaming.

That's them trying to communicate and a parent failing to understand what the child is trying to say.

(Unless the child has some kind of neuro-diversity)

EDIT: But calling the police is totally wrong in that situation.
>with kids

The operative part is that they're doing things not with you, learning to interact with each other and navigate challenges on their own terms, not their parents'. Outdoor activities are great, of course, but it is no better or worse than any other supervised activitiy.
Just because you can run one doesn't mean that you're doing it safely and securely. Also, I'm willing to bet that the Clintons have a bit more resources and services at their disposal than the "so many people" you refer to.

However, I do think it would be cool if people had a turn-key solution to host their own email solutions on a cloud provider or something. :)
No, endowments come from donors by definition. The question is—for schools that are sitting on large endowments—why is tuition so expensive? And why are there so many cutbacks to things like number of full-time faculty when the school is sitting on a 1.5 billion dollar endowment?
I do something similar when working on single-file programs, but without any external dependencies, by making the file both a valid shell script (for my shell) and a valid C program. Here's an example in Swift, although the same idea works for C too:

https://gist.github.com/mikeash/70d74f7b7745cf6fbd3f
Afaik method handles need to be assigned to final fields (with -XX:+TrustFinalNonStaticFields) or final static fields for the JIT to be able to inline them.
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Define "The Government", it's not a single uniform body, various branches and factions work with and against each other.
But if the emails were sent from the government's servers the people still wouldn't know about them.
I really wish the std dev was included with the average seed round size numbers - or at least a median.
Not a big deal - again this looks great overall and I really like the concept. I will probably end up buying this.
Via documented OBD mechanisms? Yeah, probably not much.

Via a standard Bluetooth<-> CAN interface plugged into the OBD port?

Lots can be done, because generally the OBD port will expose the main CAN network and once you reverse engineer whatever inter-module messaging the manufacturer is using, you can act as a real module (for example, the throttle pedal) and all sorts of Bad Things are possible.

Here's a great write-up, which is also a good primer on automotive control reversing techniques for the uninitiated:

http://illmatics.com/car_hacking.pdf
I will ask the same questions to different interviewers. Often, I will get different answers/perspectives on things.

I'll sometimes even say, "I've asked some of these questions to [person x, person y, ...], but I'd like your perspective."
Its kind of sad (and telling) that you expect people here to jump in and tell you your opinion is "wrong". Have an upvote--I don't think there is anything wrong or even unusual about your attitude. In reality, I've worked with many more people in Technology who work because they like getting paid and whose job is "just a job," than I've worked with people who were passionately in love with writing an accounting app or CRUD web service. Not saying that attitude is "wrong" either, but it does appear to be the prevailing one in this community.
Ruby enthusiasts seem to get apoplectic at any mention of a posting where someone chooses another language over Ruby. I'm sure Ruby is just great at what it does, but aren't we always talking about the right tool for the job?

I don't think anyone disagrees that refactoring and evolving the code would have resulted in gains even if they stayed in Ruby. I'm sure most of us would even agree that if you wrote something, then immediately scrapped it and started over, you might already be able to improve on your original based on some new knowledge you've gained from the experience.

When a company does this, they not only learn new things about the language they are converting to, but they are gaining new and valuable insight into the language they already have used. Posts like this are valuable to all of us because they are sharing their experiences; whether you agree with their choices or not.
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Hi there, your assessment is very critical and I was wondering whether you would so kind as to assess a project I am working on. www.cograph.co
Thank you!
First of all, I think you're assuming a level of technical incompetency that's completely incongruent with much of what is known about Mrs. Clinton.

Secondly, I think your last sentence answers the question. Running one's own email server isn't "normal" these days; email-as-a-service is such an over-solved problem for the average (security-unconscious) user, that going to the hassle and risk of running one's own is generally the purview of people who have something to prove, something to protect, or something to hide.
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My first assembly language programs written in 8086 running on DOS (pctask?) , using MASM on an Amiga 500. The irony doesn't escape me.
> How is this supposed to be a scandal exactly?

Classified information security, for one thing. Exposing highly sensitive information via an infrastructure run by unknown persons, presumably without clearances, or acting against the conditions of their clearances if they have them.

One specific law about document retention is mentioned in connection with this case, but this is also a big security issue, with laws and regulations that apply, as well.

There are probably other ethics, regulatory, and legal issues once you get into who she was corresponding with on what topics and how those people used the information they obtained.
Right, but an expiring, single-use link that will send a second email saying "someone from X place just logged in, so contact us if this wasn't you" is still good enough in most cases. To see that, ask which sites will send you a password reset mail when you forget your password. My bank certainly won't -- I have to talk to a person -- but most others do, making their passwords useless.
It's an offence in the UK ("Wasting police time"). I'm not sure how often it's prosecuted and I very much doubt that this particular case would meet the standard.
I want to be mad that a high-profile public servant created and used an email capability that allowed her to skirt record laws if ever challenged.

But... it's a really good idea. Hell, I used to run my own back in the day before my ISP started prohibiting it (around 2003ish?)

So I'm conflicted.
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Sorry, I did not mean to dismiss your entire post. Your wording suggests that you don't understand the criticism and confusion, but 90% of it in here (at the time of this writing) is due to the index being removed which is just: "wtf?".

I agree that git is insanely inconsistent. I could talk about this for hours. I'd love a better porcelain. But gitless is removing some pretty critical stuff here.

On the positive side, I really like the rest of their UI. I especially like the usage of "track" and "untrack" as core words.
Did you read about parallel construction?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
> To be fair to Hogan, this all began well before he took office

I totally agree. For the record, I know literally nothing about Hogan personally other than his name, which I Googled to find. I have no idea if he's a Rep / Dem / Libertarian / Green / other, good or bad, loved or hated. I know this isn't his doing, though.

> and hence, it can't be his policies that are to blame for this action.

Well, shouldn't be. And yet, it happened on his watch and a lot of people will remember only that. My goal was to point out that fact: even if his predecessors created the situation, it's his job to end it and the outcome will be credited to his reputation, rightfully or wrongfully.

As another poster said, this is a shrink-wrapped opportunity for him to come out in defense of the little guy against invasive government. Whatever his party or political leanings, that's a good story to tell voters.
Was the server actually at her house or was the domain name just registered with that as an address? Neither option seems even slightly damning.
Pretty interesting that it's being run from her own house. I guess if anyone has any idea about how the NSA operates, it would be her.
I've never seen an email from them that I was glad I read. I appreciate they're facing a hard problem, but they really need to find a way to filter out low quality content or improve notification targeting.
> Football kills and cripples kids every single year, but it's organized, so it's okay!

Liability and blame. Parents are okay with letting their kids get injured if there is somebody to blame. Like the coach. Or some higher purpose "Oh they were training for a competition"

But parents, and people in general, balk at personal responsibility.
It's not about lack of funds to hire the bright minds, it's because that's how the system is designed in the first place. The problem is that technologies such a HFT have simply accelerated the removal of the middle men, because now that the uber-wealthy have squeezed as much money out of the proletariat, they need need a new feeding ground. That feeding ground is the middle-upper class, the ones who think they are one of the good ol boys but are gonna get bitten just as hard, they just don't realize it yet. This goes for "middle-class business" too. The SEC is flattened under the weight of regulatory capture and insider trading is the norm. How could any other outcome than referenced in the article be expected?

Class warfare is real and is going on right now, and the bankers and uber-wealthy (.01%) are winning.
Seriously we've had those for decades.

Press 'Ctrl+x 3' in emacs and you've split your buffer in 2 columns. Now you got a multi-column editor.
Developers tend to have a lot of activities and tasks they need to keep track of, and it's too much to remember. So we all wind up making lists: on paper, on whiteboards, in text files, in email, in apps. These lists always start out being fairly simple and manageable, but they also always grow into an unmanageable mess.

Being developers, we wind up blaming the record-keeping tool for the unmanageable mess rather than our own habits. That leads us to think that if we could just create a better tool for keeping track of our TODO list, our lives would be easier to manage, and maybe others could benefit from the tool as well.

Of course it never seems to pan out, because what we're trying to manage is our (work) lives, and our lives cannot be represented as a simple task list. There's a lot more nuance and complexity to it. And that's why we end up with a million different implementations of simple TODO lists.
There is a difference between registering your own domain and running your own server, though it appears Yahoo News is unaware of this.