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This highlights a number of problems with our public education system in general. I think the problems with the SAT highlighted in the article are reacting to these problems, not the other way around as the author seems to suggest.

* There is no standardized high school curriculum across schools, and even when curriculum is standardized, it is taught unevenly. It's hard to have a college entrance exam that covers a significant amount of content as a result, because it puts kids from poor areas at a huge disadvantage in even getting in to college. It's also very hard to identify which students are from good schools and which are from bad ones, so adjusting test scores to compensate isn't a solution.

* Teacher-student ratios in public schools do not lend themselves to the kind of one-on-one work it takes to become a good writer. Unless we're prepared to say "you have a better chance getting in to college because you went to a suburban school district", this can't be a huge part of the test. Writing ability as a high school senior is largely correlated to the amount of attention you got from your English teacher. If you're a good student in a bad school, you probably get very little attention because you're not acting up.

* There's already too much "teach to the test" as it is. Making the SAT yet another test where students have to cram and memorize content is not the solution.

There are plenty of standardized tests that cover content. The problem is that they are far too basic for college entrance purposes. Turning the SAT into a content-focused test does not solve a problem that colleges have; many colleges are not looking for the best students, but for a racially-diverse selection of the most teachable students. What schools should do (and many already do) is require students from lower quality schools to take a semester of remedial classes free of charge to get them up to speed with whatever the base assumption of prior knowledge is at that school.
Are Minecraft mods actually securely implemented?

Could a nefarious mod that didn't include a launcher still read the user/pass out of RAM?
>Even so, you don't hear as many kids

>tons of movies and songs

...this seems like self-selection bias, similar to I don't know anyone who voted for "X" in the last election. I'd present the country and western music genre as a counter-point, where there is a preference for non-urban living.
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Why would you immediately think it was my parents? Sigh.
behold the power of dopamine (and active Internet communication - chat/email/texting/comments on the likes of HN/Reddit, etc.. - is almost the second best thing after methamphetamine-s to get the dopamine spiking in your system :)
If you can't reasonably rely on the testimony of police officers, you have a really big problem.

Like, require they take photos and they can just plant the evidence before they take the photo.

Compare and contrast a dank whiff with gun fire. I'd like police to be able to respond to the sound of gun fire. I don't see how it is less problematic than responding to the smell of marijuana.
VC's exist to service a market that banks wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.
Not that long ago. A copyright term of life plus 70 years would mean that protection ended in 1980. Well, 1980 seems like a long time ago now but I was there.
Thing is, if like you say it's not a facebook style social engagement you are chasing, this might be the life for you. Farming is complicated. Based on the images of his homemade farming tools and the fact that he also makes music with his kid, seems like this guy is "on". You would have lots of information to look over all day. Weather alone can be addictive and constantly updating, just think of all the cool dynamic maps and satellite images you could refresh on your phone all day. Best part is you get to sit down after a long day and eat your output! Devour yesterday's effort and let it power you into the next.
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> What's in it for Microsoft?

Captive audience (Salesforce customers).
"Pump and dump" is a common form of security manipulation, which the SEC frowns upon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
There is a fundamental misunderstanding here.

The SAT is not designed to rank students. The SAT is designed to solve a supply/demand problem. There are less spaces available at top universities than there are applicants. The SAT creates a bell curve, allowing schools to go a standard deviation or two out to pick their incoming class.

If the test was an absolute ranking, you'd end up with a large number of people scoring 100%, and the test becomes worthless to colleges as a filter.
“Information asymmetry” cuts both ways
Well... literally speaking police have the guns, so they can do whatever they want. That's the point. When minutes matter (like in the case of a stroke) I don't want cops & EMTs fighting with each other.

Probably doubtful the police chief would want to get into a media brawl with the county medical director though.
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HN,

I'm a very young programmer. In fact, I haven't even really begun my career, as I'm still in college. Nevertheless, I've been struggling with acute pain in my fingers (tips and joints) during longer typing sessions. I've spent hundreds of dollars on ergonomic equipment like a Herman Miller chairs and a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, and they help a lot (I can't even touch a Macbook keyboard anymore), but they don't do enough. I've also begun to take regular typing breaks and to work out.

Has anyone else dealt with this? What do I do? Do I say 'fuck it' and look to move to less typing intensive roles? I am truly passionate bout code, so I really want to delay that for some time. Do I abandon emacs? ;( I'm at a loss.
If you have the sort of friends and family who will put up $50k, this is much more achievable, no? (I have no idea what sort of situation the poster is in, but F&F rounds can certainly go higher than $250k).
What is the earthquake insurance on these apartments?
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I think we just have too many bored cops.

After crime fell dramatically in the US, we should have laid off a few. Instead we just hired more and more and more. Now we're seeing the effects of over-policing.

http://i.imgur.com/vjqZQO4.png
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There's a small correlation between SAT scores and college performance, but that's mainly because the types of questions asked for the SAT are the types of questions that are asked in college exams. SATs have ZERO correlation with success in life though.
Doubling-down on Enterprise in the face of inroads made by Google and Apple.
We're just lucky it wasn't on Geocities or Tripod.
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We don't need to come up with a convincing reason why it would kill humans, we need to come up with a convincing reason why it wouldn't. By default AI will optimize the universe to the greatest extent possible towards it's values. And if it's values aren't the same as ours, then we risk being optimized away. Our atoms are more efficiently used for other purposes.

E.g. if the AI decides to use the mass of the Earth to build a dyson sphere around the sun. Or tries to build the biggest computer possible and turns the Earth into a giant computer. Or it values reproduction and tries to replicate as much as possible and outcompetes us. Or it values self preservation and kills us because we could make other AIs which could threaten it.
Red-leaning areas tend to be more white

Red-leaning areas tend to be in the southern US where there is a large minority population of african americans and latinos. There are a few exceptions (Wyoming), but I think your statement doesn't make that much sense.
The difficult part is getting someone with credibility to publish your tip.
Baby sheep are called lambs (which are pictured). "Calves" is the correct plural spelling of the singular "calf", which are baby cows.
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> After a long and complicated trial, the jury agreed that my client was not at fault.

The client EMS is as much at fault as the police officer.

He let someone whom he knew in his medical opinion to be having a serious medical problem go to jail because he was intimidated.

If he's not at fault, no medic ever is at fault for anything, even those who are present and supervise torture and police brutality, because "oh I'm sorry I was intimidated."
I got sucked into reading another YC startup job page over the weekend and that got me looking at even more (these are not something I would normally read). Over all I am shocked that any of these unprofessional tactics work at all. The one that caught my eye over the weekend had the following as an application and interview process:

-- 90 minute at home development challenge.

-- 3 day on site hackathon with other potential job candidates working on this organizations own API.

-- 2 day "Team Pairing" work on site at this companies office, on real production code. If, of course, you pass the hackathon.

This and the OPs example are certainly not the only startups in these YC batches who show a lack of professionalism when trying to hire. Most companies tout their teams, their environments, their benefits, and their perks. I enjoy working with startups almost as much as I enjoy starting them. But how is it that we have stooped to this unprofessional low when trying to hire new engineers into our startups? Who would respond to these or jump through these types of hoops?
Perfect, they can combine the two of the most dreaded technology's to work on. Salesforce powered by Sharepoint!

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech...
Very interesting! Not something I can be involved with right now, but it resonates with a couple of ideas I've kicked around. Maybe they'll be useful?

1) what about (possibly automated) vertical farming? It sounds like there's a fair amount of research/discussion of that right now and could be a neat blend of technology/nature. I'd love to see open sourced versions of this technology; possibly with toolkits for anyone to setup on their own. Also, might in the long run give you higher ROI for given land/water resources.

2) I've often thought of setting up some kind of ranch where fellow developers could go for a bit when feeling burnt out; you join for free (or maybe a fee) for a month or so and grow your own food (or else grow food for the next wave of burnouts and eat that grown by the previous wave). Getting back to nature and doing some strenuous work could be a great way to get back in your normal groove, or to see if this is the life for you.
Pardon my ignorance, but I thought the whole point of containers could be summarized as sacrificing security for performance. Wrapping containers in a single VM to restore security seems like a reasonable compromise.

I would be interested in learning more about the differences in management software availability as well as how KMS (KSM?) reduces the performance penalty of using virtual machines.
I would tend to agree with this, but it's usually a sign that the startup has incorrectly focused their energies and money on design, instead of focusing on the underlaying business itself.

In this case, I simply designed the deck myself. I'm flattered that everyone thinks it looks nice, but my intention wasn't to make something with style over substance.
My guess is it is someone close to, or involved in the discussions whom the reporter knows to be reputable (by virtue of past dealings with them or their current position).

There's nothing in the article to suggest the tipster is completely anonymous, and though Bloomberg is never 100% correct, I would expect them to vet their sources. The reporter could merely be protecting their source.
As much as we "say" we love programming and farming if ever we became so filthy rich that we could pay other people to do these things for us... we would.

I've never heard of a tech billionaire profess his love of programming so much that he's diving right back into the trenches. We're all human, we may love programming and farming, but let's be real, programming and farming are still work and we're all working toward retirement: a state where we no longer need to work.
Thank you Colin, that's a good feedback.

For me, it's not clear which is the simplest, between

x(x+54)

And

x^2+54x

Now, it's true that I don't take into account the orders of polynoms and don't display the product right (for my program, 54x is just like x54). Also I need a symbol for a product to be able to simplify expressions like:

2*x + 3*x

(You would grab the first member by the product sign).

On the website I submitted I have other exercises with a free input, where you enter directly the solution, but I think it's boring to have to enter the whole answer in one go.

> If it were clearer what was the target then it might be better

The target should be reformulated to something like "rewrite the following expression into a sum of monoms."
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There's a classic TV sketch on this topic: 'Constable Savage' from 'Not the 9 O'Clock News' circa 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8EpfyCG2Y
It would further orient Microsoft as a services company than a product company, so it would be consistent with some other moves they've been making (open sourcing .NET, selling Windows 10, Office as a subscription...)
Right before RadioShack went bankrupt, there was a rumor that Amazon was going to buy them (giving them an instant national chain of showrooms). The stock went up, then RS went out.

I was wondering at the time if someone with stock had known about the pending bankruptcy, and started the rumor so they could cash out.
In the world of software there are a lot of blockbuster products and there are many more products that
go belly up. A lot of people think that product or company that got terminated is the worst thing that can happen, that actually is not the case. The worst thing that can happen to a product is a “Zombie state” - not successful and not totally terminated – lingering in the world of the “undead”.
Oh, had forgotten about that one. Actually, I think that image is posted on a wall at a floor in our office :)
Standards should be (and, I believe, usually are) different for crimes that pose an imminent danger to the public.
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After having used Sharepoint I can completely understand why people hate it. But I am a little surprised by Salesforce (and Wordpress too).

Can anyone explain why it is so bad?
Pretty sure not.

Seed round funding usually uses a convertible note. Assuming the VC round is a priced round, the seed round investors are treated as if they had put in money during the price round.

Thus they would have same class of stock as the VC investors, with the same liquidation preferences.
The article is making the claim that the test is already pretty worthless to colleges as a filter because the differences that separate, say, a 99.9th-percentile score from a 98th-percentile score (number picked by myself at random, as the article didn't mention any that I saw) don't actually correlate to much of anything of use for selecting who should get into the top schools. Especially if those differences are largely "had more time and money to spend on preparation." It reports that research shows that grades are a better predictor. (Though high schools are also hardly immune to grade inflation pressures, for the same reason that the huge test prep industry has sprung up—parents don't care about merit or fairness, they care about doing whatever they can to get the best-perceived college for their own kids. I find it doubtful that changing the SAT in the way suggested would do anything to address this root issue.)

It also makes an interesting side point about year-to-year results for tracking overall education progress.
Yup, also if you head south you get more open ground and the prices fall rapidly. For example I found a some land within an hour of San Jose with 100acres for 200k. The trick is finding a lot with good water access. I'm up in San Mateo so it's a bit more of a drive. Ideally I could get somthing within an hour and a half drive at a reasonable price.
Somehow Europe manages to have very safe cities without this sort of behaviour from the cops. I think the Americans have been slow-cooked into finding the police state apparatus to be normal and justifiable.
Heroku owned by Microsoft = :sadface
In the described event, particularly a person fleeing an officer before the officer even talks to them - I would not be surprised if they considered that reasonable suspicion.
Yeah, do they choose title for the article even before the interview, these days?
After I left a company and was speaking with them about exercising my vested options, they flat out refused to tell me how many shares were outstanding. In writing via email. I don't know if that's kosher or not, but I can't be the only one to have an experience like that.
Interesting. I'm in Sonoma County. Would love to hear more about your plans with this. hey @ mikegranados [dot] com if you feel like discussing it sometime. I'm frequently in SF.
I actually had not heard of discoveryd before this. But I agree with the general tone of frustration about how Apple is handling these problems (or not handling them), and in general not releasing quality software these days. I have heard rumblings that the next cycle of OS X will be a Snow Leopard-like "performance and bug fix" release, but we'll see if that's true in a month or so when WWDC rolls around.
Not in the same way. In Java, you can have an enum that has some data placed on it, at a per value basis. You can not have an enum where different instances of the same value have different values attached to it.

That is, Enum.A will always be Enum.A with the same data on it at all times in Java. This is not the case for ADTs.
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>I have bad allergies to pollen, dust

Interestingly enough, if you had grown up on a farm, you many not have developed allergies...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20497148

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=allergies+and+growing+u...
If you have no idea what the superintelligence will do, then you should set your expectation to be the outcome of any random one of possible superintelligent mind designs. Not all superintelligent mind designs are totally unpredictable -- if I know it will prefer winning in a game of chess to losing, I predict it will win every match against a human, even if I don't know exactly what moves it will make. If I know it will prefer existing to not existing, I predict it will seek the resources to continue existing. If the superintelligence has the hardwired goal of producing paperclips, one of the possible outcomes is tiling the solar system with paperclips. Another is that humans succeed in shutting it down but not until after it's killed people.

Once you're done enumerating as many possibilities as you can for what a superintelligence might have as its goals, simple and complicated or even nonexistent, and what the various outcomes of a superintelligent agent with those goals broadly look like, find out how many of them are positive, negative, or neutral to the future of humanity, especially if these things the superintelligence does requires resources humans also use. I did this once, it convinced me that the likely case is something negative for humanity, even if it's unlikely to be a Terminator/Matrix/Hollywood scenario or really any specific enumeration. What further convinced me that the likely outcome is still negative for humanity, in the event of people making an honest but uninformed attempt at after having created an AGI making sure it won't be net-negative for humanity, is understanding the complexity of human value and how almost right is still very wrong. (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Complexity_of_value)
Don't people think of google and apple as the "evil empire" these days, not the "rebels" ?
I felt I needed to tell a richer story about what we were trying to achieve, mainly because we were created an entirely new market. I couldn't point to another company and say "we're like them, but 10x better." I didn't exactly have market numbers to use as a method of framing the investment potential. I felt

I needed to paint a picture about a future we were trying to create... but you may very well be correct.
> The downsides are that the work never ends and you can never take a vacation

Agriculture workers in Britain are entitled to paid holiday, sick pay, etc. Does anyone know how this works in practise in the UK, or any other Western/Northern European country? (Is their leave fixed at the employer's convenience, are temps employed in the worker's place, or what?)

[1] https://www.gov.uk/agricultural-workers-rights
Nailed it @t1m. Excited to see what these guys do next!
I think they need to have some serious backup for the anonymous tip to be published. (Know who the individual tipster is, etc) Just because the tipster is anonymous to us doesn't mean they're anonymous to the news organization.
Well it's not like Microsoft can make SalesForce any worse than it already is.
I don't think it was a slight on you. Just the idea that some people (again, not you) think that it's easy to get access to this sort of cash (or even 1/10th, or even 1/100th of it) to "bootstrap" themselves to success (bootstrap in quotes because relying on cash from others isn't equally feasible and I'm not sure if it's really pulling yourself up from your bootstraps).
For those who are unfamiliar what this is referring to, the full saying is "A few bad apples spoils the bunch." This refers to the fact that overly ripe apples give off a chemical that speeds the ripening process of other apples, so a few bad apples among many good ones can destroy them all.

The same thing can apply to people. The fact that there are bad police out there is only to be expected, just like you'd expect to find a few rotten apples in a large bunch of them. But just like the apples, you have to remove them, or the rot will spread. Bad police don't seem to get removed nearly often enough.
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...Maybe it is an age thing? There was a time before Google and Stack Overflow.
I guess what the blog poster means is not the standard [a,o) notation, but the "obliteration operator" ^ in the notation {a, a+1, ô}. It indeed reminds me of `for (i = a; i < o, i++)`.

Interestingly, this also reminds me a bit of Nims new `for i in a..<o` syntax.
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"SATs have ZERO correlation with success in life though"

That is wildly untrue for any value of "success" that includes socioeconomic status.