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Some US states have 60/40 plans built into their education budgets. What that means is 60% of the money the state gives to local schools must go to the "classroom." Now, how a stat…

I've acquired a growing distrust of Amazon's seller accounts in the past year. For a while, I was making my rent on used books I'd acquired over the years. However, I found Amazon …

Education and its trying-to-be-legitimate partner Educational Psychology is even worse. It is essentially a smal set of theories based on very small sample quantitative and sketchy…

Yeah, I think the problem with the 4S is that it's a fairly minor update. Look at the difference between the "smartphones" before the original iPhone and after, the iPhone and the …

Honestly, I don't know anyone who really seeks out BBB accreditation as a means of judging a business's credibility (I'm talking at the consumer level). In fact, the only times I'v…

My field is more Education than CS or engineering, but I don't think publishers add value as much as, simply create a convenient baseline for readers to judge the quality of the wo…

Looks to be a very interesting idea. In fact, I do want one. Buuuuut, I'd have to wonder with those prices for the full models and DIY kits if he is not overcharging by several hun…

I think some of what you're saying is a bit too broad, but more or less on the same point as I am. Technology drives human progress, some could argue it -is- human progress and the…

It's been a while, but a long time ago I heard the phrase, "The Rolling Stones are not in the music business, they're in the t-shirt selling business." In that way, I think if you …

I can relate to number one, but what's your evidence for number two?

Apropos to the title, what is the worst article you've ever seen on Hacker News or, generally, posted on the web and why?

They aren't proof, but they might be enough (I am not a lawyer) for a search warrant for email addresses, person's homes, and phone/ISP records of the people named in the "d0x."

They mention bit.ly as a success and helping popularize alternative domains for startups. But isn't this a bad example? There have been domains seized by the Libyan government ( ht…

As a former English-major nutjob, I do see some problems with how those sentences are constructed. The "internal activities and externally" is very awkward phrasing.