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I always thought the time requirement was the breaking issue. If you could decide when you are ready for the test, would it matter which test style was used?

It's forcing students to learn on a fixed schedule that causes both issues. If they could go faster on easier topics and slower on harder ones, all this pressure goes away. You still have to learn it, but you take then test when you are ready, whenever that is.

Whether this is with small quizzes or with a final exam, I think the ability to practice and be sure you are ready would take away all the worries.

Of course, the incentive to go faster would be that you graduate sooner. But you want good grades, so you go slower. With guidance any student should be able to find a good pace.
Do you have any stats to back that up or is it just a feeling?

My own "feeling" is actually the opposite is true. My 6 home schooled friends are far and away the most socially adept people I know. Super friendly and able to talk to anyone. The 5 home schooled kids I know are similar. If they were at high school you'd expect them to be among the most popular people as they are so friendly and outgoing.

Here's another anecdote of you care to listen

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/177/a...

Here's reference to one study that claims home schooled kids are indistinguishable from public schooled kids

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/homeschooling/socializa...
Just for clarification, the IronWorker platform by Iron.io supports large enterprise deployments in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, so it scales from small hosted projects to very large deployments processing millions of jobs per hour. http://www.iron.io/enterprise/
I'm thinking of putting S3 behind a Cloudflare set up, and use "Always online" feature of Cloudflare.

Sound goods? (Woh, as long as Cloudflare doesn't have any SSL issue :D)
The artists have no right to complain. They were the ones asking for money in the first place. They promised the public they would deliver on the "toy." They underestimated what it would take to make the game. The backers are not free of responsibility, but the artists also have to accept blame.
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For what it's worth, I'm not sure that line communicates the change correctly. Judging from the kickstarter video and the Steam store page, it looks like it was always a 2D game in a 3D world (glorious 2.5D).
Pretty much. Just like fighting a FOIA request via more effective means, really. And that's equivalent to felony robbery in your mind?
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Thanks for picking up on the important content there. ;-)

If you want to be pedantic, Merlin - assuming he existed in the most likely timeframe - probably was aware of Angleland to his east, and would have been defending against its encroachment. (This based on the rise of Arthur as a popular name around 550AD as I recall, during the "Saxon" invasion largely carried out by Angles). The country he lived in was probably called something like Britain, though may have simply been closer to Cymru.

But I was largely paraphrasing T.H. White's Once And Future King, which in turn cribs the La Morte d'Arthur, which forms the basis for the "modern" Arthurian legend, and recasts it in an idealized England.
I don't think a similar socializing experience = homogenization.

I have been encouraged by a lot of my teachers throughout my life to "dream" and be curious. I have attended 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 3 high schools, 3 public universities, and 1 community college. There was at least one teacher at every school who encouraged "dreaming" for me.

All this talk of socialization is not meant to suggest that it is the main purpose of school, merely that there are specific types of social interactions that children encounter a lot of in public school, while very little in a home-schooled environment.
Which is nothing compared to the environmental disasters that a 3 or 4 celsius degrees increase in the World temperature will bring us.
> But we have literally no money whatsoever to pay for stamps, let alone print the artbooks and dvd-cases.

How did this happen? Shouldn't that money have been allocated earlier? Did they spend every dollar thinking that this is the dollar that turns everything around.

Maybe I just don't get the mentality of those looking to fund projects on Kickstarter.
So if the game is on Steam right now and I try to support them by buying a copy, where does the money go?
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Some of these are programmer errors though. Quote everything is known best practice for bash, vim lints unquoted variable expansion as red. Also bash scripts frequently interact with the FS so it's no surprise that some bugs remove files that are not meant to be removed. I think "set -o nounset" would stop the RHEL bug, although it's not clear if the variable is unset or really just an empty string.

I don't want to protect bash though, but teaching bash scripting best practices would be nice. I learned these options from this site:

http://kvz.io/blog/2013/11/21/bash-best-practices/
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I'm really interested in a Fundamentals of Erlang video course
Barely one programmer for less than a year.
I, too, was looking for this in his list. It's a really great resource.
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I'm focusing on the technical and ignoring the "moral cry for justice" because I'm making a technical point, not a moral one. The primary purpose of the tort system is compensation, and only indirectly deterrence. There are more appropriate avenues for punishment and deterrence, such as criminal actions.
How long did it take you to realise what you really wanted to do?
For logistic regression scikit-learn seems to be the slowest, but also the most accurate (BTW: why is it so memory-consuming?). Is it possible to tweak parameters for various languages so to get a similar scores? (Or to show score, and time, ranges?) Even the number of iterations can play a huge factor.
No the idea is pretty simple. You give entangled particles to Alice and Bob who are a non-trivial distance away from each other.

Alice performs an operation to send a bit of information to Bob via the entangled property. Bob still gets random results from his measurements. If Bob saw a signal instead of randomness this would be FTL communication.

Instead Bob and Alice compare notes after the fact and Bob finds that if he knows what Alice did, now he can find a signal in his data. This after the fact comparison is what scuttles FTL communication. Bob doesn't know anything until after the "sub-light" communication.

Alice could instead transmit her information using "sub-light" communication to Bob at the same time she performs the entangled operation, but Bob still doesn't know anything (measurements look random) until the "sub-light" information reaches him.
Total GDP is meaningless. China is nowhere near the US in PPP GDP per capita.
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Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/ibms-watson-ai-wants-coach-fant...
It's interesting that failure articles seem to always go up to #1 on HackerNews. Why is that?
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So are the docs out of date, or does Docker still not use user namespaces? This was promised quite a while ago and has slipped multiple versions so far, and it's a lot more important to serious uses of Docker than `docker cp`.

https://docs.docker.com/articles/security/
Anyone can be pretty sure that your drive is encrypted rather than full of entropy, anyway.
Where did you find data about the social stratification of public schools? I just attempted to find this information and found nothing...

Also, I don't think public school is the only way to get this exposure, but creating it elsewhere seems to be very difficult.
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Very interested. Mostly working in Elixir, but very interested in idiomatic ways of using messages, supervisors, genservers, etc etc. Haven't yet had a chance to scale beyond a single server, but would love to learn about that as well.
Agreed. I don't understand how they can not give anything at all to all the people who poured money into their kickstarted. What does it say about crowdfunding?
Add me to the list of willing customers.
If it's helpful, the original implementation of Arc was actually quite similar to this - a bunch of macros that compiled down to MzScheme (which eventually became PLT scheme, which eventually became Racket!).
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I saw 4 shooting stars (I prefer calling them that) on Monday night at roughly midnight within about 2 minutes.

Would these have been connected to this?
Issues with estimating, particularly something like this, mostly comes down to meta-ignorance: you don't know what you don't know.

Given a particular problem of a similar sort to something he's worked on, an experienced engineer will be able to list 10 different issues that might crop up.

An inexperienced engineer won't know of those potential problems and will just see the most optimistic path possible.

When you're moving massively outside your familiar zone, many unexpected problems will crop up. Best solution is a phased approach. Pick the bits you judge as most risky (you should hopefully have some idea) and implement prototypes in those areas, in the hope that most of the scaries will crop up. You've then got a better idea as you move on.

I've written this in the context of doing engineering, but it's equally true in all fields - like trying to sell a product into a new an unfamiliar market.
The problem with bitcoin is the idea that it even requires a mining pool or transaction fee.

Bitcoin will die the moment someone figures out how to build a decentralized crypto-currency that doesn't need a stupid idea like "mining" to be functional and secure.
So, I wonder how much they'd sell all the assets and source for?

Could we Kickstart a project to drop it all in the Public Domain?
This is still a work-in-progress. You can keep track of its status here: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15187
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It has some similarities with Thumbor (incl. cropping and resizing assets, etc), but the two are quite different. Thumbor goes a bit further than Grid with features like face recognition, etc, which we are looking at for the future. Thumbor also supports dynamic resizing, whereas we prefer to generate static assets and use external services (ImgIx in our case) to handle dynamic resizing and optimisations.

Grid is more of a media management service, allowing quick search of indexed metadata, organisation and collaboration using labels, quick upload into the system, rights management, etc. It also has extensive APIs to allow various degrees of integration.

Grid stores images in S3 (could be abstracted to any storage system with a small amount of effort). FTP is only used as a source for ingesting images into the system, and we're looking to scrape that and replace with S3-based ingestion in the near future.

- Séb, Lead developer on Grid
His one sentence was too long to read?
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Hey sorry to hear about that, would you mind opening an issue at https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/new with additional information (versions, logs, how to reproduce) ?
You got it backwards there. Only if you know your implementation and plan to code only for it, can you even start to consider bending the C Standard, and not the other way around.
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I'm actually finding it reassuring to see some of these 'our project failed, sorry' messages coming up.

It reassures me that kickstarter is actually being used to fund new things, rather than just as a marketplace for existing products, where you don't even have to have found any capital up front.
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Great. More synthetic and toxic crap in our landfills. All for our myopic convenience.

Dupont and 3M love you.
>My personal experience is that most hoarders in fact also spend more money on legal media

I was a self-confessed hoarder, and you're right, I also spend plenty of my hard earned on legal media and online streaming services (Netflix, NowTV, Amazon Prime including rentals). These days I'm less inclined to torrent/giganews TV series because they're mostly available online. If the studios make their content available through legal streaming then people will pay for it, I'm a perfect example of this.

The cynic in me is now waiting for our government to try and find a terror angle to throw at private individuals freeloading for personal use.
Thanks for the reply cvgraham!
Ask HN: Microsoft launches competitor to my startup – should I pivot?
I've been working for a while on a http://klavado.com, a site to make it super easy for groups of people to decide on where and when to do things - like a simplified meetup.com.

A few weeks ago I found out that Microsoft had launched tossup, an android and iOS app for doing exactly that. While that can be seen as some sort of validation that I am working on something worthwhile, I can also see good reasons to pivot away from the original idea. Whatever happens, Microsoft will get more publicity that I will.

I am thinking of changing the idea to focus on only helping people select places. I feel it might be easier to sell that concept and its a bit more unique.

I would love to hear what others think. In particular, do people think focusing klavado on helping people pick places would be a good idea or should I stick to the original idea of creating super easy meetups?
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I think your last paragraph is right.

Right now there's a default transaction inclusion policy in Bitcoin Core that only includes a small number of low to zero fee transactions. Under current conditions zero fee transactions have to wait a while to be confirmed.

There's no proposal to change the default allowance for below standard fee transactions if the block size increases, so assuming cheap means zero or very low fee the increase in size will come from standard fee transactions which means increasing capacity won't drive down existing fees.
It seems more likely that this fell out of recent advertised updates that offer read-after-write consistency in US STANDARD.
A lot of professors in my field (physics) see tests as a learning tool where one is presented with new things to be figured out. In my undergrad, exams were typically open-book and consisted of a few long, multipart problems.
It does not make sense to scale such exams to 100%.

Anyway, by setting the expected mean to around 50%, you get a more accurate evaluation of people's understanding (by minimizing truncation at the limits).
Looks like the weather is going to be too overcast in the south of England :-(
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Fair enough, except that you and I know the latter never happens.
The article doesn't make it seem that it is bad for innovation. If one company can serve regional interests better than another three timezones away, seems like it would be good innovation for me. Besides, once those parking apps start getting bigger inevitably most of the competition will start going under as the bigger, more successful companies out-innovate each other and eventually they'll start merging or getting bought out.

The article is in fact full of good examples of innovation. The title is misleading.
Because people upvote them.

(As to why they upvote them, I'm guessing it's because often we learn more from failures than from successes, and usually you don't hear about the failures as much as the successes).
OTOH, if they embraced the agile methodology, they could've said "We do not know how long it will take, it depends on our velocity which we haven't yet established". $72K for a team of 6-10 developing an AAA-level game is just unrealistic.
That contributing money to an unfinished product is a risk, and that you may never see the result you expected from your investment. Which is exactly what everyone should have known before contributing. Weighing a team's experience and ability should be a major factor in deciding whether to back a project.
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I'm looking for a good quality, somewhat budget friendly (< $400) sit/stand adjustable desk. I've searched around and found some options. But I'm interested to see what folks on HN have gone with.
carrots? beets? Thanks for the laughs, autocorrect.
For NHL2k2/NHL2k3 we had dozen of people just doing the UI - Granted good UI is crucial in a sports game. That also was back in 2001
Actually, more failing projects should be funded IMO - Kickstarter has been too much like a store for too long, which caused a lot of people to have overly high expectations for projects they backed.
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Quote marks should be reserved for quoting things that people actually said.

Sarcastic quote marks should be reserved to make fun of something someone actually did ... the person you're responding to said in fact that he didn't kick in on this project.
That sounds very reasonable. In that case it would be great to know what kind of penalties they incur because no releasing.
I particularly like Andrej Karpathy's analysis:
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/hn_analysis.html
I really wish software kickstarters would stop doing physical rewards. The logistics of manufacturing and shipping are non-trivial and are so outside of any software studio's wheelhouse.
I generally avoid aliases. I prefer to rote learn complex commands; if it's fitting for an actual shell script then I'll just bang one of those little guys out in no time.
>Bitcoin will die the moment someone figures out how to build a decentralized crypto-currency that doesn't need a stupid idea like "mining" to be functional and secure.

I'm not holding my breath
BrandonMarc above was quite clearly comparing Clinton and Nixon directly, even as far as using the "[I am not a] crook" appelative. That's what I was responding to. If you want to assert a (sigh...) "cover-up" that's a rather different argument.

But in general, if you want to do that you need to start from some kind of hypothesis about what is being covered up (ex: "Some guys were arrested at the Watergate Towers, did the president order the break-in?") and not something that looks like clumsy scandal-proofing to the non-partisan.
Ask HN: As an Entrepreneur, what would you change if you can go back 10 years?
If I could go back 10 years to my school/college time, I would try as many startup ideas as possible. The luxury of time at your disposal is a HUGE advantage.
That might be true if I was discussin interactions with individuals rather than blanket hate and prejudice on the Internet.

How have I personally offended this person, for instance? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3054067/Pictured-Div...
> Instead of having to find 0-days for Adobe Reader on Windows, Evince/Okular on Linux, and others, they only had to find a flaw in PDF.js itself.

The overwhelming majority of Firefox users are on Windows, so statistically this doesn't result in the conclusion you think it does.
Transactions will get processed eventually without a mining fee. It will just take longer, because many miners prioritize transactions with fees. "Mining" will eventually be unprofitable as well. And the only advantage to mining pools is to reduce variability in block payouts.
OT: Hey, it's greggman :) Big fan of many of the games you've worked on. Hope you're doing well.
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Right now, this very minute, is the #1 priority for you, you as a founder, building the product or building the company?

If the priority is building the product, then changing the name is entirely a distraction. Get back to work. The critical part of a name change, acquiring the resource is done. All the bureaucracy can be JIT'd until it matters. If the priority is building the company, delegate or outsource the grunt work when the name is having an impact on growth. Right now, fry bigger fish.

Changing the name is always easier than the real work that matters.

Good luck.
I imagine it's still using virtualization under the hood, so it's no more "real" Docker than spinning up a Vagrant ubuntu box and running containers there.
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Usually, 2 things at a high level:

- Privacy Policy

- Terms and Conditions

For address and contact, just create a "About us" or "Contact" page and add those information there. Have these in your top level menu on every page.

Privacy policy is where you talk about what you do with user data, cookies blah blah. What information do you collect and what you do with it. Check out any well known SAAS and get inspired :).

Terms and conditions is where you define the rules of your system. Remember this is your system and you want to set the rules even if you have paying clients. What users can do, what they cannot and should not do. For example, if you offer ecommerce platform, then users cannot sell drugs etc. If users want to cancel their account, what needs to be done and what you offer. Things like that.

Oh, and always put a "Last updated" date on top of the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions page. This helps reassure that you are constantly looking at this. Don't fool the users though by using dynamic system date:)

Finally, whenever you update these, send an automated email to let your users know. Not sure if this required by law in some countries.
It's hard to advocate homeschooling as it's not a reasonable option for most people, either due to parents working or lack of necessary knowledge (at least at the high school level). I certainly wouldn't be comfortable teaching e.g. Spanish, French, or biology.
I'd kick in.
It was probably enough for a loan however. Which is probably why the company folded at this time, because they ran out of funding and couldn't make it.

With that said, I've been following Patreon and the financial models at Patreon just make more sense than Kickstarter.

Various game development groups have constantly slipped their schedule, and backers respond typically by keeping the donations steady. As long as the game developer releases a demo demonstrating progress, backers are more than eager to continue their $5/month or so funding.

The main issue is the slow pace of early Patreon funding. A lot of games have to bootstrap with $500 / month or $1000/month for two or three months. Even "successful" Patreons only get $3000/month to $5000/month, and those are few and far between. (Patreon doesn't seem to have the reach of Kickstarter or Indiegogo quite yet. Perhaps if Patreon expanded and grew it'd be better?).

The Patreon model is also better for "subscription" stuffs. Podcasts, youtube videos and the like are more popular there. I can't find too many games on Patreon by searching, but I've seen them advertized on various forums.

In any case, even with $5000/month, it'd be hard to run a team of 6 on such meager money. I've been following a team of 3 and they're barely making it on that.

But Patreon does strike me as more plausible than Kickstarter.

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On the other hand, Kickstarter is extremely good at measuring "hype". So perhaps the Kickstarter model is better if you're trying to prove to outside funding groups that your team is worth investing into.
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They're based on Antwerp, Belgium, That could make it work. Since the regular salary is $24k I'd expect it to be around $5k per person.
I'm not talking about interactions with individuals. I'm referring to people who post hate speech against members of that group online. It's not directed at me personally. As I was saying, it's bigotry against a group that includes me.