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Some schools practice the concept of "mixed age groups" where each class is composed of 3 different ages in equal proportion. For instance my 5-yo son has 3-yo's and 4-yo's in his class.

Thing is, it's a constant battle for the school with parents who always want their kids to with same-age kids or older-ones, never smaller ones. Everyone thinks their kid's development will be "held back" because of the younger children in the class. Telling them about how older kids also learn from playing or working with younger kids is a hard sell, when all parents think today is academic progress.
I was under the impression that there was a fair bit of statistical evidence for this being not-a-hoax, but this article showed that there was less than I thought. Also, the explanation of why people thing this is not-a-hoax was quite unsatisfactory, basically saying "one particular way of explaining this as a hoax is not very convincing".

Why do people think this is not a hoax? "4OFCC89 4OFCC89 4OFC89 4OFC89 4OFCC89 E89." seems like something a 5 year old would make up. Also, the unrealistic drawings.
Because we have to employ all these sales people and garbage producing engineers.
Amplifying on the "stupid":

It's stupid to screw around with improvised explosives, absent a really compelling need. Lots of subtle dangers, like static electricity, lots of people kill themselves trying it.

It's stupid to plant them in a venue with a zillion cameras in operation.

It's stupid to kill a police officer and not have the wherewithal to take his gun because of its retention holster, without even using a knife to remove it from his belt, or, hey, just undo the belt, to try harder later.

It's stupid to release the guy who's car you hijacked for a while.

It's stupid to attack a part of the country that's notoriously mostly on your side (in the National Lampoon's General Alexander Haig Jr. Republican Map of the World the Boston area was one of three that shared the color of the Warsaw Pact). Not to mention enrage them enough so that the jury votes for the death penalty.

Etc. The were not the smartest jihadists in the drawer.

Of course, plenty of the above depends on believing the Official Story, but it does paint a consistent picture.

I'd add that I'm hardly resistant to government conspiracies, they just have to make sense. E.g. the immolation of the religious dissidents in Waco sure looks like it was pre-planned by a very small number of members of the FBI's Hostage "Rescue" Team. Means, motive, opportunity, all in alignment, and it could be done by a small enough group that they could keep the secret to their graves.

What is the claimed alternative Boston Marathon Bombing motive here? How was it even vaguely commensurate with the consequences if discovered? What does Occam's Razor suggest? Etc.
https://wtfismyip.com/ is nice too, for headers and IP addresses.
Instructable: Ultra Durable Wind Turbine
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Good to see them working on something worthwhile.
I'm excited by Ethereum. It definitely is interesting to think about distributed computation like that. However, doing it on a blockchain, along with data storage might prove to be prohibitively expensive for various types of apps. UBS is looking at Ethereum to do a bond market. I imagine that's an appropriate use of the technology.

But with apps I personally want to make, I'm more interested in MaidSafe Network. It's basically a distributed data storage network, fast enough that it's good for communication/message passing in apps.

MaidSafe got me interested in making apps for it that are pure client-side JS, with the intention of them being served from the distributed storage. While I dislike running JS in the browser, I will support it when it means there's no server. For now, my intention is to write apps using the Elm language.

Other interesting work continues to be done in Tahoe-LAFS, I2P, and Freenet. There's also IPFS. I'm looking forward to the future of this tech!
I concur. I've flown several times per year for the past five years or so, and almost always check at least one firearm. I am asked to open the case about 80% of the time, and I've never been asked to demonstrate that the firearm was unloaded.

Also note that TSA allows you to carry ammunition loaded in a magazine, which may be in the same case as the firearm. I usually check a Glock 31 with three loaded magazines in the case.
This is a great guide. I've also got a set of free videos for learning flexbox as it's such a visual thing http://flexbox.io
Chinese Comedian Suing Baidu Over Biographical Entry
An Introduction to OAuth 2
I honestly think it's less about the energy usage of the displays and more about the general visual annoyance of typical computer displays.

Sure, yes, one reason we keep displays off most of the time is because of their usage, but more and more so it's the secondary reason - there are lots of power efficient displays nowadays that can maintain an always-on screen at relatively low power cost, and smarthome devices generally aren't reliant on battery power.

But the bigger problem is that LCD displays are ugly. They are backlit, and their response to better lighting in the room is to increase its own strength to make itself even more apparent. They are ugly, obnoxious, and annoying in the same way blinking router lights are, but multiplied several times over.

So we keep them off - we can afford to keep them on, but the fact that we keep them off 99% of the time less environmental consciousness but more an acknowledgment that they're visually noisy, distracting, and just kind of don't fit in. When you walk into a room you don't want your attention immediately drawn to this LCD panel on the wall with its pale glow.

E-ink fortunately doesn't suffer from this problem. It's clearly legible, doesn't require backlighting, and more importantly doesn't appear distractingly electronic in everyday use. You can afford to keep an always-on e-ink display, not just because of its low power use, but because it won't be this annoying glow in your peripheral vision always.
Strangely one of the critics considered it wrong that a member of a "traditionally privileged" class pretended to be a member of a less favored class. That despite the fact that Michael's work was consistently rejected under his own name. Apparently in poetry, Chinese is a privileged class and white Americans suffer discrimination yet people believe it's the other way around.
I actually felt really bad about my Github after I started applying because most of the repos I had were forks of things I wanted to work on but hadn't gotten around to. I felt like I was taking credibility from others so I spent an afternoon deleting a lot of untouched inspiration. I do think applying for jobs is like throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks - but it's such a waste of good pasta :(

(I swear that's a metaphor with deep meaning)

Anyway, I'll go look at dice.com right now, though :-) - my pool has been craigslist, indeed, linkedin, glassdoor, assembly, caljobs, and.. I know there are a few others :s

This might be an unpopular opinions but I sort of wish there were just a government-run site for posting your resume and connecting you with companies. If I ever do get hired I'm sure identity theft is soon to follow from all my applications :(
Here in Singapore they can participate in a playgroup starting 18 months, the weird thing is most of the time it's in a classroom type of environment.
Seems like there should have been 100 footnotes: *in the university I worked at, not all of academia.
houzz.com has a lot of "inspiration" photos
Set environment variables in the calling shell. Because you cannot run Python etc via "source".
You should not be playing a FPS in VR, especially on anything pre-release like the DK2. Acceleration without some kind of cockpit to ground you is one of the worst offenders, and virtually all FPS games do that by design/necessity.

This is one of my worst fears about VR adoption: gamers, especially the kind who will be on the leading edge of this stuff, want badly to play FPS games and they'll find ways to do it and they're all going to hate VR.

I'm glad Oculus is putting their "comfort ratings" front and center, and being really vocal about the principles of sickness-free VR, but I'm worried people are going to skip all the warnings and advice and ruin this for everyone.
Experiments Show How Lasers Can Despin Asteroids by Turning Them into Rockets
Peru announced that all its poorest residents would be hooked up to full solar power. In the end, a huge amount of money was spent and a couple hundred houses were hooked up to very low wattage systems shared by entire villages.

India announced they were going to produce a $15 computer for the masses of poor. Well we now have $15 computers, but not from this program, and India still is lacking stable electricity, clean water, and other basics throughout much of the nation.

"The Philippines is planning free Wi-Fi services to half of its towns and cities this year and nationwide coverage by end-2016"

So the claim being made is half the towns and cities by this year, 2015, within a few months. And total coverage by next year.

Most of the land area of the Philippines is remote and rural. Much is mountainous. It would be a remarkable engineering project to have total wifi coverage through the entire country by 2016. Accomplishing it with $32 million in funding would be especially amazing.

The chance that this will happen I estimate at 0%. The chance of a modest amount of coverage in certain neighborhoods of larger cities is good. Total coverage by next year isn't going to happen, isn't going to ever happen for the cited price, and the data point that it is being claimed it will happen by next year shows that those in charge of this program don't understand the problem, which means that the actually doable claims (coverage for 50% of all towns and cities by December 2015) are questionable as well.
You can use it to communicate, both video and text based (group and 1to1). Run your projects and tasks. Store your files and much more.

We will be integrating Zephyr with Box, Dropbox etc. Also Github as we scale up our tools for collaborative work.

When we're complete you will be able to run your workflow using our tools and connect out with other platform users to create a remote team, work on great projects and products - with our marketplace and transactional system you can push payments too via the blockchain. Full stack service that we intend to build on further.

The beta right now is a solid set of workflow tools, with free access all through beta and we expect full launch Q1 2016.
Their judgement has to be appear consistent with all the famous writers who have done similar things before. So it's more specific than that. A woman can pretend to be a man, and a black can pretend to be a white but a white can't pretend to be a Chinese.

Yep, weird mess of racism on all sides.
Transaction Costs in the New Economy
Like many computers of the time, the Ataris accessed more than 64K of memory by switching banks. Depending on how the banks are selected (size and whether a bank can appear at any address or not, be writable) doing multitasking can be actually easy.
Long-held theory on human gestation refuted (2012)
Your quote doesn't live up to your straw man. The quote is essentially pointing out a specific bias and making the point that fabricating a counterfactual will take the bias of the fabricator because you can make things turn out however you like when you're rewriting history. Her talent is speculation based on kind words by family members. Claiming that she had "no talent" presumably goes too far the other way, but the point being made has merit even if the delivery is overly exaggerated.

Notably absent is any claim that women in the 18th century were treated other than terribly. It is possible and indeed highly likely both that women were treated unfairly and also that Wolfgang's sister would not have rivaled him as a composer, as there are only a small handful of people living or dead who ever have.
You would experience time and length dilation of everything outside the star system.
just 30 minutes? That's insane.
Is there any incentive to host nodes?
Menopause May Be the Evolutionary Origin of Romantic Relationships
Mental health is a spectrum, and tech solutions are needed
Reading this felt kind of like the first time I read a writeup on Bitcoin. There's the same sense of throwing out some old, formerly immutable rules here, the excitement of something that's going to test some boundaries and inevitably clash with some authority (how can you, for instance, comply with the EU's "right to be forgotten" when that information is scattered into a redundant mesh?). Interesting times ahead for IPFS.
Sleep deprivation. It explains all the symptoms mentioned in the article.

Kids in kindergarten start early, and stay later than they have in the past with no nap period. Busy parents (both of whom are now working full-time) are lucky to get home by 7pm, so the kid(s) are generally kept up till 9/10pm so the parents can have some time with them.

If parents are going to keep a 5/6-yr old up to 9:30pm or later, then wake them up at 7:15am to get ready for school at 8:15am.... which goes till 2pm with no nap time. Well yea, sleep deprivation hurts.

Ask your parents, grandparents, etc when they went to sleep, when kindergarten began, how long it ran, whether it included a nap/rest-time. Most of us got a lot more sleep than the kids now.

Edit: I agree kids need more free-play time, but that's separate from their sleep deprivation.
"He sort of implies that minorities are published because we're minorities, not because of our work. That's just insulting."

What Prof. Chang means by this is that she believes minorities are published because of the quality of their work, and anyone who suggests that they're published simply because they're minorities is wrong and motivated by a belief that minorities' work does not stand on its own merits, which would indeed be insulting.

If this white guy announced, "I'm going to use a Chinese-sounding pen name because I think it'll make my poems more likely to be published," then yeah, I think a case could be made that it's insulting, because he would be presuming that minorities' work does not stand on its own merits.

But in this case, the white guy did not make a racist statement. What he did was demonstrate that in at least one case, the Chinese-sounding name did influence whether his poems were published.

So, if it's insulting, it's insulting not because of what this man said or did. Rather, it's insulting on the part of the publications, who did judge the poems on something other than their merits.
I find it's better to be aware of/vigilant about the common bugs in flexbox's implementation, and explicitly fix specific problems as you encounter them. I've never found a polyfill that doesn't rely on hacks that lead to even-harder-to-fix problems.

It would be great for there to be a sort of CSS linter that could help here, but I haven't found one yet.
Visualizing machine learning
When you set policy to favor certain genders or races instead of meritocratic ability you open the door for people to cheat the system and deny hardworking talented people who don't fit into your favored groups. Chinese Americans have parity or higher average income, college graduation rate, etc than European Americans for some time.Clearly there was some selection criteria to favor certain groups which outweighed merit in this case.
This not an example of the confirmation bias at all. More like possibly biased, anecdotal evidence that might have not been verified. You can very well notice signs of your own brain damage.
what I'm worried about and I think is frightening is that people may start to think that MODERN==CONTAINER which is wrong. It depends really. Do not use app containers just for the sake of being modern.
If you really want a production ready stack first inform yourself deeply how to do normal Dev & normal Ops right, understand the concepts and get to know how to make a single server and your application bullet proof for production usage before ever thinking of adding the complexity layer of app containers on top or underneath of this. Chance is pretty big that you do not need app containers because your use case is too small for justifying this "modern" layer of abstraction which will give you also new sort of "modern" problems for sure at some stage. Don't get me wrong... containers can be great but not everybody needs them.
I'm not sure why they are calling him racist - he's not the one judging poems based on author name. The name is not relevant to the content.
This. Decentralization needs to be the foremost feature of a decentralized system. No single points of failure. Scaling up and down with demand. Resilience and choice for everybody.

Money has been decentralized.

Social networking hasn't, yet.

Security hasn't, not really. Have you installed the latest SquirrelMail patches yet? You probably use GMail so you don't have to worry about it.
So is this primarily for static websites? I don't see dynamic websites going too well with this system.

Edit:

If someone like GitHub supported this for GitHub pages it would be a great step forward for this as well.
Thanks a lot for sharing your point, I am a strong supporter of ethereum too.
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yes. https://ipfs.io/ has more info, in particular, the linked pdf.
Cool, but how does templating work? Can I use Jade/EJS/HAML/etc.. ?
An amazing initiative to give back to the society that one has learned so much from!
Web centralization is a structural and economic problem that is not going to be solved by the tech elite. We don't need new protocols; the ones we have worked fine back when the web was decentralized.
The Ashes was 5 Test matches, as always: Sophia Gardens, Lord's, Edgbaston, Trent Bridge, The Oval.
I think the difference is that D1/2 took a reasonably simple story and told it as sparsely as possible, in widely-spaced vignettes, leaving the player to fill in everything else. D3 took a similarly simple story, and told all of it in detail.
no because you can't write a library which apis are thunks. And your code needs to run in a generator, something you omitted. Fibers are a better alternative , no need for yield and generators everywhere.
Or use nvm: https://github.com/creationix/nvm
it's all these fucking meds American pharmaceuticals love shoving down their own kids throats.
It's very interesting what you said.

I only discussed what matters to the user (control, interoperability and portability) - extending the list with technical perspective will then come soon.
Yeah, I've read this previously. It seems odd to me, I feel like I should be able to do this, I own the domain and I want to secure everything underneath it... sigh I guess I'll have to settle for a cert that allows for lots of domains under it and just have to create a different cert for each domain.
> a) slow hardware/slow software, causing judder or b) poor design which moves the player in ways that cause discomfort

Couldn't it just as likely be the inherent conflict between proprioceptual cues and visual cues causing sickness?
I appreciate that and I only ever played about 8 hours of HL2 VR, I stopped when I beat the campaign and moved on to playing WarThunder for a couple months then slowly tapered off.

>>This is one of my worst fears about VR adoption: gamers, especially the kind who will be on the leading edge of this stuff, want badly to play FPS games and they'll find ways to do it and they're all going to hate VR.

Part of the promise of VR is being able to negotiate a virtual world on foot which currently has too much of a mismatch to work without sickening the user. So what are the long term solutions to this? To me they are really hard if not impossible problems.
When watching cricket on television, the commentary team is crucial. One of the greatest commentary teams of modern times is generally acknowledged to have consisted of Richie Benaud, Tony Greig, Ian Chappell, and Bill Lawry. From Benaud's understated command of the game's history and personalities, to Lawry's excitable tone and banter with Greig, these four men anchored decades of cricket coverage and may have done more than anyone else to dispel the myth of its tedium.
Another example is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-J2-VeoH8
a port of wolfenstein 3d
I wonder what people will be putting on raspberry pis in 30 years? :)
Not that I like it but I'm not surprised. It's not called Commiefornia for no reason...
Origami zippered tube design makes paper structures stiff enough to hold weight
After staring at your site for a solid 2 minutes, scanning back and forth, I still haven't gotten a clue what it is that your product/service does...

Also, a major fail IMO, the share buttons are covering the first paragraph of text. This being the first written content visitors will be looking at, you better make this readable as most people aren't as patient as I am and will not stick around...
I think you're 100% correct here. My son is in bed by 8, no exceptions. Usually up around 8 the next day. My niece is in preschool from 7a-6p... Totally different experience which really sucks.
Subways could very well become obsolete by the time they are finished. uber-enabled driverless cars the size of a smart car could drive bumper to bumper door handle to door handle in their own lanes and massively improve transportation, especially for the last miles from door stat to door step. Save the money and speed up adoption of driverless cars and we'd be better off.
John McAfee announces he's running for President
I look forward to see what will happen with bittorrent.
>Then go to a few dozen interviews

Is that an exaggeration? That's a crazy amount of time to spend interviewing unless it's over a long time period. I have trouble sneaking away for one interview.
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I think the most incredible thing about GEOS are the hobbyist programmers who continued to maintain/modify it well after its mainstream lifetime.

I once mentioned to my auto mechanic that I was a programmer, and he invited me into the back room of his garage full of old C64 stuff. He showed me a modified C128 with an IDE interface, running his custom modded version of GEOS (Wheels). He had an accelerator hooked up to the machine and could change the CPU speed from the original C64/128 speed to something that appeared to be 10 times faster. To top off the demo, he showed me the web browser he was working on, bringing up a roughly rendered version of Yahoo's page (it was 1999) on the screen.

It turned out my mechanic was the famous (or infamous) Maurice Randall. It's worth searching for his name to learn about his accomplishments in the C64 hobbyist scene (and his unfortunate unreliability).
It's likely that there are many factors at work. You'll hear everything from changes in diet, too much TV, too much social media, too much time in front of the iPad, etc.

As an anecdote to perhaps corroborate yours, it felt impossible for me to get up at 7am every morning M-F from the ages of 9-22. It also felt highly unnatural to be doing so at all, as a majority of my friends experienced the same thing -- a very shifted sleep schedule which started later in the evening and lasted 8+ hours into almost noontime. Of course this could all be due to too much TV, too much social media, too much iPad, etc.

As for the article, play seems central to development. It certainly plays a role in bonding formation[1] and neural development[2]. However, just like every other factor, it's just hard to suss out its relative weight compared to everything else a child experiences during development.

My personal view is that this is all very speculative. When we can model the brain better, whether it's through more carefully controlled studies or even through machine intelligence simulations, we will actually be able to determine its real value. Though, I do suspect its high.

[1] http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/1/182.full
[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/06/336361277/scientis...