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It's an investment sure and you're right in asserting that childhood is finite. Fortunately, the US is interesting in that they give you the freedom to home school. If knowledge isn't a priority we as a country give you the right to deny it to your child.

In my personal experience (and I suspect yours given you're on this site) my entire livelihood is dependent on my knowledge. For me, this was cultivated on the lattice of the public school system (K-12 to university) but I'll freely admit I was lucky in that respect. My personal dream is that every child gets the same opportunity.
I deleted the post because after 30 seconds I thought it was insufficiently well thought out and written. :-)

In many cases mixing in 'homework' with class work is probably a much better use of time. AKA ask everyone what 57+49 is give them 30 seconds. Collect answers. Fix errors. Repeat.

Agreed. My school classroom experiences were mostly passive listening. The few that mixed listening with reading with doing, right there in the classroom, were marvelous. Little if any extra homework needed.

If that would be done? I think that'd be great. But if the proposal is just passive lectures in class and that's it, I remain unconvinced.
This is the best sort of thing that happens at HN.

"I don't like [thing]"
"I work at [thing], come help me fix it"
Giving parents veto power over associated work will not fix the problem that schooling is not education.

EDIT: I missed [lordCarbonFiber](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459743 )'s comment, saying the same but better.
If macronutrient balance is the problem, then you still want to stop adding sugar, and also not add other carbs in similar ways.

Even if total calories are the problem, you still have more to analyze. Depending on how it affects fullness, it could be near-harmless or horrible for you.
"Everything in moderation" is just a tautology. "Moderation" for kale is different from "moderation" for sugar is different from "moderation" for opiates. "Everything in moderation" means "the right amount of everything," which is just begging the question of what the right amount is in the first place.
Several dozen people live within a 10m radius of where I do. I'm not even a registered resident at that location, so they'll have a difficult time correlating "my" data to my personal information.
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...and its platform.

The Model X shares a platform and motor with the Model S, which is made at the same factory. [1]

[1] http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2015/09/teslas_fir...
The examples shown are deliberately simple and meant to show off the concept.

Alive isn't performing static analysis and guessing what your code is doing, it's compiling and running it while showing you the results. So as long as you have unit tests covering a piece of code, we can run those tests and show you what that piece of code does.
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This is slightly confusing to me. Why did they release a TP-Link onhub and an asus onhub so close to each other ?

For those interested in the difference , but I wish they would actually provide hardware specs somewhere.

>OnHub is available from both ASUS and TP-Link. Both are powerful AC1900 routers and work with the Google On companion app. But each has a different elegant exterior design, along with two key differences. OnHub from TP-Link features a front-facing antenna reflector that acts like a satellite dish enhancing Wi-Fi range in that direction. OnHub from ASUS lets you control your OnHub with a wave over the top. For example, wave to prioritize a device to ensure it has enough Wi-Fi bandwidth, like Chromecast while streaming a movie.
The main benefit of homework is instilling the habit of working to a deadline without direct supervision, instead of giving in to distractions.
I don't think anyone actually WANTS updates to their device. But I'd certainly prefer that I be ABLE to in case some sort of catastrophic security failure occurs like the router having the telnet port open or a default root password open. I'd much rather have something that can be patched than something that is "locked down" yet vulnerable.

And yes, I'd prefer that the routers not have security holes in them in the first place. But I'm also realistic.
I laughed out loud when I read your comment, it's so true. Why in hell would we ever expect corporations to give up _anything_ in exchange for their benefits from the system?

It's funny, the left treats wealth like a fact of nature (the only problem is how to distribute it!) and the right treats protection like a fact of nature (I ain't givin up nothin in exchange for protection of my assets!)
People grow ever-more-sensitive to the acts of those on perches. There's remarkably little consensus on what constitutes being a jerk. This is a bad combination.

When there is zero room for error and all jerk-ish-ness is punished by trying to drag someone from their perch, you've created a dangerous place to visibly be on a perch. When you couple this with a society where it's virtually impossible to not be a jerk, you've created a society where those on perches will quickly grow deaf to being called a jerk. When you have both, the people on perches will just do whatever they want, because they will conclude that they will attacked all the same no matter what they do.

And if you're going to be considered a jerk no matter what you do, why should you care about the people who call you a jerk?
Great article, I love psql. I also add \timing to my .psqlrc to see how long every query took.
Just $219.99 for a data harvesting and privacy invading glorified cylindrical router marketed as home decoration, with an obnoxious ASUS logo on top.

To be honest, this could be a great prop for some sort of Hollywood thriller, in which the protagonist, a family man portrayed as computer illiterate, buys a new router for his family. At first it's the best thing they ever purchased, but after the scene with the children going to bed and the OnHub™ emitting a strange fluorescing light, things seem to go awry for the family. His wife is getting really confronting targeted advertisements jeopardizing their relationship and his children end up really sick due to painful headaches which the doctor says only occur in nuclear zones of destruction due to intense radiation. Will he find out what's causing all of this or is it already too late? Coming soon in a theater near you.
Cable TV is also not free, but people put up with ads (at least in the US). In fact, I'm not sure people even remember that one of the original propositions of cable was that it was ad free.

I think a more accurate adage would be that if companies can get away with ads (or gathering and selling personal data), then they will do so. Unfortunately it would appear that giving money directly to service providers does not actually protect you from such things, and I suspect the reason is fairly straightforward: All companies are driven to increase margins as much as possible, and will eventually feel financial pressure to try such measures. Unless consumers object strongly (i.e.: leave the service in numbers large enough to offset the benefits of a measure under consideration), such measures will in general find their way into use.

So what we're really saying is consumers need to pay companies more than the money would get otherwise. If consumers aren't willing to pay that price (and it shouldn't surprise us if they aren't---this can be a lot of money), then we shouldn't be surprised if such things show up, regardless of whether the service is paid or not.
I think Sergey was a bit terrified of developing Parkinsons, a possiblity from his genetic profile. So I guess this in part contributes to their attempt to build a general world class brain institute. Wno knows, technology could have amajor role in understanding and cure.
This isn't it. Mainstream movies are often analyzed and reviewed as art -- whole books written about them! -- even though they are primarily done "with an eye towards the economics".

Modern tools can help make (admittedly small) games even by people who aren't programmers and who don't necessarily want to make money. It's been a while, but I remember the early days of the Adventure Game Studio; there were people trying to make something to sell, but also plenty of people writing pretty decent games solely because they wanted to. Also see the awesome Interactive Fiction community.
I don't agree with this comment, but it's a shame that it was downvoted. It seems to me like a productive contribution to the discussion.
It should! Fair warning, if you're not using mocks in your tests, it will be making network calls on every valid compilation.

If anything isn't working you can report it on our public issue tracker: http://github.com/CodeConnect/AliveFeedback/
Sugar is bad for you. Quitting it obviously improves your health. Why is this science?
When Telcos Customize Crypto
I hope the USB port actually does something on this model.
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>What I had said that CRUD apps are simple..

Still wrong. CRUD apps need not always be "simple". And the whole "to hightlight complex projects" thing is misguided. No one is interested in "complexity"..
Hiring is tough. Extremely tough. Here are some of the reasons:

- Extremely time consuming and it still could be a long shot to find the right person. I have worked in teams where we gave up trying to hire due to time issues (recruiters were useless)

- Hiring without a real purpose. Sometimes, hiring managers themselves don't know why they want to hire. This is dangerous as hiring someone without a specific purpose could be bad for both parties. Yes, it happens and happens a lot in enterprisy companies. I know one of my hiring managers once wanted to hire just to build his team in a specific location. Ended up not working out very well.

- Finding the right person again is really really hard. Sometimes you are looking for a very specific skill because you have project deadlines. Sometimes, you are ok with someone more broad but again, this depends on the need. Lot of hiring managers fail this test as well.

- Difficult to hire and retain good talent in a volatile market specially in tech. If you don't offer details of the job including salary etc specifically, it it harder to attract good talent.

Overall, my take on hiring is that there has to be a direct interest from the hiring managers in actually interviewing, testing and hiring candidates which is time consuming and never a slam dunk. Lot of pain happens when frankly, there is not much interest from the hiring managers and things are "outsourced" to a recruiter/agency. Not to say all recruiters/agencies are bad but 95% are. I know some really good ones though.
This says "Telcos" and then lists specific names. Do we know for sure that any telcos (my concern is US-based) who do not do this?

e.g.: T-mobile? I have less hopes for AT&T...
I like it!

There's a ton of stuff you can do in this space: lint-type tips, RT TDD, code "explaining", path identification, etc.

Keep up the good work! Would love to see more of this as it comes along.
And I think that such analysis has similar flaws for similar reasons. You cannot hope to understand a thing meaningfully if you choose to ignore huge influences on its creation and creative choices.
Technologists working for EFF are probably giving up outsized salaries at SFBA startups. Advocacy journalists are probably not.

I'm sure they're all good people who believe in what they're doing. It does not follow that they believe in every individual position they advocate for; they're a nonprofit, so fundraising is a huge part of their job.
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I've run into similar issues and one such always seems to stick in my head - A few years back some Samsung and HTC devices shipped with a very buggy version of GSON causing deserialization errors on these devices. You can see the actual gson issue here: https://github.com/google/gson/issues/255

The solution was to rename the package name using a tool called jarjar (https://code.google.com/p/jarjar/) and then things would work just fine. Was kind of a pain to maintain this library in sync with the updates of GSON, but eventually we were able to abandon support for these devices once the company felt the impact was low based upon the stats in the Android Platform Versions - http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Android, always keeping us on our toes. :)
What does it mean for something to "make sense" exactly?
Right, hence the big step is for a government agency to receive a mandate to implement such a system. The even bigger step is probably to openly make enforcement decisions based on that info. I think there is a huge gap between "your psychological data indicates you may be at increased risk of committing a violent crime" and actually taking people off the streets based on that indicator.

But then again, with what we've learned since Snowden, this doesn't actually seem that impossible...
This is precisely the "flipped classroom" concept that Khan Academy has been championing for a while now:

https://youtu.be/vmtgz95ZBbE?t=32s
You mean like the NYT and pretty much every magazine sells the product, but also has ads?
For those interested in the difference , but I wish they would actually provide hardware specs somewhere.

https://on.google.com/hub/#specs

Click the "Specs" link at the top right.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how the hand wave feature works? I'm interested in the OnHub as a Nest owner and potential future developer. I like the addition of Thread and Weave, and the other future-enabled sensors on this thing. Still, though, hard to justify the $220 price tag without knowing what its really intended for.
I was doing some research on natural language algorithms a while back. Not sure if these links are of any help for what you are looking for:

https://github.com/26medias/node-nlpsum

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-extract-key-phrases-from-onli...
My significant other is a teacher and entered the workforce 2 years ago. I now firmly believe that the education system is the way it is because of the teachers, and not in a good way. The few who got into it because "they love children and teaching" are so massively outweighed by those who took it because there was nothing else. It's created a system that is center around Dear Teacher, a frustrated individual upset that they couldn't get the overseas marketing job or field marine biology study position they spent $40,000 trying to attain.

Lecture with assigned homework happens because it's easy. Read a script, send home to mommy and daddy to do the hard stuff. Any attempt to change and you get a strike. There's a fucking strike every year now in Ontario.
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Have any HNers built their own homes in the past few years? I am in the early planning phase now and I was wondering if there are any essential tech features to include in a new build.

Do people still run phone lines? Should I run CAT6e cable to every room? I don't work from home, but I will have a small home office for side projects.
You can get similar benefits by giving kids chores at home. Bonus: Chores at home are typically more meaningful than homework. Homework is often "make work." But the trash actually needs to be taken out for reasons of basic sanitation to protect your health and quality of life. So you aren't teaching kids their lives and labor so do not matter that we can have them simply piss their lives away on make work.
Let's look at my first-grader's schedule. Kids need more sleep than adults, so we aim for about 11 hours. (For teens, they recommend 10, last I checked.) School is 7 hours. 1.5 hours for gymnastics, sports, or some other extra-curricular activity. An hour of transit. Another hour for breakfast and dinner (assuming all they do is sit down and eat, and don't help prepare anything or do the dishes). An hour for a bath. About thirty minutes to get dressed, brush teeth, pack bag, etc.

11 - sleep
7 - school
1.5 - gymnastics
1 - meals
1 - transit
1 - bath
0.5 - get ready

We're at 23 hours, and there has been zero unstructured time (outside of playing in the bath). This is a first-grader. When she's older she'll be in school longer, have more extra-curricular activities, and more socializing.

You're telling me two hours isn't asking a lot?
Some of us wish to think the best about people or corporations. Naive, sure, but you have to start your chain of trust somewhere.

> It's well known that a very widely used strategy is to collect as much information as possible about end users by businesses for targeted sales and marketing

Yes, but it's usually limited to free services, or low cost services. It's rarely applied wholesale to a group who is already paying through the nose for crappy service.
Native code on Android is tricky. We also ran into this issue where the Chrome WebView didn't resend signals properly: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=483399. Trying to debug errors that 1) is in 3rd party dependencies and 2) depends on the order you load them is is really not fun.
What specific part of the bill reads like a loophole that would allow Facebook to sell its security logs to advertisers?
I think that this scenario means you are guilty under current law in the US and the UK (we may not like it!) because until it is evaluated the evidence is still evidence.

I'm thinking more of the situation that you locked the safe and also lost the key prior to its contents being declared evidence and that you cannot physically now open it.

I am not a lawyer. I am definitely not your lawyer!
The multiple antennas with a small computer was something only in really high end wifi access points. Having it in consumer equipment is really cool.
Post a story like this on HN and of course the fat, Jolt drinking IT guys are going to revolt.
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No, it patches over actual real-life issues by requiring intervention from users. This is a terrible strategy. Pretty soon, every person in a crowded apartment complex will be waving over their router any time they need to do something.

Channel congestion is a huge problem in urban environments. From my home office I'm seeing 20 networks right now. Even a rudimentary dynamic channel-switching implementation could help a lot, but that's not what happens. Instead, a power outage occurs, all devices reboot, and some pathological combination causes my wireless to degrade because my router came up faster and picked a channel that my neighbor's stupid ISP-provided POS decided to squat after-the-fact. Used to be I could sidestep a lot of this by using the 5GHz band, but it appears that ISP-provided devices are starting to show up there, too (though I _think_ the newer 802.11 protocols have better behavior around channel congestion? Maybe?)

Anyways, that's my $2: this is an issue, and involving the user will just result in magic-thinking/cargo-culting being taught to non-techies for problems that could be solved through better standards. It's 2015 and the best I can get from my 802.11n network is still ≈ 50mbps, even in the same room. If wireless is the future, we need solutions, not band-aids.
Fortunately, the US is interesting in that they give you the freedom to home school. If knowledge isn't a priority we as a country give you the right to deny it to your child.

That you equate homeschooling with "denial of knowledge" makes me strongly question your intentions. If homeschooling is the denial of knowledge, we must also concede compulsory public schooling is the institutionalized withholding thereof.
Exactly! Get that caffeine addiction going early. It's good practice for when you're in YCombinator later trying to develop your hyper-bacon-geo-social-game.
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A good friend of mine is a comic, and through him I've met other comics. They'll often riff off of each other. Upon hearing something really funny, you'll often hear, "Hey, that's good! Can I steal that?" This is totally accepted and expected behavior among this group of comics. So stealing jokes, per se, is not the problem.

The troublesome part is that there's not a good way for other people outside this group of comics to join in and ask for permission. All they can do is listen to the material live, and then kinda take it if they think they can get away with it.

I'm not sure if this is a problem that needs to be solved, but it's easy to see where these misunderstandings might arise. Everyone copies and steals. Sometimes it's unclear or uncool to ask for permission.

This is all separate from the main article here, where I think it's clear the copier is a huge asshole. I also need to listen to that podcast.
So lemme get this straight: it's okay for someone to post this advertisement-disguised-as-an-article about a YC-backed company's product that doesn't even do what it claims to do (the "article" reveals at the end that there are an "unspecified" number of human beings actually doing things behind the scenes in Clara), but not for someone to post about a competing product that actually does live up to the over-hyped "AI" claims?
One of these brave agents chewed through some PBX equipment when I was in college, and that's how we found out that the phone system's failure mode was to emit a sustained, wraith-like shriek, very similar to the sound we students made as it woke everyone up at 2 AM.
"If I made changes to the software, would I just add myself to the Copyright list of authors?
"

Here's a super-long answer:

You can if you want attribution. the problem with this is that the licenses refer to the "above copyright notice", and most people put the license in headers.

So as you might imagine, if you have 50 files, with different contributors, and they all list their names in the appropriate notices so that you have different notices on each file, well then,
Congrats, now people using the software have to reproduce 50 notices!

This becomes a mess, and it also turns out that other than the license referring to it, the notice is legally pointless.

It is cargo cult lawyering to have copyright notices for legal reasons. It isn't required in any berne signatory country (all 168 of them: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?treaty_id=15). It has basically no legal usefulness[1]

As a result, the better practice is to just use something that is legally okay, but more inclusive.

This is why when chromium was released, i had them put "The chromium authors" as the copyright owner. It's legally correct/valid, but means nobody has to add stuff to it.

[1] In the US, it prevents the innocent infringement defense. But the innocent infringement defense requires that
A. you bought a license
B. from someone you reasonably believed owned the code because of the incorrect copyright notice

Because of the legal standard, I cannot find a single successful innocent infringement defense since Berne.
I had the same experience moving from NZ to Canada in 2010. I could not believe how terrible the banking experience was. Everything was so slow. Opening an account, depositing or transferring money. People still writing cheques for everything. Before Canada I'd never had a cheque book and could count on one hand the amount of cheques I had dealt with in my life.