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We opted out of a 9/10 greatschools.org public school by second grade due, in part, to excessive homework in early elementary school (and also because of an obsession with standardized tests).

My son had 15-20 minutes a night of homework in kindergarten and even more in first grade. He was a "late" (by US standards) reader, which meant that he could not be responsible for reading the instructions doing his homework himself. These nightly homework sessions were pure misery for our family. After 2 years, we felt that all they were achieving was to drum any love of learning out of our son.

After 2 years in a Montessori-like school, he's reading well above grade level, doing well at math, loving science, and has transferred to a new school with a Spanish immersion program. I feel that if he'd stayed in public school, he'd be well on the way to having "learning problems"
Depends. I had friends back then who went to various forms of after-school classes (cram, prep, chinese, piano, etc). They would get home at dark, with even more homework in tow from the after-school classes.
Given how loaded her board is with insanely high-ranking ex-government officials, you can pretty almost certain that any federal prosecution will not happen.
If the pilot light fails for long time and then is fixed, boom.
My Grandmother grew up in the West Indies, and had a particularly horrible expression to describe the disappointed feeling at the end of school holidays: freepaper burn.

In her grandparents time, that was the term for the more than disappointed feeling freed slaves had when slavers seized their 'free papers', burned them, and then enslaved them once more.

It's not that far in our past.
Pfizer, on the other hand, told the Financial Times that the company's dealings with Theranos were limited. "We've done only very limited historical exploratory work with Theranos through a few pilot projects,

So, the root of this could simply have been poor reporting not deception. I mean you generally don't do multiple pilot projects with vaporware and Pfizer is a huge drug company.

PS: 400M is a lot of money, but probably not enough to do much R&D and start jumping though the hoops if the FDA get's picky.
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Out of curiousity, how are you finding working with SNA? I expect that your market/customers are primarily large companies with lots fo data.

Exactly, yeah. We've had that on the back-burner for a while actually. I got as far as doing some prototyping a while back, but we haven't truly implemented SNA the way we plan yet. Hopefully very soon I'll be able to start putting more time into that.

FWIW, my interest in using SNA in the organizational setting was heavily inspired by reading The Hidden Power of Social Networks. http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Power-Social-Networks-Understan... If you haven't seen that yet, it might be worth a look.
>IIFYM is probably not a bad diet for a teenage boy or steroid user trying to pack on weight while doing a high volume of work. Everyone else will put on a lot of unwanted fat.

That would depend on both your total calorie count and your macro breakdown. IIFYM determines what percentage of your calories should come from each of carbs, fats and proteins. So if your calorie count is suitable for your height, weight and activity level, then your macro breakdown isn't going to cause you to gain weight. If your breakdown is out of whack, then you're going to end up feeling tired, hungry or otherwise malnourished, but it shouldn't cause you excessive weight gain outside of water retention. The calorie counting needs to be more accurate than the macro breakdown.
In all fairness, Elon Musk makes electric cars - and, batteries - so he has every incentive to exaggerate how bad of a bet fuel cells are ;)

I know very little about this debate and what little I know makes me side with the electric car crowd. But Elon Musk has a hell of a horse in this race and thus his statements should never be taken as unbiased.
Good, Vox and BuzzFeed are terrible publications and nobody wants them at SXSW.
The same was true of Enron's board and they still saw prison time.

edit: Apparently I wasn't clear. Enron's board was also stacked with high-ranking politicians and many executives still saw jail time.

My point was that a well-connected board won't necessarily shield executives from prosecution.
That is not related to drone strikes. In fact that is a perfect example of a worse alternative to drone strikes.
Apple's cash swells 33% to $206B
I really don't understand why you got downvoted. I am extremely worried by the latest iOS release that managed to make an iphone 6s laggier on ios 9.1 than an iphone 5 on ios 8 for an app i'm currently developping. Provided that ios 9 brings absolutely nothing fundamentaly new, and how buggy ios 9.0 was, that makes me hope really strongly that they had the interns work on that release while the good developpers were working on revamping the whole os for ios10.

We all know that blackberry was still making great sales until the very last moments of its expected collapse, simply because good business managers always find a way to grab some profits in the short term eventhough things look bad in the long term.
"The modern employment social contract is in no way, shape or form anything like actual slavery, to call it such is to misrepresent both employment and slavery."

I'm in complete agreement with you, until you introduce compulsory taxation. That is morally equivalent to slavery: your time is being literally taken from you by others, for their own reasons.

Sure, it might also buy you healthcare and so forth, but the same argument could be made in defense of historical slavery too.
Thanks! I'll work on a zooming function. ;)
The next step is to predict where the rebound will go on a missed shot. And of course, trigger an according haptic notification on a wearable device.
Assuming $18T (static) US dept, apple can pay it in 85 years?
A doctor would earn 400k working for a hospital, and e.g. 800k working for own company. So it would be fair that s/he paid the same tax on the first 400k.

Personally, I also think that any dividends and capital gains should be taxed equally, or more, than salary, but that's a different topic.
> Yes, software modifications are easier to hide

Not if you hash the software and find its been adjusted. In that sense it is easier to detect.
AFAIK AT&T always lets you buy International plan add ons back to beginning of the current bill cycle. Still a rip.

T-Mobile has 'free international data' but it's 2G speeds (capped at 128 kbps) and the upsell is a rip, $50 for half a GB.
Overseas export market?
Perhaps Dave can shine a light on a path forward for Elizabeth, by introducing her to his friends in Indonesia.
I like that Sift4 seems to give pretty consistent answers to Levenstein which is nice. Some of Sift3's answers are a little suspect (darn right wrong in some cases). I'd like to see more data on Sift4's performance before I consider using this over Levenstein, but overall looks pretty decent.
Hell of a non-commodity product that takes the size of share the iPhone takes. In the car market, marketshare numbers comparable to the iPhone's numbers do not accrue to luxury automobiles (which have far lower shares).
Verizon and AT&T have vastly better coverage.
Apple are doomed.
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Beautiful explanation. Thanks.
I think that it's pretty obvious that simply 'money' isn't the solution to our educational needs. There are lots of ways of spending money that won't change outcomes, and probably several that would.

But I'm anti-school in general (note: not anti-teacher), so the whole point of this side of the argument misses my interests.
Of course it is. People don't realize that software no matter how good if it is proprietary has a limited shelf-life. It might make you rich in the short term but ultimately it will go into the dustbin of history. That's because software on its own is worthless. It is the people, processes, and institutional knowledge around it that is valuable and once a set of practices and processes is common enough to automate with software the free and open-source version will always win.
To be honest I don't remember the details. The key differentiators that I remember were:

* longer stay in the private hospital
* private rooms
* better ratio of staff to patients
* easier access to useful services (physio, breast feeding consultants, etc.)
* specialist assistance like breastfeeding courses and the like, if needed

As it happens our first child was born by emergency C-section after a nasty fall and partial placenta abrupta, so we really tested them :) Everything went very well.

I was suprised by the second birth, because that was a 'normal' C-section. People were laughing, chatting etc. and it was a much less "game face ON" environment than the first. I'd probably have noticed the tension more if I'd been paying more attention to anything other than my wife at the time.
It's a sentiment , not a distance.
There are people who make under $10 an hour assembling Apple computers in California. I teach at a community college and some of my students are employed at the factory. It's interesting how Apple gets a complete pass on their wages but companies that make a fraction of Apple's profits like Walmart or McDonald's are constantly criticized for how they pay their employees.
Everyone likes praise and dislikes blame, that is not special to teachers.

You might be able to blame a teacher for a class to some effect. What I was referring to is blaming teacherdom for education. That's pointless. When a system consistently produces a result, that's the result being produced by the system. The teachers and students are part of that system, producing and being produced by it. It will continue, blame or no blame. It is just as pointless as blaming the students.
"If this company obtains 1% of a $500 billion market, things will be great!" is not due diligence. Here, everything realistically comes down to the technology because the company's ability to gain and sustain market share is almost wholly dependent on it having a superior technology.
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Huh. No such problems on my 6. In any event, if it's an easy break, it's an easy fix for them.
Ask HN: Do we need Engineering Managers?
People(engineers) don't leave jobs anymore; they leave managers. I've seen so many bad managers in my career that I strongly believe we should get rid of that extra layer. Here's the reasons why:

1- Managers are expensive.

2- Manager = Dispatcher. They dispatch tasks coming from above and make sure work is done.

3- They push engineers, they don't pull them (leader vs boss).

4- They don't treat people equally.

5- Micro management, micro managerment, micro management...

6- We have to deal with their personalities.

7- We have to justify everything we do
etc.

What are your thoughts? I believe companies should minimize layers of management and invest in a more self-managed company culture.
Apple is in general a premium brand, not a luxury brand. The Apple Watch Edition is their first foray into luxury brand territory,

See: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/luxury-vs-pr...
They don't care about the house you live in, they care about the zip code, so what you propose is irrelevant. A cpg brand says "tell me where do segments which buy from Retailer XY at location Z live?" and gets an answer. That's what this technology does.
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I find it amusing that people are labelled a "billionaire" because they hold stock in a private company that has been valued at multiple billions of dollars.

My plan is to incorporate my side company and issue 5 billion shares to myself as founder and sole owner. Then I'm going to take 100 shares and offer them to my old college roommate for $100 will will peg the company's "value" at $5 billion dollars (post money) and now I too will be a billionaire! I never realized how simple it was, now I know.
The importance of lifestyle branding! A lot of the iPhone sale could be attributed to the Rose Gold 6s.

leaving the world better than we found it.

Good Grief!

Edit: Did I hit a nerve or what!
Yeah, I was going to say, I've seen hardware were advertised features were implemented with SMM. You could possibly take it away but it sure does enable a lot of nice hardware fixes without re-spinning silicon.

Some implementations it'll really screw up any RT plans you might have...
But you have a choice of whether to work and what to do for that work don't you? Can we say the same for slaves?
Seeing this story slightly riles me up.

My favorite uncle has a brother who is rich behind wildest dreams. He invested in this supposed unicorn. What did or does she do to get rich people to pull out their wallets and possibly dump their money down the drain?

I, on the other hand have so much opportunity knocking at my door (demoing my tech to Google, Samsung, about to go onto an inventor reality tv show and tons more), yet am unable to connect with the same rich people including my uncle's brother.

As they say it only takes one wealthy person to invest in you and others will follow. Not sure what other signals that need to happen to show him and or others that based on my history I should be given a similar shot. Been at this for 8 years and these amazing opportunities continue to knock and knock. All opportunities are a huge honor, yet extremely frustrating when you don't have the resources to take advantage of it all!
Woah! Make it work with Unity3D and in general with graphic libraries.
I need help understanding why this is being down voted.
You're generalizing. Do you mean an observational study or a clinical trial? There's plenty of studies which provide detailed scientific data that can lead us to make healthier choices. A diet study is usually not one of those.
I often have a hard time placing the exact episode, in which The Simpsons jumped the shark, but for me, the "22 Short Films Abount Springfield" episode [0] in season 7 was the first one I distinctly remember having mixed feelings about, while watching it.

By the eighth season for sure, there was even in-show acknowledgement, that the characters were becoming over-developed and being painted into unimaginative corners by established and beloved continuity, while simultaneously being victimized by groupthink, in the Poochie episode [1]. That was probably the last "good" episode, in my humble opinion.

Also, in season 8, with the airing of the Guatemalan Insanity Pepper episode [2], I found that more episodes were frequently disappointing and unfunny, including that episode, and I tuned out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Short_Films_About_Springfie...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Itchy_%26_Scratchy_%26_Poo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Viaje_Misterioso_de_Nuestro...
Your points are spot-on and they strangely remind me how most journalists make biased articles when they relate information in the medias, sadly.
Exilir is exactly the better approach, sadly worse is better, so rubinius is the approach that will get the most adoption.

(Unless exilir compatibility with rails approaches that of rubinius)
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Could someone explain the differences in simple terms?

I thought that Levenstein was the "golden standard" for this, but just curious what makes algorithms different. Is it purely a question of performance in terms of how fast it executes or memory consumption? Or is there a performance difference in terms of accuracy?
Enron's board wasn't just outfoxing accredited investors, it was taking advantage of the company's accounting fraud to engage in insider trading.
And Windows, of course, has Fiddler:

http://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler
Levenshtein distance is a metric that counts the number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions between strings.

If Sift4 produces different results, what does it count exactly?
I thought you where going with a Matrix joke for a second there.
The "yellow line" in football mentioned was developed by Stan Honey's company, Sportsvision. That was the most popular innovation in that space. The visual hockey puck trail, not so much. He later did the America's Cup graphics, including the "flag on the water" effects. (He's very much into sailing.) It's possible to generate many more sports graphics than are currently being used, but it's also easy to overdo it.

Honey previously did Etak, the first car navigation system. No GPS, just a rate gyro, 2-axis tilt meter, wheel counters, and map data from a cassette drive. Worked quite well.
People like to disparage Facebook, but it can be an incredibly useful tool. I'll give an example from my own life: Soon after I moved to Oakland, a neighbor recommended I join the neighborhood's Facebook group. It's become invaluable. Group members coordinate to help find missing pets, catch vandals, report stolen vehicles, and warn others about crime. City council members are also members of the group, so we work with them to fix problems. It's much more efficient and convenient than the standard ways of petitioning the local government.

This may seem like a trivial improvement, but it has caused the neighborhood to completely turn around. Everyone is amazed by how much better and safer the area has gotten. So I don't mind if Facebook's motives are ultimately profit-driven. People in developing countries could greatly benefit. It's win-win.
I don't dispute the fact that education and vaccination are both good things. The flaw in your argument is that you are assuming that "education" and "hours of homework" are equivalent.
Thanks. This deserves to be repeated:

it's too late to change the cell phone network cheaply now (though we should still be vocal about the problem and not give up: we shouldn't accept that there is someone who knows where almost everyone is almost all of the time, which is the case today). If you're designing a new communications system, make sure that it starts with privacy protection and user and device anonymity, and layers optional identity on top where needed, rather than the reverse! Let's not be saying in 2030 "oh, if only people in 2015 had thought about the privacy issues with this technology...".
In this case, I don't think it's possible to answer without access to the original context, and there doesn't seem to be an electronic version of the book. I would also note that the book has been translated from the German, so the exact word choice hasn't been made by the original author.

Here's, maybe, a more comprehensible (but difficult) segment from the beginning of the book (from Amazon's preview): The easiest formula that thematizes the relation of Flaubert's work to the Evangel, Scripture, is perhaps this: in the name of the Cross, the Gospel--the "good tidings"--is crossed out. His oeuvre is thus a kind of "non-Gospel" or dys-angelion-- a body of "bad tidings"; it testifies against the New Testament. History proves the promise of salvation to be a lie; but history is nevertheless absolutely determined by the New Testament, since it is nothing but per-version, its per-versio-- its reversal. Only against the backdrop of this crossed-out promise of the unheard-of love of the New Testament, which is affirmed completely, does history make sense and reveal its horrible truth.
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Same story, nearly the same list. I'd throw in Shadow President, which taught me the names and locations of all the (cold war era) countries by third grade or so, and gave me a good sense of global and regional balances of power.

If you haven't played "Civil War Generals 2: Grant, Lee, Sherman" you should. It's Robert E. Lee: Civil War General but with the brokenness fixed—there's a victory point system that's in part based on locations held, which keeps you from just turtling on the nearest high ground and waiting for the enemy to come into cannon range—and a much larger campaign. It's kind of tricky to run these days, and is a bit unstable even under ideal conditions. Best solution may involve a Win98se VM. :-/

The Encarta game was awesome. I'd forgotten about it. Thanks for the memory.
There is no proof that this approximates the Levenshtein distance. Might be interesting to show this is true. (or somehow characterize all the bad cases)
AT&T's system for international add-ons on their site is a lot better than it used to be when you had to explicitly cancel the plan over the phone when you got back home.

I'm happy enough with their offerings. I suppose there are circumstances where I'd just buy a SIM card for my old phone when I arrived at the airport, but for most purposes I'm fine with paying $30 for 120MB or whatever it is. It's no hassle and serves my purposes for a week of travel or so.
Managers operate the company, and serve as a buffer between me and even more managers or executives. I don't want to do that, and I'm glad someone else is willing.

It sounds like you're currently working for some managers that should be left. They aren't all like that.
"The answer to this might surprise you. Is the whole strategy working or is it just making the whole region from Libya to Pakistan to Turkey less politically stable and more violent? It's not an easy question to answer, but we've been doing it your way since 2001 and the situation has got worse. I'd like to propose the radical strategy of "not killing people" and see how it works out."

I feel like this is hard to quantify. The thing is we are going to continue exploiting these regions and generally doing things that the people of these regions don't like.

We can't really have a live and let live policy where we keep fucking people over so I feel like that is kind of off the table. On the other hand, there haven't been any attacks on our soil or even high impact attacks really since we started blowing people up with robots.

If there was another high profile attack it would result in an intensely hawkish political environment where we would lose more civil rights and most likely blow up another country like Iraq. That would really kill a lot of people. So if blowing away a bunch of people in countries that barely have sovereignty keeps things in check then it isn't really the worst plan.

It is really not worth talking about idealistic ideas about:
A) not fucking over people
B) not doing anything

option B is way too politically dangerous for our leaders anyway, and it is obvious that A isn't going to happen. I think the best we can hope for is improvements in targeting for the assassination of people with interests that are opposed to US interests.
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wait that is not what the article seemed to suggest at all.
Likewise, IIFY (Macros + sugar) would be another improvement.
I'm suggesting that it's complicated. In all of your replies you are talking about what you want to pay for and what you expect in return. But, this isn't about you. It's about hundreds of millions of the poorest people on Earth. If you went on tour of India to personally tell a few tens of thousands of them that because free Facebook access would set a bad precedent (which you are totally right about, btw) they should continue to be cut of entirely until they get rich enough to pay for the level of access you already enjoy, you might find that the issue warrants a bit more thought.