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That's too application focused. The primary value of arithmetic is that it forces you to exercise parts of your mind in a way which would otherwise be difficult.

The same can be said of general mathematics, and literary analysis, etc.
Do we also lose the progressive tense, then? How would one express something like "The car ran me over while I was walking to the store?"

I suppose "The car ran me over while walking to the store," but that's ambiguous, since some sort of walking car could have run me over, when I happened to be sitting on a bench outside the store.
Not actually true! Human adaptation has accelerated in the last 50,000 years, recording more changes than in the previous million. Adapting to crowded cities, monotonous diets, close socialization, rote work has marked our genetics in profound ways.
Hmm that's interesting - I'd tend to round one of the numbers, whichever is closest to a '5' or '10', to make an 'easier' multiplication, then add / subtract the extra value lost / gained by rounding.

Example 9 x 14 = (<10> * 14) - ([1] * 14) = 140 - 14 = 126

key: <> easier rounded number [] deal with rounding 'error'
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Two counter-points...
1. Computers in classrooms have rarely, if ever, been deployed to entire classrooms in the way that tablets can be. Typically, you'll see one or two PCs in a class, plus a computer lab. PCs don't distract in the same way iPads can.

2. Calculators do make people worse at math. I saw this first-hand with my son. As he went through school, they used calculators for everything. Students began to rely on the calculators for simple arithmetic and took the answers provided as gospel, not realizing that garbage in = garbage out. He, along with many of his peers, never really developed the fluency in math to say to themselves "hmm, that answer looks suspect. Let me try again."
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We don't have any of those problems at my daughter's school. First, all the iPads are locked down using some management software, so the kids are locked out of the clock, etc. that can cause unintentional distractions. Second, they limit use to about 30 minutes per day, so traditional lessons are taught using traditional techniques. Third, our school emphasizes social interaction with project-based learning, with the children working in teams. And a sizable portion of their report card deals with socialization and citizenship.

The tablet is a tool, alongside pencil, ruler, scissors, etc. NOT the primary device for delivering content. The kids use them (K-2) to make movies, make sketches of the things they are engineering, and math drills.

It seems a good lesson was lost on the author: teaching the kids how to appropriately use this type of tool. At my daughter's school, we get it. Starting next year, Grades 3-5 will have an admin account on their take-home MacBook Airs. Yep, sounds totally crazy. The value here is teaching the children not just how to use their computer but how to take responsibility for keeping it running. Hopefully El Capitan rootless mode will provide a robust defense against those pesky Flash 0-day bugs.
West will not win against crazy groups by reimplementing the great firewall of China.

If the state wants to control our lifes, they should have
real time access to credit card and phone data.

One main issue is religions and that it turns people against each other
due to different beliefs.
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Imitation is supposedly the greatest form of flattery, so I would say that this startup is really absolutely praising the design of Auth0's Lock[1].

Indeed this seems to offer a subset of Auth0's identity and authentication services with the addition of payment and membership. From the landing page, the scope and ease of use of the latter isn't very clear.

Integrating payment and membership into an identity service seems like a valuable addition but I wouldn't trade that for a fully extensible authentication pipeline[2] and a proven track record.

1: https://auth0.com/lock

2: https://auth0.com/docs/rules
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"they act accordingly" by doing exactly what suits the power structure and their campaign sponsors best and the public never really wants.. what a convenient response.
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This is a good system, though I tend to use my own MP3 player and a couple of albums that I know really well from my hi-fi (which has small but high-quality studio monitors). The key point is to listen for details and the separation between instruments. If you just listen to the music, the human ear/brain is far too good at filling in the missing bits...

I'm not sure any headphones can give you a proper 3D sound stage of the sort that you can get with good loudspeakers (especially the LS3/5a). For that, I use recordings of Shostakovitch's string quartets to see how well I can locate (and distinguish between) four instruments.

Although I'm not fond of it as music, Ravel's Bolero is also a good test track for headphones, because of the way the same theme is repeated by many different instruments.

I use Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7b noise-cancelling headphones, but I don't think there's one headset that suits everyone, any more than there's one pair of speakers, or one car....
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I guess you've never seen a review article. The whole point is to go through the prevailing literature and rationalize the results, with the end goal of providing the consensus position among experts. Which is to say, cherrypicking "a few lines" of citations is one of the worst ways to interpret a review article which draws from hundreds of separate and often conflicting studies. You will note that I quoted from the abstract, where they clearly state their position.

This review draws from 204 studies, 20 of which you have cherrypicked one-line statements from. I don't see the utility in getting a 10% cursory review of a review from a layman who has an axe to grind.

Complexity of course exists, but not in the dishonest sense that you implied in your initial comment. What I am telling you, and anyone else that is listening, is that as of 2009 experts in the field have concluded that it is absolutely practical to be healthy on a well planned meatless diet, notional doctor and newspaper strawmen be damned.
France doesn't consider anything. If you speak French, just read the original article on lemonde. It's just a wish list from people working in police and gendarmerie.

Etabli mardi 1er décembre par la direction des libertés publiques
et des affaires juridiques (DLPAJ), il recense toutes les mesures
de police administrative que les policiers et les gendarmes
souhaiteraient voir passer dans le cadre des deux projets de loi
en cours d’élaboration, l’un sur l’état d’urgence et l’autre sur
la lutte antiterroriste.

Even if it was an official proposition from government, there were no guarantee this will go through the legislative process. Parliamentary members do not follow systematically the government and even when they do, many laws are partially or completely blocked by "conseil constitutionnel".
I do the same. However, recognizing you can do that is part of learning arithmetic and problem solving in general. I learned that method at an early age and it taught me that most big, scary problems in general are really just a bunch of small problems that can be identified and solved more easily.
I built a similar "login as a service" three years ago, and the biggest I came across was that any modern web framework already includes authentication and user management out of the box. And user management that is guaranteed to integrate with the rest of the framework. It was a really difficult sell trying to convince developers to use my service rather than their own framework.
I'll allow it:-)
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I repeat, you're the one assuming that for other people is more important look than price or quality.

Why do you automatically assume that the most important thing about headphones is "look" for everyone?
I've done that before too, but for whatever reason my mind just defaults to adding two numbers rather than subtracting. Probably either habit or I just find it easier.
> but please tell me why playing with Legos is any more valuable than playing minecraft?

She did - because it encouraged collaboration and conversation.
These schools have too much money
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Chiefly:

- Exporting IEDs that were used against coalition troops in Iraq

- Supporting Hamas and Hezbollah

Plus all the other items on this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...
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Need to change the reward structures.

I don't think Max Weber ever fathomed a world where human labor was unnecessary and inefficient.

Work is not rewarding if you can never have it.

Still waiting for the new treatise.
It's available and it hasn't been taken down, that's some indication it might be legitimate.

I agree that it's unlikely. But it's possible, and certainly much more ambiguous than grabbing a torrent off some ad-laden site for a TV show you can buy on iTunes.
I do 9 x 14 in my head by breaking it down. I assume others do this too. Anyone should be able to break a problem down (pre or post tech generation) and do the small parts, then put them together to answer the bigger question.

In general, that's the essence of learning. If we stop teaching that, then we're all in trouble ;)

9 x 10 = 90

9 x 4 = 36

90 + 36 = 126
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I'm not an education professional, but this seems like it would be a better idea for kids that are a little older than third grade.
Thanks for this. This looks interesting.
>Without growth, he says, economic life becomes a zero-sum game. “As Martin Wolf, the Financial Times commentator has noted, the option for everybody to become better off—where one person’s gain needn’t require another’s loss—was critical for the development and spread of the consensual politics that underpin democratic rule.” In other words, the function of economic growth is to blunt the force of envy in a world with highly skewed distributions of income and wealth.

The answer lies right here but the author fails to consider it. We could evolve our economic systems to redistribute obscene wealth and build a more egalitarian society. The ones who give in this scenario only lose on paper but they wouldn't notice any difference in their day to day. This is especially true once automation becomes the norm. The article is too simplistic and fails to consider a host of important variables which are only now coming into play.
Yeah, but when the latency from description input to program output is in seconds, then you could iterate on the description quite fast. It would be like programming, except you don't need to know any algorithms and all the plumbing takes care of itself.
10 times 14 - 14.
Technology is filled with plenty of idea that have their second comings: consumer tablets, grocery delivery, etc.
Funny how this article would fit right in at the apex of the Roman Empire. Their "Mad Max" era was just the middle ages.

And how it would fit right in the middle of the "middle ages" if you're looking at it from the perspective of the caliphates.

And for the Mongols, their "Genghis Khan" era was equivalent to our modern era.
For your #2, quoting from the link:

Loads and stores are relative to the X, Y, and Z registers, which are
aliases for the 16 bit register pairs starting at r26, r28, and r30
respectively (r30 is an alias for Z)
Ha, very interesting, I do something very similar, although for multiplication by 9 I would multiply by 10(since it requires no mental effort, you just add a zero at the end) then subtract one. So:

14 x 10 = 140

140 - 14 = 126
I find (10x14) - (1x14) = 140 - 14 = 126 slightly quicker and less error prone than carrying the ten across the hundred boundary with 9x10 + 9x4 = 90 + 36 = 126, I'm not an educator though so there may be better ways taught now.

But this is wildly off topic, and in reality I'd rather someone knew how to use their calculator or excel or Python to do this sum than know how to do this sum in their heads.

It's important they know the rough answer in terms of scale and shape, so that any mistype or error is quickly recognised, but I don't think it is important to actually know how to quickly do long multiplication in one's head.
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Second that recommendation. Best sound. Terrible look.
I'd say it really isn't. The region involved is already rife with conflict and IS is not without supporters who also happen to be our allies. If it were the 'perfect enemy' then no such conflicts of interest would exist.
I think he was saying that automating all the things is good, but we need to rethink the economic system that we currently have. Imagine the logical extreme of our current trajectory: a world in which robots/computers do everything that humans currently do. 100% automation, 0% employment.

This should be a good thing, giving humans unprecedented leisure time and producing a huge cultural boom. The problem is that in the current economic system 0% employment means the world would be impoverished, except for the few that owned the robot/computer production systems.
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I did like the opening picture though. There's something creepy about it!
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Something not previously mentioned as an answer, perhaps because its too obvious, is the existing standard hiring process is so badly broken that frankly "plays well with others" and "can successfully research obscure topics on the internet" and "knows whats important enough to cheat on" ALREADY produces an economically useful financially valuable product over the existing system. Anything better is pure gravy, and it probably won't be hard to produce something better than that lowest level.

Honestly its a big world and there are jobs for people merely smart enough to successfully reimplement based on an online guide with no supervision. Maybe 99.999% of humanity can't do that.

Or rephrased in an absolute theoretical sense its a problem, but in a relative competitive sense its not an issue.
Hey Lucas

I'm very happy to share!

So I'm on my 6th or 7th startup attempt at the moment. User management is one of those areas which starts off simple but becomes an amazing distraction. If you're a team of less than 5 people you're sacrificing a huge amount of time on something which isn't core business. When I first started I did everything myself, but after each startup I learnt more and more not to do anything myself.

So in my current project I'm using (amongst others) these startups to replace things I would initially have done myself.

ChargeBee - Billing

Auth0 - Authentication

AWS Lambda - Server logic

Firebase - persistence for the UI

Zapier (the swiss army knife for SaaS companies!)

Surge.sh - static SPAs

Intercom - everything to do with users which isn't auth.

The initial fear of lack of control when using 3rd parties that sometimes SaaS companies have is unwarranted, the odds are against us succeeding in the first place so time spent writing auth stuff etc is time we'll never get back. Even if we succeed we will probably take 2 years to be profitable. That's plenty of time to migrate our systems if we need to - and we probably won't.

ATB, Neil
Iran has funded numerous terrorist groups for years, ever since their revolution.
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The company doesn't want the developer to live in Silicon Valley. The developer already does and that means any company that hires him/her will have to pay that premium because his/her market value is higher.
"booked" means you sold something but haven't produced or delivered it yet.

but in consulting/services you can't realize sales as "real" revenue until you actually delivered the services.
I'm surprised that (by appearances) these iPads were in essentially full-time 1:1 use in a 3rd grade classroom, when students have a lot of learning to do about and through movement and physical manipulation, not to mention social engagement.

From what I've seen[1], in lower elementary grades technology can be very effectively used in the hands of the teacher (for assessment, interpreting student strengths and weaknesses in reading or math, and for projecting rich media).

Putting devices in the hands of students in lower elementary is probably best done for very targeted purposes and limited time; for example, keeping the rest of class engaged with an activity while the teacher is giving his or her full attention to working with a reading small group for 30 minutes.

[1]I've been part of teams creating teacher-facing tools for elementary, and digital curriculum for middle school and above.
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All of HotSpot's GCs for example. Here's a survey of different approaches for stopping in GC.

http://dl.acm.org/authorize.cfm?key=N98613

Also note that Azul almost certainly has the same mechanism to do things like stop the world for dynamic class loading, even if it isn't using it for GC when running the pauseless collector.

And Section 4 and 5 of this paper talks a bit more about it's implemented http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/icooolps15-safepoints/saf....
You can't attack Saudi Arabia because that's tantamount to the attacking the entire Muslim world. Not many Muslims I know have any love for the Saudi regime, but almost all have a huge emotional connection to the holy cities of Makkah and Medina that they don't even have for their own countries.
How do you introduce yourself?

http://eprimedictionary.pbworks.com/My+name+is+Sally

Has some suggestions. All seem pretty awkward to me.
Seems she wasn't up for an interview. Anonymous and the little info we have from her experience was what was impressed on the doctor.
> Most of the time, they found nothing

They found 230 illegal weapons. That's not what I call nothing...
The sections of this paper are, in order: Abstract, Introduction, Results, Methods, Additional information, Accession codes, References, Acknowledgements, Author information, Supplementary information

Is it typical to present the methods after the results in medical research papers? And to have the author info and acknowledgements after the main write-up?

In my field we were consistently taught to present the intro/lit review (i.e. set-up the problem space), then methods (i.e. how we're trying to solve the problem that we just laid out for you), then the results (i.e. using the methods that the reader now knows, here's the data), and finally any interpretations of the results.

In addition, I was always taught that author info and acknowledgements go before the main write-up. This is to help illuminate potential biases (e.g. research into gun-related violence will read very differently if either the National Rifle Association or the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence funded the research).
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> During the SOPA/PIPA legislation, multiple websites went dark to protest against the legislation. People in HN applauded it. Why is it now childish for an opensource software developer to express his disappointment in this way?

If multiple websites asked you who you voted for in the last election and then went dark if you said "McCain", then you would have a point. Protesting harmful legislation is one thing. Refusing to do business with people based on their politics is another.
I'm guessing the "AI" is mostly just marketing bs. They're just trying a different consultancy model and have been given 10 mill.
Leave Mecca and Medina alone then and just take the oil fields.
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So the real issue here is the lack of in person face to face? Which is the continued argument that adults/college students don’t know how to handle social interactions with tech. Is it possible adults/college students don’t know how to handle social interaction with tech around because their exposure was much later in life? Is the lesson these kids learning even more important? How to hold on to humanity in the face of technology. Or possibly humanity and tech has entirely different direction and we are just trying to fight it all together.
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Remember when that guy was offering to buy every classroom free TVs in exchange for the school's commitment to have the kids watch a certain amount of programming a day? The programming included ads. This seems the same. Having the kids load linux onto laptops, yeah... I could understand the value in that. Having them work with Raspberry Pi's, I could see the merit in that. Program robots? Definitely. But this debacle of Apple products for kids has been terrible. I do believe the schools and city councils are well meaning. Yes, these expenditures are so huge the city councils have to often get involved. But introducing kids to computing via the walled gardens of Apple are a disservice to them, and a step back, in my opinion. Apple devices are imminently non-configurable... they are designed to walk you through the computing experience, training you to seek the help of 'geniuses' as opposed to becoming your own genius. The cost of these programs is astounding. Districts could be loading linux onto machines bought for relatively nothing... those linux skills would be immediately applicable to Raspberry Pis and to robots. Are schools afraid of really educating their students, as opposed to making them dependents of Apple's consumer culture?
I disagree. The cases where I would do so voluntarily are limited, but I've been forced to deal with binary data on several occasions. HDF5 is also my goto if I am in control, but sometimes you're given data that is only in some obscure binary format.

Unless you were implying that such work is best done in another language. I can buy that, but I found Python to be a convenient choice for it.
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> Did you see the interest rates cited in the article?

Yes. Did you?

article: Branch charges between 6% and 12% interest—based on the borrower’s creditworthiness—and loans are usually repaid between three weeks and six months later... Traditional microlending tends to be far more expensive—interest rates often exceed 25%

So we're talking somewhere between 13% and 19% less interest (a 52% - 76% decrease in interest rate)... which sounds like a large improvement, though I agree it would be nice to see more discussion re: transaction fees.

What am I missing?
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I don't remember being "trained" to be loud and space-demanding? And I don't remember my wife being "trained" to deal with it.

Society is ever changing rubbery blob that's being melded into different shapes based on what people do, have done or will do.

You can't just go ahead and make large generalisations about men or women without any backlash, especially on the internet.

I'm sure if I made a comment saying all women should be/are xyz on twitter, I sure as hell would be trolled/attacked; it's what you as a person deals with it.
What is "architecture"?
Minecraft has servers that multiple people can join in on and there are audio chat programs but if they are in the same room they can just talk to each other as well.
Learning how to take control when faced with all these screens and all this information and communication without getting sucked in might be one of the greatest lessons to teach children today.