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Mass-immigration in Europe didn't happen until late XX century, when national identities were entirely fully-formed and indeed brought upon us the disastrous World Wars. The cosmopolitan worldview that approves of melting-pots was born in response to the terrible failure of nationalism, which "we" experienced to the fullest.

> it's your own very government selling your society.

It's as much "your" government as it is mine, and I don't feel like they're selling anything, in this particular case.

If you think freedom of movement is bad, do you think capital should also be controlled? If not, why should money be free to flow, but not people? To artificially create "salary jails" to exploit? If you assume that money should move to maximize its potential, then the same should be allowed for people, surely?

Freedom of movement and freedom of enterprise are amongst the highest achievements of human civilization, which we paid for with millions of deaths in the XX and XIX century.
Universal apps and the same operating system across all devices is surely the future.

Not until we find a UI that rules all categories. Touch apps are typically bad desktop apps, desktop apps are typically bad touch apps. As respectively shown by Windows 8 on desktops and Microsoft Office on the original Surface RT. WIMP is probably still the best paradigm for desktops.

I do agree that platform fragmentation is bad. Apple has traditionally been pretty good at this (at least it's the same language and largely the same or comparable Frameworks).
6 is literally 60% - a D-, or on a test containing 100 questions at 1 point each, the minimum score required not to outright fail. At most US universities you won't get a degree with a 6/10 average.
But the login backdoor?
Well the original commenter basically said, the article defended itself well against criticism that there would be harm caused by teaching a young child to read, so his question was "what is the benefit?"

So I wonder: isn't reading a benefit in and of itself? If there's no direct harm, then it ought to be at worst a waste of time.
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Yeah, I know its pretty over for OS X despite what Apple says. The quality of the "California" series has been horrible with networking, constant sandbox problems, and Finder errors that should have been caught on day 1 of testing. It just makes me queasy every time I have to open Console and look at all the errors scrolling by. I just hate not having a Terminal if I plug into a monitor. Or maybe I'm just bummed that I am going to end up learning Swift (I really don't like it) replace a language I enjoy (Objective-C). Won't be the first time I've programmed in something I dislike to get the results I want.

I sometimes wonder if a Cocoa 2 evolution of the desktop to bring the Cocoa & Cocoa Touch back together, although I believe the Mac App Store is problematic for entirely different reasons.
Isn't this a difficulty that any child would face, no matter what time they learned how to read?

I'd think in context---a child taught how to read in a one-on-one interaction with a parent is more likely to have their difficulties noted and receive help from that same parent, than a child taught how to read in a one-on-fifteen classroom setting.
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"Many consumers have enjoyed the falling price of fuel in the form of lower petrol prices; several UK supermarkets have begun selling petrol at below £1 per litre - which they last did in 2009."

It feels as though prices haven't fallen relatively here in Canada, at least not on the west coast.

(112.9c CAD / litre in Victoria, BC)
Not in the US. Public schools are funded and managed by the local governments (usually county or city). So, only residents of those locales get to attend.

You could send a child to a private school in the suburbs, but that's doesn't gain you anything over sending the kid to a private school closer to home. Plus, it costs an additional $6000+/year. That's tuition at my local Catholic high school; it's an average school, no better than the publics in the same area.
"Fragmented platforms is a programmers hell. Universal apps and the same operating system across all devices is surely the future."

That's not going to happen, sorry. Windows and OSX for the desktop and Android and iOS for mobile devices is how it's going to stay for a quite some time.
Ideally, a portfolio is purpose tailored. It emphasizes logos when pursuing logo design work. It emphasizes web design for web design work. etc.

Good luck.
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> but reading is the single skill with the highest payoff, when it comes to learning things that let you learn more things

Not when you're two. When you're two you need to learn that asking questions is okay, how to ask questions, and how people answer questions.
>email server provider take actions to protect against seizure

And how might that be done. The obvious answer would be encrypt the hard drive but what's preventing law enforcement from doing a cold boot attack?
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This would be kind of impractical. It might work with older cameras, especially in indoor scenes. But modern cctv cameras have pretty good WDR (wide dynamic range) by default, and you'd likely find that your face gets better exposure than you think. It some cases, especially indoors, this hat could actually HELP the camera if the light from it bounces off nearby walls and then illuminates your face.

Not to mention the battery pack and heat generation issues from such a hat would make it rather cumbersome to wear anyway.
I think people here will be really interested to know that this is an active technique in the "quantum hacking" world as well. As you probably know, quantum mechanics very often offers 100% security about creating shared keys which nobody else knows -- but there is a very active physics subfield called "quantum hacking" which says "well, but you're assuming that your device perfectly embodies these equations and the reality is it doesn't, so let's see what happens if we drive up the parameters to a non-ideal regime, can we run a Man-in-the-Middle attack then without you both knowing about it?"

Here's for example a pop-science article about using camera zapping on Vice Motherboard:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-new-quantum-hack-just-bur...

The solution to this was to include a filter which prevented oversaturation at the target wavelengths, but it turns out you could just blast it with some other wavelengths...

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530181/the-next-battleg...

So it's a really fun-looking discipline, lots of groups hiring postdocs for it etc.
I don't understand your point. I could care less about any of these things. A few of them I would rather not do, even had I the option. Life contains a series of problems that need to be solved. If you solve them adequately, then you are happy and fulfilled. If you don't solve them at all, then you are unhappy. It's as true for the rich as it is for the poor.

How to attain personal fulfillment. How to leave a legacy. How to earn the love of your family, friends, and community. How to retain a sense of control over your destiny. You can do all of these things with or without the wealth that would allow you to go to Cannes. You can fail to do them even if your personal masseuse is also your mistress. You can even do them if you're poor.

Having the easy access to information that today's Internet offers means you don't have to limit yourself to your own mind, your own efforts.

Fly a Mig? Christ man, talk about missing the point.
> Yes, Apple sells a lot through the Apple Store in Norway, but do those stores make any profit?

My mistake: I meant the App Store not a physical Apple Store. We are not worthy of that yet here.
Detour to the nearest car lot and buy a car.
That concept is used in Daniel Suarez's book 'Influx' to avoid AI systems doing facial recognition.
I've always maintained that this was not an accident at all. This was an attempt by the Soviet Union of psyops against NORAD. I would imagine they uncovered the number through other means and created the ad as a way to launch a "denial of service" against NORAD by having kids call them.

The official story says that the ad was placed by a Sears store. What kind of department store would be able to handle calls "day and night"? And the ad specifically mentions "Kiddies be sure and dial the correct number". Has anyone bothered to figure out what the actual number for the Sears store was back then?
I'd be curious to know how this software compares with Amethyst. I've also been using Amethyst for some time with no problems, but it is sometimes a bit sluggish. I have so far assumed this has more to do with unavoidable limitations in the OS X gui ecosystem. It is written in Objective-C, is available on homebrewa and has a binary distribution available, provides a gui configuration manager, and seems to include all features claimed by kwm—including focus follows mouse. But if I knew how the two projects differ and, in particular, what kwm provides (or plans to provide) that Amethyst doesn't, I might consider giving it a shot.
No way out of this, really. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

At least they took the high road and admitted the backdoor right away.
lsseckman had it right. I'm comparing it with a non-bitcoin cenralized little app. In an edit I added "by comparing it with a centralized version" to my first sentence. crud is this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delet...

I'm comparing it with, basically, a spreadsheet/database at a bank (i.e. if trust isn't an issue). to put into perspective the scale of the difference.
"state funding for higher education has been nearly monotonically decreasing since the 80s"

That's not because of taxes. Taxes haven't gone down.

Doctors and Pharma have extracted ever more cash from Medicaid. Wall Street has badly mismanaged public pensions as public unions have demanded ever richer pensions. Prison populations have multiplied. It all adds up to less money in state budgets for education.
Printers and Javascript, a match made in hell.
Given the differences between StackExchange and HN, ideally the questions would be tailored for each community. To go further, it may make sense to post serially since questions can be improved based on responses on other sites.
a DSL should be able to offer more than the ability to define symbols as operators, no?
Almost like every other currency?
I worked in this environment for a good long time. There really is something to be said for "sometable.width = 25" being all it takes to persist something.

On the other hand, it was also possible to really trash your environment with one stray for loop. Threading is also pretty hard on top of a hierarchal object store shared by everything.

But... well... again, the ease of the moral equivalent of "append(post, blogposts)" being the entire serialization story is pretty nice. It's 2015 and I still spend an awful lot of time opening files, reading from them, and writing from them, and I spend an awful lot of time bending my programs in various ways to fit into SQL. I've still never quite seen anything as slick. Maybe Zope, but I was never able to sit down with the docs long enough to figure out the "hello world" example. Does make me wonder if there might not be some sort of optima we're missing here. Makes me want to see if Rust couldn't support something interesting that would be both safe and easy.
Have you spent any time teaching unmotivated students?

Yes, ideally, every student would be motivated to learn for its own sake, but for an individual say, 8th grade, teacher to get a class of kids to that point is an enormous task. And yes, perhaps the entire education system should be revamped so that kids never lose motivation, but how to do that is hardly a solved problem.

Which means "Here's the deeper principles that motivate this problem" is going to have a huge uphill battle against "just tell us how to do the problems that are going to be on the test", or worse, "this has no relevancy to my life, so I'm going to tune out this entire class".
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Yes, but not many, and they sell for premium prices. They are often sold a "penthouse" units, only on the top few floors.

They are frequently aimed at retirees downsizing from even larger free-standing homes. Or, wealthy buyers looking for an urban crash-pad, in addition to their mansion outside the city center.

edit - a quick search of Washington DC shows 14 units available with 3+ bedrooms and <$700,000. Of those, about half are in really rough neighborhoods, where no professional likely to move.
Why is everybody immediately making these types of diversion responses regarding relational datastores to mongodb breaches? Mongo has popularity and 2 fixable issues that make the exposure numbers outweigh those of every other datastore right now.

1. There is no password prompt during installation. This was the same problem many relational databases had back in the day with default user credentials. Today, I don't know of a single relational datastore that comes with default credentials during installation. (ignoring things that shouldn't go to production like homebrew) Individually, they all said it was a "security threat" and did something about it.

2. Things like MMS or other offering from MongoDB itself expect you expose your nodes externally so they can manage things for you. This can easily be made secure... but its contradictory in nature. It suggests to somebody who probably doesn't know what they're doing on the IT or DevOps fronts to do something more easily dangerous than not... just so they can sell their vendor services to you. Its a recipe for disaster but its also easily fixable with a few design changes on their side.
It's quite a deliberate international network of companies purely set up for the purpose of not paying tax. I would say it's a loophole even though it also consists of obviously legal and locally encouraged practices such as setting up a company in Ireland with a low tax rate. But yes it's an issue with lack of international agreements to avoid situations like this with huge corporations not paying tax locally and small businesses in the same area paying high local taxes.
What an interesting misinterpretation.

Nobody would use "I was just eating food on a regular basis" as a defense against blame for misdeeds, which the GP's quote (referencing the Nuremberg defense and similar things events of disavowing blame for evil acts) would be commenting upon.
California's fuel prices will always be higher than other states because their blend is stricter than most of the rest of the nation and far fewer refineries are built to produce that blend.
Good point. I wasn't suggesting teachers suck. In my experience, though, this approach is more accessible, but it isn't widely used. I'm not a trained educator, so I'm wondering if there we don't see more of this sort of teaching in the classroom.
My thoughts on this are loosely formed :)

However....

The systematic review and meta-analyses processes involve reading screeds of text and data; organising it; analysing it; weighing it against measures of quality; and conducting (often counter-intuitive) statistical procedures.

This is the sort of thing that takes humans a loooooong time and is prone to error. A domain-specific AI would surely excel at tasks like this.
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Technology changed the game, and some were pitches to fund something else.
Seems like OPEC's current strategy is to dump oil onto the market for a low price.

This both makes it unsustainable for the competition to drill for oil, and creates a higher demand.

Once many of the competing (e.g. Western) oil companies goes bankrupt, OPEC can increase the prices and enjoy both higher demand and increased profit. At that point, it will take a long time before investors feel comfortable investing in oil again in fear of an identical situation. They also push renewables into a similar spot.

I was looking for a reference that shows debt vs. market cap of US oil companies, but cannot find it. It didn't look promising for the US oil companies.

Anyway, this doesn't have anything to do with peak oil, which we are likely passing these years (for conventional oil). Except we'll likely crash sooner if we increase demand.
Every word in this article is utter nonsense, and yet the Washington Post gave it a platform. This is being treated as a serious debate, with sides and perspectives, and nobody is laughing these people off the stage. And if we engage with such arguments in the slightest, or give them the slightest bit of credibility, we're taking a serious risk of allowing an Overton window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window).

There are issues with sides. This is not one of them. There is no middle ground on this issue; there is "broken" and "not broken". "Privacy" and "security" do not mean "except from the government" or "except for the company selling the device". And it doesn't matter whether a search is lawful; if it is possible without the consent of the owner, the device has a critical security bug.

A court can determine a search is lawful all they like; that gives them the right to perform the search. You've got a warrant? Here's the device, go right ahead. No, I don't want it back; I have backups.

Governments wonder why technologists want to make it impossible to comply with their demands, and protect users even from themselves? Because their demands look like this and we're tired of losing.

How do we reach a point where people like this get laughed off the stage, the way they would if they talked about how much simpler maps would be for a flat earth? How do we not just "win" this "debate" but prevent every future such "debate"?

How do we stop losing? How do we end the fight completely and permanently?
http://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/opec-meeting-effect...

OPEC is effectively dead.
Generally (in the UK and Ireland), the reverse is true. If the odds go down after you place your bet, you get your initial odds, if the odds go up (to say 18/1) before the race, you will get 18/1. Most reputable bookies do that these days.
He's the one that put that team together. It's because of him that SpaceX exists. Yes, I'm sure he'd be the first to give credit to his team.

You know he said recently that he was going to give less interviews. I'm sure he likes and uses his public persona to help his endeavors...but that's just being smart.

Steve Jobs did the same thing with Apple.

And as for thanking the American people. Hogwash. Did you personally make a choice in this matter? Sure you voted in the officials that did...that's where the money went...and they made the choice to spend it this way.

You know why? Because it's a smart move. A move towards a future where space travel can expand and grow because it will be more economical and feasible to accomplish.

So...yes, of course the engineers should be applauded! And THEY know this! And I'm positive they are celebrating this monumental event.

You should too! :)
> It is one of the great errors of the "SCIENCE!" attitude that it convinces people that if we do not have peer-reviewed papers, we must necessarily claim full and total ignorance and berate anybody who attempts to do otherwise.

In fact, I think quite the opposite. Its one of the great errors that people assume peer-reviewed papers are always correct, a lot of the time they're not.

We should be sceptical of people's claims when not supported by evidence. That doesn't mean we should ignore said claims, just that we shouldn't blindly accept them. This is the point where we should go and get some evidence, try to get a few teachers to use tau from the beginning and see if that helps.

Though I do agree that we shouldn't be scared of doing things just because we don't categorically know that it is right.

> Given how standardized education is nowadays, as I complained in another comment, it isn't exactly a far-out theory that when the same person, in the same context, switches to using tau, and sees a difference in results, that it may have something to do with using the more mathematically-sensible concept for teaching.

Or thinking about the same concept in different ways help you to understand the concept better. Its certainly something I believe has helped me a lot previously.
I had a dumb phone until this summer when the spring broke. When I told people and showed them my phone, they would stare at me and wonder "You're a techy, and you don't have a phone from this decade?"
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It's difficult to get the science right, because controls are difficult to come by.

In TFA, he refers to two important longitudinal studies which indicate that there is a persistent positive effect between early readers and non-early readers. I have not read those studies, but I can't help but wonder how well they controlled for confounding factors.

That is, that early reading is an effect or rather evidence, of their long run aptitude in school. That if the early readers were compared not just with the general population, but with students who were not early readers but had the same income levels, parental education level, family structure, etc.

He also claims without evidence that any child can be taught to read at an early age. But it sounds like in his sample N=2. If there is evidence where a random sample (rather than a self selecting sample, which would introduce bias) of children are taught reading early and have a persistent benefit I would like to see it.

That being said, good for him,and good for him to recommend this to others. It seems clear that his children seem happy, well-adjusted and achieving their academic potential. Given his personal experience, why wouldn't he share it? But I don't think the evidence is there to claim this is universal.
Just updated the post with a video of the table going up and down (exciting ! :P )
Win32 apps suck at touch and always have. MS has had pen and then touch devices out via OEMs for over a decade. Trying to close a browser window via a 16px "x" is terrible on a 12" laptop; but on a phone?

Your phone running full Win32 APIs probably isn't the great boon it'd otherwise be. Likewise Windows tablets have not gotten much traction in the past (or present) -- you simply must have a pen and most likely a Bluetooth keyboard to properly use them. I bought a few, tried to use them, gave them to people -- Android devices just blow them away.

The real touch apps --- Metro -- are pretty terrible (slow, even MS's own Metro calc takes seconds to load.) And of course mean rewriting a lot of things.
Does this mean you've installed and are using it? Does it feel more responsive?
> Good point. Actually I think the strict definition of "middle class" should be simply the average in a certain country.

That assumes a normal distribution of wealth. In an authoritarian aristocracy or another similar government structure, you'd see pareto distribution wherein the leadership has 99% of the wealth and the average person is sharing 1%.

Therein by the 'average', there is no middle class.

I think... economically, this is quite true: there is no middle class. Yet we still call people who look like the classical middle class of yesteryear, middle class: professionals, white-collar workers, freelancers, small business owners. It's more of a social class now, than an economic one.