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No. Everything keeps transforming at each iteration for better serving the system purpose: efficiency (for this system specific set of rules).

The source code (genes) propagation per se would be completely useless to the system, without the processes they express: living systems, the most efficient energy transforming machines the system has been able to incrementally arrange up so far starting out of random stuff.

Therefore reproduction is exactly for that, for allowing the continuation of this energy transforming processes (life processes) in the most efficient way.
That's one of the various reasons for the name; there's no single reason Rust is named "Rust."
While they are the same, Intel is much easier to read.
Good question. Maybe someone else here knows more, but the first thing that jumps out at me is to ask your Congressman not to listen to lobbyists that are against the 18F for no valid reason. Whereas some government workers may be hard to fire and take it too easy on the job (a stereotype, I know, but mentioned in case this is a concern for you), the 18F members serve for only a 2-year term which can be renewed once. Performance is high and they've been very busy helping many government agencies in their first couple of years and as far as I can see the agencies need them to really continue pushing a culture change towards more rapid innovation of business processes, etc.
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On a podcast, a father with a younger daughter kinda dislikes the amount of homework she has to do. Wants to let her have time to be a dumb kid. He tried not bossing her about her homework, told her it was up to her to try. He said she was really on top of it. Managed it quite well.
Awesome, my kids would take the cookie out of my mouth as I chew it. I put that down mainly to nurture.

IME toddlers will refuse to touch something almost perfect aesthetically then pick up something else out of the dirt, a worm maybe, and pop that in their mouth.

Not sure we should be modeling pedagogies to foster toddler temperamentalility.
Fair point but that's neither what the title says nor what he wants you to believe. This is clickbait. And technically what I described is an economy of scale wrt software development the same way the assembly line corresponds to car production. Software dev benefits from fast, cheap distribution of a product that can be duplicated easily because otherwise a developer would need to rewrite the software each time and deliver it by hand to users.
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I've been primarily concerned if they store data encrypted at rest, with my own key.
Well that's not a fact though. Mandatory schooling started in Prussia and was required for children aged 5-14 and the Weimar constitution adopted it as well.

This is just the typical "ermahgerd authoritharianism" Hitler comment that always comes up when the American audience hears the word government and Germany in the same sentence, it's a Pavlovian reflex at this point.

I'm German and the only groups currently advocating home-schooling are crazy religious sects who don't want to 'taint' their children with secular education. Getting rid of long fought for public education isn't a progressive issue.
so, this method is great for the outliers, kids like hawking or tony hawk - kids that are driven by themselves, don't need no guidance, help, discipline.

there is a reason asian kids outperform others, and it's not montessori.

and yes, school is about performance as kids will grow up and will need to be able to earn for a living. work, compete.

school is optimized for the average kid with average parents. all the HN outliers don't apply.

i would opt for full day schools in shitty areas, get the kids away from their parents as much as possible. off the street. teach them.
It's a mistake when no group of people considers it correct usage. There's no easy rule. Language is messy.
This is a fantastic essay, and you're cheating yourself out of a great read if you dismiss it as a political argument.

Geoffrey Pullum is a research professor specializing in the description of English and a contributor to the always-excellent Language Log. He is, as a friend of mine described him, an "Internet Linguistics Super Hero".

This is the nerdiest and most interesting piece on African-American dialect you will ever read. Every Standard-English-speaking elite with an opinion on AAVE is wrong about it! And when they're wrong about it, they're wrong in funny ways! The payoff towards the end with William Raspberry trying to mimic AAVE is worth all the build-up --- not that it needs to be, since I couldn't stop reading that build-up either.

The central thesis of the essay is this: elites dismiss AAVE as simplified or "street-talk" English. But it isn't: its rules are rigorous and intricate. You can't simply simplify Standard English and arrive at AAVE. You have to learn it, like any other dialect. Some of AAVE's rules are shared with other dialects, like Cockney. Some of its more idiosyncratic rules, like double-negatives, are mainstream features of other high-status languages. Whatever your political affiliation is, it's hard to read this piece and come away thinking anything other than AAVE should should take its place among all the other well-accepted English dialects.

Having read the whole thread here, I'll take a second to point out what the essay is not about:

* It's not about "teaching AAVE at school". The only case it makes for AAVE's role in education is to suggest that AAVE-aware instruction will improve outcomes for learning Standard English.

* It's not about whether we should take special efforts to preserve AAVE, which makes about as much sense as contriving a long argument about whether we should preserve Cockney or Quebecois.

* It's not about whether AAVE speakers should speak only AAVE. In fact, the essay heavily implies the opposite. Had it not been written before the mainstreaming of the term "code-switching", I imagine code-switching would factor heavily in the essay.
Limiting high rise sounds like a good thing. Especially in places reasonably far from the equator. It's nice being able to get sunlight at the street level!

I don't think very tall buildings are the answer. More and better communal services and smaller more efficient properties. I think that would go a fair way.
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Are you familiar with Agile Learning Centers? I'd love to hear your thoughts on these. http://agilelearningcenters.org
There are a couple ways to be called a 10x programmer.

One is by doing more, by throwing around more code and building more features. This is the kind that the article talks about. It's quite hard to maintain this kind of multiplier, no matter how much technical debt you're willing to create. I can think of one example of someone like this, and his multiplier was definitely not 10x. At the time, he was at best labelled "up-and-coming." He'd go home over the weekend and write thousands of lines of code, and then the team would come in and find everything broken.

Another is by doing less, and simply being at a higher level than others.

In my experience, no-one gets to 10x by just banging harder and letting other people clean up the mess. Even if you do, those aren't the people whose impact is felt for years after they leave, at least not in any positive sense. You get to 10x by being the one person who can spot the mess the rest of the team is about to create before they've written the first line. Your impact isn't felt for years by writing code: it's felt by setting the architecture, by making design decisions that constraint people into writing good code for years to come.
Note that Servo has a GC (the spidermonkey one) since it deals with a managed DOM, so it is an atypical example. Most Rust code I've seen has far less RefCell usage; but yes, RefCell is pretty idiomatic and the boilerplate is minimal.
The entire culture has to change. Had a female programmer who works in Washington D.C. tell me a few years back the unwritten rule is that unless you're at one of the top rungs of the GS federal pay scale you aren't supposed to talk at all.

She had a boss who met with developers and told them nobody cares about your opinions. You see million dollar mistakes being made and you either accept it or leave government which is what she did.
The Aims of Education (1916)
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Clean interface but it made me (re)discover that the related videos are really useful. When a video is over here is like "what now?" and I have to go back to the search page. It wastes times. However I understood the spirit of the experiment. It's just that YouTube with an adblocker and NoScript is not that bad.
> That's the value school has

When you say value, are you talking about the economic type? Because Susie here is probably better off focusing on her music career than learning long division.

I don't see how you can analyze value without quantifying cost and benefit. Even if a better method existed you'd have no way of knowing - especially without more experiments and bigger data sets.
Exactly, some person somewhere who was involved in the traditional process of government software contracting, decided to go rogue.
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Inspirational video about life
That openstates URL seems to be for state legislators, at least in Texas. Use this for your national representatives:

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
> We no longer wear suits and ties just because everyone wears suits and ties. We especially don't presume that someone not wearing a suit and tie is making a mistake or ignorant. We don't presume that they are incapable of writing a program because they are not wearing a suit and tie.

I wear a tie to work as a software engineer and regularly have to convince people that I'm not shit at my job. And that I'm not a lawyer.

In my experience, "hackers" presume all kinds of things, they just have different out-groups than the mainstream.
I have to say I'm of the opinion that modern education is terribly inefficient, and to back my claim I offer that most people who are any good get there not by following a curriculum but by having an interest which they explore on their own.
But that's just on the supposed goals of education. I feel the important achievement of modern school systems is the obedience of the populace, which from a historical perspective is quite a feat really, if far from their professed aim.
I went to catholic school for eight years and came out as a hardcore atheist. I don't think that's uncommon. A good education will undermine whatever superstitious nonsense that goes along for the ride eventually.
Check out page 319 too: "Now you can beat your computer to your heart's content with the Byte Bat" ...
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/11-benefits-lemon...
Treating multiple negation as reinforcement may be weird and unintuitive to you, but earlier English speakers would disagree. In fact, it is the "binary toggle" negation that is the impostor in English, having been grafted from Latin by 18th century grammarians.

http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/aint-nothin-wrong-wit...
This article starts off with addressing how so-called-10x developers are often just building tech debt into their applications. I was with Tiwari on that. Then he moves on to creating a non-judgmental culture... not sure I agree there. And then... linters? Huh?

I think that the anti-judgment folks are trying to achieve something good, but they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. We need to make a distinction between judging behaviors and judging people. The former isn't just good, it's fundamental--the only way to improve your behaviors is to judge them. But judging people is generally pointless, at least without some sort of temporal limitation--almost everyone starts at a new job as -0.5x net contribution until they're onboarded and improves from there.
Some great points in the article. Unsurprising that people here don't want to hear them.
Sad news, a hacker news reader which was me testing random web technologies. no users, no traction, shut down.
Anecdata, unfortunately.
That's easy enough for Lufthansa considering their routes. But there are still areas with no satellite Internet coverage available at any price.
you mean like French goverment?
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are mutually intelligible and the Roman empire's legacy lives on through them. My wife is a native Spanish speaker and she has no problem with all 3 in general. It's worth noting she wasn't impoverished, it requires a high level of education to achieve this. There are many Spanish speakers (because it's a massive part of the world) who don't truly know their own language and cannot do this.
> A Google site-reliability engineer starts work at 9 a.m., leaves at 7 p.m., and works in the evenings until about 10 p.m.

That's 11-12 hours per day, which in the EU would limit him to four working days per week.

For someone working normal hours but also on call, if they respond to an incident during the week they're likely to be given e.g. Friday afternoon off in return.

> career perspective

Did you mean prospects, or something else?

I'm sure it makes a difference in some companies, but there are plenty where it doesn't impress anyone.
Yeah, I started reading this and got a very strong "Steven Pinker" vibe from it. Except I pushed back a lot more against Pinker's assertions than Kahneman's.
Surely it depends on the child?
Slavery is still very much alive, it's just no longer publicly supported. Saying something is in our nature doesn't justify it, it's merely an explanation why something still is. As long as resources are scarce, man will fight, that is the way of things.
I found it fun to image a blank sheet of paper with closed eyes. It takes a couple of minutes but the result is startling and very realistic.
Funny you should say this. We have a mixed "agile" set of teams where I am; some are pure scrum, some more Kanban. This article reminds of the same discussions had at work of those 2 styles.
No. A friend and I built something identical to this. Google's lawyers were not impressed.
The name is an actual show stopper, and the author is being intransigent about changing it so it's only natural for it to be the lions share of the discussion.
The issue isn't teaching AAVE in schools, it's understanding the nature and structure of AAVE and it's relation to General American English so as to improve the teaching of the latter to native speakers of the former.
It's used by a couple of thousand NGO workers, travellers and journalists to manage their physical and digital security ont he move (and it's free, open source).

Umbrella's lessons give you simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering everything from sending a secure email to dealing with a kidnapping or conducting physical counter-surveillance. Users can mark, customise and share simple checklists for quick reminders. It also has a series of security information feeds from places like the UN and Centers for Disease Control to keep you updated on the move.

You can download Umbrella here
-Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
-or Amazon App Store: https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/...
-or F-Droid Repo: https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo (Fingerprint: 39EB57052F8D684514176819D1645F6A0A7BD943DBC31AB101949006AC0BC228)
-Our code: https://github.com/securityfirst/Umbrella_android
-Our code audit: https://secfirst.org/blog.html
GTD has a lot of useful advice like this (have a concrete next step for each task), even if you don't follow the system comprehensively.
Thats fine, but we are already in a position where 10s of millions of people would rather live in the city, but are unable to due to how expensive it is. YOU don't have to move to the city, but if we build more houses in the city, then OTHERS will be able to.
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> What does "appears a prompt" mean?

Guessing, but I'd say it means "respond to a verbal question" presumably from an instructor/superior.
This is NIMBYism at its finest. Those who immigrated to Toronto first own prime real estate near commercial centres. New working families have to move out and commute long distances so that retired folk living in Toronto houses can enjoy their land appreciation and sunshine.
As someone here mentioned:

Those are taking something negative and wrap it in a positive name (positive gain for the author)

We're taking something positive and wrap it in a negative name. This will only cause negative gain. Not only for the author but also for making encryption seem like something evil. This is especially bad time when politicians are trying to ban encryption.
You mean charming radio unfriendly experiments that slowly build up deeply devoted followings over time?

Might see something out of left field from a member station, it's hard to say. Podcasts are doing alright though, probably providing more variety than NPR could ever support.

There's something about the usability or delivery of a radio station though. Low budget college stations and shock jock conglomerates are equally accessible to any user. For a niche podcast to take off, it needs exposure. People need to learn what a podcast is and how to download it.

For NPR shows, well, they were already beamed into everyone's homes. If users just dialed through the static, something they already knew how to do, they'd hear it.
You keep suggesting that AAVE is a simplification of Standard English. But your evidence is superficial: you "drop" a consonant, and so have subtracted from the language, ergo, simplification. But double-negatives don't subtract from the language or its complexity: they add to it. Some of AAVE's rules might seem "simpler" than SE's, and others more "complicated", but trying to plot both dialects along a spectrum of complexity seems like an unrewarding project.

There's no doubt AAVE sounds, to users of SWE, like a "dumbed down" version of the language. But as the essay points out repeatedly, the irony is that it's the SWE-users who are demonstrating ignorance. AAVE is just close enough to SWE to trigger the cognitive biases that trick people into making judgements they aren't qualified to make.
I think you're being downvoted because you seem to assume that, but for your intervention, the people reading this thread would assume that all blacks in NYC are rappers. The downvoters probably assume that you did not make this post in good faith but instead posted in a fit of passive-aggression, or for some other motive that does not contribute to the conversation.
Hey all, i'm one of the team members of Nava, the public benefit corporation that emerged from the MPL team to continue to improve how the government serves its people...happy to answer any questions!
A couple years ago I posted https://github.com/kyleterry/tenyks and it gained about 150 stars. It's a service oriented IRC bot that was backed by redis pubsub (now zeromq pubsub). You can write commands and services to handle messages in any language.

I wish I've had more time to spend on it, but work and has been draining. I really want to build a saas around it with docker to see how people respond to it and use it. I should dedicate some time to this.

Sorry about the above text, I'm on my phone and it keeps autocorrecting >_<.
First NPR didn't come out with phc or car talk in the first place. They were both produced by affiliated local public radio stations and then syndicated (phc is an american public media syndicated show for instance).

Second affiliated stations are still producing great national programs. Stalwarts like "this american life" and "on the media" or newer shows like "the moth radio hour" seem to directly contradict your statement.
Show HN: I'm quitting Instagram, as a 3rd party developer and a user
A few years ago, I was looking for a semi-popular book I could recommend to people on dual systems theory. I picked up Kahneman's TFS expecting it to be a good choice, but was very disappointed. His logic was sloppy and bombastic, but what I found most irritating was that he would constantly, like maybe every other page, slightly misrepresent other people's work.

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Dual systems theories hold that reasoning, categorization, and decisionmaking are the result of two interacting systems, one rule-based/symbolic and the other statistical/associative. The deliberative (Type 2) process is open to introspection but the intuitive (Type 1) is not.

Which system dominates varies by situation. Intuitive reasoning dominates when there is low time or interest. It can also dominate deliberative reasoning when the cost of violating intuition appears large.

The general model of interaction between the systems is that intuition and affect operate through positive feedback and the deliberative system attempts to inhibit the intuitive with varying success depending on relative coherence.

While a weak form of this theory is still largely accepted as useful, there is much criticism based on the difficulty of cleanly isolating the processes. The theory seems to be fading in popularity in favor of multimodularity. The main counter-theory seems to be that deliberative reasoning is mainly cycles of intuitive process.
I did a ShowHN for http://bulkresizephotos.com about a year ago. Arguably, a bit too early. It's a web-based image resizer that doesn't involve transmitting your images to a server. Since it runs locally, it also ends up being surprisingly fast. It may not look pretty, but it does what it says, so most people who need it seem to love it.

I think the Product Hunt attention helped more than HN, but I've learnt that it's the longer term sources you don't expect that help the most. For example, it got into in an ArchDaily.com article that they re-publish every so often. That's easily been the most valuable source.

It's been growing pretty consistently for quite a while. About 5% every week.
Let's not abuse the fact that most of the readership here know nothing about French politics, please.

Here is a text written by Rocard on the topic of software patents:

http://www.sens-public.org/IMG/pdf/SensPublic_MRocard_Patent...

I'll just let those interested here compare your slightly biased description of him with his writing.
Yeah, but gambling is illegal in Japan.

To compare, in most casinos, the casino itself sells you the chips and buys them back. No need to fuss about location since it's all done in one place.

In the Pachinko system, you go into the "casino", spend money on a machine, win the "chips" yourself, then go to another "casino" nearby to sell the "chips" for actual cash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12028169
Thanks for the link, thanks for your efforts. I'll definitely read up on sudval.org.

"They are fully democratic and focus on producing empowered self directed citizens..."

Word.

I've run democratic teams. The empowerment is real. I can't explain it; it feels like magic. Those experiences have transmuted me into a full throated advocate for democracy.

Democracy, in its multitude of forms, is very much a technology. Just like arabic numerals, management, offset type, etc.

"No grades or grade levels..."

I'm hoping your sudval.org link says something about achievement models for education, as an alternative to testing regimes and grades.

My son is an Eagle Scout. He wasn't a very good K-12 student, but he rocked the Scouts. That achievement is largely self-directed, but also structured with concrete outcomes. With plenty of mentoring both up and down. I wonder why learning can't be more like that?