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> Year after year, Rasfeld’s institution ends up with the best grades among Berlin’s gesamtschulen, or comprehensive schools, ...

So there are still grades, or at least someone is still testing the kids. This isn't utopia yet.

>> each school day starts with worship.

Sorry. Game over imho. I am not so put off by the specifics of the religion, but by its presence muddying the academic waters. A school religion means a distinct value system, and associated enforcement mechanisms, over and above what is available at standard public schools. That means the academic achievements of this school may not be applicable as the school's faith may be playing a large role in student motivation.

I once read a paper on whether Hogwarts was a faith school. The theory went that faith schools are characterized by the fact that teachers double as faith leaders, as teachers of morality and dogma, something that does occur at Hogwarts. This motivates students in a manner not available where there isn't religious commonality between students and teachers. The problem is that the scheme breaks down once the kids realize their teachers are but human, flawed and sinful as anyone else. Let's call that the Krabappel effect. Then the religion becomes a reason to distrust teachers, to break ranks even work against them ... like at hogwarts.

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As I am not allowed to reply (thanks for that btw) I'll edit in my reply here.

My comment above is not to whether religion is a good/bad thing, but to the fact that the presence of religion at this school makes it less likely that its results can be replicated at other schools with either different or no religion present.
Every time I've ever had work done here in the US, they would do something on my teeth, then switch rooms and work on someone else for a bit, then come back, etc. Sometimes they'd have a hygienist doing something else, but other times I'd just be sitting there waiting. It seems fairly common.
I've deleted my YouTube account and started using RSS to subscribe to channels. If I could get it to open to this page instead I think I'd have just about the exact experience I'd like. The only change I'd like to see is to have the video fill the page (not full screen or "theater mode") and have absolutely nothing else on there.
Could have sworn that MS have done the exact opposite, by allowing any Windows install to get security patches.
Are you up with TRUMP?
I'm not talking about an internal revolution - there is nobody left in that country to carry that out. Everyone with half a brain and access to a little bit of money has long left.
> I don't think it will take 6 months if you are only working part time.

It wouldn't take very long but I have some special features in my Tiny House design nobody else has. Here are three examples:

I am using a spiral staircase of 3 sq ft. Marvelous design! http://www.eestairs.com/en/36_1m2_by_eestairs_%28efficient_s...

Then I am creating a space illusion using a special one way mirror.

I can place two one way mirrors with a terrarium (a small indoor garden) between them. This way two different rooms (bathroom and stairs) can see the terrarium reflected but neither space can see the other. .

Normal one way mirrors require one side to be light and the other dark. With this one way mirror I can have light on both sides. http://www.okaluxna.com/products/viewblock/

I also hope to use natural daylighting with a solar collector and fibre optic cable. This will require some experiments so I am going to do those first.

I'll put all this up online for HN when things get interesting. In particular I'm looking for a cheap way transmit daylight (I have fibre cable but the normal kind is very thin).

> I found working all weekend on the house re-charged me for the job during the week.

I hope that happens to me! ;-)

> A tiny house should not cost hundreds of thousands - wood is just not that pricey at Home Depot. You should start pricing it out and give it a shot.

Looks to be 50k - 75k so far. You can build Tiny Houses really cheaply, even for 5k, but I'm optimizing for longevity (like a custom built stainless steel trailer foundation) and have unusual design features so it will be at the higher end.
I wouldn't be surprised if a good amount of accounts on the site were created and ran by the owners.
At the very least shoulnd't they be providing and supporting multiple major versions on the same system? Major versions are, by definition, for breaking/incompatible changes, so having them being mutually exclusive creates impossible situations doesn't it?
You're not alone. I just eventually fall out of that phase, for no apparent reason, and start delivering, sometimes even for weeks and months. And then I fall back in. Been looking for years, but still can't pinpoint the cause.
Originally from Amsterdam, we joined Techstars in NYC 2015 and afterwards opened up an office in Boulder, CO
Agree the Android app is terrible. For example, notifications are unreliable and it's not even possible to read the comment you're replying to while you type. It's odd, considering the app comes from the same company that built Android and basically makes software for a "living".
For one thing those are/were based in America and china, not Europe. If anything the cases of startups with European founders moving to the USA to found their companies helps my argument. As for companies which have benefitted: microsoft gets paid for android. because of stuff they invested in a long time ago. Motorola getting bought by Google because they invented a lot of things. oracle is of course a very big company and the only thing that keeps it alive is their IP. All those big companies rely on the patent system to make investment decicions. to put someone on a project which takes a long time before it will yield results. If there are no patents, you will not have these kinds of R&D based corporations. And that is a big loss for Europe. As for whether this particular dichotomy is false, it may be so but i doubt it. history has more or less already spoken.
Do you have kids? My toddler won't even eat a cookie that has a corner broken off.
How a team of young people helped rebuild healthcare.gov (2015)
Would it be wise to install different radio equipment on planes? Would it make more sense to use an up-ward facing directional antenna? Also, is ADS-B 1090Mhz really the most reliable way to send signals to a satellite?
keybase.io... right. I've been waiting for an invite letter for a year.

Please stop referring to non publicly open platforms as they were actually usable.

There is keys.gnupg.net, pool.sks-keyservers.net, pgp.mit.edu, etc. These are the well-known ones that had been around for a while.
See @nip's comment there! (if you are using Chrome)
> Islam

Muslims killing people because it is Haram to draw cartoon pictures of their imaginary sky god. Muslims sexually harassing woman in Cologne on New Years. Muslims "call to prayer" blaring over load speakers in non-Islamic countries but in their own Muslim created "suburbs". Muslims wanting public swimming pools gender-segregated.

If the only way to break the ebb of this tide is through conservative/right-leaning/populist politics then this is exactly what will happen, if the majority so wills it.

The actual point is that these are real or perceived to be real grievances that the current political elite are _refusing to entertain as legitimate concerns_. They're not even asking for a "definition". They are flat-out dismissing it as bigotry, racism, "a small minority of disgruntled people", etc. So people have turned to e.g. Trump, who openly talks about this and offers plain and simple plans that address these issues: Build a big wall, deport millions of illegals, etc. You can disagree, but it's a simple solution that people understand.
It didn't make Unix a success, it made Unix a punch-card-and-tape batch processing simulator in the same way the Mac was a paper pushing simulator.

What made Unix a success is a great mystery to me. Presumably it was the ability to run a time-sharing system on low-cost hardware, but then people started taking the tradeoffs it had to make as gospel, which is why we have this ridiculous situation of still wrangling processes on computers with 64 bit bloody address spaces.)
Unschooler here. I am the only unschooler from my 12 person cohort of hippie parents who did not go to University. And I am doing okay. So I think school basically has no effect. Mostly just daycare. It is good at that, though.
My use case: Run an accounting software that is shared between multiple users. I need to save data between sessions.
This attitude is how salary ceilings take hold, how "mandatory crunch time" becomes the norm, and how the idea of work-life balance becomes a joke. Even when one's situation is relatively good, one should continue to fight for better.

"I'm training my off-shore replacement, but at least I'm doing it in air-conditioning!"
Two people work half-time and one guy works full-time on the project. In addition we have 2-3 freelancers who add photos. We make money through donations, ads and referral links to Shutterstock.
What you're saying makes absolutely no sense. Do you even speak another language than English? Millions of people each year have their graduate education on languages other than English and are doing fine. They do learn English for broad communication, but what you're implying is that they couldn't even think in their own language since it's inadequate.

I'm sorry to say but you're full of it if you believe what you wrote. It's an absurdity only someone who has never travelled or been exposed to the world could say.
Exactly this for me.

I simply don't want to deal with new interfaces. I feel that Windows has reached its interface peak around Win7 and Office around version 2003. Everything since has been driven by the need to justify having a team which develops new interfaces for each platform.

Incidentally I feel the same way about OSX - I stopped upgrading my machine with 10.9.5. Don't like the new look and feel that there isn't anything worth upgrading to in the new version that will make me look at that candy-store like design all day long.

Will hold out as long as I can - probably until I get a new machine.
Wait till you hear what rust(y) means/connotes in English!

(Seriously, I know it seems minor, but I've always hated the name they picked; it's almost like they named it "filth".)
Doesn't everybody think they can do better? The xkcd people also knew about the 14 previous standards which they could have tried improving. But they had a new approach, never before attempted, to finally solve the problem for real.
When I point out that gay sex causes harm (your original concern), you suddenly retreat to "industry and lobby driven" and now "unequal mortality". (Gay sex disproportionately kills blacks, but I guess that inequality is ok?)

The reason this is relevant to the topic at hand is that you are making an argument that you know to be flawed. It's clear that you know it's flawed because you refuse to apply it anywhere else, and immediately retreat from "don't want all those people to die prematurely" when those people are dying prematurely from something you don't want to ban.

What do you gain from making an argument you know to be incorrect?
> it seems like there's a lot more emphasis on this now, and it seems more dangerous and higher risk.

College costs more than ever, so "pushing through" means you might make the playoffs, might get noticed and get a full ride. Hell, they're told, they might be able to go pro!

Very few people tell those kids the truth: It's a fool's errand. Only 1-2% of the kids who play basketball, football or baseball in high school actually go on to play in a division I school in college. Football players have the greatest chance of actually going pro, with a 1 in 600 chance of actually getting paid to pay pro ball... for an average of 3.5 years. If baseball is your game, it's 1 in 1850.
I did research on WhatClinic, TripAdvisor, and a number of random blog posts people made about their experiences abroad. I found several that sounded good, talked to all of them, and went with the one that just felt right.

The dentists there had been trained at UCLA, and their coordinator was a Johns Hopkins alumni, so I felt really comfortable with both their level of education and their command of English (to minimize potential for misunderstandings, since my Spanish is barely enough to understand telenovelas).
Except the only expense likely to be 3-4x more is rent/mortgage. Everything else in the US is going to be the same or cheaper (car, food, gadgets, etc).
WW3 US TO BREXIT UN
> huge tech companies/consulting firms who want to lock in a long-term contract use unnecessarily complex technologies and solutions

And the small ones often do it by pushing projects to use their proprietary solution.
Here's the FTC faqs: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
I help raise many of them. They're picky on some things but not on others. Keeping them from grabbing and playing with stuff or going into random places is work. All of them, despite many dissimilar bloodlines, seem to have in common the willingness to explore something once motivated. It doesn't need to look perfect to motivate them although certain things seem to evoke a negative reaction. Greens on a plate or scary-looking insects come to mind. Exposure reduces this.

You can use aesthetics as a motivator for children. However, it being mandatory for anything they benefit from could make them very superficial. Show them something shiny they'll enjoy. Also, show them a worn-out book that has something they'll enjoy or learn from. Do both. Get them to focus on what something is rather than just appears to be.
I agree that Freedom is a nice choice, but "Freedom" is already in use by a somewhat well-known website/social media blocker (as in "freedom from all those distractions"):

https://freedom.to/

Still, other suggestions are coming up in this thread that may be of use. I really like the idea of a name that, for a non-technical user, cab be a lead in to answering "why do I want this app? what does it do for me?"
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To clarify this post (which I agree with):

Imagine you're making $100 per month right now and spending $95 of it. So you're saving $5 per month.

You move to the US and start making $400 per month, but your expenses skyrocket to $380 per month. But you're now saving $20 per month -- four times as much as you were before.

Now imagine those savings numbers were $1k and $4k, and the difference becomes a pretty big deal.
In the last 13 years of having 28 panels on my roof I've lost one to some sort of flying rock. That said the panels (Sharp 185W) are currently producing 90% of the power they produced 13 years ago under similar conditions so that would support the original warranty that said they would be down to 80% by 25 years.
Lily: A programming language focusing on expressiveness and safety
> I wonder if it's better at certain genres than others.

The Discover Weekly algorithm is, as I understand it, based on what songs have been added to other user playlists. So if you're primarily listening to a genre that has a lot of intense people making carefully curated playlists, you're gonna get a better Discovery Weekly.
You have to decide which side of the argument you want to be on: just on another thread you are actually defending the protectionist Chinese policies which, guess what?, are exactly about "protecting the industries belonging to the bourgeoisie and the elite".

Also, you are factually wrong about taxes during Collor and FHC. Precisely because of the austerity policies (which were "imposed" by the IMF), the effective tax burden went from ~25% to ~36% of the GDP.

Would you like to have an honest conversation, opening yourself to new ideas, striving to teaching and learning? Or are you just trying to "win" an online argument? If it is the former, please let me know, so I can find something more useful to do with my time.
I don't know if it's just me having a bad day, but I can hardly concentrate on what this guy is saying due to his over-use of commas.

Anyone else, find these commas, distracting and, weird?
Security is very hard. You need carefully constructed apps with carefully chosen dependencies, and generally you want the number of lines of code to be very small.

Anything webkit based is going to lose on all of those points almost immediately. Anything nodejs based is also going to lose on all of those points, because nodejs has a culture of massive dependency stacks run by whomever. Javascript in general is a pretty insecure language, unless you are using explicit subsets but even then javascript has a horrible reputation for security.

Something is better than nothing. I'd rather people use Telegram (pretty well known for terrible crypto) than people use nothing at all. Same with Felony. I'd rather people use bad crypto than no crypto.

But in general it would seem likely that anything built on a webstack has a low chance of passing a security audit. The cultures surrounding the webstack technologies prioritize shipping product and doing cool things over shipping bug-free or secure code. It's one of the reasons that the webstack is so popular. It's easy, and if you ship something buggy it's generally not too bad to go back and fix it later, especially for something like a webpage, because your users will get your updates immediately.
Intelligence isn't a linear scale and different forms of intelligence aren't comparable in every regard.

Computers regularly surpass humans in all kinds of stuff that isn't considered AI, but just as much could be (e.g. calculating).

Computers can also surpass humans in things that are currently considered AI, like image recognition ( http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1325712)

In the end it's just one other thing that computers can do better than humans. And the results might not be applicable in other sections of artificial intelligence.
A look at the 10x paradigm
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I built a developer tool to help users validate Universal Link configuration on iOS [1]. At the time, Apple didn't have a tool to do so, so it was difficult to figure out why it wasn't working if it wasn't. They've since created one, so that's great for the community [2].

I still get consistent traffic of a few thousand hits per week, and my work has been forked by my former employer, Branch, to create their own version of the tool for iOS [3] and Android [4]. My goal wasn't really to take it anywhere, it was just something I wanted to build for the community since I spent a lot of time struggling with the set up, and saw a lot of similar struggle in the beta forums. I'm satisfied with how it turned out, and how many people used it (for instance, the several of the Cocoapods team members linked it, it's all over the forums, etc).

So, no story about how much money it made or anything, but personal satisfaction at least :)

[1] https://limitless-sierra-4673.herokuapp.com
[2] https://search.developer.apple.com/appsearch-validation-tool
[3] https://branch.io/resources/universal-links/
[4] https://branch.io/resources/app-indexing/
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The forums (and I think wiki) etc are astonishingly up-to-date though in my experience, and I have mostly got a useful answer in the forum within an hour or so, so I would say, don't judge the book by the cover :)
You can't write a modern scientific paper in classical
Greek or Latin

You're comparing modern day English with languages that have died more than 1500 years ago. Your arguments are incoherent and suggest a serious lack of judgment.
...or circuit breakers to be pulled, or any humans in the loop at all...
The technology looks beautiful, though I am unable to access the website. Thanks for sharing.
Rc<RefCell<T>> is not high boilerplate at all, and it's a super common Rust pattern. If you think this is too much boilerplate then I'm really not sure what you were expecting. It's just composition of reference counting memory management and mutability, a great example of modular design. What more did you want?
Often times, you don't even need to use particularly weird solutions. The timeframe for some of these projects is so long that whatever you pick going in is going to be obsolete or at least obsolescent on go-live. But that's fine, either locking in maintenance or assuring a subsequent modernization effort.
How would you know what you don't know, though? Or what you never experienced or could have experienced?

Genuine question, just curious how anyone firmly on the "schooler" or "unschooler" side of the fence can know without some kind of external reference, particularly one which they themselves didn't choose in case of bias.
That is very true. I wish there were more possibilities for experimental school programs in my country (either private or public). The problem is that many people have an idea about how ALL schools should work, and they try to push a change for ALL schools. Evolution of schooling would be easier if there was more variation of schooling methods and some type of 'natural' societal selection.
What's your username? I have a couple invites.

Should note that I never use the thing since in practice it's easier to fetch my key via traditional methods, a la pgp.mit.edu...
PeerGym is still going on strong, increasing traffic every month, now with reviews and gym edits!

I'm still able to run a hobby instance on heroku because it's all on Phoenix Elixir. Very happy with it as a fun pet project.

www.peergym.com
I dropped out after my sophomore year - I had recently moved to the States from Europe, and school was teaching things that I had learned already been taught a few years prior to that. I was completely bored and decided I was done with school. Getting my GED was really easy, and from there I have had a great career - while it may have hurt me in the beginning, I now have 20 years of relevant work experience behind me, it's generally not a concern to myself or any of my past employers - and if I were to interview somewhere that took issue with it, it's probably not somewhere I would want to work.
The point is, as a startup, try to blow your customers' minds, including with excellent support (agrees w/parent). It acknowledges that there may be some difficulty in scaling it (agrees w/sibling), but statistically you're unlikely to get big enough to have to worry about that (especially if you don't provide excellent support), so don't worry about it, just do it. And if you ever get to that point, you might find it scales better than you thought it would (agrees with you).
I'm not speaking on behalf of C14 or similar service, but the charge for deleting data isn't very new. Quoting from http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

For objects that are archived to Glacier, there is a pro-rated charge of $0.021 per gigabyte for objects deleted prior to 90 days.

Objects that are in Standard – Infrequent Access have a minimum 30 days of storage, and objects that are deleted, overwritten, or transitioned to a different storage class before 30 days incur a pro-rated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days.

The difference that I see here is that C14 appears to charge for deletion regardless of the access.

Maybe it's a way on ensuring income for a certain duration on capacity freed up by way of such deletes.
Can't speak to him, but I fluctuate between 24 and 30 hours a week of consulting. I make about as much money as I did as a FT engineer (depending on the project, charging anywhere from $110/hr to $200/hr); dealing with taxes myself is a minor pain in the ass but having a ton of extra time every week is really nice.

I did have to bust my ass a bit to get to the point where I had the skillset and the knowledge necessary to do it, but I'm glad I did. That I am at this point is probably some of why I feel freer to criticize the tech industry--I've been on the bottom and I've since largely stepped out, and it's ugly looking in on it.