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The hardest thing about homeschooling for some families here in the United States is getting out of the two-income trap enough to have time to do it. My wife and I could have made more money for ourselves, thinking in the short term, by sending our children to the schools our taxes already pay for and working full-time (or overtime) when our children were younger. But I'm satisfied with the educational results of the trade-off we made.

Time management is more of an issue for some people than others. It is generally more of an issue for a homeschooling family as the number of children increases. Our oldest is about to go off to college, and thus our household size will begin going down for the first time in several years.

Here's a link with more information:

http://learninfreedom.org/

For us, the bottom line is that we are glad to have homeschooled, and are keeping it up for our younger children.
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I'm not so sure that HTML5 adoption, at the cost of all web plugins, is a net win. I don't care so much about Flash, but it seems that Apple's lack of a plugin framework is positioning Safari to be the next IE6. Developers will be limited by the lowest common denominator. Without plugin-based workarounds, Safari's support for any new technology will dictate what web developers use. Don't like that Apple has chosen H.264 over VP8 or Theora? tough luck...

clarification: referring to Mobile Safari's lack of plugins
Looks completely fine to me. How about some context?
I definitely agree that advertising is a poor option for most web startups. Ironically, tumblr is the vibrant, engaged, and creative community where they could apply an awesome form of advertising.
I personally no longer use RSS.
when I look at my home address (rather rural) some local place names (way too small to be called a city) do indeed appear and vanish. I've attributed it to some kind of rotation algorithm. Some of these place names are so obscure, I've barely heard of them.
You seem to be doing just fine: http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/index.php?months=12...
It is impossible to tell from their website what they did. My institution does not have a subscription to "Future Medicine" so the best I can get is the abstract.

It sounds like they've altered the expression of 3 key developmental genes (none of which are telomerase, but may be upstream of it). These genes transform the cells into an induced pluripotent stemcells (iPS). They created 6 lines, five of which showed telomere shortening to similar levels of that seen in other iPS lines. However, one of the iPS lines they created the TRF (dna that telomerase acts on) continued to lengthen for 60 days.

The flowchart picture is science fiction - they haven't done anything like that in this study.
Neither the Apache project nor Linux came to be because of the GPL. Had there been no GPL, they'd simply have used a different open license. But that's besides the point: what I'm saying is, I'm not particularly invested in the "four freedoms" perspective on software freedom.
having a touchscreen that makes things zoom by pinching.

Apple doesn't actually have a patent on pinch-to-zoom. But I'll play along anyway...

It's trivial, obvious, and there actually isn't any other useful way you could do it.

Bullshit. You're playing dumb--probably without even realizing it--but I think if you actually had to apply yourself to the problem you could think up dozens of alternative approaches. These are the ones you're pre-filtering with "useful" because you assume that they are all inherently worse, but a huge amount of that is left up to the actual execution. Is this hard? Yes. But that's why it's competition. If it were easy to think of better ideas and create better implementations than the competition, the competition would have already done it!

So let's try to think of some other ways to zoom with a touch screen other than pinch-to-zoom. For starters, the easy one: virtual button presses. Tap the plus to zoom in, the minus to zoom out. Ok, that's pretty lame, how about a zoom track along one side of the screen, and you just move your finger up and down it, or perform some action to select and move a marker object along it.

Ok, maybe that's too much motion...lets make it a kind of rocker switch where you can just swipe your finger a small distance from a center point to activate the zoom one way, or the opposite to zoom another way. That might be great if meant for thumbs, kind of like a hat switch on a joystick, but let's say we want something better for a larger surface, like a table. How about tap and hold to get a menu with a zoom option. Hmm, menus are lame. Let's make it a dial instead.

Ah, but that requires two motions, which might not be good, depending on the rest of our interface. Instead, how about we can just select and drag from an object corner, like any windowing interface, binding the zoom level to the scale of the object in a very natural fashion. That could work for some things, though maybe not a map unless you've got a very large screen.

Or maybe rather than treating our interface as simply a flat surface we lend it some depth and treat the scale of the object as distance from the screen. Then we can use any gesture or button we like to suggest getting nearer or farther from the object we're looking it. Say, a two finger swipe downward, to suggest "come here" or "pulling towards" and upwards to suggest "go away" or "pushing away". When the object gets so near that it fills the screen we can keep using that gesture to get "nearer" to the object, effectively zooming in on it without the user consciously even thinking of it as zooming.

Or hey, maybe we're overthinking this. What's the simplest thing you can do with a touch screen? Tap it, right? Maybe we could...tap once to zoom in, tap twice to zoom out?
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From the few times my site (devgrow.com) has been on the front page of HN, I've gotten about 1000 visitors or so over the span of 24 hours. This has been consistent for both a post with 10 upvotes and another with 18. I would assume it would get maybe double or triple that if it had more votes and stayed on the front page longer?

/r/programming on the other hand sent over 3800 visitors during a 3-day period.

Hope that helps!
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Seems to be only on my computer. It sends to MySpace. Also, when I follow a link to a profile of a friend of mine in Facebook, it redirects to a profile of some random kid in MySpace.
As a game developer, I'm accustomed to building games around game mechanics. It's often a struggle to convey the importance of strong core game mechanics when they are not visible like beautiful art or animations. This article makes it clear that adding game mechanics as a (problem solving!?) wrapper to a non-game is akin to adding (problem solving!?) graphics to a game.

Nevertheless, I think that parallel can extend further in ways that might soften the article's point (just as the author did at the end). Some game design components, like clear state feedback and reward, are not so much game mechanics as they are signals of the mechanic's state (usually done with art in its general sense). In the same way, those signals could be incorporated into non-games to reflect the internal workings of their state.

So, in the end, I agree with the article and think it provides an insightful lens through which to view the parts of games relative to more tradition software.
Is that what it was, a word-guessing game? Obtuse interface, unclear instructions. I bailed.
FYI, it's "moral" not "morale."
Piston engines are just as vulnerable, the only difference being that the failure mode (scouring versus glassing) is slower, so there's a somewhat better chance of survival.

As for the original question, current commercial and military cargo aircraft don't use "jet" engines anymore, they use turbofans, where the vast majority of the thrust comes from a ducted fan at the front of the engine rather than from heated and accelerated exhaust gas. The main differences between turboprop and turbofan configurations are (1) the duct, which allows far more efficient high-speed airflow at the expense of low-speed (near-static) thrust, and (2) the variable pitch and "eddy wall" (in which the turbulence of the propeller wash creates a virtual surface behind the propeller, allowing greater pressure to build up) of the propeller (as opposed to a fan), which provide a huge advantage in short takeoff and landing.
This is precisely because they compromised their principles with the AGPL that they didn't make it their main licence. They felt they had to let people make such a compromise, for some software.

The problem with software which have significant influence over the network is that it's "users" might not be the owners. Effectively, freedom 0 and the other three are in conflict. (My freedom to run the software is in conflict with your right to study it).

If I recall correctly, the FSF itself says AGPL software is not really free software.
For anyone wanting a cross-browser, javascript implementation, I wrote a (very tiny and simple) jQuery plug-in to do it a few months back: http://kellishaver.com/projects/flashlight/
This doesn't surprise me, but it does have worrying ethical implications. What if there were a machine to make everyone moral? Would it be immoral to use it? Or would be immoral not to?

Edit with expansion of scenario, so it is clearer what I'm getting at: The situation I envision is a machine that can be programmed to produce some set of "morality" as it were. Who gets to decide what the moral system is, and who it is applied to? Certainly we wouldn't want a corporation or an unelected body to do it. But we also think the machine would be useful in reducing senseless tragedy like murder.
Hard to believe the VX Nano is discontinued. I love mine, though not everyone loves the convertible scrollwheel. Hopefully the other models are somewhat comparable.
Nobody else ships codecs baked into their rendering engine because that's a fucking stupid thing to do, something you'd only do if you wanted to prevent users from using other codecs without forking the entire project. Everyone else links against an intermediary framework (QT, ffmpeg, gstreamer) and lets that dictate codec support. Chrome/Chromium does ship with a minimal libavcodec, but you can swap it out with a symlink to your system's full ffmpeg.

GCC was the canonical 'cathedral' project, controlled absolutely by Stallman through the FSF, a reign interrupted by the EGCS folks who had the gall to want a working compiler.

Mozilla may play up their whole 'community' angle, but they aren't very 'bazaar' at all in reality. Patches are unwelcome. A bunch of independent parties, most of them corporate enemies, contribute to the core WebKit project on a first-class basis. There have never been corporate contributors to Gecko, and they've repeatedly fucked over all the open source projects that used Gecko directly, to the point that only one is left (Camino). They don't even really support non-Firefox apps on top of XULrunner, including the ones they wrote themselves!
my karma ran over my dogma. it's all good, man..
HR also won't tell you that they report to the CFO, that their performance is measured almost entirely in terms of managing fully loaded headcount cost, that they have virtually no incentive whatsoever to help you in any way, that no clueful manager in the company wants to hire through their candidates because the good candidates find the real hiring manager themselves, that despite no particular qualifications to do so they are often solely responsible for determining the structure of your health benefits, and that as a pure cost center perched anomalously close to the top of the org chart with access and alleged influence over compensation information they are one of the most political divisions in the company.

Basically, that they're evil.
Then perhaps, and maybe this is just a shot in the dark, someone has managed to fiddle around with your host files.
Amazing stuff. Kinda out there...

I always thought that maybe the earth's magnetic fields can affect cultures in different areas of the world, leading to different morals really.

I wonder how much this can affect thinking processes and learning as well? For instance why do cultures on the other side of the world all write seemingly backwards or from the other side? Russian seems like it is upside down and backwards to English. Is it just relative cultures or some forces pushing things to feel natural differently depending on where you are in various fields.
I got about 2000 hits from HN when I did a post about Google making their big font size change back in 2009.
I was expecting an article on how being out of the loop in Silicon Valley affects your business and funding potential. Unfortunately, that's not what this is.

Personally I believe Silicon Valley doesn't necessarily discriminate against women, but rather, discriminates against anyone not in the relevant Silicon Valley social circles and cliques. This is sometimes obvious when a valley startup garners significantly more attention, press, and funding than a similar startup outside of the valley.
I've always wondered if perhaps there is something to astrology after all.

While I can't say I believe in it, what if the earth's magnetic field at different times of the year affects the way the brain develops?

The possibilities are endless!
IPad taken apart then re-assembled in under four minutes
> nothing is good at helping people to stop procrastinating

Maybe the golden idea is to help people to stop feeling bad about procrastinating :P
Skype? You mean like this: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/

In general also mac applications don't need a package manager. Download, drag application to Applications directory, done. If you want to get rid of it, delete it from there, it's gone. Updating, http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ is used in the vast majority of non-Apple software these days.

Focus/raise model yeah, there's no way to change it that I know of, and personally my biggest annoyance with OS X is the inability to change window management in general.

The headphone jack thing is almost certainly a problem with hardware, it works just fine on every Mac I own/have used.

You can invert the display to use white-on-black with Ctrl-Alt-Command-8, or via System Preferences -> Universal Access, though that's probably not exactly what you're looking for.
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I don’t like rules

Doesn't the GPL have quite a few rules too? I think using software with a BSD license would probably make more sense.
Articles like these always make the same inference, and then lead to a similar conclusion: If a woman CEO gets rejected over and over, then it _must_ be sexism (and/or racism); and, then a gender- (or race-) biased investment firm steps in to promote business based on the gender of the CEOS/Founders, and a moral transgression is set straight.

The article asserts that the recession somehow makes investors stupid and frightened, wherein they think via 'templates' or some archetypal response. I think the word they apply is something more like 'scrutiny' -- at least I sure hope so.

It's 2010 -- let's start focusing on merit. I don't care what letters the woman carries from name-brand institutions. It just might be possible that her business ideas don't attract investment. Has that been considered? How many males from these fine institutions also fail in business? I know the number isn't zero.
Nihilism vs. Existentialism
Eric Schmidt: Chrome OS is About Breaking Down Walls
By "own mail server", I meant a server which is behind your own walls: at home. Of course having a server behind the walls of a remote company isn't much better that using Gmail.
I got around 1500 requests with HTTP referrer HN when a post of mine was submitted earlier this month. Vast majority were from the front page.
Thx--fixed.
Colored Rubik’s Cube For The Blind
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Maybe it's me, but that video was painfully campy. Yet I couldn't look away.
Use the machine on yourself first.

Then you're guaranteed to make the moral decision.
IPad ra1n... again
Not only that, but as a film critic he's been a consistent champion of the kinds of science fiction that feed into the titles that the parent poster brought up.
I'll give you props for the clever answer that circumvents the question. ;)
edit: after clarification by OP this doesn't relate to what they are talking about.

I don't know quite what you are getting at here? Are you suggesting that you can't install plugins to manage different kind of embeds with Safari? As this is just not true: Java, Flash, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Flip4Mac.... these are all plugins built as standard OSX internet plugins. If you want to develop your own go ahead.

I think what you are trying to get at is that you want things that are being natively handled by the browser to be optionally controlled via a plugin. The fragmented state that is what browsers have natively implemented is quite shocking but having everything optionally overridden by plugins would cause even more fragmentation and even more headaches.
This statement was made by a PR dissemination company who's now facing the prospect of losing business.
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Whoa there, this isn't the kind of magnet you find on your fridge door. TMS uses pulses (not static fields) from a 2 tesla magnet. For comparison, the Earth's magnetic field is 31 µT and a fridge magnet is 5 mT.

But, the fact that it's a pulse is the more important than the field strength: the goal is to produce a current in the brain via Faraday's law. In order to do that, you need a magnetic flux, and therefore a rapid change in the field strength. Sitting in a magnetic field, no matter how strong, is not going to induce a current.

tl;dr: Any theories about the Earth's magnetic field affecting moral judgement are bull. Ditto for everyday magnets.

(Correction: I just read the paper. They used a 3T field in this study, not 2T.)
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Businesses don’t use power generators. Similarly, they don’t need mail servers.
I assumed that point was about the lack of support for plugins in Mobile Safari, though I could be mistaken.
You really could not be more wrong.

WebKit on OS X has a native Obj-C plugin system: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Interne...

If you want to add VP8 or Theora support in <video> to WebKit apps on OS X, just install a QuickTime decoder for them: http://xiph.org/quicktime/ — Want to add any codecs to Firefox? You're completely fucked, and have to fork the whole stack.
To the point: I understand. That sounds OK.

Besides the point: Don't forget the "GNU" in GNU/Linux. It came first. It is bigger. It made Linux (the kernel) possible, by doing the rest of the work. So, if you use Linux, remember that it comes with GNU.

PS: Apache doesn't use the GPL, by the way
One of the great things about transcranial magnetic stimulation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulati...

in general is that it is a treatment that can be evaluated in placebo-controlled studies, because it is possible to put patients into convincing sham treatments.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Transcranial magnetic stimulation needs a LOT more research, but if treatment protocols can be refined through that research, it holds promise for improving outcomes in some patients with mood disorders and perhaps other difficulties related to abnormal brain function.
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Creative way to compare the speeds of the browsers like chrome,safari,Firefox,opera and internet explorer.
It's a good answer, not just clever. The issue he's addressing, clarified, is, "What if we had a source of infallible (moral) knowledge?"

Then, "ask that source, not me, you, or any other fallible human" is not just clever but correct.

However, infallible sources of knowledge badly violate everything we know about epistemology. So don't expect to actually find one. What interests me more is this issue:

If I had a magnet that made people act a certain way, and I thought that certain way was moral/good, then should I use it on people? The answer then is no, in the event that I disagree with someone about what's good, I shouldn't force them with magnets; it could be me who is mistaken not them. I should instead persuade them to use the magnet voluntarily.

What's good about a discussion with attempted persuasion is it could go either way. I could end up persuaded, or him. This is different than using the magnet which can't go either way, so if it's a mistake there's no possibility of it being corrected.
Aweber lists theirs very clearly.
http://www.aweber.com/pricing.htm
What I find incredibly amusing is that the airport in Iceland is still operational...
"In both experiments, the researchers found that when the right TPJ was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed attempts to harm as morally permissible."

This statement is meaningless without knowing how much more likely the attempts were and what the error range was for the results.
I did nothing illegal related to computers growing up because my family didn't even own one until I was 15 (which was 1997). I didn't know enough to cause any damage until after my freshman year of college, at which point I was legally an adult.

I am, of course, one anecdote. But I think that your test is a poor one.
Excellent idea and gorgeous implementation, but not original:

http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?individua...;

http://www.gearfuse.com/rubiks-cube-for-the-blind-part-deux-...
I noticed the blue sky too.
Amazing!
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Focus-follows-mouse (without raise) is extremely difficult to pull off on OS X because of the menu bar model.

10.6 added a hidden preference to make Terminal.app do focus-follows-mouse, and that's good enough for me. A lot of keyboard shortcuts don't work correctly though, because they're dispatched through the menu bar.
He pretty much summarized what was wrong with the original 2G iPhone, except for the "requires you to stay in dictionary words" weirdness, which was never an issue to begin with. The point about foreign character sets may be valid, though.

I also have no idea what "bandwidth inefficient" means. If the iPhone uses more bandwidth than most other smartphones, it's because it's actually being used, unlike most other smartphones.

Battery life on the first model wasn't great, but I often run my 3GS for 2-3 days on a charge, which is fine by me. I'm not going to take it to the Moon, am I?
Did you include the time it takes to create/purchase a merchant account, Payment Gateway, etc?
The bailout of AIG helped quite a few others as well.

Know of any good reading on the consumer bank point?
You might want to check out the Anywhere MX. I have one and I can vouch for it being a very pleasant mouse. It looks extremely similar to the Nano in form factor, and has the same scroll wheel.
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This isn't about changing how likely someone is behave morally, this is about changing the criteria they use for making moral decisions. Specifically, they're knocking out the ability to use theory of mind to guess a person's intentions.
I thought it was TechCrunch (but I can't find the article now) which pointed out that often companies will provide stock options to key executives when a company is being purchased, as an extra incentive for these executives to stick with the new owners beyond the initial transition.