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> my material scientist friend immediately launched into a tirade about how we should teach kids how subatomic particles actually work rather than the simplified model of the atom,

That's the problem, we have to get rid of the idea that there's a set of ideas that kids "have" to know. Why don't you let the kid decide what he wants to study. Like there will be limitations but fuck it, if s/he is interested in something weird, encourage it instead of killing it.

> vastly more funding, so we can attract more skilled and experienced teachers and have smaller class sizes

I think that the teacher model doesn't scale. Develop MOOCs and like online communities. School will be the bridge from real world to these communities. Teachers will help you when you get stuck.

> more emphasis and encouragement around reading, which much fewer restrictions on what we consider "acceptable" to read (my high school did everything in its power to get kids to hate reading)

Exactly. Also remove the idea that reading means reading fiction. Make sure that the kid is doing something somewhat productive and that s/he's engaged. Engagement is key.

>systematic experimentation around different teaching styles and educational systems, so we can learn what works and doesn't

I actually think that Barbara Oakley really hit the nail on the head. She describes it e.g. in this article http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to...

> - more focus on practical psychology, rhetoric, debate, logic, and/or research in the curriculum (how can people become productive citizens and informed voters when they can't dissect an argument or perform research?)

Exactly. But also fundamentally just make sure the kids can explore whatever area of human endeavor they want to.
Click the "web" link at the top under the title.
> Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries?

Nudity is frowned upon but everyone will be half-naked or naked at home. Hard to share a living space.
Notice in one of the last screenshots, the link actually points to a real Google.com domain, but in the /amp/ destination, under which a tiny(cc) link was hidden and therefore fetched the content that "seemed like" it came from Google when Google merely acted as a CDN.
(View this as a follow-on, not a counter. I agree with both you and the GP).

Wealthy kids will always have a leg up on poor kids. It can never become completely equalized, as whatever new attribute that does cause your children to do better will become a new aspect of wealth. That's one of the corollaries to what the GP was saying, and by its nature that leads to a system that leads to a system where the outcomes can never be entirely equalized as lone as you allow different wealth levels.

It's not that children from wealthy families do better (as any situation where that is not true points to a very sick society), but how much better they do, and how well we catch those that are disadvantaged when they fall. This is also complicated by the fact that poverty is relative (and when not, such as using official definitions, nobody can agree how useful it is), It's a very complicated topic, and in my opinion you are generally either stuck with so much nuance that it's hard to tease out some useful plan of action, or so little nuance that you risk taking away the wrong conclusion.

For example, in the end, is how wealthy your children are even the correct thing to be measuring for outcomes? What about happiness? What if we focused on increasing the number of people that reported being happy with their lives? That probably doesn't require people being in the top bracket for income, but it might require that most of the time they aren't in the lowest bracket.
It's not a power of 2 or 10 :-)
The one thing I didn't like about Doom is the surreal look both of the artistic and map layout. e.g. no space ship or space station would ever be designed like that (it is the same with Star Wars Death stars... did no one think of putting up a guard rail?).

It is one of the reasons I liked Duke Nukem 3D a lot more as a teenager.

The map does look cool but it doesn't have that real space station feel.

I guess you could argue hell alters the layout.
Starting today -> this post on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778836
> "First, even if you can create a plug and play home server box, it will still need some configuration to make it available from the internet"

Will it? The device I had in mind would plug directly into a router, occupying two LAN ports for connectivity, and one USB port for power (USB ports are increasingly common on routers these days, even the free ones ISPs give out). In addition, IPv6 removes the need for NAT and port forwarding. The device could even come with a default DNS name setup, so it could be literally plug and play.

> "Secondly, it is not clear if there is an acceptable solution to security issues."

You build the security into the device, e.g. firewalls and process isolation. You could also design the device so that flashing new firmware required a physical button on the device to be pressed to enable this feature for a short period of time, limiting the window of opportunity for the device to be infected with malware.

> "Auto updates could be part of the answer, but it seems that human intervention would still be needed from time to time and that imply an effort of the user to keep informed and aware of such operations."

Information about security updates could be done via email or SMS, which are both easy enough for mass market users. You would enter these details at the point of purchasing the device, so you'd have nothing extra to setup once you had it. If you had to update your contact details, this would be easy enough to set via the home server GUI.
Because that definition was grandfathered in such that it matched the previous definition of a second up to the previously specified precision. You've just moved the arbitrary part to the number 9,192,631,770. The same thing was done for the meter (defined such that the speed of light is precisely 299,792,458 m/s), ampere (current which produces 2 × 10−7 N/m of force between two parallel conductors). There's plans to do the same thing for the kilogram using Plank's constant, but for now we're stuck with the prototype kilogram whose mass unfortunately changes more than we'd like.

I could see making a case that Planck time is special enough for 440 vs 432 to matter, but it is so far off the scale of human hearing that its even integer points would form an effectively continuous scale when it comes to audio.
Thanks! Has there ever been a store where you could walk in and get your hands on these parts and see what you could come up with, or are they usually mail order?
>In the US, your home is seen as an investment

Historically a very poor one.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/05/...

>"Capital gains have not even been positive. From 1890 to 1990, real inflation-corrected home prices were virtually unchanged."

>From 1890 -- just three decades after the Civil War -- through 2012, home prices adjusted for inflation literally went nowhere. Not a single dime of real growth. For comparison, the S&P 500 increased more than 2,000-fold during that period, adjusted for inflation. And from 1890 to through 1980, real home prices actually declined by about 10%.

Not to say that a house is a bad thing. A house can be great! It provides shelter, stability, and can provide a vast amount of joy and pride. Its a very poor investment vehicle. Its a very bad idea to have 100% of your wealth tied up in your primary residence.

Diversification is a key to financial stability everywhere.
Home ownership is actually seen as a long-term investment in Germany (although I feel that recently more people come to realize the numbers don't really add up). Land ownership in particular is considered a good thing and most people have a strong aversion to selling off land they inherit.

However home ownership is also considered a luxury. Not only is there not as much of a tax incentive as in the US and not only does it require you to take on life-long debt, but there are also a lot of expenses the landlord would have to pay for but a homeowner has to pay out of their own pocket.

The obvious example are routine maintenance like roofing and plumbing, but also drainage or the cost of public works: if the house sits on a street corner and both streets get modernized, you may end up having to pay for both.

The expenses when renting on the other hand are much more predictable: you just pay the rent and utilities and whatever one-off costs come up have to be spread out via an increase in the utilities bill or swallowed by the landlord.

So if you want to build or buy a house, you're expected to save money for paying for these fun surprises as well -- because having to take out a loan is a sign of poor planning, if the bank even grants you one on top of the financing for the house itself. Add everything together and home ownership becomes nothing more than a luxury.
Advice for an MBA student: Is Amazon or Microsoft a better place to work?
Not to pick on you especially but, uh, you are evidently one of the toxic co-workers the guy was ranting about: you are enabling the fuckery.

Do you get that?

Things shouldn't be this way, that's the whole point of the article.
This is an admirably clear statement of a position I find almost impossible to relate to. I'm not sure I can be as lucid as Mithaldu, but I'll try to put it two ways:

1) The notion that one is "doing something wrong" by not being able or willing to enforce a strict separation between work and one's private life seems almost sociopathic. When one sells one's labour his mind and emotions are - like it or not - part of the sale. It's simply the human condition. To absolutely abrogate all of one's interests, in the service of a "boss", requires an austerity of mind that perhaps Mithaldu and some others can perform without difficulty, but which for many is impossible.

2) One could (well, I probably couldn't) make the case that the degree of exploitation that characterises all relations between "boss" and employee is sufficient to permit the importation of at least some safety valve - some kind of relaxation, be it 10 mins personal email, facebook, whatever - in compensation. Indeed if you want to take the employer's POV, it's surely a good thing.

I don't think I've been particularly accurate here but it's a fuzzy approximation of the beginnings of a response!
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I dig packer, but it's getting pretty hard to find a cloud provider or on-prem solution that doesn't take a Docker image as an artifact.
>And at the high end in California (San Francisco), someone might pay 51.9% income tax and 8.75% in sales tax.

What you're talking about is the marginal tax rate, i.e. the limit as income -> infinity, but it's typically much much lower than this (even for the wealthy). Most people pay in the 10-20% range for federal income taxes. Millionares pay in this range too for several reasons, capital gains and write-offs.

The blue line on this plot shows the effective federal income tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State....
Obtaining wealth is mostly timing/luck.

There are plenty of hard working, well disciplined, intelligent poor people. There are plenty of lazy, stupid rich people. There's virtually no correlation between any of the things you named and wealth.

The question then becomes how much should a lucky person be "rewarded," or how much should an unlucky person be "punished." A lot of people feel that being unlucky shouldn't mean living in perpetual debt, for example, or going bankrupt because you broke a leg.

A lot of people feel that our society could gain a lot by helping those unlucky people rise to their potential.
Data Elixir - Definitely! http://dataelixir.com
Mexican food is usually designed to be complemented by different peppers, but a lot of American foods are modified from European traditions, where spicy peppers are rarer. So, spiciness itself is a more unusual taste in our food.

I think that the American culture (especially thinking about the Midwest) has the idea of "spicy vs not spicy", but not the idea of which flavor of pepper goes well with which kind of food. A lot of restaurants here will have black pepper and Tabasco sauce, but not much else, despite the fact that the vinegar in Tabasco will destroy the flavor of a lot of foods.

There's a culture of "spicy and mild", but not a culture of "spicy, but subtly flavored". Of course, I can always go to a Mexican restaurant and find a salsa that matches my food well. But even there, there are usually "mild", "medium", and "hot" labels on almost everything, rather than telling you what kind of peppers were used in preparing the sauce.
Dams/reservoirs are one of the biggest producers of greenhouse gases. The flooded territory starts decomposing and large amounts of greenhouse gasses are released.
The article is absurd and not even supported by its own data!

The fact is startups and small businesses have always been a small fraction of the economy both by employment and contribution to GDP. When I say "always" I actually mean the modern economy of the last 75 years at least. I was very surprised when I learned this but the data go back at least to the end of WWII, which is far back as I looked. Pre-depression there was still a lot of small / disorganized (unincorporated) business and a lot of agricultural employment.

The large companies are the large employers; next are "small businesses" which are franchises (e.g. a lot of people are employed selling MacDonalds hamburgers who aren't technically employees of the MacDonalds company).

There article even points out that new businesses account for only a tiny percentage of jobs; they compare company creation to the 1980s but don't account for company failure. And how many of those companies grew significantly? The vast majority of operating companies formed in the US, and I suspect most countries, are small businesses (shops, restaurants etc).
On an unrelated note. Would love to know what you used to generate the docs. Thanks
Bad workplaces definitely exist. Sometimes, they can be changed, and there's a ton of scope for you to be the person who came in and got a dysfunctional department functional; sometimes, they're broken at a higher level than you can fix, and you just need to leave.

But if you work at a bad workplace and your takeaway is "this industry is completely broken" and you turn into a full-bore cynic who refuses to believe that anything better is possible, you've gone badly astray.
Pretty sure its just a suffix That indicates a second encounter with the patient
I always turn to an ES6 article on babeljs.io when I check out ES6 features.

https://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es2015/

One of the features I like is default parameters. I'd like to add a usage that isn't mentioned in the article. It's really handy to pass optional parameters since default parameters can be nested.

class Hoge {
foo({active=true, collapsed=false, silent=false}={}) {
}
}

let hoge = new Hoge();
hoge.foo({collapsed: true});
Nope - Doesn't need to be the tech industry.
For something of that size just falling on the sea? It's more likely that it would wobble between 10 and -10 meters.
chile pequin maybe?
"and conscientiousness"

hold up!
I think it might just be a different flavor of it.
Every time I come across one of these AAA+ doom maps, I kinda blanch at the setup involved in running these with no background knowledge.
You need an old Doom2.wad, to download an appropriate sourceport from Sourceforge, probably without an installer, maybe some looking up commandline options to run the game with a pwad if it's not immediately apparent.

Sure, none of this is a problem for the HN crowd, but what I'd like is a "Click to run this wad" button on a WAD gallery page that would download and run the WAD either via NaCl or even just javascript, making the experience of playing these fan created levels seamless and opening it to a much wider audience.

edit: yes I realize the IWADs are not freely distributable even though the engine is OSS
helpful tip to build upon #1: you can pass a valid port number to the SimpleHTTPServer command to open that port instead of 8000.
As soon as it mentioned Kardashians? I stopped reading. And started imagining self driving cars programmed by the morals of the mob.
That's an idea, and I've seen your other comments and think that they are interesting. I don't see how this would fix the phenomenon of wealthy parents being able to support their children better than poor parents.

Wealthy families will be able to pay a better "person who helps", or send their children to a better high school to study optical engineering. Fundamentally, wealthy people will always have access to better services.
Medical diagnosis codes are all about reimbursement. Doctors do not rely on coding so much as finance dept relies on coding.

Proper coding means more $$, so talented dx coders are valuable.

Separating the code this way may not make sense medically, but it makes a lot more sense when you realize CMS or Blue Cross wants more coded granularity for automatic transmission of accurate financial information.
Ahh. I see it now. Pretty sneaky.
You're reading what I wrote as some sort of weird 'therefore, Socrates was a cat' syllogism. Was the point I was trying to make unclear? Because I don't see how your analogy is at all related or even much of an analogy.
Come to Panama! I looked hard at both and Panama is better for a ton of reasons. Don't worry about the language barrier. There is small and growing foreign tech community here. I moved here 6 months ago from SF and it has been the best decision of my life! Reply with your contact details if you want to know more.
There is a format to the code that allows any code to indicate initial vs. subsequent. It is important for looking for first visit cure vs. multiple visits to cure a condition.
I think that's the major premise of the article, that the slow growth is due to the fact that percentage of the US economy invested in startups is TOO low.
I just checked. The first screen I got says "Step 1/3: we'll either call you or send you an SMS. Please give us your phone number".

You cannot skip this step on GMail, or at least I couldn't find how. I know you can use the app afterwards, but not before.

Other sites just give me the code, as you say. But not GMail.
Ask HN: How to fund a HackerSpace?
I wish to create a HackerSpace for young people in MENA region.

Ideally the subscription would be free.

I was thinking about a donation based model, but that would be too risky for managing a place due to the constant recurring fees (rent, electricity, internet, etc..)

Does HN have any idea how to do funding for a HackerSpace?
Are there any organisations that would be able to pitch-in?
Yeah, everyone knows that causality has a hard limit of 25 years!

It's a ruse to imply that Reagan's policies don't play a role in this. GP didn't claim that he's exclusively responsible, just that correcting those mistakes would be a good place to start.

Do you think that kids aren't thrown in jail every single day for war-on-drug offenses simply because Reagan was president almost 30 years ago?
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I'm comfortable with both -- best buy and MSFT liability, and the ability to turn off auto-updates as long as they ship on.

The vast majority of people don't change configuration or even have any idea configuration exists. Taking devices with sophisticated configuration and dumping all responsibility off onto end users simply cannot be the way forward for smart devices. Or we'll live in a world where some 12 year old with internet access can download a script that turns your refrigerator off ruining food; turns your kettle/oven/coffeemaker/toaster oven on burning your house down; and makes you an internet porn star by turning cameras on in your home and streaming the video to who-knows-where.
Because our system represents extant authorship relationships (as opposed to creating a whole new first-to-file system like some other approaches in the space), we defer to existing authorities whenever possible -- so authorship information provided by MoMA, NYPL, DPLA, etc is considered authoritative, whereas statements by a private individual generally do not carry the same weight. All of this (including conflicting statements) is surfaced at read time and can be subject to different weighting depending on the situation (best-effort attempt to find the author of an image for discovery purposes, versus automatic payment, for example)
The set of people who worked their asses off and the set of people who were considered wealthy when they reached the median retirement age (or at the time of their death) don't necessary have a high degree of overlap.

Ancestor post stated that the intersection was not equal to the empty set. Its reply post implied that the intersection was not equal to the union, and perhaps that the intersection was not even a significant fraction of the wealthy set. They were speaking past each other.

Wealthy people like to overemphasize the contribution of hard work to their own wealthiness, which has a side effect of encouraging non-wealthy people to fall into exploitable patterns in their attempt to become wealthy. If you want to get rich, don't work hard. All that hard work is just going to distract you from what you should be doing--acquiring ownership of moneymaking machines that are either fully autonomous or have a very high multiplier for turning your own work into spendable money. You can buy them, or you can build them, but you'll have a hard time doing either unless you spend a lot of time around wealthy people, leeching off their knowledge of how the machines operate.
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That is addressed in the paper which cites a Swedish study that found only a 20% variance in earnings attributable to genetics.
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I'm with you here.

I can't understand why people are calling for regulations on IoT devices. Instead, how about ISP supplied modems/routers have sensible defaults(and have the admin password reset).

Much more cost effective.

Regulating IoT is going to be impossible when tiny little devices can be shipped undeclared. Even if it could be policed effectively it would destroy the economics of some of these cheaper devices.
Ever seen the movie "Trading Places"?

In seriousness, it's frustrating that you're making such a bold assertion about causality. There are more male executives than female. Are you saying that's caused by genetics?
I don't think some people realize the value of a hard day's night. I think it is completely fine to pretend they didn't exist.

And finally - I don't respect the rich and the meaningless kind that have been plaguing corporate America for years.
In Germany there's a legal limit to how much the rent can be increased in addition to the time limit. And the limit depends on the location, so there are network effects. Additionally rent increases always have to be justified.

And even so tenants can sue against rent increases and occasionally win, resulting in no increase or a lower increase. There's even a Renter's Association that can provide legal aide to its members when there are disputes between tenants and landlords.
I think it also has a lot to do with the way different "classes" of people like to interact with each other. People can tell when you're from a different social group by the way you act. If you're a lower-income person interviewing for a job at a company run by more affluent people, there might be a culture clash which could hurt your chances of being hired. I think I've experienced this a couple of times.