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"We have been teaching for two millenia" is no way to defend an educational system that developed during the industrial age. The Montessori method was published in 1912, and experience has shown its effectiveness. It is our current public education system, not its critics, that ignores experience.

The nearest public Montessori school to me has a waiting list larger than its student body. As a result, I'm sending my kids to private school and making lots of sacrifices to do it.

I don't want to say about my kids, "As for the creative part, that happens in university."
Legal issues in using social media to screen potential hires
I know a guy who has done this as a business for at least the last 20 years. Nice little business model.
Harness the power of being an idiot
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amount.within? "10.00".."20.00"

Or somesuch. Ranges are always overlooked.
It's a fairly common idea.
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yup, there are a lot of credentials out there. you have to watch out what you commit as it will be public viewable in history views.
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I'm also doing a startup in the stock photo industry.

As a tech guy that's new to this industry, I've learnt a lot of things.

So far, its been hard attracting pro photographers to the Microstock movement. Some have made the jump, iStockPhoto trying to get those guys in, but for most photographers, the microstock rates mean that the production values for photos can't be too high.

Some guys are going the other way, i.e. Microstockers who've gotten bigger, e.g. Yuri Arcurs employs 20 people and wants to sell "premium" photos now.

The types of images that sell on iStockPhoto are different than what sells on say gettyimages.com; they cater to a different segment of the market, albeit with some overlap.

iStockPhoto allows individuals that want photos for business needs to get them on the cheap. Prior to iStockPhoto, if you bought a stock photo, you were a professional or were willing to pay pro-prices.

Another difference is for instance that some istockphoto images have been photoshop-processed... e.g. a black and white filter has been added, or other effects applied. Pro photos tend to be minimally edited and leave it up to a designer to stylize.

So, as opposed to a microstock agency, if you're building an aggregator of professionally shot images, what makes you different from say:

http://blendimages.com,
http://imagesource.com,
http://moodboard.com?

They think its a matter of dumping cash on marketing to do direct sales. I think otherwise.

If you want to get in touch, send me an email.
I would humbly submit that PP&E likely is dominated by warehousing facilities and books at a place like B&N. It may include some real estate, but I wouldn't bet on it representing the value of 720 store locations, even with aggressive depreciation schedules.

I would bet their PP&E likely has a large emphasis on esoteric distribution equipment, as well as some stores. I am just wildly speculating though: the business of selling books is too crappy (low cashflow yeilds) to get me interested enough to crack open a 10-k.
Wipeout (2097) was like a grown up, futuristic version of Mario Kart. It had funky hover cars, a thumping soundtrack with lots of dirty electronica (including The Prodigy), and this Blade Runner type grungy-neon-future feel. Great game!
If it's going to be commercially published, the publishers often have their own (sometimes mandatory) standards - for example, Wiley has a site dedicated to their layout requirements: http://www.wiley.com/legacy/DART/index.htm
I absolutely agree. We can't avoid talking about ourselves, more so - and in an unfiltered way - whenever we are talking about others.
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Where's my powerslide? (joking)

It would be really cool if they mounted the camera above the car to give a 3rd person perspective, just like the game. Or could somehow use magnets to make a hovercraft ;-)
Still doesn't explain self awareness in magpies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
This is why term limits are so crucial. By forcing new blood into the system, you limit the effectiveness of lobbying by decreasing the return on investment in lobbyists.
they already have the monitoring capability. where they don't they just block the site/service (ie. Blackberry, Skype or any VoIP service really)

You might make a fortune selling VPN etc solution access to expats there though.
That's awesome you made that sort of impact.
Let's put that grit argument another way:

Surviving prison develops grit. Therefore it is beneficial to go to prison.

Counting the grains of sand on the beach develops grit. Therefore, it is beneficial to count the grains of sand on a beach.

Point: not all activities that develop grit are beneficial. The implication of the grit argument is that any tedious activity has some benefit - if not for anything else, then at least for the development of 'grit' itself. Which is a ridiculous argument; some tedious activities are tedious because they are pointless. A better lesson to learn is to spend your time wisely - on activities that are tedious for a reason.

So is school tedious for a reason? The answer is no, not really - but to prove that to you would likely take some time. I recommend you read up on John Taylor Gatto, which the speaker references above. See: http://www.cantrip.org/againstschool.html and http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
careful on dismissing which European country invaded which European country etc. Unless people have a good understanding of history, they're doomed to repeat it.
Something that becomes very clear in times of strife such as the recent world financial crisis.

One thing that school is good for is exposing you to ideas that are normally outside your sphere of interest, thus attempting to give you a balanced view of the world.

Granted, they're not completely successful at this but I think a lot of that has to do with our immaturity and privileged upbringing as much as it has to do with boring subjects.

"Why do I have to learn this", "I'll never use this", etc etc. The catch cries of a generation of students who have never had to fight for an education and don't have the awareness of how tough life can be to be grateful for the chance to gain one.
Alternative explanation: people who are surrounded with better people are more happy.

This study in no way controls for the fact that people may be somewhat accurately rating people in their lives.
Computer Modern is good for math books, so that's why we tend to like it. But try to use it in other areas and you'll see how readability suffers.
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A day page for Org-Mode (emacs)
I should have done a little more research before posting. Amazon is probably not the relevant competitor in Australia. Nevertheless, there is a probably a go to place for used books. If you wanted to buy just some random novel used, where would you go? Do they also deal in text books? I was just trying to say that there is probably some big competitor out there who will be the go to source of used books of any kind unless you have something unique to offer.
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By not having control over the endpoints where the data is encrypted and decrypted, and being trustworthy.

Microsoft don't have the plaintext of Windows user's SSL encrypted web browsing, but they could if they changed their software to send them the plaintext too.
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There's a lot of anecdotal evidence in this thread. I'll add something to that: I was formula fed and I am fine. So are lots of other people.

Our kids were bottle-fed with breast-milk. I'm not sure where that fits in the breast vs bottle debate, and I of course didn't do a double-blind controlled trial to work out whether there were benefits - it simply suited our situation.

I have always been surprised at how judgmental people get of mothers and how they feed their babies. Some of the nurses in the maternity ward were amazingly self-righteous about it.

Not every mother can breast-feed, for various reasons (eg mastectomy). Fortunately in many countries there is a viable alternative. The mothers can often feel very bad about it, and having someone ram the obvious benefits of breastfeeding down their throat can be less than helpful, or healthy at that time.
Moose is Perl (pdf slides)
Even further, is it not a violation of the TOS of those services to disclose the password to a third party?

Edit: I just saw that it says your connection is read-only. How does that work if you're using the same password? Do you have a special deal with the brokerages that allows you to ask for the password and that they don't allow any login from your domain to change anything?
As sorbus points out, this is CPU temp, not the overall computer. The base was at around 45, I think.

I guess it was an overheating damage, but could not know. Since then, I've avoided CPU intensive things from happening on it, and the usual CPU temp is now around 60º. Which looks pretty high, but manageable.

I considered buying a lower platform with cooling (they sell it in some computer stores, plates with fans on them) but gave up.
I worked 2 blocks from Wall St. for 4 years and came in from Hells Kitchen in midtown (20 minute total walk + train ride). Here is an apartment which is a few blocks from Times Square, Central Park, and Broadway's theater district for $1,295 per month. Hell's kitchen is packed with great bars, and restaurants, pizza, cafe's with free internet and cheap awesome Thai and Chinese food for delivery. It's 15 minutes from NYU and 30 minutes from Columbia University: http://www.trulia.com/rental/3011545407--W-48th-New-York-NY-...
Latex is something that is nice to know, but
developers have little need to what it offers.

Latex is required knowledge if you need to create highly structured
documents with fine tuned positioning of equations, such as dissertations, math/engineering books, etc.

It is also very useful, but hard to use, if you want to typeset general books, music, etc.

For the needs of software documentation, I think XML
is a better fit, because you can convert it as needed
to other formats, including Latex.
At the end of the day degrees are just pieces of paper. Don't fall into the trap of going into college thinking you are going to double major in X, Y and get a minor in Z. It isn't high school anymore, so take classes you are interested in or you think will add some value to your life and adapt to the structure of a degree program over time. College admissions committees reward the biggest tools (I would know) but now that you've made it, don't waste absurd amounts of time with course work/resume filler bullshit and focus on passion projects, building relationships, etc. -- more important stuff.

Also, organic startups have a much better chance of succeeding so building a rich knowledge base in a subject that interests you is your best path to success rather than picking the degree path that may be most relevant to entrepreneurship. That being said, it may be helpful to ask people what their undergraduate education experience was like (classes/books that really influenced them, projects they worked on, etc.) and pick up a few ideas regarding where to begin?
Common wisdom agrees instead: "Man with wicked conscience: he behaves wickedly, and he views others' motives as wicked too." (Italian original proverb: "Uomo di mala coscienza: chi la fa, la pensa.") That is: we are inclined to judge others according to our view of the world.

EDIT: corrected translation
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Ask HN: Anyone had a manager with a sales background run a technical department?
My company has just taken a nose dive due to employing a sales manager as the new COO, and he fails to understand that the technical department is what keeps the company running and without us the company would fall over. His focus is on the sales department and he is making massive changes to our shift pattern without understanding why it is the way it currently is, it basically equals 30% more hours being worked for no extra money. This is to allow more staff in during the day to develop new products to be sold.

Anyone else suffer at the hands of a COO that appears incapable of understanding the technical side of a business?
I think it was more of a regret that his intuition about the problem area gets invalidated so quickly. The top technical guys are supposed to have good intuitions about what works and what doesn't; this is a major part of the value they can add. So I take this as a very serious self-criticism.
I don't understand the distinction you're making. Did you mean "marginal value" instead of "value"?
Found some typos in your "investment methodology" article:

In additon, many funds charge high fees...

If you agree with luminaries...
I was pretty sure that's what you meant by "localism" but didn't realize this purchasing tendency had been raised to the level of an "ism". My family and I started going in this direction around 10 years ago. To be clear, we prefer locally grown and made goods, but we like variety in our diet, so we happily purchase food that is out of season locally.

Back-to-the-land is a new one for me. I didn't realize young people were eschewing modern office life for farming. It's a very respectable choice.
I think if you need an email reminder about anniversaries/birthdays your relationship is pretty much shot. But maybe some of the other stuff could be useful for me.

I think you need to make the past content much more visible on the site so users get an idea of what they're signing up for. You really aren't creating any interest for the user unless you do that.
I grew up in the USA in a house that is older than the United States. But you need to consider how small the population and it's overall wealth back then. Building a stone house will last a lot longer but we had plenty of forests back so wood was far less expensive for poor people than it was in Europe.

PS: Also the US population was less than 1/7 th of Europe’s 200 years ago.
At most, you need to track a couple of booleans per socket, one for read and one for write.

Depending on what you are doing, you might not even need to track these booleans. For example, on the read side you can ignore read events when you are not interested in reading. When you switch back to read interest, you can read the socket to see if data arrived while you ignored events. A similar strategy can be used on the write side.
That guy you know is doing the world a favor.

This is an alternative: <http://www.google.com/images?q=guiyu%2C+china>;
When I was just out of High School, I worked at a computer repair shop. We probably tossed out 50-60 pounds of fried motherboards and expansion cards a week until the owner worked a deal with somebody to haul away the stuff to get the gold out. After that we had a dedicated dumpster out back for throwing circuit board stuff into. We easily got to a couple thousand pounds that year.

I think he got some percentage of the money out of the parts, it wasn't a ton of money, but better than just throwing the stuff away.
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Rather than limit citizen's donation, shouldn't perhaps all election campaigns be funded by the tax payer?

It is not really fare that a party can win only because it has more money to communicate their message more widely and effectively. All variable should perhaps be minimised or eradicated except so that each candidate can be judged on merit.

I do not think I am in any way qualified to suggest how the system might work, but perhaps something like a dollar for every member of the party, or ten dollars for every member, or something like that.

The alternative might be to give each and every party a set amount, however small or large they might be, but then you might get some Nazi party with 10 million dollars to spend on corrupting the young.

So perhaps the first suggestion is preferable. That way, we are actually and really paying for them so their lifeline depends on the number of people that support them. I doubt democracy can be more direct than that.
I grew up in the USA in a house that is older than the United States. But you need to consider how small the population and its overall wealth back then. Building a stone house will last a lot longer but we had plenty of forests back so wood was far less expensive for poor people than it was in Europe. Now days you don’t see a lot of stone buildings being built in Europe because wood has become cheap there as well.

PS: Also, the US population was around 1/4 th of Frances population 200 years ago and that ratio get's more extreme the further back you go.
Should be fixed now. Sorry about that.
Yeah I guess.

Another lesson learned: AA batteries are good.
I knew a lot of hardware hackers who did this as a side-business. They would find old electronic equipment and sell to someone else who, would sell it someone else and so on, until all that hardware ended with someone who had a large vat of acid just lying around.

It was in Eastern Europe, where, as everyone knows, people just have large vats of H2SO4 lying around in their back yard ;-)
In case anyone else made this mistake, Github's help section has an article describing the steps needed to remove sensitive data from a git repo:

http://help.github.com/removing-sensitive-data/
Yeah it works better in the primaries, though even there an instant-runoff system would be an improvement.
Lots of people will tell you'll fail whatever you do, so you have to get used to that to a certain extent.

He has articulated the problem that you'll have getting traction in an established market, though it doesn't mean it can't be done.

I don't personally see why you need pros for this, lots of people who take photos in their spare time take very good photos (look at Flickr for example) and many wouldn't mind earning some extra money. In fact I'm looking at doing this with iStock, i.e. not full time. Some people may just be looking for somewhere to put their own portfolio, set the prices, get a bigger cut and promote it via their own network - for example.
How about leaving them some README-NOW.txt file in their S3 bucket?
Wipeout series is one of my favorite game series out there. It's like F-Zero on steroids + the awesome magic of The Designers Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic which made it look and feel like it does.
If you know someone at an electronics recyling facility, or someone who repairs TVs, or computers. Basically you first have to have access to all those boards, then you can think of setting up your business.
Man, sophomore is a doozy. Are you sure kids can handle all that at once?
Great, looks like there might be some people here who know a thing or two about the photography business.

(Aside for anyone posting for help on HN: Seriously, don't try to hide your idea. Your biggest problem is obscurity, not idea-thieves.)

On the point about your niche though, a business does not necessarily have to serve a niche to succeed. You can simply compete on good old things like customer service, quality of product and even pricing (I mean expensive rather than cheap).

"Pivoting" before you even start making something may not be a good idea. What will you do when someone else criticises your pivot idea? Jump to another idea again?

Why don't you build something small that will be useful to some photographers? In the process, you will at least start a conversation with your target customers and then have a chance to find out their real problems.

I know this may not be in line with the Lean Startup methodology (where the current cool thing to do is to make landing pages and boast about signups without having a product at all). But if you start building something that anyone uses at all, you will have a base to pivot from if the need arises.

Mark Pincus of Zynga said in his Stanford talk that the biggest mistake he made when starting out was focussing too much on trying out just one game idea. He should have been thinking about building a platform on which to try out many game ideas. I like that approach and you could probably benefit from it too.
I'm working on Plexibase, a database platform that makes it easy to create a knowledge base. Please try it out at http://plexibase.com. It's a work in progress; I welcome your thoughts. Smaller companies could use this to make data available to customers quickly without having to develop a web application or CMS.
Sorry, I should have been more precise: The act of downloading itself is not sufficient to prove that you broke the law.
I didn't use it because of the privacy issues. Probably a bit too much Nerd Privacy Paranoia Disorder (TM).
Are you arguing that it's easier to become "well-networked" by sitting at home? How do you think you would impress more people? By working or by being too arrogant to work?
Yep, need to know an estimated click through rate and/or revenue per user for the ads. That might be a better question to ask, given more details about your users.
As an extreme example; 2 weeks ago a friend of mines floor collapsed under the weight of his record collection. Not that most people try to store ~50k - 100k records in one room, but it does show how limited our ability to store stuff is.

Edit: http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/540017.ht... also, he is in good health.
good reminder to us all, thanks Kabuks
They don't have to do the encryption on their computers, they can do it on the devices.
That's a pretty enlightened speech for a high school grad, awesome!

Take home lesson: "What gets measured gets managed - even when it's pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so."
I think there is shame in slacking. It's not like Scott is forgoing a job to work on something he views as more important. He's doing nothing but consuming resources because of his own selfishness and arrogance.
European countries just banned the most costly part of elections: TV advertising.
Related: In 2009, Etisalat prompted its UAE BlackBerry users to install a surveillance application disguised as a performance update[1]. The update resulted in crashes and lowered battery life resulting in RIM to issue its own update to remove it.

[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8161190.stm
There are many way to say one person is incompetent: "He is worthless.", "He is not experienced enough." and so on. That many ways to say things say something about you.
Do you like people, Qz?
I tried it out - it's not a "replacement" for mint - more of a stripped down, zen version. Its one real feature is the one I want though, so i like it. All I want from a budget app is the ability to: list out what I'm expecting to spend, and show me where I f'd up this month.
Not to mention, people may already have local copies of stuff they post of TwitPic. Blocking Posterous just means re-uploading stuff, which is a nuisance. The only person who loses here is TwitPic.

Unless you're as big as Facebook, you can't really monopolize user data.
I highly recommend Kurt Vonnegut's books. You should try A Man Without A Country.
I Love this "thing" ..now as an employer i know where to go if i am looking for a rails fanboy/ open source enthusiast /mentors .
Most of the Apple stores are leased also.
They aren't. I wonder why only pessimists keep saying they are just realists.
"Don't worry, the discussion about women is because people (aka men) are having a hard time getting laid, keeping a woman, dealing with the woman they have or the feelings they have about her..."

They would do better than discussing those issues here... whatever insight they get is going to be grossly skewed by the 15:1 m/f ratio...
I wouldn't expect them to stop selling books. I would expect an in-store area (much like they are planning for the nook) to display the companies wares (ex. HP PalmPad area with accessories).
Ask HN: Haskell for startups?
Any startups using haskell out there?