skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who do live in Denmark seem pretty happy about doing so, though (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.ht...). One reason might be that they're fairly wealthy to begin with, so it's taking a large percentage out of a large pie (Denmark's per-capita GDP is ~DKK 375,000 = ~$62,000). The social safety net is also rather strong as a result of the government's large amount of income, and it's popular, partly because nearly everyone uses parts of it--- free education, free adult education, free health care, free child-care, pensions, job retraining, etc.
The only apps I have purchased for a real amounts of money are from Rock or Cydia. Most of them were $10+ and to be honest I use them everyday. Apps such MyWi 4.0, My3g, IntelliScreen, Wifi Sync, and many others get daily use from me and and I am more than happy with what I paid. Granted, AT&T and Apple aren't likely huge fans of these types of Apps, but I think that is a huge mistake on their part. Android too is hamstrung by Verizon with what they are allowed to give developers access to on their phones. If these restrictions weren't in place I really believe that there would be so many more unique and USEFUL Apps than there are now. The really useful (jailbroken) Apps go beyond porting websites to cocoa.
Yes, but to be fair to the Danes their quality of life and the health of their society as a result is amazing.
They might find other ways to monetize it through ads outside of Facebook. So the experience inside Facebook could remain more pure but then advertisers would pay to know they are definitely reaching an audience with a certain message. Last I saw they were nearing $2B in ad revenue and they have not fully tapped the larger potential.
Yes, and it also fits the category of wikis that tend to cause insomnia. :)
On this page:

http://www.nwcny.com/membership.php

They specify by week, not month. If it's by month I might sign up for this.
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One of the keys to both Montessori style instruction and "un-schooling" is the recognition that children learn at their own pace. Sometimes their brains aren't ready for a particular topic, and trying to get them to learn it too early can do a lot of harm (much like "learning" a physical activity before the muscles and bones are ready for it), or at the very least won't do much good. On the other hand, when a kid is ready to learn a topic, he may pick it up much more quickly than the lesson plans expect. Teacher-initiated schooling, with its curriculum and standards boards, usually doesn't have the flexibility to accommodate different kids' different readiness to learn different topics.

Within the context of child-initiated learning, it's certainly worthwhile to have someone introduce a child to new topics, inspire them to learn, and provide answers to their questions. Some amount of structure and some amount of teacher initiation is useful.

With my own children, I plan to be somewhere on the un-schooling-to-Montessori end of the spectrum. Figuring out where will be a learning experience for me, too.
That surely can't be for premiums? I remember paying $95/month for full coverage ($179 for a family?) with low (no?) deductible when I lived in BC.

I wish, WISH, for that kind of coverage here in CA. I've got catastrophic coverage only for like $200/month.
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Apple has a habit of releasing simple, feature complete products at 1.0 and then only adding additional stuff later when they can guarantee a first-rate user experience (eg, the App Store, cut and paste on the iPhone, printing on the iPad, etc).

This also has the side benefit of introducing users to these things in gradual baby steps.
I mean, fine, but this is the case with just about any form of social program. I'm not in danger of needing food stamps, so logic dictates I'd rather have the $20 a year or so I contribute to that program. I don't like bombs, but about 5-10% of my income goes to pay for them.

You're forced to pay for all kinds of stuff. Might as well get some social value out of it (like more cohesive families)
When I was looking for work after University I was astonished to find that I would be pay much more taxes in Texas than I would in Ontario. I would still have had a better standard of living though because housing is so much cheaper there and the wages are about 15% higher, but still, it was sobering. One point the original poster forgot to include was that you do eventually have to pay taxes on your RRSP contributions, so it is just tax delayed, not really less taxes. One reason I don't contribute to my RRSP is that I think taxes are going to go well north of where they are today due to the baby boomer strain on social services. Better to take it out now than later.
That could be a component. I can't put my finger on the other ones, and it was just a slapdash thought, but I'd just love a scorecard that maybe considered: predictive success, factual error rate/truthyness (e.g. do they make frequent bogus claims?, known biases and employer(s).

It's not really realistic to comprehensively log all of this, of course. But it sure would help me assessing the relative quality of some sources, especially now that sources for news are so varied and fragmented. I suppose in the past the reputation of a publication served some of this purpose (i.e. WSJ or NYTimes having stellar reputations).

I knew of a couple of databases for equity analyst performance like Starmine and Bulldog Research. So those do exist. Not sure if either are still around since I'm no longer in the finance space.
Netflix also has a company culture that tends to keep people motivated. They've identified that a great place to work isn't a place with perks, it's a place where you get to work on hard problems with great people.

And besides making users happy (which is important), at its heart, it's a technology company, and it shines through when they're able to leap from platform to platform to deliver the movies.
Xanadu was a pre-web attempt to create all that the web is and more. It failed because it was too ambitious and too complex technically. For example, links were two way, so from a document you could find all the documents that pointed to it. It supported micro-payments. I think it was going to support itself by skimming from the payments. It was pre-internet, so they had to invent a communications infrastructure on top of POTS. I visited Xanadu for an afternoon in the mid 80's. The programmers were talented and very dedicated, but it was obvious that they were having difficulty converging on something that was simple and worked.

Contrast this with the Web which had two simple protocols, HTML and HTTP, which could be implemented easily and extended by the multitudes.
Even after all other factors that are mentioned already, the one significant difference I feel (having come to the US from the UK) is one of constant fear. Can I afford to go to the doctor with my co-pay? If something bad happens to me, will my insurance company look after me, or do whatever they can to ensure they don't pay out? If I get a terminal disease, will the co-pay for the medication I need to live as long as I can bankrupt my family?

With the NHS, while the Brits like to complain about it, the fear isn't there. You will always be looked after if you need to be. Here... I'm not so confident.
"You can't dodge a sales tax"

You're kidding right? Replacing income tax with a national sales tax would immediately create a massive black market that didn't exist.

Its always humorous to me when people claim that a national sales tax would allow the IRS to be done away with. Uh, think it through. the sales tax would need to be around 25% to replace our income taxes. So you don't think people would be trying to dodge that? And the IRS wouldn't be going around checking retailers to make sure they were paying the tax? LOL...you think the IRS is intrusive now, wait until they are trying to track EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION. Now there's some big government for you!
the DRM-like application keys leads to some obvious underhand scenarios.

if the app key is compromised, the key is revoked and no twitter access. if you extract the twitter oauth key from a competitor's desktop/android/iphone/etc app and post it on the internet, twitter will kill your competitors twitter application until they distribute a new key. rinse + repeat.

i wonder if twitter will revoke their own app key.
It is a good article. I agree that unschooling is probably the most demanding form of education for a parent to undertake. I wouldn't insist everyone do it this way (maybe there.ls a possibility for unschooling tutors?).
usemod (http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl) is at a sweet spot on the features vs. complexity continuum. It's also pretty easy to chroot.
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I think I get it, thanks. Mongrel2 is better at being language agnostic, by virtue of intentional design. Looking forward to trying it out!
This actually raises the point that YC acts like the "first-mover" that pg talks about in the essay.
I spent my summers (as a child) doing more or less what you've described.

Looking back, my parents did a few major things that helped make this a successful venture (or so I like to think, given my belief that I can do the things you've outlined in your last paragraph):

1) So long as we were learning, they didn't mind too much what (though it was always grounds for discussion and debate). If I wanted to read about dinosaurs, that was valued just as much as reading about history or politics or engineering.

2) If we were struggling, they'd start by giving me a small hint, then a slightly larger one, and so on until I either understood it or asked for a demonstration. Nothing wrong with the latter, as there are a lot of things that aren't immediately intuitive, but better to build intuition first.

This is an extended way of me saying "I think what you are planning to do is fantastic, and would like to offer these two things I remember from my experience."
Funny how that works eh. Yet all we hear is whining about "soak the rich" etc.
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Yeah, this is the biggest issue for me too (as an American who hasn't lived anywhere else). In particular, the tying to your employment status makes everything complicated and coverage uncertain for everyone except career employees who stay with one firm. For example, I switched from a full-time student to part-time for one semester in grad school. Oops, this means I don't get the student health insurance anymore and have to buy gap coverage. So I had to research gap insurance, fill out a bunch of paperwork, wait to be approved, and then still hope that I don't really have to use it, because now the recent change in insurance gives them excuses to claim things were preexisting and thus excluded.

And I don't even have any major chronic conditions! People with major chronic health issues are pretty much required to stay in their current job forever, because if they lose their health insurance they're screwed. The whole employment-tying thing puts a huge drain on entrepreneurship, imo, because lots of people who would start companies are scared of losing their health insurance, and even if you can figure it out, it's a huge bureaucratic hassle. One area where the private sector has managed to gallantly out-bureaucratize any government.

In short, I really, really wish that health-insurance was completely decoupled from employment. It would reduce a lot of friction in the economy, imo.
Truely: Airwolf's conventional top speed is 560 km/h compared to the X2's 435 km/h. With turbo boosters, Airwolf could go Mach 1+, so really nothing has progressed past the 1980's.

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This is true, and homeschooling with some sort of curriculum is a nice balance, I think. My wife and I follow a "classical" curriculum with our kids at home, but at the same time, we are flexible according to what works and what doesn't, and what they enjoy. And, hopefully, we're developing and nuturting their intellectual curiosity.
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If something is very beneficial, but in great supply the price tends to be low, like clean water in Sweden, it will be very cheap, so I don't think somethings price on the market is enough to decide how much benefit it has. Somethings which are of great benefit to us, like air we can breath, are even free.
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Tried it. Didn't work for my children. As the article says though, it's not for everyone. My kids are super-smart, but lazy, and unfortunately need structure. I homeschooled them for several years, but both of them asked to go to "real" school eventually, one by the age of 6 and the other by 8 (they were about 2 years ahead of the other kids when they enrolled). I think that it's worth the experiment though, but be prepared for the unexpected as you're dealing with an individual, not an ideal.
Similarly, Martin from Rapportive wrote almost the same thing back in May (graphs and all): http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2010/05/05/valuation-caps-on-...
I agree. I'm already going out to local meet-ups etc. and networking that way. This post was to expand that process.

I'm essentially looking into any option at this point and you make perfect sense with your response. Thank you
So first of all, I see alexa as pretty suspect. I have some doubts about this overall, although I would not be surprised if digg traffic had steadily declined over the last 3 years (testament to the not-so-amazing bizdev team there). But mostly I'd guess Kevin misspoke.
I found it a somewhat more palatable alternative to SlideShare because I was a big fan of the HTML 5 viewer, but I had no idea this was part of their plan. It's a nasty bait-and-switch which isn't signaled when you upload at all.

Not too happy with that.
The killer app in this space is studio catalog - that's the competitive advantage.

Distribution for NFLX is strong - but given the move for most new hardware devices to include "Apps" integration, distribution is going to be a waning advantage.

It's going to be an interesting battle, for instance what does the paperwork look like in Netflix' studio agreements - can they sell to Apple?
The problem is that you have to take account how unlikely a given prediction would be in comming true - a person who predicts one in a million things but only gets it right one out of a thousand is still way better than somebody who predicts the results of coin-flips with 51% accuracy but in your system the latter would be ranked far higher.
It's not an either-or proposition.
Speaking of annoying ads, this is the page that helped me get rid of the Meebo bar on Slate: http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2010/08/19/block-meebo-bar/
To put it simply: if you earn a dollar more of income, about forty percent of that dollar will end up going to the government.
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While I love the idea of homeschooling and unschooling, I can't quite figure out how people do this while still managing to pay their bills. Wouldn't this, in essence, take up a significant portion of your day, preventing you from working?
"I repeatedly attempted to make Twitter aware of the problems with its OAuth implementation, but the company largely ignored my concerns. When I opened a support ticket, it was promptly closed and I was directed back to the developer mailing list, where I received no response from Twitter after writing several posts outlining my concerns. My attempts at responsible disclosure were unsuccessful."

How can they do a good job if they won't even start listening to developers trying to help them...
Thanks for the update. I'd be curious to learn more about your setup. I guess OPML Editor is the framework generating your pages; but what's your web server, and how does OPML Editor tie into it?
Travis, you & mark make great points.

Any insight into where to begin. With so many different programming languages (php, java, ruby, c++ yada yada yada)... where does a newbie even start?
are you sure it's them directly and not someone advertising for their affiliate account?
Here's another thread on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318827
I didn't know about that. I'll shoot him the link.

Thanks.
Your first sentence requires an 'if you happen to be at least middle class' at the end.

Your linked blog assumes that money spent on healthcare in Sweden and the US offer the same outcomes. This is plainly not the case - the swedish government spends dramatically less than individuals/companies do in the US to provide the same level of care. If, for example, the author subtracted healthcare benefits from US workers, and subtracted them from swedish workers as well, sweden would compare substantially better. One might find similar issues with respect to university spending.
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I thought GPS already provided precise clock?
I like the idea of the product but using it was another story:

a) copied Mint.com's look verbatim
b) the functionality is horrible and extremely limited
c) you can't delete your account and your data
d) I question the 256 bit security they use as well
So is this designed to replace apache/nginx, or should i throw it behind an nginx upstream still and let nginx serve the files?
I was the one who suggested that. Thank you.
wikipedia has a nice explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBZ_(meteorology)
I just wish the would come to Canada.
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Yes, I'm sorry; I did misunderstand. Is story rank only a factor of up/down-votes to the story weighted by time or does it also include a factor based on number, depth, and scores on comments under that story?
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> You could always try the military... you've got one hell of an expensive lean, mean fighting machine there. I'm pretty sure it would still be as good for defence at a fraction of the cost.

The US military is about 6% of Federal spending and didn't jump significantly during Iraq.

For example, Iraq cost about $1T over 8 years. At least one of the stimulus cost about that, and we've had several since 2007.

The long term trend for US military spending is down. It was over 20% before Vietnam.
That's only a fair question if your basic needs (food and shelter) are met with 0% of your salary. Otherwise, there is not really a choice.
Some YC teams are from overseas. Web startups have a highly US-based bias.
Unless I'm missing something, this title is misleading. The article itself doesn't say anything about Jobs making that statement, only the fact that Cult of Mac speculates that FB's terms became onerous.
> Can you imagine what it would mean to a small business with 3 employees if one of those employees goes on a 18-month paid break?

You do realize that the paid leave is 1. not 100% of salary and 2. not fully paid by the employer, but funded in no small part by taxes on the general population?

Furthermore, if it's a "small business with 3 employees" (or 6, or even a dozen) chances are those people are at least somewhat close and talk to one another. And they know that it's not in their interest to bankrupt the business. There are generally ways to reach an arrangement: try to push the paternity itself further, correctly plan the pat' leave, use part-time instead, etc...
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The problem with the type of unschooling you're describing is that children don't have the experience and exposure to make optimal decisions. There is no good reason to be an absent parent. The style of education I'd like to provide is what I imagine a PhD program is like: plenty of guidance and advice that ultimately enables the student to take responsibility for themselves and make original contributions. It sounds like you're on the right track with your daughter, I hope you keep sharing your homeschooling experience.
> This sequence of events is actually recognized in the Windows filesystem code.. and turned into a file-replace operation

Woah. I have quite a bit of experience digging through the crap in Windows kernel, but this seems to top all of that. Do you happen to have any references? MSDN, some forum threads, anything? Frankly I just find it hard to believe.
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You have to read:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2010/03/21/9982732.a...

Written by the programmer who got multiple sclerosis in U.S. How he suffered because of the system. A good example of something "only in America" (from the Europe perspective of course).
Wait wait wait. I don't understand this. Unschooling simply seems to mean "being a good parent". Can someone explain the distinction? The Unschooling website doesn't help me either:

"Unschooling is following your children's lead...Unschooling isn't a method of instruction, it's a different way of looking at learning..."

Outside of school, my parents encouraged and helped me to learn interesting subjects, play musical instruments, paint, build things with Lego, play sports. When I asked my dad about computers he taught me Pascal. They did all this not because school was bad (it was great actually), but because they wanted to support me. I thought that's just what good parents are meant to do. What do the Unschooler people think parents do by default?
The main thing I like about reddit is that the pages (like Hacker News) load very very quickly.

Very very important to me.
"The current K-12 educational system exists, generally speaking, for two primary reasons. First, its scalability makes it easy for the state to educate its citizens, and second, it gives children and teens a shared public space where they learn to interact with others and hopefully pick up some societal norms."

This is completely wrong. The five functions of school are generally recognized to be Training, Sorting, Socialization, Caretaking, and FRPL. The author doesn't even get partial credit, because each function affects how each other function is implemented. So a school system whose only roles were teaching and socialization would have essentially zero in common with our school system today.

"Influential books in the un-schooling canon include Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich"

The thesis of Illich's book is (IIRC) that one of the biggest flaws of society is that each area of life is dominated by only a few major schools of thought, and these schools of thought tend to favor the elites. The book isn't even about education, let alone unschooling, albeit a lot of his examples are about education merely because it turns the title into a clever pun.

In any event, do you really want to be taking advice from someone whose clearly never actually read a book about education, or any of the vast amounts of research?