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I have children aged 13, 10 and 5. The oldest spent 1 year in a traditional preschool, but they've gone exclusively to Montessori school since that time.

What strikes me about this article is its characterization of Montessori schooling as largely unstructured and free. I think it must be comparing it to a much over-structured methodology, perhaps like the public schooling I got growing up.

Styles vary somewhat among Montessori schools, but what I've seen is that in the early years, the age Montessori is most known for, there are specific materials children work with and specific ways they're expected to work with them. A child may not get out a work he/she hasn't been shown how to use. He must return the work to its proper place before selecting another one. The materials aren't tools for self-discovery. They're tools for letting self collide with reality until such time as the applicable real concepts are understood.

However, the one simple freedom of being able to choose a work does make it a sharp contrast from the lock-step style of education I grew up with. I hear public schools aren't always this way, according to relatives who sent kids to public school in Lexington, MA.

In higher grades the emphasis on materials fades, but the basic idea of letting children work within a structure remains. For example, in upper elementary (grades 4-6) the students develop their own classroom code of conduct. They're given some structure about how to do it, though. I see Montessori as a balanced methodology on the freedom/structure dimension, not an extreme.
Many companies need to scale up people as they grow because their ratio of human involvement to revenue produced isn't as high as 37signals'. Almost anything other than the specific style of product development that you guys do falls into this category.

The assumption when you publish an article is that you're doing it to provide examples to others, not just talk about how good you are. In that situation, I think it's fair to point out the limitations and areas where this strategy might not work.
Ah, forgive me; I didn't see that.

I wonder how they'd count Folding@Home, then: 500K active clients, 6M total clients, but only a fraction of their clients are active at any given point in time.
Curious about hearing the expression before, I went to search and discovered that "embarrassingly parallel" seems to be the correct technical term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
Neither good or bad.

It is a clue that she probably is good at "symbolic thinking". More of this stuff to come in the near future. Just make sure she has plenty of chances to develop this (probably innate) ability.

On the other hand, as she grows up, you probably should keep an eye on her and help to mitigate any shortcomings that'd eventually show up. But this is the same with all children anyway.
When you're slugging it out at your startup, it's important to read something fun at night:

Catcher in the Rye

Three Men in a Boat

Cold Comfort Farm

In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash

And my personal favorite: English August
Ask HN: Should we raise money from people who aren't accredited investors?
We are raising capital ($150k-250k) and have had some offers from various contacts. However, I know that many of them are not accredited investors. Should we completely drop these possible funds? Or is there a certain way to deal with unaccredited investors?

We've never raised money before, so we have no idea what pitfalls there are with unaccredited investors who are investing relatively small amounts ($10k-$25k).

Thanks in advance for all tips, suggestions, and investment tales.
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"Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés."
Would you rather have money, or be happy?
> its calculations were "embarrassingly parallel," with no communication between nodes

That's probably the only type of process that would work in the cloud. Most HPC applications require lots of communication between nodes, so I don't think I would call this a proper supercomputer.
You too can cheaply imitate a Montessori school by

a)Taking your kid out of public school and

b)Encourage your kid to do things he finds interesting with you at home and take him to museums and crap

True, it requires a mostly unemployed parent, but Montessori has just discovered how kids learn naturally at a young age. Just like a kid learns a language without having to be formally taught, he learns other things without formal education as well. The older years it's a different story, but there's really no need to pay a ton of money for a Montessori pre-school. Any parent can do it.
Why do you need him to change it? Just show him.
I understand what you did, but the mathematician in me cringed at the word "proof" in that comment.
To be fair, some of these APIs expose data sets and user bases that we couldn't have dreamed of accessing ten years ago. It sucks when we get locked out by the API provider, but the availability of these APIs has transformed what a single developer or small team can create.
In short the goal is to become a "Master" which in the german vocational tradition originally meant having your own shop and not needing to be an employee any longer

Not just originally, for some professions you're still not allowed to have your own business without your "Meister" degree. Never understood why this included hairdressers…

Totally agree with your assessment of the web subsection of the IT profession. And it's quite splintered, with the "young turks" against academia against the enterprise, with plenty of small areas of expertise vanishing in the cracks. It does get a bit better if the forum of discussion is sufficiently abstract and spread over different niches (e.g. programming languages that transcend specific fandoms).
We've been working on something like this but better for a while: http://meeep.com A totally customizable Twitter web client (e.g., you can upload your own userscripts, HTML templates, etc.).
The thing that always bothered me about cloud computing is where the cloud gets its resources when everybody has a spike, such as during holidays.
http://www.meetup.com is a great place to meet developers in your area. There might be more around than you think.
What does it all mean?
At the Montessori school my kids attend, children learn letters when they're ready/motivated, usually around age 3 or 4. Basic arithmetic starts around around age 4-5, typically. I don't think Waldorf/Steiner emphasizes materials the way Montessori does: http://ourdoings.com/brlewis/2006-01-21

I'm not actually sure how similar Waldorf/Steiner is to Montessori, aside from both shunning the same bad ideas.
I don't have the book handy to quote, but Freakonomics had a similar assertion about specific parenting styles not being a major factor in the educational outcome (test scores) of children. I can't remember what "styles" were part of the data though.
in the long term, definitely be happy. the dilemma is if i wait a year, i could potentially have money and be happy.
Another trick of the trade is working back from the desired output by stages. For example, for an amplifier delivering 200 W to loudspeakers (or 1 kW to an antenna, or ...), first design the final stage, then work back from that adding the stages needed until the range is OK for the input signal you have.
The big question is why are you only 40% vested after 5 years? You should have been fully vested a year ago.
just had a good laugh. thanks for posting!

I think point #3 is most important for non-tech guys to understand. If I'm building the product, you better have more than just an idea. Do you have experience in this industry, funding, strategic advisors, distribution, etc? Why should I work with you when there are a million other business guys with equally crazy ideas out there?
It is if you call it stealth mode.
This is why I switch my CTRL and ALT keys, it makes Emacs painless.
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Not sure where the girls in that picture came from. Not any software shop I've ever worked at.
There are certainly some women on the list, but none of them appear to be founders: http://mariamontessori.com/mm/?page_id=571

I would attribute that to there being many more men founders, and that the vast majority of children attend other types of schools. Any crossover will be vanishingly small.
I highly doubt it is anything better than a shared gigabit ethernet connection, which makes me doubt that it has any chance at all to get to TOP500 levels, and I doubt you could get enough of the HPC instances (where you are kind of promised a dedicated network if you get enough of them) to get 5k cores.
Getting the bank account for PizzaPowered has been 3 months of back and forth with HSBC (the worlds local bank don't you know). Half the team is based in London and half in Leeds and everything has to be done by post (not fax or email).

With the whole #digitalstartup thing going on in the UK recently, it was quite an interesting story to post..
In a year, can you get an offer similar to or better than your current offer from $co?
I haven't read it yet, but I've heard good things about "Do More Faster": http://www.amazon.com/Do-More-Faster-TechStars-Accelerate/dp...
better than might... you can: http://www.top500.org/system/10661
Crowd sourcing for a good cause: Support Women getting Funded
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Groundbreaking technology at its best.
the author mentions Redis but fails to analyze the peculiar data model of Redis that I think can't be considered mathematically dual with SQL's relational model... unless you want to use every row of a table as a node with fields for pointers and build skip lists out of that...

The fact that Redis is analyzed as a KV store is already a big enough proof by the over simplification that the author is performing here, in the name of proving his point.
I assume the rationale is that it's the student's fault if he chooses a major (e.g., sociology) that doesn't cover interest afterwards.

Well, if you say so? Of course, it grossly oversimplifies reality. Job markets are complex; lack of success cannot always be traced back to bad choices. Also, you could level a very similar objection against health insurance. Personally, I'm not comfortable with that kind of senseless cut-throat capitalism.
I think relatively few medical students had a perfect 4.0 GPA in college. Even places like Harvard Med School have entering students averaging 3.8.

Not sure how professional organizations can keep a "tight grip" on med school slots when foreign medical school graduates (and osteopathic medical school grads) can take USMLE medical boards. The pass rates for foreign medical grads, including US students who study abroad, are about 15-20% lower than US medical grads. My point is that the choke point for future doctors isn't the number of medical school slots but the USMLE pass rate and possibly the number of residency slots.
I will never forget an high school assignment in physics in France, where we were asked to calculate how a wheel of a given diameters would put marks to the road if it had a pen attached at a given position.

Our teacher always said she accepted all result with an error of less than 10% if we did that by making the calculus easier.

So I started by "let's define pi=3"

I got a bad grade on that one, even after I protested that the answer was within the required specifications, so afterwards as a nag, I was always over-precise with her assignments - like always included electron mass in nucleus calculations :-)
Ask HN: Looking for collaborator/partner
I am launching a staff scheduling application to help small-to-medium businesses schedule and communicate with their employees.

A similar application can be seen at http://www.findmyshift.com/

My current plan is to bootstrap the MVP and land some early customers then iterate/grow the business from there.

If anyone is interested in collaborating on the project drop me a line on the email in my profile.

I would love to work with someone in the Dallas or Austin area but location is not a requirement.

I will be bringing a product vision and 10 years of experience in web application development to the party.

I am expecting the initial phase to be a part time project.
Montessori only looks like a "not following rules and orders" environment in comparison to an environment where you ask permission to use the bathroom, and are told every hour of every day exactly what to do. Montessori has structure, just a lot less, more comparable to the amount of structure I have in my day job.
As a non-tech founder, I have a few thoughts as well.

- Respect the tech side. Learn the difference between a language and a framework. Leverage the internet and the power of a library card to educate yourself on at least a few general points.

- Respect the relationship. You don't understand till you're in it; but a partnership is truly a marriage of sorts. You likely would not choose a spouse based on a few brief meetings over the net and an awkward face-to-face. Develop a relationship, see how your work with one another and be genuine.

- Respect the team. Don't force a partnership because you found someone to code in RoR and you heard that was the "right" way to go. Find someone you can truly be a partner with. You may be surprised at the great ideas you can come up with together as oppose to the initial idea.

All that being said; every situation is different, as is every founder. Your mileage can - and will - vary.
Those weren't used as cursor keys. Cursor motion was done with Emacs commands (C-b, C-f, C-n, C-p).

In fact I don't recall the OS using those keys for anything at all; they were available to applications, though.
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Next big thing in the "cloud storage" market: cloud storage aggregator.

I don't want to keep track of where all my stuff is between Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, SkyDrive, Zumodrive, MobileMe, etc. - or at least do want a tool to manage them and move files between without hassle and from any interface (browser, PC, iPad, etc).

Get busy guys.
The link ends up at a paywall. Sorry, can't be bothered.
i can almost certainly get a better offer, but not necessarily in as good a company
If you liked Maverick, you should definitely check out Seven Day Weekend by Semler. I found it much more readable and relevant. It's crazy that it's out of print in the era of the Kindle

http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Day-Weekend-Changing-Work-Works/...
Thanks for catching that! It looks like they launched a new design for http://www.gnome.org/ in conjunction with the release. That must have altered the URL for the press release they had published earlier in the day.
I've been working on infinite streaming in Rails 3.1, here is my work so far.
Stealth mode is stupid for many reasons.

Stealth mode is usually preceded by "overhyped". Companies that go stealth seem to think that making one big, dramatic entrance into the startup world will be their key to success. In reality, software is buggy, servers go awry and crash, and support teams get overwhelmed. Unless deployment goes flawlessly, there's more room for creating a very bad, long-lasting negative impression if things don't go as planned.

Stealth mode is dependent upon people knowing named company is in or was in "stealth" mode. Stealth mode is a form of hype in and of itself. But the wrong kind of hype -- generates more hype for or about names, rather than the product.
Love of the Game: Be foolish enough to believe your startup will make it.
I have had this same idea on my plate but did not get around to building it. Would love to speak with you, email is in my profile (I live in Arkansas).
And just getting the paperwork together to prove our identities was a pain - as all my banking and utilities are handled online.
Oops, I forgot to add "<3 <3 <3 <3" to the title!

Edit: I tried to add "<3 <3 <3" to the title, but it did not accept it.
You don't sound miserable where you are, but if you have your sights and long-term personal and professional goals set elsewhere, why delay the opportunity and risk being in a place you want to be for a few more bucks?

There's always going to be more money.

There isn't always going to be the perfect job on a silver platter.
To my knowledge it's primary use is for people using platforms other than Windows for Mono/.NET development. If you don't have the Mono runtime installed on Windows and you have MonoDevelop installed it will by default compile with the C# .NET compiler. Banshee (Ubuntu's default media player) is most likely coded using MonoDevelop, as it uses C# with GTK#

I've used MonoDevelop, and it's okay, but Visual Studio is way more convenient to code in.

They need to focus on making nicer development tools though, especially with UI Design. Expression Blend/Web and Visual Studio are still the best way to go with designing any user interface (in my opinion)
> They still shouldn't be stored in plaintext

So how are they supposed to get your data from your bank if they can't login to it?

> User accesses Yodlee from a computer (maybe theirs, maybe their friend's, maybe a public terminal) which has a keylogger installed on it.

Just change "Yodlee" to "your bank" and the same exact problems happen. There is nothing special about Yodlee here.

> User is not security-conscious ..... they use a weaker password than they should [on Yodlee]

And when Yodlee asks them for their bank's password they don't realize what's going on?

I personally _like_ that Yodlee is explicit in saying to you "We have your bank password, be careful with your login". As opposed to making it seem like they have some backdoor, or authentication token to your bank, which they don't.

It's exactly the opposite of what you think - by letting you know they have the password you will be more security conscious with them. If that feature did not exist you might think that they were a "read only view".

> .... auto-login feature .... Practically speaking it's a tiny bit less bad because an attacker can't directly view the password and use it on other services

Do you think it works by magic? How do you think it logs you in to the other site? It uses your password! It makes an auto submitting form that has your password in it, in plain text, right there in the javascript!
Why so much prejudice against Perl on Hacker News??!!

I should know, because I shared the same biased views until I had a job which required quick iterations of complicated computation of a large dataset with limited hardware. I never had really used perl before that, but when it started to save me literally weeks of work I came to love it.

There's a tool for every job.

I think I didn't like Perl before because the code looked hard to understand. But since then I found out first hand one can do shitty C or Python too.
The development tools require either Vista or Windows 7 as per the release notes http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/7/177D6AF8-17FA-4...
Surely exiting a gravity well causes the spacecraft to experience an enormous amount of pressure opposite to the direction of its travel.
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I don't think most immigrant families who struggle for the education of their kids do so by sending them to private grade school. More often they take maximum advantage of the public options available to them and augment it with good parenting.

> Care is critical. Wealth may be helpful.

Certainly I agree if we're talking about raising a successful child but that wasn't the issue we were discussing. When it comes to sending your kid to private school, I think money usually goes a lot further than care.
i was, we had to revest all founder's stock as a condition of the latest round of investment
Stealth is really stupid. Back in the day, it became difficult to charge for website services because more and more sites were giving services away for free. Now, it's hard to even give stuff away for free because there's too much free stuff. So, how are you going to give away your free stuff unless you start talking about it early, and talk about it often?
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Almost right. Super and Hyper are pure modifiers and can be combined with any key. On the original Space Cadet keyboard, Top and Front were used to type Greek letters and symbols. (Not all of the symbols shown on the keys could actually be entered, however.) The later Symbolics keyboards had a Symbol key for this purpose.
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Or they found people already doing this and gave them a jumper and hat.
This is based on the core of the Google Chrome app. Does this mean it is expected to replace the Chrome app? And does it have any new features? I've been missing the ability to filter certain apps from the Chrome app yet still find it the best Twitter desktop app.
Agreed. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2235218
yeah, that pretty much sums up my emotional response to the whole situation. i'm trying not to be too impulsive about this because of the sheer amounts involved (though as a friend of mine puts it, i've multiplied a real number by an imaginary one and am dazzled by the result)
Thanks myoshimoto. So you are notified either way if you are selected or not?
Not everyone gets spikes during holidays--for example Amazon and other retailers get super busy at Christmas, but it's the slowest time of the year for a lot of web apps.
Sweet. Do the normal one connection per app instance rules apply?
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gnome3.org is down for me, but http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ works.

edit: and the torrent to the openSUSE with "optional" GNOME3 is: http://software.opensuse.org/114/en
100 ms is for an adult... The kids have smaller arms, hence shorter axons. Assuming that their conduction speed are similar to that of young adults, a shorter reaction time isn't surprising for young children.

[1] for adults, they decline with age, I don't know how they evolve during development
This is probably exactly why they act the way they do: they know the data is a goldmine and they want to protect that resource. Create a very narrow TOS and await ideas from the developer community such that they get a good idea of what to build on that data in the future.
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I was skimming the whole discussion and had missed that context. In that case I think we are in agreement.
Was going to ask something similar. Seems like single-threaded apps might have a tough time with this approach, but probably outside the bounds of this discussion.
That's rather close to a smbc comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#c...

(it was previously on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1093703)
But, unless I misunderstood the article, competition was not even a factor. The GDrive didn't exist then and it doesn't exist now.
I'm all in for a modernized Space Cadet (with cursor keys, please). I'd buy two, at least.
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How interesting! This could put Twitter in a very interesting place -- perhaps, one day, they won't need to maintain a client for their service!
I'm not sure the casual indie developer is their target market. Microsoft has always been strong in the enterprise market, thus a tool (Mono) that allows developers to write for Android while staying in the Microsoft ecosystem will probably have huge appeal for large enterprise development groups. Those kind of users usually don't have an issue with a tool priced under say $1000.

I'm certainly not saying that no indie developers use Microsoft tool, because they do. And sure, it would be great if there was a free open source version of this tool available. But I suspect there is a nice market for these tools that has deep enough pockets to pay the licensing fees.
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gnome3.org seems to be unaccessible right now. Any news on a official (as in official from the GNOME people, not Canonical) repo / .deb for Ubuntu 10.10?

I'm using Awesome WM since a about a year and I'm really happy with it, but it looks kinda good and I want to give it a shot.