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Using a single very common word is horrible and will confuse people [0]. If they insist on using the word 'Open', I suggest capitalising it to 'OPEN' maybe?

I welcome cheaper education tools. However there doesn't seem to be anything 'open' about this. No open source code commitment, use is 'free' and students appear to need permission from the teacher to enroll. It seems that they should rename themselves to Online instead.

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open
The conclusion (that a landlord will reward "good" tenants with lower rent) is hopelessly naive.

Found the same thing when renting in the Boston area in the early aughts. My roommates and I were good tenants - paid rent on time, were quiet & low key, didn't call the landlord except for real emergencies (we were all mechanical and electrical engineers so we basically took care of stuff that didn't require a licensed professional ourselves), etc.

For our trouble we got whacked with 15 percent annual rent increases for three years. Ninety days before our last lease expired, the landlord offered another 10% increase. When we hedged about accepting it for a few days, the landlord decided that he wanted to renovate the place and withdrew the lease offer. We moved out a couple of months later, but lived near the house and we could keep track of what was going on. After 2 or 3 months of painting/cleaning/etc, the house went back on the rental market.

It sat empty for more than two years.

He finally rented it when he offered a price that was lower than we were paying when he booted us out.

Lose, lose. I am glad to see that there are landlords that appreciate good tenants, but certainly not all of them do.
That is just grazing the surface of what is wrong with an experiment like this. For example:

- people may react differently to photos than they do to real people

- people may react differently in a lab than they do in a real life courting situation

- people may lie about their attractions for unfathomable reasons

- people may not even know what they are attracted to

- the people in the photos can't necessarily fake emotions convincingly

These kinds of issues confound most psychological experiments but you really can't dismiss them when it comes to sex.
Changed the copy to sound less polemical.

- David, Co-Founder
You might be waiting a long time simply due to one corporation wanting a monopoly over online educational resources, Blackboard Inc [0].

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Blackboard_In...
That's cool, I had overlooked that. I guess the point is that there's no key value store for modules, whereas for packages there's npm.
Maybe you could suggest beyond 'neatness' what seems so fishy about it? I'm a wide open mind.
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What are the odds we can talk them into releasing the communication frequency and protocol? If it's officially out of service, perhaps the commonwealth can take over the vigil.
You'd expect higher income kids to achieve SAT scores 30 pts higher than lower income students (and untutored higher income kids).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124278685697537839.html
Our tool is Open in the sense that access to it for teachers and students is free. The reason teachers and students can't sign up right now is we're in closed beta.

- David, Co-Founder
"Children of alumni received an advantage. Minorities (except Asians) and athletes received an even bigger advantage..."

You completely ignored the context of the statement. Instead, you created a strawman argument and ignored that other groups such as minorities and athletes are given advantages in the application process, yet a group that is inherently disadvantaged gets no preferential treatment.

You also ignore the paragraph before that which begins: "...SAT scores are hardly a pure measure of merit." You took a lone statement out of context and then hammered it, when, in context, it deserved none of the scrutiny leveled upon it.
the idea that personal connections between people should be used to market products is tasteless.
I wasn't talking about Chrome switching. MuPDF is an open source option for open source projects.
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How free is free? Do they submit resources that only you can own the copyright to like IMDb does? Can anyone not an official student participate allowing public education?

How are you going to fund maintenance with no clear business model?

I hope it doesn't discourage you!
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Nationally, only about 27% of the population above the age of 25 has a college degree, which includes all crummy state colleges (I can say that because I got a degree from one, as an "adult learner" no less). So my guess is that about 20% of the East Coast has "at least one parent" who has a professional job. In manhattan probably 50%+, in Orange County, probably 10%. Just saying
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I'm using lijit.com - it's worth a try
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"Soul of a New Machine" was practically required reading when I was at Convex (where Steve Wallach, interviewed for the article, went to be CTO post-DG.)

To say that the culture of Mostek and DG influenced Convex would be gross understatement.

I learned a lot at my first "real job" in the industry. I've never found anyplace as "good" to work since. (Nor am I alone in expressing this.)
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3 founders, none who can code, and who propose to give the people who are going to build the product so little of the company. These situations do not turn out well unless the founders are Bezos.
Watching lectures at home, doing "homework" at school. This makes so much more sense to me than the default way we do it now.
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Open is free for individual teachers to use. We will not own resources submitted to Open.

And yes, anyone can watch any lesson on the site (another reason we're named Open).

Our revenue model is based upon service we intend provide to schools.
I notice you left out what a 'good' comment stream would consist of.

What is the ideal we're failing to live up to?
SATA is saturated because the increase in performance between platter disks and SSDs is a big discontinuity in what had been a relatively slow but steadily rising curve in the max sequential speed of a disk. Right now SATA is playing catchup, and has had two fairly major iterations in a much shorter cycle than what used to be the case. SATA 6gbps isn't saturated by even the Vertex 3.

Mobile bandwidth is a problem for completely different reasons - I wouldn't equate them.
Have you guys in any way been inspired by Salman Khan's (khanacademy.org) work? Perhaps a cooperation could benefit both of your organizations, and consequently the rest of the world.

Improving education is always a very laudable goal. And even though I see the value of having many parties to chose from, I think in this case a lot more can be achieved by reducing fragmentation of the available tools and sources and having potentially major players join forces.
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As someone who has rented from Chinese landlords at multiple locations as whose father owns property (not Chinese), I don't buy this.

Prompt/early payment aside, I have not experienced this and I've done a lot more apt maintenance than not call about toilets or lightbulbs. First of all, as mentioned in another comment, in both the case of my landlords and my father's business:

>they have full-time maintenance person anyway, so there's no feedback loop.

Unless you're a royal pain in the ass, I doubt they'll raise rent more than they do for anyone else. Otherwise, the delta convenience/hassle isn't enough for them notice or care to give you a deal.

edit:
Anecdotally, if you happen to be renting a house from a small property owner who does not have a maintenance worker, then perhaps this may work (not me personally, but a friend). That said, you still probably want to find a place with a proper building manager.
I'm not sure why all of the other commenters are so negative. This looks amazing! Khan Academy for the local high school... I love it.

I wish that I could have gone to a school where I watch the lectures at home and spend the 74 minutes with the teacher working on problems.
Absolutely, we share many principles with the Khan Academy in our approach to the classroom. We're just trying to solve the problem in a different way.

- David, Co-Founder, Open
I get about $100 (sometimes more, often less) from my iPhone/iPad game, Battle for Vesta: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-space-combat-battle-for/id...

More would be nice, but I have done a terrible job at marketing it.
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The problem is exclusive containment. Folders/directories are an example of hierarchical exclusive containment. The author suggests avoiding the problems associated with this by getting rid of the hierarchy.

However, the author is onto something: storing functions in a database. Using the file system results in exclusive containment (file can't be in two different directories - link don't count) that a database can avoid.

If you are lost, think of Gmail's tags with nesting. You can still have the hierarchy but data can be "located" under different tags. A lot of times the problem is using the file system as the back end. Python's modules, for instance, do not inherently enforce exclusive containment; the file system imposes this constraint.

I had a chat with Jeff Bone a year ago after I read his partially-related rant here:
http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20091109/0545...

I wish I could paste everything he said to me in here; he pointed me to a lot of examples of good file system / graph database examples that get a lot of these things right. Quick further reading list: Original ReiserFS design, BeFS design, FluidDB, LUFS, and Tannenbaum's design for the directory services and file system of Ameoba.
I wouldn't have a real problem with a password encrypted reversibly via salted/IV'd RSA public key, with a well-protected, generally offline private key for recovery in the event of some bizarre necessity. Provided there were some legitimate reason to reverse it... Still all the other benefits of a one-way hash, eh?
I don't get the sense from the Khan literature that they intend for "normal" teachers to record their own lessons. I could be mistaken?
That's not the trade-off (his own start-up), the trade-off is staying at Appl/MS/GOOG vs these guys.

Also, if the only good investment was in a billion dollar company then there would be no YC and definitely no Yuri Milner with his no cap, no discount convertible broadside loan of 150k.
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Had the exact same situation (Boston, 00's, basically fixed everything that didn't require trained electrician or plumber)... certainly didn't do me any good.
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What is the doctor giving you in return? From my understanding it's not an valid contract unless both sides get some kind of consideration (such as money or a discount for service).
They didn't attack those articles, they just mentioned them.
Yea he was a bit crass there but the point is that patients die all the time and doctors will keep doing what they do. But being sued for malpractice is one of the most destructive things that can happen to a doctor's private practice and they will go to great lengths to avoid that.
My position isn't that there's "nothing wrong or unfixable about Jpeg" at all. There's lots wrong and fixable with JPEG. My problem with WebP is that it currently doesn't fix enough of the problems that JPEG has and that if we adopt it right now we might end up with another format that still has problems and will have to replace WebP with yet another format that fixes those problems later. JPEG took 6 years to standardize and has lasted for nearly 20, this suggests that we might not want to rush to commit to a 8 month old image format with a bitstream that was frozen the moment it became public.

As for support in other browsers, WebM is supported by Opera, Chrome and Firefox, plus it solves problem of being a royalty-free modern video codec and neither Safari nor IE have obliged in short order. What do you think that WebP brings that will make adoption happen faster than WebM?
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I would love it if it were made publicly searchable available so I can see what data is available on me personally.
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So we're waiting until October for limited backgrounding and an integrated sms, facebook, and messenger experience? Yeah, I can see ppl holding off on iOS and android upgrades for this;) Seriously, win7 is so unbaked it can't even connect to a hidden wifi network. And with this fall release they are not going to be at parity with last year's OS's. They have continued to loss market share. They need to leapfrog the competition:(
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"France" is not involved - the French gvt is, which is slightly different. I think few French citizens would even care about this law, and for those who do, would most likely be against it.

There is also the context of presidential elections next year in France, where Sarkozy is in a tough situation to win. Trying to win points in international summits also works well with French citizen people who have not yet realized France is a minor power for more than 50 years.
That's sort of how it worked in Germany when I grew up there. At age 10 everyone gets a series of tests that decides whether they go to first, second or third tier schools. Only the first tier (9 years of high school) gets you admission to university. The second tier is meant to shuttle you toward vocational education, which is very good in Germany, and the third tier basically turns you into a laborer.

There is some lateral movement between schools but it's pretty rare and in most states the schools are physically separated.

I'm not sure what it's like now but at the time it seemed like the system didn't really sort by IQ but much more by the class you were already in. In principle it should be easy to move up but the reality is much different.
Obviously other people didn't downvote this comment, since it is now the top comment, but I did downvote it because I don't think it adds anything to the discussion. We can now add to the list of comment categories in this thread "useless meta complaining". OTOH, the fact that this is the top comment right now kinda proves the point that HN has gone downhill since in the past any meta stuff was immediately obliterated. (And yes, I realize this comment is also useless meta crap, but he started it).
My profile is marked as public. I expect that it would be available were someone to try to access it, whether it was a friend, whether it was someone scoping out my class(mates), or whether it was someone downloading by the thousands. What's the difference to the user? The whole point is that if my data is public, other people will see it. How is it important if my profile is visible locally alongside other profiles?

I also don't know what people expect people to do. If you ignore the easily available privacy policy, there is no excuse. Period.
If you type a couple words into the Safari URL bar, you are likely to get an error page. Type those into the Chrome bar, you get a search for the terms. Type a real URL into either one, and you go there. Which is preferable, a search or an error page? It's not conniving, it's convenient.
Every search engine does this, I'm not sure what the implications are if it's public?

Data mining is quite possible but there's an expectation that the profiles are public so no one privacy-conscious will be putting sensitive information in it.

I'm curious to know if anyone supposedly have ways of restricting 'mass-downloading'? I don't know of any website that does short of rate-limiting requests from a single source.
Exactly what abbasmehdi suggested. I could have a fruitful or, at least, profitable career for a few years at one of those companies.

This wouldn't be a billion dollar company. I give it a $30-40M exit.
It's not portrayed in that way, no. Khan Academy seeks dedicated movie makers.

Letting the teacher do it instead can have its benefits. Certainly when it comes to teaching a customized or niche curriculum that simply isn't available on a place like khanacademy.org.

However, I do think that having videos recorded by people who excel at that kind of stuff (like Salman himself) also makes a lot of sense. A good voice and a clear way of explaining potentially difficult subjects can not easily be done by everyone.

One would say that a teacher should be able to do it, but talking to a computer screen is a lot different than talking to a classroom. And from my own experiences I know for a fact that not nearly all of them have the charm and capacity to convey a subject in an understandable and inspiring manner.
I hope they realize that the 'killer app' part of Skype is the amount of people using it. If they kill platforms, they lose people. If they lose people, they kill Skype.

Case in point: If they kill either the Mac client or the iOS client, they will lose me, and thus all my family. I hope they realize that.
What? Your Google Profile is available (Note, yes, this is actually what the article is talking about. Big whoop):

https://profiles.google.com/u/0/<username>/

All of your Google Data is laid out on the dashboard for your viewing and deleting pleasure:

http://www.google.com/dashboard
Be happy but not at other's expense.
If it incorporates the domain into the hash (which it sounds like it does), this is still useful. If a hacker gets you password 'abc', they can log into any other website for which you use the same password. If they get the hash 'ABCDEFG', they only get into that one site.
Oops I missed that part. Argument retracted. Yeah this isn't a good enough deal given his situation. I'd ask for a lot more equity or walk.
Wow, check out the removal steps in the kb article. Quit the app using Activity Monitor then delete from /Applications. Clearly we have a long way to go...
That is a sad fridge. Post updates every few weeks, I want to see it grow.
airport repository removed 'til wednesday -- http://forum.sourcefabric.org/index.php/t/3654/
"People who don't know what they're talking about pretending to be experts" pretty much sums up Hacker News.
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I tried to find out with your name and came up with this: 'Google launches Google Xistence to manage social media life' [0]

Your information is pretty easy to find out: https://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=V5aPoREAAA...

[0] http://www.webmarketinggroup.co.uk/News/google-launches-goog...
We'll pick it up sometime in the future. I think that's the more exciting goal.
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deancode is the code to register for free at http://alvazan.com. We are about to make it free for 1 to 10 users without using any code but haven't released that yet. Any feedback is welcome. We are starting with a simple predictive project management system(it constantly predicts your probability of success). We are getting it out there long before we have many features working(just the core set) and would love to hear back on it. If you try it, we would do any consulting with you for free over email (support at alvazan.com). We currently have one big customer trying it out right now already in the financial industry(>5000 employees) wish us luck...always need a little.

NOTE: our marketing needs lots of work as the product is PremonitionX and the company is Alvazan(I think I regret that a little but I have other things now that we are trying to make this first beta trial run well with this big customer...live and learn)

Anyways, trying to learn more from live projects going on, especially smaller ones so would love to help anyone on predicting when you will be done with your current list of features ;). After all, better to under promise, over deliver.

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I like the idea of the reemote app.

I can't read the text on your website though, and I'm sure that I'm not alone. (the captions under the logos)
Any ideas on numbers? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this and I'm afraid making too large of an ask will blow negotiations.

Honestly, I'd be a happy developer at $85k and 2% overall. But that's a huge step up from their offer.
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What invoicing application do you guys use and why?
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Minor note: Thurston's 'geometrization conjecture', which Thurston talks about near the end of the essay, has since been proven by Grigori Perelman. This article was apparently written before then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrization_conjecture

edit: article was published April 1994, Perelman's first paper appeared on the arxiv in November 2002
Much easier to start again and register with a non US based domain registrar.

The only winners of any lawsuits will be the lawyers.
You're right about the tense landing. The thing that makes it hard is this:

Phoenix mass: 350kg

Spirit/Opportunity mass: 550kg

MSL mass: 900kg
I will send a sticker across soon! You're right. That thing needs some love.
horrible name. assuming you do get enough traction with it otherwise, it's going to cause nothing but confusion when talking about. "opens" you to other naming problems in the future if you try to expand the brand to other products Example: the Open Gradebook -- is it open, or is it owned by the Open company -- do you prosecute everyone other website or software with Open in the name? can of worms is "opened". :)

my two cents
This is a cool idea, in principle.

I am generally unconvinced - and have been for a long time - of the efficiency of video lectures. When I was homeschooled, the video-curriculum students (Abeka Video) never seemed to do quite as well as the ones with live instructors.

I am, however, quite enthused about the idea of educational startups, and I certainly hope to be proved utterly wrong!
Given that this was meant for technical audiences who already know what IPv6 is, referring to "panic-inducing" media coverage(!) seems facetious. It's strange syntax if you take something seriously.

This could just be my read on it, if others disagree, that's fine too. There are plenty of other interesting things to discuss in this announcement.
Same for bluehost. They once told me my password over the phone.
I agree Open is too generic. Open should serve as a qualifier for a name that is more describing of what the software does.
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I met with these guys a few days before they went to their final Thiel presentation to talk a bit about where we're heading w/ Khan Academy and their brainstorms. @david and @nick, congrats on making the cut!

Super nice, motivated guys. Hope they deliver something cool and push the education envelope.
I wouldn't want to work anywhere that article is NSFW.
I think this path looks great. One obscure thing to be aware of in this space is the giant lurking patent troll (Blackboard.) Good luck!!