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Math is one of the huge things leading me to home school rather than sending the kids to school. It's bad enough that schools teach "calculation" rather "math", but now they're not even teaching "calculation"‽

It's a lot of work but it has gotten to the point that I feel like I'd be screwing my kids over to send them to school. Changes are in play that may make me comfortable with them sending their children to a 21st century school, but I can't stomach the thought of sending them to these 19th century monstrosities in their final days.
Ask HN: Where to find simple clean fast web design?
I'm looking to find a simple and fast web design for my web application. I've already prepared the wireframing, but I'm not the best at design or photoshop so I'm looking for someone who doesn't suck (like myself).

Any suggestions or referrals of someone affordable?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!
In my mind, math is a language like any other. Whereas you wouldn't be considered fluent in English until you have memorized a significant number of words and phrases, the same holds for mathematics.

Al that rote memorization that everyone hates is the same as understanding a basic sentence.
I just use my collection of slightly larger screws to put it back together.
The record labels are happy to get paid N times for each song that they sell.
Too bad that there aren't any holes in the seal in North America, let alone other parts of the world other than Europe.

I guess that makes me safe from magical creatures, but it means I'm away from the fun and action of it all. ;)
Another problem with stopping and restarting with every mistake, is you learn to stop and restart when you make a mistake.

This makes it really, really awful if you're playing a recital and slip up just a tiny bit (obviously, you should practice it so you don't slip up /at all/, but let's be realistic here. Even people studying to be performance majors make mistakes in their recitals) - your first instinct would be to start the passage over, which is the /last/ thing you want to be doing.

It also makes it nearly impossible to play with a group.
Since Apple acquired Lala, you'll probably see a lot of similarity between how the two worked. In the case of Lala, any music you purchased through the store was instantly available online, and was paired with the choice to download a physical copy. Any music you had that wasn't in the Lala system already, you'd have to upload. So, it worked for pirated music as well as legally purchased content.
Global Peace Index:
Uzbekistan - 110,
INDIA - 128

Karimov boiled his people alive. I don't whether that means I should take the rankings with a grain of salt, or weep over India actually coming out below.
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"Math is precise."

Your brain is not. I've seen a lot more evidence of people bootstrapping from intuition up to mathematical precision than simply starting with mathematical precision. Taken to its logical conclusion (and I do mean that I believe this is the logical conclusion), this leads to trying to teach number and set theory to kindergarteners, berating them for failing to get it, throwing your hands up and declaring they just aren't suited for math. You have to start with quantitative intuition, the alternative is not to teach math at all. There isn't a "start them out on correct pedagogy immediately" choice. You can and should argue about what tradeoffs are best, but you will have to have tradeoffs.
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I think I'll hold out for the ... simple way. There should be more than one way to do it, right?
We don't need a nexus and poor math skills to have that happen. How's your farming?
For example, operators can be overloaded, so that many math operations, and even punctuation such as “,” can be overloaded by programmers.

',' is an operator too, not just punctuation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator
Stealing from community/government coffers is not entrepreneurial. Just because a tax-evasion scheme is clever, that doesn't make it entrepreneurial.
The video's worth a look. 12.5 minutes with Mary Jo. It starts out kind of market-speak, but loosens up. Lots of prototypes and finished products end up in front of the camera.

P.S. The "3 million" figure is cited at around 8:24.
It's hard to use functional paradigms without closures and first class functions. But, more importantly, I would say it's more about the mentality of API designers and java programmers.

I've once used high level functions in PHP in a real production environment and it caused so much political problems that I had to rewrite everything in an imperative style. Not that the code was badly written.. it's just a different style that not everyone is used to.
If inflation is defined as money supply growth, then bitcoin is not hyperinflating. The rate of bitcoin inflation is decreasing over time until it reaches zero.

If inflation is defined as the rise in prices of goods, then bitcoin is deflating.
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Hi enra, I just played this for about 30 minutes.
I was intrigued because it was billed as location-based MMO. The site didn't really give me any expectations of what the gameplay was going to be like.

The intro made me smile when the fingerprint showed up. Didn't know which team to pick because I couldn't tell if there was any particular strength in each side. I went with Architects. I was imagining possibly have some powers from the surrounding buildings?

Game started and it put me on my home address, not current location. Awesome! how'd it do that? I liked the tutorial to the gameplay. It was clear.
It looked like you were using openstreetmap. I spent some time noticing the fog-of-war effect and the lighting.

The game started and I repeated the tutorial steps to advance. At first, I didn't see that I had to click "collect my reward" on the missions screen. Why not give the reward on completion?
The Missions screen is difficult to read. Even though there isn't much text here, I didn't read most of it. Everything is kind of center-aligned and difficult to understand at a glance.
The cloud-view was a cool effect, but the map was blurry here.
Somethings I am looking forward to see: Other players in the game, and figuring out what to do to capture a gateway. I will definitely keep playing the game.

good luck
No, just the opposite - this change was necessary to get WebSockets to work with old, broken proxies. Previously those proxies might interpret part of the body of the WebSocket traffic as an HTTP header; now they will correctly just pass the traffic through.
I think our biggest challenge is the people who are completely marginalised, like the forest people driven in to a communist rebellion. As far as multiculturalism goes, I still have hope that some semblence of the feeling of letting others be still survives in India.
it would makes sense if the documentation and the API had been updated before they did the press release. otherwise, great news for node.js people!
If you have, welcome! But understand that not every day is chock-full of new and amazing technological innovations and announcements. Sometimes you're going to see multiple articles from different sources on the same thing. If you need NewFlashyShinyThingOMG constantly...maybe Gizmodo would be more your speed.
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I'd like to add advertisements to one of the sites I'm working on in order to monetize it. I know of google ad sense, but was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for other ad networks or programs I should be considering instead (or in addition to) Google Ad Sense.
Prolog is not really declarative except for the pure core, though. Cuts, assert, retract, etc. break its referential transparency.
There's already significant tax benefits for doing this, so the IRS is as much as doing that.
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I think this demonstrates just how eager people are to conflate the meanings of the word "entrepreneur" with the word "hustler."
Okay, here you go: Google doesn't use email as an indicator in search rankings.
Take a look at the documentation below:

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-js
Will give them a look. Thanks.
You can even volunteer to pay your TV tax for internet streaming.
So seeing your children die of malnutrition is better than having an underpaid job so your kids can get half a meal? If people have loaf of bread they might actually be able to change their circumstances. How would banning outsourcing help lower caste Indians or ethnic minorities in China? I am not trolling, because if it will, I'd like to know how.
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Lead was added to paint until 1978. So if you are painting a house constructed before1979, lead paint was almost certainly used to paint it. If you are old enogh, you must remember that lead was also added to gasoline until it was made illegal to do so.
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Code like a programmer, design like someone who will use it. The best approach is if you can get some test data, in order to directly experience using the system. If the user enters dates a lot, you better make the date entry method as painless as possible (no mouse popup on dates, maybe even allow for - or . as separators so operators can stay on the number pad, etc.).

Do they enter bulk records more than one-ofs then have it so they can bulk-enter a group of records, etc. If you were told to do the entry what would you want to make your life easier.

As a programmer we think of the computer and how it reacts when running our code, it also helps to think of the user and how they react when using the UI.

Of course I know a couple of the problems with this - frameworks and IDEs, some of which don't give the programmer easy access to custom interface elements (or by using such tools the programmer is never aware of other ways to implement a UI).
Depending on what shape the caravan is in, you might be able to find someone who'll pay you to drag it off their land.

And as a bonus, you'll get some free rodents.
That depends on if growth rate is more because of people of their stature getting richer or the very poor becoming less poor.
To the best of my knowledge, we don't use email reputation in any way in our search rankings.
What rote memorization?
Java programmers who are looking for "a better Java" would probably be happier with C# than they would be with Scala, although C# doesn't run on the JVM. The "Manifest" mechanism undoes some but not all of the damage done by type erasure in the JVM, so to some extent building a more richly typed language on the JVM is like driving a car with a broken window.

My first Scala program rolled off my fingers and worked the first time. My second one ran headlong into a number of difficulties; people pointed out that the newest version of Scala added some things (not in the book I had) that would make things easier and they were right... sorta.

Now I've been doing fit-and-finish work on a mixed Scala-Java system written by people with PhD's in computer science and personally I think they'd have been better off writing the whole thing in Java.
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It might be true that functional programming is difficult to learn for programmers not well versed in mathematics. My response to that is: Toughen up, princess.

Pithy, but also tinged with sadness. It's a response to the same argument against programming languages being "too powerful" or using "difficult to understand" pattern like parser combinators.
great, thanks for the links!
Mafia thugs in Italy have been doing this for years.
Are bombs an acceptable response to hacker attacks?
Law firms are being disrupted like many other industries because of the Internet. They are set up with lots of overhead, expensive service based employees, and have a lot of mouths to feed. And since it's service based they have an incentive to bill for the maximum allowable hours that they can bill. Depending on where you set the fee cap for your round you can bet that most law firms will (magically) end up within 10% of that cap.
I don't seen how quantitative intuition and precision are somehow opposed to each other. 4*5 is 20. Not 21. Not 18. 20.

That is logical, and it's vitally important in the understanding of all future concepts. You don't need to understand advanced calculus to grasp the concept that 2 3/4 oranges + 2 1/3 oranges is not 5 oranges altogther, but actually more, and that left over bit is in fact meaningful and relevant.

It's when you start to play with abstractions that mathematics becomes confusing, not when you are being precise.
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Isn't bitcoin experiencing some sort of hyperdeflation, not hyperinflation? The strange thing here is not that too many coins are being created, it's that the demand for bitcoins is increasing faster than the supply. The coins are becoming hypothetically more valuable, not less.
I haven't seen a parking ticket machine that doesn't require you to input (and then prints on the ticket) the numerical portion of your car reg for some years in England.
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Each to their own, I suppose.
I mail a _lot_ of copy-pasta from shell output, so not having to switch to plaintext manually saves time. To be honest the sort of mail that's multicoloured / multifont / etc. generally isn't worth reading, let alone replying to; but that's just my experience.
Scala has a lot of utility and I hope that people don't completely discount the platform entirely just because of these examples. Hopefully in time as the platform matures we'll see a better solution to the above.
Code.

Start here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

Get Python installed and start following the road map above. As you work through the tutorial(s) you'll either find it interesting or not. If it's interesting, keep going. If some parts seem a little tedious, keep going. If you find yourself making excuses for not continuing, you're not interested (enough).

At some point you should start feeling like you want to stop or pause the tutorials and start trying some ideas of your own. Good, you're interested.
Under hyperinflation, each monetary unit is worth less and less. Your complaint about bitcoin is that each unit is worth more and more. Your analogy makes no sense.
Actually, we haven't determined that there is any malice whatsoever. In fact, you seem to have created an account just to perpetuate that falsehood.
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The idea that _money_ itself has no real value is also bizarre.
For someone still fascinated by imagemagick and stuff like tineye, this is absolutely out of my league. thanks for sharing.
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If Google Checkout is any measure, I'm cowering in fear of Google Wallet.
This is one of my biggest fears, aside from PBS going away all together. Commercials I an deal with for the most part.

I don't mind that sort of programming being on TV, but it seems to be slowly taking over all the formerly prestigious cable channels like History, TLC, etc.

I was raised on PBS, it's been there for me when I couldn't afford cable, and now with more and more schlock on the TV it's one of my last refuges.

I donate when I can, but I still worry about their funding being cut. Then who knows what sort of compromises they'll have to make.
If you hack php you can have a look at http://www.bulletinburst.com - I have lost inspiration for that thing.
I'd totally agree with the mentality bit, but it's not hard (although it can be unwieldly) to write functional-style code in Java if you're disciplined.

Imperative programmers will write imperative Scala, too.
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Apple to unveil iCloud, iOS 5, and Mac OS X Lion at WWDC2011
I am as well, but I also understand it is a very simple way of branding it and having everyone know, at a glance, that it's an Apple product.

As an example, if you asked an outsider to the tech world which brand makes the EVO, Nexus S, Veer, or iPhone, the only one they'd likely get right is the iPhone. This is a bit of a loaded example because the iPhone is super popular, but then ask a random consumer who makes the follow made up products, the MOVE, Slider, Jump, iThing and they know that the i prefix means Apple and likely wouldn't have a clue who makes the other things.

So anyway, it's a tad annoying, but it is also a dead simple, one-letter way of identifying the source manufacturer. It's quicker and shorter to write "iCloud" than it is "Amazon Cloud Drive" or "Google Music" and identify the source with most consumers. In this way, it's subtly brilliant.
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I'm not arguing against having manners, I'm just saying that they're not enough. You can't say something rude and then make it all better with a token "please" or "thank you".
After reading this lengthy how-to, I am tempted to say that PHP may have upper hand when it comes to reliably dealing with UTF-encoded data from different sources (including source code) and sinks. At least as long as I default to UTF-8 and convert only when explicitly requested by user or remote system to do so.

PHP has no separate Unicode type, the built-in string type works pretty well for UTF-8. I'd liken its use to the concept of duck-typing (as seen, for example, in Python): if it walks like a duck^W^W UTF-8, swims like a duck^W^W UTF-8, quacks like a duck^W^W UTF-8, it can be handled (consumed and produced) like a duck^W^W UTF-8.

Note in Python Unicode is a separate data type, so the above comparison is related to duck-typing only.
This is one of the reasons why parking inspectors here in Vancouver shoot car's dashboard with 5MP camera prior to issuing a ticket. That's not say there are many parking places left that do not require entering a parking spot number when buying a ticket, or binding a ticket to a specific car in some way.
Oh, hey, it appears you can run python stuff too:
https://gist.github.com/0a08e676559fc03e6200

kurt$ heroku run bash
Running bash attached to terminal... up, run.2
~ $ python -V
Python 2.7.1
~ $
They might let VOD on - in exchange for a 30% cut :)
I hope someone would create a web app template that's mobile friendly too. This way, anyone can dive straight into building web app and not worry about making it mobile friendly.
For a self-learner at a casual pace, try starting with something like an Arduino; it'll abstract away a lot of the more complicated ideas at first, and give you a ton of positive feedback along the way. It's a great bridge to hardware for a software guy.

For more formal stuff, see electronics/digital computer fundamentals/etc. courses at your local community college or university, or see if your local Maker community (if there is one where you live) can point you at more targeted local resources.
Well the transferring of a ticket from one vehicle to another is not (to my mind) particularly amoral. After all the space has been paid for. By forbidding transfers the council effectively get paid twice for the space when someone leaves early. Maybe this over-lap is built into their business model, but I doubt it. It's free money for them.
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Interesting... I've never seen such a machine here in England (seen some that automatically scan your registration plate and print it on the ticket, though, e.g. at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5).
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"There was a moment in time where Google decided to be not a participant, but a coordinator of the WWW. And that’s where things started to break down. The web is uncontrollable, like nature, and Google is turning it into their very own Jurassic Park. The problem is, the Velociraptors have escaped their cages."
= GOLD IMO
Why? Don't you receive email? What kinds of emails do you like to receive?
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Huh, so the Python support is pretty complete:

Simple Flask app:
https://gist.github.com/efec5e060e88abc87821

Python/Django:
https://gist.github.com/866c79035a2d066a5850
I have met the founders in person here in Memphis and I've talked with them a good bit about their idea. They are both cool guys and one of them (@bkmontgomery) is working on setting up a Python users' group here in Memphis sometime in the next month.

Seeing some names from the Django community on the "leaderboard" helps give a feel for the use of the site.

It's a bit of an MVP now, obviously any advice would be helpful.
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Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback. Missions are something we trying to improve pretty soon.

For the wrong location part, I could guess that your device's location services were not on or working for some reason.

Yeah and please try play the game for a while. Most of the fun comes from the weekly campaigns and when you get to more urban areas, or have friends build teleports(beacons) for you to jump to.

Also see the http://www.shadowcities.com/help/ or ask help in the in-game chat or on the forums http://www.shadowcities.com/forum/ :)
-1 point for the following assumptions...

a: if they weren't doing this, they'd be dealing drugs.

b: dealing drugs is the worst of all possible activities.

Interesting scam none the less though.
The first thing that comes to my mind is "Wow. Even the question itself sounds dumb/absurd. The action itself would be even worse. A lot worse"

I think USA is just finding more excuses to start more wars to keep the Defense contractors well-fed. You have to ask yourself, what happens if the military/weapon contractors get some fat contracts for a few years because of a war or two, and then (almost) suddenly the wars stop. What happens to those companies? Clearly they are going to take a hit in revenues, because they are not going to make as much money in peace time as they are in war time, and selling weapons in war time is a lot harder.

I think this creates a perverse incentive for those companies and it gets them to lobby the Government or scare it with "doomsday cyberwars" and such. We can see how easily it can happen with Big Content lobbying the Government, so why not with these companies, too? Their motivation would be to keep increasing revenue and "shareholder value", and a lack of wars would dramatically reduce that.
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I was doing these as well in Grade 5 (2000) with our sets going up to 50 questions in 60 seconds.
Since you mentioned Audi:

A quick search for "CVT reliability" produces pages of horror stories related to the Audi (and other) CVTs.

The CVT is only available on the A4 and A6 (not the A3, A5, A7, A8, Q5, Q7, et al). Also, the CVT is only available with the smaller engine options. Finally, the CVT cars are front wheel drive only, no quattro available.

That is what I mean by "not mature".
IOS 5, iCloud, OS X Lion Software To Be Unveiled Soon By Steve Jobs
I don't get it, why so much excitement over a cloud service? Lion or iOS 5 I understand, but a cloud service?
Oh to be there and witness it

^envious
The comments on the article directly quickly go into specifically not abusing VCs, they are very busy etc but I think they are missing out on the larger picture here that I am taking away from this story. No one is looking out for my best interests and if I need something or want something the best opportunity I have to get that is to ask.
did they really have to put that picture on the bottom....uch
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