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Changing "Everybody" to "Public" is smart. I can see how "Everybody" could be interpreted as "Every one of my friends" - and it could definitely be interpreted as "Everyone who is signed in to Facebook, but not the Web as a whole".
this isn't necessarily a point against scheduling posts. I have about 8 draft posts which sit there for months on end until I finally revisit them and get then done. There's even a fully written (and awesome) blog post that's just waiting for me to tidy up and githubify some code.
Impressive list of startups!
Either that or the fact that one minute the President swears to defend the constitution and then the next minute orders unconstitutional wiretaps, torture, invasion, etc.

Or maybe that the country exists because of government tyranny.

Or because the government arrests people just for showing up to the wrong meeting.

Or because they have studied International Relations at Cambridge University and have an understanding of world history. (that one is probably quite rare, but its very effective).
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"You need to find out about businesses laws, labor laws, and residency visas. For example, in Argentina it’s extremely difficult to fire someone"

I would imagine stronger labour laws would be the biggest difference for an American business owner.
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I showed this go my colleagues at work yesterday. They want me to teach them how to program (well, write VBA) but I kind of feared for them since they have very little free time to devote. And it took me a massive investment of time upfront to get into programming, although I didn't have access to a resource like codecademy.
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This is the key takeaway for me from the article (and also supports my own beliefs). If teachers in the US started earning like doctors and lawyers ($100K-$200K), then many of our education problems would go away. Why? You'd start retaining good teachers, and attracting new, good teachers. Then these folks would continue to solve education problems. You'd be amazed at what highly paid, motivated professionals can accomplish. But low-paid teachers, no matter how dedicated, get burnt out a few years into a career. Bad teachers would eventually work their way out, due to increased competition. (Read the article about how applications shot up.) Some of the money (thought not all) for higher salaries is in education, but it's just not being spent in the right places.

The 2nd interesting point I took away is the ability grouping. Not grouping by ability works for young children, say K-6. But once older, the gap is too much for a unified curriculum. Taking this concept further out, Americans need more vocational high schools, like Finland. College is overvalued in this country, and a large segment of high school students are being misled by the college myth.
it's become a tab i keep open frequently - mostly to look up a file or email quickly.

i would use it more if they had a native desktop launcher.
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You definition of exactly just has to be funny.
It's a draft? OK. In the final version, could you remove the words "pe" and "nis" and respell "butt" as "but"?
I do not know if it was mentioned in the article as I did not read it fully, I'm Finnish and am sort of tired of reading or hearing about this particular subject, but it is worth mentioning that all Finnish teachers are required to have a Master's degree to qualify as teachers (even kindergarten ones). Since higher education is free (there are no private universities in Finland), the threshold to study to become a teacher is very small, and usually there is quite a surplus of teachers in popular fields, in hard sciences as an example.

Those that select a teaching curriculum in the university spend 1-2 years interning in schools during their studies. Most people end up taking up teaching curricula just because it is a sure way of getting employment especially if one is studying a field in which employment is scarce outside of academia, say, philosophy.

I myself am studying computer science and I plan to enroll in a teaching curriculum should life in academia turn out to be boring, mostly because a) teaching is fun b) it pays relatively well c) a three month paid vacation from June to the end of August is a plus and d) it is a respected profession.
And about firing someone - I hire slow and fire fast. That is how I do things. Firing someone after a month in a place like Argentina can open you up for lawsuits.

Many countries have strong labour laws. It's the USA that's odd with it's lack of paid holiday time, "at will employment", etc. Your way might be to fire fast, but you must work within the law. You can no more ignore that law in Argentina, than you can ignore a tax law that you dislike in the USA.
You are spot on about the cargo cultism. Ever since the first great PISA-scores, we've been getting hoards of visitors from all over the world, trying to understand what makes our system good.

The problem is, even our own politicians aren't really able to comprehend the reasons. Most politicians aren't able to look at the Finnish system in a way that would question their own political views, so all the statements concerning what makes the Finnish system good are just the same old talking points, with cherry picked details from our system to fit them.
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I don't see why development compilation is such a problem. I run sass --watch and forget about it.
This was submitted 10 days ago, and got 70 points and 26 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880507

It correctly points at the blog post, not the front page of the blog:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=78

Please link to the specific page in the future, that way we don't loose context when they update their blog with a newer post.
I haven't found anyone in the past. The reason I have posted the same appeal at the same price is I can't afford a higher price as a student.
So the solution to patent trolling is to have more hard sci-fi that describes mechanisms of upcoming future technology in detail, thus preventing companies from patenting them?
Alternatively, you could write a presentation compiler that translates Markdown to the appropriate deck.js HTML. You could even make it support different presentation frameworks, maybe even LaTeX/beamer.
Oh, so it's an externality, not necessarily a tragedy of the commons (which is a very specific type of externality).
It's not just that. You need to know who to grease and for what. A lot of laws and red tape are overcome with cash under the table. It's a necessary evil that's really hard to fight when you consider how horrible and unrealistic some of the red tape is.
I just made a comment similar to yours just now (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918268). Is your comment prior art?
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I think the article is a pretty interesting insight. Given that I've actually been in-between both. I split my time with my overseas team and the US team. I've learned a lot as well. Definitely more than you can put into a blog, but some of the points mentioned are priceless. I'm not so sure about making the move entirely to another country. I'm all about the cost savings, but there's something to be said for actually knowing contemporaries or talking to customers/others face to face (probably doesn't apply to everyone, but that's the main reason I'm still here).
Heck, Star Trek even called the tablet computer a "PADD" (Personal Access Display Device).

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD
Yeah, but it wasn't as obviously electronic; until I read that Ars article last fall, I always thought it was just a pad of paper.
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I was reflecting on my parent's comment that the actual reasons were opaque due to SG's use of AWS.
What type of programming? What are you aiming for? I'd generally pick something light and stable, so you are on the same platform as some of your customers, and you can easily run VM for the rest, or you're writing for the web and none of this matters.
Regular [Utility] Patents can be invalidated by any prior disclosure of the invention, it doesn't matter what form that disclosure is in provided it is rendered in public (and, with a few more conditions, not part of a recognised trade show in the US).

There's a UK patent application, a doggy doorbell IIRC, that was refused based on a British children's comic called the Beano anticipating it.
It has gone worse, the rich are richer, and the poor are poorer.
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Heh. Personally, I think the right position for the kind of people I'm talking about involves asking "do you want fries with that?" That's "product management" too.
Ask HN: LESS or SASS?
These two CSS frameworks seem pretty much identical to me. Apparently LESS can be compiled in JavaScript, but I'm not sure why this matters.

What gives? Why is one better than the other, and why did the creator of whichever project started second feel so dissatisfied with the first option that they had to reinvent the wheel?
I'm quite sure that it's not because it's easier to get rid off of bad teachers in Finland. My mother is an elementary school teacher here in Finland, and if I recall correctly, I've never heard that somebody was sacked because of bad teaching. Sometimes teachers take long sick-leaves due to psychological stress, when they have problems with their class, but that's an another topic of it's own.

Maybe it's more controlled in Finland who can end up as a full-time teacher. Teaching is still pretty popular career choice (esp. for women) and not everybody who wants to be a teacher gets into university to study for a degree. What is the situation in US, is it popular choice anymore?
To me, the 5ms ping is the most impressive part. I might not use 100Mbps on a daily basis, but the low latency is nice all the time.

Edited for clarity.
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speedtest.net at WWDC download area was about 700Mbps down, so I am waiting for Apple Fiber )
Highlights for the release: End-to-End Encryption Support, Improved Sync Performance, Cleaned up Developer API.
All I can say is you get used to it, and it encourages you to write in shorter sentences, which results in more readable code overall.
I wonder what kind of router they put in at the home. I doubt your standard Linksys WiFi router will be able to cope at that speed.
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$100k-200k would probably bankrupt just about every US school system.

Why do you think bad teachers would work their way out of the system due to competition? Ontario pays teachers generously and as a result has a glut of teachers (widespread unemployment amongst new teachers, people going abroad, certainly many of these people would be good teachers). There's no "competition" because the challenge is to get on the supply list, and then get hired into the unionized workplace. Once you're there, don't worry about getting fired. The main struggle is getting in, not avoiding getting out. High pay does necessarily lead to the sort of competition that I think you have in mind.
this is the best use of goto!
The main writer of that series was an ex-inner-city schoolteacher and based those stories on his own experience.

"Burns has said that he stumbled into teaching with little preparation because of the intense demand for teachers in inner-city schools.[2] Burns taught seventh grade. Psychologically, he compared the experience of teaching to the Vietnam War.[2] He found the experience profoundly challenging because of the emotional damage that the vast majority of his students had already experienced before reaching the classroom. He saw his primary role as instilling caring behavior in his pupils.[2] He felt his major impact was in giving the children an example of an "adult who's consistent, who's always there, who always comes through with what he said, then that's a new world for them."[2]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns
the case is absurd and I'm all against Apple position, but in the video from 2001 it is unclear if we are seeing tablet PCs or simply two integrated flat TVs in the table. The problem is that the two devices are positioned exactly in the same way, specularly.
Around the same latency as I see on FiOS.

Which residential fiber products have huge latency?
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People buy more books than they buy apps, and they pay more per book than per app. People are happy to pay, what, €7 -> €10 per book. That's a lot.
Are math smarts innate?
Finland has free school lunches for everyone, and I guess counseling as well, but the other issues you mention aren't handled by schools as far as I know.
Why doesn't the video show it actually recognizing handwriting as it's written?
And do you have to use the "pen as stylus" for it to work?
I have to disagree with this strategy. At my company we have made a few one-off games for advertisers and it is always the same story. The advertiser loves the games but the users don't.

The problem with this strategy is that if you're designing a game for an advertiser, they are the ones you have to make happy because they provide the $$$. Users will always be a second priority.
Any gigabit router should be able to handle that, even Linksys.
Dual-band, double-width-channel 11n might be able to do that speed. But even if not, the gigabit wired ports ought to be able to.
And it hopefully also means that Google will feel some more urgency about iterating, too. And maybe even some incentive to figure out a better way to deal with pseudonyms. They seem to have lost plenty of good will and not a small number of users over the issue. And, I'm sure everyone has a list of features they want in G+.

Ultimately, I'm still hoping for a Wave-style open standards/federation based interoperability for G+. I can imagine what a struggle it is to decide on a final feature set to actually release openly, though. And some features just seem impossible. Like tag-approval. In an open, distributed system, can you stop someone from, essentially, linking to you? That's like trying to stop someone from posting your email address, right?
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This is tricky to answer.

Of course I don't want to advocate using MD5, even iterated a thousand times, for both of the reasons you state. There are better alternatives. scrypt appears to be one of them, and if it stands up to analysis, it's better than PBKDF2 and bcrypt, which in turn are better than MD5-crypt.

However, MD5 iterated 1000 times is still 1000 times better than MD5 iterated once (which an alarming number of codebases still use!) and the vulnerabilities that have been published in MD5 are not sufficient to speed up an attack on an MD5-crypted password file.

So MD5-crypt is still vastly preferable to many alternatives, including traditional Unix crypt(), even though MD5 has been broken and DES hasn't.
Can someone please explain the ISP to be Tata Communications in a US city? It is an Indian company. So is it because it owns some broadband company in US?
Facebook Just Bowed Out of the Check In War With Foursquare
IIRC, this practice was put in place by the developers themselves (not by management), as some kind of "productivity joke". Propping the door open would defeat the purpose.

I'm seriously annoyed that I cannot seem to find the original story...
I'm there are much better solutions out there, the gaming industry has always been quite good at this.

Remember how we fixed pirating of games? By making levels non archievable if you are using a pirated version.
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And people say that Google are competing with Facebook. Give it 20 years and see ...
Looks like eBay and craigslist are stabilizing the 16 gb version around 250-300, but there will probably be a drift downward as time wears on and this story falls off the news. What I'd hate is to be pricing Chromebooks at $429 right now.
> their cult following

Have a look at the top rated comments on the link to get a better perspective of the cult the company fans are part of. Most people are pretty balanced and more meaning can be found in having faith in a political view or religion than a consumer electronics maker.
There's plenty of room for innovation in the mobile game ad space.

I actually do like the strategy of making the ads part of an achievement system for the game. This would work especially well for localized ads. For example, if you reach a certain level on a game, get $2 off your sandwich at Subway. This allows for brand exposure and funnels people into the physical stores.
Specifically, here's a list of home routers sorted by performance: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/view Looks like there are only about 20 routers that can handle 150 Mbps or more.
Here at RadioReference.com had a MySQL Master server which is hosted on AWS East in the N. Virginia data center inexplicably crash on us right after the earthquake. The server uses a RAID-0 Stripe across 4 EBS instances and has been running for over a year without a reboot.

And, we were featured on CNN live right after the quake as a source for breaking news information.

We're scaled to handle a traffic floods because we get them occasionally when something big happens public safety wise, but I'm really wondering whether or not this crash was due to a huge influx of people or some hardware anomaly during the quake (frozen disk, network problem etc)

A reboot of the server and an INNODB recovery fixed the issue, and all is fine now.
I can't seem to edit by now, so because I'm getting downvotes, to quote from the Wikileaks about page[1]: "Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth."

[1] http://wikileaks.org/About.html
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Curious, only 32 of 63 are on the record. Seems like ratio was higher in previous classes. Any ideas why?
I'm wary of speedtest.net's results. Comcast operates a speedtest server nearby, and it consistently reports exactly 20Mbps/4Mbps, which (no surprise here) is exactly the service I pay for. Another nearby server, not operated by Comcast, hovers around 12-13Mbps/1-2Mbps, which I suspect is the reality of my connection.
Let alone the switch to Emacs, but I've been trying to implement GTD since college, using all sorts of tools, and I've read the book I don't know how many times, and I still feel like it's over my head.

Are there any alternatives?
Suggestion for FB (in case anyone's listening): The privacy setting for "Your status, photos, and posts" is overloaded, as it means two things:

1. The default privacy state for new content posted to your wall

2. The privacy state for accessing that area of your page on FB

I like to keep my default sharing state to a small group of people, and optionally expand the group of people I share to (e.g., create a new post and mark it "Friends of Friends"). I can't do that currently.

The only way to do this right now is keep my default state to a wide set of people, and frequently narrow down the group of people I share with. For me, it's backwards.

This is probably by design, but it'd help if "Posts by me" and "Default setting for posts, including status updates and photos" were not conflated into a single privacy setting.
The submitted article reports a preliminary study that can't possibly answer the headline question because

1) the abilities were estimated in early childhood, not immediately after birth, so that they didn't only reflect "innate" influences on the children's development, and

2) the study didn't have a genetically sensitive design.

But see

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

and

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

for scientific reasons to be open to the possibility that environmental interventions (e.g., education) might still make a big difference later in childhood, even if an ability is shown to be innate.

I think Fields Medal winner Terence Tao (who previously was a gold medalist at the IMO) has some valuable things to say about the role of "genius" in learning mathematics.

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to...
http://routerboard.com/RB750GL current retail is $59.95, I am sure they would make Google a deal ...

Actually there are many single-chip, 4x Gigabit ethernet solutions on the market. These do wire-speed gbit "in hardware" as it were.
DSL has up to 110ms latency.
Hmm. I am not saying they shouldn't be doing better, with just their 30% cut. I am saying I would be willing to pay an annual fee for better support, and the other developers I know personally would as well.

It is not mutually exclusive position - I am being pragmatic, and if $X/year gave me good support, then sign me up... even if I think they should be doing better with their 30%. I just ultimately want the problem solved; I am definitely willing to pay, because I don't want my revenue stream jeopardized for the lack of market support should a problem arise. But yes, they could be doing better right now.
They are a global tier1 carrier which provides connectivity to other ISPs (such as Google, Comcast, etc) around the world. Not sure why it shows Tata though.
I'm curious, where were you able to host this?

The interface looks fantastic, the simplicity is the killer feature.
Sorry I'm not a nerd.
Will they be using GPS geotags from EXIF data in photo uploads now? That'd be neat... if they get the privacy controls right :)
N.B. It's regarding a human operator of robotic machinery.
Oh, my apologies. I read "accent" as referring to the pronunciation (since you followed it with a contrast of "fee-NAH-lay" and "fee-nah-LAY"), but you meant the diacritic. Yeah, you're right, that's not the correct spelling of the word.
Huh? IBM couldn't stop BIOS clones after they lost the Compaq lawsuit.
Military discipline developed from the necessity of training reliable soldiers who don't question critical orders.

Military discipline was a necessity to get a company, a battalion, and larger units to work together at all. Strict organization is necessity as chaos is unmanageable with traditional communication means.

Modern organizations have moved on from rigid, hierarchal organizational models to network-centric models. Even military organizations have moved to this direction (discipline and military courtesy is still maintained).

Success is hard to measure, but Israel's high tech industry is some indication of the benefits of military discipline.

High tech industry has been proved to benefit from military funding. Israel spends larger portion of its GDP to (military) R&D than any other nation.
my guess is that people don't want to get lost in a sea of startups. Hard to cut through the noise...especially if something big launches the same day(i.e. mint etc)
There's a whole syndicate of Internet marketers who collude together to sell high-priced, low-value Internet marketing courses, seminars, videos, and the like. See http://saltydroid.info/category/the-syndicate/ (warning: some NSFW language)
Another way that Google+ gets identity wrong