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I'm interested to see what influence Treehouse might have on the distance learning industry.
A proper IQ test done under the same conditions (well rested, etc) will give the same results. It's vulnerable to poor conditions - if you're not well rested, you're not going to do as well as you could otherwise.
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Thought that's by far not all we do, my startup ( http://www.kout.me ) has the ability for people to do that. A lot of interesting problems in this space.
Their picture gallery is worth checking out:

http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures

(Click on any part of the image to set focus there)
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I didn't down vote, but it's probably because commenting on peoples spelling/grammar adds nothing to the discussion of a memorial page.
When you add a new-line or two into a section of code, you're usually saying:

"These two blocks of code do something different"

Thats what is normally called a method. If it's only for one class then by all means make it private and name it well, so the caller remains readable.
I just feel sorry for the kids, that, they have to use a notebook or something to read is just painful. They should have limited the thing to e-ink(tm) tablets to make it easy on eyes that are vulnerable to myopia.
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It's possible that such automatic repair would create a bug. Much safer to have a human check and ensure that the ; goes in the right place.

A better point is that the error messages from many compilers can be very obscure. This was particularly true 10-15 years ago.
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Why are you shooting the messenger? I never said I liked football being glorified over other games.

If you fail to get into the NFL, you can at least coach. No one is going to pay you to coach them Halo.
Aperture has nothing to do with the sensor. It's strictly a lens measurement. Sensor size affects the cost to build a lens with a given aperture (cheaper for smaller sensors, though that tends to balance out due to the difference in enlargement), but the sensor doesn't affect the actual aperture.
It really depends what it gives us. For synthesis what you want is to be able to stream bytes to audio out. You can currently do this with AudioTrack but it goes through IPC and is generally slow. Personally I'd call that a use case for "streaming multimedia" but who knows what it will actually cover.
I think tptacek's point was that you don't know enough to call the decision "a really bad mistake on their part". Saying it doesn't work for you, though, is totally fair.
It doesn't matter how it's represented internally. The end goal is a digital photo that you will print or post on facebook/flickr.

What I don't get it who their market is. If you aren't taking serious photos, nobody really cares if it's perfectly focused. And I doubt pro photographers will want it because of the low resolution.
That makes it possible, but far from easy/convenient enough to be worthwhile.

What I imagine is intended by this is a text editor tailor made for browsing and editing code on a touch screen with limited real estate. A non-trivial problem in my estimation.
Everybody understands that there's a cost/benefit tradeoff here, so spelling it out all over again doesn't really move us forward.

Why is this particular cost/benefit tradeoff bad? Again: the evidence is that Khan is doing well. And Khan is not run by morons who just do whatever Google and Facebook --- the two largest identity providers on the Internet --- tell them to do.
1. I wonder what their international user base looks like. (Not counting native English speaking countries like UK & India)

Two weeks ago my mom cut out a lengthy article for me, as she often does when she thinks she's read something relevant to my interests. To my surprise it was on Khan Academy, something I already read about past summer in Wired.

2. Does anyone know whether KA has received any more international press coverage lately?
Not sure I proved your point unless it was that current legal precedents are ridiculous. It's ludicrous to think that posting someones street address would make you guilty of anything going on inside that house. Otherwise the publisher of the phone book is in a whole heap of trouble.
But you still have something to ship, even if it's just to your buddies on github.
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can improve IQ significantly

I suspect it can improve the marshmallow-related behavior as well. But I could just be excited about the elimination of malnutrition.
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Tragically, whether or not something is depressing appears to be uncorrelated with whether or not it's true.

Anyway, clearly "IQ" isn't hard-coded. People get different scores on different days on different tests, and people tend to get higher scores over time as they get better at solving the dozen or so standard classes of problem that you tend to get (just ask me what this cube looks like unfolded!)

On the other hand, there is a very real phenomenon called "intelligence", and people have it to varying degrees (so do animals, to even more widely varying degrees), its effects are well known to everybody from our experience in the real world, and IQ tests are vaguely correlated with it. And it does seem to be largely genetic.
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I have an iPad 2 and a Nexus S and my GF has an iPhone 4. I build iOS apps. I know my way around the cocoa API and the devices and for day to day use I much prefer my Nexus. The deep google integration is fantastic and vanilla android on the nexus is a polished experience (sans hardware accelerated animations), much more so than all the crappy OEM interfaces.

I'll give you fast/smooth, but from now on, I can't see my next phone being anything other than a Nexus.
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For the sake of those who do not refuse to think for themselves, let me say this: there was no agony in Steve Job's life, only the exaltation of living a full, rich, happy life in the course of which he saw the realization of his highest values. Steve Jobs was a true hero: an extraordinarily productive and creative man who inspired and gave hope to so many by showing them what incredible achievements are possible to a human being. He showed them a life worth-living. And, most importantly, Steve Jobs was a PROFOUNDLY MORAL man.

He was moral because of his values - the relentless pursuit of beauty and perfection in his work and life, to the utmost of his ability. He was moral because those values came from within himself, from the functioning of his own mind, and not second-hand from the morass of ideas going by the name of “morality” today. He was moral because he never gave up his ideas for the sake of others’ approval. He was moral because he did not give the unearned and undeserved and he did not seek the unearned and undeserved from others. He was moral because he had a SELF that embodied the best in man.

Those who measure morality by how much you give away to others, known or unknown, deserving or undeserving, do not understand that. They do not understand that before you can give, you have to create, but before you can create, your primary concern must be the process of creation itself, not the potential beneficiary of that creation. Yet, that is the only mechanism through which all can truly benefit. They do not understand the difference between forcing or cheating or defrauding and signing a voluntary contract. They feel guilty for buying a phone, but never question the morality that tells them they should feel so and never seek the roots of that guilt. They rail against the capitalist creator, but ignore the fact that bad working conditions are the logical result of a controlled economy, as if hundreds of millions of victims of communism were not enough to prove that. They scream in defense of the poor Chinese worker, but never ask how it happened that that worker never rose against its real oppressor.

Yes, Steve Jobs is my hero. And my other hero is Ayn Rand, who helped me understand what makes people like Steve Jobs possible. But she only showed me - my mind had to do the rest. I thought for myself, taking nothing for granted. I urge everyone to do the same.
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All sorts of organisations are borrowing ideas from consumer technology
I think the point of the passcode lock is so that if someone does steal your phone, they won't be able to get any of your personal information from it (provided they're not tech savvy enough to do a relatively easy brute force).
We're counting hands now on HN. It's very much a MVP.
I think there's something very patronizing and morally inconsistent about the kind of argument that is described in that article. Underlying its argument is a belief that the lives of all the people who die aren't important, that these deaths are somehow the proper and natural balance. In some ways it may echo the cultures themselves; when life is precarious and lost for no outward reason (such as by a disease like malaria) then individual life loses some of its meaning, people value not only each other but even themselves less.

Medically there's a tone of what-doesn't-kill-you-makes-you-stronger, which is kind of bullshit. Malaria might not kill native adults very often, but it is not harmless.

And economically, the argument is similarly patronizing. After going on about the native immunity many people have, it then talks about how economic disruption is causing migrations, leading to people (not just whites) who don't have the immunity to be exposed. The response: people should stay in their place. That the prerequisite for solving any problem is to revert to traditional structures and strengthen those structures (the same basic argument is made about poverty and many other African problems). The idea that Africans may in fact wish to have control of their own personal destiny is disregarded -- that if conditions were better, if economic forces were less manipulative, people might still want to migrate, because the drive to better one's life persists even when life is okay.
Neither is it meaningfully an "open source project" any more, either. They do a lot of work and throw it over the wall. People are welcome to contribute fixes, but no meaningful architecture input flows inwards. I find that sad.

But it's far better than the disaster that was Honeycomb, or the fortess that Apple builds around its developers. But it's not where I personally would have hoped we would be at this point.
That's fine - until someone opens a dispute. Once that happens, the guys with UPS or Fedex tracking numbers seem to have a much easier time resolving disputes than those without 3rd party confirmation of at least a parcel being sent. If all your customers are happy with your service (and not fraudulent themselves), and you don't grow your business (in terms of cash flow volume via Paypal) unexpectedly quickly, you'll almost certainly be fine...

But, I'd still _strongly_ recommend you don't keep any sizeable sort of float in your Paypal account. Sweep it into your bank account every day or two (for the seriously paranoid, sweep it into a connected bank account, then transfer it out of that one too - technically your agreement with Paypal (at least in .au) allows them to transfer money back out of a connected account "to correct errors"). And at least have a plan for what you'd do to keep accepting payment if Paypal did decide to freeze all you payments for 180 days.

Seriously - _lots_ of people get caught out with this. It doesn't mean Paypal is useless or evil, it just means you need to be aware of how much risk you're allowing yourself to be exposed to by Paypal, and if that risk is high enough to have plans in place to minimise them.

I'd suggest anyone who's likely to feel the need to write a blog post about how badly Paypal are treating them - was clearly allow themselves to be exposed to unacceptable risks without having risk minimisation plans in place. In mu opinion, anybody getting "caught" with Paypal withholding $45k in funds was being outrageously foolish in allowing Paypal to be in a position to do that. Anythng more than a few thousand dollars in a Paypal account needs sweeping into your bank account asap - even if that means doing it manually several times a day.
Ha! Old memories. We usually skipped forward 3 months and changed everything again.
Doppler for Heroku (http://dopplerapp.com/) works like a charm for having a quick rails console on your iPhone. It also allows you to provision your app and run rake tasks as well.

I'd be interested in something that also allowed code editing with github integration for the iPhone if any exist.
I just ordered one. They say they won't charge my credit card until it's ready to ship.
Yes, you can improve your intelligence or IQ. For example, one subtest of the IQ test is a spatial reasoning test - you have a series of split-colour cubes and have to arrange them to match a card you're shown.

Now, there is a flaw in the point that you can train for tests - if you trained in this task, then the task has no diagnostic meaning for you. But if you genuinely start working with more spatial reasoning gear - say you become a mechanic of some sort - you get better at recognising how things fit together spatially. You have, in effect, trained yourself to be better at spatial reasoning in general, and would do better at the subtest.

But the important thing to note here is that your intelligence has improved in that way - your ability to reason spatially has improved; you are actually able to cognitively do more than you could previously.

Likewise with the (culturally-referenced) verbal tests. Someone might get an IQ test at 20, then 'find books' and become a voracious reader. Tested a couple of years later, their vocabulary and verbal reasoning has been significantly exercised and improved. With an improved vocabulary, you are better able to express or consider more advanced concepts, so again, that aspect of your intelligence has actually improved.
In my childhood I did enough IQ tests [1] to be able to say "Oh, it's one of this class of problems again". I assume that people taking repeated IQ tests get better at them, because there's a limited selection of problem types.

[1] Only three or four. I'm sure there are lots of kids out there getting far more over-tested than I.
Make a new google account. If you don't use google plus it can be whatever you want used with one or many services.
"and fellow programmers"

Did your client ever hire programmers to maintain and improve the first system you wrote? Were those programmers happy with your work?

I guess if no one is ever going to maintain your code it doesn't matter as much. I wouldn't ever be so bold as to predict ahead of time whether that's going to be the case.
And then getting chewed out for missing the original deadline. Usually from the boss who just drop the SUPER BRILLIANT IDEA THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING in your lab.
I believe you have explained the mechanics of the system correctly.

As to who is doing the deception, I think you're right that (in the example we're discussing) cnn.com is being deceptive. That's a good point; I hadn't really considered the complicity of the partner sites.

But in the end, Facebook is producing widgets, building a system to receive data from those widgets, and working with their partners to deploy those widgets. This system of data transmission is in no way obvious to normal people; if I weren't a web developer, I'd just think I was seeing a "like button image," and that's it. That's the part that pisses me off-- I think it's sneaky, not just me complaining about something I originally agreed to.

Just out of curiosity, and assuming you actually have a Facebook account, this really doesn't bother you at all? Should it be obvious to me that buttons I'm not clicking may be transmitting data to other sites?
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Yeah, we did that a long time ago. I'm just surprised it is still running! I don't think I even told the other reddit guys about infogami or where it runs or anything.
Have you had another idea you’d pay if existed?

1. A device that rings a bell or flashes the lights in any/all rooms of my house if my cell phone is at home and rings. This way I don't have to carry it with me everywhere in the house.

2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now.

3. A reasonably priced dependable on-line grocery service that delivers in fly-over country.

4. An email device for senior citizens as easy to use as an iPod.

5. A device that lets you know whether the dishes in the dishwasher are dirty or clean.

6. An open source Windows clone that works.

7. A device that automatically disables any cell phone in any car within 50 car lengths of me and heading in my direction.

[EDIT: Numbers 1 thru 5 were serious. #6 was a pipedream. #7 was a joke, but like James Bond's Austin Martin, I can dream, can't I? You guys are giving me what I deserve for mixing jokes in with the real stuff.]
You seem to be, as are many others in this online debate, using the fallacious assumption that all of the world is the US.

> There's no inalienable human right to data about you

Eh...yes there is. Maybe not for you, but I, and others who were born in the EU have quite inalienable rights to data about us.

EU laws quite explicitly state that, yes, I do have an inalienable right to data about me, unless I explicitly (and possibly temporarily) grant a company access to it.

A company is legally obligated to provide me a list of all data they have on me, plus the ability to change this data, including me demanding all of it to be deleted.

Is this relevant in dealing with US based companies? No. But of course the EULA of Facebook specifies that European users have an agreement with Facebook Ireland, meaning all these EU laws apply to this relation.

> If I see you walking around town and write it down, is that illegal?

No, but writing down and storing that you saw me walking is...

Now, maybe you don't care about what right you have to your data. But I do, and I endorse any action forcing big companies like Facebook and Google to comply with the EU law, which firmly puts me back in control about my data.
"Good" already has a meaning, you can't arbitrarily redefine it. You have to actually figure out what the most "good" tradeoff is between shipping and writing maintainable code.
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re: "2. A service which lets me know which restaurants have excess capacity and will give me a discount if I come right now."

Some of my local pizza places use Twitter to provide this service.

re: "7. A device that automatically disables any cell phone in any car within 50 car lengths of me and heading in my direction."

Cell phone jammers are readily available, but are illegal in the USA. (This is not legal advice.)
This is also a problem for some school boards. My sister is using Khan Academy with her ELL students (they don't speak any English but Khan's working great for them).

Signing a student up to a standalone service is no problem, but as soon as that service includes email or other student communication, the teachers need to get parents' consent.

This is really limiting the adoption across the rest of her school, they don't really want to get everyone a new GMail or Facebook account.
>Now, there is a flaw in the point that you can train for tests - if you trained in this task, then the task has no diagnostic meaning for you. But if you genuinely start working with more spatial reasoning gear - say you become a mechanic of some sort - you get better at recognising how things fit together spatially.

Has it been tested whether training for the spatial reasoning tasks on an IQ test will make someone better at other spatial reasoning tasks (like being a mechanic)?
Okay, how about this: If I write a blog post that mentions you, you should be allowed to have it deleted, because people should have the right to control their own data, and what data is more important than the ability to control what comes up when your own name is searched for?

Oh wait, aren't they doing something similar in Italy?
I'll admit, when I was a C programmer, I was victim to "Dysfunctional sense of causality."

I remember taking a C class in my undergrad, nailing the code to perfection, and getting an F because I had written the code in under different architecture and compiled with a different compiler (not specified in the prompt by any means). It ran well on my computer (and I proved it), but since it wouldn't run on my professors computer or TAs computer, I still received an F.

So yes, I still maintain strong malice towards C :-)
> 5. A device that lets you know whether the dishes in the dishwasher are dirty or clean.

The door latch tells you that. If the door is latched, the dishes are clean. If the door is unlatched, the dishes are dirty.

This works if everyone who opens the door when it is latched either empties the dishwasher (and leaves it unlatched) or relatches it AND no one latches the door after putting in a dirty dish unless they also start it.
> So, I could find property to buy outright, but it seems that wouldn't being taking advantage of any real leverage.

Why are you looking for leverage? Isn't 50% quite a lot of leverage?