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I taught English in the public school system in South Korea last year. There were a few stark differences that I couldn't help but notice and I feel they shed light on our failing education system here in America. They have a curriculum that is set forth on a national level. This accomplishes two important things: One, teachers can now collaborate and share resources on topics that all teachers around the country are preparing for (I did this with my fellow Native English Teachers and ended up saving a lot of time not having to reinvent the wheel for every lesson). Secondly, it helps eliminate the unnecessary spending that accompanies the insanely large amount of school districts that we have scattered around our country. Washington State alone has almost 300 school districts! The board members of these schools districts are in charge of determining the curriculum for their specific locality, mean while others are doing the same exact thing in the next town over. Furthermore, the majority of those board members have a Masters or PhD and require a hefty salary - which could be going towards funding intelligent, passionate teachers. I'd love to be a teacher but you won't see me entering a public school classroom anytime soon.

If we can eliminate the redundancy of our school district issue and provide the framework for a nationalized curriculum, we could pay teachers more (thereby attracting a higher talent pool), lower class sizes, increase spending on classroom necessities (pens, pencils, paper, books, COMPUTERS!), and allow teachers the opportunity to share resources on predetermined, upcoming lessons. Tackling these issues will put us on the right track towards getting our school system out of this steady decline we've been on for the last couple of decades.
Hi Everyone,

We launched this game after over a year of work - we had to self fund the project and had 1/10 the budget of companies like Zynga or EA.

You play a struggling actor who has to do roles with friends in movies and advertisements to advance (actual acting). Once everyone has finished acting, all roles are combined and the movie published (you can watch completed movies at www.moviezhome.com) which can then be shared with friends. You will soon be able to create and share your own movies.

We know Facebook games tend to be shit, but given we only had barely enough funds for a game like this (we originally wanted to do an mmo) we tried to be original and haven't resorted to spamming users the way most games do.

We tried to design a slightly different experience to what can be found over there, so we're doing a game where you play but soon will be able to create content, a little like Little Big Planet.

We launched on Tuesday and have grown to about 20k users and over 6k daily active users. We havent spent any money on advertising - we barely have any :) - but have got help through other indie friends of ours. We have two more games completed which will be launched soon - a sports game and a side scroller.

Any feedback/criticism/suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks Guys
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That arrogancy is funny (or is it?) - we are the Gods of the Universe. Nothing is wrong, it never was. When appropriate, the exec team would address it and all problems (that we do not even hav) go away, just like that. Eric, Larry and Sergey are always aware of all things. We are invincible.
Its a facebook game ;) - you can always remove the application after you've tried it.
I would add to this that great designers will expect to have input at the product level. It's hard to simplify a product that's not properly thought through.
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"From 1981-2008, average incomes grew by a healthy $12,000. But a shocking 96% of that growth went to the richest 10% of the country. Only 4% of it went to the other 90%."

We are trained to stretch everything - laws, resources, work hours, employee benefits, you name it - to be profitable and make money. We can think of all kinds of schemes and business models to legally extract wealth - whether it is adjustable rate mortgages with balloon payments, absurdly exorbitant executive compensation packages, interest rate swaps, bailouts to subsidize the worthless yet powerful, or government contracts. We think that because something is legal it is right. Being legal is a very low standard when you are the one making the laws. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. This, in my opinion is a major problem with the American economy right now. The most powerful people and businesses appear to be more interested in extracting wealth than in creating wealth.
Seems like it's lacking in activity, nothing has happened for a year.
I don't know anyone who's said that Finnish is an easy language to learn. In fact, I think it's generally considered one of the hardest languages in the world (along with Hungarian, which has similar grammar). You are right, though, that the phonetics are easy and highly consistent.

Also, in practice, most technical terms are borrowed from English, instead of inventing native, Finnish words for them.
Actually, in New York you pretty much have to try to be homeless. I'm not going to say that being hard-on-your-luck is a breeze in New York, but with things like City Harvest (a truly brilliant concept -- http://www.cityharvest.org/), the anual coat drive, and the city's homeless outreach programs, it's certainly a lot better than many places. There was a good story a while back on "This American Life" that talked about this subject (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/358/s...). Additionally, you have Geoffrey Canada doing his thing up in Harlem...one of the true innovators in social reform. If you haven't heard of him, go read everything about him that you can now!

Honestly, the biggest gap in the city is caring for the mentally disabled. A large portion of the city's homeless population are schizophrenics, and they will effectively never be able to be productive members of society. For them, the only solution is long term care, but the city's mental facilities are really horrible. Unfortunately, the public's views on mental illness are still stuck in the 1890s...
Damn. I'll miss Code Search.
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You are clearly very capable. What are you doing now?
I have, in stores like Target. It's confusing because the packaging tell you it's the "best" one for music, when I'm almost certain those CDs are identical to the ones next to them.
My work legal department decided it was a conflict of interest (we use Git) and forbid me from working on it anymore.* So I open sourced it in the hopes that others besides just me (I run it at home) could find some value and maybe they would fork it and continue on with it.

* Ironically GitHaven's original goal was a solution that could be installed inside corporate firewalls, but without the cost of GitHub:Fi.
"memcpy(&v, video_loc_in_memory, sizeof(struct video_file));

"Well, here's the problem: if padding bytes are involved, you could be entering a world of pain and not even know it. [...] The solution is to use a compiler switch or a #pragma pack to ensure that structs are packed (i.e., no padding applied)."

That's an implementation-defined hack. The correct solution is to explicitly marshal your data between its in-memory format and the required external representation.
I believe this is because they are lagging behind the US in terms of economic growth story. In fact, I predict that the Chinese will enjoy fewer years of middle class prosperity than the US.
There are plenty of fictional characters whose remarks are both widely quoted and found to be enlightening and/or inspirational to many.

Several are currently running for President.
Personally, I think our fundamental problem comes down to having a monopoly that gets paid whether they have to educate any particular student or not, which makes competition extremely difficult. Regardless of what education you choose, the unused public education slot still gets paid.

What kind of quality do you think we'll get when we still pay regardless of quality or need?

Increasing tuition won't help without solving that problem.
GitHaven.com is down for me. I would be a lot more interested if a demo was up; I have been looking for something like this project.
I've lived roughly half a normal lifespan and have accomplished most of that list myself. No need to live for thousands of years.

Methinks you've missed the point.
Last month facebook announced, and subsequently enacted a significant reduction in emails sent to their users:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/facebook-s
It is a nice idea, but I don't believe that it would help. There are certainly people whom it would help, but I most of them are propperly unemployable because of other reasons and not just because they need a little hekp getting ba ck on their feet.
I think your idea is already a movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efNzhEKm3w4

I don't know which came first, your idea or the movie ;)
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Nice!

When I played around with CI I noticed that a lot of filters were still missing, almost all the filters I needed... how are your findings in this regard?
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You may want to read this book first and then contemplate a bit further:

http://www.amazon.com/Geography-Time-Tempo-Culture-Pace/dp/0...
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Google Code Hosting is another source of geek cred. They don't monetize it. No ads and no paid hosting.

I hope the lack of monetization is not their only reason for killing Code Search.
This movie looks like, its about rich people buying time, The plot seems to be in an imaginary world where people can live longer/younger somehow.

But, My theory is different it depends on everybody having the same time.

I agree my idea and the movie has some intersection, Certainly they must gave gotten the idea before me, since, it takes a lot of time for pre-production and stuff. I just got this idea earlier this year.
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http://git.meyerhome.net:8080/ is my little arm box that is running it that you can at least check it out (warning: it is just a low end arm dev board, it probably will go down). I let GitHaven.com elapse when I realized I wouldn't be able to continue working on the project.

Edit: fyi GitHaven supports private repos which are the majority of the repos on my home server which you can't see (sorry!). The others were more tests or repos that are too huge (above the 300MB limit) to put on GitHub.com
Because you can make a lot more money being a football player or coach.

That's where the line is drawn.
I run an alternative to the App Store for jailbroken iOS devices (specializing in everything that isn't actually an "app" at all) called Cydia; I am a member of the (probably poorly named) "iPhone Dev Team", the group that writes the popular jailbreak tools, but I really specialize in everything that happens "after the hack": acting as a sort of "community manager" for the ecosystem of users and developers, and coordinating the efforts of the various groups.

In addition to some of the popular tweaks, one thing in particular that I work on and am known for is called Cydia (Mobile) Substrate, a framework and development library used by developers to reasonably sanely (and hopefully safely) make modifications to code written by other developers and running in other processes, even if multiple people are attempting to modify the same thing; this library is the foundation of most of the interesting hacks found on the iPhone.

(I also give large numbers of talks at conferences about all of this, and so the previous two paragraphs are pretty much just me typing my introduction; if you search around on YouTube you can find me saying almost the exact same thing in numerous hilarious contexts. You might also find me "busting out an Xzibit", much to the chagrin of YouTube commenters everywhere, who also like to complain about my long beard and fingernails.)
> Would be cool to have a basic SMS altert app that can connect to many web services.

Try http://ifttt.com
I think the biggest undisputable difference between the Finnish and American systems from the article is their high quality teachers and small engaged classes but I wonder if that is simply a direct result of their having a small population (less than 6mm). I can't see some of these methods (having a master's teach in schools, paying very competitive salaries) scaling well in the American system (more than 60-70mm+). There just aren't those kind of funds available anywhere.

Another thought that comes to mind is if we already know finish teachers are the best, then why don't we use the internet to scale their teaching. It might not be as good as in class teaching but I reckon it would be better than what we have now.
One of the things that's always appealed to me about C++ is the "don't pay for what you don't use" philosophy & the focus on performance.

I look foreword to C++11 becoming the default language implementation so that the new stuff will start to appear in more projects (instead of being confined to just the Boost faithful).
> He is a former physicist? Good god, the waste... He attended a public school for free. I wonder if he has factored in the price his government paid for only 10 years of physiking out of him...

So let me get this straight. The government builds "free" schools. The government then forces people - under threat of violence - to attend these schools. Therefore people owe the government a lifetime of work.

I'm appalled that anyone could hold such a view.
"I've read/heard that drinking this mineral-free water can have long-term adverse health effects (leaches minerals from your body into the mineral free water?). I see articles for/against this theory. Interested to hear comments from anybody who actually knows details."

Take a look at:

http://www.finishing.com/156/65.shtml

My favorite quote from that thread:

"If it is a concern & all you have to drink is ultrapure water, you can stir the water with a metal stainless spoon or your finger first & it will magically transform itself from ultrapure water to just water."
To get masters from "teaching track" in Finland (which is _very_ appreciated during job interviews) you need quite hefty load of padagogy and sosiology studies on top of your usual master's.
I would think if a service-oriented-architecture (SOA) were used as much as possible to modularize a project such as this to make it easier to change functionality, was a modularized approach taken or was this just one big codebase that was essentially all lumped into one big "application"? I work on a legacy Java project that has something like 1M lines of code and its a nightmare, the team I work with is finding that modularizing pieces of it into essentially individual projects (which is seamless to the end user) helps with keeping the complexity down, just curious about this as I think the Google employee who did that rant online the other day mentioned something along these lines.

I don't think the use of Java would necessarily lead to a project's downfall, I mean how are you going to scale something like this in Python if its already slow in Java?
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Summary - "Facebook need to keep everything simple, while allowing things to be customized. While regularly adding new features".

In my experience, having things regularly moved around or changed to work in different ways is far more frustrating for non-techie users than being unable to turn off email notifications.
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> It is more likely to be culture or (more controversially) genetics.

Perhaps not genetics, but (also controversially) perhaps 'diversity' is over-rated. Many of the least diverse countries enjoy such positive results. The U.S. slips further and further as it gets more diverse.
Also if your problem is that you don't understand some of the custom code, you often have no choice but to ask Jeff.
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Show HN: Siri hack to use any location with reminders
I figured out a way to get Siri to set reminders for you when you leave or arrive at ANY location, not just home or work.

1. You need to go into your contact card

2. Push edit and scroll down to addresses

3. Add a new address, and push the label that appears to the left of the address (usually work/home)

4. At the bottom, you can add a custom label, it can be anything, say "Target."

5. Add the address for the Target, then push done

6. When you launch Siri, you can now tell her to remind you when you leave "My target." For example: "Remind me to buy milk when I arrive at my target" Be sure to say "my," I couldn't get it to work otherwise.

I've found that its more accurate when you split up the reminder, so it would be "remind me to buy milk" and when she asks when to remind you, say "when I arrive at my target"
Cut your costs down to just rent plus servers. Keep only the technical people plus yourself. Have everyone work for free in exchange for equity until you see traction. The ones that believe in the company and the idea enough will do it.
Most say it's hard to learn. Putting that aside, I know Finnish contains many borrowed words. Take church, which in Finnish is "kirkko", Swedish is kyrka, and in Scottish English, kirk. This form almost certainly comes from the Norse "kirkja".

For a more technical term, consider "democracy", which is "demokratia". The Greek roots are obvious.
Something out of whack..

Let me explain...about 24 years ago mid beginning 1980s the testing and tests for pre-engineering was the same level as most HS students face now for non-engineering....

I can remember taking additional tests on top of my HS standards tests to see if I could get qualified to enter engineering college classes..yes this was the USA..

my scores was 98 percentile range..

It would seem the author is comparing apples and oranges to display their political trappings rather than a factual article on what can be compared and contrasted.
Of course the designers (in fact everyone on the team) would contribute greatly to the product design. However, we do believe one person needs to drive the vision but everyone on the team will have a say within the constraint.

We also explain all the motives of doing something, i.e., how to make it easy for users to find the next channel to watch... v.s. make these channels look pretty.
Unlikely, it was about 1100 euros, so actually changing it once every 3 years is about the same cost as switching PCs once every three years, except that in the meanwhile I'm using much better hardware, and without Windows.
I didn't notice a mention of GWT (not that it wasn't in there) and I would agree if thats the case, Java is very strong for server-side development but GWT definitely can be bloated and it isn't really Java anyways, you write it in Java but it runs as JavaScript so I'm sure it loses most advantages that it would have if it really were running as Java
As Matt Ridley puts it in his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm... ) :

Nobody on earth knows how to build a computer mouse (all by himself).
I don't get it. I never assumed for a second that this sort of internal memo would be hugely controversial within google. Hell, even within Microsoft such things are not unheard of or terribly controversial. What I took away from Yegge's memo was that Google is still fucking up in maintaining an antiquated high level architecture for its services. And I naturally assumed that they knew of the problem already as well, most big problems are widely known even if they remain unaddressed. Perhaps Yegge's vehemence and reputation might draw more people's attention to the problem though.
> My work legal department decided it was a conflict of interest (we use Git) and forbid me from working on it anymore.

Can you expand on this? It sounds so incredibly stupid that I'm not sure I got it right.
I understand what you're saying.

But what about people who have always believed change would be bad, and then been proven right on many occasions? We don't hear too much about people who predicted a negative outcome and when it came about, received just as much attention.
Add a function that shows ghosts are shaded figures/faces in dark spots of group pictures. And explain that there is the strongest XYZenergy the phone cpuld detect. Offer an option to facebook tag the people in the group picture - go viral
Finland does so much better than Sweden that Swedish newspapers semi-regularly feature the same article as the parent of this discussion, i.e. "our schools are crap, Finland is right next to us, they're awesome, how do they do it, why can't we?".

Of course, nothing ever happens.
I wouldn't go as far as saying it's wrong, but rather that it's not complete. The article simply focused on osmosis to explain the process of dehydration at a cellular level (blood). In that, I'd say it was rather accurate.

Now, if you absolutely want the bigger picture, we could go as far as stipulating that the human renal system (kidneys) have limitations and is unable to excrete salt at seawater's concentrations, which is how dangerous levels of sodium chloride could find their way into the bloodstream, when someone drinks seawater.

Penguins can drink seawater because, in addition to kidneys, they have a gland that is very efficient at excreting salt from their body. So efficient, in fact, that the byproduct is a saturated saline solution (which is what you see when a penguin has a "runny nose"). A penguin with a defective supraorbital gland would die of dehydration, like any human, if it drank seawater.
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Some very, very old CD players won't accept "non-audio" CD-Rs.

> Physically, there is no difference between the discs save for the Disc Application Flag that identifies their type: standalone audio recorders will only accept "music" CD-Rs to enforce the RIAA arrangement, while computer CD-R drives can use either type of media to burn either type of content. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R
I started to get involved with the Git Servers at work (Not the primary admins or anything, just helping them not make the wrong choices <cough>gitorious</cough>). After that legal said if I do any GitHaven stuff on my own time from then on they would own it.
Starcraft 2 costs between $120 and $180. People who are currently playing Starcraft 2 have only paid for the first 1/3 of the game.
Chasing down the attacker is not easy.

Note that pretty much every service will let anyone who controls your e-mail address in (via password reset, if they didn't send your password in plain text in the first place.) You have a lot more work to do.
that is not the same thing as him saying "encryption isn't a good idea"