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No, I do want my students to talk. Please do not tell me what I think. I want my students to move from being bumps on a log to engaging in the subject, ie, becoming fluent in it.

Also, I hold the expectation that mere facts are dealt with out of the classroom - class is about moving into interpretation and analysis, which does not always have obvious solutions.
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Oh, sorry, I should clarify -- I want to remap it to Esc.

Or, to be more precise, I want Caps Lock to somehow switch modes in vim in a terminal app. If that means configuring something on both sides, the OS and vim, I'm cool with that.

I've tried a number of things but nothing seems to work right.
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You should provide a link (even though google is easy).
Sure, if the thing to be judged has a limited number of inputs and factors and outcomes...which is something that does not apply to the content of the Web, of course.

But in other cases where the answer is basically, "yes" or "no"...if an algorithm chooses the right answer, doesn't that count as truth? Take for example, the Apgar score, which consists of giving a newborn a score of 0 to 2 for five categories: complexion, pulse rate, reflex, muscle tone, and breathing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar_score

A baby that scores 8 is considered to be doing well. A baby with just 5 merits additional examination.

This simple numerical score is credited with revolutionizing obstetric medicine and is still used today, even though it was first published in 1953.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/09/061009fa_fact?cu...

I guess it's debatable whether this counts as an "algorithm"...but it involves the mechanical evaluation of a "score", with set guidelines for when such score is dangerously low. The fact that the scoring is done through human judgment is peripheral to the matter...it's not hard to imagine a machine being able to perform the same test (perhaps more accurately) were it cost-practical to build such a machine.

One more interesting note: The Apgar score was not developed by an expert. It was developed by a female doctor who had never delivered a baby (nor had a baby) herself, but felt that doctors were giving up too quickly on sick babies.
No, iterate is just a helper function to convert a Haskell integer to a Church numeral. If the inputs were directly represented as Church numerals, it wouldn't be needed and you'd just replace every instance of iterate n with n itself. I thought this would be evident to someone who had read the article and understood Church numerals, so I didn't go into detail about it.

Does that clear up your confusion?
I am glad to see the naming change. SproutCore and SproutCore 2 seem to have very different goals and very different approaches. People had preconceptions of what SproutCore 2 was based on their knowledge of SproutCore. I see that Ember.js, http://emberjs.com, appears to be the final name. Ember.js is a great name and I think the rebranding makes a lot of sense.
To simplify - Spotify can never be profitable because they do not create or own the product they are selling. Also, the product they are selling is not a commodity so they cannot source alternate suppliers.

Why is this a surprise?
Then its a good thing that line in the article had nothing to do with benchmarking a database query.
Aside from the good explanations of what the Higgs is below, can someone explain why discovering the Higgs would be significant? I.e. what problems does it help illuminate.
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I honestly do not understand this constant back-and-forth about credibility and validity between "real journalists" and "bloggers". It's as if "real journalists" are some kind of supernatural entity that descend from the universe of Platonic truths to dispense objective information which we can internalize and process without further judgment.

Journalists and bloggers share a fatal flaw: They're human. Someone signs their paychecks. They have goals, dreams, and motives. Who cares whether they're a "journalist" or not? What difference does it make?
Are you talking about Contribute?
Not taking issue here with commercial vs personal, but with being restricted from redistributing items you've purchased through the store.
I think you misunderstand incentives. If Wladmir accepts money from advertisers, there's an innate incentive to accept more money from more advertisers, and to lower his standards for what makes an acceptable advertisement. He might want to support non-obtrusive ads, but the major incentive (money) is entirely contrary to that goal and your own preferences.

That aside, I wish to address the "free content" dichotomy (either we accept ads, or we lose free content ).

First of all, the content is not free; there are both tangible and intangible costs to you; advertising is funded through higher prices on the products we buy, and there are the intangible costs to being inundated with ads.

Second, advertising is surely not the only viable model. If adblocking were to actually succeed in undermining the web advertising industry, it would also provide impetus for the development of low-resistance web payment mechanisms, similar to the app stores and in-app purchasing that have revolutionized content purchasing on mobile devices.

In other words: 100% blocking of advertisements would not lead to the loss of "free" (but not really free) content, it would merely lead to the establishment of a more direct and efficient mechanism for funding that content.
You actually do not have to remove any axioms from Peano arithmetic to prove that a model of PA with such a 'bleem' exists. It is a straightforward consequence of the compactness theorem: just enrich PA with a new constant c and an infinite series of axioms 'c != N' for every numeral N.
For any finite set of these new axioms a model exists (just set c to a large enough number), therefore by the compactness theorem there exists a model which satisfies all our new axioms.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_model_of_arithmeti...
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I would have thought not, but this paper argues that Benford's law is not useful for detecting voter fraud: http://www.vote.caltech.edu/drupal/node/327
Nice coincidence, I spent part of my weekend hacking on an Unlambda FizzBuzz.
I was really excited about Copycopter but found that their "search for the text you want to edit" interface was too confusing for my clients.
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"No more will wives wonder why their husbands were looking at a dating site when they said they were playing Angry Birds."

Journalism at its finest. I have a Fire and have no other tablet experience with which to compare this. I am pleased by the price point and plan to root it once the warranty expires. I am also annoyed by the clutter that appears as I do more and more with it. This has nothing to do with being concerned that my wife will see what I've been doing. I encourage her checking on things in our relationship that may affect her security in it. It's really just annoying to scroll through the carousel of EVERYTHING just to get to the one thing that I need/want.
Here's another great Laundry story: http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/07/down-on-the-farm
Not regional, CS at the university of washington is one of the top in the country.

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
“In less than two weeks, we’re rolling out an over-the-air update to Kindle Fire,” said Drew Herdener, a company spokesman.

So...everyone that unwraps one on Christmas morning and turns it on will suddenly have to endure an OTA update before using it?

Granted, I've never seen a Fire go through an update, but god help Amazon if that's how they plan to roll this out.
With due respect to the writer, posts like this only reinforce the notion that if you're using resolution-dependent pixels to specify layout for multi-resolution screens, you are already conceptually broken because you are resorting to unnatural techniques to obtain the desired output. Using real world units like inches or centimeters are the way out here. FWIW, banning pixels is an old topic of discussion with regards to resolution independent displays.
You are completely correct.

I meant commercial as interpreted in relation to the GPL and I know that I came across as incredibly unclear. I read those terms as giving both individual and corporate customers the same license to use the software but explicitly prevents redistribution.

You can resell GPL software. You cannot resell App store software.
Yes. It's extremely annoying and can be very expensive. Correct maps are needed for applications in planning, agriculture etc and aren't free.
Seems like this kind of resolves the issue for the border property but is not suitable for others?
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I don't understand your post. A PA system adds 0 weight behind a speaker's sentiment. Well, maybe a little bit because they're louder, plus a little because someone decided to give them a mike.

But if dozens of people repeat the message, it adds a lot of weight to the sentiment. This is a downside, since it's obviously not the case that each person in the system will critically evaluate what is being said before repeating it. But they are still adding to the psychological "weight" of the statement.
It's not too bad. Not extremely fast, but not painfully slow, either.
this is very interesting but I have a question, while the originals can't be under copyright, do the scans have a different copyright as kind of a derived work?
this looks a lot like http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/. Are they both from the midgard project?
Two thoughts.

1) What is the advantage of 48 small screens over a single, huge, bright downfiring 4K projector? Probably costs about the same...

2) How do I get into working on things like this? I would love to have a lab space where there was enough hardware and know-how around to just prototype and play with this sort of thing.
The bad teachers just "teach the test"...

No, he said the lazy teachers "teach the test", i.e. strive to make sure their students meet minimum standards. A system which makes sure even lazy workers perform adequately is a good system.

...the good teachers are far better off without state provided standards...

No, he said the good teachers are just as well off - they modify the standard lesson plans and are only penalized if their students do poorly.
You are right. I’m sorry, I put that comment in the wrong context.

But the App Stores allows you to install apps on as many Macs or iOS devices you want (as long as you own or control them) and it also allows for commercial use (also by companies and organizations).
And if you're the CTO?
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Curious, how would you prefer they do an update? Go to Amazon HQ and have someone replace the internals of the device?

OTA updates are probably the most seamless update experience that exists today. I wish the iPad2 had it in the past -- as I still have one that I haven't plugged in to get iOS5 yet.
Privacy is now opt-in. Before now it was a case of information being too inaccessible, too fragmented and meaningless. Facebook, automatic facial recognition, tagging and all that has changed that. Now you have to political ask someone not to upload the photo they took of you, you have to dig deep into the Terms and Conditions of everything you sign up to, you have to untick boxes everywhere, you have worry about data breaches etc. Privacy is now hard work.
Everytime I read an article like this, I think of how if Steve Woz were growing up today, he would be in a maximum security prison by now:

http://books.google.com/books?id=hlA6Xv3-59YC&lpg=PA47&#...
Interesting! I'd love to see this integrated into MediaWiki once it's more feature complete.
You are cherry-picking the tiny portion of the historical problem that was obvious and then declaring the whole problem as obvious. It mostly wasn't, which means we can't take the current lack of obvious solutions as a sign we should just throw our hands up.

My aesthetic preferences aren't for equal outcomes. They're for people to have equal opportunities. They don't right now. I aim to change that. I am, however, sometimes willing to use outcomes as one proxy for opportunities until we have significant proof that we have solved all the problems of opportunity.

I'm all for scrutiny. However, I think it should be equally applied. If one only scrutinizes challenges to the status quo, then it's not honest intellectual inquiry. And it's especially suspicious when it comes from somebody who benefits from that status quo. Like the poster that kicked off this particular subthread.
There goes the privacy of phone calls. (like the government wasn't listening enough)
The old conventional wisdom with Microsoft products was: "Wait until version 3" and I wonder if something similar is now in effect for Amazon's physical devices.

It is a testament to Amazon's ability to react and adapt that turned the version 1 Kindle (with the awkwardly placed buttons and the weird profile - shaped like half of an open book) into the sleek, inexpensive and generally well reviewed Kindle line of today.
Perhaps, but in every sense -- legally, tax-ably, and accounting-ly -- a founder is not an employee.
it was janky, clunky, heavy and hot.

Really? I've never felt it get hot. It feels lighter than my iPad2 (although it may be heavier -- but I really don't think so). The UX is almost strictly worse than the iPad2, but at less than 50% the price, its a better deal (given they both have serious deficiencies today -- but $199 for a seriously deficient device feels much better than $499).
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I believe we have similar issues here, e.g. with the National Weather Service being accused of the same thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service#Contro...

Personally speaking, it seems horrifically absurd that we're paying for the information to be gathered for absolutely essential services, but then are expected to pay again for similar data collected from a separate source.
found it - was "inContext" which seems to have been scrapped, or at least bundled into something else. http://incontextediting.adobe.com/

which shows the problem of managing something like this through a third party anyway!
Given the clunky user experience of earlier Kindle models, did people really expect something on par with an iPad? Trusting amazon to fix it is key - it's fine as long as they move forward quickly.

Given all the interviews I've read with Bezos bragging about their revolutionary new browser, I'd be most disappointed by slow load times. They over-promised on this feature.
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I think his point was the idea of everyone hitting it all at once on Christmas morning.
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Yeah, that's more of a heuristic for determining the health of an infant. An algorithmic approach would give you a definite yes-or-no for all baby inputs.

And the analogy breaks down here because the online ecosystem adapts very fast. It would work if there was some sort of gene that led to premature births plus high Apgar scores (the equivalent of a malicious website that ranks well).

That's why search is so tough: search engines and gaming have coevolved to the point that in plenty of areas, search quality would go down if people weren't trying to game the algorithm.
Thank you, ajross and pyre, for clearly and reasonably explaining why this sort of targeted marketing is not also discrimination (the bad kind).

(Yes, upvotes say this too, but now that votes are not public, I wanted there to be a visible commendation. These sorts of things set the tone of the thread.)
Then it appears the US meddling is quite extensive!
Ask HN: How can I transition from lab tech to web developer?
This is my first time posting on here, but I've been reading Hacker News for quite a while. I'm a bit lost in my career right now and would love some advice, ideally from others that have been in a similar situation.

I did my undergrad in chemistry and graduated 7 years ago. Even though I went to a really prestigious college, I unfortunately had a few bad semesters and my GPA was never able to recuperate. As a reaction to this, I think I sort of became quite disillusioned with work in general and have been stuck in an entry level job since my field weighs academic success pretty heavily.

Fortunately for me, I was exposed to R about a year or two ago and have become really interested in programming since then. I've spent the last year and a half obsessively programming and learning as much as I possibly can and am very confident with my programming skills at this point.

I've contributed a couple R packages, did some front-end programming for work, and have made a few web apps for friends. But I feel kinda stuck. How can I make that leap into a full-time web developer position?
How is this different from Mailchimp or ConstantContact -- in other words, what are you offering that the big guys do not?
If there's anyone ready to handle millions of devices needing an update on 12/25, it's Amazon given the CDN delivery system they have. That said, if there are problems (i.e. hour+ download times, coupled with a requirement to update before using the device), I agree that it would be a huge disaster.
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> I am pleased by the price point and plan to root it once the warranty expires.

I'm not sure what to make of these reviews either. No external volume control/power switch is something I can live with, but it seems the rest is something that would be irrelevant with a custom ROM. I'm toying with the idea of getting one and flashing it once Cyanogen (inevitably) releases ICS for the Fire.
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Yeah the computers were a tiny fraction of the cost of the house.

In absolute terms, yes, the house was expensive. However, it's actually probably below-average for Palo Alto. It's not very big (don't need that much space), and building a house does not actually cost that much more than buying one (assuming you can find an empty lot, which I was lucky enough to do).

Even the unique customizations didn't cost a whole lot. There are some cable tubes in the walls, and some custom cabinetry. The awesome architecture was free -- my dad designed it. :) Building curved walls and clerestory windows isn't that expensive; design is the hard part.

In any case, I've been working at Google for six and a half years and spending very little of they money I earned. The savings from that and a hefty mortgage were enough to build the house. :D
I like it, but change the name. marquee is not something that is easy to spell or remember. How about markyourimg.com?
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It would be freaking awesome!?

First of all we don't have to imagine that scenario. Going back to the beginning of the internet there weren't really any ads to speak of. Secondly, using the Internet Wayback Machine we can actually see what that internet looked like back then. And because the Wayback Machine doesn't save most images, you can get an even better feel for what the internet would look like if everyone used an ad blocker.
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1) Resolution is much higher this way (11520x8640 instead of 4000x2000)
2) Go for a doctorate in multimedia studies and tell your prof you need 50 screens. Or - try a company that rents multimedia equipment. If you work there, they've always got lots of spare equipment laying around and interested in people that love to find new usages for them. If you're in Switzerland, try http://www.habegger.ch/en/
Get it right the first time (or delay the initial release).
Right, sorry if I implied otherwise. My intent was to show that he's not an asshole in these matters (I guess I should've excerpted more of the post).
I liked it when the 6-line web server code was the first thing you saw. This is what originally sucked me in to node.js. You think, "Woah! A web server in JavaScript, and it's that simple."

I guess I can scroll down to the docs, but it would be nice if nodejs.org/docs redirected to the most recent version and linked to older ones. A memorable URL for docs is nice. e.g. docs.jquery.com

When I go to a new project's site I want to see: 1. An example. 2. Getting Started. 3. Full Docs.

"In the industry" is not really the first thing I need to know. That's something that's nice to see, and belongs more at the bottom of the homepage, IMO.
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I have similar issues - our website is in WordPress and despite the ease-of-use of this particular package, a lot of people just don't seem to get it.

Some staff and volunteers pick it up quite easily, if they haven't already seen or used it before, but several people just don't do it, and instead I get a phone call or email saying "can you put this on the website?".

Incidentally, do you find a lot of people simply can't be arsed? One of our presenters (we're a radio station) is tech-savvy, has an iPhone, a Macbook, uses Facebook daily and so on. She's also one of the worst offenders for emailing me stuff to put on the website. I wonder if some people just plead ignorance to avoid having to do it themselves...

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, it would be one less excuse if we went to a solution like this - where it's simply a case of navigating to the page, clicking a button and editing it.
I actually ended up with the white "flakes" over my inverted readability page. I was very confused at first, but was able to ignore it fairly easily.
It's just one static set of files. CDNs make this almost brainlessly easy. If Amazon can't handle that then they have no business building Silk at all, much less one of the world's most popular retail sites.
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All very true. People need contact with people.

I am a geek and a type B (very happy with my own company) personality type like many others around here I'm sure. I am also a pastor and that's a people business. Some of the best advice I ever heard was from John Maxwell who said "walk slowly through the crowd". He described a time when he saw one of his assistant pastors charge through a crowd in the reception area of the church. He caught up with the young man and asked what he was doing. "Hurrying to get on with my job" was the reply. "These people are your job", said John Maxwell. I have tried to live this every time I'm around the congregation. I even had to remind my wife of this just yesterday.
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Not too surprising; given Microsoft's recent crush on JavaScript. W8 will allow for first-class JS desktop apps; only makes sense to enable JS on the server at well. Using node vs. some sort of Chakra-based system is a bit surprising given MS's history; but "embracing" node now is easier than trying to convert existing node devs to something totally new (or risking newly-minted desktop JS devs using *nix servers)
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