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Auditory aren't the only types of hallucinations. It isn't hard to imagine a hallucination that includes sound and a visual on the band.

Having somebody close to me who is affected by schizophrenia, I am hopeful that new, different treatments can help. The worst part is the lack of objective measure of reality for the suffer. It can be horribly frightening for them.
The article is pointing out that the Khan Academy is very similar to previous pedagogical attempts. You are also not presenting any evidence that the ways in which it differs are significant. I fail to see why you can claim that the article, which raises a valid objection to the Khan Academy, is silly, but your own arguments, also without data to back them up, are not.

But yes, let us get more data, that I can always get behind.
I find it perverted that people are angry about Facebook but illegal warrantless mass surveillance of every citizen in the US doesn't generate a comparable outcry.

Facebook does nothing to violate your privacy. The FBI intentionally spying on you without your consent or knowledge IS a violation of privacy.
By the way it's written, it just seems like this guy is pouting about Khan Academy getting all the press.
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There are plenty of online schools already. They usually either have you take tests at a local third party testing center, or they watch you through your webcam while you take tests.

Additionally there's plenty of cheating going on in traditional universities. I've even heard of people being paid to take entire classes for other people.
I think this link is a much better treatment of the famous "Benny" experiment: http://blog.mathed.net/2011/07/rysk-erlwangers-bennys-concep... (with a bonus of less conflict-of-interest.)
I think a balance between automation & manual gives the best efficiences. Particularly in the rapid building pre production stage of a solution.

My context is data processing matlab (automation) & excel (manual).
So that it won't be again.
Edit: Downvoting probably means that was not clear enough. I meant this will gather enough evidence for people to not post anything similar on Hacker News.
Sorta, but I wouldn't classify it as "aging". It's more akin to automated self-destruction after a certain amount of time. Aging implies a slow breakdown of function, whereas the limit imposed by telomeres is more of a binary event.

You're good until you run out of telemoeres, then shit gets crazy and you enter apoptosis because your cell is no longer functioning correctly.
It is.

A university offers a lot more than just classes--one of the primary functions is just to bring together lots of smart people. Being able to talk to both other students and professors face to face is important; and having plenty of other like-minded students around is great for more than just classes.

On top of this, universities also offer research. Being able to work on something exciting while you're there is important. And research benefits both from having a high concentration of smart people and having the appropriate facilities. (It also sometimes benefits from having a university full of guinea pigs :).)

Also, while most CS classes are easy to move online, this does not hold for other technical subjects which need equipment and labs. An online-only EE or Bio or Physics class cannot reproduce the hands-on experience which is very important to understanding the material well.
They won't. Learn how to work with other engineers, designers, product managers, project managers, executives, operations, etc. Learn test-driven development. Learn how to say no to new projects. Learn when to say yes.
There are medicines, but the effectiveness is very hit-or-miss and the side effects can be horrid. Schizophrenia also is often accompanied by feelings of paranoia, which, combined, can make it difficult for patients to stay on medication.
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Which state are you in? Even the cheapest state schools here in PA are closer to 4k/semester.

http://www.sru.edu/financeandadministrativeaffairs/studentac...
Wow. I have not been exposed to this before, and I was just buzzing by for a quick scan of Hacker News. I have stuff I'm supposed to be doing, and I had NO idea I was going to get sucked in to such an enlightening, insightful read!

The most insightful point, to me, was this -> A "program" is a formal system for abstract symbol manipulation, and therefore, the most effective way to produce/improve/"maintain" programs is to reason about the program itself (as opposed to, for example, testing every conceivable input and output).

My summary leaves much to be desired, but maybe it gives you a TLDR idea of what Dykstra is saying. If you're a programmer, read it.
first thought exactly...just throw in a dash of skynet and, well, yup...
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Heh, according to "Masters of Doom", Carmack was known to lug his 22 inch CRT back to his place when things got too distracting.
> C++ exists because someone saw a tank and a plane and said, "I'm going to put wings on a fucking tank and see what happens."

What a great metaphor. Hilarious, great imagery, and it's even mostly true!

Thanks for that, I'll remember it.
"Khan Academy and its donors may preclude better products from coming along: products built by experts that actually can improve how students learn"

So - what was stopping those experts from doing that already?
Ask HN: What is the best company/place to learn Ruby on Rails?
I want to learn from the best of the best. I have the money and the time (soon) and want to be an expert!

I want to land a job with a great rails shop, mostly because I want to learn more.... so who is the best?
this is very good! is it possible to save the filtered images locally?
The one concrete criticism I could see in the article (aside from vague handwaving about "pedagogical underpinnings") was about providing a step-by-step series of instructions for solving a problem without real understanding.

But Khan doesn't actually do that. In my experience, he's very good at emphasizing why something works. He encourages people to remember the "why" well enough to work out the actual formulas for themselves, rather than just memorizing the formulas.
It's also worth noting that for the specific problem he mentions, texthog is free for individuals and expensify is free for individuals and small groups.
When I went to Georgia State (started in 2002) it cost about $4k/yr (not that I paid any of that, I made about $6k a year after tuition and fees from scholarships).

Now that my little brother is going there, it costs him about $10k a year in tuition and fees.
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I think the best rebuttal to this article would be Sal's TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk

In particular, he doesn't present the Khan Academy as a full replacement for primary education, but as an enhancement. In the second half of the video, he illustrates the teacher as maximizing the amount of useful interaction between themselves and the students.

Instead of spending class time lecturing and producing examples (things that technology can handle easily, and in some cases better than a human can), teachers use their class time to interact with students individually, helping them better understand the content and meaning behind it. This time becomes even more useful because the application gives statistics on how students are performing, and what directions they're moving in; it arms teachers with better data and more time to use it.
Dijkstra is one of my favorite writers on programming, but I can't resist pointing out that he was on the wrong side of "how to program if you cannot." We have a huge, thriving, valuable, and quite reliable information infrastructure built out of incorrect programs. Dijkstra believed in correct programs and believed that software engineering would not succeed without them. He believed it was counterproductive to teach people to program and employ them as programmers if they could not write correct programs. He believed that the future of computing would be defined by the struggle to write correct programs, and that even if we managed to get by with incorrect programs, the cost would be much greater than if we had achieved the same results via correct programs.

Wow! Can you imagine where we would be if we only had code written by people who had completed rigorous training in mathematics and formal methods? Can you imagine a world where the middle ground between mathematics and the analog world was completely bare? No Excel spreadsheets made by accountants, no customized HTML or CSS, no wiki markup even, because you can't trust amateurs to do programming! It's hard to wrap my head around the idea that The Print Shop for the Apple II should never have existed, because the small minority of people suited for Dijkstra's rigorous training in mathematical programming would surely have been engaged on far more important projects.

Hmm, the essay is dated 1988. I wonder if he still believed that a small class of elite programmers armed with formal methods would have created all of the wonderful programs I used at school around that time -- Print Shop, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Math Blaster, and on and on -- did he believe his mathematician/programmers would have created all those programs and even more? Or was he simply out of touch? Ah, but how wonderfully and brilliantly out of touch.

He is also wrong about software aging and needing maintenance, as well, but there is an important lesson to learn from what he said. As usual, he is right about the mistake in language even though he is wrong about the phenomenon it refers to: programs are routinely transplanted from one context to another, because it is expensive or inconvenient to maintain their original context. Aging and maintenance are a poor analogy. Using poor language to address something is, in practice, less wrong than simply ignoring it, but we would be better off if we heeded Dijkstra's advice not to lean on bad analogies for novel situations.
If you replace Rectangle r with struct Rectangle r, your example even compiles in C89. :)
Thank you for you feedback easymode.

For your first remark, i was also thinking about a first time tutorial, to explain the difference between:

.cal : an personal event, a task or anything a user can put in his personal calendar.

.forcal : a task you would like to assign to your friends, it will show on his/her calendar as an assignment.

.withcal : an event/plan you want to share with your friends, or strangers.

.askcal : a question you address to plangr's community to get help from, on a potential plan.

for your second remark, I think it's quit a good remark, and i will make sure to submit it as soon as i can.

thank you again,
I suspect this means it used top-level declarations in the REPL. Happily, with GHC 7.4[1] (released just now), GHCi accepts any sort of declaration, so it should be much less confusing.

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/relea...
Facebook is opt-in/opt-out. You don't have to create an account and start adding a bunch of personal information to it.

If you're actually concerned about people destroying your data after six months, why are you giving it to people lacking such an agreement?
I'm a quiet type, and I often need time alone to think and write code and documentation. Nearly as often I also need to be communicating with cow-orkers and scribbling on their whiteboards. It's never all isolation, or all collaboration. It's a mix.

The "rah rah" social types railroaded us into a terrible cubical-based environment where scrums are taking place four feet from my desk and I cannot close a door to get a moment's rest away from people. I am becoming bitter and resentful, and while I am doing well, it is in spite of the system, not because of it.

Management loves it because they get to cram more people into the same amount of space. Managers get offices, of course.

Look: I've worked in collaborative environments. I know what they're like. I also know when I'm being fed a line of bull-poo about how open offices make things collaborative and agile and stuff. I can cope.

The real hidden cost? These environments drive good people away. Work area design is really, really tough.

In my experience, when someone who has designed your new area says the setup is for productivity and collaboration, what they have really done is optimize cost, and you have never had the opportunity to talk to them about your work habits (because that would have made them wrong, and increased the cost if they had truly listened).

Thank you for letting me vent. :)
What introductory programming course is he talking about?

(... when he says, "since the early 80's, such an introductory programming course has successfully been given to hundreds of college freshmen each year" ??)
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Can someone elaborate on the "5.7 Action" please? What's the use-case?
Is it an either/or proposition? Kahn has helped students pass their classes, brush up on subjects they're rusty on, tutor them through a tough unit and pass tests. I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

EDIT: I feel like I should expand on my initial reaction. Education isn't a product that you can sell, market or prepackage to have certain functionality. It's not a car or software. It's a process. You get out of it what you put in. No amount of great teachers, progressive curriculum or charter schooling is going to change the fact that the student still needs to participate.

Shoving students into holes and expecting them to learn this way is stupid. Expanding the ways in which they can engage their education is not. When we encourage people to exercise or eat better we don't expect that they will all do it the same way, why would we expect the same thing from education. I don't think Kahn Academy is the "Future of Education" any more than I think marathon running is the "Future of Fitness", but that doesn't mean it's bad for education.
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One thing I can assure any potential employer is that I will never again work in a cubicle environment. They are noisy, distracting and degrading. And since I'm in a high demand, hard-to-find role I'm going to leverage this fact to allow me to filter out situations that would put me in a cubicle. If you do not wish to provide me an office, or cannot afford one, I can do software development just fine from home or my own space of choice.
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Thanks for the time you took answering my noob'ish questions :-).

There is still A LOT i need to learn about RoR and general programming... definitely!

I'm using HTML5 boilerplate for the site and using regular CSS and jQuery. I also spent a lot time front-end coding (you always end up doing that) on showwwdown and I think I learned some very nice things in the process.

What's the difference between sass and .less? I've messed a bit around with twitter bootstrap 2.0 and they are using .less. It's a very sexy way to write css, but I hate the fact you have to convert the .less files to css before you deploy.

Would you really work directly with javascript? Not with one of the frameworks? I hate javascript!

Thanks for the complement. Showwwdown is a site where you can start a competition if you have a dribbble invite to hand out and then people can post their best work to win that invite. Follow @showwwdown and I'll let you know when the next competition starts :-).
You're right that alcohol doesn't transform a normal person into an aggressive person, but it does lower inhibitions to otherwise anti-social or ill-advised behavior.

Here's a meta-study of studies investigating alcohol and aggression which comes to this conclusion: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/bc90.pdf
However, they still sue everyone they possibly can in order to still lock down their market. For a few years now, the barrier for hasn't been the patents but for the cost of standing up to them in court.
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Seems like a good idea to formalize what everyone's already doing (though requiring PATCH implementation is a good idea). Am I reading it wrong or should the 5.7 Action section say that the REQUEST URI MUST contain a query component instead of "MUST NOT"? The example contains a query component and is the only way to distinguish it from a Create operation.
This guy should probably come out and say Khan Academy is eating his lunch and he is pissed about it. The passive aggressive approach to talking about companies with better lessons and teaching styles gets completely undermined when you realize that this guy is selling math lessons[0] and you conclude that he thinks his stuff is better than Khan's. Yeah, maybe it is, but it looks really pretty weak to write an article like that and not mention the fact that you are selling a competing product. Where's the Chutzpah? Just say "Khan sucks, we are better, here's why".

Of course, the context is missing here in the writing, and Hacker News probably wasn't the intended audience, so maybe it was assumed people would make the assumption that Mathalicous' stuff was the better solution the author was talking about. But so far, the overall response has been pretty poor[1].

[0]http://www.mathalicious.com/sign-up/
[1]https://twitter.com/#!/mathalicious
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1) If you're going to build out an open office, make sure to invest in sound engineering to dampen noise. There is a big difference between hearing distractions in the immediate vicinity and hearing them across the entire office.

2) Then make sure you offer good-quality noise-canceling headphones.

3) Even the supposed benefits of the open office are questionable, I think. I personally prefer as much communication to be asynchronous as possible. Using GTalk and email lets me queue up discussions and distractions and focus on working for longer undisturbed periods. The open plan directly encourages people to distract each other with minimal cost. This is useful for people working directly on the same thing, but those people would be in the same room anyway in a closed office.

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I should add that I'm not really looking for the best website (I've bookmarked over a hundred). I'm paid very well right now and I want change directions, so I would like to learn as fast as possible. Thanks...
You seem awefully cynical considering that you sell software to teachers (which they themself pay for) so that they can teach their children more efficiently.

I mean I have no love for unions and I am well aware that they have no great love for the students but even so, isn't your point a bit to cynical?
I'm studying at Hyper Island (HyperIsland.se), where we spend most of our time trying to learn that.

If you haven't gotten any skills to offer in such a team, you'll probably never get the chance to do so.
I think it can be successful in a niche, but won't go too far.

Universities have two main components: teaching and research. Udacity has a quite competitive teaching model -- there are cons compared to traditional schools, but also some pros.

But they don't have a research model. For a professor to leave their school and work somewhere like Udacity, they have to pretty much give up their research in favor of the opportunity to teach many students (online), and the money. Some may be willing to make the tradeoff, but most of the best professors won't and probably never will.

That's why I think the most successful online teaching programs will be affiliated with traditional universities. In CS, you could argue that the monetary resources needed to do research aren't as high, and you don't need specialized facilities. Maybe so. But you still need colleagues and collaborators -- especially in other fields like biology or engineering -- and you need grad students. And trying to do an online PhD doesn't sound very viable or desirable.

And in other fields than CS, where you absolutely need facilities, centers, etc to do research, it will be even harder to attract good faculty to a place that has none of these. You could build them all and bring in grad students, but then you're just a copy of a traditional university with no undergrads, and it's not clear why you didn't just partner with a traditional university in the first place.

So, this model may attract large numbers of students, but because of the research angle I don't see schools like these gaining the prestige and reputation necessary to draw students away from most traditional colleges.
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It's not technically every node. Edge nodes wouldn't have much weight aside from their own content. ISP routing nodes would indeed have breadcrumbs, but there's no requirement that ISPs implement storage caching -- it's only in their financial best interest to implement it instead of network scaling.

To a certain extent, yes, CCN has a distributed content nature, but that's not really what it's about. Mostly it's about routing.
I imagine your concern is "how can an employer know this cert means anything?" The short answer is they can't, employers should stop filtering on presence of degree/cert/buzzword. For the jobs where certain certs might matter in a legal sense (certain areas of civics engineering I'm sure) I would hope they vet candidates above and beyond presence of the cert and knowledge of the most basic facts.

In practice, the result of cheating for a degree is the same as lying on a job application or resume. When the person gets hired for a job in that field their performance will make that job short-lived (if they're genuinely bad). Similar for putting a school and degree they didn't go to on their resume just to get hired. If they really don't know the material, their performance will show and worst-case the company lost six months of time they could have spent taking someone else through the hiring process. (Ed: okay, worst case is that the person's incompetence causes them to blow up the Earth on the first task they're given.)

If they do know the material, and their job performance is good, do you really care that they cheated for the degree or lied about having gotten it? (Okay, it pegs their honesty level quite a bit and you should definitely start bolting things to the floor, but if they do the work well they're still a valuable bee and you can keep them on while looking for someone else if it's morally offensive enough to you.)
I think its important to distinguish that a lot of EE, biology, or physics classes could moved into an online format because not all of these classes are labs. The demos would be easy to replicate just as part of the videos of the lectures.
I'm trying to learn RoR as well.

If you are considering any onsite training...let me know what you think is best. Thanks