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I think you and I read that sentence differently. I don't believe the author of that post meant that physical exercise is a bad thing in schools, but rather sports stars should not be "better" or "different" from any other student. At my school (and a lot of schools judging from people I met in college), we had dozens of sports but only football and basketball players were routinely excused from class for practice, drills, and travel to games. Only football had their travel expenses paid for by the school. You were at a severe disadvantage if you decided to play any other sport.

What I read that post as saying is "sports should be extracurricular activities that do not interfere with or take the place of education". This doesn't necessarily preclude your normal PE classes.
This is the goal of OpenVBX. It's not as simple as a few clicks, but it is as simple as Wordpress.org circa 2006.
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I think these sorts of experiences burn out -- somebody has got to do a huge amount of work to create one and then how many times do you want to do it?

For instance, some people set up an indoor mini golf course with blacklights in a storefront at the mall near my town. My 9 year old and I went there maybe three times -- it was a cool idea but we weren't going to do it every weekend. They didn't quite last a year.

Similarly, a ski area that's a three hour drive from here set up a "ropes course" where you can put on a harness and climb up into thre trees. We had to pay for gas and a hotel stay plus the ticket and then my kid had a panic attack in the treetops and had to be talked down. Cool experience, but not something I can do every week.

The experiences which work out the best are the ones that we create for ourselves with a low budget -- like the frozen pond we discovered in a nearby state forest that we've been skating on or the radio transmitter club that a local amateur radio club is organizing this weekend.
rsync is great. I use the "-H" and "--link-dest" options to make incremental backups which look like snapshots. Been doing this for the better part of a decade; would be interested to know if there's A Better Solution(tm) out there...
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I was just about to post something to that effect. The site feels like Microsoft MSDN. In the case of documentation or technical information, you'll never go wrong by using a large, easy-to-read font with a strong contrast between background and text color.
No hard feelings; I tend to come on strong.

Also, I totally see how this is difficult (or maybe even impossible) in X, where the window manager is a separate client and there's no notion of inter-client synchronization. I haven't looked into Wayland enough to see what problems it presents (last time I checked it was in a state of major flux) but here's hoping its design entails a much simpler display model.
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Really nice work. The drag and drop functionality makes it really fun. However, I'm a little unsure as to the usefulness of the app?

I wrote a 3D run-time object visualiser for object-orientated code whilst at Uni ("Visualising Memory Graphs in Java3D"). It was interesting, and kind of useful for debugging, really good for an overview of your running program's object structure, but not useful enough to be considered successful.

I'm just hoping you can put a well executed app to good use, because the UI is really nice.
Congratulations on launching! I too am a big fan of the Seinfeld chaining method.

Just a minor note: on your home page it says "Don't Talk" but then there is a line through it. To me, that means "Don't don't talk", or "talk". Am I being ridiculous or did anyone else notice that?
Show HN: My First App (Skill Sketch) is in the App Store
After a long fought battle, my friend and I finally have our first app (Skill Sketch) in the app store and we're looking for feedback.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skill-sketch/id498835340?ls=1&mt=8

The app is a simple drawing game that provides you with a series of random lines (0-4) that you then try to turn into art. When you do something that you like, you can save it to your gallery.

Currently we have it listed at 99 cents. Mainly so that we can make back the $99 bucks it cost us to join the Apple Developer Program.

Any feedback would be welcome.
Thanks you. I'll add that feature in a later deployment, once I work out the details.
Maybe someone should provide this as a service on top of Twilio...?
What am I missing?

Dear Author: you are missing Winkel and Blaktrick
http://www.wandbevents.com/redesign/

They host events that are exactly the experiences you describe as missing from the city, and they are local to NYC.

Pro-tip: Don't go to the monthly events, only go to the seasonal ones that have a theme and story.
The spy 'experience' described is just a theme park ride or haunted house with different set dressing.

The reason there aren't more of them is that the described mechanics are so cost-heavy that it would be prohibitive to scale and operate on an ongoing basis. It's challenging enough to make a museum/theme-park ride that shuttles a dozen people through an 'experience' on a track without the line becoming prohibitively long. If you multiply the time taken to 'experience' the ride by having people go through at their own pace and only one or maybe two at a time, the costs would soar and the line would be absurd.

Haunted Houses skew more toward the described spy 'experience' than theme park rides, but even still the flow is carefully designed, there are no wrong choices, rarely obstacles and even with ticket prices and lines notoriously unpopular, almost none can afford to operate without the artificial scarcity of an impending holiday packing demand.

There are very good economic reasons why theme parks and haunted houses stick to experiences on rails and in groups.
Thanks for taking this on board, and I don't mean to be overly critical but I see more and more services ignoring us poor minority mobile platform users. Wish you guys well.
And get the carpet pulled out from under them if Twilio ever decides to do it?
> go to your cellar and tell me for what kind of experiment are those 40+ different chargers that you have for all your devices

Right now I can charge almost all my mobile devices (a phone, an mp3 player, a kindle and the batteries for my camera) with a single charger I picked up in a regular department store for ~15EUR (first set of rechargeable batteries included) and two standard usb cables which came with those devices and can also be used to transfer data. More, the charger is largely optional, I could just plug them into into my computer -- often connecting to put podcasts on is enough to charge the mp3 player.

Only my laptop really requires a separate, dedicated power supply. The 40+ different chargers are just remnants of my electronic history because the current generation of mobile devices didn't even come with the chargers (except for the htc phone, but it's a standard usb charger, I could use it with cables and devices other than the phone).

The experimentation phase is largely over and makers are converging. Sure, there will always be someone who diverges but it's the cost of progress (even if progress in this context means a prettier hole in your phone).
It's possible to admire the scientific research of the Nazi Party while simultaneously denouncing the horrific ways they conducted their experiments.
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Secret Cinema are already doing this in London, they create the full experience immersing you in the feeling of the film with unique locations and themes.

Here's what they did for One flew over the Cukoo's nest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHZAZZqOqM

Likewise Bugsy Malone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOnswf7XaOE
Hmm... I definitely do not want to just toss out meaningful variable names. I'm torn, though, as I feel that if we had better practices in place to promote literate styles in general, we'd be in a better place. (That is, I think the return from literate styling is higher than the return from meaningful variable names.)

It really just comes down to adding a narrative to what you're doing. I think the README convention that github has helped push out there is doing more to get people using each other's codes than any amount of variable naming.
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Haha. Good point. You could add it if you like ;)
There are probably too many vested interests for that to happen from the top down. One issue the article raises is that the decline would be mostly from the bottom-up as insurance cost and perceived risk respectively diminish high school leagues, and participation. This decline would occur over a long enough timeline that, by the time such a drastic action could be contemplated, football would have transitioned from a cultural institution to an also-ran (as the current soccer and rugby leagues).
I don't understand why it took so long for someone to put out a drag 'n drop webpage editor that's this easy to use. This is what I always wanted Dreamweaver to be like.
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The good: a flagship Android phone that doesn't have to have a manufacturer's special sauce added to it.

The bad: in the US, they still have to dicker with the wireless carriers.

The ugly: every Android manufacturer will suspect they are being disfavored.
Nice!

Do the edges represent "recommended videos" from the origin?

Also, it would be nice to be able to see the video's title without having to play the video.
Particularly for the more recent exploit, the word "hack" seems a little generous.
Looks like an awesome resource. Go ahead and add it :)
On the other hand, the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School are conducting a study about how executives use their time -- see http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/executivetimeuse/ -- and so far they have found CEOs spend around a third of their time in meetings!

Here's a good summary:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020464260457721...
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Your way of comparing hardware is not very useful for me. It just shows your own personal preferences, and I don't share your preferences. For me, "unibody construction" adds about as much value as a gilded keyboard would.

So when I said "I'm paying double what I would pay for other brands" I meant it literally, including the "I". The set of machines that meet my requirements includes machines from the likes of Toshiba that cost less than half of Apple's cheapest offering.

The reason why I still bought from Apple is that I need a Unix system and I hate dealing with driver issues. So having to deal with unfixed driver issues is the quickest way to drive me away.

(I did not downvote you by the way)
Good job guys. I like being able to save my drawings to the gallery.
FSF asks web devs to ID JavaScript code
Ouch. I'd thought of the malware risk of plugging into a dead drop, but it never quite crossed my mind that someone could basically turn one into the equivalent of the Etherkiller:

http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
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Here's the article at author's website http://taligarsiel.com/Projects/howbrowserswork1.htm.
There's already a pretty good proxy for this: video games. Want to make your own story? Try D&D.
I really hope that Google will make a commitment to consistently and quickly update all Motorola phones to the latest version of Android that the phone can handle so that it becomes the standard expectation from all phone manufacturers.
I can't fathom how a networking stack or GUI framework would be written in Prolog itself (assuming some basic primitive access to the machine were available to the interpreter). Everything besides logical inference and deduction would have to be written as foreign bindings. Whichever implementation of Prolog I've used had basic arithmetic in it.

This begs the question: why not go the other way and use Prolog as an embedded DSL in another language? Racklog and Datalog[1] demonstrate this is possible and rather useful. Then you have the benefits of Prolog inside another language which can do ... stuff.

And if I ever succeed, perhaps you could have Answer Set Prolog embedded in your code too and solve NP-complete search problems declaratively. But this isn't a plug.

[1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/
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6. No chairs. People will soon learn to focus on what must be done and skip all the B.S. before they get tired.

7. No cell phones or laptops. People must focus on the task at hand and nothing else.

8. Lock the door at the start time and don't unlock it for anyone. People will soon learn to show up on time.

9. Designate a referee to say "One at a time," "Take that off-line," or "So what?" Amazing how well kindergarten rules still work.

10. Kill anyone who says any of these words or phrases: scope, mission, best practices, teaching moment, outside the box, domain, tangent, or <x> is the new <y>.
I think America has always been "anti-intellectual" in the narrow sense that it didn't have a large elite class like many European countries have, the prevailing attitude has usually been the "self-made man" as opposed to egghead. This may or may not be a bad thing (e.g. elite classes by their very nature are hard to break into).

As far as I understand from your command, you tend to correlate the sentiment you call anti-intellectualism with the right-wing politics on the rise in the US (this is what I infer when you say "even NPR"). This, of course, is true, but is half the story. Many in what may be called left or liberals (again, very loose terms) also exhibit a form of this behavior. An old but interesting read on this matter is The Closing of the American Mind.
okal, please turn DEBUG off. It exposes a number of things you don't want the public to be reading.
Hi. To answer the first question, there's no explicit voting option. A book gains points everytime it's added to someone's shelf. So, no downvotes either.

As for sorting by points, I was hoping to add that when I implement search.

I agree, I should probably make the "legally" more explicit :) It's already in the title though.
Exactly. The labeling of anything with low resolution sprites/graphics as 8-bit drives me up the wall. The atari 2600 was 8-bit. The NES, 8-bit. They have very different aesthetics. "Low resolution" (lo-rez if you're nasty) would be a much better term as it doesn't tie the graphics to any type of hardware.
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Interesting - I do about the same thing (Minus the Antivirus.... that could be your big pig there), with 8 gigs of physical ram, and I have paging (swapping?) disabled.... and I've never had a "not enough memory" crash or whatever.
With vmware going, iTunes, Xcode building stuff, skpye, dropbox, item, mail, a few browsers, a bunch of tools..... a video going maybe on the second monitor. On a mid-2009 mbp.
> how many times do you want to do it?

Well, I've been to the St. Louis City Museum he talks about many times and I can't imagine getting tired of it. (Enjoy sticking your arms out and getting rolled upside down in an antique gigantic wine barrel? Or sliding down frighteningly steep slides intended for transporting shoes? Or crawling upside down in a thunderdome style metal rig on the roof of the building? Or watching a several hundred gallon barrel fill with water until it tips over? Or climbing in metal chutes outside a hundred feet in the air to arrive at a plane suspended in midair by cables? I do!) However, there are few (if any) other places like that.
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Those are still getting made as well: http://ifdb.tads.org/search?sortby=rcu&newSortBy.x=0&...

Interestingly, the IF scene is some ten years older than the current indie game boom, and they're pretty much entirely non-commercial. There are some serious quality games there for free.
sigh Is it too much to ask HTML5 advocates to make sure their pages render properly on an iPad?
The screenshot do look a tiny bit like EV, though it's hard to tell. But apart from that, it seems totally different, what with being (ostensibly) a point-and-click adventure.

Incidently, if anyone has a hankering for something like Escape Velocity, which ranks up there as one of my favorite games of all time, I've wasted the entire last weekend playing Space, Pirates and Zombies, which is similar to EV. Still not as good (in terms of setting and overall gameplay; the combat mechanics are far better) but the closest I have been able to find in, what, 10 years now?
Wanted to launch over the weekend, but a friend of mine managed to convince me to do it today. Thanks. Still in the bus home, but it'll be fixed in about an hour.
But, BitTorrent Live has nothing to do with BitTorrent, besides the inventor and the name. It's a completely new, proprietary protocol. You need to download their proprietary software to view it. You can't view existing torrents with it; so the Pirate Bay doesn't provide it with a distribution channel.

One of the reasons that BitTorrent took off as well as it did was that it was an open protocol and free software. People could write competing BitTorrent clients. They could extend the protocol, adding new features like trackerless torrents and magnet links.

BitTorrent Live has none of that; it's yet another proprietary streaming service, designed to create a walled garden that the content industry can be happy with. It will succeed or fail based on how well BitTorrent Inc can cut content deals, and cut deals with set-top-box manufacturers to include their software. And that's not really a game that you want to be in, unless you have a lot of leverage like Apple or Amazon, or the backing of big content companies like Hulu.
Really nice. Recently I built a very simple game and I used springy[1]. It's great to have other beautiful written alternatives.

https://github.com/dhotson/springy
Here is an amazon wishlist I keep of good books that I have or want. Of course these aren't all free, though

http://amzn.com/w/TF6QJAIBPPFU

Edit: Why would this get downvoted, exactly?
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This is sort of what Sleep No More http://sleepnomore.com/ is doing and it's pretty successful. It's also in a place where that sort of thing can thrive.
#6 is probably the best suggestion ever... except for all those "virtual" meetings I have to attend.
step 1: give every kid a laptop. step 2: gaming begins.

accessibility definitely plays a role but it's not the main impedance to education. you could say the same about access to basic pen+paper or regular books (libraries). this ain't no panacea - if a kid has the motivation to learn he will find a way. stupid and unmotivated children will approximately remain so regardless what tools or toys you give them (from experience of 1st world education)

this obviously within the bell curve.
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I suggest reading Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Sounds like you just need to reframe your current life in a way that gives you meaning.
I used to chair the meetings at my 100+ person housing co-op. Even if not everyone showed up, you have a lot of people with conflicting views and ideas shouting over each other. Additionally, I would stab that the average age is 20. Alcohol was also allowed for those of age.

We have a culture where it was acceptable for me to bang a gavel and tell people who were rambling or cross-talking to "SHUT THE FUCK UP." Simple and effective.

Toward the end of my tenure meetings where we interviewed 10 new members, reviewed an officer, added several new house policies, and allowed community announcements took 45 minutes.

So, my point is, it's important for everyone on the team to agree to rather firm terms. Nobody will be mad about this and people do start watching how they speak. Hell, I'm rambling too much right now. "SHUT THE ...
Your "experimentation phase" did not ended by magic. It ended, among other, thanks to regulation:

http://boingboing.net/2009/02/15/european-commission.html

Without that interference in the invisible hand of the market, your cellar would be full with other 40+ chargers. All in name of 1€ profit.

Sure, it is in the interest of the manufacturers to use standardized components ... unless the customer can be fooled to take pain with minimum marketing effort. No manufacturer is going to sit down and put in their priority list the item "how to reduce the junk electronics in the basement of my customers". They must be forced to it, and if the customer is not able to unite, the voter must interfere - as is slowly happening.
I didn't downvote you, but it's really important to me that the authors give their consent for sharing.
your projects look interesting, thanks for sharing
I have a little side project doing a web based mockup tool, I love this idea but its so hard to get right.

The problem is for layouts to work dynamically, there is no way round the fact they have to be backed by "proper" code, which means restrictive WYSIWYG tooling, at which point you arent really going through a creative mockup process, you are going through the production process.

I would love for my tool to be able to do reactive mockups, but I just dont think its possible to do while still allowing complete freedom during the creative process, and so for now I think its best to be doing mockups at 2 maybe 3 sizes in a static mockup tool, then jumping into code.
This article highlights a real generational gap I never considered until earlier this year.

I started Googling when I was about nine years old, at the latest. My brother, who is five years old, has used Google since he was three or four.

My entire life, I have been able to investigate my interests and other bits of information, with individual independence. If a news story interests me, I have been wired, by habit and what-have-you, to seek out the info when and from whom I want it.

A local news program once teased a fluff piece about some record-breaking octopus. They were hoping it would entice viewers enough to sit through the commercials and watch it when the program returned. In the past, this would have been the case.

But instead, because that subject piqued my interest, I went ahead and looked it up very quickly online. Immediately, through Google News, I had access to dozens of articles to whet my appetite. I got the jist of the subject, and then I moved on. All of this before the commercials on TV were over.

When the program returned, they dedicated seconds to the subject, and moved on. There was a huge difference between what I knew about the subject from what I learned online, and the very little I would have known if I had only relied upon the TV news segment. Entire generations are wired to rely on the latter, the youngest ones are wired to Google.

My parents, who are still rather young--they are both 41--are more likely to just wait for the news program to return.

These cultural differences blow my mind. They remind me how dynamic culture is, and how much it has changed even throughout the course of my short life.

I told my five-year-old brother a couple weeks ago, that the internet is not very old, and there was a long time when people did not have it. It was hard for him to grasp a time when people did not have Google. I have to admit, I ask myself that very same question all of the time.

(Head Explodes)
Yeah , sorry I meant both, not removing the link to the website.
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