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A doctorate in education is of dubious worth. As an academic field education research doesn't yet have the tools of structures to answer interesting questions. In place of rigorous theories there is currently a swamp of poorly verified or unverifiable notions.

Hire teachers, hire experts, hire anyone who either has deep knowledge or experience transferring knowledge. Hopefully both. A doctorate in education, alone, provides neither.

(this comment brought to you by small sample size interactions with real-life Ed.D. dunces)
Reading this headline before my first cup of coffee this morning and having a dim awareness that Elon Musk is involved in spaceflight (no doubt conflating Model X with SpaceX) I was disappointed to find discussion of cars instead of rockets.
Ever read Ivan Illich's _Deschooling Society_? I like his take on this, and it doesn't particularly jive with what you're saying here.

In general 'educators' generally are not so great.
Kodak phasing out digital camera arm
This is an ongoing falsehood. Several Khan Academy employees were real honest-to-goodness teachers, and we work with teachers directly in-person every single day to make the product and the content better. In addition, we are looking for more folks to make videos. Our standards are extremely high, and that will take time, but I disagree that this is our biggest challenge in scaling.

Furthermore, your opinion of the Biology content may be spot-on, but there are thousands of students who say it's making their lives measurably better. Maybe it would be 100,000 if the content was better; it's hard to know for sure. I'm just not sure that it is directly affecting scale at this point, or that there's not a greater effect on scale trying to get more people to use our existing content.

Disclaimer: I'm the lead designer for KA.
I want to start a startup. The thread is about how and in what kind of startup shoul I invest that it would be smart investment. I would like to hear advices like : dont start next groupon clone dailydeal startup, dont start next color like social media, porn portal etc.
This project may exceed the previous highest donation record on kickstarter, which that record was awarded yesterday to that iPhone dock. Kickstarter is really starting to make some money I see.
Warren Buffet once wrote about gold...

It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
> Gold is up 87 fold over 90 years or so

Inflation adjusted, its closer to being up 3 fold:

http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Gold/Gold_i...

Meanwhile, inflation adjusted, the S&P500 up more maybe 5 or 8 fold:

http://www.tradersnarrative.com/inflation-adjusted-chart-of-...

>> On a long term duration, it becomes increasingly difficult to survive even modest inflation and market changes

if you look at the gold price chart above, it's pretty clear that holding gold is not exactly smooth sailing either.

> With gold, you merely need to buy and hold - IF you believe the fiat currency will continue to depreciate due to 'printing'.

this is actually also true of stocks. stocks are a real asset in that they are claims on things that aren't directly tied to the money supply. if the fed prints more dollars, dollars are less valuable, but IBM's ability to make money also goes up by the same amount.

also, fundamentally, you're missing buffet's argument:

"this type of investment [(gold)] requires an expanding pool of buyers, who, in turn, are enticed because they believe the buying pool will expand still further. Owners are not inspired by what the asset itself can produce [(unlike stocks)] -- it will remain lifeless forever -- but rather by the belief that others will desire it even more avidly in the future."
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> Try doing that while hunched over your laptop.

I just take a pen and a piece of paper.
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Indeed it's really sad that here in the U.S. our school system's do not offer coding classes as electives. Though we still put a strong emphasis in offering foreign languages like French and Russian?

Having base coding knowledge and experience will go a longer way for our children then teaching them a foreign language like French, Russian and other languages!
Dictionary.com: having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong: a completely amoral person.

Merriam-Webster: lacking moral sensibility <infants are amoral> | being outside or beyond the moral order or a particular code of morals <amoral customs>

Apple dictionary: lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something : an amoral attitude to sex.

thefreedictionary.com: Lacking moral sensibility; not caring about right and wrong.

Admittedly, some of these do mention definitions along the lines of "having no moral component", so it looks like everyone was wrong. Hurray!
10 Company Culture Principles: The RewardMe DNA
You wrote exactly what I wanted to write in response to the article.

This book I read a long time ago, and it truly opened my eyes to another way of thinking.

For someone raised with an employee mindset (as I was), this book turns those notions on their head, and sparks a new way of looking at independence, wealth, debt, income, and initiative.

There are no hard answers found in the book. I don't think there was an intention to provide them. What there is is an explanation of how the world works at a different level (the company owners' level instead of the employee's level).

Like Chris Rock explained the difference between being rich and being wealthy ("Shaq's rich. Very rich. But the guy who signs his paycheck every month, that guy's wealthy."), this book explains how money works.
What if we started as a service company which recently launched a product (with some sustainable business model)?
Arduino's own "getting started" page is probably a good start[1]
Lady Ada has a starter kit[2] and beginner tutorials[3]
Sparkfun has an "inventor's kit" with teacher/student resources[4]
[1]http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage
[2]http://www.adafruit.com/products/68
[3]http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
[4]http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10173
The fact that Warren is on the hook for several billion dollars of S&P puts is mentioned nowhere in the article.

When O When are reporters going to understand conflict-of-interest?
Open Access Bill for (nearly) all US publicly-funded research
Translation of ''Happy New Year'' in various world languages
Congratulate your friends and business partners from other countries in their native language: http://www.hieroglifstranslations.ro/en/blogs/
Ask HN: Which one should I learn deeper, Node.JS/Express.JS or Ruby on Rails?
Recently, I've been investigating jobs in the Web industry and startups and to go further, I would to learn deeper one of those.

Many offered positions asks for Rails knowledge but looks like Node is getting a nice spot in Web development for the very near future, also due to it's traction and the always improving Express.JS web framework, I'm still uncertain which one I should learn deeper.

I already know a little bit of both and been fiddling with Node recently.

Any tips on which one I should delve into? Maybe both?

Thanks
The short summary is that this act (FRPAA) will require free online public access to most publicly-funded research in the US.

Many more details are available here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Notes_on_the_Federal_Resea...
Here's a short video of their prototype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JpIj9IN924

Looks like at least the current prototype uses printed panels on top of a steel spaceframe, so probably "3D printed car body" would be a closer title. :) Still damn cool!
The problem is you could have actually owned gold for 90 years. Average Joe could have bought gold and held it.

You could not have owned the Dow index for 90 years and then left that to your children or grandchildren.

Would you like to still be holding Polaroid or Kodak? Or perhaps just bought and held the classic Dow index perpetual GM? You would have gotten wiped out in the Dow shuffling. The Dow gets to drop something like GM at its convenience, but if you had bought its stocks in a basket format (not an ETF), you'd literally be holding worthless old GM shares, and a lot of other worthless shares that they don't currently count in today's Dow numbers.

The Dow calculation is a theoretical, not an actual. 90 years ago only a very savvy investor could have owned a basket of stocks to mirror and index exactly and constantly traded in and out of the market. In 1920, an exceedingly small % of people owned or had access to equity markets.

Buffet using even 1965 as the reference point is disingenuous because of those reasons. His scenario is not a normal one: he used his father's brokerage firm to commit his first market transactions back in his early days. How many Dow tracking ETFs existed in 1965? How many people owned stocks in 1965? Today you can open an account at Scottrade or wherever, and pay a mere $7 transaction fee to buy stocks.
Many economists believe that the CPI actually overstates inflation, in the long run, for a variety of reasons - quips about how "you can't eat an iPad" notwithstanding.
I have a couple of friends who are oral surgeons. There are many pain points in the software and process they use. Being in the field, I'm sure you can find some start up ideas to alleviate the pain?
I'd suggest start with what you know and your background. If you don't do a start up, at least you can find companies that are in your industry to invest in.
Remember, don't put all your eggs in one basket!
Looks like the site is down. Where can I download this car?
There are very few things you could leave for your grandchildren that will retain their value

How about well-educated and well-raised parents for said grandchildren?
Gold has utility: it easily forms a plating on other metals, and conducts electricity even when continuously exposed to air. This is not true of many other metals, hence the popularity of gold-plated electronic interconnects.
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3 AM Japan time is, um, what time is it for you now? It's then. Right in the middle of the US work day. Which is typically when Jimmy Wales decides to get me mentioned in the NYT. That was mostly not business-oriented, but in general, that sort of thing is very worthwhile.

I don't really have a conversion funnel for the blog at present. (That will probably change in the future, which is one of the reasons I knew I had to switch.) It's just my main source of consulting leads and a) my rates justify $2.5k pretty easily and b) consulting clients start getting all kinds of skeptical if their SEO guy isn't on the Googles because his server went down.

(I'm not the only person with this problem. You should have seen Fog Creek when their blog decided to die. By freak accident I was in the office when it happened and was able to successfully diagnose the problem from "Wordpress just crashed": it was Apache KeepAlive because it's always Apache KeepAlive, grumblegrumblegrumble.)
The camera quality is probably a function of the 'zero-lag'.

I haven't laid hands on a Nexus yet, but I'm speaking from experience with my digital camera (not quite professional quality, but maybe one step down - still a very good camera). It has a similar mode (ISO-3200), which takes pictures instantaneously (no lag). The quality is dramatically lower with this mode, though, even though the camera takes beautiful pictures otherwise. I can speculate as to what causes this at the hardware level - it's not hard to imagine - but I'm not well-versed enough in digital photography to explain it.

What I'm curious to know before buying a Nexus is whether this can be turned off, or if it's built into the hardware. If the former, then flashing a custom ROM (or even a different camera application) could solve the problems.
When the revolution comes, I'm going to hide somewhere and wait for everyone to run out of bullets.
This is valid criticism & mostly true. Note that for most zip code or route delivered junk mail, they'll be marked as AutoFail internally & show up on your phone under the "Failed" tab. However, we'll provide you company info so you call/write the company yourself if you choose too.

I say mostly true, because many companies, such as Valpak, pseudo carpet bomb -- they many not have your name, but in order to remove you from their list (and they do!), they require full name & address.
Space Nazis, From the Dark Side of the Moon
When I watch how much my 3 year old son uses our iPad it makes me sad that there still isn't an integrated way to program the device on the device. Someone with more time than me should solve this problem.
The title here is a little misleading. They didn't create the whole car with a 3D printer. They just used a Stratasys FDM machine (the "3d printer") to make the outer body panels... basically just the outer shell of the car that is painted and polished.

Here is a link to the actual website for the vehicle, instead of the terrible blog write-up:
http://www.urbee.net/home/
Depending on the other content of the page and the nature of your traffic/user data, it might make more sense to take advantage of caching by making the initial loaded resource (the HTML file) completely static and loading the bootstrapped data in a single separate request.
Having a sports car fits into the "you can live a good life on hitting singles".

Having your own private jet, is when you're filthy rich.
New "Networks" Knight News Challenge seeks to fund media startups
Apple news: Apple worth is more than Microsoft + Google
This, to me, is the best counterpoint I've read to Michael Arrington's rant from a few months back on how startup folk need to work harder and stop crying.

http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/27/startups-are-hard-so-work-m...

Arrington is a romantic, and he believes passionately in the romantic mythos of the startup world. That's what drew him to the valley to start TechCrunch in the first place. And that view of the world is warped as hell.

The key is you've just got to match the level of effort you're willing to give to the level of effort required to achieve the goal you've set out for yourself. Not all goals -- including entrepreneurial goals -- require a 120 hour a week personal commitment to succeed.
Google doesn't solve simple problems.

Yes, but that doesn't mean you don't need to know how to solve them. If you can't solve simple stuff, you won't be able to solve hard stuff that depends on knowing the simple stuff cold.

they may have other obligations like family
and work they probably won't have time to
practice such a pointless skill.

Yes, that's a possibility. But once again, if you're Google, you're getting 10s of thousands of applications a week. You can afford to set the bar as high as possible. Every Google employee I know regularly works 10+ hour days there, and sometimes does work at home, too. If you have two applicants of similar skill, but one has more free time to devote to your company, it's obvious who you'll prefer.
I get that the cause itself is part of the reason, but there are plenty of opportunities that have great causes that could need help of aforementioned individuals. I really think its Salman Khan, because people believe in him. I can see him being the next leader in SV
Here is the link to the real website, instead of the blog:
http://www.urbee.net/home/

It's not a full car that is downloadable and printable. It's not at all what the misleading title of this post says.
Many of us have $1000/day+ contracting rates. Beter to spend the extra week contracting per year rather than upgrading plugins and securing servers.

I solved the problem by using movable type which doesn't serve dynamic pages. Still heaps of maintence though.

Course: I serve no traffic.

Http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/
A Lotus Elise is cheap and fast and everyone wants one, but I never see them driving down the road

That's because of practicality, and because not everyone actually wants one.
The Heroku Toolbelt
I also noticed a book a while back on the pragprog blog about Arduino.
http://pragprog.com/book/mrhome/programming-your-home
I think I'm going to check this out once it's complete.
My allocation seemingly had 3 options: one was completely unsuitable, one was desirable, and the third was where I ended up. I obviously chose the desirable allocation.

Unfortunately, two days into working at google, I was informed that my entire team was going to physically relocate in a few months and leave me with an 80-mile commute each way. So I said that was unacceptable and ended up with the third project, which I've already described elsewhere.

Do not let them do this to you. Hang tough.
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Kiyozaki has made a lot of money in real estate.

And he does cooperate a lot with Trump: http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Want-You-Rich/dp/B0013MN78Q/ref...

At the very least they have written several books together.
Kids Toys That Stand The Test Of Time
probably the most boring thing I've read all day
You want to look at:

* Dancer
* Mojolicious
* Catalyst

All three of those are very good.
Github:talks
I think there's a general myth that you can't have your cake and eat it. Startup - work 24/7 or it'll tank. Work for a corporate - work 24/7 or you won't get noticed and be in the typing pool your entire life. Work in finance - work 24/7 or you'll miss the deal that makes you millions.

The irony is, most people (but by no means all) actually realise that balance is important at a certain point and scale back willingly. The startup boom is no different from people starting small home businesses like they've done for years. We've slapped on a sexy name, told people you can become one of the world's richest people but fundamentally, it's the same as making pies in your kitchen. Some people will be happy making pies for the local market, others will want a deal to get them into a supermarket.

There's space for everyone, you just need to find the level that makes you happy. In my opinion ;)
God I love the irony. Actually I clicked on the link and saw it was down and thought "The MPAA moves quick."

A few days ago I related a story about 3D printing getting my dad's automotive-industry tool and die engineering shop into some legal troubles with one of their customers who was afraid the printer would allow my dad's company to make parts without needing to use the die maker. Now maybe the engineers can soon just print the car and bypass both the toolers and the automotive company.
Wow, Even on WP-Engine the blog takes 3.4 seconds to load. That's terrible.

I had similar nightmares to you for a long time with Apache/PHP/WP, then finally put Varnish cache in front of the whole thing.
Every single page loads in sub 1 second, and even a massive traffic spike results in CPU load under 0.2.
> If all else fails, consider that maybe you don't have a product worth buying, and then improve or leave.

This point bears repeating. As a musician, like it or not, you're an entrepreneur. You can outsource your marketing and collections to a third party in exchange for a percentage of profit (or even in exchange for an advance on anticipated profits), but it doesn't make you any less of a businessperson.

Everyone reading Hacker News knows the statistics when it comes to startup success. Why would the music industry (or any artistic endeavor) be any different in this regard?

Make something people want, at a price they're willing to pay.
Could you elaborate on the latter?

I'm currently on an Incredible (CM 7 - so Gingerbread), and the back button is the third from left (home, menu, back, search), and the back button has unpredictable functionality (depending on the application).
I always think of this. Not because I have kids, but because I teach children coding(web development). I have 2 groups, 13-14 years olds and 15-16 years olds. The younger group learns everything twice as faster. I plan to teach my kinds basic logic, maths, chess and after coding starting from age 4.
Pixar was selling hardware to NSA at that time
Railsy? Why does blogging software need to know anything about HTTP requests?
30 Examples of Vintage and Retro in Logo Design
If you are thinking about creating a vintage and retro logo design or you simply need some inspiration we have found 30 great examples.
I guess I'm not hackery enough. I have no idea what this means. I use visual studio to edit this file so I'm tied to how that saves the file. I had actually tried doing a find and replace on the /r/n line endings to see if that was the issue. I have no idea how to tell vs to save without a bytemark.
Huh, I think you have misunderstood the business Tesla is in. Tesla aims to be the leading mainstream car manufacturer in the future. They have realized that all cars suck and they are just exploiting the electric car disruption to have a chance on the markets.
Watch The Wire. Most realistic portrayal of police work I've ever seen. Lots of watching suspects and gathering string, putting the pieces of the puzzle together slowly over a season of television, dealing with disfunctional organizations and a realistically low number of gunfights.

One of the best TV shows ever made IMO.
I love working at the whiteboard -- my best ideas come while working at the whiteboard. But writing code on a whiteboard during an interview bears little resemblance to the code/diagrams written on a board during day-to-day work.

Day-to-day work is necessarily collaborative and productive... Whereas when at the board in an interview one person knows the "answer" and is across the table testing the other. It's a completely different set of pressures and requires different skill.

Further, I must have one of those faces people pity because its often that when I end up at the whiteboard the interviewer wants to "help" me if I don't spout off the answer immediately (I've learned to at least start talking so they will give me a second to think). This sometimes entails them trying to lead me down a path which is not the way I would have approached the problem. I'm confused, they think I'm an idiot, now I'm flustered, could this interview go any worse?

I've learned to politely ask for a second to consider and usually that completely solves the problem. I've been successful in technical interviews -- but the idea that it's the same thing as when working out hard problems with team members seems a little silly?