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Our former 2 year-old and current two year-old have neither choked on their marbles. Why? Supervision. You play with your kids and then you can stop them doing stupid things that are going to cause them high-level harm.

The hard part I find is letting them hurt themselves as part of their learning.

Indeed our 2 year-old just used a kitchen knife (about as long as his forearm) for the first time a couple of weeks ago to chop the potatoes he peeled. Close supervision.

"He could swallow a marble", well yes, he could bash his brother's head in with the corner of an iPad, get hit by a meteorite, run in to a wall, drown himself in the toilet, etc..
Good way to get attention to your service, and I did check it out, but, uh, pricing? Would have considered service but unknown cost made me head back to HN.
I'm most excited to see them iterate on the videos themselves.

The videos are already excellent, of course, but there's incredible potential to increase their production value. By combining a director's ability to grab and hold on to viewer's attention, with the narrative power of a great writer, hundreds of concepts could be explained in ways that were both subtle and highly compelling.

... the thought of Khan Academy collaborating with, say, Pixar, sends shivers down my spine.
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His brain has too much throughput for his mouth to handle! So he uses 'Um' as a kind of verbal buffering device.
He leaps to "moon base" to make "smells as property" work, totally skipping over fragrance or perfume (which can in theory be copyrightable) as property.
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My questions would be: how many contracts am I signing by simply doing what I like? Am I violating a contract by getting in your car and driving it away? Am I violating a contract by installing a program on my computer? Am I violating a contract by singing a song? Have I initiated force in any of these cases? Are there rights that are granted when I haven't explicitly signed a contract?

If so, how will those rights be enforced? If those rights are enforced by voluntary collective policing, in what way can I defend myself against their declarations of more implicit rights? Basically, if I draw a picture of Mohammed, have I initiated force? What about if you leave your door unlocked, I walk into your house, then drink your milk straight out of the carton? Is this an initiation of force, and if it is, what if you lack the size to prevent me from doing it?

Lastly, if I walk down skid row with a private bodyguard and a wad of $100 bills, offering to buy people as slaves? If they sign, are they my slaves? If they escape, have they initiated force? Is there an involuntary limit to what can be signed away?

tl;dr I'm not getting a clear idea of who defines initiation of force, who enforces violations, and how are the weak protected from the strong. I realize the last one may be a bit of a straw man, because libertarians may not feel that protecting the weak from the strong is moral, but I'm not sure about this.
That's roughly spotify's business model, isn't it?

For movies, I think that an ad supported channel could work, especially if it would use the same level of personalization as online advertising. Even cooler would be personalized product placement, but that's a 'tick' more involved.
I'd suggest that not following rabbit holes can lead to a shallow understanding. If you descend into a rabbit hole, it's because you realized there was a gap in your comprehension and decided to look into the matter and fill in that gap. If you successfully resolve the issue and then return to solve the original issue, your end result is a complete working demonstration of your improved end-to-end understanding.
I didn't read nirvana's comment as conflating your views and Libertarianism. Where is this happening?
It wasn't stack machines so much as it was RISC and UNIX. The RISC philosophy basically took every instruction not needed for efficiently implemented C and punted it to software, even if it could be efficiently implemented in hardware. Then UNIX took pretty much every machine feature not needed for running C programs and hid them from software.

Take, for example, read and write barriers for GC. On a modern system with virtual memory, each memory access is run through a TLB which has among other things protection and page out bits. That could easily be supplemented with a couple of extra bits to implement GC barriers. While we were getting greedy, we could even add a lightweight trap mechanism of handling the associated faults in user space, at the user's privilege level, to avoid the expense of transitioning into kernel privilege level (indeed Intel and AMD implement all the necessary functionality in their virtualization extensions).
I've heard some of my friends in the gaming industry talk about a sea change towards free-to-play games, beyond the MMO genre. Monetization schemes include advertising, access to better/faster servers, in-game purchases of items/adornments, etc. You may get your wish.
You leave a 1-star review because you can't be bothered to do some research ahead of time? Or did you assume that a free app, that otherwise was of decent quality, should really be free and the developer should be making content for you and your kid just for the love of it?

In app purchase is a great way to let the user try the app before buying it. And there's a way to do it in kid apps that isn't unethical or taking advantage. I shudder to think of all the developers you hurt because you can't be trusted to use your ipad properly.
Most libertarian exegeses on property rights take a vaguely Lockean tack. Of course, a Lockean tack may justify intellectual property as the fruits of intellectual labor.
The link to the video[1] (at least at the time of posting) is wrong—it's a talk by Katie Cunningham! The correct link is [2].

[1] http://pyvideo.org/video/628/keynote-paul-graham-ycombinator
[2] http://pyvideo.org/video/626/keynote-paul-graham-ycombinator
His javascript minifier 'jsmin' was causing projects to get removed from Google Code and other places that only host open source code, so I emailed Mr. Crockford to ask if I could get the same extension he gave to IBM. His response was less than thrilling-

I released to free use for all with the only condition that it not be used for evil. If that is unacceptable to you, then you may not use it. Your options are to bend to the pro-evil fanatics, or to find a more reasonable hosting solution.

Ultimately I wrote my own called JShrink (which I just moved to github this weekend - https://github.com/tedivm/JShrink).

The point being, he's not actually willing to make the change.
Actually, XMLHttpRequest killed Microsoft. I posit that this self-inflicted wound caused far more damage than any or all of Apple's iDevices.
We hear you dogg! Plugins are a priority. We're working on an way for people to install and configure plugins that doesn't involve hand editing YAML. The Bukkit team moving to Mojang is only going to make this easier!
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I'd rather listen to an average presenter with great content than a great presenter with average content.
We exist to make software that makes infographics and visualizations so that the designers can move on to next-level work like doing more research, better analysis, more interactivity. We coordinate these projects, but don't make infographics ourselves.
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Corporates are not bounded by citizenship. Perhaps we should start considering people as corporates rather than corporates as people. As long as you can be economically viable in a new country, just go ahead and settle there.
I would love a "Tech Jam" -- like a poetry jam, where you get in front of an audiance and can speak on any subject (tech related) for 5 minutes or so to get over the fear of speaking and to get over the propensity to say uhm all the time.

In such a jam, it would be great to let everyone follow some simple structure:

* My name

* My company

* My passion

* My skills as it related to that passion

Or something along these lines. Whatever the structure is - just let it be practice and not tied to anything other than stage time.
it can really help a child sit down, focus, and learn things under their own steam, without that Brave New World programming that comes from most TV sets.

Hyperfocus is a symptom of ADHD.
There are many, many, many such products. My (large) employer standardized on one called Envoy last year after having used many concurrent solutions. It sucks big time so lots of people use Mediafire, Yousendit or Megaupload instead.
Increasingly.

To my knowledge, all desktop browsers ignore this spec and treat each pixel as a pixel. (This will likely change with the upcoming Retina Macbook Pros)

For a while all mobile devices treated all pixels as a pixel. But then iOS and Android devices began to dramatically increase their DPI. In the case of iOS, the math is easy, everything gets multiplied by 2 (though chasing pixel precision in a browser does still require hacks [1]).

Android is much more fragmented (go figure). System-wide, there is a DPI setting that influences the viewport pixel-size that the browser claims. For a 800x480 screen, a 1.5x multiplier is used. The browser advertises the mobile-standard 320px viewport width.

For the most part, this is good because websites are easier to design for and look roughly as designed on more devices. On ultra-high DPI devices, they even appear pixel-precise.

The problem is on the very common mid-dpi devices like the millions of 4" 800x480 devices out there. Pixel-level control is lost, and the pixels are large enough for this to be visible. Some people don't care about pixel-level design precision, some people do. Most people, though, will recognize that a webpage looks not-quite-perfect even if they can't put a finger on it.

We're almost out of the woods on phones as DPI is quickly approaching the upper 200's across the board. Unfortunately we're just entering it for non iOS tablets.

[1] http://bradbirdsall.com/mobile-web-in-high-resolution
Maybe you're just creative enough to find a way to use the things in recent memory. When your tool is an infinite swiss army knife, the world's problems don't really look like anything they aren't.
Am I the only person who found the graph in the article a little weird? Wouldn't it have been more illustrative of the author's point (that the frequency of ums/uhs per minute was pretty consistent) to show a graph of ums/uhs per minute instead of total ums/uhs at any given time? (i.e. the graph should have been almost flat).
No, users look for documents and text labels in the taskbar, not icons. At least most of the users I've been familiar with. Stacking loses n00bs altogether and slows down "power switchers" (I won't call them "power users"; they aren't interested in the machine/OS itself, but they have more than one doc open and for reference/cut-n-paste, etc.). XP needed a preference setting to get back to something useful; 7 won't allow it at all. And don't try to tell anybody that thumbnails of sustantially-similar looking text documents are a substitute for taskbar labels.
>And the book may be even more interactive than a traditional book. //

Books are not interactive. Isn't that the point, they're supposed to be entirely passive objects used solely to feed ideas to the imagination/consciousness/memory.

>why limit that just because it's on a screen? //

To encourage the child to develop interaction in the real world first.
He's also been primed to expect a difficult task by his annoyingly condescending son. I'm not at all surprised that he struggled with it.
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Absolutely, there's a pretty clear mathematical justification for regularization. However, it is very literally tacked on at the end. Take logistic regression, if you minimize the cost function without regularization, you get a max-likelihood estimate of the regression parameters. But what we do is to add a regularization term to that cost function. Minimizing that cost-function will no longer give a MLE solution, but it will (likely) give a better solution. It all comes down to understanding that the MLE property is an asymptotic result. Same goes for covariance matrix estimates, where you have regularization procedures that are guaranteed to never be worse than the plain MLE solution.
> PG's a great thinker about the subjects he discusses, and his essays have a very high signal to noise ratio. But when this video was first posted the 'umms' was one of the top comment, and probably detracted quite a bit from the core message he was conveying. Had this been an essay, I suspect the reception would have been more positive.

You don't even have to guess-pg published the contents of this talk in the essay "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas", which was much better received than the video, judging by the HN threads.
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This is really frustrating to me. "Learn German! It's the language of business in Europe!" Now when I'm in Germany, people speak English to me even when I say "auf Deutsch, bitte." Somewhere along the line, I must have picked up an accent in German, because some people even assume I'm from France and start speaking French to me. I'm B1 level in German (used to be B2, but it's slipping) and have no use for it outside of academic pursuits.

About the only language that is useful to me living in the northern US is French (being that my company does business in Quebec). Sometimes Spanish is helpful (we also do business in southern Florida). But the problems with learning these languages is it's not French you need to learn, it's Canadian French. It's not Spanish you need to learn, it's Mexican Spanish (/Cuban Spanish/Latin Spanish/Caribbean Spanish, however you want to classify it).

Good luck finding excellent self study (like memrise.com) classes in regional dialects.
My point (which I stand by) is that normal users struggle with small changes that power users quickly work around / accept. Being the existing way that (most) people "get things done", Microsoft has an obvious advantage. But as the changes grow, and obviously Windows 8 is a massive one, the incentive to stick with what you know shrinks; it is no longer what you know.

Really from an interface perspective Windows 8 is a completely new beast. The only advantage you have is that you still have Word. Otherwise you'd be at major risk of losing higher end customers to Apple, but you're probably still at risk of losing customers to the iPad on the lower end.

Honestly, can you explain why Microsoft chose to all but abandon the desktop market? The only explanation that makes sense to me is infighting; the Windows division successfully killed the courier and got to be the ones that made the tablet, and it made sense (to them) to not break the team into 2 separate groups (as is more logical) so they simply picked what seemed like a more future-proof bet.
I have a 3 and 4 year old, just for disclosure. Some games are free, limited demos. And the in-app purchase is for the full game. I like this mechanism, trying before I buy. Don't punish developers for being good people; just because a kid app has in-app purchase, doesn't necessarily mean it's a scummy attempt to trick kids into spending their parents money.
What exactly are you expecting to hear? If the authors of CoffeeScript and Ruby recommend it, do you think a random HNer is going to be more persuasive?

I honestly can't imagine how you figure it "looks like a scam." It looks no more like a scam than Basecamp.
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I wish these guys could become Official Trusted Server Providers for games like Battlefield 3 -- there's a (commercial and technical) process required to get approved.

I'd host my own servers otherwise, but I'm obviously in the minority. I can't host my own BF3 servers, so I'd love a service which let me do so.

Figuring out how to do in-game server creation and signup would be even better, maybe as a revshare partnership with the game publishers or developers.

In general focusing on games where the server is needed for fair play, and people who play with strangers, seems like it could be viable. I'd be unlikely to trust someone else's server to not be hacked (although most hacks are client side, there's stuff you can do on the server too).

Maybe integrating some nice voting, voice chat (STILL a weak area on pc gaming vs. xbox360), ladders/ranking, training/clan servers, etc. would make sense, as soon as you leave the Minecraft specific world.

The next step after that is making MMO-type persistence and maybe selling items even easier for small game developers; an alternative to EA or Steam for self-distributed games? Or things which Steam doesn't provide.
But does that mean we'd need a "World Government" too? That part kind of scares me, although I think something like EU is pretty democratic, although still not perfect, which means that at some point in time, maybe during a crisis, they'd call for "streamlining" the Government, making things more centralized, and therefore the thing I fear most about a World Government.
IANAL. But it seems to me that property right in copyright is built more on freedom contract -- you can buy song X or movie Y, subject to the condition that you won't republish it. The "freedom of information" occurs after someone violates such licenses. Copyright law then looks to me like an enforcement of those agreements.

You want want a copy of the song? Great, here are the terms. You don't like those terms? Okay, don't enter the agreement. You can live without that song, you're free to walk away. You want a copy of the song on some other terms? If you can get the artist to renegotiate, that's great. But it isn't really a negotiation if you just take what you want on the terms you dictate. Okay, but you're negotiating with some studio. Well, the artist had a right to contract with the studio such that the studio now has the artist's interest in the song.

I don't see any argument against copyright that doesn't involve abrogation of an artist's ability to set the terms by which their work will be available. And as I want my own ability to set my own terms for my own work and product, I don't see how I can properly deny that ability to anyone else. I don't know if that notion of property "works", but it does seem right to me, it's the one I choose to live by. And I don't understand how I could live by any other and expect people to respect my rights.
Thanks for the normalize link. I learned more about various browser inconsistencies from their comments than I have from months of self study.
Could you not have used Cloudmine instead of a virtual machine slice to handle the email webhooks/content conversion?
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I don't like the analogy because bringing the concept of smells from the moon (where air is expensive) to Earth, (where air is essentially free) is not exactly the same as moving copy written material from a controlled medium to one without rules.

Nobody is arguing that a musician who wants to independently distribute music over the internet royalty free, or for any fee that he or she sees fit has the right to do so. The labels are arguing that distributing THEIR music outside their own channels is illegal.

In the case of the smells example, a proper analogy would be if the company selling smells on the moon wanted to control the distribution of its OWN SMELLS on Earth and fought against people distributing them without consent. I was opposed to SOPA as written, as most rational people were, but I don't think because you suddenly have tools at your disposal to distribute somebody else's property widely and cheaply, that alone gives you license to do so.

If there were no value in the content that the RIAA wants to protect, nobody would care if they wanted to prevent people from illegally distributing it. If there is value, then the smells analogy doesn't hold.
Maybe, but you're really pushing water uphill there. Literally everyone I know has several illegal copies of something, and don't think twice about it. The idea of sharing content is pretty deeply ingrained. Just think of lending books or a DVD. In terms of lost sales it is exactly the same is copying a DivX.

EDIT: To clarify: I'm not saying artists shouldn't get paid, only that was has traditionally been purchased is essentially access. Changing that mindset is likely to be difficult.
IIRC, passports became "biometric" in the meantime, though—and it's pretty much a global biometric standard too. So there's the administrative cost of all the biometric data and the cost of the RFID chip and all other necessary technology too.

Although I do agree, it's a joke—but still, if you want to travel abroad you need it.
If anyone has a similar habit and wants to stop it I will tell how my high school fixed it for almost all of us.

In my (private) high school's health class "like" and "um" and others were referred to as "stop-words" by the teacher because people would say them instead of pausing. It's really obvious once you look for them, for instance here with pg but anywhere really. I remember hearing college tour guides that would literally say "um" after every single sentence, probably unbeknownst to themselves!

Almost every class in the school had projects, and the health class project was for us to remove the stop words from our speech by the end of the semester. We did this by all using recording software (had to submit either by cassette tape or wav/mp3) and answering questions such as "Do you want to live forever and why or why not?" by speaking for at least 5 minutes. These were our homework assignments maybe once a month, with the overarching goal considered as the class project.

We had to very consciously never use any stop words. We could pause the recorder if we had trouble thinking of what to say, but we could never say those words.

I was skeptical of the assignment at first but my class all agreed by the end of the semester that it made us much better speakers, simply learning to consider our pauses instead of filling the silence with "like" and "um".
Are "private" bits special and privileged still? If one user entrusts another with a risque digital picture but that digital picture is now distributed to a million third parties, did any violation occur?

If individuals are allowed special protection for that, why can't I be afforded protection on my computer program?

If there are still to be secrets where the access is legally controlled by an "owner" due to privacy or trade secrets, why should this ownership not extend to any sort of digital work?
What would an analogous solution form Music look like?

Concerts.

If creating the recording becomes cheap enough (and if you're skilled you can make an (almost) professional level recording these days with a few rental mic's and pre-amps and a laptop. Then perhaps we could reach a point where bands would be willing to give away the recordings if they make it back up on the road.

Hardest part here is that the labels also handle all the upfront costs of marketing a band and its music. This is the area where I'd try to innovate if I were a music startup.
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