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I am so tired of reading complaints about PHP performance only to realize that the author uses some bloated, over-engineered framework like Cake or (much worse) library like Smarty. What do you expect?

Yes, high-level design matters. Ever since I switched to my own framework in 2005, most of the pages on my websites generate in less than .1 second, and that's without extensive caching, often on cheap VPS. There is nothing fancy about it, just simple, straightforward system design that doesn't fight the language and pretend like I'm coding Java.
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I have seen this firsthand in Massachusetts and it was very powerful. The kids were all clustered around iPads or Macbooks, helping each other, doing problems, and reviewing what they learned for homework. The teacher was rotating around the room, helping stuck kids, encouraging others to do peer-to-peer coaching, etc. It was so absurdly different than how I "did school," yet so logical. The teacher felt she could now really differentiate her instruction, and the kids were impressively engaged. Gone are the days of 40 minute lectures and 10 minutes of practice— you know, where the kids who got the lecture blaze through worksheets and the rest sit dumbfounded and then take all their problems & questions home for the evening.

All that to say: yes, a dude sketching some problems on a tablet is not the "revolutionary" part (if there is one at all) of Khan Academy.
Also, though I have no sources on this other than personal experience, linux skills are frequently indicator of heavy prorastinator.
No, but after you inovation comes incremental improvement. If Khan Academy does not do this (and I have no idea weather or not they are), then another group will take their highly inovative idea and do it better.
I've had seitan "beef" tips at a good veggie restaurant that would convince almost anyone. Yes, heavily sauced, but the right color and a nice char on them. (And I'm just dating a vegetarian, so I have a good point of reference for real meat.)
Is there anyway someone could offer natural gas conversions for around this same price? That would also give you a huge savings (possibly comparable to this).
Oh... they don't?
If you only take into account caloric production yes, meat is not very efficient. But there is a reason humans started to eat and domesticate animals. They provide us with fur, an other byproducts (fertilizer, etc...)

I understand the need to find some substitute with 7 billion people in the planet, but i think grown-in-a-lab meat will probably be a better alternative in the near future.
Have you tried brew? It's simple, but enough if you just want to get opensource stuff from a single location.
I regularly find that the criticisms you see launched across the internet at various projects are a lot less worthy than the criticisms that they generate internally. I'm of the mind that if you believe that something is valuable or worthy you should criticize it because that is how it will improve. And as such I quite look forward to reading criticisms exciting new projects like say Wikipedia or Khan Academy.

I am, almost without exception, deeply disappointed by the knee-jerk reactionary defensiveness you generally find in these things. Conversely, you go visit Wikipedia itself and it has insightful comments about how its user base tilts the content away from the global south, women, the poor etc. and constructive ideas for how to measure and ameliorate such issues.

I think it's only natural for people to react to such uninformed, accusatory criticism in the way they do. It reminds me of John C Dvoraks anti-Mac columns from years ago, which he later admitted were professional trolling.
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I agree. There is no doubt that Khan Academy is revolutionizing education, but it revolutionizes most and above all teaching, not learning. It enables students and teachers alike to get access to a wealth of instructional materials at any time, any place. It gives a second perspective on the material under study. It allows those that have forgotten a lot of the material to pick up again fast. It enables teachers to turn traditional lessons around: in stead of instruction in class and homework at home, one now start thinking about delivering instruction at home and do problems in the school environment.

At the same time Khan Academy's video lectures cannot take into account the prior knowledge of students but for what other videos have been downloaded at Khan's. It cannot take into account students' background, wishes, problems, disadvantages, and so on. There is no interaction, there is no conversation going on between teacher and pupil, pupil and pupil, and in the social environment of a class.

Furthermore, most videos and exercises seem to focus on repetition, rote learning, and giving correct answers. There is no room for exploring alternatives, errors, hypothetical situations, and what not.

Over-all, and most importantly, I wonder if Khan Academy does support/instigate/promote deep learning of the topics covered. And is that actually possible the way Khan Academy is set up?

Observe that Khan himself doesn't claim nor suggest so, but many who hail Khan as the savior of education seem to equate education with learning and, as a result, claim Khan's revolution in education as a revolution in learning. To me, these aren't the same and this pollutes the discussion between educators and fans.

To summarize: I think Khan's revolutionizing education but he isn't revolutionizing learning
The scaling back of these protections isn't unique to the airport context. The breakdown of Constitutional protections against search and seizure happened back in the 1970's and 1980's, under the conservative Burger court (in conjunction with the drug war). Middle class people are just noticing now, in the airport context, what poor minorities have been dealing with for a couple of decades now.

That said, I'm not aware of any similar breakdown in 1st amendment protections. The author's tweet in America would be evaluated under a test that would look at whether people would actually consider his statement to be a threat (keeping in mind that the internet makes it uniquely hard to convey context that might mitigate words that are threatening on their face). So far as I know, courts have been following this pretty faithfully.
> Why would a person who is vegan want to eat fake meat?

I understand what you're saying, but the short answer is because fake meat is not meat. I don't think it's about not eating what tastes good but it's about not eating meat (or any animal by-products).
Whether they succeed or not with Fiber, whether it expands to every American city or not and whether they get sued because of antitrust laws (which I don't believe they will), the fact is that they're changing the status quo. Even only scaring the telecom companies enough for them to offer decent plans is a win for Google AND for the customer.

Sure Google pursues its own commercial goals but in the end it benefits the customer as well. I personally think they will succeed, will sign up as soon as it's available in my city and believe what they're doing is great for the future of the 'net.

The biggest selling point here (in Canada) would probably not even be the speed (about 40 times faster than whatever else we can get) but the unlimited bandwidth. As opposed to the USA (I think) we have very aggressive bandwidth caps up here. Try consuming anything with a 30Gb/month limit, especially when your ISP charges a few cents per subsequent Mb without telling you until you get your bill. You'd be welcoming an alternative like Fiber as well.
The critique wasn't that they are innefective, it's that they contain poor pedagogy. Their specific examples are from arithmetic videos, where the presentation and notation is inconsistent or the examples/problems were insufficient and could easily lead to misunderstanding the material. Your experience is with the calculus videos. It's possible the criticism doesn't apply to them. Or because you were a more advanced student of mathematics and were being provided feedback from your course any poor use of notation or poor problem sets wouldn't have had the same, potentially negative, impact on you.
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If they can make the money from the other plans, why would it be an anti-trust issue? Isn't anti-trust about hurting the users, not the competition, anyway?
So I went to make an account and it requires that I link it to a twitter account of facebook account. I didn't want to do that, but now whenever I visit this site I'm forwarded to /setup which is the page prompting me to link an account.
> If you are someone like Vimeo, Hulu, Netflix etc then you would forever be at a disadvantage to Youtube due to bandwidth costs.

No, you are not, because Google happily peers with (almost) everyone. So long as you can get the traffic to one of the 130+ places where google has set up shop, and from there, the traffic is free.

This is much, much better than what Comcast & friends are trying to do, by billing traffic twice (once from the consumers, once from the service providers).

http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=15169
GTK predates gnome and RedHat, but was (at the start) really just a code layer in the GIMP.

Gnome was a response to KDE, and explicitly aimed to produce a KDE-quality Free desktop environment. If they were intellectually honest they'd have abandoned/merged the project when Qt was relicensed.
We went to a Chinese restaurant the other day that is known for having vegetarian versions of almost every regular American Chinese restaurant dish. They used some kind of fibrous fake meat for the General Tsaos chicken that was very convincing. Maybe seaweed based?
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It's obviously much better from what they announced so far.
> customer support for free will consist of a web form to report an outage

And how do you get to the web form if there's an outage? :)
I'm not sure if I'm the only one that feels a little cheated with this article. It reads like PR for the product and Manjoo buries that Stone's Obvious Corp is an investor in BM in the the middle of the text even when he uses Stone's quotes at the beggining.
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I'd do it for a third of that money (and stock) :)
You dont let your users down just because someone else changed their license.
"a can of coke isn't actually bad for me per se"

You're kidding right? There's a ton wrong with processed foods. We humans love to outsmart ourselves. Ooh, let's make our own food, screw mother nature and home-grown veggies, fruits, and animals! And then wonder why cancer and obesity rates are increasing.

And hunting and gathering? Screw that! We're gonna create higher abstract levels of work where u stare at a computer screen for 8 hours a day! Woohoo! Why expend so much energy running and walking for food when you can sit all day?!.. Then we wonder again why obesity rates keep going up.
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A lot of people are mentioning a lot of distos are moving away from gnome. Infact they are moving away from gnome shell, not gnome. If gnome has problems, we all have problems.
Yes, it has, and a blog post linking to a paper about neanderthals does not count as proof of your assertion. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen any neanderthals walking around lately, so the fact that they may have subsisted on plants doesn't say much about homo sapiens.
But Python has map(), filter() and reduce(). Why wouldn't you write your example as

from operator import add
reduce(add, filter(isOdd, map(addOne, l)))

I mean, I use list comprehensions when it makes sense, but I won't torture myself with them ;)
1. Are you cash flow positive?
2. Growing very rapidly?
3. Needing to hire and manage staff to service fast growth?

Unless you can say yes to these questions I don't think you need a CEO. You may need a business development person if you are selling to enterprises or you may need a great digital marketer if it is a consumer play. Or you may need 1 or 2 customer support people but it is highly unlikely that at this stage, taking in $250K in funding, that your start-up needs a CEO.

I assume that you and the other product partner are the ones who have the vision and made the early sacrifices. If you bring someone in at this stage as CEO with that kind of salary it sounds like you are abdicating the visionary founder role.

Why not use some of that money to bring yourself on full-time so your focus is not split between your day job and this start-up?

One possible caveat to my advice. If this prospective CEO is willing and able to take on the front-line sales, service and support roles and actually do the work personally for awhile at a salary similar to the 40K that the product partner is willing to take then it might be a great addition to the team. Give a little larger equity slice but conserve your cash.
Your CEO is asking for more than half the total amount of your seed funding in the first year. Now, I haven't been a CEO, but just from common sense that seems like way too much, way too soon. Does he really add that much value to the company that you're willing to potentially cut your runway in half?
An amount that high would really cut down your runway.

How would investors in your company feel about spending almost 75% of the investment on a single salary for your CEO?
Yes - I couldn't believe it when I read the article. This is like - "Create any random permutation matrix. Use it to permute all the pixels. Done."

Or, use any encryption algorithm and set the key to be your Sudoku grid.
I sometimes wonder what's wrong with humanity when someone creates an account just to say something like this.
That void 0 trick was new to me.
Never undersestimate HN's penchant for being pendantic
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Industrial chicken meat has lots of junk in it (e.g., http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/safe/over...)

To counter Botulinum toxins, frozen meat contains Sodium nitrate, a known carcinogen(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrate#Health_concerns).
What is his background? Will it help you land clients or traction?
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Ask HN: Anyone looking for a developer partner?
To cut the long story short, I'm looking to join a small team or even an individual developer to work on a venture.

Now some details.
Lately I've launched a small scale project, mostly to get experience in building a product from scratch, getting it out into the wild, working with customers directly, and seeing how I can get people's attention to it. I don't have anyone to talk to on this subject, so I'm basically learning on my mistakes.

Now, I'd be very happy to try working with an entrepreneur (or a tiny little team) having a technical background. I'm an engineer, but my business and marketing skills suck. So one of my goals is learning how things work from the business standpoint, maybe over time I can bring something to the table too.
Another reason I'm posting this is that I feel that my technical progress is starting to slow down. I'm looking to find challenging tasks and problems that require a lot of engineering effort. I've had a couple of ideas myself, but was not convincing enough to have anyone join me, and I'll never make any of this alone.

My background is primarily telecom, I've been involved in development and maintenance of telephony solutions and switching/routing stacks on RT platforms, but some time ago I switched to web development in online advertising. I've also been doing some other stuff like DirectShow filters and Windows app development (using WinAPI and WPF).

I'm a BS in Applied Math, but I haven't been using most of it, which I regret somewhat. I'd be happy to work on something requiring a lot of math/algorithmic work.

If anyone is interested in a conversation, I'd be happy to talk and give more details. Any good advice will be greatly appreciated too...

PS. I'm based in Russia. Not sure if this is an issue, but I thought I'd just better tell right away...
So because its not perfect, lets drag it through the mud.

This is ONE MAN.
No one here to blame other than political agenda. I fully feel we could have been in preparation for a humanized mission to Mars at this point. However, we've wasted too much time funding war and whether or not abortion and gay marriage should be legal instead. It's actually quite sad.
This has been mentioned before, but by simply using colored circles for their controller buttons, they are ignoring the needs of a lot of color blind gamers. This is why every console manufacturer has symbols on the buttons. Color coding doesn't work so well when a significant percentage of your players can't differentiate between green and red.

This could be solved very easily by picking some symbols to go along with the colors. Of course, our patent and trademark laws are ridiculous and it's highly likely that Microsoft has already patented the letters X, Y, A, and B...
Facebook might still launch it's own phone.
"I’m not a vegetarian, and I love real meat, but for various health and ethical reasons, I’ve long tried to cut down on eating animals."

He eats meat, just not as often as your average person.
Very true. Back when I released InfoCaptor [1] in 2005, I released the product as a Data browser product with Tabbing (remember browser tabbing was just invented by Netcaptor) so I thought it would be cool to have a browser just for database and such. I released it at around $35.

After lot of experimentations and frustrations I finally rebranded it as a "Dashboarding and BI solution" (see it is a solution and not calling it a product) and raised the price 10 fold, yep around $300

Not to mention, it automatically entered the "league of big BI solution providers" and increased revenues (10 times ofcourse). Still my product was considered cheaper.

1. [ http://www.infocaptor.com and https://my.infocaptor.com ]
Yes, let's all use a security framework by a guy who thinks DES is a good choice, and who openly admits that this is a learning experience for him, this security framework he's giving to others.

Clearly, if after it's pointed out that DES is a bad idea he still doesn't know why, but he also refuses to fix it or take it down, the rest of this should be trusted too.
> But 85 percent said finding Linux talent is difficult.

I couldn't agree more with this statement. I work in Chicago--which you think would have a rather large pool of Linux talent--but it's incredibly hard to find really top-notch Linux people at any price.

Like any technical job, there's no shortage of candidates that have "Linux System Administrator" on their CVs, but five minutes into a phone screen you can tell that nearly all of them are what I like to call "application drivers". They've been paid well to sit in front of an application GUI (vmware, backups, storage, etc.) for 10 years and push buttons. It's astounding to me that it's so hard to find people who can do the most basic things: build packages in the OS native format from source; write complicated shell scripts; write complicated applications in (python|perl|ruby); debug and port C/C++ programs; etc.

In my last job (Dept. of Energy lab), I used to think it was hard to find people because the pay wasn't good enough, but in my current gig in the financial industry, we're willing to pay basically whatever it takes to get the best talent, but the pool of great candidates is very, very small.

I think part of it is that in a shaky economy, the best people don't get laid off and they're hunkering down, unwilling to risk taking a new job, but I don't really know.
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The only word I see is "encrypt", but regardless, this IS cryptography - converting to a code. You can encrypt with a Ceaser cipher, though it's not terribly secure.
That's the least of the problems here.

Not every library can be saved.
Seems like a no-brainer to use: O, U, Y, A.
He used DES for session security.

That's the worst.
The point of a CDN, at least a significant one, is to reduce latency. To put your content closer to your customers.
It also lets you handle larger load, is more resilient to DDOS, etc, but, at least in my view, those are often secondary... the main issue is latency, and perhaps capacity.

Gigabit to your house won't remove latency, other than perhaps to apps hosted by google (including google, obviously)
Practically, different meat substitutes are good at mimicking different prepared forms. So instead of trying to find one that substitutes for chicken in all its forms, it's much easier to find one that substitutes for stewed meat in all its forms and that can be textured / flavored like chicken, beef, etc.
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As a shameless polyglot, I've found editor snippets to be very helpful for this kind of thing, particularly if your editor lets you put in helpful placeholder text in fields.
I believe crabsticks are made from reformed fish. Agreed on how horrible they are though.
Any critique that world-class teachers give Khan Academy would apply to most K-12 math teachers as well. I think people are worried because Khan Academy can spread much further (and do much more damage) than a conventional teacher, who is fired if standardized testing scores drop below an arbitrary amount.

BUT the same effect is seen on Wikipedia, which has been reviewed and corrected more than thousands of other encyclopedias, simply because it's so open and accessible. Khan Academy was originally run by one guy, but they're starting to open up and partner with other educational entities. They aren't going to go unchecked. By no means is Khan Academy hurting the education system, unless you look at things from an economic or political standpoint, in which case it's potentially disruptive. But that would be cruel, wouldn't it?
I'm afraid that I found this interview very unenlightening. What in particular did he find from Godel that made him change his view?
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Please flag this article. OS choice is even more of a bike-shedding discussion than choice of editor.
The biggest changing factor is not the speed but the fact that it is symmetric. Symmetric internet will change the way we use our home computers. We will be able to create and send content just as much as we consume it. Imagine the future peer to peer networks used for any and everything (in a legal manner of course).
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It is not required of you to have a degree in software engineering to fully extract from your android phone.
They state at the bottom of the post:

"P.S. We're still deciding on the buttons. For now, we've stuck with the colored circles as placeholders. But don't fret, we won't leave out colorblind gamers. :)"