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Truly the greatest enemy the online education revolution faces is not the current education system, but the way that people secretly substitute the real system for this mysterious magical perfect system based on the assumption that the stated goals of the current system are actually its result, and compare online against the myth instead of the reality.

Goals aren't results. Compare real to real. The real competition isn't the mythical fantasyland where everybody learns everything perfectly and retains it forever as a result of the gentle teachings of the schoolmarm. The real competition is the system that produces the real people you really run into as you go about your day, doing real things. If online education in its currently very early state even manages to sometimes match the real world, at one-tenth the price or less, you can imagine what another ten or twenty years of refinement is going to produce for the online model.

And in that real comparison, online will definitely not always win today, and will always have weaknesses. Shop class seems unlikely to work well online. (But then, the real school systems shut down those classes 20 years ago....)
I know you made this comment a while ago, but you're probably talking about [1]Vagrant. It's pretty fantastic.

[1] http://vagrantup.com/
Sabayon is a favorite for me. Although Ubuntu is more common in the wild when it comes to new user distros.
One would imagine they were thinking long term and big - they didn't start laying the foundations for this 10 years ago for no reason.... and while they may have toyed with some "lab" projects that never took off... this one represents a hell of an investment - they're probably several moves ahead of everyone else already. Now imagine what they have up their sleeve that they aren't telling anyone about.
In the UK, most ISPs are marketing outfits running on BT's monopolised infrastructure.

BT are bad enough on their own as a telco. The marketing companies are even worse than going direct.

Also, Google are renown for having literally zero support.

Perhaps I'm a cynic, but the marketing looks good but the reality will be bad.
This is going to be a tough critique, but that shouldn't be taken to mean that the product is being attacked and should go away.

"the now engine" could mean almost anything. At first I thought maybe it was some kind of reusable software, like a game engine. Is it like Twitter?

Those little snippets at the top of the page read like nice advertising but don't make it very clear what it is or motivate me very much - I would have bailed at this point rather than blithely running a search, if this were not an attempt to provide feedback... these pages are really busy...

Oh. It is a sort of search engine aggregator thing. So I guess this is in the same general area as Google, Google Reader, Twitter. I guess this is a sort of Twitter-search engine. So what is the advantage here?

The perceived speed leaves a little to be desired - acceptable but not at all enticing. Maybe it's a comfortable way of reading things? Not really, the scrollbar at the right is extremely thin and hits seem to be sort of strewn across a large page. Again, the tendency is for the page to be incredibly busy - like those TV channels with 5 tickers moving in different directions, a clock and a weather indicator.

The purpose of many of these tools is not clear. I don't know what "Sonar" would actually do for me. "Scanner" looks like a rearrange of the same search page. The trending Pictures seem quite boring and random. It feels like all the content is in Now, Stream, Scanner and that these aren't that different in the meaningful information they are presenting to me.

Oh, I can click "New Post." So it is Twitter-like platform too? It wants me to log in to check that out. Never mind.

I wish the purpose of this were more immediately obvious, that it was cleaner so that I could focus, and that it was a fast and ergonomic way of doing whatever-the-task-is.
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Not only has it been mentioned before, it is clearly described in the article as an interim solution that will be relaced by something accessible to coulorblind people in the final design.
> "Also, though I have no sources on this other than personal experience, linux skills are frequently indicator of heavy prorastinator."

What on Earth are you talking about?
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Not going to lie, that controller is looking pretty ugly. Any word on if they'll support USB controllers? Obviously you'd lose the touch functionality...unless you plugged in a Wacom or something, lol
Isn't this startup kind of screwed from the start if one of the competitors is that 17 year old kid who invented a new search engine called apodora?

Source: http://matadornetwork.com/life/17-year-old-invents-new-searc...
If he's got other sources of income, and/or financial security he should be more than comfortable in taking a much lower wage and then 'topping up' with share dividends/bonuses. This way you've got more capital early on and the CEO's contribution will determine his pay.
This is where projects like this may fail brutally.

Controller-design is hard. Mapping small fast movements to the screen, especially when playing 3D-games, needs a perfectly for the job designed hardware. Consoles lack a good input anyway, compared to the mouse. That is why kinect was so promising, though of course movement-controllers have their own set of issues.

Their solution now is to cave. They didn't design their own controller. Instead, they oviously took the xbox and ps3 controller and merged them. Those controllers solved some issues when compared to the old controllers for the snes and such, with the circle-sticks (which unlike the one from the N64 aren't as high thin and probably therefore longer lasting) and the holdable form.

So the controller is nothing special, but from the conept-side it at least won't be much worse than the ones from current consoles. Maybe using such a generic one was a smart move.
The thing that kept me from installing even free apps
from the mac app store is the same that keeps me away from Market/Play on Android: it requires Apple ID.
Papers and studies sponsored by the soy industry to debunk "myths" published from reputable centers aren't really that great even if someone updated a wikipedia entry to reference one of them.

Personally, I don't touch the stuff.
Here you go, should whet your appetite:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11817904
once a week?! whaaat? I want real beef, every day. No fake stuff please. Yes, be nice to the animals, raise them cage free yadda yadda. But I want the real thing.
How is apdora related?
No way, jose.

If he wants that much, he should quit for wall street. At the very least, he shouldn't be working for a startup at your stage.

Frankly, if a potential startup CEO shot out that number ... at this stage in your business ... I'd start seriously questioning his abilities and expertise. That's crazy talk.

70K, max, I'd say, but be generous with options.

The bigger question is: why are you still working for another company?
This just in.."Elmer Fudd" is now a language
$180k is an exorbitant figure. I would question his motives 100%.

A CEO at your stage should be someone who is deeply involved with building and selling the product/business (at this stage, your business is your product). What responsibilities do you envisage him having? Also, how much equity is he looking for?
That's a curious association I've never made. Can you say a bit more about that?
Totally agree with this.

I've just finished a BSc Physics-Math at a UK "Top 20" University. The standard of many lectures was very poor with only a few exceptions.

Without Khan Videos I wouldn't have grasped many of the concepts. (The lecturers often presented the formalism without really going into the concepts - I often wondered did the really understand the material themselves)

Apart from online material the only other self-study stuff I found useful for the degree were course books from Open University (OU). Excellent stuff.
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"Doom, doom, doom-doom, doom, doom ... doomie-doomie-doom, doomie-doomie-doomie-doom ... doom, doom. The end."
-- The Doom Song, GIR, Invader Zim
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I share your feeling, but I also have a question. Does anyone choose neuroscience as a career path without dreaming one day to write a successfully-selling (not that there is anything inherently wrong with that) pop-science book?
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This article reeks of an academic defending his turf to me. Basically, it all comes down to the author accusing Sal Khan of willfully ignoring research. This is based on a quote that I believe is intentionally misinterpreted. Khan says "you put stuff out there and you see how people react to it". This is basic web testing stuff. That doesn't mean he's ignoring research. Like we don't willfully ignore design best practices with the assumption that A/B testing will sort out the UX. That would be stupid.

I like Khan Academy's videos. But if you watch Khan's TED talk, it's clear neither he nor bill gates sees khan academy as operating outside the education system. His lectures are meant as a complement to quality instruction in classroom by a teacher. Criticizing the Khan academy ecosystem as an independent and parallel instruction system is silly.

Khan is a great lecturer. He's better than every lecturer I've had. He may not be the best total educator. I wrote a blog post about this a while back: http://cyclicreality.com/post/26719449459/why-khan-academy-i...

The hype may be too much. Maybe it's not revolutionary. But getting a teacher who can explain and engage recorded and available free online is a great idea even if it's not the be all and end all of education.
In a startup, you do not put money towards salaries any bigger than absolutely necessary. You offer ownership and a salary that just pays the bills.

The CEO has to make tough financial calls.

If you think he's worth 180K to your company, then offer him 40K plus 140K deferred to the first year that the company makes 150K in profits -- and not payable if the company never gets there.
Thousands (millions?) of teachers prepare mostly the same lessons every day. Whilst some preparation is obviously necessary, I see huge benefits for students and teachers from centralising this.

I am looking forward to the future when a video lesson distributed to 20% of children on the Monday can have its feedback aggregated and analysed, with a patched version of the lesson pushed out on Tuesday.

For example, imagine teaching a maths lesson, and seeing that a significant number of children paused and rewatched a particular 20-second section. You could re-film that and splice it in ready for testing the next day. Imagine the possibilities if you had schools offset their holidays by a few weeks!
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What fucking horse shit.
Ditto, best launcher I've used, love the overview, the workspace switching on only one monitor, it just gets out of the way well and it's freaking pretty.
Anyone who thinks they should get a salary like that when you've only raised $250k should not be your CEO. Run away quickly. Don't even try to negotiate him down.
Where is your company based, 180K is probably too much wherever you would be but still; a startup in SF needs higher salaries than one in Austin (or Europe).
Ask HN: Mathematicians' jobs -- What am I missing?
Dear HN,

having advanced degrees in maths and philosophy (both equivalent to MSc), I wonder what opportunities might be there for me not neglecting maths beside pursuing a PhD. The problem is, I think, that I'm not specialized or interested in applied math (neither statistics, finance, nor numerical computing) and also not very keen on consulting businesses.

So my question is: What comes to your minds when you think about jobs in, well, "applied pure math"?

Any pointers are much appreciated. Thanks for your time.
Why aim to make something indistinguishable from real meat? Instead of stopping when you hit "100% as good as meat" you can keep going, and make something 120% as good, and beyond.
It lets you search ANY small text item like a feed from not just twitter, but it also indexes ALL conversations under just the limited amount of characters similar to how google does searches which can include things like RSS feeds or facebook posts. It doesn't rely on finding just hash tags or an single twitter API.

In my opinion if the kid puts up his search engine anytime soon this startup is as good as dead for at least it's search engine competitive advantage. The dashboards and some other things are rather nice.
Her actual tweets read:

CPS owe my constituent @pauljchambers and the country a huge apology for a shameful prosecution that should never have been brought

Two years of a man's life, stress and massive public costs wasted over an obvious joke. It is for Parliament to investigate actions here.

Whether it is the Justice or Home Affairs Select Cttee, the CPS and this decision should be investigated on Parlt return #twitterjoketrial

I think she's asking that parliament look into why the CPS ever brought this to trial in the first place.
That's a real pity. You probably would have been hugely better off with gevent instead. Using gevent isn't quite as good as using a language with a true preemptive runtime, but it's way easier to work with than nested callback spaghetti.

Anyone else considering Python -> Node, look very carefully at gevent first. Not only can you save the rewrite, you can end up with a better solution at the end too.

http://www.gevent.org/
When people fly airplanes across the world, do they not look out the window and see what I see? LOTS of unused land. As in, most of the planet.

There's plenty more room out there for everything we need. Only political borders (placed by us humans) prevent us from using all available land/resources to provide for all of humanity.
So by eating meat I'm an accomplice in crimes worse than the Holocaust, the atomic bombs, the Soviet gulags, the Rwandan genocide, 9/11 and so on?
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OP here, thanks for all your thoughts. Will be replying to threads as I see them come in.
I have no idea what is heavily optimized about that Haskell code. I am no Haskell expert, but all you did was use an unboxed array. I added one strictness annotation to the "v" parameter on your iter function and it reduced the time from 10 seconds to 1.5 on my laptop.

None of the other code you wrote uses a linked list, so I don't know why you used them for Haskell. You used vector types for most of them (which Haskell has, by the way). Pretty disingenuous.

I admit that the prominent use of lists in newbie Haskell tutorials could have mislead you, but you seem to know the difference in data types since you used vectors everywhere else.
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re: deferred, great idea as an option. Thank you.
If you had $2.5M and the CEO provided a clear runway to profitability and $25M in funding on the way to acquisition/IPO at values 10-100x that, then he'd be worth every penny.

In your current situation, what value does this CEO bring? What is the next stage? It sounds like he just wants a paycheck and a pile of free lottery tickets oops I mean stock options to me.
>> Consoles lack a good input anyway, compared to the mouse.

I don't get why some people think that gaming is all about FPS's and RTS games.

Why on earth would I want to use a mouse on a game like Street Fighter IV, Tetris, Bust-A-Move, Pac Man, Mario, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, etc. I can name a lot of games that work better with a traditional D-Pad type of controller than they would with a keyboard or mouse.
Realizes he's had a Clojure REPL open for days untouched.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

EDIT: Six minutes later sees this post and realizes he STILL hasn't gotten back to what he was working on.
>I have a really hard time explaining that hardlinks are not shortcuts even to programmers.

While the distinction is important to programmers and sysadmins, the average end-user treats shortcuts as if they were hard links, it would not make the UI more complicated to change the 'make link' behavior to hard-link instead of sym-link.
Gnome 2 was continuing to slavishly emulate Windows 98, right down to the opaque registry. But I guess that's what more users wanted, so Linux is doomed to stay the same forever as everything else innovates and overtakes it.
Cellphone? However, I suspect they could automatically detect outages based the in home battery backed up router not responding or losing contact with all other devices on the network.
He mentioned the prototype is larger than it needs to be. They needed to have easy access to data ports to pull diagnostics info from the batteries and controllers.

The size of the final version should be about the size of a carry-on bag.
I'm really starting to believe that these "critiques" of Khan Academy are just teachers and professors terrified of becoming irrelevant.

I try not to ascribe unstated motives to people, but I really wonder at the smell of pedantry and elitism in an article like that.

Khan offers a free educational service that is very popular. That is a Good Thing(tm)... PERIOD.

People are logging in to his site to learn things. Khan has created a whole model for learning online that has some people enthusiastic about learning more than they could by sitting in class -- yet the criticism from this article is that the Khan videos aren't ideal in using the latest buzz-wordy techniques approved by academia?

Maybe the authors of the articles/papers could interact with Sal Khan and offer help. Or if the authors really felt strongly about their qualifications vs Khan's, maybe they could offer free online teaching videos that were more "correct".

This type of headline sensationalism designed to take down someone doing a good thing is just sad.
Well, the system is open and hackable, I'm sure someone will write drivers to allow PS3, Wiimotes, 360 and generic USB controllers to be used.
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I was into the stats until I hit the giant stadium image (../img/stadium.jpg). The compression artifacting is wildly distracting.
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The lion's share of complaints about Unity and Gnome have always been from users staring at pixels, not complaints about the underlying libraries. Even this post is about manpower, not the libraries being unusable.
IKEA in China, “our home is your home”
This is the canary in the coal mine with regards to the acceptance of the Microsoft Metro interface on the desktop.
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>> Microsoft has already patented the letters X, Y, A, and B..

Wouldn't Nintendo (Super Nintendo), Sega (Genesis and forward) et al. have prior art on this? Microsoft was far from the first to use those letters.
> teachers prepare mostly the same lessons every day

That "mostly" hides a lot. A good teacher will prepare this lesson in a context: context of his pupils, their abilities,
their knowledge of other material, etc.

Centralized version will have none of that.
I think it's the same, but then again I'm not a vegetarian. What I'm really trying to imply is that what people decide they're allowed to eat is based on (mostly arbitrary) social norms. Is there anything morally different between being vegetarian and keeping kosher?

Aside: Anyone who figures out how to make salmon produce pork will have a license to print money (kosher pork!).
Although Compiz is very, very customizable and hasn't changed all that much in years, so one would think it would appeal to all the people who are screaming about losing customizability and having everything change underneath them.
Why is he asking for $180K the first year?
How is this any different from Comcast buying NBC?
Maybe add a "safe search" option for the pictures? Definitely got some NSFW pictures when I was searching for yoyos. (World competition is in a few days, wanted to see the trends.)
My wife and I run a small farm and one of our products is organic, pasture raised chicken. All of our birds spend the majority of their lives out on fresh grass in the sunshine and our never exposed to any antibiotics, pesticides and herbicides.

The difference that a bit of exposure to green forage in an outdoor environment makes, both to the flavour and texture of the chicken, is AMAZING. Industrial broiler barn chicken pales in comparison.

I'd encourage anyone seeking to buy a more environmentally friendly chicken to try to make contact with a local organic farmer who's able to raise his birds outside and in a humane fashion.
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I tried lots of mixtapes :) It was hit or miss. :-\ I married the girl I gave a mix CD to though! ;-) That was almost 10 years ago. Kids these days have it so easy. They have software to match beats and do perfect mixes... back in the day it was a real talent to produce a smooth mixtape! Probably the next thing is to give her a streaming music subscription lol.. too easy
rPath has been doing this for years, and with very deep version control of the systems that are created from your blueprints.
Desktop Linux has not seen growth like Mac OS X in the past few years. Online statistics showing OS browsing data support this, e.g.:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200807-201207

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Of course this does not include Android, or the numbers would look very different.
re: why working. I'm an engineer for a company which I truly love working for. Until there's money in the bank of my own business which should not go to dev dollars, legal, etc., I have no problem working hard to keep it in there. That's the first reason. Second, is my position at my current job lends an open opportunity to possibly use the tech I built with my personal startup. Can't disclose yet but it's a great fit and I've been showing it to key people at the day job. So far it's looking good. In any case, I have a family of 3 with a new baby on the way, and burning a bridge is not in my agenda.

re: 70K, we've been trying to come up with numbers that seem fair, thanks for your recommendation and thoughts paborden.
And putting in all those little checkboxes makes a product a horrible experience for the rest of the world.

It doesn't have to. The measure of a good product, as far as I'm concerned, is the extent to which it can retain all the power the power-users want, while still keeping things simple enough for the non-power-users. OR, better yet, the extent to which it can help non-power-users become power-users.
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> Most people don't hate it. Those who tried earlier versions of it and hated it then (myself included) are pleasantly surprised when they give it another look.

I don't understand this, because I have used it off and on from the beginning and it really looks completely the same to me.
Are you suggesting that flesh-and-blood teachers or brick-and-mortar schools are less likely to spread misinformation or leave students with misconceptions?

Possibly, because when you leave school you can realize your misconceptions and learn from other people, as well as pointing out other people's misconceptions. But if everyone uses Khan Academy, everyone will end up with the same misconceptions.