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Not quite. It's more of a perception problem.

What Amazon did was say the following: "You can buy our hardware, and deal with the ads. You can pay us even more money to get a better experience."

That is a bad message for subsidised hardware. The real cost is hidden behind a 'pay us more money for a better experience'.

Instead, what they should have done was say the following: "Our hardware costs $X, but you can get it even cheaper if you agree to minimally intrusive advertisements!" And on this route, you can also offer the option to 'buy' off advertisements as well. Make this part easy. Don't piss off the user.

They should have turned that negative into a positive. Make it the users choice to opt in to ads.
On a side note, Macon is actually a Code for America city this year (http://codeforamerica.org/2012-partners/macon/) and I'm one of three fellows working with the city. The speech superintendent Dallemand gave earlier this year detailing his plan was great (we spent all of February in Macon) — especially when you consider just how much scrutiny it's been under.
I used MySQL and I'm trying Postgres out of curiosity too. Django is the MVC framework that I will use. :)
For me the big win is if this can be done purely on the client side. I see two main advantages: 1) the user doesn't have to give up her privacy in exchange for recommendations 2) the service doesn't have to burn CPU it would have had to otherwise
There are also way more laptops and tablets around on planes than big heavy textbooks. People tend to bring smaller softcovers when they travel for obvious reasons.
I understand your wonder. I think this is why Elon Musk is such a role model. After achieving independence, he is working on making the world a better place. At the same time, I can see that this subject is going to become more important as more of the work that society depends on is automated.
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For what it's worth, English is a mandatory subject for students in China. It's hard to predict what the political and economic climate will be like a few decades from now, but I'm pretty sure the number of Mandarin speakers will increase and Asia will still be a major influence on global economics.

I'm not sure if I agree with this decision given the circumstances of this particular school district, but I won't be surprised if we start to see other schools strongly encouraging Mandarin studies.

Let's not jump too quickly to politics. Mandarin is a language, and will be spoken by the Chinese regardless of politics. It is also spoken in many places outside of mainland China.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/manufacturing-ism-misses-third...
Okay which one of you hacked the Paypal CEO's account?
None of those three look good, but, as far as I can tell, none indicate a contraction... at worst they indicate that things are remaining bad, but not getting worse. The first appears to be improving, slowly. The second appears to be hovering aroung the same level since 2010. The third link is broken for me, but when I find the data I think you're referencing on that site it appears that there is a dip in the latest quarter, but if you look at the history that data clearly does not track the overall performance of the economy very closely. I can't say I find your claim very credible so far, but if you have additional evidence I'd be very interested.
Just a nitpick, 'cause it was on my mind. 5$ might have been that "different process to lower mistakes". I was wondering how it could still just be $5 to manage risk of damaging a ferarri, myself.
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Wow, my old hometown makes HN. Both of my parents have taught public school in Bibb County, so I've followed this with some interest. You can read the entire "Macon Miracle' plan at http://bibb.k12.ga.us/stplan2.html
Your points below are well noted, and I am confident we can clean up our act before it gets out of control.

I did not know posts are more unlikely to make it to the front page, thanks for the tip. I will create a blog post from my HN post and I will submit the blog post to HN next week. I am hopeful we will get the participation of many HN users.
> English is a mandatory subject for students in China

Few of them learn it well enough using their rote methods to be of much use though. It's good to learn english as it is currently the lingua franca of the world. In europe German teens talk to their Swedish friends in English, just as Italians talk to the Croatians in English. It's used universally for communication.

I wonder though - are all English classes in China taught by american government representatives whose salaries are paid for by the United States? Do they also introduce American values as part of the classes?

I noticed the article said the classes, throughout the future, will be free to the schools because the Chinese Government (which is as we know run by the Communist Party) is paying for them and the teachers are being sent from mainland China.

Nothing seems odd about that to you?

I know, I know. I must be some "conspiracy nut" just to be asking whether the Chinese Communist Party completely financing and sending trained and educated Chinese Communist Party members to the US to teach poor american children to speak Chinese and understand modern Chinese perspectives defined by their government in order to "prepare for 2050" is a strange thing. It's safe to disregard these "crackpot ideas", right? Or is it.
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4485347
What's really sad about this whole fiasco is how many people take the word of the authorities at face value without spending some time to consider that they might be wrong (as they have been about various things over and over in the past). In this day and age, finding accurate information about almost anything is just a matter of spending a few minutes on the internet.

Same goes for the TSA, which a vanishingly small number of Americans realize is nothing more than security theater and an enormous government jobs program.
Nice article, but it didn't mention the most telling data point about the nonsense basis for these rules - the lack of any sort of onboard EM detection.

Any other measurable factor that can conceivably have an impact on a flight has an instrument, or many, devoted to it. If mobile phones were of any risk whatsoever, there'd be a flashing light in the cockpit if something on board was radiating on a phone frequency. The cabin crew would then sweep the cabin with a detector to find the offending person. Instead, they rely on a visual search of items the passengers have in their hands only!

The fact is that there are two parties with real skin in this game - the manufacturers and the airlines. It's those parties whose are motivated and empowered to evaluate the actual risk of EM emissions on a flight, and to take concrete actions to mitigate the risk if the if the danger proved genuine.

In over 20 years since the general availability of mobile phones neither of these parties have taken these actions, or made any sign of needing or wanting to do so, and IMO that says all you need to know about the for-show-only nature of these rules.
For a 16yrs old locally schooled HK student your English amazed me.
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Prices can rise in response to both rising demand and falling supply.

Given that we're within the window of peak oil forecasts, and demand (particularly in India and China) has been rising, it's very likely both.
Well, you can't compare broccoli to nothing. Broccoli is probably a big improvement over the food most people eat, mutagenic properties notwithstanding.
It's not really malware. You're trading some CPU time for content. You do the same thing with your brain when you visit a website that contains ads.
I wonder if it's possible to accelerate this using WebGL?
Is the last part of your comment really necessary? The first half of your comment was perfectly fine as it was.
What fits tighter? A round peg in a square hole, or square peg in a round hole?
I'm surprised this was only mentioned so tangentially. Memory foam mattresses are quite popular, and I would wager their users spend considerably more time there than on a couch.
See below. And see the latest ISM.

Of course there are pockets of growth during any economic contraction. In this case we can expect them to be in areas with first access to the money printed by the federal reserve: government, banking, etc. And there is an energy boom on as well. So it depends.
Because someone of us are sick of seeing ads. (Kindle owner but mine isn't ad supported).
Maynard didn't leave tool. He's still part of tool, a perfect circle, puscifer, as well as caduceus vineyards (which you mention), and runs an organic place in AZ last i knew.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_James_Keenan
That's exactly how I phrased it at the impound lot: "Is there any amount of money I can pay right now to just get my car out of the lot?"
Paying to remove advertising is a slippery slope. I will not tell my children about the era of 'premium electronics' that didn't scream advertising when you weren't actively using them.
How is this not caving? Amazon explicitly confirmed to both CNET and Engadget that there would be no option to opt out of the ads. Then a bunch of negative stories appear, and now Amazon says there will be a way to opt out. That's pretty much a textbook example of caving.
Also in Australia.
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Are you kidding me? You and I both believe the government routinely abuses its power, but in this conversation, you are the only one who apparently believes they spend most of their time abusing that power. No, they spend most of their time doing the incredibly boring, mostly depressing stuff we pay them to do, like making sure tiny restaurant chains in Texas aren't secretly trying to pay their staff under minimum wage by subpoenaing their payroll.
I suspect the real motivation is that teaching Chinese is a lot cheaper than teaching another language.

Beijing wants to spread Mandarin abroad, and at just $16,000 per instructor per year, the price is right for Dallemand.
It's funny what Torvalds said about "good taste" because I have had the same sort of idea for years. But I'd never heard any programmer articulate it as such. I also call it "sensibilities". I have no clue if his idea of what is "good taste" is even remotely similar to mine, but it's interesting that he also thinks about this notion of "good taste". I can eliminate programmers and programs very quickly using this sort of qualitative assessment. It might not even be necessary to see any code. Just knowing how they would approach a problem, how they would design a solution (Rube Goldberg machine), and of course what language they would use says something about their "tastes". It's not so much a matter of what they do or don't know how to do, it's their selections from among different choices. Imagine hypothetically a programmer knows every language and can implement any design. The language he chooses and the design he chooses tells us about his "taste".
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Good points! There might be no super programmers, but I think there is still difference to those programmers that have a strong background with Computer Science / Mathematics concepts compared to those who don't. Those have a strong background can understand some concepts like automata, AI, compiler theory, neural networks, etc.

Those people that learn to code just to code an application might not know those concepts.
If you think that's bad, imagine my despair when realizing that things like the CIA torturing someone through sensory deprivation for 1000 days (this actually happened in the 60s) is an irrevocable component of our universe because that's how the atoms go. Such thoughts made me sink into a nearly irreversible suicidal existential depression! This place is rough.
I wouldn't mind seeing the rule overturned for general usage or data. But I hope that voice calling continues to be prohibited. Sitting on a 6 hour flight listening to multiple people screaming into their phones over the sound of the engines would suck so bad. Its bad enough on a 15 minute bus ride.
Ha! You may think your email is in your profile, but that one is hidden. It has to go in the About section for anyone to see it.

Having said that, I'm embarrassed to admit that I also had my email only in the email field in my profile, so if you went to look you wouldn't see it. That's fixed now! So drop me a note, or I'll look for your updated profile later. :-)
That isn't necessarily true. He recently responded to another currently popular Paypal thread here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4485627
Maybe I've just been suckered in by his smooth-talking ways, but there's an earnestness to this guy that I didn't expect.
I took some Mandarin in college, my younger brother is a linguist, and my much younger 8 year old sister has been in a Spanish immersion program since she was 5 (in a Georgia public school). I completely support more language education in public schools.

However, this superintendent really seems stuck on this "China as the future of the world" idea. It seems a bit short sighted to base policies solely on extrapolated trends.

If this were 1995, he'd be insisting that student's learn Japanese or they'd be suffering in a future economy dominated by Japan.

From personal experience, the majority of students just aren't going to get as much use from Mandarin as they would from Spanish. Furthermore, Mandarin is much harder for native English speakers to learn than Spanish--It takes much more instruction and practice to get to an equivalent level of competence.
This is cute. If I wasn't a vim person I'd consider using it.
BTW in 1998 I've worked 100+ hours/week for a few months; it ended in the hospital.

Hell of a difference between spending 50 hours a week on the job and spending 100. Everything you've said in this thread is undeniably true at 100 hours/week. Almost nothing you've said in this thread is generally true at 50.
For about ten years, many people have been advocating the use of CC licenses by arguing that it's a socially responsible or altruistic thing to do.

I have suggested here that CC does more social harm than good when applied to textual works (when compared to the alternative of making the text available for free under a more restrictive license) and consequently it is not an effective way for an author of a text to be socially responsible or altruistic.

Your question, "who are YOU to say that Conservapedia doesn't count? Even if they only have 6 users, aren't those 6 users entitled to their own opinion?" does not really apply to my suggestion because my suggestion is addressed to altruistically-minded authors and to people trying to persuade altruistically-minded authors to use the CC licenses. I am not trying to influence any other group.

And I am not suggesting the users of Conservapedia do not count; I am suggesting that the benefits (to them and the other beneficiaries) are outweighed by harms done elsewhere.

(And that will probably be my last comment in this thread.)
I actually thought it fit the description of something that good hackers would find interesting and something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

I was actually surprised by how detailed is Goodyear's description of it.

Guess I was wrong.
It's important to understand that Byron Sebastian wasn't a founder of Heroku. He was an executive who they brought in later to run the company (because the founders were busy writing code and making the platform awesome). Unlike with other companies, the emphasis was never on the CEO, but on the technically brilliant founders (Lindenbaum, Wiggins, and Henry). It sounds like he accomplished his goal by building the company and selling it, and now it's time for him to move on. The developers are still busy building an awesome service.

Echoing what other people have said, there has been no exodus. Throughout its history, Heroku has focused on building an awesome place to work, and they have continued to do this, even at Salesforce. I worked out of the Heroku office for a few weeks (pre-acquisition), and it seemed like a great place to work. Everyone was super-friendly, and seemed to be working on things they truly loved doing (plus, they had a beautiful office that was extremely well-run). I would predict that there are no major staff changes in the foreseeable future.
So you made a debugger below the OS by instrumenting the target program to do debuggery things? That's pretty cool. But at what granularity did you inject the code? Presumably not around every single instruction. But if it was just on demand wherever the user set a breakpoint, how would you implement stepping?
They all indicate a very weak to declining economy and, of course, they are all trailing indicators. With the ISM miss this month and the latest jobs debacle, I expect us to be officially in recession by the end of the year (with all the experts shocked, of course.)

OTOH, it's an election year, and Bernanke will print, so who can say?
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It's a $69 electronic device. It's hardly a "premium electronic device.'

I know it's en vogue to scream "screw this company" when upset with it (re: the recent paypal incident), but given Amazon's broad range of products and services, saying "screw amazon" over a $69 device is a pretty heavy indictment.
It's nothing personal, it just seemed odd to submit the FAQ page of a blimp.

If blimps are interesting to you, Airship Ventures might be of interest as well --

http://www.airshipventures.com/
The notable exception being Saudi, which (with America's complete approval, I suppose) ramps up production to drive down the cost of petroleum to make sure that Iran does not derive as much profit from its sales as it could, even at detriment to itself, as a calculated move in the cold war between those two countries.
Exxon exited retail largely starting in 2008: http://articles.cnn.com/2008-06-12/us/exxon.mobil_1_exxonmob...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/06/12/us-exxon-idUSN1238...

Most of them just closed, others we sold, 2,220 in total. I remember around the election or before all mobile stations in my area going away. They either closed or became independent or remodeled into QuickTrips and other brands. Most of them closing due to gas prices at the time and the economy.

Possibly the dynamics of this contributed to a changed supply market since they were so big?
Sure, sorry I wasn't emphasizing the leaving of the band (which I was wrong on) as much as the adoption of farming...
I think there's a huge cultural education gap in the US regarding China. Requiring Mandarin at a basic level would help mitigate this while opening opportunities for students.

People should get their heads out of the sand..
I don't believe he said he liked VB, he actually said as a language it isn't great. What he did say is that the way it simplified database access gave us something extremely powerful and influential even though it was not (and isn't) seen as particularly disruptive or new. This seems inline with other statements from Linus w.r.t. the value of C++ and OOP in general. A very pragmatic man. I believe it also aligns with many of the answers to what will be the "next big thing.".
Vast amounts of money provide the means to follow a fulfilling and simple lifestyle in a luxurious way without worry of sustaining ones family/self.
I know about the stories and how looking at them for narrative looks like a change in POR, but who from Amazon confirmed it? They never named names because controversy sells more eyeballs. And because of them we had to make opt-out more prominent. It makes me wonder about all the other stories I read.

I'm on the engineering team that makes KSO, and we have had opt-out throughout the release.
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>It is also spoken in many places outside of mainland China.

Mandarin will definitely be a widely spoken language. But having studied some Mandarin in college, an average American doesn't have enough opportunities to interact with Mandarin speakers to make it a useful day to day skill.

And it's much harder to learn (for a native English speaker) than Spanish (or French or German). Given equivalent instruction the average student learning Spanish will be significantly further along.
I think you should give it a shot yourself and then come back and let us all know what you learned and whether it's meaningful.
Sending Chinese teachers to America to school children in Mandarin is just as suspect as America sending most of its manufacturing to China.
I'm having a difficult time parsing your comment. The $5 from the article was the cost of paying out $10,000 1 in 2000 times. If a different process costs $5 to implement, then they might as well accept the risk as is.
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I agree 100%. I've had lots of foreign language learning experience. I love studying languages and I think that kids should have as much opportunity to do so as possible.

I have strong doubts that Chinese will ever become the lingua franca of business. It has language features that make it difficult for us Westerners to learn (mainly, tones that carry semantic meaning)... I think that Chinese people will be more motivated to learn English instead.

Also, who's to say China's economy won't crash and burn in the next 50 years? Forcing Mandarin on everyone is putting all your eggs in one basket. Learning a foreign language is a difficult thing, and one good way to keep motivated is to be truly interested in the culture of the country whose language you're studying. I'm all for mandatory foreign language education, but I think people should be able to choose a language they care about. They shouldn't have to take Chinese because it might be a big deal in the future. Learning any foreign language can open doors, not just Chinese. Take it from me, an American living in Japan.
Oops. That's what I get for submitting a link here five minutes before walking out the door...
A ban on voice calling should come from airline policy, not FAA regulation.
Money laundering is used to get the books to add up, it's more to do with accounting. The actual medium of cash is irrelevant.

What muyuu is talking about is akin to wiping your dollar notes, to remove any dna evidence that you ever touched them
I find it extremely intriguing that although we do not fully understand the fundamentals of the quantum world we are able to exploit it.
Good, I don't think we are disagreeing then.

My first note was really simple, just highlighting for HN how and why this was going on. Its here for refenence. The notes were just to avoid saying more. =D guess that didn't work out so well...There was a nother thread on these images a couple years ago too, nobody mentioned this.

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these photos are from 100 years ago.

This is the work of 21st century photoshop.[1,2,3]