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>I'm amazed at how many of the comments in this thread appear to be about issues thoroughly discussed in the submitted article, but unresponsive to what the submitted article said.

I'm not, unfortunately. It seems like most people read a headline and perhaps a paragraph or two, then active their pre-existing beliefs about whatever the subject happens to me, and move on from there. That's certainly been my experience with commenters on my blog, anyway, and it's been experience in observing both online communities and in reading student papers.
> Now if the definition of something not being quackery is if it's the best treatment available to us at the time,

I do not believe that to be the common definition of quackery.

>then homeopathy couldn't have been quackery by definition, since it was in fact the most scientifically advanced (or however you'd phrase it) form of medicine available at the time.

Again, this is misleading. Homeopathy was and still is completely scientifically bogus. It was never and is not now advanced. It is misleading to say that a field that unintentionally had no effect was scientifically advanced. It's simply the (undisputed) truth that their outcomes were better because of their lack of real intervention, not because of any scientific merit whatsoever.
As a teacher, I highly encourage you to pursue this. You will meet some wonderful students, and some of them will run with whatever you show them. There is a pretty good chance you will change a number of students' lives for the better. (I hate the "If I just reach one student..." mindset. You will reach a number of students.)

One of the best ways to move forward is to visit a school where you want to volunteer, and look for a teacher to partner with. The teacher can help recruit students, navigate administrative issues, and create opportunities during the school day for students to practice what you show them.

If you really want to focus on at-risk youth, I encourage you to teach something that can be done entirely with open source software, on non-current hardware. A few years ago I taught several groups of students to install ubuntu on old computers, and then taught a couple python classes. Students ran with it, and some are starting to take tech work more seriously. Had I written a grant and gotten a bunch of expensive macs in the classroom, few if any of my students would have been able to do anything more once the class was over.

Happy to talk more, here or privately.
I never had an issue figuring out the front or back. Usually my fingers run over the home button or the ear piece which is what tells me what the front is. Honestly, I didn't even feel the edge till I repeatedly turned the phone around quite a few times, which is when I looked at it. Not sure this would let me determine what the front was, but that might be my personal opinion, or my insensitive fingers.
This actually happened. George Bush did it in 2008, $300 per person:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008

> 51% popular share

electoral college share, not popular share.
>One problem is that it might give too much power to students.

This is discussed extensively, midway through the article, in approximately four paragraphs:

Students were better than trained adult observers at evaluating teachers. This wasn’t because they were smarter but because they had months to form an opinion, as opposed to 30 minutes. And there were dozens of them, as opposed to a single principal. Even if one kid had a grudge against a teacher or just blew off the survey, his response alone couldn’t sway the average.

“There are some students, knuckleheads who will just mess the survey up and not take it seriously,” Ferguson says, “but they are very rare.” Students who don’t read the questions might give the same response to every item. But when Ferguson recently examined 199,000 surveys, he found that less than one-half of 1 percent of students did so in the first 10 questions. Kids, he believes, find the questions interesting, so they tend to pay attention. And the “right” answer is not always apparent, so even kids who want to skew the results would not necessarily know how to do it.

Even young children can evaluate their teachers with relative accuracy, to Kane’s surprise. In fact, the only thing that the researchers found to better predict a teacher’s test-score gains was … past test-score gains. But in addition to being loathed by teachers, those data are fickle. A teacher could be ranked as highly effective one year according to students’ test gains and as ineffective the next, partly because of changes in class makeup that have little to do with her own performance—say, getting assigned the school’s two biggest hooligans or meanest mean girls.

Student surveys, on the other hand, are far less volatile. Kids’ answers for a given teacher remained similar, Ferguson found, from class to class and from fall to spring. And more important, the questions led to revelations that test scores did not: Above and beyond academic skills, what was it really like to spend a year in this classroom? Did you work harder in this classroom than you did anywhere else? The answers to these questions matter to a student for years to come, long after she forgets the quadratic equation.
The WilliamsWarn Nanobrewery http://www.williamswarn.com is the most elegant solution to home brewing out there.
The control system (which was done by a company related to me), had to be complex enough to cope with everything going on, simple enough to operate by anyone and flexible enough to allow the brewer to create. I'm obviously biased - but the nanobrewery is getting great reviews.
The business model of the future:

Dual revenue. Sell your product. And your users.
Is this the L4 and the HURD project?
The article discusses this issue extensively; I already quoted one part here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560031 .
This is the point I keep trying to make in this argument. In the long run this suit sets a bad precedent for everybody, including Apple.

The patent trolls are licking their chops after this judgement.
Well, it looks like you got your wish. TQ2 has apparently been banned. For a while, I tried to reply to someone, and all I got was "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." How polite.
If you're into this sort of thing, Aswath Damodaran teaches a valuation class at NYU which is online now, and he arrived at an FB valuation of $24.

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/webcasteq...

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2012/08/facebook-face-pl...
The Internet? We Built That
iPhone 5 Zips Past Galaxy S III in Speed Test [video]
The war between the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III continues and the latest battle pits the smartphones against one another in the crucial speed test. Can Apple’s A6 processor live up to the hype?
The definition you just quoted fits perfectly with what you said you wished racism meant. Mazel tov!

Why are you arguing about this? Your homework is to go out and tell everyone you know that you're an unrepentant racist.
I once spent some time chatting with a guy who ran a handful of fire-and-forget IT side-businesses, including wifi/hotspot internet access.

His customer service philosophy was very simple: either you use and like the service, or he refunds the money. It wasn't altruism, it was self-interest. He didn't have time to do customer support, and was very blunt about it. Either customers corrected their own issues, or they were no longer customers. This was one of the ways he was able to have time for his several companies.
What's that movie with Eddie Murphy where he's an alien spaceship? It like this team of little people (cells, proteins, DNA, whatever) trying to make sense of all the stupid stuff you, the lumbering gene robot, got up to during the day. All I gave them to work with was a bunch of words on a webpage. Doesn't make for the most interesting or coherent storyline for a dream. One can imagine them saying, "When is this guy going to get off that stupid website and give us some real material to work with?" :)
Apple brand is officially toxic for me. I will not spend a dime on their products ever again.
My thoughts? Okay, how about this: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/06/17/vidbid/
AWS credit, not cash.
> The way drug approval works is that you need 2 tests demonstrating that the drug is better than a placebo, but you're allowed infinite tries to get there. So often a drug will be better than a placebo in only 2 out of 10 trials, but it will still get approved and only those two trials will get published in medical journals.

This is incorrect. All clinical studies must be registered before they are started, precisely so that negative results are reported.
Five Minute Monad Madness
Sigh, a nickel for everyone who owns an Apple product suddenly thinks they are a world class designer.
Weird, when I originally submitted, the actual title reflected the title in the URL. Guess the BBC changed it at some point, as someone has for this post too.
Show HN: A simple static jinja2 site generator
> What is your time worth?

Less than my self-respect? The iterated prisoner's dilemma cautions us against letting someone profit by screwing us over. And the very idea of Rob friggin' Pike embracing learned helplessness is very depressing. Of course, so is the idea of him not having the source to his system, when he wrote quite a bit of it.
Like many of the bedrock technologies that have come to define the digital age, the Internet was created by — and continues to be shaped by — decentralized groups of scientists and programmers and hobbyists (and more than a few entrepreneurs) freely sharing the fruits of their intellectual labor with the entire world. Yes, government financing supported much of the early research, and private corporations enhanced and commercialized the platforms. But the institutions responsible for the technology itself were neither governments nor private start-ups. They were much closer to the loose, collaborative organizations of academic research. They were networks of peers.

-- Summary of the premise. An interesting observation.
> I really don't think public unions is really the blocker

I agree with you, I don't think they are. What I said is that the tech workers are not represented as a class the way public employees are.

> and everybody has a death-grudge against high-rises, or even mid-density low-rises. Every time the issue of development is brought up, people scream foul and act as if the sky is falling

That's the thing: there's a huge segment of the population who really like high-rises and mid-density buildings, as evidenced by the wild popularity of that kind of housing. But there's a smaller, apparently more vocal segment who hate it (and perhaps have more time on their hands to make themselves heard). So the trick is to organize people who are OK with development to the point where we can repeal laws that preclude it, as well as make things like this possible: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/1-dissenting-vo...
Laundry Start-up (service-based) - Feedback (any, please)
This has been posted on Redditt, but I would like more feedback regarding this. Thanks!
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Hi, I am a college student currently attending a local, popular university in southern CA. I am interested in doing a start-up, but not the atypical sense. I have $40 in my current name, and I want to do a local laundry-service for students who live on campus. Until I have the funds for an office/license requirement, this will have to be cash until further notice (I know, it's risky, but I do not know how to get funded, I've used up all my resources).

Here's the breakdown -

MARKET: The students at the local institutions.

RATE: Still working on it, but the labor + supplies + time/travel to and from location would justify $10-$20 per load. I say $10 because one load isn't too heavy to carry per appointment basis. I can knock out a dorm room full of people's clothing = $40-$60 per room per load. If they need the services of a dry-cleaner I can charge $5-$10 (depending on their needs).

TIME/COMMITMENT: I can start this as a weekend-p/t basis unless demands pick-up and I can fill it in with my Tuesdays and Thursdays (I have off) until I can hire on people.

This can work, if you guys can provide some constructive feedback, I'd really appreciate it. I have read countless stories of people starting businesses with less than $40 and grew it.

Thank you.
Pin 5 (the unconnected pin) is programming voltage input, used only when writing identity information to the SIM.

These chips are preprogrammed when manufactured, and the programming voltage pin is left unconnected when placed in the carrier so it's impossible to re-program the SIM card once made.

In older times, it was possible with the right hardware to reprogram a SIM card to (for example) have two SIM cards report the same mobile number, so you could essentially clone a phone number onto multiple handsets instead of having to pay for multiple cellular lines. These newer style SIM cards prevent hacking like this simply by making it impossible to reprogram the SIM by not being able to power the programming circuit.

Source: http://pinouts.ru/Memory/SmartCardIso_pinout.shtml
Taxi drivers are heavily regulated already, including rates, posted information, what they can and can’t do and in at least one case how they can bill/accept money. In Boston a taxi driver told me the city mandates they use a city provided credit card method that charges them 8% and holds the money for week.

I'm not for regulation but anyone who's ever been scammed by a driver will appreciate it.

If all the taxi drivers have to live under these regulations, why would a 'private' taxi service be able to skirt them all? Uber should be held to the same standard and we should work on reforming the overall regulations to allow for more innovation for all.
Also note, it's the guy using a fucking generic blog template.

Gotta love and hate Hacker News sometimes. Idiots.

Edit: Bury me all you want, but by booting this post off the front page you've essentially agreed with me ;)
That's why app stores exist... you think Microsoft would have been faster if they sent you MS Office?
There's a documentary on this issue here https://vimeo.com/23540198 with one blogger saying:

"More than 80% of the fish has disappeared from your oceans. Your children, when they are your age, will not be able to see wild fish. The oceans will be completely empty in 30 years. Unless..... YOU stop eating fish now AND please vote for political parties that will stop subsidizing the fishing industry." http://www.thebestofrawfood.com/Raw-Food-blog.html#Stop-Eati...

Myself, I personally would just ban fish farms globally. They are polluting, don't provide healthy fish for consumption and require smaller wild caught fish to maintain.

I might add: I'd also place a ban on all Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations as unhealthy, cruel, environmentally unfriendly (requiring cleared land growing GMOs for feeds) and perhaps unnecessary. Although, some are better than others such as those that feed sprouted grasses rather than grains.

Animals should live in their natural habitats. First and foremost we should adapt to them and serve them, not them to us. Domestication can only go so far, and ironically as we overly domesticate animals, so we ourselves become domesticated and consumed without even knowing it.
So I have a unique situation, and I was actually considering using your site to help me solve it.

My girlfriend is flying to Prague and Rome for 2 weeks, just before our 7 year anniversary. My plan is to show up in Rome on Oct. 24, surprise her, and pop the question.

I'm trying to figure out the fastest and most cost-effective way to get to there from Toronto. The other constraint is that I'll likely be in San Francisco for Startup School on Oct. 20th.

Is it possible for me to somehow get this kind of request fulfilled?
It's just that the key exchange for symmetric keys is inherently unsafe online.

I don't understand what you mean. There are plenty of ways to exchange symmetric keys online, for instance by Diffie-Hellman scheme, or even using public key cryptography. I even recall that SSL/TLS uses symmetric key for encryption and asymmetric crypto is used only for key exchange.
Not the same thing. Firefox doesn't send my local searches to Google. What Ubuntu does is a privacy breach.
That's there to make sure the screen completely shatters if you bump it against anything.
I was at the Apple Store yesterday and also noticed the front glass isn't flush. Was a bit disappointed but reasoned that it's still a beautiful phone. I think it's a stretch to say Steve Jobs would have not allowed it. There could be other factors doing into the design.

On another note, the four iPhone 5 commercials Apple just released were horrible IMO. I definitely think Steve Jobs would have been pissed off at those commercials. The just don't communicate clearly and border on tastelessness.
Yes, but so far I've been unable to cough up the Review-Journal article on it, it would be from 1977 or 78 which is sadly pre-web.

Similar effect : http://www.wwdmag.com/super-bowl-flush
I've seen one or two advertising around 'The Creamery' (SOMA SF), with routes to both Berkeley and the Palo Alto/Mt View/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara area. (Maybe one is called Commuters Club?) Such a service is not shown on this otherwise amazing Stamen analysis.
That's wrong. They are registered so that they can't hide the data from the FDA. But once the FDA has the data the drug companies aren't required to publish it anywhere, nor does the FDA publish it themselves.
I find it funny that he works for Google but doesn't know how to use it... half of those items he complained about could have been solved by a quick Google.
He never claimed to be a world class designer. In fact if you just clicked on the About Me link at the top you would find his background.

> I am currently a Product Manager at Bigdoor. ... I am responsible for the consumer experience on over 20 Million Monthly Active Users among several clients with the primary objective of improving loyalty and engagement.
As someone who practically grew up on 4chan, I have to ask: What on earth are you talking about?
Hope she doesn't ready HN :) Yes, we can absolutely handle that. Are you just looking for your flight, or also your gf's? If both, it's usually better to run 2 contests if the departure/arrival place is different. Either way, this is where using humans over machines excels (i.e saving the time of searching yourself and having peace of mind you're getting the best flights).
I have calloused hands. I always have a hard time telling front from back, top from bottom on the 4/4S.
To reduce round trips and ease of use for the ultimate consumer. A typical whatsapp consumer is decidedly not the geek/hipster hanging out on HN. Out of the 100+ million installs they have, I doubt any more than about 0.1% care about encrypted messages et. al. Most of them do care about a large existing user-base (network effect), ease of startup (no registration/login required), ease of connecting to other users (scan phone contact list) etc.
All of those things rile up the crowd that gathers here but provides real, tangible value to the ultimate users. That's the reason they have the userbase that they do despite repeated breast-beating by the crowd here about their lax security etc.
Agreed. I run a small game company and I was looking forward to buying a high-end computer. I was considering the iMac due to its form factor. Then, one of my friends suggested an HP Z1 workstation. Both are priced similarly and share the same form-factor, yet I realized I would be over-paying Apple if I went for the iMac because:

1) The fucking iMac still has no USB 3.0, though we're two years ahead of 2010

2) The HP Z1 comes with a professional NVidia Quadro card, whereas the iMac comes with a mobile Graphics (Radeon 6790M)

4) The HP comes with a Xeon, whereas, Apple gives me an i5 for the same price. (Wtf!)

5) The HP is user-upgradeable (including the graphics card), whereas you can't upgrade anything more than the RAM on the iMac.

And much much more. If anything, Apple has proved to be ultra-expensive and has always tried to make things expensive. When someone buys a professional computer, they buy it for the performance more than the design. The iMacs are simply overrated piece of under-rated hardware.
Tim Cook's leadership style
Surely you are capable of subtracting the proper amount of time based on your personal cycle which may not be 90 minutes.

You'd do best not to criticize the author for using the human average of 90 minutes when his audience is the average human.
And the market for an "ad-free OS" begins to take form...

No joke. Steve Jobs is listed on a patent for serving ads at boot time.

There is no limit to how low they will go.
In the 1970's a handful of nerds bought kit computers, just so they could program them.

There will always be workstations with big screens.

A physically bigger computer will always have more power and the appetite for power is unlimited. Good enough, satisfies most, but not the nerds.

I don't like little computers, in the same way Americans don't like little cars.

I hope to be lucky enough to always program on and for a workstation.
@carbocation

You can call it whatever you want, but the fact remains that if homeopathy was quackery then western medicine was the whole duck.

Also, it's not really fair to say that homeopathy was better merely by accident or that it wasn't scientific, since they're the ones who pioneered evidence based medicine. It might have been completely wrong, but it was scientific. They at least tested their ideas empirically unlike western medicine at the time, which by any reasonable definition must make it more scientifically advanced than the alternative.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/
It's a fucking phone.
Thanks guys, I'm relieved to hear both of you have done it!
I can't help but envision Jeff Daniels talk in a dog suit from Dumb and Dumber when I hear him voice the ads.
Piracy is the purest form of free-to-play
think != claim
Roskilde gets my top vote. Best sound engineers of any festival I know; and just a great scene all around. Best of the best, in my humble opinion. I'm not familiar with the one in Barcelona. How does it compare?
This isn't a problem for me. It's still built with extreme precision and not liking a minor design decision doesn't make it any less finely crafted. And it's still a big improvement over the previous version.

iPhone 4S side: http://www.iphone4sreview.org/wp-content/gallery/iphone-4s-r...
Love it. Here are some thoughts.

I think you should A/B test the entire project.

How you do that is up to you, but I'm sure the community could have some fun with it.

If you create an app for the consumer side, create another one for the vendor side, and see how the problems conflict, or explore the synergies.

If you build something that searches, build something that turns those searches into social discovery or sharing.

If you build something that floats, build something else that seeks to sink it. Chaos monkey comes to mind.

I recognize it isn't true split testing, but you might discover a part of a chain that others have been ignoring, and you might also ignite a passion for a problem you didn't realize you had.

Best of luck.
iPhones are pretty amazing, but I don't think procreation is a built in feature. Perhaps with the iPhone 6?
You say "reported", but that's ambiguous. The question is, are all registered clinical studies published? If they are, why did Kirsch and Sapirstein have to sue under the Freedom of Information Act (and wait years) to see the unpublished studies of antidepressants?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/01/28/the-depress...
That's what I was thinking too, the asymmetry is ergonomic.
What do you mean by this?

He never thinked to be a world class designer