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As Nicholas Negroponte, the founder and chairman
of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, asked in a
September article for the MIT Technology Review:
“If kids in Ethiopia learn to read without school,
what does that say about kids in New York City who
do not learn even with school?”

Maybe popular TV shows like Jersey Shore should contain public service announcements like "Snooki says: reading is fun!"

Or maybe we need more on-screen text in games like Call of Duty & Halo. For example, you can't complete a particular objective unless you figure out that a paragraph of text tells you to look up a "code word" from page 6 of a real book like The Lorax.

Schools and teachers aren't our problem. If parents and kids aren't intrinsically motivated to learn, how can you force them to?

I hope that more American parents will convince their kids to take education seriously, or else many other countries (with access to American online courses) will eventually surpass us.
Wow, this is excellent, the best HN-related app I've used in awhile. I obviously missed it when it was on the front page.
I'm in the US on AT&T locked and have full access to my APN settings
It is even worse than that. I tried to edit a .tex file yesterday in TextEdit, launching from the command line with open -e. GateKeeper told me that the .tex file wasnt signed and could not be opened. This is a barrier even for very technical people.
But how were they supposed to know you were the kind of programmer that picks up a new language in a matter of days or weeks? Most programmers take years to become competent in a language. I think this hiring practice, although unfortunate, is just the employer securing themselves in case the programmer is only at medium competency. Then at least he or she can use that one language where they have shown at least some competency.
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Too bad 99% of student's don't have $20,000 a year lying around, it is why we have an imminent student loan bubble. The more likely scenario is a rapid freefall in education prices (a very good thing, I might add) to near 0, the implementation of global examinations for each grade level and course load rather than just the PSSAs / SAT / AP tests, and the usage of high quality lecture videos with Khan-style infinite question loops to learn material.

And you definitely lose the traditional brick and mortar school buildings. They cost so much money when the alternative, aside the bickering about the quality of online learning vs traditional lecture halls, is orders of magnitude less expensive, and even government is subject to economics in the long run.
After reading this thread I don't see what value there is in South America or SE Asia that can't bettered by a big screen TV and some National Geographic and Food Channel and BBC DVDs
The difficulty depends on the language and on what you're trying to do.

In Python the correct translation is usually to replace return with yield and work with iterators. In a language without that feature, well, http://perl.plover.com/Stream/stream.html demonstrates what a solution looks like in Perl. A Java solution to the same issue is going to be..verbose.
I whipped up something similar in Go recently. There's no README yet, but it uses cgo to link to ImageMagick for resizing, and serves up a folder of jpgs.

https://github.com/georgebashi/pugholder
(edit: you can see it running at http://pugholder.com/)
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Interestingly that page never stops loading for me and drives Chrome nuts. It keeps loading tons of different images and the icon for stop/refresh alternates between the two states a couple times per second.
Me too. This is with a Chinese iPhone in Europe.

I noticed that my carrier settings get erased on OS upgrades, though, which is annoying.
One of the killer features to me for using Opera was a feature to browse with images turned off (cached images only) and a "show image" option on the right-click menu: coupled with extreme caching, it allowed to have a very tolerable browsing experience on very slow networks (mobile GRPS, etc).

Firefox misimplemented this feature by missing its point -- its "view image" opened the missing image in a new page -- instead of just loading it in its place in the page, and I'm not sure it used caching as good as well.
It'll be a while yet, but there's a reason we've bought that domain :)
Thanks for the info -- it looks like strto{d,f} can parse this format, so you could use it as input to dumpfp, making it the easiest way to get a precise value into it from another program (in case you don't want to link it in).
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That's sort of my point. If there isn't aren't independent security researchers who make a stink about security issues thus causing them to be fixed then these government organisations will be the only ones with knowledge.
There are hundreds of far more terrible things happening every day that do not make the slightest dent in the public consciousness. It seems incredibly premature (at best, woefully naive would be more accurate in my opinion) to pretend this is good news and sure to bring about change.
Doesn't work in Firefox.

OT: Am I the only one annoyed by this "viewed best in Chrome" trend? Reminds me of those old "Best in IE" badges.
Yeah I think you can't argue that malicious hackers won't find it and make it far worse if we removed the non-malicious hackers. It's obvious that hacking would be far worse without security researchers finding and disclosing bugs that can be fixed.

What Linus is describing seems to be more along the lines of 'public approval'. When a big new hack is found, the researcher who finds the hack is treated like a rock star and given a ton of praise, and the company/coder responsible for the security bug gets a lot of dirt thrown their way. "How can you be so stupid as to let customer's data be taken?!" - that kind of thing. As Linus says, these bugs are generally very complex things and people obviously make mistakes.

Might be better for the community in general to try and not treat security researchers/hackers with so much awe? Moot point at any rate, it's just human nature - not going to be able to change that. People will always jump on this kind of thing (strikers in soccer get far more awe than defenders, even though both are equally valuable to the team).
The proposed solution already exists, rather the question is being debated is: which language is someone supposed to start with? Everyone is ever shifting from language to language in order to make applications. One programming language has never been enough. The language a person is supposed to start with must provide a guideline to good programming practices and it is supposed to enable one to have the knowledge they need in order to fully explore other languages.
Heh, the author of this article may be exaggerating a bit.

The carrier sim can block access to the apn/mms settings; an AT&T sim usually does.

I've used the sim-swap trick (with a t-mobile sim) on my iPhone 4S to change the apn without issue... On iOS 5 and iOS 6. And I know of at least four others that are on StraightTalk using iOS 6. Guess my anecdotal evidence is greater than the authors.
"only a minuscule proportion of the sensory data processed by the unconscious mind (capable of processing approximately 11 million bits per second) is referred to the conscious mind (capable of processing approximately 50 bits per second)."

By that measure, a two-hour movie can be compressed down to 22.5 kilobytes... :-)
Diverse organizations perform better. Diversity of genders, ages, backgrounds. They are more balanced and have healthier decision-making processes. We've been tribal creatures for thousands of years and we've evolved to work best in mixed groups like that.

So if you're going to send a spaceship to Mars for a couple of years, you'd better mix some women in there, whether you consider it sexist or not. Likewise if you're going to put some people in a high-pressure startup for a couple of years, where they're spending almost all of their time and energy at the office, you'll probably have better and more consistent outcomes with a diverse group. That means both men and women, junior and senior, deep thinkers and fast movers.
You did nice job listing why lecturers suck. Now try and list why your teaching videos suck.
> Aloha is not a traditional WYISWYG editor contained in a textarea.

Did you miss the part where I said I wasn't talking about RTE?

I don't care that it's implemented using something which was introduced to build RTEs in the first place and has been used for exactly that for the past 12 years or so (which does happen to make contenteditable-based RTEs traditional, as are designMode-based ones, despite your apparent assertion to the contrary), my original comment is not about rich text edition.
iPhone APN settings can be modified using the iPhone Configuration Utility.[0] In fact, T-Mobile provides an easy-to-download, easy-to-install "profile" (a file specifying the APN) created with this tool.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1465
"And after Torvalds had installed the 16 floppy drives that comprised the Minix operating system..."

I think the article meant 16 floppy disks, installing 16 floppy drives would be quite a feat!
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That's the same as the question "can schools survive in the age of the book". Education is not technology/media.
Something short, hard and brutal. C and Haskell or LISP. Then Python.

They both require relatively little time to learn, but are with a very steep learning curve. And the moment you have groked pointers, recursion and monads you are capable of translating whatever is needed into code. Also chances are they are not heavily used in a modern startup. Because when a non technical person decides to become technical - we add a junior developer to the team that just happen to inhabit the body of the designer. And that could be a strain on the already limited resources of the technical cofounders. So you don't need a person that have a habit of "fixing" your stuff to the best of his lack of experience.
That statistic comes from a book[0] that was written in 1998, and is based on little evidence. The science of consciousness has tremendously advanced in the last 14 years, and I'm not sure it is still seen as correct.

There is a preconscious reduction of bandwidth (lot's of pruning). The input is transformed, from lots of points in low dimensional spaces to fewer points in a higher dimensional one, and it is hypothesized that consciousness is isomorphic to the integration process[1] that performs that transformation.

That theory has the big advantage of being neither anthropo- nor neurocentric. It can be related to any physical system (biological or otherwise).

Stephen Hawking has been spotted at consciousness conferences recently.

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Information_Theory

edit: corrected and refined.
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Others have responded, but I don't think they get the gist of this question exactly.

C, C++, etc are just as retargetable as LLVM because you can take IR code, C, or C++ code (assuming standards compliance) and get a machine dependent binary anywhere you have a working compiler / assembler / linker stack. Clang uses LLVM as a translation layer for C and C++ because LLVM IR code is much more machine-like and makes writing the final assembler / linker easier, since you are just effectively translating abstracted assembly into machine specific assembly, instead of an object oriented / procedural dialect language into machine instructions.
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https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Early+Warnings

Looking through, the first thing that I noticed is the number of domains rejected by Australia, looking through the PDFs the reasons all seem valid, it's just strange that Australia is the one rejecting them.
That's true, there's a lot of ego in this. Just watch any DEFCON talk for examples. OTOH nobody wants to be the idiot who wrote the insecure code or don't want their company shamed.

This can help developers persuade their bosses to allow them to spend the necessary time to diligently check their work for security issues.

Part of this is probably also the holywood perpetrated stereotype of the "hacker" as some evil/good mastermind who can destroy military infrastructure by typing a few commands on his terminal. This is seen as sexier than being some guy who writes code for a living.
Small comment on cost of developing simultaneously for iOS, Android, and the web: it still seems to me that for the majority content rich sites that HTML5 universal platform web apps are the way to go.

I don't like to install a lot of apps on my Android phone and iPad so I may not accurately reflect the market at large.
I have to say, I'm somewhat disappointed that "fakeimg.pl" isn't actually powered by a perl script with the same name, but by Python.
All people are intrinsically motivated to learn.

People can give up wealth, sex, and addictive drugs. We can fast. We can even stop breathing for a little while -- or longer, with a little planning. But short of suicide, you can't stop thinking about the world around you.
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I would call out anyone who claimed Larry Page "invented" the search industry.
The configuration profiles are even easier to use then editing the information on the device itself.

The only problem is that end-users might not be aware of it and I am not sure what the answer from the Geniuses might be.
All you have to do is set your "Screen Recording Link" to "Disabled" from your control panel page and that will make it so you do not receive a test yet until you are ready. When you are ready to receive feedback, just make it say "enabled."

I already switched it to "disabled" for you when I saw the message you posted in your description.

I guess I have to make this feature on my site more clear.
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I don't know if anyone has mentioned one potential reason: Opera is the only browser which is clearly not made in the USA. For countries which aren't big fans of the US, this could have made quite a difference.
WRT the skill of "repairing the proprietary code," there isn't any repair of code (in the literal sense). It is actually the skill of clicking the right buttons (often in a horribly designed GUI) to make a proprietary machine do what it needs to do.

Come to think about it, it isn't obscure skills, it is obscure knowledge. The problems are (a) there is really no skill involved, (b) the knowledge involved is specific to a proprietary machine and proprietary program, and (c) the training courses are training specific knowledge, not the principles and cross-training that would apply more universally.

Mapping to our (geek) world, training obscure knowledge vs. actual skills is all the "office productivity training" that goes on which really is "which buttons to click in Excel"... leaving the trainee helpless in LibreOffice because the button is in a different spot and possibly labeled differently. Note that the trainer is not entirely at fault - I've been amazed at the number of trainees that cannot generalize.
The alternative would be more sexist. If you covered up everyone's names and fed their voice through a obfuscater you'd still end up with a similar ratio.

There are a lot more women in HR than men, and there are a lot more men in programming than women. There are many reasons why this is the case, many of which relate to sexism, but the fact that your overall result is gender-skewed is not in any way indicative of sexism in the hiring process.
What's better than stuffing garish Share on Twitter/Facebook icons around your content? Overloading highlighted text to share itself when you click it. Very cool.

http://rubymonk.com/learning/books/1/chapters/6-objects/less...
Hah! Your english is so good I assumed you are a native speaker, it never crossed my mind that you are Dutch; I can't even tell if your last sentence is sarcastic or advanced level self deprecation :-)
Permalink for future reference (please, stop linking to blog front-pages):

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MOOCs might replace a traditional university for a few people, but the top universities will remain around. The major benefit to college is not the academics, but the social connections you make. For hackers, this might be meeting a fellow hacker to start a company with. For a director, it might mean meeting an actress to star in a movie. For a businessperson it might mean getting a job at a friend's dad's company.

The central idea behind MOOCs is that education is expensive now. It isn't -- just go to the library and pick up a book. Completely free, and if you're disciplined enough, probably pretty close to a university quality education. I'll concede that this doesn't apply to hard science education where you need sophisticated labs, but it does apply to a lot of students' fields of study.

When most people think "education", they aren't talking about learning, but the complete package of learning, social activities, and making connections. That is expensive. You need a nice campus with plenty of green space to lie about and play frisbee. You need a nice gym, a welcoming student center, and a nice dorm area for people to socialize. If you were to build a campus solely around education, it would probably be pretty cheap. Just buy up some cheap office space in a nondescript office buildings, and have professors give lectures there. But this isn't what students want.
I don't know how to articulate my aversion to this tool but I think it has something to do with the phrase "sunk cost fallacy".

Maybe I would find it more useful if the number it showed were instead "the next 5 minute discussion will cost $100".
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I have a group of friends that were thinking about doing something similar, unfortunately for them, they were just starting to shape the idea, while Mojang seems very ahead in development.
I can't speak to the truth of that, but the conclusion the author tries to draw from it:

"and hence how designers of e-learning materials need to avoid creating cognitive overload."

is totally ridiculous. His conclusion might be true, but unless he wants to posit the number of these consciousness bits expended on parts of e-learning software it doesn't follow from the premise.
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I agree with the second point. Who wants to install an app for every bloody site one visits? Techcrunch is almost impossible to browse from an iPad because they blast those overlays in your face.
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I read it opposite from the way you did. He seems very sympathetic and respectful of the local norms. I don't read any contempt in it. He appeals, respectfully, in several places to the standards the local populace holds the police to. He's sympathetic to the police making only a dollar an hour.
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When the article's all about a device that goes into their pants?

If we were talking about someone with a surgically reconstructed vagina I think that would be relevant in this particular story, just because physically it won't be identical and the effect of the vibrator could be different.
As hard as it is for a Kiwi to suggest, it looks like Australia are just being a bit more perceptive and thoughtful than other countries by considering all way ways this crazy gTLD thing is going to go wrong. Personally, I'm glad some country is objecting to allocating .city to some arbitrary commercial entity.
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Pretty cool that she's the author of CIA.vc
This article is incorrect. I've used a 3GS with iOS 6 up until recently when I picked up my nexus 4 and I use a MVNO. I've been on straight talk for quite some time and have had no issues. I've used this site unlockit.co.nz and downloaded the profile to make the changes. To my knowledges these are just files you could create with the desired APN settings and host up on your own personal computer via nginx or apache and browse internally to download/install.

To create a straight talk APN profile on my nexus 4 I needed to have a sim card installed in the phone. For some odd reason Android OS does not allow one to access the APN settings area without a sim card in the phone.
Yes, I had no problem configuring it at all. It just came up and a quick change to the config for my network and key and it was done.
I'm ready to jump ship too. It's gotten ridiculous. I wonder if they keep track of which mods are hellbanning people. Is it just a few bad apples or is it systemic? I've seen so many thoughtful, but invisible posts lately that it makes me feel sort of sick.
Alright. I feel like someone needs to complain about this post. First of all, it's a very interesting topic and worth talking about.

This article is so lacking that I really think it harms more than it helps. A teaching article like this should be laser focused on teaching the subject, not putting jargon in your path, or trying to write the shortest possible code. Or, if you do write the shortest code, go into great detail to accurately explain how it works. The details of this page don't make much sense.

Here are the specific problems that I found:

1. The code doesn't work. I don't know python, but code should work when I try to run it. Ideally, this could should be presented as a function. And it didn't work not because of missing input parameters, but because of a syntax error on the second line.

2. The psuedo-code doesn't work. Consider that line 1.1.2 merely assigns the input word to itself, without modification. This isn't reflected in the python where it looks like the intent is to slice the first element off. Additionally, the variable p is not defined (but I think can be inferred to be the length of the fixed 'C' input parameter).

I suppose I'm annoyed that such an intriguing topic is being mishandled. I recognize the helpful intent, but not matter how helpful the intent when the code is broken and the explanation is wrong, this article would be better off not being on the internet unless it is corrected.
I'm not seeing any I/O pins on the MK802, which I thought was the reason for the Raspberry Pi. Not much hardware hacking potential without these pins.
If I was paying 20k/year that is in the same ballpark as a real university + I get all the other stuff, the experince, the connections, the friends, etc.

You are more likely looking at 5k/year. At that price point it becomes a posibility for those who can't afford to quit their job and go to school but who still want to improve their life.

Then, from there, you can grow the reputation of online school (which still have a huge stigma attached to it).
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What is the definition of 'consciousness'? I have read papers where it seems that the definition of 'consciousness' is verbal report, or report that corresponds to almost 100% detectability of a signal.
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