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There's nothing fundamentally wrong with education. I think the three current problems are 1) education is expensive, 2) people are too poor, and 3) people of average or below average intelligence probably aren't served very well by the high school curriculum.

Yes, it is, and it have nothing to do with our funding. The way we teach is extraordinary inefficient and outdated.

For example, spaced repetition is a learning technique that takes advantage of the spacing effect phenomenon that is present in all humans. You know why your teachers told you to study everyday instead of cramming? Well, cramming doesn't help you retain information in the long run! Computers can be used to track every answers and problem, what our weakness are, and to schedule when to review, allowing us to take spaced repetition to its logical conclusion. The computer can generate problems on demand, give out recorded lectures by the very best teacher, and so on.

Spacing effects also implies summer vacation is harmful to knowledge acquisition process unless we continuously practice. When we finish high school and college, decays begin to set in because we stop practicing. The result is that countless generation learned mathematics, history, language art, literature, only to forget upon exiting formal education.

That's why khanacademy is so powerful. They really do leverage computers to generate problems, explain stuff, track your every mistakes, and schedule practices problem using spaced repetition. Right now, long run khanacademy users like me knows more and is the most refreshed on mathematics than the vast majority of high school students and working adults. We practice math problems everyday, thus ensuring that we never forget and be prepared to build a new knowledge as soon as Khan Academy adds new exercises or revise old one.

That's in contrast to going to a very inefficient traditional institutions and receiving a "great education" and then immediately forgetting most of what you're taught. That's a very inefficient way to learn.
Very much so. There's a study of 1MD in Iraqi Freedom specifically here[1].

[1]: http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,NI_WAR_0104,00.ht...
And how much more engineering time do you waste on it now?
We are three nobodies from a public university in the midwest that were working at a mortgage company.

I doubt our credentials were what impressed the YC partners.
Do you enjoy A/B testing and website optimization and want to keep working on that sort of growth hacking?
I hate being mean to 15 year olds.

But this was just platitudes and motherhood statements.

Did you win an essay contest or something?
You might want to double-check your facts. Starting with the fact that Walmart's profits in 2012 were $15.7 billion, making a $15-20 billion line item not nearly as affordable as you would have us believe.

Note that this is the biggest retailer in the world, in an economic climate which has been very good for them. (When people become price-conscious, sales move from higher end stores to Walmart.) What is affordable for them right now might not be for other retailers in general, or for them in a different year.

(That said, if every employee cost more, prices would rise and costs would get passed to consumers.)
Agree, that was the point of the post - from the post - "The fact that “I am doing YC” fits into that group of statements (“I am going to college”, “I got a job at Google”) is huge for someone with an idea and is actually taking a risk." It is an external validation that makes it look 'less crazy' to the outside world.
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"Third Generation warfare, like Second, was a product of World War I. It was developed by the German Army, and is commonly known as Blitzkrieg or maneuver warfare." [1]

"Along with placing greater emphasis on adaptability, the Army has transitioned its focus on training and operations from developing forces for large-scale maneuver warfare to increasing the capability of individuals to operate in smaller, decentralized elements." [2]

The wikipedia link to Warfigthing is broken. I am having trouble finding the manual on DoD's doctrine section.[3][4] Is it still relevant?

You made a throwaway account because you did not want to have your name attributed to what you wrote, I experienced no spite

[1] Understanding Fourth Generation War by William S. Lind

[2] Special Operations as a wr fighting function, http://www.soc.mil/swcS/SWmag/archive/SW2401/SW2401SpecialOp...

[3] http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/index.html

[4] http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/search.html?zoom_query=mcdp+war...
> I don't think the DPRK could persist if China withdrew its support.

I believe this is correct. I've read reports that China provides the North with about half (or more) of its food. I'd imagine a substantial portion of that goes to feed NK's military.

The only solution will very likely involve China, and I can't imagine that they'll go willingly. They may change their mind if NK lobs an atomic weapon at the South or at US interests (continental if they can reach; elsewhere if not), but I'm dubious even that might work.

Assuming the North's military leadership doesn't completely lose its few remaining marbles, they might believe that nuclear proliferation within (in the form of many functional, working weapons) gains them sufficient bargaining power that they can do whatever they want. In that circumstance, it's plausible that they might wind up stepping on China's toes. Although, I highly doubt this would happen either.

It's depressing because there's very little that we can do, and China is unlikely to help for reasons bfe cited. They've literally starved out the population that could potentially overthrow the regime from within, so save convincing some segment of their army to stage a coup, all we can do is wait.

It also doesn't hurt to spread stories like this one far and wide. The only problem is that the majority of people outside the Koreas (particularly those within the US) just don't care. It doesn't affect them, so why bother?
I've been personally experiencing the credentials trap pretty recently in a manner tangential to the OP. I get hardballed to hell when it comes to internships because I don't come from a good school and don't have a great gpa.

It really bugs me that despite programming an order of magnitude more often than my friends, they still have an easier time obtaining internships because they come from a decent college or waste all their time obtaining a 3.5+ gpa.

Even loading up my resume with all of my programming projects/github is of no aid, it's like HR doesn't give a damn about how competent of an engineer you really are, they just hire based off of sorting all the applicants by gpa/school.

</rant>
GVO The Ultimate Marketers Toolbox?
Getting LASIK eye surgery
Heh, Khashoggi's brother lives down the street from me. ;)
Is this an open source project?
"If we were bad at picking people ..."

I'm not saying you're bad at picking people. And, for partially self-serving reasons, I don't think MIT is bad at picking people, either.

I'm saying that your ability to pick people is orthogonal to whether or not YC solves Chris Dixon's credential trap. The "trap" is a pathological behavior in the seeker, not a claim that credentials are meaningless or that the people who award them are incompetent.

Moreover, one can't arbitrarily claim that graduating from a top program in one's field is merely a credential, but completing the top accelerator isn't. They're both valuable, but neither of them is "solving" the credential problem.
Recruiting.
That was the first half of the war. How did the doctrine help with the counter insurgency mess that was left over?
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Couldn't one say the same thing about the Stanford admissions board or the Google hiring board? They're extremely smart people expending a lot of effort on the problem of selecting the most likely to succeeds from a group of candidates.

I guess it's an issue of defining the ultimate goal. If the ultimate goal is being a co-founder of a successful startup then YC is likely the key penultimate step in the ultimate achievement whereas Google and Stanford are potential credential traps.

But if the ultimate goal is a PHD at Stanford or a research fellowship at Google, then maybe YC is the credential trap erroneously viewed as a step on the path?
The end of a dream (Spartanbits closes)
Here is the Amiga equivalents if people are interested to see recreations of older computer systems:

Minimig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig
Natami: http://www.natami.net/index.htm
Apple May Lose iPhone Naming Rights in Brazil
Ways to fix the education system are like assholes

Everyone's got one.
Raytheon’s “Riot” Social-Network Data Mining Software
Telling people where to look for a reply when they have one is a great idea, IMHO.
Pop-up Pantry shutdown last month.
I don't think high schools exist so that you remember things. They're to teach you how to learn.
Trojan Horse Email
Trojan horse email offers the promise of something you might be interested in—an attachment containing a joke, a photograph, or a patch for a software vulnerability. When opened, however, the attachment may do any or all of the following:
create a security vulnerability on your computer
> They had over 100 billion in profits in 2012.

EBITDA was $36B.

Giving up ~2/3rds of the money available for dividends or reinvestment in the business is not going to fly with the shareholders.
There is still a need for a good general-purpose Q&A website, that doesn't do this stuff or close half of the good questions like SE does.
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The Predictability of URL Filtering
While changes (fine-tuning) to a heuristic system often have unpredictable consequences, additions to URL filtering are absolutely predictable – it will block one spam campaign and nothing else. For example, consider a legitimate newsletter from drugstore.
It always baffles me the amount of developers that prefer to endure designing GUIs with code instead of GUI designers.

This doesn't scale when doing projects where the UI tends to be redesigned every few days.

In a few hours it is possible to design UIs that some require days to do it.
How The Web Became Just Another App Store
@victorhn You are right this is the exact situation I have here.
These freedoms mentioned (with addition of free education) are called democracy in northern Europe. This is also why we have difficulty keeping straight face when someone claims that US has democracy.
THAT is awesome. Is that feature live? How is the failover route configured?
Their content? I don't think even Quora would claim that.

And how exactly is creating an account taking off one's shoes before entering? I would not be contributing anything to the Quora community by creating an account. I'm not depriving the community of anything by not creating one.

I believe the reason Quora tries to force people to create accounts is not because this helps the community, but simply because this is the first step of the funnel of their viral spread mechanism.
To steal a quote from Chris Dixon (http://cdixon.org/2010/01/22/techies-and-normals/):

"1. If you are loved first by techies and then by normals you get free marketing and also scale. Google, Skype and YouTube all followed this chronology. It is startup nirvana.

2. The next best scenario is to be loved by normals but not by the techies. The vast majority of successful consumer businesses fall into this category..."

This is a case of #2. I know many "normals" who really don't care and just sign up or download the app. It is probable that Quora alienates some percentage of its content writers by doing this but probably not enough to account for the absolutely massive increase in lift it is seeing as a result (I would guess 3x minimum conversion improvement to account creation from just this one change.) If they don't break out of the tech minority the company is not going to be valuable anyway so it does not seem to make sense to optimize for that audience.

All comparisons to Experts Exchange (where you had to pay to sign up) are totally overblown, signing up for Quora takes less than one minute and its free. It's just not that difficult to even be worth complaining about. You are not entitled to the Internet your way as the user of a free product. As the saying goes "if you are not the customer, you are the product".
I am old enough to remember having to pay for all my development tools.

Open source is cool, but developers need to buy food.
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Quora is an iPhone-only app. Too bad for all those retina iPad users, you paid for all those pixels in vain.
So heroku doesn't want these $20,000/mo accounts, just technically understaffed startups paying $1000/mo?

I think heroku does want to be a long-term technology choice.
simply because you and your friends are not ffrom google/facebook and did not get in does not mean they only accept people from google/facebook. did the founders of the most successful yc companies have that pedigree? i really dont think so. you can rationalize your own rejection however you want, but you cannot make such a sweeping generalization about something with so little support
The next shuffle?
I am fine with iOS smart app banner. Real problem to me is "view in app" never deep link to the content I originally intended to read
Instagram Seeks To Dismiss Class Action Lawsuit Over Policy Changes
Are there any good guides to using ReStructuredText?

I love all things Python, but for some reason I could never wrap my head around ReStructuredText's syntax. Maybe it's because all my favorite sites use Markdown (including this one!), but I find Markdown's syntax to be more intuitive.
Thanks for the response, but I have to admit that the lack of a clear-cut answer here is a little worrisome.

Anyone who wants to like Heroku would hope that the OP is flat out, 100%, wrong. The fact that Heroku's official answer requires a bit of managing implies otherwise.

On a related tangent, I would also encourage future public statements to be a little less opaque than some Heroku has put out previously.

For instance, the cause of the outage last year was attributed to "...the streaming API which connects the dyno manifold to the routing mesh" [1]. While that statement is technically decipherable, it's far from clear.

[1] https://status.heroku.com/incidents/372
I think they want to make the pat-down _look_ as humiliating as they can so that people will be discouraged from choosing it.

I think a good thing to do may be to make sure other passengers around you hear you opting out of the scanner.
David Nutt, former head of Britain's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, amusingly points out that "Francis Crick, who discovered the double helix structure of DNA with James Watson, and Kary Mullis, who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), had both taken [LSD, another psychedelic], and attributed some of their understanding and insights to it". He also notes that "l'Avenue des Champs Elysees in Paris is named after the Elysian Fields in ancient Greece, where people went annually to eat psychedelic mushrooms"

Nutt was removed from his role for suggesting British drug classification needed to correlate more with drug harm. The absurdity is illustrated by the British people having the "ridiculous situation that if you find magic mushrooms in the wild you can sit in the field and munch them to your heart’s content, but if you take them home you could go to prison for up to seven years, and if you give them to a friend you’ll be supplying a Class A drug and you could spend 14 years in jail."

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Without-Hot-Air-ebook/dp/B009KCL... Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs (2012)
They are not useless fees. They are how the bank generates revenue so it can at least break even on tiny accounts.

Just the regulatory burden of an empty bank account is $100-$200/year, so they need a way to recover that. In general, if you do enough business, there is a way the bank can do that without charging fees, but you need to set your accounts up right.
>did the founders of the most successful yc companies have that pedigree? i really dont think so.

Optimizely's application video: http://dsiroker-private.posterous.com/private/FCAGetIemw
EBITDA was $36B.

I think that for this discussion Net Income is the more appropriate figure to use given that Walmart's interest, tax, depreciation and amortization add up to tens of billions of dollars.
Yeah, you want leastconn + app/router affinity. Affinity is the statement that all of your requests for an app go through one router (to avoid distributed connection state tracking).

In the past, I've accomplished this by having the next layer up consistent hash the api keys onto the router list. If you don't control the top layer (ELB), you need to add a dumb layer just for the hashing.

HAProxy works great for this extra layer. In practice, all you end up doing is adding a "balance hdr(host)" directive (see http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/configuration.txt) to get the hashing right, and you're spending <1ms inside HAProxy.
A couple years ago, my dad flew on the 5th of July. As he was getting screened, he commented that they must be getting a lot of false-positives that day. The agent replied that they didn't check for those kinds of explosives...
I couldn't agree more. Ender's game is pretty much Atlas Shrugged in space, written in a slightly less abysmal style. Same complexity in characters, same vindication of the megalomania/resentment of the introvert male teenager reader, same cult following.
Probably should put what Pelican is on the homepage. It was weird having to go to the doc page to figure out what it actually was.
Not so complex, but I prefer a helpful employee to reading through account brochures and figuring things out myself.

Basically I just needed certain types of accounts that reflected the level of transactions I was doing, and to make sure my personal and business accounts were linked.
Start here:

http://sphinx-doc.org/rest.html

Then go here for more:

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html

I don't really understand why reST is so unpopular compared to Markdown.
It's an integration with an OpenRTB bidding marketplace that's sending our way that traffic.

And 25K is not the whole story. In a lot of ways it's similar to high frequency trading. Not only do you need to decide in real time if you want to respond with a bid or not, but the total response time should be under 200ms, preferably under 100ms, otherwise they start bitching about latency and they could drop you off from the exchange.

And the funny thing is 25K is actually nothing, compared to the bigger marketplace that we are pursuing and that will probably send us 800K per second at peak.
Notice how your quote includes the phrase "large-scale" behind it? That's because of what I, you know, wrote in my original comment about maneuver warfare not implying a certain scale or strategy in particular. You're proving my point and disagreeing with me at the same time, which is rather remarkable. Lind's equivalence of third-generation warfare to being called "maneuver warfare" is a definition that I happen to disagree with, as I think maneuvers in general evolve as war itself does. Terrorism itself is another evolution of a maneuver, in my opinion.

Maneuver warfare isn't the specific strategy on a general's table. It's an ethos of war. In particular, maneuver warfare embraces decentralized command, as you're so vociferously citing in your defense; Iraqi Freedom was a war of colonels, not generals, as discussed in a link I shared with you earlier.

I tried to be kind in my reply since you share a passion for military theory, and it's a topic I happen to be extremely versed in (as in, my entire adult life to this day). I hope one day you realize that there are people out there in the world that know more about a topic than you do, don't feel like justifying that authority to you, and that you should appreciate that they took some time out of their day to try to inform you rather than attack them belligerently because they dared to disagree with you.

I see this is fruitless, so, best of luck debating with other laypersons on the Internet.
You're right. Sorry my numbers were wrong. Anyhow their average pay is actually closer to $10/hr anyway making the total cost more like 10 billion dollars. Their dividend payout ratio is around 30%. A payout ratio of 60% would still be okay with most investors, though I'm sure it would hurt the investment opportunity. But when we recognize that we have a growing income disparity this would be the price we pay to fix that.
I wasn't aware of all the difficulties, I'm very sorry. This might be the perfect use case for bitcoins however...at least until you can emigrate.
Would love to see some more perspectives on this. We also spend a lot of resources on heroku.

I'm not sure if this change by heroku is worse than the intermediary popups on all the links on this blog.
Yeah, I think it's pretty common for Americans to believe anyone else who can type english is probably also living in America.
Very cool! Bookmarked! Will definitely be trying this on my EC2 instances.
hint just use a rabbitmq queue or something. Don't have a 'smart' LB that has to know everyone's state; instead, have dynos that get more work as quick as they can.
Good luck. They don't allow you to delete your account unless you write them an email, which they don't seem to answer.
If you buy something from me, even via Google, you enter a mutual contract. And as such you have to provide sufficient information to identify yourself. Same with me. Pretty normal for any law protected contracts.
The word 'solves' is the real trap here. YC disarms said trap but doesn't remove the existence of it.
You're confusing issues. The argument here was whether the OP was misrepresenting occurrence of "grooming", not about illegal pornography.
I don't think high schools exist so that you remember things. They're to teach you how to learn.

What part of learning that doesn't involves remembering and building a foundation on what you have learned? What if you forgot your basic when you have to do more advanced stuff. That is part of the process of "learning".
Wow. I was as skeptical of the wisdom of Tesla attacking NYT's journalist for their Model S review as all the other HNers - but this is incredible.

First: I realize the fact that what the hardware logs show and what the user was shown may not be one and the same (i.e. hardware sensors may indicate charge at 28% but due to a bug (it's possible!) it may be shown to be full). But their travel logs shred, I repeat, shred Broder's credibility and claims alike.

It really does look like he was hell-bent on ripping Tesla a new one in his review. Taking Tesla's rebuttal at face value: purposely embarking on journeys over twice the indicated available range, driving around in circles in an empty parking lot to kill batteries, turning up the heat and claiming to have turned it down ("shaking, shivering, and with white knuckles" no less).

They post images, graphs, logs, maps, and more. I'm incredibly surprised at how well they're defending themselves against dishonest reviews - for example, I'd never have thought to log the changes to the cabin temperature, but apparently they've done so and more!

This post makes me want to reconsider a Model S as my next car. As far as I'm concerned, this is exactly the kind of attention to detail I want going into the engineering, design, and manufacture of my vehicle.

I'd be interested in hearing NYT's response to this - they previously stated unconditionally that they stand by Broder's review and believe it to be honest, truthful, and factual.

If indeed at the end of the day this was Broder pushing his own agenda, not only ignoring but outright faking facts, then I think his journalistic career should be over.
Maybe this was after you did your work, but ELB currently supports affinity, see: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/04/08/support...