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Author here - that's not at all what I said. I'm saying these courses set their own standard of measurement, and haven't lived up to it yet. They're iterating by bringing in different support systems to raise completion rates. I hope the MOOC model succeeds, but it's a long way from fulfilling its promise thus far.
Our proposal was to replicate the CaH experience online without any commercial nature (no ads, fully free and open sourced) with the possibility of making it commercial at a later date together.

Their response basically dismissed us out of hand and included warnings regarding violating their copyright or using their name. I've never received such a reply to a very friendly partnership proposal.
The success of Cards Against Humanity is evidence of massive demand, and yet all they have protecting them is their brand—unlike, say, craigslist, whose unwillingness to innovate is legendary but whose business benefits from massive network effects. As a result, the (apparent) apathy of the Cards Against Humanity founders offers an opportunity: copy their basic idea, for which they have no protection, and structure your new venture as a real business with full-time efforts devoted to growing sales. You could even one-up them by dropping the non-commercial clause in the Creative Commons license, allowing potential partners to profit and thereby grow your brand further.

The Cards Against Humanity guys are leaving money on the table. Who's going to pick it up?
misleading headline. there is no mention of robots teaching anyone anything or even how robots fail.

How's tutorspree any different than sylven?

What was the point of this article again?
> I'm saying these courses set their own standard of measurement

No, you are claiming that and saying that that is their standard. It's a straw man, which is a dishonest form of argument. Your arguments here are without merit. If you want to succeed with your tutoring company you need to establish yourself as a reliable and honest person, not someone trotting out absurd self serving arguments attacking other ventures that you incorrectly and very foolishly see as your enemy.

To succeed focus on your product, make it good, and show how it benefits people and is worth paying for. Focusing on these other people instead is a waste of your time and shows that you presently don't understand either what to do to succeed in your own market, or how to run a startup business. You might take what I am saying as criticism, but it is highly targeted and good advice. You should think about it. Ignore it at your own peril.
No, you haven't suddenly stopped moving. If you choose the virtual particle's reference frame as the rest frame, then you are moving in its reference frame. If the particle winks out of existence, you are still moving in its reference frame, you just have no way to perceive that fact.
I have no issues against you using your method, I'm glad it works for you, but I can't see how this could possibly help the majority of of people.

> Now: Keep them in your browser, local to you.

What do you mean by local, I wanted them synced with my phone and my three other computers, but I may have misunderstood you.

> Keep the frequently-used ones right in front of you in the bookmark toolbar.

How often do I have to rearrange them? Or delete them? Or send them to the later? Or should I just keep adding them to the toolbar until they naturally disappear and create an endless mess of unsorted bookmarks?

> Later: Link blog them (on Tumblr or G+ may be). Or you can even keep them local to you using above number 1 perspective.

Why would I, it seems so much more trouble? I'd rather bookmark them in a folder named later.

> Future: Don't worry about loosing the bookmarks you have already consumed and not going to come back to them anytime soon. Again, if you're link-blogging the content you feel you need to save, than you don't need to worry about future.

This is the one I disagree the most! This isn't a shift in perspective, it's ignoring the problem, I go back to my bookmarks months (years?) after I've booked marked them, and I'm happy to find them.

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Honestly I manage my bookmarks pretty well with chrome now-a-days specially with the built in sync system, I'm very happy I don't have to worry about sync anymore, I even have them in my phone all the time.

What honestly I think is missing is better search, you can only search by title or URL as it is. The URL of an old enough one is virtually impossible to remember and the title so many times doesn't help much either, you might not remember it or it might be a smart ass title that is not a good description of the topic in question, so many times I end up finding it quicker in Google by inputting the text I remember rather that going through my bookmarks, since I tend to remember the essence of the article.

I think labels would also help since an hierarchical organization that would actually help would be insane, I'd rather write a couple of words referring to the article, but the truth is most of the times I can be bothered.

So yes, I agree with the author, it is not an easy problem.
I can't rigorously defend something I don't think is true, but I stand behind my previous statement as it is.
I'll guarantee any desired negative return for just a 0.5% fee.
I'm confident there is a non-vocal majority that doesn't care much either way.
The first four words on the Express website are, in large point font, "express web application framework for node".
Yes, my expectations were perhaps out of line. It didn't stop me from ceasing using their game and, after showing the reply to friends, their voluntary stop of play as well. We simply couldn't enjoy it anymore :(
Thanks for this link. I've been looking for groups in the TC area to get involved with.
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FWIW, this is from their FAQ on their website, showing a little of their respect for anyone who wants to partner with them:

Do I have your permission to make some crappy Cards Against Humanity thing like an app?

Cards Against Humanity is available under a BY-NC-SA 2.0 Creative Commons license. That means you can use our content to make whatever, but you have to give us credit, you can’t profit from the use of our content (this means ad revenue is not allowed), and you have to share whatever you make in the same way we share it (this means you can’t submit our content to any app store). We own the name “Cards Against Humanity,” so you have to call your crappy thing something else.
Majority of Americans Would Ban 3D-Printing Guns at Home (Fat Chance)
Personally, I see it as a great opportunity. Today you need a great teacher that can sit down and figure out why a student has problems understanding a specific concept etc, and explain in many different ways. I don't see how computers can't do that. Online education will actually level the playing field and make the best material and pedagogy available to everyone. Today, if you get a lousy mathematics teacher, you're set back years potentially. I know, I had one for 3 years in high-school. Compared to my peers, it really set me back. Had to work very hard to catch up, but fortunately I was motivated enough to do it.

While Khan Academy might be good today, what I think would help even further is to find the absolute best teachers out there and "capture" the way they teach. Capture all the questions students have and incorporate them into the videos. For example, if there's a video talking about the number PI, the student should be able to pause in the middle of the video and see commonly asked questions and answers about this portion of the video. This also has the great benefit of students being able to go through the material at their own pace. Today teachers have to either leave half the class behind, or spend too much time on the weaker students.
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That doesn't really change what MatthewPhillips said. "Framework" can mean everything from Rails to startup.sh that boots up your node process. Express really doesn't do much, and is closer to middleware than a full framework.
Sounds a lot like the direction Erlang on Xen (http://erlangonxen.org/) is taking.
Glad that you could register.
We just launched a few hours ago. We're still trying to get some meaningful analytics.

Have a nice day.
That's not true. Investments can fail.
Exactly. People seem to expect that MOOCs/or the like are for the same old feed-people-into-the-system. It's like people can't see the glass houses around them with all the stones flying around, to see that something else will emerge when their glass house shatters and not somebody elses. Long student loan defaults and tuition hikes.
It turns out that a real name policy does not improve online behavior: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence-...

Personally, if I'm going to go to the trouble of eviscerating someone in text, I want to put my real name on it and take credit. Then again, I grew up with Usenet when flaming was an art form. (You kids get offa my 'net!)
I agree with the premise, but this is a terrible article, probably because it's an excerpt from a larger work. It is a polemic with no justification or examples of the excesses of pharmaceutical manufacturers to rely on. Nor is there, at least in my quick perusal, any specific actionable remedy suggested.
Google engineers discuss fragmentation, hardware, and Project Butter
www.tesla.im is an enterprise grade instant messaging system for teams/groups.
I am really not seeing how that is the case. There are so many photos being uploaded without Google Glass that it is possible to reconstruct a model of an entire town using those photographs. We already crossed the point of having large numbers of photographs taken without our permission uploaded corporations that do not care about any of us. The most dramatic change with Glass will not be the number of photos, but the applications that will be possible.

A while ago, a friend of mine sent me a picture he found on Facebook. It is me and my best friends from college at a party on the first night of our freshman year. We were all in the background of the picture -- it was completely inadvertent that we were photographed. That was nearly a decade ago, long before Google Glass was even a concept.

You are not going to see more privacy abuse resulting from Glass than you already see resulting from the combination of smartphones and online social networks. I do not want Facebook to build a profile about me, but guess what? My friends and family upload pictures of me to Facebook without asking permission, complete with metadata, which is added to a database that has my browsing habits (surreptitiously collected) and tidbits gathered from any mention of me by those same friends. What do you think Glass is going to add to this situation?

Furthermore, what solution would you propose? We as a society already managed to dig ourselves into a hole, where we have become dependent on large corporations to satisfy our computing needs; if you want a technical solution, you are going to have to trust Google to implement it. Legal solutions would likely further restrict our freedoms and worsen an already overly complicated legal code, restricting our ability to take pictures or used head-mounted displays and other wearable computers.
I couldn't find anything about this kind of product on google. Could you disclose the name of your product or what should I google to find more about it (not necessarily your company's product)?
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In the Netherlands they're already outfitting ATMs and other credit machines with addons on the outside. Most ATMs also display a picture on the screen of what it's supposed to look like. So no, it's not that over engineered I think.

On the other hand, because of the moving parts involved it is probably going to be much more expensive. And with the current chips on the card already, I don't think the banks are going to invest in those things as it simply will not provide them with enough ROI.
If the average payoff is negative, but the payoff is tied to a catastrophic event, then it's insurance. Risk mitigation is a valid part of investing.

Gambling has a negative, random payoff.
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Well, I guess that explains why Pretend You're Xyzzy is called what it is...
"While MOOC proponents argue that these completion rates are irrelevant because of varied interest levels of participating students at the outset, they’ve set the stage for their own measurement by using enrollment factors as their topline metric in interview after interview."

What's the term to describe this logical fallacy whereby you dismiss a valid proposition by quoting something that your opponent has said about something different.

Completion rates and Enrollment numbers are connected but both must be weighed separately when judging online education.

(Also where are the robots :-( )
I'd prefer allowing them to become pseudonymous later. I still think it's useful to be able to take a comment in context of other things that individual/account has said.

Of course, I guess this could be easily done if you could change your userid (on the backend, it's proabably a GUID or sequence number anyway).
Ukraine is extremely corrupt and plenty of people pirate in the US. The only issue is who is profiting from other peoples work. If you make money from other peoples work you will be rightly smacked down in non-disfunctional states, that is not controversial.
My wife calls Apples to Apples the Cards Against Humanity for grandmas. (Her grandma really likes Apples to Apples)
That is exactly how I started! Today's walled gardens don't seem to contain the same sandpits we had in the days of DOS and friends.
Speaking of which, I need to buy a few Powerball tickets!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/05/17/saturdays--550...
I know exactly what he means. Most people are surprised to learn that I study direct methods in the calculus of variations (mostly with Sobolev spaces) using bc, and then write out my results using ed.
> What does "polyfill" mean? What is "Shadow DOM" and "HTML Imports", and how does it benefit me as a web developer?

Polymer is a pre-alpha framework with a warning on every page that "only the daring need apply." If you don't know what things Shadow DOM and HTML Imports are (and can't be bothered to click the links under "Platform technologies" for those things"), you probably aren't in the audience Polymer is addressing right now.

> It would help if the front page had something like this, but with blanks filled in: "Polymer helps the web developer to ____ more [easily|quickly|reliably] than ____. This is what doing ___ looked like before: _____; this is what it looks like with Polymer: ____"

It probably would, except that right now those blanks would be hard to fill out since except for the low-level infrastructure, most of it hasn't been built yet, and the concept seems mostly to be "lets see what kind of app framework we can build on top of a set of emerging standard technologies, now that we've built polyfills that let us use those technologies on current browsers that lack native support for them".
Less typing, less lines, more information on the screen and the readability is not impaired.
Obesity Risk Factors Are Weight Dependent -- May Explain Accelerated Weight Gain
That's what I meant. I just phrased it in terms of the tool he was talking about.
Decent article. I just don't get why Apple has gotten into the slog it has. The longer they wait, the higher the expectations get. Actually, I think the expectations have started to go down. This is me speaking for myself as an Apple fanboy :(
Do you know when it was discovered that the earth is round?
We just love Nikola Tesla :)
When we named our app after Nikola Tesla, it somehow made us want to deliver a more than awesome app.
BTW, Tesla Motors rocks.
Or… it could just be spam.
IBM Offers Up Jeopardy Winner "Watson" To Startups
You've set up a false dichotomy. I guess I have to reiterate, "the world isn't black and white".

Suppose that 90% of our children can be made better through proper upbringing and 10% can't (by today's social standards of what is "better"). We'll still evolve a natural desire to try, because there's a huge change it will work properly, but sometimes it won't.

I didn't even claim "this is true", I only suggest that this cannot be dismissed unless we see enough real evidence that proves otherwise.
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I wonder, would this get rejected at the iOS App Store on grounds of taste or something? (That's aside from the fact it'd probably be DMCAed away if someone did it.)
And in fact, it doesn't. http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ "We don’t sell users’ personal information."
Looking at the page full of short words, the whole text just looks very weird, strange and sometimes just distracting.
I never knew that I looked over the page so much as I was reading.
Certainly. When Eclipse arrived, it was better than its alternatives, and it has not become strictly worse. More complicated maybe. But it is still a good IDE, it is just that IDEA is better, and expectations have changed.
And he understood it immediately after Googling the definition, just like any other neologism.

The alternative is not having any solution at all.
This is apparently normal these days. I've been receiving phishing e-mails ostensibly from various of my Facebook friends, and I don't think I've pissed off any governments yet.
I'd be interested in actually seeing the Wiki myself. It sounds like some research went into properly addressing concerns; it'd fit the public domain well!
I agree. I don't understand why people keep trying to deface C. This "indentation" scheme is by all mean ridiculous and not practical. One thing we learn from this article is that the author actually does not program in C.
Summary: MOOCs have (1) really really low completion rates and (2) a user base that is already highly literate and educated. So MOOCs don't target the majority of students who actually need a person to direct their learning. (Author then mentions his tutoring directory company called Tutorspree).

Then the author cuts MOOCs some slack and says they are hiring TAs and encouraging meetups.
You know you can just trade options without working to earn them, right? No years involved - just cash.
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If you manage to get a copy of Apples to Apples, Disney Edition (not sure if that's the real title) then you can play the mashup I was exposed to several weeks ago: Cards Against Disney. Everyone has a hand with cards from both games; a prompt is drawn from one game and answered with cards from the other game, alternating each turn. Much silliness ensues.
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Much like TCP/IP, HTTP and a plethora of other internet standards; it would have not been adopted had anyone maintained an active claim of ownership.

The way to make money off a standard is to sell it's complements ( think Cisco or SUN selling equipment that works with TCP/IP and ethernet ) not to attempt to charge for use of the standard.
> we're not dumb enough to allow rampant legal gun ownership

I respectfully submit that much of Europe's "enlightenment" in this area (including the UK) is not due to the wisdom and foresight of its leaders, but due to the historical accident that it was already densely populated when firearms were invented.

Widespread gun ownership was a reasonable decision in the US at the colonies' inception, and once it's implemented, the switching costs of changing to restricted ownership permanently become high. I'll elaborate on this:

When the US colonies first started, they had a tiny population trying to hold their own, spread out in a vast wilderness. A gun can be used to defend against criminals, hostile natives, or can be used for hunting. Remember, homes were often miles apart, there were no telephones to dial 911, and the nearest police force might be in one of relatively few cities or forts, tens or hundreds of miles away. Not letting people own weapons would have made the colonists' lives much harder.

Once enough guns are out there, it gets harder and harder to argue that they should be outlawed, because:

(1) A culture of gun ownership develops, which will be upset if you try to take them away

(2) A sizable number of guns will presumably escape the confiscation program and enter the hands of criminals

Add to this, the country's experiences during the war of independence convinced its founders of the benefits of empowering the citizens to rise up against foreign invaders or an oppressive government.

As for why there's not more support for "common-sense regulation," no less a hacker than Eric S. Raymond has recently given a cogent explanation [1] [2].

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4912

[2] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4939
And every once in a while somebody walks into a casino, puts a coin in a slot machine, wins the jackpot and leaves with 100000x their initial "investment".

In general, over the long term, investing makes money.

In general, over the long term, gambling loses money.
The C example is a great demonstration that typography is not an objective practice. That someone could take the original strcpy() and, with the express goal of improving its appearance, produce something so unpleasant to read ...

When I was younger I did a lot more interior alignment between lines, like with the list of variable declarations. Over the years I've found that they add a lot of busywork effort to the editing process. Everyone talks about optimizing for reading, but not optimizing for editing, which in some cases is really what you need to be optimizing for. But even laying that aside, the readability improvement of such spacing was debatable. Sometimes it's making visible a repetition (presumably one that couldn't be done with an actual loop), but a lot of times it feel more like a novelist who decided that the main verbs of their sentences should be vertically aligned. Agreed, it's making something visible -- but is that really what the average reader cares about? Ultimately the typography should not be a distraction from discerning the sense of a piece of code.
What caught my eye there was that they donated the $70,000 to Wikimedia foundation. I checked their financial report (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/6/68/Jul-D...) and the top five costs are:

Salaries and Wages 7,468,743
Outside Contract Services 1,791,275
Internet Hosting 1,309,591
Other Operating Expenses 1,010,273
Bank Fees 945,190

That is not the cost structure I expected. I thought the balance would be more on Internet Hosting. What are those ~10 million of salaries, contracts and other operating expenses? Besides, their expenses were 15 million and income 30 million, do they need more money?
At the time when people started saying that, this kind of attack was a lot easier on Windows, because by design installing arbitrary code off the Net was a single click away and the attacker had a huge amount of control over the contents of the request. Since then, Microsoft has improved but Apple has somewhat repeated Microsoft's old mistakes.
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You unintentionally point toward another good reason for strict code formatting, which is if it promotes the actual structure of the code, sometimes it makes code smell very obvious. I'm in agreement with your assessment, which would not have been as obvious without the hideous formatting.
Non-installable remotely hosted web services aren't usually considered 'enterprise grade'.
Another easy way to avoid the red badges - just put all the utility stuff in it's own folder on the non-home screen, and use Spotlight search to navigate to it quickly when needed. That's how I use Find iPhone. Spotlight even works well with Siri as of iOS6, so I just pick up my iPad and say "Open Find iPhone" then tap to see which couch my kid has dropped my phone to.