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I don't want people to be careful when checking that guy's claims.

I want people to not waste their time bothering to check that guy's claims.

Scientists gather data and form an opinion.

This guy has an opinion before he sees any data; he's paid at least 40% of his funding for having that opinion; and then manipulates data to fit that opinion. He misrepresents other people's work and other people's opinions.

If he had lied once or twice then perhaps there's some useful information to be had by carefully checking what he's saying. But the pattern is so strong that people can safely ignore him. Just as we ignore the time-cube guy, or people who use phrases like quantum touch healing.
I've always been very annoyed by the firmware initialize -> kernel reinitialize delay. If only we had open source standardized firmware on x86 there could be a common data structure to pass through validated firmware and its associated memory ranges to the payload. Maybe even an OS could write its device initialization library to ROM so the firmware could do diagnostic checks on all the present hardware before trying to do dangerous disk reads (hey coreboot).
Personally I've observed many meanings in use. As an adverb it means "figuratively" or "approximately". As a hedge word it more generally disclaims that what follows may be inaccurate or metaphorical. It's used in the place of "to say" or "to impart", filling in for the lack of a word which applies equally to text messages as to speech, with the implication (since it's a hedge) that the quoted speech is likely re- or paraphrased. It can be used as a mild intensifier, as in, "Okay, but, like..."; despite what you may think, simply adding weight to a phrase can and does alter it semantically. So it's a very versatile word, and there are other uses I've missed. And of course, it is used purely as a stall (er, a disfluency), though not heavily outside of a few dialects.

All of this falls under the linguistic study of "discourse", the way humans talk in real-world communication with each other. In linguistics, rules of discourse are real and as important as rules of grammar. Nobody uses only "approved" words or meanings of words or interactions of words; the ideas human beings communicate are more complex than that.

Having laid all that out, I'll say something you'll probably find challenging: the real reason you don't like it is because you don't know what it means. Which is of course the point of it, and the reason to label it as innovation.
No, but it's disingenuous to claim people who consider the speaker to be ignorant are only taking into account the double-negation, when the phrase contains a combination of multiple factors, such as language and content.
Ok, I've got HTML, SQL and bash down pretty well. I'm not an experienced programmer by any means, though. Like, I've made a website. What should I ACTUALLY learn next? When I took up programming a couple years ago, everyone said to start with Python. I ended up somehow doing everything in PHP instead. What's cool now?
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It's the default in Rails, which gives it a large built-in userbase.
Don't forget the seven-year-old kid that was handed a two-day suspension for "fashioning a pastry in the shape of a gun"

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/03/update-ii-school-offer...
Like in Stoicism, nothing is inherently good or bad (non-descriptives) about things in and of themselves.

Like, this point isn't new... Why it is rejected with different rates across scientific disciplines is entertaining.

Humans are entertaining when they look intellectually surprised.
As a foreigner in France that writes and reads without problem but has a damn hard time understanding anything different from TV (having listened to less than 2h of French TV, wtf), is this supposed to help somehow? Any suggestion in that respect?
I don't disagree with your point or agree with the school board's actions. This story contains two things that drive me nuts: 1) teachers talking out of their ass; 2) school administrators being petty assholes.
Thanks! This is awesome.
Impressive. I usually can't remember the names of people I've never heard of before.
I'll echo what some of the other commenters are saying, namely that for anything e-commerce related (and I'd argue SaaS-type software) this method of login makes most sense. If you were going to sign up for a free trial of something or create an account at a store, would you want to login with Facebook or Twitter? Or Amazon, whom you likely already trust with your money. The latter I'd say.

On the other hand, if I have a social or news/content site, FB and Twitter login makes the most sense. That way I have access to their social graph as well as an indentity.

Anyway, this is pretty cool. I think I'll integrate Login with Amazon with my startup (mariposta.com) pretty soon, as it very well could lessen signup friction. We'll see.
Oooh, you learned a new acronym! Now you can use it instead of reasoning.
"lately"?
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See my comment above

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5786754
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Google is an advertising network that creates content in order to be able to sell more ads.
"And that was it. I could do that much — but that was all. I was hopeless. My brain simply doesn’t work in a way that allows me to write code. So saying that if I’d spent ten thousand hours talking to Rax, I would be a successful computer programmer, because anyone can be a successful computer programmer, is crazy."

I find that all too often lack of aptitude is used as an excuse. He didn't put the time in, he doesn't know if he could be a successful computer programmer or not. The only way to know is to try. Everyone who starts something is awful in the beginning. Only through concentrated effort and interest does your potential emerge. Your potential cannot be seen in the first hour, or even ten hours you spend doing something.
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For some reason it strikes me as a pretty good idea. Upon further reflection, I think it has something to do with:

- Trust -- people increasingly distrust sites like Facebook or Google (privacy concerns), but Amazon still has pretty much entirely "positive" feelings for consumers. And if they can run AWS as well as they can, then you assume you can trust them with your password too

- Micropayments -- your credit card is already linked to your Amazon account, presumably, so it suddenly enables you to pay for content, etc. on a wide range of sites where you might not otherwise, due to friction and trust issues

It's funny... for some undefinable "fuzzy" reason, I feel much more willing to log into a site using Amazon credentials, than I would with Google, Facebook or even Apple.
> "why would someone want to log in with Amazon"?

> There's no social network attached to your Amazon account

I think you answered your own question.
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It is the purpose of public school educators to help their kids

Well, that's what they say. Looking at the way that the public school systems are run -- the way they fight school choice, the way they fight merit systems, the way they resist all efforts to measure teacher competence, the way they fight firing criminally bad teachers -- it seems that the purpose of public school educators is to protect their jobs and power base.

It's no coincidence that the NEA is the largest union in the country.

Naturally, there are some great teachers out there... but if you're going to generalize, at least cover the most obvious purpose of those you're generalizing. As a whole, the public education system itself is a self-serving disaster.
Why weren't you communicating the strategy and vision for the product? That's a failure of management. Each layer in the structure should be given and understand the vision and goals of the immedeiate layer above them so that they can creatively execute and improvise excellent solutions instead of being locked into a plan.
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This. It amazes me the number of people that think "I work 8 hours a day (on average), so I should be world class in about 3.4 years". As you said it is concentrated, skill-adjusted practice, NOT just doing something over and over. The biggest problem is that you generally need an expert coach/mentor to put this work together for you, since you likely would not be a good judge of what would appropriately challenge you at your current skill level. Most people swing to the tails of the distribution in their self-made challenges, either too easy or too hard, you want the Goldilocks zone. I unfortunately have no wisdom for or solution to this problem, it is one of scale (i.e. there are more people that want said expert mentorship than there are expert mentors to give it) and time.
I think what you're looking for is some sort of workers' cooperative.

I disagree with the philosophy of your profit distribution. For one, it overstates the value of the first employee and shits over the rest. If the first employee has been at the company ten years and the second nine, it is unlikely that the first employee is twice as valuable as the second employee. For another, I think the elimination of pensions is one of the biggest things wrong with modern corporations.

What I favor is something more like a formalized version of the traditional family farm or business. Everyone gets a share of the business proportional to how much work they put in (years worked, with some minimum to retain your shares after you quit working). Profits are divided among them, and salaries are paid to current workers before profits are calculated.
He is about half there in terms of time and is getting pretty good. http://thedanplan.com/
> even admitting that some of the companies they acquired cough Summly cough were not acquihires but rather for other reasons.

Are we 'admitting' now that some acquisitions are not acquihires?

That would seem to me to be the norm and a positive thing.
She has also written numerous essays on the matter, most of which are available at http://psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/
In music theory class years ago, we asked our professor how he was able to sight-read on the piano so easily. His explanation was that the music consists of lots of reused patterns and ideas, and once he mastered those patterns, he could recognize them in the score and it became much easier to play the piece without rehearsing it first.
I'm not saying he needs to stick with the project. I'm saying that it's, on average, bad for your career to try to save a failing project. Better to move to one that will succeed, but you don't get mobility by offending everyone around you, which is often what happens when you try to "save" people in spite of themselves.
Texas is having a somewhat similar problem, but the economic boom is masking it a bit - the suburbs are now the place where a lot of the poor live, and the cities are getting expensive.
Fellow lawyer here. I'm not a criminal attorney, but I agree that the superintendent's word shouldn't be taken as the last word.

Although he might be strictly correct as it pertains to police not being able to prosecute based on the surveys alone, they certainly could subpoena the survey results if a student were to get in trouble in the future. A student's statement could be used against him for another related or even unrelated crime.

Imagine being on the stand and the prosecutor pulls out this sheet and says, "you just said you've never used any drugs before, but this survey you filled out says that you did. Are you lying now or were you lying then?"

It seems it would be admissible as non-hearsay because it's a statement of a party opponent under FRE 801.
Won't be using this.
It looks like "77" was a typo for "7" (2013 - 7 == 2006).
Not being able to load it is certainly distracting as well.
I'm confused - which part of my deduction is a guess?

I'll ignore your ad hominem attacks.
What does a social network have to do with it? I thought that logging in using a third-party account was simply a way to ease signups and limit password/account explosion, nothing to do with "social" anything. Certainly that's how I use it.
> BitCoin isn't a "threat" to the money issuance monopoly

You are mistaken. Look at what was done to Liberty Dollar.
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You should treat the project with extra effort. You have 1.5 months to go. This is what you know. You are signed on to a project. The project at hand sucks. The inner politics can not be manipulated. With you knowing all of these factors, maybe there is a way you can change the outcome of the project. At the least you gain something from this project.
I had this issue.

I worked very hard to put the project on the right track, but the issue was the person at the very top (my boss) just wound't listen and do things his way every single time.

Twice, I worked for months on new features that we discussed and outlined only to have the project be completely re-designed (and 90% of my work scrapped) because he had a new dream or a vision about how the project should look.

I eventually quit. It's not worth my time, effort, or sleepless nights.
Wow, that certainly is surprising. I've looked at the EC2 pricing page many times and never noticed that.

I think you pasted the wrong link, though. Here's the page which contains that quote: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved
I agree. I love OAuth idea and the single-sign on flow. I love having one source where I can go and see all of the sites that have my info, and I love being able to rescind my account from that central location.

However, I hate that Facebook/Twitter take it a step further with all of their social integration features to the point where many apps assume, by default, that you want to share share share everything you do all over your social network.

As I've found a number of apps/websites that do not allow you to continue without giving them permission to post on your wall, I've been forced to mark every single app/OAuth site on my Facebook as available to "only me". Post all you want, no one will ever see it.

Curating what gets posted under your name shouldn't be this much work. I shouldn't have to strive for a clean digital presence with content that adds something to my readers life.

I'd love an OAuth provider that HAS NO SOCIAL NETWORK!

And Google is out on this too, sorry, but Google Plus is obviously the only web property that Google cares about anymore and trusting them not to socialify everything is a fools game.
Great article. To the extent this references Malcolm Gladwell, isn't 10,000 hours from "Outliers"? If so, the message was nature + nurture + LUCK.

For instance to be a great NHL hockey player, you should have a birthday in Jan or Feb. Because youth hockey leagues group you by age. And when you're the biggest and most coordinated in your group ....

Likewise Gates' situation in high school was extraordinary, and exceptional parents.

So, (1) yeah the 10,000 hours, and (2) yes the genetics/wiring, and also (3) the luck. At least to be a true "outlier". One can be an "expert", and very successful and fulfilled, without being a Bill Gates or Wayne Gretzky.
That is very much the point, I think. You can't judge the speech negatively on its merits, since emphatic negation is a regular feature of many languages. You can judge the speech negatively on the basis of who you think the person is, in this case "black".

There are some obvious issues with confusing these things.
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SCSS still uses {} and ; while SASS goes for Python-like syntax with indentation doing most of the work. But they are the same thing and are developed by the same guys.
I know plenty of amateur musicians who love what they do and have spent their entire lives making music, but will never reach a professional level

I was thinking about that the other day as well and I believe it has something to do with some form of goal oriented activity behavior. Or at least a distinct process of continuously "rising the barrier". Otherwise it becomes like saying "we are walking every day so why don't we end up all being marathon runners when we turn 40".

In my view it takes a certain kind of competitive mindset that combines being dissatisfied with ones own skill set and having an intrinsic motivation to become better, adjusting the skillset to the top performers in the field and at the same time portraying to the outside a level of confidence in the skill, in order to reach the true heights of a pro.
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As far as a common library, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLib

It has hash table, binary trees, linked lists/resizeable arrays.
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Education was on the decline as far back as I can remember. In the 90s, New York City's public school system was embroiled in scandals -- overcrowding, converting bathrooms into classrooms, illiterate teaching assistants, illiterate high school graduates, etc. This was long before No Child Left Behind (and in fact, NCLB was meant to address the concerns people had about American education), and it was not unique to New York.

NCLB is a bad law, but it is not the cause of our education problems. Teachers like to point to it because it is an easy scapegoat and it allows them to evade all responsibility.
They are. The names just represent the two different syntax styles that the project offers: traditional brace style (Scss) or Haml-like significant whitespace structure (Sass).
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Great list. I agree with most of these conventions, except the following:

> List "Regular" Styles Next

> List @include(s) Next

Depends on what the @include gives you, I would either treat @include the same as @extend and put @include after @extend, or just treat @include as regular styles and mix them together. The reason for this is that I generally organize my styles by listing block styles first and then the text styles. It would mess up this organization if all @includes that set only 1 property are listed the last.
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She's popular because she's so popular? Sounds like Google should hire Angelina Jolie as CEO to compete.
I think there is a part of the book that was missed by the author of the article.

Gladwell wasn't trying to say that everyone could become an expect by putting in 10,000 hours, but rather he could explain the "Outliers" in our society because of the intense amount of work (hours) and favorable situations. Bill Gates enjoyed coding yes, but he had an opportunity to code much earlier than others. You look at Gates, Steve Jobs, and Bill Joy, all born in the mid 1950's with the opportunity to capatailze on a new industry. All with their 10,000 hours when they became of age and enough entrepreneurship take advantage of the newly developed market (or in some ways create the market).
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You have to start with really simple things. When you can sight read a grade 1 piano book, move on to grade 2. Doing written theory homework also helps, because it forces you to think about all the little details and it means your fluency goes up. I really don't believe this is about talent, it's just difficult in the same way that learning to read English is difficult. Also stopping and starting is a no-no, and recording yourself and analyzing where you slipped up helps too. Really, if you want to do it, I'm sure it can be done, but you probably need a better approach.
But they see their own level.

We had a client with us on vWorker. When we all transitioned to Freelancer, we thought "great -- lower fees and an easier to use website!" Their first login, they saw all the XP-level stuff and bailed. They simply weren't willing to conduct business on a website that seemed to treat everything like a game.

When you're running a serious business, perception matters. As you can see from this HN thread, some people who made the transition have a negative perception of the confusing, distracting sideshow of the XP system. It wouldn't be so bad if it was phrased in a more neutral way, like "Freelancer rewards". But giving something phrased in game terminology so much prominence is a big turnoff for some of us.

Of course, I don't have access to your internal metrics or split tests. Maybe the terminology works out as a net positive; maybe the people who like it engage enough more to make up for those who left because of it. I can't speak for your entire client base, only my little corner of it. And my little corner of it would be doing more business through Freelancer if the gamey stuff wasn't so prominently featured.
The more the merrier. I only feel comfortable using my Twitter log-in, and I don't have any privacy reservations with Amazon either.
I see how this statement is flawed. Thank you for pointing that out. So this car gets 9-10 miles per (your choice of wordage). Also around murica we measure gas in gallons. hahaha.
Why? Because there isn't a social network attached to it. I don't have to create another username/password and I can possibly avoid entering credit card details into another site if I decide to do business with them. Why not is a better question.
Ah my mistake. The only excuse I can offer is it was late in the day and my eyes were tired.
Thomas, You've mentioned that your new-programming-language-exercise du jour is to write a virtual machine (or microcontroller emulator), right? I'd like to try that in C. How would you go about writing this in a simple way. I know I could google this, but I'm worried I'll find results with too many details and pollute my discovery process.

Really, I'd just like some opinionated answers to the following from anyone who cares:

1) What is a simple instruction set that I can support?

2) What existing programs are available for that instructions set, or what set of tools are there to compile to that instructions set?

3) What are the high level tasks that I will need to accomplish to write this virtual machine?

4) What should I look up or borrow exclusively versus figure out for myself?

Thanks!
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I'm sorry, but for most cloudy webapps using servers as dumb datastores just doesn't cut it. You can't do everything at clientside. Could you imagine Gmail requiring you to download your whole multi-gigabyte mailbox to do a simple full-text search? That is maybe somewhat extreme example, but the principle applies quite widely.
I don't like this direction. I think any legal content should be allowed.
Reasoning must be equivalent across cultures, even where language varies, right? If not, wouldn't sciences be culturally relative (y'know, beyond a certain threshold of like not worshiping a sun-god)? So, to me, what's actually being addressed in this article and with the research involved is merely that language shapes the way we perceive, but not necessarily how we think/reason. It's interesting, but more along the lines of anthropological insight, less how does the way I speak affect the way I write code/solve problems.

You say that Anglo-Saxon culture is dominated by inductive reasoning. Is there a different system of reasoning dominant in other cultures? Not trying to be flippant, I'm ignorant of this topic and am interested in hearing what someone who can speak 3 languages knows.
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