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This is a very important distinction to make, however issues with this style of teaching (training rather than deep education) are difficult to see in subjects other than mathematics.

At a high school level, I doubt any subjects really build on early learnings as much as mathematics. History, biology, and chemistry for example are all easy enough at the US high school level, as little actually builds on top of early concepts. Sure, it helps to have insight into theory behind chemistry, but I can still memorize some elements, molecules, and energy levels of electrons. High school doesn't really go beyond that. Mathematics however, is incredibly abstract, and without a framework of theory to encompass everything, is just a vague sequence of techniques.
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Very curious.
Ha ha, thanks for linking to this old post. For the record, this was meant to be a quick fix to solve some encoding issues we had on our live site.

I agree that setting global state is a bad idea. However, client satisfaction is more important than a temporary hack.
Well, Paul Revere did have something to hide.
Actually, from a practical viewpoint, learning math will make you more valuable and wealthy; not more likable or popular though. It is actually bound to make you more unpopular, and that is a big deal in the schoolyard microcosm.
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"How do you teach someone to understand math when they are capable but unwilling to do so?"

You don't. Full stop. This is a lesson that I've had to learn the hard way.
Cost of entire NASA program is pennies of the war cost... unfortunately there is more money to make at war, than at creating/maintaining peace and continuing humankind progress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc
Beyond NSA, even CIA has a big technology footprint
I feel like his sister. I've been trained to solve math problems using formulas, but I don't know the why.
Some day, in a math class, the teacher was talking about how to solve derivatives - and it required to know what infinite means. I asked to all my classmates to put their hand up if they knew what infinite means. Nobody did. But the teacher went on, omitting that basic concept.
I have just finished high school and I feel like I don't know why 2 + 2 = 4
At best, yet another two-faced politician who promised one thing and did the opposite.

At worst, a national disgrace who sacrificed the rights of the American people in pursuit of an impossible goal of 100% security.
It seems that no one who brings this argument up acknowledges the possibility that terrorism doesn't seem like a big threat precisely because of the extreme precautions taken to stop it.

Comparing traffic related deaths to terrorism related deaths is invalid since we don't spend the same resources or give up comparable liberties to prevent traffic related deaths.

Any analysis that doesn't seriously consider that cannot be taken seriously.

As the Boston Marathon Bombing showed us, it's very easy to create a lot of destruction and disruption and fear with very mundane items (gunpowder and pressure cookers). If it's so easy to accomplish, why doesn't it happen more? Either terrorism is genuinely not a serious threat or our security organizations are very good at what they do using the tools they have at their disposal.

I would be in favor of our security apparatuses 'taking a break' or scaling back spying operations for about 5 years just to see what the result would be and if the American public would be able to tolerate it. Bombs going off every week in a major shopping mall or in an airliner or in a bus (like in Israel in the 90s) would probably not be acceptable to the American people.

Alternatively, we would discover that terrorism is not a big threat and the debate about giving up liberties to prevent terrorism would be a very simple one.
The amount of data produced per person and the amount of data storage capabilities are increased on a regular basis (annual?) as well.

Finding terrorists is a red herring, in this case it's all about mapping and measuring the movements of every person and device.
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Not quite what I meant. Lots of watch faces play on the fact that 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. For example, take this [1] Ulysse Nardin watch. It has six nice "hexa"-markings (a common theme among watches). Some other watches go for the cross-hair (division by 4). Neither one of the styles would be possible with the 10 hour system.

Note: those watches do not reflect my personal taste, they were just the easiest to find.

[1] http://www.ulysse-nardin.ch/ulysse-nardin-webseite/uploadfil...

[2] http://www.tissot.ch/imageslib/cache/2011/png/image225png_T0...
Sadly I am in this camp, I say sadly because part of me thinks that I should care more about math yet I don't. I program every day and I could give a flip about the math behind a circle. Business math for me is pretty much canned routines. I know where to get the formula I need should anything advanced come up, I don't usually care about why it works, only that it does work. I trust it works because the sources I use are trusted.

There is a great benefit to teaching practical only, it engages people easier when they can see the immediate benefit. There will never be a shortage of those who want to know more on a give subject, maybe for this guy's sister he needs to find what moves her. Not everyone likes math, and even of those who do I wonder how many get to work with it
encfs sometimes generates very long path names, which runs against the 255-char limit that Dropbox imposes if you have any Windows computers linked to your account. Last time I tried it, the filenames were silently corrupted and much data was lost.
Ideas, mostly bad.
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It's often been said during during debates about government waste and inefficiency, that citizens do not actually want an efficient government. The typical example is: would you want a boot to appear on your wheel, in your driveway, the minute your license plate expires? Because that would be efficient.

The average person feels that they are getting more benefit out of Google searches, Gmail, Facebook, cell phones, and credit cards for that matter, then they are being harmed by volunteering so much information to the corporations who run these businesses.

If you think the U.S. is headed in the direction of outlawing alcohol or teaching creationism is all schools, I respectfully suggest you find something different to worry about -- maybe pot... wait, we are becoming more lenient on it as well.

I find it a bit silly, that when the government adopts new technology to fight crime, everyone brings up their pet boogey-man to try to strike fear in their like-minded citizens. I honestly can't understand if you are in support of, for instance, using web surveillance technology to capture and prosecute abortion clinic bombers or not.
For over a decade the US Gov't has used the idea of terrorism to justify many wars and legislation produced over that time. It's starting to get annoying. Hopefully this article will help people understand why it is an irrational fear.
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Oh I see, that makes sense. Thanks!
European privacy laws vary greatly. Even within the EU (which only covers half Europe's population) privacy laws vary a lot.
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I honestly am far more fearful of what a revolution in the modern USA would look like.

The "Good Guys" have no assurances of being on the winning side. Who says we don't end up with a fascist dictatorship or, more realistically, a theocracy?
seriously??? get over yourself.
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I think it's a question as to whether someone who has a degree of expertise has any reason to be motivated by money when the payments are so small. In a weird way I think software engineers would be doing the internet a service by accepting small amounts instead of doing stackoverflow exclusively.This way the trend can nudge back toward people getting paid for information - even if it's just little amounts. On the flip side I wouldn't mind paying small amounts for my questions that would otherwise be answered on stack overflow. But it would be very small. $1 here, $10 there.
I completely agree that we've overreacted, but I've always rejected this argument, and here's why: Terrorism is not about numerical risk, it is about public perception.

That means that it plays in the same game as everything else in the PR world: politics, advertising, social signaling, and so forth. The last thing it has anything to do with is logic.

It would be great if we could tally up all the things that kill us and spend proportionally on those. It's the logical thing to do. Heart disease would come first, then cancer, and so on. But instead we spend and give attention to those things that the public perceives we should: AIDS research, nuclear war deterrence, terrorism.

And if you think about it, that's the way it ought to be. Spending and making laws are all about the consent of the governed, doing things they want. They're not about math or logic.

The problem here is that, with the Cold War over, the defense and intelligence industry saw 9-11 as a call to arms. They're going to go out and do things a good defense and intelligence industry should. And as Americans we have traditionally been forgiving of having our civil liberties temporarily trampled on during times of war.

But you can't have a war forever. A democracy cannot survive this. Instead of the natural overreaction to a war that always happened, we started creating permanent infrastructure to address all terrorism, forever. We're fighting a war with nobody to surrender, and no amount of spending or government monitoring will ever be enough.

The original laws around 9-11 were temporary, and for a very good reason. But somehow politics has gotten to the point where terrorism is the new third-rail: some national politicians might grandstand a bit, but nobody is going to do anything except for give the security state apparatus whatever it says it needs. Otherwise they'd be thrown out of office. Public perception demands it.

Adding up numbers has nothing to do with it, unless you're using them to make some kind of persuasive argument, and then we're right back to public perception and politics. You're in the same boat as those who asked for more cancer research instead of AIDS research. Different people, rightly, see things differently, and everybody deserves to be represented. We're running a country, not an insurance agency.
The world Jefferson lived in is infinitely different from ours. There is absolutely no chance that the government of the US will turn tyrannical. none. zero. if you think there is you're nuts.

There is all sorts of talk in this comment section about how people would fight the US military and stuff like that. There people are in la-la land. I'm not going to elaborate on this but: I think it's closely tied with the American obsession with the apocalypse (see zombie/post-apocalyptic movies)

People have very very different expectations from the government now than they did even 50 years ago. No first world country (even ones that don't cherish liberty as much as us) in the past 50 years has turned to tyranny. There are studies about how past a certain GDP tyranny becomes unsustainable - and we're well past that point.

I do what to clarify that I'm not against the second amendment at all. But the argument that it's to fight the government is absolutely absurd.
don't you think it would be pointless since its a one man startup?
Change the game, sure.

End the game? No. Revolutions usually wind up with a much worse game as a result.
Forgot to add http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software) and possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
On LocalBitcoins the service doesn't know the details of the buyer at all. The seller has to display his account info so that the buyer can pay. From buyer perspective it is quite safe.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1114

Fun fact: Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the murder of 8 federal agents who were in the Federal Building. They didn't bother to charge him with the other 160 counts of murder, because those weren't federal crimes.
I have no sources but I'd be willing to bet that so do India and China.
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I propose quads with regards to Star Trek nomenclature[1], which are increasing by 4 steps between the byte steps.

1 quad = 1 terabyte (10^3^4 bytes)

1 kiloquad = 1 yottabyte (10^3^8 bytes)

1 megaquad = 10^3^12 bytes

1 gigaquad = 10^3^16 bytes

And so forth.

While in Star Trek no direct comparison between quads and bytes is ever explained, this scale seems appropriate.

[1] http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Quad
That's not really true any more.

When Thomas Jefferson was alive it was feasible for the people to protect themselves from tyranny by fighting the government because the technology available to "normal" people was the same as available to the military.

Today it would be impossible. Even the police are 10000x better equipped than any group of civilian can be. And then there's the military...

Besides that, I'm skeptical there will ever be an issue where enough people are angry enough to start a revolt against the government. Right now people are outraged because the government is massively violating our rights, but nobody's talking about an armed revolution.
Lol. I think it's telling of how non-serious this whole issue is - when the absolute worst the government can do is make it harder for you to fly.
Oh, pish! Why wait when they can make all the sweet, sweet ad money from linkbaiting
I feel incredible stupid asking this, but...how?

I'm running a (very small) personal site on lighttpd, and updating it via git. I checked my.server.com/.git/config - and was duly served the config file. Eek!

So I edited my /var/www/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file, and added the following lines:
$HTTP["url"] =~ ".git" {
url.access-deny = ("")
}

and
(I have used [asterisk] for the symbol, here, as otherwise it rendered my text italic)

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(.[asterisk])" {
url.redirect = ( "^/.git(.*)" => "%1/nope.html" )
}

And restarted the server.

But my.server.com/.git/config still served up the config file. What am I missing?
You might find visual cues / diagrams helpful ...

I've been gradually doing a few of these as I bootstrap Gridmaths.com. You can see some sample screenshots of worked problems in blogposts at : quantblog.wordpress.com

I think we miss engaging with quite a few students, because we focus on procedures and process rather than visualization in school [ I could be wrong, this is subjective, but at least we should try and explore different ways of presenting math ]

Khanacademy videos and GeoGebra might be useful also.
I do it, for sites that particularly concern me. For example, it's been... interesting, to watch the ongoing changes in Google's cert chains. And when, many months ago, I commented on these, I received a number of silent (no comment) upvotes.

If you're not looking at the whole chain, you're ripe for MITM, particularly with the cruft in default root certificate distributions as well as ongoing changes in entity alliances -- whether free or coerced.
It is a rhetorical tactic of whisking the issue away. Hey guys, this is old news, lets not talk about it.
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> From the outside it often looks as if American politicians are overly busy with a very expensive "game", rather than using the game for the greater good.

This is because the players (Booz Allen, Lockheed, etc) are major campaign donors with huge lobbies). I don't like the corruption of politicians, but I like to believe that if money and lobbying were not involved, Obama (and most of Congress) would do a fine job of looking out for the best interest of Americans.
That collection of data won't exonerate you because you won't have access to it; the only data which will be used is that which is potentially bad for you. And why would you have all this faith that the govt. is only using this data in good faith? Do you remember Aaron Schwartz? He wasn't an isolated incident: its very easy for the federal government to bring charges against anyone they want at any time, especially when they have all this data about you.
Thanks for the correction, however it should also be noted that it uses the term 'murder', which by definition is different from homicide in that murder is unlawful, where homicide is not necessarily.

If I kill someone attacking me, I have committed homicide, but not necessarily murder. If I kill someone ala McVeigh, I have murdered them.

Since it is a federal charge, it's very likely that the 'intent' would be determined in a federal court, which does exist outside of state jurisdiction and is bound to uphold federal laws, but it isn't quite open and shut.

Still, your point stands, which is to say that he's almost certainly screwed.
Also consider, if he hadn't shared his location he might've just disappeared as soon as he made an anonymous statement over the internet. This way he gets to talk to the press and establishes his location clearly.
if you want to see many other examples, search for "chladni plate"
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It's the American obsession with the apocalypse. Conflict is "fun" and "cool" and gives people a way to amplify their voice disproportionately. Blow up a government building and you'll get more attention than someone who works peacefully a whole lifetime.
While I agree with the article's main point, keep in mind that most of the comparative examples given do not threaten the legitimacy (or the aura thereof, if one wishes to distinguish between the two) of the government. That in itself should explain why the government pays so much attention to it.

Why ordinary people seem to obsess over terror probably stems from all of the coverage an attack (or even a foiled plot, for that matter) gets. Which shouldn't surprise once one remembers how cozy the media is with the government.
The rule of law is that the state and its agents obey the law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law To the extent a power can enact "Whatever I do is the law" it's vacuous, of course. But power and discretion for state agents really is the opposite of the meaning of the phrase as I learned it.

We are supposedly equals, and those from cops to the president are our employees, not our masters, though I'd agree that in the U.S. reality has gotten way off the model. Anyway, re enforcement among equals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth
This 'Foxtrot' comic is relevant:

http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2009/01/25/
And seek another citizenship, or else they'll be paying tax twice.
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The only time I use Safari myself, other than testing of course.

My wife sells Mary Kay, and for some reason, she can't login to her account using Chrome on her machine, but Safari works, so she uses Safari for the one website.
When the public act like children our response should not to be lauding the misuse of funds because of their unreasonable demands but to educate them. Failing that, we should ignore them and actually do the things that are in their best interests.

The litmus test for me would be this: If I took a sample of the population, thoroughly educated them about the matter to the point where there was no reasonable doubt left, would the majority have changed their position to mine. If so, and if we do not have the resources to teach the public about the nuances of every issue, then acting according to what they would come to believe is ethical.

Furthermore it isn't even that simple. Not only is the public damaging itself, but it is also infringing on my rights. The added likelihood that I will die in a car crash vs a plane crash due to the extra hassle and delays at the airport is unsanctionable, regardless of claims to "consent of the governed".
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Yes, good design is how it works. We aren't against skeuomorphism and don't think flat is opposite of it either. In fact there can even be flat skeumorphism. I think Layervault's post on flat interface design, and Sacha Grief's flat pixels post are the best out there to read up on what IS flat design. Or Almost flat design. http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/32267022219/flat-interface...
http://sachagreif.com/flat-pixels/
The repository is already public. It can't get any more public by being exposed over the website.
I understand, but "bankers in jail" is hardly focused, specific, or practically implementable. Which bankers - on what charges? And under what precedent? Did they want new laws set? If so, was there an agreed upon Bill or at least a roadmap to support? I casually followed the movement, and other than 'overturn Citizens United', did not find myself able to glean from the protests such information. Likely there were many people like msyelf whom, after reading up and finding (subjectively deemed) insufficient substance, simply stopped following it. Were violence added to the mixture, I'd not have felt more sympathetic to a movement I perceived to have no practical goals.

Im playing a bit of devil's advocate here, but I think followers of Civil rights movements, with relative ease, would be able to answer similar questions. I sympathize with the energy behind the Occupy movement, but like most people I'm not sure what to do about it - who or what to support, and how to act. And that, imho, is why the Occupy movement fizzled.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854818
Even better: A well educated, well informed, and politically active populace, with guns.

These things aren't mutually exclusive, ya know...