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>> There isn't much debate in reading/writing/arithmetic.

I'd say it's not even relevant whether there is much debate about whether what's being taught is correct. They're still being told what to do and to obey that person, rather than finding it out themselves, and we're killing their curiosity and creativity in the process.

>> We're using a genius and one of the most prolific inventors America ever saw to rationalize the idea that school is bad for kids? Not to mention they were in school so long ago.

Perhaps, if our school system was better, we'd have many more of such 'geniuses'?

>> I'd imagine being the best is quite a lot of work. I'd be burned out too.

Is this intended to take away from his points? If anything it confirms them.
I have noticed that the ACLU has a tendency of making dubious choices when they run into a conflict between agendas (i.e. supporting corporate free speech in Citizens United and then opposing the same in Elaine Photography v. Willock. The EFF seems to have fewer qualms defending enumerated civil liberties online.

I have come to really appreciate the EFF. I won't donate to political candidates. I will donate to the EFF what I might have donated to political candidates....
Only if you vote above the line. I prefer to nominate all my own preferences, thanks. It's not hard.
Could you see yourself riding this regularly on the commute to the office? If not, it's a toy, not a Tesla equivalent.

It's a shame, as I think there's a lot of room for innovation in bicycles.

Not to mention, I'm waiting for the day where magic happens and I can get stats for all of my cycle rides without first having to load up a phone app (or stick on a cycle computer, for that matter).
IMHO the title should be reversed: a bicycle is to this what the Tesla is for cars:

A Tesla has a cleaner engine than a car.
A bicycle has a cleaner engine (none) than a greyp-bike.
Organizations like EFF and ACLU are extremely impressive—they are one of the very few effective actors that actually seem to be able to strike blows at the current wave of authoritarian madness. I wish their German and European counterparts managed similar feats.
A bit uglier and with an less consensual design than Tesla IMO
I thought that too, it would be very convenient. On the other hand don't drop the MathJax support because the rendering is really slick. Sometimes rendered images feel weird.
Brain-training video games may help reverse cognitive decline in old age
The HTML5 rush, Too Many Pick and Shovel vendors
This is a brilliant move by Marissa Mayer.

In some ways, but I think Yahoo! has essentially proven their brand is so weak that it can be represented by a new poorly thought out design every day and, well, no-one cares.

If Apple, McDonald's or Coca Cola did something similar, they'd be committing brand suicide and attracting a lot of flak, but with Yahoo it's just "Oh well, another new Yahoo logo, who cares?"
>running phone books through sheet fed scanners

Wow. I had to take a minute to let that sink in.
Did you mean, this is to Motorbikes what Tesla is for cars? Isn't the bicycle already pretty damn perfect? I don't look at my bike and wish it could take petrol or was electric powered. There are tons of electric motor assisted bikes out there without the weight of a motorbike.
Malcolm Turnbull (@TurnbullMalcolm) tweeted at 7:43 PM on Thu, Sep 05, 2013:
Policy released today wrongly indicated we supported an opt out system of internet filtering. That is not our policy and never has been.
(https://twitter.com/TurnbullMalcolm/status/37555476615306854...)
At my previous agency we built the website for a competitor to a bike like this. They gave us one to keep at the office so I have a little experience with it.

The bike in this article has all the same problems as the one we had.

It's waaaaaay too heavy. You can't really peddle it, not for long anyway, it's virtually impossible. It's only a matter of time before the battery runs out on you and you find yourself stuck.

You can't get it around. The one we had took several people to move up and down things. This is a pretty big issue when you're living in a London apartment (their target market).

Then there's the segway effect. Was it PG who said that you can't ride one without looking like a smug twat? The first time my boss took it out some guys in a white van slowed down to yell "get a real bike, you lazy !#&*"...
Even if the bridges had been rebuilt, it would be hard to tell from this video.

They'd probably be in the same spot, so it is hard to tell if they have been replaced at the speed the video goes. Also, they would probably re-use legacy supports, bases etc for a new bridge, so they may even look the same as the old ones?
The Neo900 project - the first true successor for N900?
Design by consensus = bad, really bad. If the CEO wears the designer boot and conditions the final art I think it's one of the biggest mistakes they will do. Right now, that logo to me looks like more or less those logos you can find on logotypes websites for 30 dollars.

The logo on smaller sizes looks pretty crap. Just check it. The logo is only interesting on certain situations, that's why a good logo isn't just drop some non-straight lines in illustrator on a weekend.

Bezels? That's so 90's.
This is the opposite of what Tesla is for cars. It's taking the single most energy efficient vehicle I know - 99% mechanical efficiency, incredibly low carbon footprint, and an amazing calorie-per-kilometer ratio (miles-per-apple?) - and it makes it worse in every single aspect. It is probably fun to ride, and it's better for the environment than cars, but it is certainly not a "greener" bicycle.
This might be true if the logo were actually good, but it's not. It looks like it was designed by a machine.
This is not what I would call a bicycle. It's a motorbike that allows you to pedal should you want to. In the UK, this would need a motorbike licence. There are strict rules as to how an electric bicycle may assist you and up to what speed. Non-pedal assist (just turn the handle) are limited to 20kmh otherwise they are considered a motorbike. Pedal assist are effectively self-limiting.

Also in the video, the woman accelerates away from a motorbike then loses him when she decides to carry on through a pedestrianised area at I guess 30kmh. WTF?

We have people at work who have electric bikes. The key is that they can be parked in bike racks with other bikes AND, most importantly, they can grab the battery and charge it at their desk.

Tyres are very fat on this bike so won't bike rack and the battery is internal so you will need a specific charging point.

As a bike for use on a mountain bike trail...bet the handling is way to heavy for most trails.

Clever idea but not sure who it's aimed at. I'm guessing an environmentally conscious dirt bike riders?
I'm still not convinced about Angular's Dependency Injection thing. The problems it allegedly solves don't clearly outweigh the ones it certainly creates.

It claims to provide concern isolation, which facilitates testing and cleanliness. I don't think it helps that much.

But it has a middle-stage learning curve, more callbacks than I'd like, and implicitness of dependencies. For example, i.e. you need to know what $scope-like params are "supposed to contain" on every function that uses them.

Also, I find the naming spotty: "directive", "module", "injector", "compile" etc. lack specificity. They are not as bad as "Manager", "Data", "Info" and "Object", but they are not good.
That isn't true, most hybrids still have a mechanical connection between the combustion engine and the drive wheels. That is, the Prius, Ford hybrids, GM hybrids, I'm sure others.
Xiaomi unveils MI3, smart TV
You guys are unreal with your comments - is it jealousy or something. Whatever it is it make me want to never come here again
It seems as if formal models of Rust have a tendency to rust.
>StartX companies must have at least one founder with a Stanford affiliation. The majority of StartX companies have a founder who is currently or was previously an undergraduate or graduate student at the school.

In the world of academia, it matters, for some reason, that a founder have a Stanford affiliation.

I like startup culture specifically because it doesn't import this kind of nepotism. Or for that matter any of these academic institutions. Once StartX takes Stanford's money and plays by the rules of the academic world, it extends the rules of Stanford's admissions committee onto StartX's investments (equity or not).

I like that diversity doesn't matter in the startup world, generally speaking. I like that you don't have to do something charitable or socially-conscious. I like that you don't need a high SAT score or play a varsity sport. I like that startup culture doesn't really have a place for people like that—academic grants do!

Academic grants are so enormously generous and follow such significantly different standards of accountability that you can't really say that Stanford's $1 million are the same as NEA's $1 million.

It would be nice if one dollar meant the same thing everywhere, but if the standards by which that dollar is granted differ, it's hard to objectively compare two startups as routinely as we do by the capital they raise, the growth they experience and the revenue they generate.

No doubt my elitism is also an academic import. I get that. At least don't call what Stanford funds a startup. No equity? Not a startup anyhow. Don't mix me in with the folks who got where they are under Stanford's priorities, Stanford's standards of accountability and Stanford's money.

Long story short: taking funny money is bad for the business.
The whole series was great. Worth watching for sure.
The senate is it though. If you live in a safe seat like me you have no influence on who gets into government, only wrecking things when they are in.
Write ahead log for dummies
More formally, I think they should have referred to trains that depart from London's southern termini? (Victoria, Waterloo, Cannon St, London Bridge, Charing Cross).
There are alternatives to home-schooling if one wants freedom (& without making every parent a teacher & both my parents had been teachers - not at my school when I was there -, so they could have).

Montessori, or Jenaplan (a Dutch/German thing, which was the one I went to).

There was a bit of 'prison' in that there was a certain number of fixed tasks to complete each week in areas such as Math, Dutch and English. But one could pick which, and mostly even check them oneself. Once done, the rest of the time was free to work on projects and things just like you described above (the carrot :-). Often by Wednesday afternoon I was done.

It thus worked wonderfully for me, though it may not be for everyone. But when I have kids they are definitely going to a Jenaplan-type school. As it never felt like a prison to me and instilled a love of learning, and ability to plan and reward myself (besides other positive things such as a sense of equality towards others, including bosses & profs)

School != School. Shop around before you reinvent.
It's certainly better than just a password, and as you say is a nice balance between usability and strong passwords.

However, I'd be careful about thinking of it as any sort of 2-factor authentication and wouldn't bestow any of the advantages of 2-factor auth on your scheme.

A static secret, no matter how complex, doesn't really prove ownership because multiple people can trivially have a copy of the secret at the same time. So you don't have a knowledge and a physical factor, just a convoluted knowledge factor.

Better than just a password, but don't let it g e you a false sense of security.
Slightly off topic but can anyone recommend a good book on algebra to get back up to speed before attempting to read these?
I should note, it doesn't work with ssl

And clickable link here: http://imgur.com/tEDvSmm
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Hugo Barra presented.

And more photos: http://cn.engadget.com/photos/2013-3/
Totally right. That's why the design by consensus is always wrong. The brand is now biased. MM had a reputation of being intrusive even on silly details making the design process horrible and with crappy results.

From this I remember various things you may remember too:

1. The Google favicon. They did thousands and the one they choosed was crappiest one. They had to change it later.
2. The Google favicon with blue. Also, they did silly tests. Now that thing is gone.

I think this post resumes it well http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Ask HN: 23andMe - is it safe?
I want to get to know some more about my DNA and was wondering about using 23andMe special deal for $99. But doing some researching, I realized that Google is an investor in this company (also founder is a family with one of Google founders). I have not read through TOS but what are the chances for my DNA info being further passed by to Google for research and other stuff? (such as better ads targeting of course.
I happily ride my heavy Stromer to work. With respect to things on wheels, it's not that important how heavy it is once it starts moving—what you lose in starting you gain in greater inertia. It's just something you get used to.

We'd all be better off if we commuted with 50kg bikes than 1,100kg cars.
"Private Sharing".
As I said, I prefer magic, too. More precise: The user in me agrees; the hacker disagrees. The hacker would like to see a 'make world' in each phone.
Unless this bike can reach it's top speed in around 2 seconds, I don't the motorcycle was really going for it. (I'm basing this on my not-ridiculously-fast motorcycle which can easily reach 65kmh in 2 seconds)
> supporting corporate free speech in Citizens United and then opposing the same in Elaine Photography v. Willock

These two cases are completely different. One is about a non-profit being prohibited from speaking about a candidate before a primary election, and the other is about discrimination by a commercial service.
The passphrase looks to be very weak if it is just something like 4 english words. And fails on the convenience test.
If only this company would actually let me delete my account (not merely disactivate). After multiple ignored requests via their 'delete account' option on the app's support page I've given up.
The Ars article seemed totally irrelevant to me since it used MD5?
A recession might be good for rich programmer geeks like us. We can keep on working getting paid through the wazoo and start buying up properties when everyone else is suffering and defaulting.

Just sayin'.
Played the whole game with just the keyboard. It is perfectly doable - just requires a little bit of time to get used to. Since then it's my favourite game of the last 5 years, a real gem... what I didn't like was the lack of proper information on the screen what buttons do what ( in the inventory and so on ).
So America has its problems, we can list them out and maybe deal with them (or not) depending on how people feel about them (e.g. we have a functioning political system).

DPRK has even bigger problems. Any fixes will be hard in coming, and will probably be painful when they do. Its a whole different "screwed up" from how the Europeans think the USA is "screwed up."
The Path To Freemium
LabScam: Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike enlist Penn and Teller for a practical joke
I use git + homesick for this

https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
One good thing about the House of Representatives is that, because it uses AV, you can give your higher preferences to the smaller parties without it being a a wasted vote.
What EU legislation says about the max. bike weight?
Germans get an exemption to Godwin's law for some reason.
Minor nitpick: I think the equivalent code in https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/x86oddities#future_op... has a copy-paste error. In

89d8 mov eax, ebx
f7d0 not eax
21c8 and eax, ebx

there should be a ecx somewhere.
And now the would-be communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has said it's all a big misunderstanding: https://twitter.com/TurnbullMalcolm/status/37555476615306854....
Australian Opposition backtracks on plans to implement Internet filter
Australian political activist targeted by opposition party's lawyers
This, my friends, is an electric moped. I wouldn't pay 600 euro for it, let alone 6000. If you are looking for fuel economy, regular old-school gas mopeds can get >100mpg. Admittedly, though, they do not offer a tablet and fingerprint reader interface. This will only carry forward on the force of hype, not because it is a truly great product.
Update http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSaGfsWamw
FROM Software didnt intend to port Dark Souls originally, and when they did it after demand from the playerbase it was their first port. Lets hope they learnt something from it.

And making the port actually playable takes three libs, thats not /that/ much:
DSfix for a better screen resolution and general candy
DSMfix for better mouse controls
DSCfix to instantly play with Windows-Live-Friends
Bicycles are probably one innovative and competitive markets out there, the amount of cutting edge technology used to shave gram weight from components is absurd, there are thousands of manufacturers for each niche in the bicycle industry.
Show HN: Quicksand - Build 2D Games for iOS and Android with JavaScript
H5BP put together a very comprehensive list.
http://h5bp.github.io/Effeckt.css/dist/
Sorry, I didn't mean to say it is impossible to fight. In the sense that I could fight Mike Tyson, or Don Quixote could fight a windmill, obviously it can be fought.

I meant to say that as a citizen, this is impossible to stop. I say that as someone who will vote Wikileaks on Saturday. But in realistic terms, unfortunately there are only two viable sides in the legislative house. Polls (and consequently betting markets) don't even anticipate a single seat going to a minor party at this election.
I've just finished building a first prototype and it would be great to get some feedback on it.

The idea behind the App is that especially beginners can achieve results quickly and make a game for iOS and Android and possibly more platforms (including Canvas) later on.

Quicksand uses the JS bindings of the Cocos2D-X framework (written in C++) which means that while you program in JavaScript the actual drawing will happen via OpenGL(ES).

Can you see yourself using this to build a game?

What platform would you want to develop for?

Let me know what you think! Thanks!
Tesla makes a greener more efficient car, this is neither a greener nor more efficient bicycle.
Wait nope! They're backtracking http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/no-internet-filter-say...
Yes, I've used multiscreen setups before and always wanted more. I always have multiple apps running, which means that I have to flip from one to the other if I can't just turn my head. If it's paperwork, I tend to spread it out on my desk rather than keeping it all in one tidy stack and bringing each page to the top as I need it. I'm sure there are large screen setups I wouldn't like, but in general I'd rather turn my head (or my gaze) than repeatedly swap things to the front of the stack.
The thought occurred to a lot of folks when Steve Jobs said he had a biography done "so his kids would know him". A few of them (eg. Jeff Atwood) even changed their behavior as a result.
That Vogue girl is doing to Yahoo on behalf of Google what Stephen Elop did to Nokia on behalf of Microsoft.
This is pretty cool. When I was younger I built a mini engine (from a kit[1], I wasn't fabbing components) which gave me a nice intro to the basics of how a car engine operates, but whilst parts of it are pretty simple to get it's helpful to see the process.

Even if it's a monolithic gif that annoys web developers. Or if it only shows one kind of engine design.

[1] http://www.scientificsonline.com/smithsonian-gas-engine-mode... is pretty close, but mine was a bit more basic. 15 years seems to have improved science kits a bit.
"Also in the video, the woman accelerates away from a motorbike then loses him when she decides to carry on through a pedestrianised area at I guess 30kmh. WTF?"

To be fair the guy on the real motorbike did shake his head at that point, presumably thinking "what a loon".
All of southern England does - South West train services use a third rail as well, at least on most services - some of the ones to Basingstoke are diesel-powered, but definitely Devon, Dorset, Hampshire and Surrey have electric rails.
Air != oxygen. Only 20% of air is oxygen.

If the air to fuel ratio is 10, then the oxygen to fuel ratio is only 2.
Electricity powered bicycles are not that rare here in Denmark, they look like this:

http://www.ecykler.dk/dame/863-raleigh-society-da-n7-elcykel...

which is not particularly more heavy than your average bicycle. They are mostly used by elderly ladies and heavy-set women, so the Tesla marketing aspect is not huge.
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We're looking for people to join me and our dev team at Conferize. It's founded by some of the people behind Issuu.com. Our stack is currently a healthy mix of MongoDB, Redis,
ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, rSpec, CoffeeScript, SASS. Oh, and Copenhagen is an awesome city :)

Ruby on Rails developer
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An older alternative that does not rely on MathJax (produces png images) is QuickLatex:

http://www.quicklatex.com/

It even supports latex packages (e.g. tikz).
Do you mean exporting the entire text to image or just the equation parts?
Looks like they've just posted a correction:

http://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2013/09/05/coalitions-...

Sweet Jesus....playing it fast and loose with freedom of expression just hours before an election.
Are you sure this is a direct injection? I'm seeing the injector directly behind the inlet valves which would make it multi point.
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For fuck sake, think yourselves lucky you got it at all.

Fucking entitled PC Gamers, why bother with them when you lose so many sales to piracy anyway and nothing is ever fucking good enough.

Every time Dark souls is mentioned one of you cretins has to creep out of the woodwork and complain about "muh bad port" after you all petitioned for months just to get it.
We are all remote workers
Bicycles are probably one innovative and competitive markets out there, the amount of cutting edge technology used to shave gram weight from components is absurd

Somewhat unfairly, I consider the above as variations on a theme, rather than innovative new solutions.

Three problems I'd like to see solved (admittedly, with no idea other than "by magic" at present):

- It's absurdly easy to steal bicycles, locked up or otherwise.

- Trip statistics magic mentioned in grandfather comment

- Making cycling in wet/windy conditions more pleasurable without relying on special clothes
Somebody should give this guy a CSS3 Color Cheat Sheet. One entry would read "Grey Text on Grey Background: Non Readable".
Pick a country from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_extradition_... that's in gray.

I think you'd be looking at Vietnam, Andorra, or Croatia, although you could hardly say any were ideal by those measures.
That is the way it is being used in this context, as in companies saying "I can't get an experienced developer for the price of a new graduate".
> This is not what I would call a bicycle. It's a motorbike that allows you to pedal should you want to.

Yes. It's an electric, modern, version of mopeds like a puch maxi. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Puch_Maxi_Special_by_Fox...)

Those were great fun to ride, and useful in traffic, and the pedals wre pretty much hopeless for anything but starting the bike. Not so popular in the UK anymore, where similar power machines are dressed as faux motocross or "race inspired" (http://www.mopeds.co.uk/50cc-mopeds-for-sale.html).
Animated GIFs continue to rub our faces in Apple, Nokia and Microsoft's refusal to support royalty free video on the web.