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He must have the last plastic MacBook (4,1), which has a 32-bit EFI firmware and will not boot a 64-bit kernel; Mountain Lion only has a 64-bit kernel. So, even if one thinks it should run Mountain Lion, it can't run Mountain Lion. End of discussion.

If he wants to actually run Mountain Lion and develop for iOS (instead of complaining that he can't do it on his current machine), then $850 at the Apple Store will get him a refurbished MacBook Air (last year's model) that will be probably be much nicer to use (it will certainly be much lighter and have longer battery life). He could probably get a couple hundred bucks for his old one if it's in decent shape.
I'm trying to figure out... What is the relevance of this? What does it do exactly?
As much as I dislike teachers for carrying out the orders of their bosses on children, it is nevertheless the case that the whole framework is set up by those at the top; the bottom are naturally employees who do their jobs and are least empowered.

Bosses naturally hate unions because even a weak union carries the possibility of underlings saying "No" to their commands — and getting away with it. A form of defiance.

Evaluating teachers "based on student outcomes" is obviously a trap against teachers, if bosses are the one who define "student outcomes". That means teachers will do awful things like teach to tests. (Clearly, education management isn't about to check "student outcomes" in any reasonable manner.)
The sentiment is ancient, not attributable to any one person:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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Thank you for validating the pseudo-math :)

And, yeah, converting any free accounts to paid is an achievement in and of itself. Best of luck in growing the company!
Well you might be some kind of child prodigy or something but I admonish you to take your impressive brain and set it upon basic statistics. If you do, I think you will see that you are describing (i.e. your experience) is anomalous phenomena. Most home schoolers are out there solving Fermat's Last Conjecture at age 8.

Autodidacts (even alleged ones) in this kind of discussion always try to project their Einstein level of genius on to the rest of the population to make some point about how education should be. I think it misses pretty obvious points.
Depends how good you are. If you're very good, you have better expected value working for yourself than averaging your work together with a bunch of other people. If not you're better off working for someone else.

(You're making a common statistical mistake here. You're concluding that because 1/x startups succeed, the odds of each person's startup succeeding is 1/x. You can see this clearly if you ask what the probability is that someone is over 6 feet tall. Although 1/x people are, the probability for each person is either 1 or 0. And while no one's chances of succeeding are 1, the startup case is closer to the height example than to rolling dice. Someone like the young Bill Gates would have a much higher probability of succeeding than a person selected at random.)
Ask HN: why dont schools offer a tech class?
There is woodwork, metalwork, home ec, graphics (architecture), and IT. Why isn't there a class for people to learn about technology - setup a computer, setup a WiFi network, use Google, configure a smartphone, build a simple arduino system, install linux.

All this things I learnt from friends, dad, and self taught via the internet.

Most of which none of my friends can do but they never had a problem with laughing at me struggling with metalwork. To be clear I don't see this as some kind of torture, I genuinely think there would be great use to this type of class, most of what we learn outside of schools is from our parents. Many in the world still pay someone or asks a geek for a favor to setup their internet and that seems bizzare.

The added benefit would be people might stop asking me to fix their printer issues because im a computer person (lamen for developer)
I hate it when you run out of CPU. When that happens to me I try to borrow a cup of CPU from my neighbors.
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Most of their submissions looked like they were done in the same afternoon using a shitty torrent of 'hot fonts' from the pirate bay.

When we talk about updating a brand, one of the most recent examples of solid execution was mail chimp.

http://jessicahische.is/monkeyingaround
Not everyone has a mortgage and kids later on in life.
a stable well-paid job early in one's career combined with low expenses (no kids, no mortgage, often no car and cheap health insurance) results in a larger lump of money accruing compound interest over a longer period of time.

And yet you won't get rich. The chances of getting rich as an employee of a startup are admittedly small, but nonzero.
Note that the scenario they're talking about is where Assange were himself hidden in a bag labeled as if it were a diplomatic bag.

People smuggling under such false pretenses is probably at least arguable in court as a violation of the spirit of the convention.
You stating that America has an astronomical murder rate doesn't sound stupid or offensive at all, it's true. I'm ashamed that we haven't been able to solve that problem, but I'm not going to take offense when someone points it out to me, to deny reality is delusional.

>I honestly don't know how you can live in America and expect nasty shit not to happen. The murder rate in America is 4.8 times higher than the country I live in.

The reason that I have an expectation that it doesn't happen, is because all levels of my government openly oppose the act of murder.

Things that are true shouldn't offend us. America has lots of faults, and I talk about them quite often.

There's a distinct possibility that anyone with access to a computer in India is largely immune to a significant portion of the government's corruption and the caste system. Also since you like statistics, try taking a look at pretty much any corruption index survey to see where India lies.
Or make an economic decision to prioritize revenue. We went a different route. No blame. Everyone should read Foucault though.
I feel like getting a job at a larger company as an engineer is easier than getting a job at a startup anyways. Sure when you start your own thing there are no rules, but any startup with a couple senior engineers that have had to train up some employees from scratch know how much work it is. If you are joining a large company then you have a better opportunity to learn from more people. Your support base is larger.

Side note: who can you actually hire within your network if you join/start a startup? I thought I knew people, but every time I've ever asked if anyone wants a referral for (enter reputable startup brand here using awesome tech) I get no responses among my network. Every good engineer I know right now actually has a job that they like.
Lots of "Android apps are no good" chiming in going on here. I've been an iOS user since the week after the first iPhone came out and still am (due to an iPad mini). But gave up on iOS for my phone because I can't find the following apps on iOS.

1) Alternate Launcher with pretty much infinite flexibility on look and feel.

2) Swype like keyboard options. Typing anything on iOS now feels like I travelled back in time to horse-and-buggy era.

3) Tasker app. Enough said.

4) Google Now. Enough said.

5) This is not an app per se, but the "share with" option for pictures etc that simply let me chose any suitable app on the phone that lets me share that particular object using pretty much any means of sharing out there.

And this is not even counting all the hacker'y goodness of having a full root shell with an almost complete debian environment on my Nexus devices. No "jailbreak" required. Nexus devices are rootable by design.

If you call yourself a hacker (this is hacker news... right?) and have turned your nose up at Android so far, you're simply missing out on the future of portable devices. iOS is catered to non-technical consumers and its feature-set (both for users as well as for developers) is accordingly restricted. The future killer apps are being written for Android today and you're not aware of what a mobile device is (and should be) capable of today and by extension, tomorrow.

[Edit: 1, 2 and 3 in that list above are paid apps btw. Checkout out the install numbers for those three on the play-store. Android developers writing stuff for Android (and not just copying stale iOS material) are making plenty of money]
... or switch back to Linux, and just download everything you need, without encumbrances like this. I recently switched back on all of my OSX and Windows machine, and it feels great. Only through years of contributions to open source projects, and hanging my head in shame can I ever be redeemed. Oh, and Steam is only going to get better!
He apparently had the bad luck to own the most recently made model of Macintosh that will not run Mountain Lion; virtually every other Mac from 2008 is OK.

The business case for supporting older computers is very different for Microsoft (or for Linux) than it is for Apple.
> A lot of people we've funded have said they wished they'd quit their corporate job sooner

sure, when things turn out positive, people wish they would have made the decision sooner.

also - wished they had quit their corporate job sooner, or wished they'd never taken the corporate job to begin with? big difference.

either way i'm willing to bet that out of most people who failed to receive funding, then ran out of money and had to find another job, generally under less than ideal conditions, are glad they've got some corporate experience on the resume.
There is no need for new or reformed enforcement, compulsory attendance laws already exist.

The only difference there would be that homeschooling would no longer count as "attendance".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education#United_Sta...
Exercise for people who think Macs are overpriced: find a machine with a solid state drive, excellent battery life, well built case, and high quality keyboard and trackpad for substantially less than the price of a Macbook Air.
just as Leslie replied I didnt know that any one can make $6590 in 4 weeks on the computer. her explanation www.DROp80.com
"I don't remember any saying they wished they'd stayed in it longer."

Do you usually keep in touch with the ones who fail?
Agreed in general.

I think the statement that "you will lose data" is a bit simplistic. Given enough chances, all systems will lose data. One could make a pretty strong argument that the default LWW approach used by Riak and Voldemort is quantifiably far less safe than the default approach in Cassandra, which works more like an LWW-Element-Set. I know this is changing with the CRDT work in Riak 2.0, which is very exciting.

There ARE a large number of use cases, many of which are driving the demand for scale-out distributed DBs, where data IS immutable, with a requirement for ordered traversal over subsets of the data. The key/value+vclock approaches that I've seen make this either very difficult or very slow.
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1) tokenadult doesn't make any generalizations about the homeschooling community at large. He simply shares his personal homeschooling experience and rational for pursuing it.

2) what difference does it make if 99% of the early adopters are ultra-right wing, conservative Christian creationists? If homeschooling my kids gives them the best environment to develop academically and socially, why should it affect my decision to know the motivation of everyone else that's doing it?
This must be for an mmporg, then? I drilled down to a continent on a planet, and into a realm and then a castle, and then into a woman's memories, and even the body and mind of a bacterium on her left leg. (The bacterium's only thought was "I'm one cell of a guy.")
India on the whole has a lot of trouble with this sort of thing. One of the skeptics who criticised the Prahlad Jani experiments, Sanal Edamaraku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanal_Edamaruku), had to leave the country to avoid arrest under outdated blasphemy laws for pointing out that the supposedly miraculous tears of a statue of Jesus were actually from a leaking sewage pipe. More recently, another noted skeptic, Narendra Dabholkar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Dabholkar), was shot dead shortly after making significant progress towards outlawing some very lucrative "mystical" practices.

And a large, well-funded project doesn't guarantee reliability. Science involves a certain amount of trust of your peers and scientists studying these claimed phenomena often miss tricks by the participants that someone trained in deception wouldn't (there's a reason so many skeptics and "debunkers" are magicians by training). Look at Project Alpha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alpha) - a couple of amateur street magicians were able to make a whole department of researchers believe they had psychic powers for years without even being challenged.

When it comes down to it, science is about evidence. That's why scientists were able to overturn ideas like geocentrism - they examined them and they didn't fit with the evidence, so they had to go. Theories that had seemed "impossible" to some (certainly not all) people before them, like the Earth going round the Sun, did fit the evidence when scientifically examined and they became the accepted scientific consensus (to cut a long story short).

Scientists dismissing these studies aren't doing so based just "on their own observations". There's a very solid base of scientific, verifiable evidence that says that people need to eat. I don't think it's overly cynical to say that a couple of flaky studies should do little to change anyone's mind.
Perhaps java is fast to read in characters per minute. But for actual functionality, I'll take something like Ruby any time.
The press release itself: http://www.hdmi.org/press/press_release.aspx?prid=133
The first time he was tested, he dropped a small amount of weight and the second time he didn't. Neither test was only done by one scientist and the second test was a much larger fanfare with Indian defense/government researchers present.

Bathing was also observed as was gargling (what he spit out was also measured). Even so - these "red flags" come from the same scientists that you don't trust. So, they should not support your cynicism in any way.

What are we left with?

- Not published in a journal.
- Incomplete CCTV coverage.

Also, it should be stated that according to many cynics, the CCTV coverage is incomplete because Jani moved out of view for moments at a time. He also received visitors and was allowed to take sun baths.

Anyway, I'm not really here to debate this case. I am just being an anti-cynic because it's been shown time and again that even the smartest people in the world have been dead wrong about what they think they know. Here is a terrific video that sums up this point very well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA
That is a viable option, thanks for the reminder. I'd prefer not having to lug around the extra weight though :-)
Speaking only from my own experience with kids who have been home schooled coming into our high school (either directly from primary school grades or partly into their high school years), I have yet to see one for whom that has worked out well (socially, emotionally or intellectually).

I suspect there might be a bit of selection bias going on with your lack of negative experiences.
My Uncle Easton got a fantastic silver smart car just by part time work from a home computer. continue reading this www.DROP80.com
That's why it's so nice to read higher level language code. It's more weighed towards the why and less towards housekeeping.
The static typing features in Groovy 2 were written by just 1 person only 1 year ago, Grails doesn't use them in its codebase, and Groovy's only other user with any traction, Gradle, still ships with Groovy 1.x. Best not to trust its features until Grails does.
True, but it depends how arrogant and stubborn they are. If they're just simply arrogant and don't understand, you can do something, but in many cases they'll insist "this is fine. what's your problem?"
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Sudbury Valley schools do feature adult supervision I believe -- so if the goal is just to dump the kids somewhere while the parents work overtime, that model works fine.

As for whether external pressure is necessary to get kids to learn calculus or statistics, maybe. But I'd argue that there are forms of "pressure" that would better motivate kids to learn such topics apart from "my teacher wants me to learn this" or "I won't get into college without this".

For example, getting children interested in statistics isn't that tricky. Play games of chance. Poker is a pretty good introduction to some basic concepts in statistics. And if you don't want your kids gambling, there are board games. Or fantasy sports. Granted, games alone won't teach you everything there is to learn about stat, but it might get a lot of children interested in the overall topic enough to pick up a textbook and learn a topic of their own accord.
I occasionally read up on some of the Arduino stuff that's happening, projects people are coming up with, etc. and I've noticed that vendors are selling GPS receivers and related items[0] that can be used in various projects.

I also have a fairly elaborate NTP setup within our datacenters and throughout our networks and have wondered if it would be possible to basically build my own stratum 1 server out of some of this equipment. I still haven't figured it out yet, but I hope that someday soon it is possible; as a geek, I think it would be very awesome to have my own stratum 1 timeservers.

[0]: https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/4
Of course, most people who think they are two standard deviations above the mean in expected returns, are not in fact that much out of the ordinary (monetarily, anyway). So the a priori expected return also needs to adjust for the risk that your self-assessment is incorrect.

You are making a common mistake inherent in backwards-looking risk assessment, considering the Bill Gates example after Bill Gates is already massively wealthy. Prior to Bill Gates founding Microsoft, or even in its early years, his main advantages were in coming from a wealthy family, and few people bet on his company getting exceptionally huge (as evidenced by the early Microsoft market cap, which was not exactly tens of billions). I would argue the ultimate outcome there, whether Bill Gates "succeeds" into $50b or "fails" into a mere $10m, is closer to rolling dice, and not reliably predictable.

In any case, Bill Gates was a trust-fund kid with a multi-million inheritance backstopping him, so is excluded from the field of consideration I'm positing here, which is what decision is best for kids who come from less-wealthy families.
> We are not allowed to distribute updates through other channels to apps which were purchased from the App Store.

> Update: Unfortunately, we’ve had to remove OmniKeyMaster from our website and can no longer offer upgrade pricing to App Store customers.

So, what happened here? Did Apple threaten to close Omni's app store account? Because:

The Omni Key Master is an app that is not distributed through the app store. Also when a user buys an upgrage he will only receive updates through Omni's website and not the app store. So the upgraded apps should be out of Apple's reach.

So what happened here? Did Apple legal write a strongly worded email to Omni?
I rarely use a cab... I called for a cab once and it was a horrible experience. The other person had such a thick accent I wasn't quite sure if the information was conveyed properly, after several attempts to confirm.

In the end, I said to myself, "Screw it. Just wait 5-10 minutes and call another cab." Fortunately the cab came to the right location and all was good.
Until Jeff Atwood tries an ergonomic keyboard or layout other than QWERTY, I cannot take his keyboard cult seriously. I've owned three MS 4000s and have used QWERTY, Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts. Ever since I purchased a Kinesis Advantage a month ago on Colemak, going back to an MS 4000 noticeably hurts my hands. I don't type any faster, but it is far more natural to use my thumbs (our strongest fingers) for common keys like Ctrl/Space/Del/PgUp/PgDown/WinKey, especially as a climber.

I find it hard to believe a Model M could be easier on the wrists than my abhorrent Macbook Air 2012 keyboard, due to its equally straight, unnatural angle. Compared to my old Acer C312 tablet with a 5-degree angle, typing 90wpm+ for more than an hour is not sustainable.

Either Jeff types really slowly, or has golden wrists of the gods. After a few months of Colemak, I am up to 90% of my accumulated 15-year QWERTY speed, but my hands feel far more relaxed.

Could this be a medical condition on my end, or is there a real ergonomic case to be made for the aging Model M? Right now, I don't buy it.
Hardly - we have the same problem with the Play Store
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6330874
You're missing my point - I'm no genius, just a bit academically oriented. My brother is the complete opposite - yet he still is far above what the public schools are pushing out. My younger siblings seem to be turning out the same way. And I can personally attest to many other families that have had similar results.

You want statistics, here they are: http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/200908100.asp

Homeschooled students score into the 84th-89th percentile on average. Statistically, it's unambiguously better at educating children. My comment was anecdotal on purpose, to try to show that, even in an extreme case (remote location, little social contact, mom had no college degree, no state homeschooling assistance) it still produces vastly better results than the public schools.
$25 is a way too much. I'd pay no more than $9.95/mo for it and with higher limits.
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I find this curious, as you should in theory be able to map your 30 speakers to SH coeffs if you are using high-enough order SH (although 4th degree SH needs 25 coefficients so I guess there's not enough savings)
apologies - well it was a damn good article :)
Perhaps the Uber app should offer something where you can "reserve" a ride at a specific location and time in the future. If you are going to be at Foo Bar drinking it up, you can say "Pick me up at 10pm". And at 9pm you get a push notification, "We will pick you up in 1 hour. [OK] [Not Yet] And then you can modify the time to get picked up, so if you decide for another pint you will still have that cab coming to get you even if your decision making is no longer good anymore.
Correct. But, in that case vector clocks does not help you either [unless you are okay with both writers thinking they have "won" for an unbounded period of time]; what you really need is true linearizability: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...
OK, so ~6 years later, I get a new laptop. The only reason I haven't already is because the MacBook was a great machine to start with.

I understand the complaint if mobile development is a hobby (then yes, iOS development gets expensive very quickly), but if it's how you make your living then it's literally a rounding error.
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You're also giving up atomicity on writes when you actually do want to update multiple fields at once.
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503'd.
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I recognize OllyDBG being used, but what is the debugger here?
https://corkami.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/pics/x86_15bop_64b.g...