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There's really an island where people speak 18th century English? I find that really hard to believe. Do you know what it's called?

How well do they integrate with modern English speakers when they leave the island?
I'm Romanian and our language is a latin one. When pronouncing both "l" and "r" my tongue first goes to the upper alveolar ridge and for "r" it stays there with the tongue trembling for a bit.

Also, our "r" is much thicker than in English. For that reason, our English accent resembles a bit that of Russians :-)
Your slider is definitely cool :) We did take the design inspiration for that from you.

I'd love to have a chat with you guys. Feel free to write to us. Cheers!
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Comments like this are why hacker news is so frustrating now. It's a rant about TI calculators which doesn't address any of the points made in the article itself, yet is sitting at the top of the comments.

If you want to talk about TI calculators in general, write a blog post and post it here or something, but I don't see why this mostly-unrelated comment needs to dominate any discussion about the actual points being discussed in the article.
Isn't the Nokia 100 monoband?
Never really had a graphing calculator when I was in school. Bought 92 Plus years later just to have a ultraportable "computer" for field work. LCD screen is starting to decay after years of use, so I picked up another in "mint" condition for $40 at a used book store.

Would love to take the old one and replace the screen and processor with something more modern, keeping the keyboard.
If you are running Ubuntu, docker.io makes life pretty easy for you to create and maintain LXC containers.
You reminded me of Cliff Young [0] who won an ultramarathon (544 miles) at the age of 61 in 1983 by not sleeping... it's a tortoise vs hare story tale come true.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)
I vehemently disagree that 0 should be the baseline. That would make absolutely no sense for this plot. I would use something like the average or median of the relevant temperatures as baseline. Using 0 as baseline gives you huge columns and does not highlight the big step at all. I would rather have relative value changes to the lowest temperature I chose to display, so in this case: 0 0.12 0.33 0.50 0.51 1.49

3D columns are bad of course, but that is neglible.
The first device that I wrote a program for was a TI-57, this was a couple of years before I learned BASIC, the idea that you can make something follow your instructions is important.
Ha, I think I remember you guys from TLabs. Good going!

Love the design, btw. Although I feel there should be a "list view" to go along with the Album-cover-thumbnail view.
I too wrote my first code on a TI-81. Though I had been making games for a while with various tools (e.g. TGF), it was nice to finally close the loop and write in a programming language, even if it was only BASIC. That pushed me to take a programming course in high school the following year. I was writing pong and asteroid clones and ray casting engines in class.

The author's points about the iPad seem pretty accurate. I can't even imagine how I would go from having an iPad as a high school student to stumbling into programming.

I haven't developed in iOS, but I did play around with Android and the thing that really frustrated me was that the sample games were several files and ~1,000 LOC. We're talking really simple games and the amount of boilerplate crap was mind boggling. To even get to that point, of course, you have to screw around with an IDE, plugins, an emulator, etc.

It's a far cry from PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
Yes, devices should always do exactly what you mean them to do.
Who does that, though? Even the big content providers that have their own ad platforms (e.g. Yahoo!) serve ads from separate domains.
Forgive me for making an incorrect assumption. Why provide the amzn.com link instead of the normal amazon.com link then?

And what is the ref= for?
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Do you know an alternative which is cheaper or has the missing features?
I think that is nonsense because everyone has a Lactate Threshold. His may just be at a faster pace then most ultra runners.

Regarding your last comment: Anything under approximately 10 mile race pace is under your lactate threshold pace (LT). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactate_threshold

LT pace means you are in a steady state. The lactate your are creating is being eliminated at the same rate. The further beneath that pace you go the shorter you will be able to maintain it. I would describe going well under LT pace as a feeling of "heaviness" in your legs as lactic acid builds up in your blood stream.

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(running)
Human physiology dictates that a runner's near-top speed cannot be maintained for more than 30–35 seconds due to the accumulation of lactic acid in muscles.[4]
Note: America Movil, Carlos Slim's mobile network, controls 80% of the Mexican market. In that context, this is just a really awesome story of empowerment.
This is an excellent read entitled, The Cheapening of the Comics. It was a speech given in 1989 by Bill Watterson. In it, he discusses his thoughts on merchandising, the business aspects and details of licensing, etc.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060210115506/http://hobbes.ncsa...

The above speech provides a lot of insight as to why he answered the following interview question the way that he did [1]:

Q: What led you to resist merchandising Calvin and Hobbes?

A: For starters, I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo... Actually, I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the strip, but each product I considered seemed to violate the spirit of the strip, contradict its message, and take me away from the work I loved. If my syndicate had let it go at that, the decision would have taken maybe 30 seconds of my life.

[1] http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/calvinandhobbes/index.html/pw_w...
Those environments don't provide the supervision hierarchy which is being discussed in this thread. In Erlang, every actor you create has a supervisor, which will restart the actor (the behaviour is tunable) when it crashes.
Have the breadth as a summary page perhaps? Like when you open a book and it's effectively the list of chapters. Then have the 2l tiers as your chapters and the 3l tiers as the subheadings in those chapters?

Don't know whether that's what you're doing at the moment :)
My high school roommate bought a TI calculator keyboard to efficiently type in formulas/notes before exams - probably the best investment he made.

I remember programming a basic quadratic equation solver at the end of a math exam sophomore year, because I had extra time and had already checked the test once. I didn't find any mistakes, but I wrote out the code on the back of the test and got an extra credit point :).

I'm torn, because although TI calculators are pretty undeniably a sinkhole of innovation and unnecessary to most students, I loved (still love) mine so damn much. I'd rather have them update the system and their prices (which if anything have risen on the same models since I was in high school) than get them out of schools entirely. But maybe that's just nostalgia thinking for me.
What is extraordinary about it?

The oldest trick in the book: "Mom, she's hitting me!" (she wasn't hitting me.)

Nations have been attacking each other in this way since forever. Is it more or less extraordinary than a nation attacking it's own people?
My kid just got a school-issued iPad in 5th grade. Awesome!

But he's also required to buy a lame-o TI calculator as well?! Why?! Oh, because the standardized testing companies are freaked out by iPads.

TI has a stranglehold because of a lack of wifi???

How can we get iPads accepted as legit devices to use while taking tests? I'm getting flashbacks to all the open vs closed book debates about testing that I went through in high school and college...
We do have manual curation in place. We are not very strict with the filtering but we ensure nothing bad comes in. After the great, good and average comes in, we let the algorithms take over and decide based on user activity, what kind of music to let surface.
lol @ the 'flying spaghetti monster' on Chaos realm
Microsoft’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Things I used a calculator for in high school that were great times to use a calculator:

-solving systems of equations for physics

-doing anything in AP statistics

-plotting functions in calculus so that I could visualize them

Now that I'm in college I either use Mathematica or Python's scientific stack for all of these things, but I didn't own a laptop during high school and can definitely understand why high schools would buy graphing calculators for their classes. They have a relatively high educational utility for their cost.

On the other hand, I agree that curriculum's shouldn't be catered around calculators. A good high school math curriculum would let people know what can be done numerically, what can't, and spend a small amount of time teaching people how to do the numerical things on their calculators (or whatever the tool of choice is).
I think Asha 210 is the phone you are looking for; featurephone with qwerty keypad:

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_asha_210-5417.php
True, and I'm already 10 chapters into Moby Dick, but it's just not the best environment for that. It feeds back into the article. There's a reason studying is synonymous with a quiet place, or with people also studying with you. Doing it under less ideal circumstances than that creates overhead on your attempts to "get ahead" that people with means do not have to deal with. Not making excuses for myself, I am of means, but I can definitely see how an uphill situation quickly becomes a complete vertical situation.
You likely don't know how to read textbooks correctly. It's a legitimate problem in school systems around the world - most kids are taught from an early age to do exactly what the teacher says and that's how you learn. Thus, they never learn anything on their own.
I'm a big user of Workflowy and I felt the same about Gingko at first. The keyboard shortcuts help a lot though because I can get my thoughts down on paper much more quickly.
> I love this blog's UI. Did you make it yourself?

Thank you! Yes, I made the UI. It's open source: sidenote.io

> I like the idea of the doorman but what if you could somehow pass back useful math to the client?

I think it would be great to have clients perform useful computations instead of just burning cycles. But that's not MVP, even for a research project.
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Throw Codea on there and it's pretty good to play with.
It may not be strictly necessary, but it's a great educational and exploratory toy.

The main draw for me was unsupervised exploration. The calculator is simple enough that you can figure out how to program yourself (with the manual), and you can know 'everything' there is to know about it. You don't have to ask a teacher for anything, you get to do whatever interests you, and show your friends. That makes it more exciting somehow.

Like the author of the article, I (and my friends) spent a lot of time programming in BASIC on it. I also feel I spent a lot of time simply plotting functions, just to see how they behaved. EG, looking at the 'beats' produced by adding up sine functions. As a scientist today I frequently do that kind of exploratory analysis, but in python or mathematica.
Pcode - a Python 3 IDE for Windows
>Everything is difficult if you don't care enough.

I don't agree with that. Some things are hard and have nothing to do with how much effort you put into it. It's a common misconception that people who succeed are those who care (or who had enough will power). There's much more to life than that, I think.
> With today's tablets you need a computer and developer licenses.

In a way, yes, but that depends on what level of meta you're thinking of. You couldn't "work directly" on the TI in the sense of altering or adding to the programming app itself (if we think of it in the sense of an app). In that sense, how hard would it be to create a TI-equivalent coding app (GoTo Labels and all!) that could run on today's tablets?
>Next, they performed a lactate threshold test. They said the test would take 15 minutes, tops. Finally, after an hour, they stopped the test. They said they'd never seen anything like this before."

I'm not a biologist, but that seems like a bad reason to stop. He cleared an hour on the test. Why not maintain the test for several hours? Four times the theoretical maximum is not "forever"...

This article seems highly sensational. I'd like to see more science behind this.
I don't think you deserved the downvote. Very few people in the world are in as good a position to do this as software engineers. A common problem that I see in myself is getting sucked into a lifestyle and then the golden handcuffs are forged by a story we tell ourselves about how much money we need. But go look up the median income in your area and then tell me you can't make that money part time from home if you're a decent programmer.
Oh! Yeah, definitely did not mean to imply that. I was interpreting it to myself to mean "second stage in an audio processing pipeline" as that was what I had been modeling.
Have you seen the Just5?

http://www.just5.com/
>not ready for HN traffic!

>product-wise

Are you implying you released a half-baked product? Nothing wrong with that, but you shouldn't wrap it up like that!
I have not developed for the Facebook platform since the latter half of 2011 so there might be some truth in it - but this was certainly effective up until then.

The spam-rating was only one aspect of it - horizontal distribution attracted users that otherwise simply would not have been interested in the application otherwise.

Regarding iOS shutting you down, I think two things are important. The first is making a good case for the application not being shallow - looking at the way Udemy has full course (some of which have 10+ hours of material) on drastically different topics as separate applications might be a good template. They have over 100 iOS Apps and have not faced any action.

The other interesting strategy to consider (one that I haven't tested) is talking power users (such as meetup group organizers) through the process of generating the correct signing keys and then letting them download a complete application binary that they independently submit to the App Store under their own account. This casts a wider net and potentially might alleviate the getting shut down issue.

With that said, I haven't tested it on iOS myself so cannot speak authoritatively.

I have succeeded with horizontal distribution on Google Play by using screen automation technology to submit applications - but finally, had to take it down since the applications were based on quotes from TV shows which Google claimed did not come under the Fair Use Act of the Copyright law (whole other issue)
What in the world could you possibly offer Bill Gates if he had no interest in doing something?
Ask HN: Why posts getting upvotes are removed from front page?
Sorry, but it's not exactly "inspiration" if you copy the design exactly. You guys have a good thing going - design features in your own way and it'll help the consistency of your whole site!

We're available at info@loudr.fm if you want to get in touch.
I would urge you to realise that psychology!=psychotherapy.

I hate with the blinding passion of a thousand fiery suns psychotherapy, but I find much (experimental) psychology rather interesting.

Seriously, one of the very first things they tell you in a psychology degree (at least in Europe) is that its not about therapy, and in fact that most therapists are not psychologists. The study of the human mind and what is essentially a form of confession are very, very different.

But hey, you'll believe what you want to on this one, it doesn't look like I can convince you.

Have you read any of the work of Daniel Kahneman? Thats what I would consider as psychology (even if his System One and Two stuff is a dirty hack that provides little useful insight to the field).
I have been trying to get rid of 'physical stuff' also. I still buy about 10% of my technical books in paper form (usually an eBook pBook combo), but I really prefer having everything in eBook form. Many eBooks are provided in PDF, iPad, and Kindle formats. I make permanent backups of the PDF versions in case the publisher can not provide fresh copies in the future.

For fun reading the local library is a good source of pBooks (and movies on DVD, audio books, etc.)

My wife and I have been talking about living for months at a time in different areas of the world, for fun and eduction. That will require at least being able to live for several months at a time without a lot of stuff.
I used to think like that too. But then one day I saw an older person who was really happy with the Note II. I think sometimes we over generalize, with good intentions, and make wrong assumptions about what the older folks want.

I now think that they actually do like being connected, but they just need a bigger screen to work with. Which is why the Note II is a good option.
That's something of a dishonest title - it leads you to believe that there is an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction happening in the sea water, which is highly, highly unlikely.

What's more likely is that hot water that contains fission byproducts is leaking into the sea. The water itself contains radioisotopes, but there isn't a nuclear reaction happening in the water.

The radiation is not heating the sea water, there is hot water leaking into the sea.
I can't even imagine how I would go from having an iPad as a high school student to stumbling into programming.

Soulver, Pythonista, Pixie Scheme, Scheme Programming Language, Lisping.
Could you just make it contingent on the person who was imprisoned making a successful appeal - which I'd imagine would be their initial priority anyway? You get off for something that you were put away for, then you can sue for misconduct....
This guy is a candidate for Stan Lee's Superhumans. That's an honest-to-goodness mutant power right there.

EDIT: I see he's already been on that show.
Hey there! EventMobi is a great product, but there a few differences in the product and strategy. From a product standpoint, we're just getting started and the majority of our functionality is still being developed. With that said, we're working on some unique tools to make the organizer's job easier, as well as make an extremely social experience for attendees. Additionally, we extend beyond the mobile device with Activity Walls that display content from the app, social media, and the event itself.

As for strategy, they operate more on the enterprise side. The event space is a massive market with 10s of millions of events of different sizes each year. We want to create a better experience for events of all sizes, small or large. This includes small meetings, meetups, seminars, workshops, conferences, and even massive tradeshows.
No, the source was the set of documents that he released.

~200MB worth of documents to be approximately exact. Are they fake? Who do we trust and why? Every "fact" we're given comes second hand.
Crackpot, snake oil. Radio waves don't penetrate water. Whole thing is nonsense.
Find the scoring manuals, do loads of personality tests, rinse, repeat. Its not particularly difficult.

Despite this, I have ran many surveys back when I worked in academia. You can detect some of this stuff with Guttman errors, but these are not often used, and as long as you are consistent, its very difficult to spot.
The Mozscape API's Leap From C++ to Python
Don't give up yet. Reading about TrueCrypt's other features (hidden volumes, plausible deniability) makes me think this might still be a deep troll by Greenwald. We'll see!
I enjoyed it. As I read, I kept finding myself wanting examples. What talks have you particularly enjoyed? Which talks have exemplified the characteristics you're looking for? Many recordings are available on the web, but even stories about talks that meet one or more of your criteria would have been welcome.
I read it more like they'd go to Bill Gates saying "We think you're the best man for this job, all these people agree, will you take the reins for a year" and if he accepted it'd be because he cares about MS, etc.
The article seems a bit confused. They are in Mexico, but got licensed by the FCC?!
Microsoft should seriously consider hiring Elon Musk or a famous, Googler, Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, or Larry Page, though the googlers might not pass anti-trust investigations. The need a PR makeover, and Google and Tesla are the best brands in tech.

Another choice, PG. It would be refreshing to genuine tech talent at the top instead of another career climber. PG could turn Microsoft into a giant startup factory and literally explode the market cap to trillions. Microsoft investors need to seriously consider this option.
Many, many people are and do it all the time right now, every day. There was a video where Scott Jurek talked candidly about Dean a while ago - it was great. The site took it down (or the site is down?) but in a nutshell, Jurek was very super critical of Dean because Dean for goes around like the ambassador and greatest ever athlete in ultrarunning when he's never been one of the top 10. Dean's a pretty great athlete - there's no question about that. But he's only a fraction of the god that he thinks he is or that the media empire he's built around himself makes him out to be.

(for background: Scott Jurek is definitely one of the top ultrarunners of the current generation)
Let me tell you why I hate TI's shitty calculators.

Mainly because they are marketed so aggressively to educators.

Back in 1990, I was given a TI scientific calculator, and some exercises to practice. I was to enter the UIL contest titled "Calculator Math" or something like that. It was a speed contest. My school (small rural public school), having the smartest and best-prepared students won at the first level of competition beating everyone. We punched our buttons furiously, we were punching buttons as fast as is possible without having registration errors. We figured nobody could beat us, since we made few errors. At the next level we competed, something went wrong. The test went as usual, we finished most of the exam in the allotted time, but did not score well enough to advance. The thing is, after about two-thirds of the allotted time had passed, students from other schools started getting up and leaving. During the exam, I smugly assumed they were giving up because I _knew_ that nobody was a significantly faster button-pusher than me, not by that large an amount. I was puzzled. Later I learned what an RPN calculator was, and began to understand what happened. I am a college instructor today, and I have yet to meet a student who knows what an RPN calculator is. Nearly every teacher's supply catalog that gets crammed into my mail sells TI exclusively.
"I don't know where you guys get this idea that it actually works"

From doing it. From watching how DC works, from working next to DC lobbyists and politicians for many years, and watching people be effective and get things done in DC for many many years.

I'm not sure why you think it doesn't work. Have you actually done it?

They care tremendously what their constituents believe, contrary to popular belief. They get daily morning briefings on their constituents views on issues, etc.