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This is a smart and intelligent article. What does it tell us that it gets unnoticed and undiscussed?

I honestly ask myself, why we keep working harder, although our basic requirements are fulfilled with little effort.

What this article does not mention is competition. The more qualified workmen have to share a limited amount of jobs, the more everyone tries to keep his job - by working harder(?).

Is that stupid?

In my field (science) we see similar things. The number of papers counts. So scientists try to publish like mad in order to keep their jobs or get a tenured position. As a result, one of the essential qualifications of a scientist (and everyone interested in science) is to filter the really good papers from the flood of junk. Yes, the pressure to produce papers in reality produces a flood of mediocre papers and papers that would not lead to lack of knowledge, if they remain unpublished.
Without this flood of junk it would be much more enjoyable to read a science journal.

Also THIS is where competition leads us to. And I guess, the bullshit jobs of the original article have a similar background.
I'm curious - why didn't you include CF-Engine?
Wizards of the coast actually has a patent on "turning cards sideways to show they've been used". http://www.google.com/patents/US5662332
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#11 https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/11
It is really hard to substitute good teaching for kids K-12 with a video of someone drawing things on a board and explaining it. I work with kids all the time, and I see implementation of Khan Academy in US schools not really working. The only kids it seems to work for are those are personally motivated and are driven hard by parents/guardians to learn.

The MOOC model though does a lot to solve the access to education problem. If there are kids in under-developed countries who are driven to learn, and are able to access to MOOC videos then the potential impact is huge. I have a really good friend of mine implementing this strategy in low-income schools in Pakistan, and the results seem quite mixed. The kids who are driven will learn, whereas, the kids who need more attention and guidance will need a lot more teacher attention. Unfortunately, this seems to be the majority of kids. Teachers in the US also report similar results. Though for society in general it seems a net positive.

The other part of the problem is to engage kids to learn more. Engaging kids to learn is a much harder problem to solve, and possibly the most valuable one. Anyone in the industry who can provide a content network that truly engages and educates kids will gain the most.

On teaching: different people absorb and understand any educational material in different ways. The best teachers have strategies built-up, through experience, to make different kids understand the same concepts. The real technology breakthrough could be when we can pre-empt the strategy required to teach a concept to a particular kid, automate the solution and engage the kid by providing loads of cool ways to play around with the material through immersive experiences.
Marykirk (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) is doing the same thing after giving up on BT, etc.
O wow! Steak cost down? Tell me where? I'd love to see that steak. Car cost down? BMWs that I'm interested in are 20% up year to year.

Turn off CNBC talk and go shopping yourself and show me falling prices. Because there are none. Cost is going up across the board for everything. Can't believe there are still people out there who prefer to listen to Government propaganda of low inflation to opening their own eyes and seeing prices of everything going up. Health insurance, cars, food, even water. While their price in gold terms has been stagnant for the past 50 years. You tell me why.
The Do’s and Dont’s for your startup’s Twitter account
Out of curiosity, what solution did you hit upon?

Google uses a cookie to tie visits to a certain user for analytics.

The other solution I've come up with is to use a hash of IP + other identifying info, so not recording the IP or anytihng to tie it to a person, but still recording a relatively unique ID. What sort of techniques are you using?
I studied chemistry and physiology (anatomy) using Khan's video and I can say that it's not overrated at all, it's very useful way of explaining and it really helps you understand at least basic concepts.

Of course to learn anything you have to be motivated, either as an adult or kid. Otherwise you're better of doing it wrong.
the Khan format doesn't work for everything and the spectrum is probably much too wide, but the appeal is exactly that it is one guy explaining writing. that way the students experience the thought process, which is what most teachers forget about (if they even know and care about the subject matter)

by the way, those videos on the site are terrible and the exact reason why this kind of "thing" does not and never will work.
>society at large does not really care about "fairness."

[Citation needed]

Perpetuating these sorts of things spreads them.
Khan Academy isn't good and never will be. It fills the gap for new college students who didn't pay attention in class and never learned how to read a textbook. True classroom education comes from sharing experience, not regurgitating material and doing practice problems.
I hope for this too. I really appreciate a "language builder toolkit" part of Racket, although I didn't use it very much yet, I only mixed typed/racket, racket and lazy, which was - as you say - seamless and very impressive. Clojure obviously lacks many features in this area and probably always will be lacking them, because it's not it's focus.

As you say, if Clojure's success helps Racket adoption, then I have no complaints at all. It would be great if people used both Racket and Clojure, one for (almost) seamless interop with C and custom DSLs, the other for interop with Java and concurrency - for example.

I still have hope and believe that Racket will become a successful language. I love Racket and prefer it to Clojure, that's true, but I really hope for Clojure's success too. As I said, they're both Lisps, and having even only one of them "succeed" (in terms of mainstream adoption, they're greatly successful as it is already in their niches) will make me happy. I will be a bit more happy if the one to succeed will be Racket, but I will be overcome with joy when they succeed both. :)
Isn't there some sort of OwnCloud client for Android? You could use that as your storage solution, hosted on your own machine which should be completely under your control.
Yes. I as far as I understand it. The biggest difference between men and women is variance and not the mean. Women have less variance.
Nexus 7 MkII?
Here's one: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/exclusive-in-2009...
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The tool has a modern and intuitive interface. It supports all the popular video files and it gives you the possibility to convert to various formats like .mp4, .avc, .avi, .wmv, .mpeg, .3gp, . flv, and many others. You can conveniently convert videos for Apple, Android, Microsoft, and Sony devices. Working with the program is very easy; you simply add the desired file and choose the output format. Once you have completed these steps, you have the ability to adjust some video options, such as the video codec, the frame rate, the resolution, the bit rate, and the aspect ratio. Moreover, you can modify the audio codec, the sample rate, or the channel. However, if you are using the trial version, you can convert only 5 minutes of a video.

The program provides a preview window to watch the video you have added. Beneath this area, there are additional options that enable you to use a high quality engine, set the number of CPU cores, or merge the output videos. The deinterlacing feature is quite helpful if you intend to make your video clearer. There's also a safe mode function that protects your videos in case the conversion encounters problems. However, my favorite feature is the one that enables the user to edit a video. This feature allows you to adjust the video's volume, add subtitles, crop, expand, or trim the video.

Overall, this is a good working program. It helps you edit videos, provides lots of output formats, and can download videos from YouTube.
as of today Khanacademy had 294,329,180 views on youtube. I think that is a little more than a "half-baked initial version".
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I am only as familiar as orenmazor describes above.

Would you have said that if I urged him to get a hammer to hit on nails, rather than a screwdriver? It is about as dogmatic. (you can put nails into a wall with a large enough screwdriver - I've done it myself before when the nail was small enough and i had no hammer - but it's still the wrong toolkit)
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wow, that's really sweet! I'd have done a great job with this info 12 years ago when I created a top MTG website ;)

So many good times!
Perhaps with some deep sea diving gear. The surface of Greenland's bedrock is close to sea level in the interior and the discovered canyon appears to in the area that is below sea level.[1]

In addition, it's estimated that a complete melting of the ice sheet would increase sea levels by ~24ft[2] and that's not taking into account the larger impact of the rest of the world melting (Antarctic ice sheet is much larger).

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topographic_map_of_Gr...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet
Interesting. Link?

My parents live in a tiny village in South West England where there is no mobile or terrestrial TV.
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I think there is a confusion between trying to define the line between scientist / non-scientist or coder / Non-coder
(Which is difficult to the point of impossible) and the ability for someone who is already a scientist to look at the work of another and decide if it is the work of a scientist

This is why I use the term software literacy. My son is learning to read. He can write is own name and letters, read some words phonetically. All of those things are necessary but not sufficient. But he is not (yet :-) literate. Will it be at ten words ? A hundred? A thousand? Those are silly arbitrary cut offs.

Anyone of us here can tell the difference between literate and illiterate because we have passed through that gateway.

The same goes for scientist or programmer.

But actually trying to write down the exact definition, the point one passes from being able to write a line of executable code and becomes a real programmer? Becomes software literate? Can't do it. Which is also why you can't measure productivity (plus all the reasons Robert Austin has)
Suppliers verification/certification pain point
I have been thinking about this for a while: providing a suppliers review and certification service for small businesses.

Buyers strongly feel this pain, as you can see here:

http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.alibaba.com

In fact, there is a business to be built on this and nobody is executing very well yet. These guys: http://www.tradesparency.com/ have tried, but I think they failed to gain traction. I believe their problems is that you can't simply provide a "yelp for BtoB" as most companies will not be interested in spending time and resources writing reviews on your website. However, there must be other ways to get those reviews...

Any ideas/comments on this?
Of course it is you who knows where "true classroom education" comes from. I can think of many actual examples of classroom education that happened without sharing experience, although maybe not "true classroom education".
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You're both being far too black-and-white or even adversarial - the jobs of both the product and development teams is to talk to each other to determine how to realistically make the product that the customers want.
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And usage from Bulgaria increased seven to eight times [1]. This is really strange, I don't know anybody who uses tor on purpose. My money is on a bittorrent client connecting automatically.

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-0...
Gah, this is an awful pointless pedantry battle but I can't help it - OP said that, and also said that YC was something good, and YC is a program wherein you pay for (in part) access.
we have a mathematics professor how makes it that way.
he once recorded the lecture and now we must look at the videos at home and we must make a cloze but we have to go to the university twice for 3 hours and here we work in groups and he only goes around and looks who needs specific help.

Before I was never good at Mathematics because i would always be stack at that one point and i couldn't ask anyone now i can.

btw: i dont think that moocs can fix the lack of motivation. This is a job for the hole society. Moocs are for people that want to learn something and can't afford it.
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I prefer NeoBundle over Vundle. Lazy loading plugins is great.
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I'm looking about feedbacks on my callbacks/promises alternative, please.

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Thanks in advance.
Is this link meant to be an advert or something?
I've seen more criticism of Khan Academy recently than praise. As someone who wasn't able to afford college and is working their way through MIT open courseware I find these videos helpful.

Sometimes I just can't wrap my head around one little concept and I research it until I do. Khan Academy and similar sites have been essential to me getting through multiple courses. Are these videos as thorough as a course taught by an experienced professor? Nope. But I don't think that's the point of them. It's a place where people like me can learn the foundations before moving on.

Before online courses existed people in my situation had little to nothing. Sometimes I bought used, out of date text books but when I got stuck on something that was the end. (This was in early 2000s).

Often I see people attempting to compare sites like KA to college courses. That's not really a fair comparison as I highly doubt that anyone with the option of college is choosing to watch KA videos instead. They are for people who don't have that option.

Because of sites Codecademy, Learn Code the Hard Way, Khan Academy, ect., I went from working in tech support and living under the poverty line to junior web developer. I will never claim that I'm as good as someone who attended professionally taught courses but I now have the ability to continue to learn and get better.
> Are all of those standard datatypes thread-safe?

Some of them have both mutable and immutable versions (lists, hashes) where immutability is the default, some are purely functional (Okasaki's data structures implementation https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/pfds), and some are mutable by default (the "data" package). Most of the stdlib is immutable by default or plain immutable. There is no "slick" syntactic sugar for these by default, but Racket being as good in "language creation" department as it is, there are 3rd party implementations (https://github.com/greghendershott/rackjure).

> the advantage with Clojure is that these things are standard and that everybody else's libraries make use of this stuff

For the most part it is true for Racket, too. Where it differs is syntactic sugar and more complex data structures; I think some of this will change in racket2 (which is being planned if I understand correctly).

> you get a chance to redo the standard library (and tie it into some syntactic sugar) without worrying about compatibility.

That's why every "racket" program starts with a #lang specifier. Racket, in reality, is many different languages at once; because of this design and matching implementation, there is absolutely no problem with redoing stdlib and syntax completely - you can write Racket that is lazy, that is FRP, that is Algol(try it, it's fun!) that is typed or is logic oriented (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog) already. And you can mix modules written in them freely and conveniently (provide in one and require form in the other module are all it takes in practice).

This alone makes Racket so much more flexible than any other language. What Racket lacks now to implement everything Clojure (and other languages) offers as one of the Racket languages are only man-hours of development team. Other, less complicated features from other languages are being ported all the time, for example generator function in a Python style (with yield) implementation is in a stdlib since a long time, so I believe assimilating proven concepts from other languages is both possible and a "Racket way".
What else is classroom education if you're not sharing experience? You can study on your own, so putting stuff on the board from a book doesn't count. You can do practice problems on your own, so going through examples from a book doesn't count. What else is left? The only thing to be gained from a classroom is experience that's unique to classmates and the instructor.
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Can you explain how being completely intolerant of the fact that students have lives helps with your resource constraints? People will be a couple minutes late. Things happen. I don't think it's reasonable to threaten kicking someone out of the class and failing them for being late once.

Again, if you want to say that you need to make the class as terrible as possible so that people drop, then just say so.
I watched this speech near every MLK day in the US while I was growing up, I remember sitting there not understanding it as I was in grammar school.

We watched it on a large TV set that they rolled in on a cart. Granted I was in a 99% white school at the time, but the school was not for the rich - however they bought the necessary footage (I assume now, no idea).

I distinctly remember Dr. King's voice, I will not forget it.
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All or nothing hiring is too risky. Gradual formality makes the selection from both sides cooler, you know. We don't do interviews either; hazing sure, but no stupid hypothetical questions to test loyalty. There is no loyalty. Greed is good. =)

There is the another option. Make something people want and build it up slowly, on the side. If you do, you may free yourself from being at the beckon call of other masters (other than users). Others have, so it's possible. We are each masters of our own fate.

Peace.
The privacy issue I have is that governments can come in and request all data companies have about me, and there is nothing companies can do about this. There is no privacy promise they can make to me that can withstand a government request.

The only defence is to ensure the data does not exist.

In practice, this means using an incognito window almost all the time. Simply the fact that I'm on the other end of an IP logged in to a service is information I'd rather not share. And that's just too onerous, so instead I ensure my main browser isn't logged in to any services, amongst other defensive measures.
You should have reported this to DHL first. Signatures are sensitive bits of information. While its a large oversight on DHLs part its still not right to upload people's signatures publicly
Fortunately, for many of us, signing for packages is probably the only frequent use of our scrawl so hopefully the potential for fraud from this hack is lessened.

I think a scarier prospect is that signature recognition may make it possible for someone to search for all the packages you've ever signed-for, regardless of the courier or location at which you accepted it. I'd be surprised if couriers weren't already doing this in collaboration with law enforcement.
Well no, I didn't include former USSR for the sake of discussion. Jew hatred in Poland is surprisingly common, despite actual Polish Jews being virtually extinct since WW2.

The fact that Russia is possibly even more xenophobic than Poland doesn't change much.

I'm Belarussian myself, so well aware of sentiments in the 'hood in either direction. The nuance is not lost on me :)
Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content without login
Which open source license would you recommend I use?
+1 for freshbooks, I use it for all my time tracking and invoicing.
I did too and after all the recent NSA articles I thought it was just par for the course.
I work in this industry and even if the fix is as small as you mentioned is not going to happen for months/years... Sadly it's not only the case with one carrier
Khan describes his approach as "flipping the classroom" where kids would watch Khan's lectures at home or during lecture time at school, and then have a teacher who implemented activities and clarified any confusion with the material. I think it's a much preferable approach than one where kids are herded through concepts and tests.
About pg's observation that founders don’t realize how independent they can be:

It may be a selection bias: Probably a founder wants to participate in the YC program partly because they want advices, feedback and maybe just psychological 'confirmation' (social confirmation) more than people with the same talent/knowledge who do not apply to YC.

I do not say that it is bad. Overconfidence in one's capabilities can be also dangerous. And needing social confirmation is a very natural thing. I just say that there is probably a small selection bias in play here.
I always found Origin to be a really nice client on Windows. It's lightweight, fast, simple and the overlay has built-in broadcasting to Twitch.TV!
Introducing rack-flags
That's actually how the german DHL website works - unless you enter the recipients postcode, all you get is information that's not telling you who the recipient is (that is, the shipment progress, the latest status). If you enter the postcode, the recipients name and the name of the person the package was delivered to (for example your neighbor) will be revealed.
So, essentially, Quora is now expertsexchange, with page cloaking and whatnot? Good to know.
(I hope they won't remove this method now that it's publicized...)
Yes one must always trust something[1], but the impression I get is that people seem to want to use JS crypto specifically so that users don't need to trust the server with their data. But crypto in a js webapp can't provide that assurance.

I struggle to see what the point of it is[2]. You are already (hopefully) sending all the user data securely over the wire. In a current app the user needs to trust the server with their plain text data. With a js crypto app the users needs to trust the server to provide the crypto code to encrypt their plain text. Either way the user has to trust the server and once the server is compromised their data is trivially retrievable. At best it would prevent your data being seen until you login. If all you are interested in is data storage that is secure because nobody ever retrieves the data then I can offer you a great price on such a service.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

[2] other than attempts to provide plausible deniability for legal reasons
Why not:
"Here's how Khan Academy Statistics videos could be improved"?
> What else is left?

Many people (including me) learn much better from listening to a person talk than from reading textbooks, even with no avenue to communicate back to that person.