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Actually I think Wikipedia is pretty good for tricky questions, in that they attract a lot of attention and receive a lot of edits.

If being a scientist is determined by the consensus of one's peers, it seems like it makes sense to accept an article defining what scientists are that is written as a consensus opinion.

But anyway, if you think it's wrong, why don't you edit it?
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This is an incredibly ignorant opinion. You make it sound like home schooled kids are raised on Mars.

It wasn't that long ago that people grew up, went to school and worked in the same neighborhood always dealing with the same people. They rarely traveled and moving was unheard of. Did these people grow up socially awkward? No.

Home schoolers are in little league, pee wee football and quite often a very large religious community.

Being home schooled doesn't cut you off from the world.
As someone who got an incredibly awesome public school education - seriously, I breezed through Honors Physics exams at the University of Chicago (no slouch of a school) because I had seen exam problems as homework in my AP Physics class - I have to say, if I ever have children, they will either be co-opped or private schooled. The quality of public school education that I was afforded -will never- be available in the public sector, ever, ever again. I fear the system has become irreversibly captured by special interests which are not aligned with the children's best interest.

In America, the state has to treat everyone equally (this is not a bad thing). Yet, education is something where the ideal is not equal treatment. To launch a student's future, that student's teacher has to provide opportunities, identify the student's strengths, and play to them. This individualized attention can never be equal. And the problem is, no matter what 'system' is used, the outcomes will be different. As different outcomes get observed, a special interest group (not just the poor, who will generally fare the worst in attempts to capture special interest; but think of rich parents arranging for their kids to be diagnosed as ADHD or dyslexic and getting special test dispensation) will swoop in and demand changes to address their interest. Repeat, until the effectiveness of education gets whittled down to a minimum.

This is required by law, because the state is required to treat everyone equally, and the chosen metric is outcomes (this is maybe not a good measure for equal treatment in any case). The asymptotic result is zero.

Bottom line, if you really are interested in seeing education equality as an outcome, you should take the time to personally do research into where our society has failed its citizens, and pay out of your own pocket to provide for the education of people there. I've done it, I've made a marginal difference in the education of people who have less access to it. It feels great. You should do it, too.

There are other issues with public education as well, such as capture by other groups that seek entitlements that are not necessarily in line with the student's interests, conflation with municipal loans, which are backed (+interest!) by the forcibly appropriated income of the very people it's supposed to help, the questionable wisdom of letting municipal (or state or federal) elected and unelected officials be at the helm, but I won't get too deeply into those.
Ditto. I'd still love to see whatever tidbits are available if only for historic reasons, which in itself is quite valuable. Might be also fun to see a before and after if someone else does an up to date version too.
Teachers in the US typically have full health benefits paid for by the government as well as a pension and other benefits. So using health care as an example is just inaccurate. Finland teachers also pay a higher tax rate than US teachers so their real income is even lower by comparison. The problem isn't compensation, it's that it's almost impossible to fire a bad teacher and therefore the personal incentive for individual teachers is less than it would be if teachers were paid based on outcomes rather than time in service. Teacher quality is unrelated to seniority. Yet pay scales are almost completely biased towards seniority rather than results. The rules of economics don't end at the schoolhouse door.
That's possible, if you have experience and are good at what you do. Taxes and other social needs will subtract from that.
California takes about 10%, Feeds take about 20%, social program payroll fees take about 8%, retirement savings /should/ take 15%, and health and dental insurance are probably paid paid for you but not your family if you have one.
Rent starts at $2500 per month for a minimal space in a bad part of town.
Also, almost all open offers I've seen offer three weeks of combined sick time and vacation ("paid time off".)
Also note that this assumes actual programming capability -- not just configuring existing platforms!
I think calling it meaningless, while helpfully putting it in context (first world problems, etc.) is still a bit inaccurate. Sure, the kudos number on a Svbtle blog is basically meaningless, but more generally, karma points on a post can serve two important purposes:

1) Social signaling. Others approve of the post, which factors into your own judgment heuristics when encountering it.

2) Upvotes and downvotes are the basis of vote-ranked message board systems like HN and Reddit, and they result in very interesting dynamics (whether or not these dynamics are optimal is another question altogether).

So no, I'd say internet karma points aren't exactly meaningless in certain contexts.
principles, not principals.

Which, thinking about it, is an even more condensed version of my argument above.

Competition is all very well, but if you're talking about the education of a country, you can't very well just chuck out half the students and/or schools because they failed the competition, particularly when the competition is "rigged" from the start:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/...
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They could then generate a new key for site.com, trusted by browsers that don't support cert pinning, but yes, that new key for site.com would have a different fingerprint. The only way to keep the same cert fingerprint is to get site.com's cert's private key, either by demanding it with a NSL or FISA order, or by breaking RSA (2048bit, in most cases) if the site uses RSA as almost all of them do.

Generating a new cert from a trusted CA would be caught by EFF's SSL observatory (an optional feature in the HTTPS everywhere extension) and similar efforts.

It would fail if used against a site that has its certificate's CA pinned in the browser, unless the NSA gets the CA private key for the right CA.

Therefore, if they do have CA root key(s), they wouldn't MITM all the ssl connections they can. They would use that capability sparingly.
Ask HN: I'm not sure where to ask this question. (SOLVED)
(First an apology, this question adds little to the HN community, and am only asking it here as an almost last resort.)

I'm trying to find an article on Hacker News that I read recently about arguing tactics. It mentioned that when you argue with someone on a subject that they've based their life philosophy on, they are more likely to push back hard. But if you try some of your more weaker arguments on them, they are more likely to be receptive.

I've tried googling, scrolling through Hacker News and DuckDuckGo, (which is actually surprisingly good!). My next step is Ask Metafilter then set up a paid task on TaskRabbit.

As an aside, I wish Google had a multi-line search box and I could just throw "search clues" in until I find what I'm looking for -- it's annoying having to google, then perturb your keywords, re-google, perturb, re-google etc.

EDIT: big thankyou to _pius and arink
This wasn't what I hoped it might be.

I could see a defense of not sacrificing the wellbeing of someone you're responsible for to appease your conscience and benefit some abstract common good. That you have a duty to your own children above and beyond what you have to other people is worth exploring, but the author focuses on whether public school, as it exists, is worthwhile, which is a boring question. The thrust of the original article was that the pressure valve of the private option meant that those most likely to actually change anything in public education are those most likely to have already abandoned the system. Of course public education is terrible - all the richest left.

I feel like the HN hivemind underestimates the value of institutions - it's the same concept as company culture. There is "a way things are done" that people buy into that isn't explicitly defined, and it s just as real as what's on paper. The rich sending their children to their own schools, and leaving the rest to fend for theirselves is very, very new (at least at the primary level) in the history of America.
I reserve the right to add sources to my comment during its edit window, if I feel like that, and meanwhile I invite you to back up the statement that masters degrees add value to teachers, because there is definitely evidence to the contrary.
The Gentoo Linux vim tutorial is how I learned. It took me about an hour to become as productive in vim as I was in my previous editors (nano, GEdit, some random Windows editor, etc.) Everything past that was an improvement over any editor I have seen before.

I think it is a lot harder for people used to IDE's, but if you treat it as "get to the minimum productivity level as fast as possible, then slowly add more", you will probably enjoy it.
Niven & Pournelle.
Well, if we ramp up funding of life extension research, some of us might live another millennium to see it happen.
There is a saying in Russia that if you aren't satisfied with what government officials do, go and sue them.
Yes, I know how they're derived...I had both 4h lectures + 0h labs and 3h lectures + 1h labs, and that's a good example of how arbitrary it really is. Even for subjects as closely aligned as biology, chemistry, and physics, there's a disconnect.

My point is that the hour/credit system is disingenuous to the point of being counter-productive, and is one of the areas of the educational system that I think we need to revisit if we're ever to progress passed the same old system that our parents (and for some, grandparents) used. It was a good start on objectifying quality and quantity of education, but it hasn't evolved really and we've learned a lot about learning in that time span.

I understand that classes are challenging, but they should be so on their own merits -- not because of laborious exercises. I'm not saying "no homework" or anything, but just don't require it. A lazy student will always find a way to fail, the gifted will pass, and the driven will do what's required (homework, attendance, etc.) to pass. At least that's my take on it.
Do manufacturers try to even out the number of cars with fill caps on either side? Imagine the chaos at gas stations if everyone had the cap on the same side of the car.
That and the Mythical Man Month were duds for me. I never understood why they were so highly regarded amongst engineers.
Since you don't have any contact details in your profile.. I play a lot in Unity3D these days and am Phnom Penh-based (well returning from a break on Wednesday). If you wanna grab coffee one fine day and chat about "digital biz in SEA", then just holler!
Not knowing that the death chimes existed while playing tech support in high school, I heard one of these.The chime that ascends and then descends off-key really can send a chill down your spine if you're not expecting it, especially when the machine dies and won't play it again.
He has guitar leads on his hands, and preset loops playing on each tv - for example, drum samples, tones - recorded on VHS. The audio is recorded as the video signal. Then, by putting his hands near the front of a television, the video signal is picked up by the guitar lead and played through the amplifier. He can play it by selecting which sample to play when.

Another video of him playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5T2Q_wgoKg

And a video of his other project, Open Reel Ensemble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFM8UarAuVw
Sources were from personal experience using these IDs. I appreciate the feedback and I'll update the blog.
which also happens in public non-charter schools.
Thanks, I needed that!
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Says at the end that "it may play a major role in transporting melt water...into the Arctic Ocean"

Seems to me, we just need to dynamite it shut and Presto world saved from eventual catastrophic flooding.

Don't everyone thank me at once.
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If the good people who read the above article follow Allison Benedikt's prescription then we will end up with a society in which their children are poorly schooled in the name of egalitarianism, and only the children of bad people receive the quality education and critical thinking skills that the author so obviously lacks, thereby making society even less fair than it already is. Talk about evil genius. Was it Lex Luthor who put her up to writing this, or was it Senator Palpatine?
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I'm almost certain that your friend has already looked at http://clinicaltrials.gov/ given his background and time looking. But I'm not sure where else he would be able to find a listing of reputable, vetted clinical trials especially for those in the U.S. If his grandfather's illness has a support association (i.e., of other patients with the same or related illnesses), perhaps members of that association might know of upcoming trials.
Wouldn't if be easier to lean on two or three grad students to step up? I genuinely don't know how these things work, but maybe that's why this looks a little nuclear to me.
I'm pretty sure it would be a lot more orderly, actually. Everyone on the right side would move one way, everyone on the left side would move the other way, it would be perfect.
"...for yourself.' would be a great subtitle to this article.

Of those who do survive 18 years of public education and still mentally check-in on a daily basis, many they aren't capable of creating something outside of what they are given. That's the most troubling aspect of what he (and PG) are discussing.

These people can understand and execute complex instructions, but can't come up with their own instruction manual that actually fits their situation. Lots of successful people could be 100x more successful if they would stop trying to figure our how to make 200-page management fads work in their situation. Instead, if they would look at that situation, and engage their own brain and gut instinct to come up with solutions, they would be so much more efficient and effective.

If "so-so said to do it," or "I read it in a book," is your TOP reason for doing something--to me that's a 99% accurate sign that's its not the most effective thing you could be doing right now. Engage your brain.
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I think that it is stupid to call other people stupid.
Thank you.

I read Benedikt‘s article earlier this evening, and it infuriated me on a very primal level. Not because I‘m a parent yet, but because I had my run ins with public education.

Especially him saying that ‚gifted‘ children will be just fine. Let me tell you a personal story.

I was diagnosed as gifted in second grade by a local school psychologists. My teachers recommendation was to send me to a school expressively tailored to gifted children, which my parents at that point could not do, which is why I stayed in the public school system. As I went through the rest of primary school, I started to mark myself out as a troublemaker, and I was bullied, both things my school didn‘t have sufficient resources to care for. By the time I hit middle school, I was thoroughly disillusioned towards the prospect of school, and my meager grades went from acceptable (B+ level) to hopeless (D level). By 8th grade, going from one debacle to another, I fell into serious depression. Since my future seemed so bleak, I was considering suicide or getting back at everyone with a school shooting. To my defense, I was 13, isolated and depressive, not just crazy.

Since then, I‘ve recovered. After grade 8th, I was offered by my family to leave for a private international school out of the country, and offer which I gladly took. Since I suddenly had a new slate to work from, things didn‘t seem quite as bleak, and I‘ve become more resilient due to the stark contrast between these two poles.

But when I read an article like Benedikt‘s, it brings me back to sitting in my room with the blinds partially down, dreading going back to school the next morning, contemplating whether I should fill my bag with fertilizer instead of schoolbooks. And that article tells me „you should have stayed, for the good of many“, should have perished for people that give half a damn about you if you don‘t blow up, and if you do, they blame it on the games you play, or on the specific school you went to, or on you being psychologically broken, or any number of factors.

It‘s never on the system, it‘s the people who are broken.
"hundreds of Americans" Key point here. Hundreds of Americans over the course of decades.

Meanwhile millions died from heart disease, auto accidents, kidney disease, pneumonia, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, lung disease, and cancer, just last year.

More people died of heart disease in this country alone last year than have died by airline hijacking since the invention of manned flight.
Yeah the sample rate was pretty low for police interactions. I try not to get pulled over that often. :)
Ununpentium means 115.
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I wonder how much this new map will effect model predictions of ice velocity and dynamic mass balance. Ice thickness measurements are important for calculating the stresses required to model ice velocity, and these are in turn relevant to predictions for the ice sheet's future because they affect how the ice might respond, for example, to increased melting at either the surface or coastal margins.

I would also be interested in seeing simple calcs of hydraulic potential with the new bed geometry. I wonder if water is still routed along this canyon?
Sorry to harp on the pedantic point, but your parent's point still stands: you said you never once paid for access, when in fact you seem to have exactly once paid for access, which is different. The point that paying for access makes sense only if it is through YCombinator may be a good one but it's a significantly weaker one than you were originally making. Instead of an unequivocal "no", you're saying "no, but...", which is more complicated.
Reason? Why do the costs outweigh the benefits? Is this something you feel strongly about, or that you just get a feeling about?
Incidentally, Kim Jong-il also executed a girlfriend who sung in the same band -- after she attempted to commit suicide with a lover and failed.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/08/08/2009...
No, the package management system on just about every distribution running gnome is the best way. A web browser is a good way to get info on why the package manage is broken though.
What makes this difference from this vim distribution http://vim.spf13.com/ ?
This is why I want to live forever, to see what Greenland looks like without the ice sheet.
The name will be decided by an international vote.

Ununpentium just means "115th element".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name
Utterly false, and a dangerous belief held by many business-oriented types who think that engineers are a dime a dozen, and their ideas are what really matter.

In this case, no Woz = no Apple.
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This is a throwaway account because I want to publicly expose AngelHack (or HACKcelerator): After we "won" a local hackaton -that had an entry fee- they didn't help us with the housing, zero, no cash for any of the 20 "winner" teams and only gave $1000 (per team, not person) for fly expenses (hint: not enough) then suggested us to stay in one of the worst hostels in San Francisco (European Hostel).

Later on I also found out that they are already searching volunteers around the world to help them out organizing the 2014 competition... in my opinion all this is pretty shady but we the teams are holding up just in case the demo day brings something good (a.k.a. investors and new contacts).
Adults who had their peak experiences in high school say that. If I can be judgemental for a moment, these people are usually very shallow, and were very attractive and or popular. Think Al Bundy. Their features that were everything in high school don't get them far in the real world, and their attractiveness declines rapidly post high school.
Are you claiming that teacher's don't have copays? Because that's patently false. How about before Obamacare when you could be kicked off your insurance roles for having a "pre-existing" condition and then you couldn't find healthcare anywhere? Do you think that didn't effect teachers? People in the U.S. pay more for healthcare than people in Finland do when you take into account the amount of taxes they pay. When the costs of programs are spread among the public, things tend to be cheaper.

Let's take a look at the Finland school system. They have strong unions that are allowed to take an active role in helping decide what's taught. They have seniority. They don't care about standardized tests, which differs dramatically from the U.S. They don't have any No Child Left Behind bullshit.

The students defer drastically, as well. All the students in Finland have healthcare. When they are sick they can go to the doctor and not have to worry about a gigantic bill. They have a poverty rate of 5.3% compared to the U.S. which has a rate of 23.1%. I'm also willing to wager that a significantly larger chunk of their population believes in evolution and global warming compared to the U.S. It's hard to learn when your hungry and sick.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-ame...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276171

By the way, you should see a search box on the bottom of every page on HN. I searched stories for "weaker" and it was among the first results.
It's stuff like that that just made me launch my own accelerator on the East Coast (in addition to running a few startups): http://www.colodesk.com/
We don't trick people, but we do "force" them into success or failure quickly.
I love Harvest because it takes that recorded time and pops it into an invoice. I wouldn't call it "a whole business management" solution, but it does a great job.

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At least one of Ruby Motion or Xamarin Studio is compiling source code into iPhone apps.

Furthermore iPhone apps are definitely allowed to embed interpreters (caveat: no JITC's) and run scripts included with the binary or downloaded as part of an in-app purchase.
reference: http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Elerium-115
Some are, no doubt, you haven't experienced a truly terrible idiotic public school... like soul crushing bad...
But the NSA could easily add a few hundred Tor nodes given their capabilities regarding hundreds of Linux cloud servers as part of XKeyScore et al.