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> But when I ask her what the verb tener means (“to have,” if I recall), she repeats, “Memorization, not rationalization.”

I wonder where she got that from, or if it was something she figured out by herself. It just sound so soul crushing that the goal for children is not learning, but to memorize something until the test is done.

Memorization should never be used when rationalization could do better. Sure, there exist a few rare cases where memorization is the only option (such as remembering names), but those are exceptions. Languages are almost without exception best learned by actually using the language in communication or by consuming media (books, movies, and so on).
Are the Olympics one giant orgy?
>How on earth do you propose to enable the poor to bring themselves above the poverty line without a centralised system to manage it?

Using a decentralized system? Food banks, shelters. Get the grubby Fed paws off of it. Maybe the states should run them, even better if the cities did, or even better if good-minded citizens came together and pitched in without the state. Come on, you don't seriously think that the US Federal Government's social safety net is working, do you? We keep plowing more and more money into it and yet the divide between the rich and the poor is getting wider.

"unless a redistribution of wealth and a welfare state is mandated through taxation and social programs..."

Bastiat comes to mind: "[The socialists declare] that the State owes subsistence, well-being, and education to all its citizens; that it should be generous, charitable, involved in everything, devoted to everybody; ...that it should intervene directly to relieve all suffering, satisfy and anticipate all wants, furnish capital to all enterprises, enlightenment to all minds, balm for all wounds, asylums for all the unfortunate, and even aid to the point of shedding French blood, for all oppressed people on the face of the earth.
Who would not like to see all these benefits flow forth upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? ... But is it possible? ... Whence does [the State] draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?
...Finally...we shall see the entire people transformed into petitioners. Landed property, agriculture, industry, commerce, shipping, industrial companies, all will bestir themselves to claim favors from the State. The public treasury will be literally pillaged. Everyone will have good reasons to prove that legal fraternity should be interpreted in this sense: "Let me have the benefits, and let others pay the costs." Everyone's effort will be directed toward snatching a scrap of fraternal privilege from the legislature. The suffering classes, although having the greatest claim, will not always have the greatest success."

he was too generous. The suffering classes will ALMOST NEVER have success.

tl;dr: You think you're helping the poor, but if you're using the state to fix a problem, you're usually just lining the pockets of some wealthy or politically connected jerk who subcontracts the work, claiming to do the good works.
> On the other hand, all cross-Atlantic traffic is likely to pass through the same few undersea cables, regardless of the "first 50 miles" are covered (3G/WiFi), so the net effect on snoop-ability is probably null.

Wouldn't the traffic be split over multiple IPs (not all of which might be known), and wouldn't latency sometimes cause them to be out of sequence?
It's definitely not as simple as "monitor this singular connection", though of course it's still feasible.
I have no idea how much homework I used to get (Netherland in the '80s), because I never did any. I was lazy and got excellent grades anyway. Well, not for languages, where you did have to memorize lots of stuff (rather than rationalize, which I'm much better at), so I dropped my languages as soon as I could.

My not doing any math homework did get me in trouble when I was 17 (5th class (penultimate before graduation) middle school in the Dutch system), because integration meant memorizing all those standard primitives and having used them a lot, and not having practiced them a hundred times meant failing grades for me. A year later math moved on to geometry and I got perfect grades and finished my homework during class for the first time ever.

I think it would have been better for me if I'd learned to do my homework; I never really learned to work during school, which might actually be a more important skill than all the stuff it seems to be teaching.

But reading 79 pages in a single evening? I hope it's a really easy book, because in anything moderately serious, that would take me a week. Oh yeah, required literature reading put me off of reading for a couple of years. (Until I discovered Terry Pratchett, i fact.)
I wonder if the US is anything like the UK - we have something along the lines of Benefit fraud: £10 million. Unclaimed benefits: £100 million. Business scale tax fraud: £10 billion. And then we demonise the poor because one person out of a few million ripped off the system and bought a big TV...
Pretty neat, discovered a few algorithms I didn't know about
This is why education is not a one size fits all model. For students like yourself there are dozens of schools in district 2 one could attend instead of this institution. Like I previously mentioned, people who attend this school do so by choice.

Additionally, innate skill does not translate to the ability to handle stress, discipline, or work ethic. Your schedule is entirely unrealistic outside of academia today (or being your own boss), judging from the population of successful people (in finance, software engineers, researchers, politicians, etc) you'll see that most people get by with less than 2 hours of unscheduled time whether forced or by choice.

Personally, I find unscheduled time and being mindless hampers my productivity. I function best under pressure and produce my best work. The most academically successful year of my life was when I was spending 80 hours a week on research, class, and studying (1-2 hours). My point in this is that what works for you is not necessarily the minimum requirement for success.

Also, I am aware of the physiological consequences of stress before anyone gets to that point.
Haha.. good one.

(They redacted IPs at the top of the screenshot, but they forgot to redact the hexdump at the bottom that just happens to contain same IPs).
And IME it stresses me out badly, so it's a trade off for me.
This is a good idea but I don’t know how to implement it in JS. Probably, I’d need to have a list of all focusable elements, e.g. form elements, elements with tabindex attribute and links (for some browsers). Hidden elements should be excluded. This list should be updated on DOM changes. Sounds complicated already, I don’t think it would be robust.
The problem is not that C++ is hard, it's that Haskell doesn't solve the same kind of problems.

We would all love programming to be easier, for the compiler or interpreter to just know what we really meant, rather than what we actually typed, but sometimes the tools are sharp, are a bit more manual, exactly because they offer more control.

The constant sell of Haskell or Go as the panacea for all programming problems is like someone else telling us all to adopt socks made of rubber - a few make like that, may even blog and evangelise about it, but the rest of us find it uncomfortable and annoying.
A large point of the proposal was the massively reduced land use requirements coming from using a structure on pylons, and from having most of it follow the existing highway on land that's already publicly owned.

The assumptions regarding land use were pretty well covered in the PDF Elon Musk released.
For myself: specialized tools are useful, but the commandline utility set lends itself, as Kernighan and Pike noted in The UNIX Programming Environment over a quarter century ago, to very rapid prototyping and developing. You can accomplish a great deal in a few well-understood lines of shell (which is to say, UNIX utilities).

Yes, sometimes the full power of a programming or scripting language is what you need, and in cases it may execute faster (though you may well be surprised -- the shell utilities are often highly optimised), but if a one-liner, or even a few brief lines can accomplish the task, why bother with the heavier tool?
The Design Paradox
If you're on the bus for an hour each way, it hardly counts as "not at school" either.

But yes, I agree that what used to be unstructured activities are shifting to structured formal clubs. I don't think I'm willing to just assume this is for resume-stuffing, but it's a definite trend. So that could be part of the mismatch in the arithmetic of how many hours are in a day.

I also think it's too cynical to assume that all extracurricular activities are "resume-stuffing". As it turns out, plenty of extracurricular activities are vastly more rewarding and often more important in the long run to being a happy and productive person in whatever your career is than classes. I was in the choir in high school, which was a major time sink. I still sing in choirs now, 15 years later. I find this a very valuable life skill. Similarly, I did science olympiad, which has made me a vastly better engineer and scientist than any official science course -- I learned all sorts of important lessons in a practical context. And that's not even mentioning athletics, which taught me that maintaining fitness is critical for body and mind. Or Boy Scouts, which taught me a huge amount about leadership, project management, and lots of generally useful skills. And god forbid you get into a romantic relationship... I was lucky in being a closeted gay guy, so I didn't have to worry about that at least. Or having a job, like mine where I was a cook working ~10-15 hours a week to make money to save for college.

Anyway, there is more to life than school. You don't seem to disagree with that, so I'm not saying this to argue with you. But there is a lot more incidental stuff in there that is just as valuable as school.

There are some interesting solutions to this that I think are good. For one, a trimester system where you take three 2-hour courses each trimester instead of trying to take 4-6 45 minute classes.

You can get into better depth because you get into a groove. I teach now -- not high school -- and 45 minutes is enough to basically take attendance, introduce at most one idea at a very basic level, and practice it a half dozen times. With two hours, you can actually engage at an individual level and get into far more depth. Plus, you only have three classes giving you homework each night, so it's likely to actually be less outside work each day.
I think there are two different points which kind of render the comparison difficult to make:

- html5 games are defacto multiplatforms, since tbey must support all the popular browsers, and underlying systems (mobiles, tablets, PCs...). Compare this with the Wintel supremacy of early RTS days,

- This is technology preview material, available to a potentially very large audience. I don't think RTS did get such exposure during their development, especially during the eary days, when people wanted to disclose as little as possible to the listening competition in the gaming news channels (nainly magazines).
Force them to, after let's say 28 years of copyright, to pay an ever increasing percentage of the revenue they earn from the characters as a tax to keep them out of the public domain.

35-50 years of extra copyright = 30% of revenue.
50-70 years of extra copyright = 65% of revenue.
70-100 years of extra copyright = 90% of revenue.
100+ years of extra copyright = 200% of revenue.

And so on. Just need to administer this scheme, which would be a logistical impossibility. Yay.
It's sports and so parents can drop them off before work. Both play a role.
So the guy is too stupid to do his child's homework and somehow sees this as a bad thing? Like, he wants his daughter to end up as dumb as him? That's what I get from this article.
To kill the TouchID sensor, but keep the home-button functionality intact, and keep the design the same, does anyone know if one can just cut that TouchID cable?

In other words: Where is the physical home switch located, inside the TouchID assembly or below it, on the main board?
Maybe polynomials appear in everyday problems of Hacker News users. But Hacker News isn't exactly representative of your average everyday person.

Also, I think a lot of people are forgetting the relative privilege they had while growing up. I was always forced to do the majority of my homework during the schooldays because I was busy taking care of my three younger siblings in the evenings. Expecting every child in a class to be equally capable of completing an assignment at home is making a lot of assumptions about their home situation.
Glue: technology shared with a $1000 and a $5 device but none in between.

I've just replaced the battery on my Lumia 820 after 9 months. They don't last forever. Glue is inexcusable. If they had a half decent mechanical design, foam pads would secure it in place when the device was assembled and allow replacement.

I'd probably buy new Apple products if they weren't held together with glue. I'm not investing lots of money in something intended to be disposable. My last MBP (2010) was at least servicable. Now replaced with Lenovo kit as it's possible to strip it down and replace anything.
My daughter was at a Democratic school in Israel last year, and things did not work out for us quite well for us.

One problem I see that they don't like to discipline any wrongdoings, the proper way for that is for the collective to decide at the 'commission for discipline''; my daughter was in constant terror of being referred to the 'discipline commission'; kids who where more violent generally ignored this threat, as a result there are few means of handling/discipline real offenders. In a way the result that stronger and more rowdy kids are favored and so they tend to impose their will on others.

Another problem is that somehow humans always build hierarchies, so there is no such thing as a egalitarian society, even in grade A. So unconstrained 'Bullying
Betty' again tends to get her will against all others; now if her parent is a teacher in the institution than that will somehow get 'bullying Betty' another head start; In our place I could discern several hierarchies, somehow at the center there always were the kids whose parents worked at the institution.

Also kids tend to compare themselves to others, even if there are no grades they will create their own distinctions;

Now another major problem is that still kids will have to get some input from grown ups; the requirement to learn how to read and write will put you in front of a teacher; the teacher in our case would have to handle a loud class where every pupil would be on a different level ( they can walk out of classes ), I think the teacher in our case was not up to the task; now of course the results were blamed on our daughter; interestingly once she got out of the institution my daughter started to learn well.

So for me, as for other similar cases at our school the bright idea did not work out; We put our daughter into a general school, and she was thankful for the change, she does not look back;

I would say that the ideal of democratic schools is similar to the ideal of Communism: the ideal sounds great, but the implementation always turns the idea into shit.
I was not there when that happened to you and I might be wrong but I cannot imagine that happening under normal circumstances. I used to race and during many thousand kilometers on the road I encountered many risky situations (including a car appearing out of nowhere if front of me while I was going down the hill on multiple occasions) and I am afraid of many things while I am on a bike. But I have to say that going over handlebars because of braking is not one of them. If I could venture a guess I would say that something might be wrong with your bike - bad geometry (some cheap/old bikes are unstable), tyres not pressurized enough, really bad brakes (front one working, back one not working) - if I were you I would make sure that my bike is safe. By any chance did you have a heavy backpack on your back? Or maybe you just panicked and did something you really should not do... like braking really hard with only your front brake? Please check your bike anyway.
FWIW Twitter and Coursera make heavy use of Scala (Twitter also uses Clojure, if you consider Storm etc.)
Would your code work after a trip back in time?
How I Produce my Podcast
This has also confused me as well, but I had never considered that. Now it makes sense.
And different OS themes...
And updating the list every time they change...
Here is the advanced guide to Screwing with Wi-Fi: http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=9
Ubuntu's smartphone OS will be ready to launch on October 17th
Goodbye Dropbox (and some alternatives)
This has happened already, a few years ago the Sherlock Holmes estate authorised a new novel The House of Silk written by Anthony Horowitz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Silk
This is idea of "it's an emergency, we must stop the train" is often completely flawed. Lets say you trigger an emergency stop. Now what?

In all likelihood you are going to be further from a hospital or any qualified assistance than you would if you let the train continue at full speed. If you're really unlucky, you're in the middle of nowhere.
I will agree with you that is sensational and a bit irresponsible, but there weren't any glaring inaccuracies. The only novel information in the article was that Wifi devices leak all their past access points to anyone -- if that statement is indeed true (and knows how many devices it's true for) (edit: apparently the technique has been around since at least 2006). The rest of it was a very basic tutorial on how to snoop on unencrypted traffic, which is usually not something people who have to read a tutorial on should be doing.
I see your point, comparing languages created for robustness and programmer productivity with languages created for raw hardware access and performance doesn't make much of a point.

However, C++ tries to be both, that's what's special about it. It's also arguably the cause of most of its problems and it's complexity, but that is what makes it powerful and useful - for certain applications.

> The main micro blogging site I use is a mixture of scala, java, with ruby/iOS for the front end.

Twitter seems to use Scala for most of their backend (after growing too large for Ruby), but Google and Facebook (arguably operating at larger scale than Twitter) mostly use C++ there AFAIK.
The driving factor for mathematics is laziness. I didn't even memorize the basic multiplication table (1-10) for a long time, but I remembered some shortcuts (like multiplying stuff by 9 was easy) and got by.
Yes, that's exactly how this works. The way to solve it would be for a device to compare the last known BSSID of an access point to that of the device it's about to connect to (similar to comparing MAC addresses). Except that almost no one does this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_set_(802.11_network)#Ba...
> Note: The US is a good country overall

I'm not so sure that that's correct. You're talking about the world's largest sponsor of terrorism and war.

The American people may be good, if uninformed and controlled by propaganda, but the American government has been an overall global negative for at least the last 65 years.
Sad to read this; I was just reading a historical about her and key moments in early Amazon, earlier in the week, and really impressed.
I'm not sure if MPTCP is great or if it's an over-engineering that stuffs brand new abstraction into the socket layer.

See, previously when open a connection with an unbound socket, it would always bind it to the local IP that points at the default router. If you had multiple interfaces and you wanted a specific local IP, you'd bind to it explicitly before connecting. But it has always been that a connected socket is bound to exactly one IP. If you want to use two IPs for connecting out, you will have two sockets.

With MPTCP the socket can now end up being bound to two or more local IPs. So effectively it changes the abstraction of the socket model to be more of a collection of (conventional) sockets. Doesn't it sound like something that could be done in the userspace? Sure, it does :)

Though on the other hand, networking code in the kernel has access to a lot more information about the state of the network, so it can make better decisions and quicker. For example, if there's an interface with no default route going through it, the userspace solution may still try and use its IP to try and connect out. The userspace will also need to monitor the routing table for changes and re-try connecting out in response ... so MPTCP makes more sense if you think about it, but a userspace solution is much easier to implement and deploy.
It just means you should choose a better calculator

From my calculator (Genius Mathematical Tool):

genius> sqrt(200)*sqrt(200)
= 200.0
Haha, yeah, that was the way.

“find three important and powerful quotes from the section with 1–2 sentence analyses of its [sic] significance.”

What to do: hastily read the pages, write down anything that might qualify as a quote and write "It's important because blah blah". Done.
That's not a polynomial, but an exponential, discretized (x^2 is a polynomial, 2^x an exponential)

In everyday life, I would guess most polynomials you encounter are of order zero or one. Most people would not call those polynomials.

Second order ones you encounter when doing quick math for computing how hard an impact will be, or how far a car accelerating from zero to X in T seconds will go.
Having an adult constantly looking over your shoulder is neither necessary nor desirable, particularly in the twenty-first century when a vast wealth of information is at your fingertips free of charge.
This is a really great idea. It drives me nuts how pressing tab (or even more commonly, shift-tab) can sometimes lead to focus being "lost". And not in the usual sense programmers mean, but in the sense of "where the hell is the focus?"

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work in Ubuntu at all in either Chrome or Firefox.
I don't agree with everything the OP said, but it seems like you're criticising for the sake of it.

The OP is speculating about the future and the flaws you cite are valid now, but will they be valid in the future? What prevents iOS from getting improved multitasking in the future? Phone/pads don't have enough RAM or cheap storage now. What prevents them from getting that in the future?

The OP wrote "Jump forward in time to a year from today.". You're trying to see fanboyism where there's none (or at least not as much as you want to believe).

If Canonical could promise something similar to what the OP described with that famous Indiegogo campaign, don't you think it may be possible for Apple to do that for the next iPhone/iOS release?
Hmm, good to know. Thank you once again
I think it's mostly parents who want to be at work in time.