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Having grown in Poland, I have to say I was very lucky to be born in 1985 which was the cut-off year for the reformed educational system. I managed to escape it. It is widely agreed that the system brought nothing but deterioration in the level of education students receive pre-univeristy, esp. in maths/physics/chemistry. So much so that when I was still studying in Poland, I often heard that "new" students are at a level comparable to "old" part-time students.

> He decided to keep all Polish children in the same schools until they were 16, delaying the moment when some would have entered vocational tracks.

This is misleading. First of all, education is obligatory until one is 18 years old in Poland. There is no such thing as dropping out of school before that age.
The previous educational system was two-tier, with primary school lasting until 15 years old, and high school lasting the remainder 4 years (5 years for vocational high school, AFAIR). There were no electives in primary school, so the first real sorting of students based on ability was taking place at entrance exams to high schools (which had no obligation to accept a student based on their geographical location). What the reform implemented is it created a third tier in between primary (shortened by 2 years) and high schools (shortened by 1 year), the gymnasium. Gymnasiums do not have the sorting ability of high schools. With the end result being that what high schools were previously struggling to teach in 4 years now they have to condense into 3 years. So a lot of things are left out now. Plus the students they get at entry are also of lower quality -- I remember browsing through the first set of chemistry textbooks for gymnasium and being shocked that what the "old" system primary school students had to cover in two years was supposed to be covered in a lesser form in 3 years of gymnasium. So yes, the reform postponed the division of students into university/vocational tracks by one year, but at the cost of overall quality of education.
Ask HN: is the Google homepage written in ASP.NET?
I viewed source on google.com for shits, and noticed a bunch of 'jsaction' attributes. It eventually got me to search for it and find the answer via google; so I just discovered jsaction is an obscure .NET route handler library. I then, through being distracted, also came across 'jstag' which seems to be an analytics beacon library for tracking. whats the deal?
"JPEGs were altered but still viewable".
Could be a problem with their encryption. Care to share a before and after JPEG of something? For science?
Hey, I can append a bit to a string of bits...

Behold! Illegal odd numbers!
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This is so great. I submitted a ton of stuff despite having to type my username and email every time. Might be hard to scale, but there's definitely a lot of potential joy in this. Many of the winning words at the moment genuinely made me giggle.
You make it sound like there's something wrong with outsourcing?
Authorities Worry 3-D Printers May Undermine Europe’s Gun Laws
But don't you see, the Poles sit on the other side of the fence!

(Yes, this kind of nationalism bothers me no end.)
There is btdigg.org, which builds its database by crawling the bittorrent distributed hash table.
Ask HN:Is there still a market for real estate search?
I was looking at the big share of the market that Zillow, Trulia, etc have, do you guys think that this is a saturated market?
Well thinking, allows people to see things under a different light. Under different light you look at state and say - What a piece of shit!

Tell me who is gonna call out governments on the stupid shit they do? The stupid? No, they are too busy drooling. It's the thinkers. They are always troublesome. The less of them, the better /devil advocate.
The interpretation of the data exists solely in our minds. Would that not make it, quite literally, thoughtcrime?
> On Linux there is a specific flag that has to be set and is not set per default to make a file executable.

Windows does too. It's called FILE_EXECUTE permission.

It just happens to grant them to everything by default, but the problem isn't the lack of the feature.
Recording studios are not middlemen. That's where records get made. You can only go so far in your bedroom before you need a room with a million dollars of equipment in it.

That's the problem with these modern ideas about people producing content off their own back, it's not actually possible. You can't make star trek on a macbook pro with final cut, and you can't make a highly produced album with 10 musicians in your bedroom.
I am Polish, I live in Poland, and I found the article's praise for our education system strange. My opinion of it is much lower. I regularly worry about teaching my children to think for themselves — because I believe this is something the schooling system actively discourages. I also don't think that recent reforms did much to improve education, and I don't see why anyone could think they did.

I would approach this book very, very sceptically.
It's not just a rally, we're also arranging a citizen lobby day for constituents to meet with their representatives and talk to them about why this is important: https://rally.stopwatching.us/lobbyday.html
I find this particularly galling since many of these publications have fact checkers who have gone to the effort of identifying claims in the original article, tracking down the evidence to prove/disprove it and checking that the article doesn't materially misrepresent the evidence.

This is the internet, it shouldn't cost any more to let me see the fact checkers report, and it will save me a massive amount of time reproducing their work. Expandable margin notes on a per paragraph basis would be perfect.
Right after you have paid your phone you will want to buy a new one? Not all people have the money to spend $500-$1000 every two years, if your old phone is still fine.
Big fan of Bill. As a kid I used to read comic strips of calvin and hobbes in our daily newspaper. That comic section was the only reason I bought the newspaper. When they stopped publishing the stips I stopped buying the paper :)

Most of us who read calvin and hobbes know that how philosophical it can be. Nuggets of wisdom can be found beneath the funny quips.

> Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
You may not be able to ever totally bypass it, but my bet for reducing the need for it is meditation.
Reddit is an interesting community and very volatile. 70 million monthly readers, but at the same time a passionate community that is heavily opinionated and reactive to any major change. It must be tricky running Reddit, but I do hope they become profitable because if any site deserves it, it's Reddit.
More Hullabaloo About Nike's Lack of an Android App for the FuelBand
This would not be a realistic solution, because the time it can take to do experiments might be an extremely long time. This would make it so that everyone would be (at best) half as productive as before, since they would have to spend the time necessary to carry out the replication. This would only be worsened if what you were required to replicate was not in a similar area to the researcher's area of expertise.
It's unethical if you don't have any intention on hiring anyone. I heard stories like this many years ago on how some individuals would interview candidates for the sole purpose of harvesting ideas.
Commercial and military applications of rockets and satellites have always been important in improving access to space. There's no comparable reason to deliver a probe to the Mariana trench or to dig a few km into the surface.

And we do know exactly how bicycles work. EXACTLY. This one is up there with the one about NASA spending millions on a space pen.
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This article is really funny for somebody living in Poland. It is totally opposite to what you hear in Poland about our educational system. I am really worried about other countries if Poland works as an example in education.
The reform mentioned in the article has a very bad reputation here and most experts, citizens and politicians would like to take back the changes. Education standards declined rapidly as it become more egalitarian. I am laughing at the level of mathematics when I compare it to what I learned at school (in late 80s) and back than it was already a joke comparing to 70s.
The most often repeated argument is that our schools do not teach pupils how to think. I don't really want to go further as it is somehow nice that The Economist, being so wrong, is giving us so much undeserved credit.
The BBC is in the pay of a major government, yes (funded mostly from taxation), although it seems swayed by the domestic political class as a whole and not merely by the government of the day.
Just because it has certain desirable side effects does not diminish it's legitimacy as a 'medicine'. Opiates feel awesome yet you still use them when you break a bone.
This comment is so naive that it hurts. So the company is supposed to push through an educational reform and wait 10-15 years for their future employees to go through the system before it can hire them?
Hi there, I've been meditating on and off since I was 15 (I'm now 34). When I was younger I meditated very regularly, and now I try to get in 20 minutes about 3-4 times a week. I've noticed that when I meditate, the next day goes a lot better, in terms of mental clarity, peace, productivity, emotional stability, and the ability to grasp the subtleties of my own intuition. I longed for a guru when I was a teen, and by the age of 21, I found him, or rather, he found me. I followed him to his Himalayan ashram and had many wonderful spiritual experiences there, which were more than merely coincidental. I'm a healthy skeptic so of course nothing mattered to me more than the direct perception of the truths they talk about in meditation. I have experienced a few of these over the years, but they are difficult to attain and the toughest thing is that in order to experience them, you cannot want them. These experiences sort of play 'hard to get' - it's hard to explain, but I think the Universe designed it that way so we aren't attached to such experiences and we don't hanker after them -- to Hindus, that desire destroys the purpose of meditation, which "should" be done for its own sake.

I am currently reading Transcendence by Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal and wish to get involved with a TM practice once I am situated in the bay area. As with anything, meditation is a practice and I've found that only when I sustain it, do I experience sustained benefits.

My adi guru, or first guru, was my father, and he gave me my first mantra, which I repeated for 7 years. After that, I took initiation from my guru; however, I still repeat the mantra that my father gave me. Now I can get into a meditative state rather quickly without using the tool of mantra to get there, but some days it's still a struggle.

I wish you well on your journey, which is 100% inward with meditation! If you have any questions feel free to email me at reel india at yahoo dot com

Om and Prem,
Leena
> That's what gets me the most about this; how very apathetic the American public and American politicians have been about the mass slaughter of Iraqis (including thousands of civilians), torture, indefinite detention without trial in Guantanamo, extrajudicial assassination on US citizens, and so on and so forth. It's chilling to think that so few people care.

But 'they' (speaking in generalisations) never did care iraq is just the latest of a very long series of events where the US slaughters civilians, it's pretty much a consistent theme in US history and ALL of it's conflicts.
I have completely different feelings about this image, but I think you are correct in attaching a lot of meaning to it. We're very lucky to have been born at a time were we get to see it.
I think this sounds like a useful problem to solve, but your landing page hasn't made me curious enough to give my email.

You need to make me believe that you can pull it off for me to root for you in that way. The way the page currently looks, it seems to imply you don't know how you will build it.

Hope that's helpful feedback.
Slightly ominous headline, perhaps?
I found this frustrating as well; my fix for now is to bookmark https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en and go straight to there (or make a quick AlfredApp command to open it).
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OpenStack Havana : The eighth major release overall
Yes, and that's exactly what makes it curious. It's a technology who's always been "known", but no modern operating system has bothered implementing it. Now we got two major OS shipping it at the same time, and I can't even see a correlation with a change of hardware (i.e. i can't see RAM being lately more scarce on PCs or Macs to the point of making this feature more useful than, say, 2 years ago, or 4 years ago, or 6 years ago).
I like it. It's a scalable version of Wallraff's "word fugitives" column in the Atlantic.
I'm not saying there's anything inherently wrong with outsourcing (after all, one man's out-sourcing is another man's in-sourcing).

What I am saying is wrong is believing in oft-repeated corporate propoganda as somehow being representative of the true statements of what motivates their decisions when said companies and societies actively work against any desire for a highly skilled or critical thinking workforce/population...
Weinberg has been writing for NYRB for a long time now. Several of his other articles are not behind the paywall:

http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/steven-weinberg-2/
The only thing worse than making flame bait comments like this is making throwaway user accounts to do it. Please don't do this on HN.

And I say this as someone who has criticized Ayn Rand numerous times on Hacker News. Just in ways that were more constructive and germane to the point.
"jsaction" and "jstag" are very generic names. The "js" prefix probably just indicates that these attributes are accessed in JavaScript.
Oh Gawd...

Read:
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/pesetsky/Nevin...

Edit: and sure this is the Chomskians debunking the "upstart" Danial Everett but this is thorough, clear and convincing in contrast to the haphazard novelty that most Piraha discussion involves. A language with future? How...? Well, actually the answer would be just no, that's not how it works. And sure, this headline says "number" but all the discussions are interlinked.
Yet, here you are; following a website with a decent intellectual level and without much effort you are participating in discussions in a language that is foreign to you :-)

I have a feeling that although you most likely didn't go to an elite ground school or an elite high school you probably know a second and maybe a third foreign language as well, in high school you could do what Americans would call college level math.

How many Americans know the largest city in Poland? Can they name just 5 European political leaders from the past 100 years?

Don't underestimate the level of average Northern European education. We don't have elite schools, but our basic schools are quite alright.
This site is still on Beta. It will be launched before the end of this year and right now we are testing our landing page and the messaging.
We are also looking for early adopters who would like to test the beta version.
Feedback will be highly appreciated.
I haven't used .NET or JsAction, but looking at the documentation (http://jsaction.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=AllFeatures&refe...) it does not look like google is using it. JsAction generates jQuery, which is not to be found on google. Plus the syntax is different. Also, the variable jsaction is pretty generic sounding to me, for "javascript action."
Digital Ocean.

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I have had the same experience of high school as you on the social level (well, except I didn't do sport). However, I felt really close to what sillysaurus2 said about classes. Beside, thinking by myself is clearly not something I was taught in class, but was rather taught to me by my parents' education, by my social interactions with friends, and by learning how to program during middle and high school.
You're reminding me of a High School I went to that has a large mural with the words "Don't mind the gap" and a bunch of different colored children on it.
Listen to the feedback here (it's quite accurate). Also when a reply is -3, make it disappear or fade out.
Which is: "'So, uh, we did the green study again and got no link. It was probably a--' 'RESEARCH CONFLICTED ON GREEN JELLY BEAN/ACNE LINK; MORE STUDY RECOMMENDED!'"
This is not true for Chrome/Chromium, or is it? You can't get the Flash version that's in Chrome right now and use it elsewhere.
Your points are valid, but I do think Apple's taking a big risk there; especially in the last couple of years, the competition has fiercely increased, and I don't think the primary choice is "Latest model or latest -1" with a lot of consumers, but "iPhone or Android". Especially given how high-end, sexy-looking Android phones can easily dive under the price of the cheap-looking 5C.
I didn't realize how lucky I was to attend the public school I did. I need to write my diff eq teacher a thank you card for deciding to teach high school instead of doing engineering work for much better pay. Maybe someday I'll do the same for my kids' school, when I have kids.
2004 is not stoked with this decision, that's for sure.
No, "technological meritocracy" is just bait for geeks to work long hours on low money and stock options.

What this article proposes is to counter connections and money with being the loudest - realistic, yes, but depressing.
trivia: there are some languages out there which don't have different concepts for PIROS and VÖRÖS, and just bunch them together under a single color ("red" in english).
This is something I see pretty often. I'm a business co-founder, so this stuff is pretty much my bread and butter.

An idea I've been kicking around is some kind of "Social Skills Primer" type product, probably done by video for ease of explanation and to capture/explain nuance.

I haven't fully decided on doing this yet, but would that be interesting to you, do you think?

As a side note, I would highly recommend reading How to Win Friends and Influence People.
I really like SpiderOak https://spideroak.com

I have mine set to backup every 4 hours. It versions the files as well so you can restore to a previous backup.
Alternatively, it would require compromising the machines of 256 Apple developers. Guess what kind of person is likely to be capable of doing that.
Go home, Demo. You are drunk
If you already have a codebase that's littered with STL, you need to make a few changes here and there. I was thinking about "porting your codebase to Qt", which isn't quite a correct usage. Sorry, it was kind of late in the evening :(.
Ask HN: How to get Hotmail unblock our Domain?
It seems for some reasons Hotmail decided to block against our company's domain name.

Is there anyway to contact them to unblock it ?
Also stratification and artefact context.
That would be "snippet expansion" (pioneered in TextMate, if I'm not mistaken — well, that's where I saw it first).

"Autocompletion" is… "automatic": you type the beginning of a method name and you get a contextual menu following your cursor showing a list of suggestions. Many editors have that feature, either built-in or via plugins, but it's definitely an area where IDEs shine. If the editor/IDE has a way to infer scope, you get good completion, if not, you get mediocre completion.

But "snippet expansion" or "templates" as they are called in some IDEs is very easy and doesn't require statical analysis or whatever.
I find the use of the term "subsidy" hilarious in this context. You DO realise the phone companies just sting you through your monthly bill, and you end up paying MORE for the phone, right? That's an interest-charging loan you're getting, not a subsidy.
Hmm, interesting idea, thanks.

EDIT: I found the flaw: You have to wait until you have a full block before you can encrypt. If you send that, it's immediately decryptable. You can't send half a block, because you don't know the rest. Besides, the MITM can just pretend you haven't been typing until they receive the full message, and then start sending it.
These are the "national plus" schools, so technically neither international nor local but somewhere in between.

>Actually compared to the likely quality in the UK we probably have nothing to worry about!

Funnily enough the most elite schools try to follow the UK curriculum but there is not a consensus that this is the best education around.
Awesome idea! Best of luck.
Who are the best financial advisers in India?
In India can be found a lot of financial advisers, but not all of them are good at what they’re doing. Who do you think is the best financial adviser there? Who do you think can get the job done better than anyone does?
Firstly RAID is not a backup.

This type of thing only works because the backup user has identical permissions to the backup contents as the user being backed up (because they're the same).

It wouldn't work on any system where the backup user is a separate, privileged process that is the only one with write access to the stores of backed up files.

ZFS with a snapshot script is a good way to implement this for a networked drive on Samba, since it's implicit, automatic, and the point at which it hits would be really really obvious since your snapshot sizes would suddenly explode. The same story is true of volume shadow copy (but MS idiotically limits the user's ability to set a known and trustworthy shadow copy schedule).
Everything the Economist publishes is motivated purely by politics.

Poland is the number one USA ally, offset against the EU, and, especially, Russia, the evil bad guy in this current cold war.
But before your kid ever goes to school, there are habits regarding learning that are picked up. These begin at home. For kids of below-school-age this is the place where most learning takes place.

The question is whether learning is something that is to be compartmentalized off into school work, or whether it is something we weave into every aspect of life. If the former, one will never become very smart or very skilled. If the latter, then all school offers is an opportunity to learn, something that kids take advantage of based on habits acquired at home.
No, you weren't the only one.

The only reality-based test mentioned in this review was whether Okies could get a "basic" job in a factory, and an assertion that this would require critical thinking skills (with the implication that such skills would be of the sort taught at school).

However, I think Ripley may give more in her book. An NYT review suggests she discusses how American school-leavers "lack the knowledge and skill to compete in the global economy". It's all a bit vague, I admit.

"Teaching children to think" is a much-used phrase. It could mean a great many things.
How would we tell antimatter galaxies apart?
Actually, I went to a Montessori school from kindergarten through 3rd grade. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4459226

Summary: There were 60+ kids and only two teachers. The kids were allowed to do whatever they wanted all day. About the only thing I learned is how to forge the signature of my assistant teacher. And some kid hit me with a metal shovel and wasn't given more than a stern talking to about why hitting people with shovels is a bad thing.

I may have just gotten unlucky in attending a particularly bad Montessori school, however.
Yeah, but xrdp doesn't. And there are plenty of exploits available for RDP servers of either flavor. I'd never leave RDP open on the Internet.
.onion sites are not part of the DNS but are resolved by a DNS equivalent based on public/private key encryption and directory servers thus revealing neither IP# nor hoster.