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3 + 4 = _____

There's your answer.

When kids are measured by "correct answers" and pressured to find them, then that is all they will care about. They aren't, then, doing math— they're generating correct answers.

When you add multiple choice computer-readable tests into the fold, the problem compounds on itself.

That is what broke our kids.
> Nobody broke the kids, they were doing exactly what they were taught to do.

I would say that the fact that that's what they were taught to do is what broke them. In other words, trapping them in the system (and I agree with you that they are trapped--I certainly felt that way when I was in school) is breaking them.

> what do you remember about high school trigonometry?

Everything. But that doesn't really contradict your point, because (a) I have actually used trigonometry many times since high school, both for work and for fun, and (b) I didn't actually learn trigonometry from my high school trig class; I already knew it (or at least most of it), because my Dad had given me a book on trig some time before and I had read through it on my own, because I was interested in the subject matter.
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I if only you'd said tea, I could have referred you to the Japanese tea ceremony.
I've never really been involved in 'formal' mentoring since my first employer a long long time ago.

I try to meet up with young people interested in HFT for coffee or beer if/when they come through Chicago and I've really found the experience profoundly useful to me thus far.

Generally, this has just been facilitated by random LinkedIn messages by bold students from one of my almas, but I imagine if I was less of a slacker, I could more proactively be useful to people with an interest.
Honest question: Why would I pay for something like this when I can use the tunneling and proxy features of openssh for free aka 'ssh -NfD 5000 user@host.com'?
I agree with your answer, but I don't recall ever seeing a post mortem write-up of such an attack. Are people who have seen them in the wild all bound my NDAs or something?
See also:

https://github.com/oakes/play-clj

https://github.com/oakes/Nightcode
There's also the mate version - http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2627
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I'm a developer who struggles with interaction design.

If anyone is good at designing intuitive user interfaces, I would like some mentorship.

I know this request is better suited to Designer News, but I'll try here first.
> math as I've explored it (which admittedly hasn't been much) has right and wrong answers

Try spending some time digging into the foundations of set theory. A good starting point is looking into the Axiom of Choice and the Continuum Hypothesis: are they true or false? Is there a "right" answer to those questions?
I think there have been some critics concerning its safety and effectiveness. I think there was a good article criticizing crossfit in hacker news some days or weeks ago. It seemed to make sense to me.
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In that case fair enough. The problem would be that understanding higher level concepts one way or another requires the underlying mathematical rigour and mental agility to do the "boring" stuff. So it would not be dividing existing curriculum into to but doubling the amount of lessons. I would have loved that when I was in school but I know that that course despite all of its beauty would be extremely boring to most other people.
Had awesome experience with Codementor (https://www.codementor.io/) recently, highly recommended for anyone looking for help or helping others.
Exactly. And I've found that more often than not that the "we MUST complete this by xx/xx/xxxx or ELSE" mentality stems from some arbitrary date promised for no good reason. The company wasn't going to lose any more money or expose themselves to potential liability. It was just an arbitrary date marked in an MS Project file somewhere.

In situations where deadlines were missed, it ended up being OKAY and nobody really cared a week later. This then turned into a cycle where every deadline was tight and everybody got burned out because you can be sure that a manager who is bad at managing dates once will be bad at managing dates forever.

It seems that a lot of people in management lack good, common sense when managing workloads and deadlines.
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Thanks a lot for your comment. It hit home. I don't have many friends or relationships, my family is really small (no siblings or cousins) and I'm far from home, and my life is centered around finishing my deggree and programming/learning new technologies. I feel I don't have anything else, so if I fail at it, I have failed in life.

Thanks for sharing your experience. It gives me some hope which is invaluable as I have very little of it right now.
Thanks a lot, that was very helpful!

I probably should have mentioned that I'm planning to switch cities regularly to see a broader range. I don't want to overspend money, but... I also wanted to travel the region for a long time and I will definitely mix in some holidays. Currently, I can keep the business running with 1 - 2 days of effort per week. I'd like to spend more time on it, of course, but it's not strictly necessary and I can spend some time sight seeing :)

I had three fellow students doing an internship in India, all within western companies. They all liked the country a lot - but I guess it's a lot easier when the company has already organized most of the stuff.

Do you have experience with co-working spaces in India? Do they have their internet connections sorted out?
https://www.startssl.com/ gives out free SSL certificates. Just don't expect much on their part, given it's free. For example, they refused to reissue certificates for free after Heartbleed. Also you can't use them on commercial sites.

otherwise https://www.gogetssl.com/ is probably as cheap as it gets.
Preceding his accomplishments at Sportvision, Stan Honey created, in 1985, an automobile navigation system showing your car's position on a moving map.

This was before Google Maps, before GPS, and before digital maps of cities. You couldn't just go out and buy them in 1983; Stan's company, Etak, had to create them itself [1].

Per [2], here's a description of the the hardware platform:

The original Etak Navigator was a specially-packaged Intel 8088-based
system with 256K RAM, 32K EPROM, 2K SRAM, and a cassette tape drive
on which digital maps and some of the operating system were stored.

The 8088 has a 16-bit address bus, thus can directly address only 64 K. Must have been some bank switching to get to the full 256 K RAM. This for all the code and geodata.

edits for formatting

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[1] Source: Personal conversation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak
Also, StartSSL's certs don't work on android (you get cert not trusted error) for some reason.
You just blew my mind. I now want to learn everything I can about algebraic topology.
Thanks, Dylan, will get in touch in a few. :)
How would we keep both ideas? Isn't it better to focus on one? This way we can deliver a better product.
Where finding the "right answer" is really more like guessing the teacher's password:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/
How do I update from 16?

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
But didn't the article just explain how he put in place steps to make this extremely unlikely?
My kids are now in middle school. The curriculum that they used in K-5 encouraged kids to come up with their own approaches. I'll admit that I was rather shocked, as it seemed quite messy and inefficient, but I discussed it with a neighbor who's a high school calculus teacher. He told me: "Be patient, just you wait, they'll surpass you in math." And he was right!

Also, our school kept several sets of the Singapore Math books on hand, and loaned them out to families who wanted to give it a try at home.

So I think the "correct answer" is not the problem, because that's just math. The "correct algorithm" is the problem. Or maybe, the algorithm is the answer. Oddly enough, the one course where the algorithm is indeed the answer -- high school geometry -- is the one that most people remember fondly.
If our languages never stray outside of ASCII, then our input methods will never improve. The Emacs version is not much better:

C-x 8 RET loz[enge]

or

C-x 8 RET 25CA

Which suck, but can at least be rebound to a useful key. Unfortunately, the \lozenge command in TeX mode produces U+2727 “white four pointed star”. Sigh.
I agree with your answer, but I don't recall ever seeing a post mortem write-up of such an attack.

So, if you know how MITM operates, tell me: How would the server operator ever know?
Suddenly I want to win an app contest.
I am looking for entrepreneurial mentorship - would be great if you are in Sydney.
Does linux mint allow to upgrade directly in that way? I remember that older version would suggest to reinstall the os and strongly discourage a dist-upgrade.

At the time that was the only reason I avoided mint
Not many postmortems on people discovering the NSA was reading all their email either.
Yes, I'm in one of the countries you mentioned. I also see that pattern among older friends which graduated and are now working for 3-5 years. About 30-40% of the people I knew either exited the country immediately after graduating or 2-3 years after. Some even moved via mobility programs like Erasmus and never came back. The rest remain in the cycle you mentioned and that is my fear.
I don't know why you're bothering with SSL at all. Your use case is that your site is informational, it's intended to be open to anyone, there is no personal/customer information on it, and there's no authentication (everyone is anonymous).

All adding HTTPS support will do is make it marginally harder for someone to spoof your site.

And why is NSA surveillance a concern? Your site is wide open for anyone to see, with or without HTTPS.
Just because someone isn't good at mathematics (or whatever subject) doesn't lead them to a life of flipping burgers, nor does it mean they're less bright.
Cool site, but I couldn't find anywhere to obtain the software. When will it be available?
You hit the nail on the head here. Most of my family is entirely and strongly anti-education. My brother and I (32 and 29, respectively) were the first and so far only people in our family to ever go to college. My grandparents championed it, but our father has gotten progressively more and more anti-intellectual (he's what you might call a "crazy redneck"). Upon our last meeting he actually asked me if I am "actually smart" or if I am "just good with the computer." The sad part is he had a chance to go to college, my grandparents were going to pay for it if he would have just gone. But he's paranoid and thinks college is where they convince you to not love Jesus and to get rid of your guns.
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I command you for building such a culture at your company. This is not a easy task, even at startup.
In his “Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem”, Eliezer Yudkovsky wrote:

It’s like the experiment in which you ask a second-grader: “If eighteen people get on a bus, and then seven more people get on the bus, how old is the bus driver?” Many second-graders will respond: “Twenty-five.” They understand when they’re being prompted to carry out a particular mental procedure, but they haven’t quite connected the procedure to reality.

I was awe-struck, so I asked a friend who sometimes teaches second-graders to try this. 11/18 wrote “25″, 5/18 wrote “25 passengers on the bus” and 2/18 returned a blank note.

I think this is a big part of the explanation. If you’re taught addition as a process that happens in a notebook, not in reality, then you have no way to separate answers that make sense from those that don’t. You also have no way to connect math to things you experience in your life, and I think the most common way to develop an interest in something is to find out it’s related to something else that you’re already interested in.

In the last Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks scored 8 points in the first quarter, and 14 in the second quarter. Who won the match?
You shouldn't upgrade between major Ubuntu (-based) releases like that, as it doesn't account for certain configuration changes, you are bound to hose your system if you do it that way. Ubuntu has another script 'do-release-upgrade', but I'm not sure if Mint has it as well. I do know the recommended way to upgrade Mint is to do a full reinstall while preserving $HOME. There are step-by-step instructions how to do an in-place upgrade somewhere on the Mint site, I followed those once (14 to 15 I think) and it worked perfectly, but it's not recommended.
Terrible compared to what? http? I don't understand why we get big scary warnings from browsers for self signed https, but never a peep out of them when submitting the same form over http.
The fact is that past X hours most people just aren't very productive

I agree with the sentiment, but people need to remember that the number 'X' is different for different people.
nice, great idea. Will you be adding different Amazons, I live in the UK and products differ/may not be available here.
It certainly can mean that they are less bright.
My strategy is to have "fuck you" money. Not millions, more like one year salary, and not that I ever say fuck you, but enough that my financial risk of leaving a job is zero. I don't leave very often but the lack of anxiety emboldens me to push my employer to do what I think is best for thecompany without fear of reprisal. Turns out, that is what people want usually.

Sometimes, not... We may not be aligned. I may not want to do that work any more. Then I politely consider alternatives. But I can take that risk because of the safety cushion.

It is not the "fuck you" you need... It is the "I am fucked" you need to defend against.
And that X can be different for the same person from week to week.
Where's the source part of this open source company?
If only "important" traffic is https, then that narrows the search for them quite a bit, doesn't it?
Re political situation in Thailand: Media is massively exaggerating. I've been here through the protests in BKK & Chiang Mai, through the curfew and coup. It has nothing to do with us. As long as you don't stand in the middle of a stone throwing competition - which you shouldn't anywhere in the world - you're safe. It's very easy to avoid these things. In daily life you won't see anything that is affected by the situation - except maybe emptier hotels.

Keep an eye on the visa situation. Back to back visa runs over land are/will be a bit trickier from now on. Plane tickets of local low cost carriers are ridiculously cheap and plenty and will solve this issue every 30 days (I'm writing this out of Vientiane, Laos for this very reason. Visa run by plane + extended weekend to get to know Vientiane. They have a coworking space here as well: https://www.facebook.com/tohlao). You can also apply for a proper tourist visa in your home country and in countries around Thailand. This gives you piece of mind for 60-90 days. For a long term commitment you could consider an educational visa for one year. Language schools and even muay thai schools can provide you with them. If you attend them is a whole different story (some schools are entirely built around this concept.). Both - Chiang Mai and Bangkok are amazing places to live and bootstrap. When you come to BKK, make sure to check out http://hubbathailand.com/ - best coworking space I've ever come across. Peter from https://levels.io/ has some great content regarding coworking in TH.
What systems should a startup have in place before accepting a single dollar?
I'm graduating soon and feel lost. Some mentorship and or career advice would help a lot. I'm in Europe.
If you are careful when generating your certificate (that is, careful to generate a subject certificate, and not a CA certificate) and can reliably distribute your certificate to all clients you are interested in, then self-signed certificates are usually much better than the public CA system.

But actually achieving the pre-distribution step is pretty hard, and basically impossible over the internet. You can achieve it pretty well in a business setting, where you can push your certificates to all the clients through AD, MDM, or similar.

Sidenote:
You should also take this opportunity to appreciate how dismally mis-designed web transport security is:

* Cleartext, unauthenticated: just works, no warnings.

* Encrypted, unauthenticated: THE SKY IS FALLING.

* Encrypted, authenticated: little padlock.
"and nowadays, everyone seems to think exceptions are a Pretty Good Idea." - really? I don't think so.
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Thanks a lot for sharing your experience! Yeah, the media reports... I didn't know what to make of it. They were mentioning the curfew and some arrests of politicians, but not much on how this impacts daily life.

From what I've read, Bangkok is definitely more startup friendly, but Chiang Mai is also a very interesting town and has some great options for bouldering and rock climbing :)
Negativity and hostility towards poorly constructed cryptographic applications is unhealthy in what way?
Let us not forget that this concept doesn't just apply to Christianity, or religion in general, though.

Monet struggled with the Académie des Beaux-Arts fot painting the way they thought people should paint.

There is a long history of Ballet dancers in the USSR who struggled because they good communists.

Today character assassination is the norm for for so many people (especially in the arts) who don't strictly adhere to progressive politics.

I attended an art school for time where I was frequently shunned for dressing well, (apparently you can't be an "artist" if you wear slacks and dress shirts,) and adhering to Christian principles.

Look at the movie Moms' night out. Highly panned by critics because because the characters are not "feminist" enough. Yet highly rated by the audience.
I see startups as mirage to fool young professionals into thinking they are working less when the exact opposite happens.
They are pretty bad from a user perspective. Some of the browser UIs make it very scary looking to continue, if you can even figure out how.

If, as you say, just an information site, I would get rid of them immediately.
I graduated in 1997 and, since then, have worked at:

- 2 big companies

- 2 small steady-state businesses (<100 people)

- 4 startups (one as a founder)

So far my best experience has been at Google, where I work now. Here are some of my reasons:

- I have a lot of opportunities to learn because there are so many people with diverse skills and expertise and Google has the resources and motivation to let people investigate novel technologies.

- I work with amazing technology. Google has the resources to devote many engineers to internal development tools and production technologies.

- I don't have to work with (many) crazy people. At startups and small businesses, I found that one crazy founder or manager (who is probably related to the CEO) can completely ruin the experience. Google has processes to avoid hiring such people or to deal with them post-hire.

- The work I do effects a lot of people. My Mom has commented on features that I've implemented. And, since we usually work in small teams, my impact isn't usually diluted by a lot of people.

- There is a lot of project diversity and ability to relocate (if you want). So far I've worked on Google's support systems (Dublin), search (Dublin), App Engine (Sydney) and Chromecast (Mountain View).

- I get paid well without a lot of risk. At Google my base salary is pretty high and I can treat my bonus and equity awards as extras that I don't need to count on. And the bank can count on Google too so I can get a reasonable mortgage.

Not everything is perfect, of course. Two months ago a bunch of work I did was thrown away because my manager's manager's manager's manager didn't like it (his reasoning was sound but...) [1]. And bigger companies are under increased scrutiny so you have to be more careful about privacy, regulatory compliance, etc. A lot of things that you would just do at a startup require consultation with lawyers at a big company.

And my other big company experience really really sucked. I won't go into the details here but I ended up quitting in about 3 months.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/22n3uv/squirrels...
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It's certainly in the list of things to add, but I'm not confident enough in my backend code to add more complexity just yet. FiveStar will be undergoing a rewrite in August, so I could definitely add it then. Thanks for the feedback!
Some serious wisdom here, some learned the hard way, e.g.:

"But our biggest self realization was that we were not users of our own product. We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We loved the idea of it. That hurt."

Worth skimming/reading it all.
This is one of my recent side projects. I'd love to get some feedback here.
I would also like to add that you need make sure you really understand the whole context when improving something.

As someone who actually does the dishes, I cringed when I saw the OXO measuring cup, those small corners are hard to clean if flour gets stuck in there. Maybe the execution could use some work. If you consider washing part of the job, that measuring cup is worse than a common measuring cup.
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What could be achieved with a MitM attack on an information-only site?
A site claiming to offer cryptographic security when it is in fact not is, in reality, worse than a site that simply doesn't offer cryptographic security. Both those sites --- the SSL site and the non-SSL site --- aren't offering security. But only one of them is also being deceptive about it.

However, you'll get no argument from me if you constrain your argument about dismal mis-design to browser UI/UX. The browser UX design for TLS security hasn't meaningfully changed since Netscape.
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Have you used an OXO measuring cup? They really are a lot easier to use when baking and cooking, and my sponges never have a problem getting in those corners.
>that was the only reason I avoided mint

Huh. I would consider it a good sign, a sign that the designers of Mint care about reliability and know how to achieve it even though they probably have fewer developer-hours to devote to a new release than the big distros have.
Reports of user data being compromised could lead to a consultant being hired to figure out where the security problem is, for instance.

(I'm assuming the site requires a login or perhaps even takes CC information - the kind of stuff a user might notice a third-party using)
> Would you have been happy with just the blue glowy affect?

nope, agree with the other follow up - HD is good enough that any "enhancements" are now a distraction.
It isn't terrible advice, but it isn't good advice either. X.509's entire trust model is based on MITM. There is nothing wrong with a self signed certificate if all you want to do is encrypt on the wire.

The visible UI of a self-signed is admittedly terrible. The invisible UI of the Certificate Authority system is an outright catastrophe.
http://www.scmagazine.com/researchers-detect-ssl-mitm-attack...

About 0.2% for Facebook is MITM. And they are not using self signed certificates.
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I have always thought a mentor-mentee relationship is essential for growth, either personal or professional. Even though I am doing things that I want to professionally (working for an early stage startup) I feel at times lost, scared and completely clueless. Being an Indian living in Nebraska it is almost impossible to find someone who can actually understand my concerns, shares my values and provide relevant help.