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Is it even possible to brainstorm education design? How would you evaluate ideas?
How do we define learning objectives? How do we measure learning outcomes?

The problems with education are not solved by arbitrary discussions. Discussions will remain superficial until we have more consensus on the true nature of education, I think.
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Can we still have it as an option, please? I really enjoyed it.
i think apprenticeship followed by certification will be the next "university". extract a course catalog from your social networks.
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Well windows 7 is really something that should have followed XP, just like windows 2000 should have followed win98SE. I guess Microsoft will just keep baking these windows ME - style half baked OSes.
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I don't want to feel connected to the community, I want to feel connected to the content.

I don't like scores. A high score means that a comment was posted early, that it was good or agreeable (which is not the same as being good), and that there was groupthink. A low score means the comment is new, or not useful, or not read.

Instead, scores should be there to tell us what to skip. A high score (0) would mean that I need to give the comment attention - whether it's new or a must-read is irrelevant. (This also means that we wouldn't need a score/time ordering system.) A low score (-30) would mean that the comment adds nothing new, or is otherwise less worth reading. Upvotes reserved for those who are seldom downvoted. Perhaps this is too hostile and negative, but then perhaps it's more honest, and better able to filter out those seeking points and those who cannot stomach criticism (which I've always found has helped me improve much more than praise has - and improving the quality of new-contributor comments is the only way we'll be able to grow).

I also think it's a loss that we can't remove names from comments (though leaving links to profiles). Removing them would emphasize that the score is about the comment, and not about the name.

I understand that developing a large user base is important, and that trying eccentric solutions might aggravate our core group into forever abandoning hn for more predictable and friendly sites... but I really do wish that pg would mess with the site more often and for longer periods of time, and not worry about the community's response. Our system is not so perfect that messing with it is guaranteed to reduce its effectiveness.
But I'm sure he would agree that working hard on the wrong thing is.
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Interesting Idea, in Switzerland we already have that but it isn't respected or appreciated as highly as a "pure" University degree.

Maybe we have to see the differing purposes the two possibilities have

1. Apprenticship followed by certification is for people with "real world", jobs that work relatively hands-on

2. University in the classical sense is more about furthering the scientific background, pushing the boundaries of a discipline?

What do you think?
So let's start there, what do you think is the nature of education?
The problem here is not that you can measure 'success' by looking at consecutive endeavours, you can.

The trouble is that it may not be an indicator of future success, in other words it may not be a good 'predictor'.

But it also doesn't mean that there is no qualitative difference between entrepreneurs. It's just very hard to put your finger on what makes the difference, to explain that difference in terms of things to do or not to do.
He clearly should drop that MS crap and repent his sins.
The 2006 (Core Duo as opposed to Core 2 Duo; white plastic case) iMacs still had Matte displays if I remember correctly, I don't think there were 24" versions of those. Today's 20" aluminium iMacs have awful displays.
How does making something clear in a TOS not make this censorship?

Censorship, as defined by Wikipedia: "Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor."

How is this not censorship on Apple's behalf? I'm not saying they're not in their right to censor the content on their AppStore, I'm just saying it is censorship.
Yep, it is intensional. After the first time, I guess people would know that they have to click on the right answer?
There you go. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56164
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The first gen 20" iMacs were the midgrade model at the time. The 17" iMacs came with the crappy displays because they were the baseline. Not all 20" iMacs had worse LCDs than the 24" but all 24" iMacs have the best LCDs available.

Within reason of course. Most people won't buy a $1200 calibrated NEC or Lacie.

2006 - 20" iMac IPS

24" iMac IPS

2009 - 20" iMac TN

24" iMac H-IPS
Jesus Christ, this guy needs to get a life

That's Charlie Brooker. Writing rants like that is his life. When he's good, there's no-one like him. See gems like this one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/sep/05/charlie-brooke...
The lack of a quality laptop on the market short of DoD certified Toughbooks is a serious market inefficiency. Is anyone interested in this problem? Email me; I am putting together a YC application that covers this problem. Macbook Air meets Panasonic Toughbook.
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Sry, I don't know why this is happening but since a few hours the Blog works on and off. I'm trying to fix it and already contacted the Posterous guys...

The normal Blog URL should work: http://www.geekybusiness.com/ there you can also see the whole post unfortunately the comments also seem not to load.
> non-trivial IMHO

Non trivial != impossible.
T400s != T400. The T400s is a premium-range model as far as I can tell, the T400 is about 700 grams heavier and has a worse screen.

How is the T400s by the way? I was thinking of getting one of those, though I'm slightly put off by the 1.8" HDD/SSD bay.
Sure, but given how much they haven't innovated in the last 3 years (Has twitter changed at all)? I'm skeptical...
With all respect, weren't people saying the same thing about Facebook only six months back. Sorry, but twitter a no revenues is a ead horse.It might fail or it might succeed, but their "no-revenues" is a well thought out decision, your businesses, probabably not.
Okay, according to that definition, you may be right. Ultimately, I think it's up to a judge to decide; censorship is not as black and white.

Take Google for example. They automatically filter various type of sites from their index (phishing, link farms, etc). According to the definition on Wikipedia, that is censorship too: it's communicative material, which is considered harmful by Google.
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I also find them useful when I don't know a lot about the subject. When a comment is rated higher it gives me confidence that the person is talking sense / is correct, which makes it worth remembering.
(@ axod, reply link goes away after a while, so Ill reply here.)
Sometimes lack of innovation is also an innovation. The innovation has happened around uses of twitter, apps of twitter, not twitter itself.

And think of it this way, FB has way more features than twitter, and yet they had to introduce features which twitter had, and are competing with it.
This also hides article points and your own points (so it's not a 'drop in replacement' for the code that was on HN earlier).
These things happen, I'm commenting not because it's a problem for me - I'll just hit reload every few minutes - but if you have customers they'll go "WTF: not working - I'm out ..."

I've experienced this first hand. Small, insignificant wobbles that you personally wouldn't normally wory about on a web site and suddenly people go - "It doesn't work!".

Deeply annoying, but true.
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The reason why PyPy dropped llvm as an assembler backend is because llvm is a pain to deploy and use. We have an undergoing llvm backend, but there is a bit of unadressed issues and someone might want to take a look at it (http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/trunk/pypy/jit/backend/llvm/)
if he wants to continue.
Ask HN: Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink?
Hi HN, long time reader, first time submitter.

Anyway, I'm on a three week European vacation with no solid plans for most of it. I was wondering if there are any HN readers in France, Germany or Benelux that would like to meet up for a drink and some conversation.
Great, more fodder for the conspiracy fanatics.
Same here - if they have the world's easiest programing language, they should consider pairing it up with a web site that is easy to grasp.

I found something that seems to indicate that they do "programming by using natural english language" or something like that. Since I consider that approach flawed (unless better AI comes along), my interest has dropped to 0.05 anyway.
There is a standing offer for drinks for HN people in Padova, Italy, which is a great area in any case:

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2008/09/05/visiting-italy-...
Change instances of this,

jQuery("span[id^='score']")

to

jQuery(".comhead span[id^='score']")

To hide only the comments points.
This was written mostly for personal use, so doesnt have any options etc.(a month ago, see I can see the future. :))
>> "weren't people saying the same thing about Facebook only six months back"

Only people who didn't really understand a lot. Facebook has been making enough money to be profitable for ages. They could have been profitable years ago if they decided to cut back expenditure.

The difference is, as far as I understand, twitter could not just cut back expenditure and be profitable right now. They have to have decent revenue to do that, which they don't have.
> James Murdoch's story is quite different. He went to Harvard.

Classic.
>> " around uses of twitter, apps of twitter, not twitter itself."

eg things outside their control that they cannot monetize.
To be honest: There's just no other excuse for the Windows 7 House Party campaign, then Microsoft trying to get the most media attention they can possible get. I'd say its working.
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Flagging crap like this before it gets votes is a good way of making it disappear.
I read T400s as the plural of T400.
Why would the definition of the word 'censorship' be up to a judge to decide? And why would a judge be involved at all? It isn't illegal to censor something.

The fact that this is censorship doesn't mean that Apple aren't in their right to do so. They are, as much as I dislike it.

Voicing one's discontent with their policy is probably the only way we can make them change it, though.
PLV works very well in practice to induce hypothermia. You only have to intubate, so you can field a kit any semi-skilled paramedical can use.

Must take care of volu/barotrauma, though. This stuff has twice the density of water, after all.
We got 60% of the market, btw.

That's how you represent this accomplishment on a resume :)
Sure. But whether my experience improves doesn't depend on what I set the setting too. Rather, it depends on the settings of other people. That's why a setting doesn't help.
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That's a big question. Ultimately human education is nothing but an evolutionary drive. You have to learn some basics to become a functional member of society. To survive and to keep society rolling. How an individual actually ends up being able to perform and actually performs is accidental to a high degree. The overall societal effect of this mass of arbitrary performers is a very complex phenomenon. To really study that we should look to the field of systems theory. And I believe the deep answers to this question can only come from systems theory.
here in the UK the government has pledged to getting 50% of school leavers through University Education.... average student debt is now ~£23K .... Ka-Ching!
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"Congress has demonstrated a growing dysfunction in crafting legislation that can in fact be understood."

They write so many laws, even without considering regulations and State and local laws, that you can't even READ them all, much less understand them. Where do you think the "tyranny of the lawyers" has come from; they've been doing this for decades.
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I feel that making somebody's life a living hell can be more severe than simply ending it, yes. That's my opinion and I don't need you to agree with that. The point I'm making is that reasonable people can disagree on which is the more severe crime and which deserves the tougher sentence.
Forever is not so Long
I don't understand the purpose of this post. The author seems to disagree with the rejection, but more interested in promoting the rejection than actually getting the application published.

Clearly there is no attempt made to assuage the notion that the application is "politically charged", with language like "The rejection of iSinglePayer from the App Store is but the latest blow to supporters of single-payer health reform" dominating. The author instead urges readers to "spread the word on Apple's censorship", which seems like a pretty blatant attempt to coerce a private enterprise to publish his political agenda. Is that really the sort of thing you want to have associated with your cause?
I have a T500 and don't really have any of the issues described. Viewing angle is perfect, colors are nice, contrast is nice etc. My screen is WSXGA+ though, so that might be non-standard.
You're in PR right?

Not at all. I'm a founder working on a social news site for financial and business news. I did come to hacking after studying art, and motion graphics for a while. My wife is a video producer so I have a foot in the media world.

And, I'm not really worried about Twitter getting monetized. I have no doubt that the crew at Twitter is going to do very, very well.
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Hehe, I'd say it still needs some polish:

misanthrope:

option: ....
option: one who hates mankind; misanthropist
option: ...
Businesses in their first 90 days of life accounted for 14% of hiring in the U.S. between 1993 and 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Ie., that 14% is just in their first 90 days.
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I remember when I was in high school and they where doing some sort of poll about the upcoming nation election at several school. Somehow word started to spread around that we should all 'vote' for the Communists, so we did.

A few days later there was an article in the local newspaper about a disturbing trend showing the over 20% of 16-18 year olds would have voted communist and what this might mean for the next election when all these kids have the right to vote. We found the whole thing highly amusing.
Ok in that case, indeed, censorship can be applied. But to me, that means it completely loses its value: in essence, it would be the same as "filtering", which I don't think is the intent of the law.
If somebody is ever in Budapest and has a free evening:

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Anything that helps you repeat/review what you are learning, especially to keep paying attention while you are repeating, will help you learn. Kershul's "X in 10 minutes a day" series comes with sheets of sticky labels in the language to put on stuff. Using them as reminders and conscientiously practicing will help similarly. (I have seen sticky labels in at least one other book, but can't remember the title, Kershul's aren't the only ones using this.)
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* Its very simple.
* Animation is wasted on me, this is from somebody who at least writes like he has some experience in the field.
http://foolsworkshop.com/reviews/issues the very first issue is "The Flip Fixation Flaw". I have to agree with him, its just not something I want to see. Im here to learn.

* I know its a simple app and all, but would be better if I could make my own.

* I commend you on hiding the interface! I have seen quizlet and many others who overwhelm your screen with more than what you are trying to learn. Im here to learn not be told about the groups latest comment. So once again top work on focusing on whats important.

* Nice to see that the webapp is php and not RoR.

* Contradicting "gursikh" comments, I do think there is a chance to monetise such concepts. But he is right, you do have some competition, but you dont need millions of users. You just need to wow a few thousand. ( I think )
The main issue I have with anything that's not Objective-C is the lack of documentation. For example, how do I know I can do things like this (from slide 76) without having to deal with an entirely new set of documentation?

gradient(:start => (:name => "grey"), :end => (:name => "blue))

While I do agree that Objective-C has many, many drawbacks, the fact that Cocoa was designed with ObjC in mind, makes me stick with it rather than trying to work Cocoa in another language.
When you hit Berlin, we should get a decent group together. I know at least of @wheels and me, there should be more Berliners here...
Assuming the people faking these sort of numbers aren't complete morons they'll know that this sort of naive statistical test is the first thing people will try. Thus they'll probably run their simulation and then manually poke a few of the numbers to make sure that this sort of test fails.

Also If they're slightly smarter still they'll realize that the chance of getting a question right or wrong is not independent. You're chance of someone getting questions 5-10 right is probably quite closely correlated to whether or not they got questions 1-4 right.

Anyway my basic point is that assuming the person in charge of writing a simulation didn't sleep through all of statistics 101 it is quite trivial to write a simple simulation that won't be detected by simple statistical analysis.
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>* I know its a simple app and all, but would be better if I could make my own.

Make your own word lists?
Review of a linux laptop

As the issue is with the TFT screen I fail to see the relevance of including this in the title (especially as the post says it runs Linux reasonably well :))
You have a very interesting take on the topic. You start on a much lower level than I would have but I will think about it.

Thanks for the inspiration.
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Anyone tried them, how is their service?
This looks like a genuinely fun windows launch party (or rather, "launch windows"-party): http://www.svlug.org/events/crash98.php
Official release: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/notaware

Some interesting points:

1.
"They were able to accurately categorise 66% of the negative words compared to 50% of the positive ones."

I'd have to see the accuracy on "neutral" images, but assuming equal distribution of positive/negative/neutral categorisation, you would expect a 33% response normally. However, if people tend not to categorise the words as neutral this would be closer to 50% on positive/negative.

2.
In 1974 despite no evidence that it worked the UN said it was a major threat to human rights
Sure, why not. I'm in Paris. ned ät baldessin döt fr.
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Alan Weiss on Twitter: Consultant's Syndrome? Or just a jerk at work?
There's a godwin law violation early on, and it ends in name calling. Don't bother reading it.
You're overestimating them. The final digit analysis that broke this whole story is something that only catches numbers being made up by hand. If they rolled a die to randomize things, they wouldn't have left an obvious pattern like that.

Given that, it was reasonable to investigate the obvious possibility first for this case. Particularly since there was a suggestion that they had made up the set of numbers with such a simulation.
Yeah, except Apple would probably reject this one for being "Too confusing" or "Duplicating existing functionality" or something.
If you want to take a detour around Sweden you're welcome to stop by ;P
.. isn't respected or appreciated

By whom? And on what premises? Ingrained cultural norms?

Trying to reshape education you are up against strong forces.
Interesting, but is it really about marketing, or education?
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He also used to be a video games reviewer and is doing a one off Gameswipe as part of BBC Four's Electric Revolution series about the rise of technology in the 80s:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n1j8q
I was expecting him to link to this hilarious "remix" of the video:

http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/windows-7-party.html
Geneva, Switzerland might be on the way between France and Germany: tkappler, gmail.com.
Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell
I'm in Belgium. Our beer rocks.
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I think it's mandatory to get a nuanced view over the purposes of various educations. I see a wide spectrum from the narrow focused vocational training to the preparation for cutting-edge development.
This dates back to May 2002 and is absolutely littered with spelling, typographical and grammatical errors. It says:

This documenent was prepared with the purpose
of being able to model the Case Study using UML.

What?

Most likely the original studies have interesting information and lessons to learn - this document appears to have neither.
You can put a title attribute on pretty much anything iirc.
(I thought I had already answered this. Strange.)

Big Board sounded like the project with the most tangible real life impact. Erlang on Facebook showed that working there can be quite cool. The Functional development in Excel showed a way to make the dull (but important) field of Spreadsheets interesting to hackers.
Great interview with two of the smartest guys in the business. If you're interested in the history of these two languages, and what they're good at, this is a fascinating read. I'd like to watch the video of it, but I don't have time (to make it clear: I read it - click on 'expand all').
Will cyberpunk author William Gibson feature Twitter in his new book?
Yes, make my own word lists. Just like you are thinking of making other packages. Maybe I just want to learn capital cities in Europe. Or something equally random.
I cycle, but red light cameras have recently been part of a scandal where they slowly reduce the amount of warning time before the light changes.

This simultaneously increases revenue and endangers everyone on the road.

Speed cameras seem to go through a similar process, but are now (at least where I live) referred to as "saftey cameras" and brightly decorated so that you're slowing down at accident blackspots not getting caught out by sneaky placement.