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Interesting change going on in language education. I'm a coordinator for my daughter's elementary school's after school program. I wanted to bring in foreign languages so I started with Spanish because of the large Spanish speaking population (plenty of people to practice with) around our area. I partnered with the foreign language department at a nearby college to get some Spanish education students to teach: they received credit while we received free instruction. The head of the department developed the learning modules with her students. The modules were all cultural - music, food and dining, art, literature, etc. - and emphasized vocabulary and phrases associated with the particular cultural lesson. The department head told me that modern language instruction is no longer about learning rules and exceptions, which is how I was taught French, rather it's about getting kids to use language practically as soon as possible.

An interesting side note is that the department head and her students consciously stayed away from the culture of Spain itself and focused on the countries of people in our area - Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guatemala, and Columbia.

Learning, in general, seems to have changed away from rote learning of rules to "let's get the students doing something practical right away so they get excited about learning". My daughter's music teacher is a fairly recent graduate of Berklee Music College's music education program. When my daughter showed up for her first lesson, she had to pick a song she liked. He had her playing it - albeit crudely - by the end of the hour. She was excited and wanted to play more. When I learned drums I don't think I could play to an actual song for my first year. I had to go through hours of practicing rudiments - basic patterns to develop coordination - before applying them to anything.

I think we're learning more about how people learn. I'm hopeful that "older dogs will be learning new tricks" thanks to teaching methods better aligned with how we learn.
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You are asking a lot of questions but it would help people to understand what you are looking for (or what you are moving away from).

If you are looking for almost USA that is not USA, then Canada. If you are looking for a good climate outside of USA then Australia. Or France, or Italy, but then you will need to learn the language. If you are looking for low expenses, then India, Thailand, or Vietnam. If you are looking for great social stability then Northern Europe countries, but these are notoriously hard to emigrate to... etc etc

(Creds: moved from Russia to Canada, travel a lot)
If you are concerned that your PRNG is broken, then you can't trust crypto in general. Doesn't matter how often you reseed your PRNG.
I started work on something pretty much like this about 5 years ago but never pursued it for various reasons.

I still have one of the registered domains with nothing to show for my preliminary work: www.tinynav.co.uk

I got as far as designing the encoding scheme, including a database of point types (house, utility pole, ancient monument, park, private event etc..), together with special codes for corporates to use for all their shops, fast food outlets etc.

I had the database tables worked out, populated the locations table with open source/public domain data such as civil and commercial airports and some other stuff. There was a front end that allowed for time-limited one-offs for things like 'Jo's birthday party', but then life took over!
> you mail the paper ballot so it can be verified in the event of a dispute

There's the possibility of an attacker intercepting the mailed ballots and replacing them.
Honestly, I don't like it. At first I thought it was a short, sort of binary (at least machine-readable) representation of coordinates. A,A might be (0,0) in our coordinate system. Turns out it's not. It's not even global but country (or in the US, state) specific.

This means that the locations are controlled by a single entity together with country codes. Sure, postal codes are controlled by a single entity too, but at least they are regulated by the government using tax money instead of an arbitrary self-appointed committee.

I know it's meant to replace postal codes and not coordinates, but I'd like to see something that actually represents a place instead of an arbitrarily shaped region. OpenStreetMap's homepage happens to do this for their short URLs: http://osm.org/go/0GFeWn2RJ

Try moving on the OpenStreetMap map with the share menu opened and the short URL option selected. You'll see how it influences the short URL.

But anyway, back to replacing postal codes: the main advantage of this is that it'd be a universal and short code. In The Netherlands you could specify: NL 6114HT 41 and you'd have house number 41 at the Marktstraat (market street) in Susteren (city). Not much longer. And with this new system you'd still need to look up country-specific codes so I don't see much of an advantage.
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I've noticed a lot of Americans moving here to Dublin, Ireland the past few years - most seem to be 30+ though and career focussed. I suspect younger Americans are attracted to destinations like California, China and Continental Europe.

I guess Americans who don't mind the rain and grey skies would find it easy to settle here - English speaking, high quality of life, great education prospects for children. I have to say though tech wages here seem to be about half what they are in CA but even within the US, tech wages are much lower than CA.
The Tropical MBA podcast talks about places like this quite frequently, so it's worth a listen. Here's a list of their top cities, most are international: http://www.tropicalmba.com/2014lifestyeldesigncities/
Of course buddy, if you follow the link - it's a press release. We admit that no one else wrote it :)
But amazon have no problem selling me ebooks and audiobooks even thou in am located outside the us.
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Your "As Featured By" section links to things that aren't about your specific startup/boot camp (you're just quoted in them, which is different). That's not growth hacking, that's deception.
Has Microsoft abandoned its Android experiment forever?
Their own website is displaying/using MapCode's incorrectly.

For example, they have 0C.T4 and they say it's in Ireland and appears to be some bench in the picture.

However, if you use that MapCode, you will see it's the middle of some river in Amsterdam.

0C.T4 == 52.369764, 4.868898

Another:

81.J4W They seem to claim it's in Alaska, appears to be some road. However, it's another river in Amsterdam.

81.J4W == 52.508957, 4.769173
We have good friends that moved to Costa Rica a decade ago. The climate is nice, the scenery is amazing, the country is a stable democracy with no standing army. Land and housing was very affordable.
GOODFELLA and GODFATHER seem a little too relatable as well.
The interface is being redone. I don't know how they are planning to cut-over though: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/

Edited: They just announced how the cutover will work: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2014/07/08/new-safari/
I'm excited for you...I did the same about 12 years ago and the 2 1/2 years I ended up taking off remain some of the best of my life.

Thought I'd share a simple budgeting tool I used to help alleviate/delay the inevitable monetary stress. I first decided how much of my savings I was willing to spend on the sabbatical. I then divided that amount into three buckets. The first was small and was my fun bucket (I think mine was b/w $3-$5k). I worked my ass off and it was time to have a little fun. The second bucket is the oh-shit-its-time-to-get-a-real-job-again bucket. I assumed it would take me at most 3 months to find the right job, so this bucket equated to 3 months living expenses. That leaves the remainder for your "core" second bucket. When I was spending from this bucket I never once thought about what I'd do AFTER the sabbatical because I knew I had that covered financially. I simply focused on the sabbatical itself and had an amazing experience.

Good luck and have fun!
Daniela, goTenna co-founder here, "Jason Greengrocer" is actually a real person in my phone I contact about once a month ;)
Sounds like some pretty basic due diligence. But, I suppose if your main business is suborning illegal activity, it might make things a bit harder.
I agree that 'lousy team' could describe a team that can't deliver squat. In that case market will get what it needs from somewhere else, because the pull is that strong.

Maybe i'm going too far, but i interpreted this for point #2 from an earlier statement a few lines up:

"The market needs to be fulfilled and the market will be fulfilled, by the first viable product that comes along"

ie: In this case the market wins, but not necessarily by getting what it needs from that 'lousy' team
The larger antenna would certainly suggest the lower frequency.
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I want to experience another culture and I want my family to have a similar experience. Since I have really no idea what I'd be in for, I was looking for input on what others experienced. I haven't traveled much outside of the US but am really, really attracted to Europe. I work remotely currently so stable/fast internet is pretty much my only requirement and the country has to be expat friendly.
I would like to see a "Pick One" because I have zero use for the Prime Video but I could have a limited use of Kindle Unlimited. Prime Video is not supported by any of the platforms I choose to consume media on (linux desktop and RaspPi Media Centers)

In a Dream World I would be able to get a Free Shipping only Prime Account. I will probably cancel my Prime after this year since the jacked the price up to $99, Just not worth it anymore (plus they now charge Taxes for my state so I am buying less and less on Amazon)
> The mapcode foundation reserves the right to change the country list and population density maps, at which point existing codes will point to different places or be invalid

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Judging by the other comments, this is a good example of all the ways not to build such a system.
Surely the moral thing to do is develop non-polluting energy sources before bringing more people into the world? Fix the problem ourselves and not make it our kids' problem?
Reading through the comments here makes me appreciate how great the HN community is. happy birthday Slackware!
I guess it is possible, but I don't have the personal time, to figure out the cost in jet fuel alone for these re-routes, not to mention lost time/productivity for passengers.
Hi Hiren, just wanted to let you know about SolveBio (I'm the CTO). Our goal is to compile the world's clinically relevant biological reference data and to help people build genomics applications. Right now we offer REST APIs to some widely used genomics datasets (such as ClinVar, Uniprot) and some others like Medline. I'd love to hear more about the work you're doing, and see if there are any ways we can help!
Last time I looked at the population numbers, they do not expect an equilibrium. They expect a contraction, as the population bulge we've created starts dying off, and then a resumption of growth, albeit as far as I know most projections assumings that when growth resumes it will be slower.
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I seem to recall getting an email last week saying they were merging Flow into their main service, or the other way around. Did I dream it?
Poetic!

I'm an Australian whose wife is Chinese, we just had our first child, who is German, in Thailand and are thinking to move - after 8+ years in China - to France. Neither of us speak French, but we sometimes translate classical Chinese together. You only get out of languages what you put in to them. Speaking of which, there's a great Arabic calligraphy torrent around at the moment...

PS. Pashto's pretty close to Farsi, isn't it? It's not that marginal. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Modernir...
Yeah, because human labor is so important these days, compared to having more resources per capita, and robots/technology. /sarc.
interpretive dance for robots?

(I'd really like to see that...)
The shorter MapCodes are within the context of a specific country, but the "I have a MapCode" box defaults to the Netherlands. If you change that to Ireland, it's 0C.T4 is in the middle of a park near Dublin.
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Luckily, in a democracy, you can address this. Write to your local elected council member (or whoever it is in your part of the world) and ask them what they're going to do about it.

Or, get on the board of your local library.
As long as it isn't half-ass.
Mapcodes also have to be combined with some context. In most places it's just the country name, but in large countries it also requires the state (or equivalent).

So if you go to the interactive map on the mapcodes site, there's a little link marked context and you need to change that to Ireland. Results in this:

http://www.mapcode.com/getcoords.html?iso3=125&mapcode=0C.T4...
Copyright.

I'd imagine they don't have the copyright to distribute things in this manner outside the US at the moment.
Learn a language if you feel like it, or it will be useful. Don't learn it for the money or the career.

I agree, this is good advice.

Trust me that aside from English all useless unless you can work in them well enough to translate to English.

Useless in career - not necessarily. Useless in life - definitely untrue.
I'm working on a highly distributed coop cloud built with OpenStack and Bitcoin: https://www.stackmonkey.com/. The appliance is in beta as of yesterday, but the site is still in progress.

I'm at a slightly different layer of the stack - one that might be advantageous for users wanting to run decentralized offerings like Storj and Maidsafe without having to do the deployments themselves. If any of the Storj guys are interested, we should talk. I'm also somewhat interested in the crowdfunding aspect and technology behind it.
Isn't that behavior -- asking to do something before it does it -- the behavior that you'd like? I would be upset if it went ahead and did that, and then I discovered the feature later.
You are asserting that doing your level best to ignore the worst offenses of American history is somehow valid.

This isn't merely disagreement on something that's opinion-based. This is ignoring factual things that happened. White guys rewriting history to make then look good is objectively bad. This is simply not that complex.
Using a lot of foreign parts and designed by a French engineer brought over just for this project, all bankrolled by the Brazilian state which the next decade suffered a massive inflationary crisis due in part to these forced industrialization strategies.

The reality is before the privatization Embraer was pretty much a nobody in the aerospace industry, unlike now.
> I think that it is more likely that GCHQ employs ex-hackers, especially those who have been due to be prosecuted under Computer Misuse Act misdemeanors.

Those people may get work in companies that do business with GCHQ/CESG, but I think it's unlikely they would be employed by GCHQ directly.

You use the word "misdemeanors" - that doesn't really have direct equivalent in English law. Do you mean something that is not a criminal offence? Or something that is criminal but not arrestable? Or something that is arrestable but which doesn't carry a prison sentence?
In Civ IV though, it's possible to get enough great merchants and then run at 0% tax rate in some kind of scientific utopia, which I presume is where silicon valley libertarians got their ideas from.
works in chat message too, just got redirected to example.com and someone's embedding an audio file using their username so I'm guessing there's just no sanitization anywhere
No, they didn't. They "killed" parts of addresses.

Also, these are still hard to remember. Personally, I'm a fan of http://what3words.com/

I'm currently here: http://w3w.co/lives.fend.spent
I don't think 'klodolph took offense. If he did, I would feel bad, and would certainly apologize. For now, I'm going to presume he read my comment in the spirit it was intended: that the virulent, nonsensical idea I was describing was not being attributed directly to him, hence the disclaimer at the top of the comment.

(If you re-read my comment, you'll also find that the >HEADDESK< isn't addressed to 'klodolph at all, but to the designers of the Linux randomness system call).

You could probably mail me further thoughts you have about my comments on HN, if you wanted to keep talking about it.
Yes. Most libraries (in the UK) will let you check out ebooks online. See, for example, http://ebooks.surreycc.gov.uk

A few will let you take your eReader to the physical library and help you put books on there.
Seems to be overloaded, cached:
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What problem does this solve, exactly?
This page is awesome, I love it. The author presents the material clearly and carefully. So many authors dealing with mathematical concepts are lazy and just throw up equations. Yuk! Here we see a careful progression of complexity supported with complete visual examples and numerical values, using the equations, worked out. I wish this were not so unusual, but huge thanks for having done it!
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For those of you getting a DB error:
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I think you need to change your "context" country. If I look for 0C.T4 in Ireland, I see green (implying a bench).

It looks like the mapcodes are country specific, and two countries can have the same mapcode.
So, they want to throw out the old coordinates system (which was absolute location regardless of any "context"), with a system that if you loose the context information, or misinterpret it, you can wind up in a very wrong location?

I've written a fairly extensive GPS library for some embedded device projects in the past, and I can attest to the computer not caring about the long coordinate system, they are just floating points really.
This is explained on the FAQ ;) https://code.google.com/p/orthanc/wiki/FAQ#Why_"Orthanc"?
I'm french and I agree,the language is bloated and too complicated.

English might be difficult for a french native that didnt learn it at young age like me but it's much more simple than french.

I wonder though why french is that complicated,in some other countries you have the official language and dialects,but often the core of the official language is tiny,so if one sticks to that core one will write correct sentences.It feels like modern french is the result of trying to shove every french dialects into the core,resulting in the bloat it is today.

Canadian french seems less bloated.They often use old french expressions,which is good because,many expressions in modern french from France just dont make sense,or words have their meaning abused.
And Canadian french seems more able to extend itself from its core,instead of using english words like french from France do.French from France definetly doesnt "scale".

It's just my opinion.
As an American expat who lived in Dublin for 2 years working at Microsoft, Ireland is garbage.
> If you wanted to have many children, there are easier and especially cheaper ways.

And surely, more fun ;) When you're poor, that's about the easiest thing you can do to help pass the time ... which is why there's all this evidence of increasing wealth/women's rights results in fewer births.
> What is a mapcode? [...] They are precise to a few meters, which is good enough for every-day use.

Yeah, but so are the British post codes. 6-7 symbols and you're down to meters usually. At least for the cities. They definitely bring you close to the front doors.
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goTenna is an ad hoc reconfigurable network in that you can create your own network (1:1; groups, 1:all; all:1) but we can't currently mesh due to FCC regulations. So we went with long-range instead, since meshing is most useful in dense, short-range situations. We're on it though... ;)
I used this tool a couple of days ago when I moved house. It was a real joy. Good job, GDS team.
Even with AppArmor in place, it still has access to read every key you press in any other X11 app. Here's how I lock down Dropbox on my system:

https://grepular.com/Protecting_Your_GNU_Linux_System_from_D...
off topic but a simpiler website would have been nice. All the video and huge pictures of half dressed people is too much to browse for work.
I don't think there was anything wrong with having 100 HIV/AIDS researchers on the same flight. Planes don't just drop out of the sky, flying is statistically the safest form of travel. It might seem stupid in hindsight, but that's only because you know the plane went down. This is a good example of Hindsight Bias; there was no way we could have predicted the plane was likely to crash (at least, up until they entered Ukrainian airspace).