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a serious issue and an impressive indictment of the NEA. We spend an incredible percentage of the tax 'largesse' on education and yet we're still behind our peers (as defined by international assessment standards). Why? I don't believe it's the 'lack of resources' mantra drummed repeatedly by the education lobby during election season. It has to be in some large part that our teachers are compensated (relatively) poorly, and the methods they employ are woeful at best.

Typically, as evidenced by the article, we create something of value which is implemented better somewhere else (hello: manufacturing). Partly this is a socio-economic function germane to the US, but given the amount of focus given to education, it must be something more.

I find it difficult to believe that Asian and Finnish students are simply smarter than US students. Clearly not due to the cheap polemics of Gladwell, et al, that it's due to the three dimensional components of Asian languages (seriously??).

We are taught relatively poorly, as compared to other students internationally.

I am a typical example of this fact. I was never 'good at math'.. scoring fairly average on all assessments throughout lower and high schools. I went to College (above average State school), and decided to major in Computer Science and Mathematics and received my degree. I was taught (perhaps ironically) by mostly Asian teachers in my majors in ways that required us to think past the rote regurgitation of formulae.

I found a new appreciation for math for not only a formalism of logic, but of the Universe. I'm still not 'good at math'.
Finally, someone with opinion, so far most articles on the topic have been too soft in terms how an Angular app should be written and organised.

However there is one point I disagree with: files and folders should be organised per-feature/functionality, not Rails-like. When you have 40+ services, and 100+ of directives, it can become tedious to work on these separate files. That's why I recommend to put files that do common stuff together. For example we have auth folder that holds the service, a couple of directives (like for password inputs), all possible states (we use ui-Router) and controllers, in total 8 files: http://cl.ly/image/2o0Q1n1m2M32
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i think you mean 100 BTC
I'm a one-boxer because $1,000,000 is a lot of money to gamble that I would be the (first? only? one of the few?) person who beats the system. I also wouldn't take on Kasparov in a chess match or John McEnroe in a tennis match at even odds; I definitely wouldn't put $1,000,000 on the line to potentially increase my winnings to $1,001,000.
One day all NSA data will leak and appear on Internet as gigantic zetabyte torrent....
I understood the parent post to be saying that they wouldn't feel comfortable with a wage negotiated in bitcoins. 2 BTC/week means $1200 today, but next pay period, maybe it'll be $500, or maybe $5000. That kind of volatility persists regardless of whether you convert it immediately.

If the wage were negotiated in USD, but paid in Bitcoin, that'd be much more usable.
this. and do get a patent attorney asap so that you don't run the risk of having worked in vain.
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I work at Trello. We actually don't think of Trello as Kanban. Trello at its core is a collaborative list of lists. You can use Trello to implement a Kanban workflow but Trello is not an implementation of Kanban. A lot of people use Trello for things like to organizing their soccer teams where there isn't a hint of Kanban -- each list could be a game and people add themselves to indicate that they want to play.
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That's really cool. I wonder if that could be used to get images of other planets.
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It's worth pointing out that Miley Cyrus didn't exactly invent this model. The old saying is "there's no such thing as bad publicity". The first example that came to my mind is Madonna who always seems to do something "stupid" and "crazy" every couple years that reminds people she exists and keeps her in the public eye.
Indifference is not worse. Instead of stepping on an ant, it would be like ripping of its limbs slowly, piece by piece.

In any case, physical universe and nature is already indifferent to us.
Where am I? How am I? Who am I? Why am I here?
It's all about context baby.
Nobody uses BTC like this for anything (pay or purchase). At the time of payment you would convert your fiat value into BTC and make your payment, the other side is free to keep the BTC to convert it instantly into their local fiat.
I don't get the point. I get BTC for my Job. Beside the heavy variations about how much 1 BTC is in my currency, how do i buy things with that? Sure, some etailers like Dell accept it. But if i ask now my local supermarkt how much BTC is needed to pay, i would see in a lot of overwhelmed faces. Same counts for my rent and so on. So what exactly is the benifit of this service? (Maybe i don't get the whole "bitcoin"-Thing anyway)
How so? The future AI just needs to have access to the financial records of the organization that created it, so it can find and punish the folks who didn't donate enough. No time travel involved, no brain simulations, nothing.

Actually, Roko's original version of the basilisk was a pretty nice AI that wanted to help people. A hundred people die every minute, how many of them could be saved with better technology? If donating your entire net worth would speed up the AI's creation by one day, that could be very worthwhile, according to the combined wishes of all humanity (which are encoded in the AI's utility function). Threatening to punish you is a comparatively small price to pay. Especially if you decide to comply, and the punishment never actually happens!

At this point you might be indignantly asking, why would the AI decide to punish you in the future? After all, that won't help the AI in the future, because its history will already be fixed. But that doesn't matter. The AI's algorithm tries to choose the most efficient decision overall, from a "position of ignorance", rather than the most efficient decision at a particular moment in time. Technically, the algorithm tries to find the best input-output mapping according to certain criteria, not find the best output for the particular input it happened to receive. There's nothing especially futuristic about such algorithms either, you can implement one as an ordinary Python program today (for toy problems of course).
I think the great thing about Trello is simplifying down to a pure visual metaphor.

Trello is about putting lists of cards on boards. That's it.

You can use it to do all kinds of things, but it's a medium rather than a framework. When I've tried other to-do list apps, or project management tools, etc. they all end up becoming too restrictive. They try to teach you to do the right thing in the right way, not realizing that it is different for different people.

Joel himself once talked about Excel, and how for most people, Excel isn't about spreadsheets, or formulas, or calculations - it's about laying things out in a grid. That's it. People just want to be able to write things in columns and rows, and colour them. And that simple behaviour is incredibly powerful.
We did not specifically optimize of for V8, the optimizations present resulted in a performance win in all browsers. Firefox simply does not deliver the same performance as V8 or JavaScriptCore for this kind of work. Still I think Transit is plenty acceptable under Firefox for many typical JavaScript programs. Hopefully the existence and usage of Transit will encourage Firefox to further improve their JavaScript performance profile.
1. You can delete. Not on Trello right now but I think it's listed under 'more options'.
I know why a browser would be install across the board - the thing that confused me was why the person I was replying to thought it was significant to this thread - there was an implication that it was the same sort of thing as "MS asking for help", which I don't see.
I was going to suggest one for the Sigma 5/7/9 if there was only an emulator. Then I found this http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/sigma/sigma7.htm
Bitcoin transactions won't be free forever.

The incentive for me to verify your Bitcoin transactions using my electricity and my processor cycles, is that I might get a free Bitcoin in return. This is the basis of Bitcoin mining, and it's a rather elegant solution in my opinion.

However, once this supply of mined Bitcoin slows down, where's the incentive for me to continue processing transactions? That's right, transaction fees. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
Read about Tesla vs Edison war on AC/DC currents at the end of 19th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
A close family friend is a very senior nurse at the Red Cross, and was deployed to help deal with the Ebola outbreak some months ago.

The emails I've had from her are horrifying. What's being reported in the media is the absolute tip of the iceberg - entire communities are being wiped out, the infection rate is growing in an epidemic fashion, and there are growing concerns that there's an airborne (droplet) transmission method, as there are numerous inexplicable infections. That said, it could also be the prevalence of bush meat which is helping to drive this.

There's talk of the Red Cross imminently pulling out, as it's no longer safe for their staff to be there.

Can you say "sacrifice zone"?
So at the moment, there are no transformer spares.

The outage would be 5-12 months to produce them and weeks to months for transport them and install them.

Even with spares, the expected outage can be between weeks and months if the spares aren't near enough.

There are still no spares now.

From the conclusion:

"Since the 1989 Quebec storm and power outage, the Canadian government has invested $1.2 billion (about $34 per person) into protecting the Hydro-Quebec grid infrastructure, installing numerous blocking capacitors44. While these mitigation strategies can be expensive up front (estimated cost of $100k per blocking capacitor for a total of $100 million to protect the 1,000 most vulnerable transformers45), the cost of prevention is much smaller than the cost of the damage a single storm can create."

It seems only Canadians are doing at least something?
Yes, he did wrote this from his iPhone. ;-)
Stacked lists are my top request. I still use Trello with the default To-Do, Doing, Done lists. I wish I could group the To-Dos by different lists instead of labels.
That's great!

Trello is one of those apps that you can dismiss too fast because you think it doesn't do enough, but which to come back to because everything else is too complex. I've been using it extensively, and it has almost gone viral around me. As in, every time someone needs to manage a project, I hear "Hey, what was this simple project management software you told me you're using for everything you do?", and there comes a new Trello user.

I even remember using it for managing my own time when I was working for a large Japanese company that was using excel spreadsheets to manage projects, so I could have a clear interface and use a quick and dirty piece of JS I wrote to generate the sacrosanct Daily Reports I was asked to provide.
An expendable vehicle should be inherently more efficient in launching frequency than a reusable one. The reusable one is fundamentally limited by the number of reusable vehicles you have on hand and the time it takes to turn each around. The expendable one is only limited by the speed of your manufacturing.

So, since SpaceX is moving to a reusable vehicle, this graph could easily change slope in the future.
JIRA's Kanban board integrates poorly with the rest of JIRA. And you need to define a workflow first. You typically wind up allowing any transition, in which case: what did it get you?

I greatly prefer Tracker, but I would. I work at Pivotal Labs. Everything in Tracker is inspired by how we work and it makes perfect sense in our context.
Even if we had the batteries, where would you put the kilowatts of waste heat that would be generated by it's use?

That would be like storing your super battery inside a toaster that it's powering. Yikes.
A universe simulator wouldn't need to be "smart", it would just need to function.
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I completely agree with your first point. Being able to actually delete boards would be great, rather than having 5 archived boards.

I disagree with your second, but am genuinely interested as to why you might want this.

The idea is with Trello and other kanban systems is you move tasks from the left to the right. If your intent was to create another type of transition, you're breaking the underlying concept. If your intent is to break up a single list into multiple small lists for organisation, could you use something like colour coding instead?

edit: have just read further down that they don't intend for it to be a strict Kanban system, so perhaps there's room for multiple lists in a column. I'm still interested in your specific problem though!
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Read your article and found it extremely interesting - I guess that puts me in the 'clueless' category, though I'd like to think of myself more as a technocrat.
You're able to delete individual cards, but you can't delete a board – even if it's empty.
I entered an underhanded contest one year where the challenge was recoverable-but-correct-looking redaction of jpegs. I used an insecure random seed based on the time (you could brute force an unredacted image based on the rough time it was generated). The winning solutions were more clever
Tor you mean? (not Thor)
What's a nuke plant? As far as I am aware, there is no such thing.

Perhaps you mean a nuclear power station?
Ebola can be transmitted by an airborne vector - droplet transmission.
that should be Tor not Thor. Fun, eh?
You can export your data via their API. Here's one script for it: https://github.com/mattab/trello-backup
Nanosocial is the next big thing. Because it's all about the context.
The same thing can be said about the internet as a whole, even more so.
The book he means is Mindhacker -- Hack 17 in there is Lion Kimbro's description of his simplified note-taking system.

Available here: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/personal-development/97...
While I somewhat agree it's kind of a silly concept of people overthinking things, it has nothing to do with time travel at all.
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Care to show us how you style Trello?
Ad hominem over something entirely pointless. You must be a joy to work with.
I "learned" to program Fortran IV on punch cards in 1973. Punch cards were not the only option for input--you could use machines that looked like teletypes to create paper tapes. However, there was the problem of typing errors: with the teletype you got underline marks to show your deletions, so changing "wile" to "while" left you with WILE___HILE on the paper, which I found hard to read. With a punch card, you could copy to another card up to the point of error, then proceed. And believe me, nobody thought of providing keypunch help for college freshmen. I didn't mind Fortran, I did OK in the class, but the experience did not encourage me to go on.

One of my leading regrets from college is that a couple of quarters later, I sat in the back row of a classroom where I could see the cursor blinking on a CRT (probably connected to a Data General Nova), and thought "Hmmm" but did not follow up, and let a dozen years go by before I took up programming again.
thanks for the nanog tip. been awhile since i've read that firehose :)
* "Edit: Not entirely sure why I'm being downvoted for this" *

You are implying something negative about Google. There are a lot of Google employees and Google fanboys active on HN that will happily downvote anything negative on Google whether it has merit or not.

That is not to say that everyone who works at Google or who likes Google products cannot accept criticism but a number will downvote you regardless. The same applies to Apple, Microsoft and other cliques. If you make a negative post about them, be prepared for downvotes.

In addition you are not presenting any proof and even though your point may be perfectly valid and correct it does smack of a conspiracy theory which tends to attract downvotes as well. Who knows what the real truth is, just don't use Google products if you are concerned, there are alternatives out there.
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You can't use the brute force method to find any "person" you have in the database. You can only find any "photograph" that you have in the database.

If you have a photograph of me, and I just let my hair and beard grow for a month, then you won't match the mosaic version of my hairy version with the old photograph.

Perhaps you can add some filters to adapt the contrast, luminosity, hue, illumination, rotation, pixel shifts and noise. It would be more difficult to fix the head orientation, open/close mouth/eyes.
Most people want to blur because they think it makes their photo flow better than gaudy black highlights, but you can also use highlights that match the background color/image and make it blend it in, leaving a big white space on a white background instead of a big black space. Most people won't notice anything is missing at all.

If you want that pixel mosaic look for extra futuristic feel, remove the original content by making it fade into background, replace with new, irrelevant content, and then pixelize.
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Transfers of a certain size were never free, the fee however is tiny (0.0001 BTC) and doesn't compare to transfer fees or other international money transfer service fees.
You're being downvoted because you're not adding anything to the conversation.

If you have _specific_ things you dislike about Trello, or advice for people to make it look more how you'd like, then _that_ would be something that people would be interested in (and vote up).
For me even that's annoying enough. On a mac it's consistently command-x command-c command-v everywhere, whereas in Linux I have to think "oh, I'm in a terminal now, use shift", and if you get it wrong things screw up (e.g. C-shift-v opens the inspector in Firefox if memory serves).
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The original post on his blog has more images: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2014/07/24.html
If you want to scare yourself, try using the words 'JavaScript' and 'Singularity' in the same sentence.
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I have used it for pretty much everything since it came out. Both for my own personal use, for my small company - and for several clients/projects.

We use it for backlogs, sprints, operational tasks and many other things.
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Perhaps you could elaborate on some of your issues with the UX/UI, instead of trolling everyone who disagrees with you.
Way to miss the point. Now try to read again and understand.

Giving users the source so they can help themselves has nothing to do with landlords and supermarkets. It can get you more money though, by increasing the user base and making more happy users. It can make your game sell for much longer. Doom still sells, and people play it on the weirdest of platforms. And if the developers cared enough, they'd learn that it doesn't necessarily take much effort at all to make code easier to port. But you do have to care. If you don't, and you write code under the assumption that you won't and nobody else should port it, then the result won't be very nice.

So maybe you could still play Doom on dosbox or in a VM, but I don't think it'd sell much if they hadn't given the source that allowed people to create legal ports for modern systems, with features that make the game more enjoyable. People still enjoy Doom.
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After seeing TextMate struggle around the jump from version 1 to 2 and yesterday reading Sublime Text to struggle going from version 2 to 3 (to 4) I became more afraid of the sustainability of newer editors. Maybe it's time to hold stronger to your emacs, (or vi).
On a side note, Fog Creek is only linked with Stack Overflow, in that Joel Spolsky is on the management team of both - http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/53251
This has been pretty much exactly my experience as well.

I tried it out and didn't get hooked. Then I went to use a bunch other other similar pieces of software, and eventually came back to kick the tires again. I was pretty much 100% hooked at that point. I've been using it for almost everything for two months now. We use it on my team, and I use it for almost all my personal stuff.

I think I've gotten about fifteen or twenty people I know to use it. They really dig it as well. I feel like it's one of those pieces of software that really "gets out of your way" so to speak
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This is awesome because it's another step in the path of creating an autonomous corporation. I can't believe we're actually watching this happen.
> Yes it does. A year ago "it seemed" that the internet wasn't 100% insecure, however.

Who that knows anything about the internet ever thought it wasn't 100% insecure? It's a distributed network built routing packets untrusted intermediaries, and many of the core protocols send plain-text data in those packets. It's 100% insecure by design.
A few years ago a TV presenter got caught out by this, she posted a cropped photo of herself online, but the original, uncropped version could be recovered from the file which showed her topless.
Thanks for the pointer, this is great. Tip for people without a subscription to Safari: many public libraries have subscriptions, and will allow online access. I'm reading mine through the Toronto Public Library site.
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Honestly?

If there was an insurance where I could sign up and they'd optionally harvest my organs if they'd find a really lopsided situation like "save those other three people and you're a really good bodytype match", I'd sign up for that if it gave me better expected lifetime than regular approaches. - Just because it's taboo, doesn't mean it's bad. Just because you consider it absurd doesn't mean that others would.
I'm sure WoW's community would find a way to keep the game alive with relatively few alterations. There's no reason someone can't write a third-party world viewer and/or server that would still allow people to enjoy a more or less authentic WoW experience.

I actually think it'd be really exciting for someone to write a compatible client for a 3D game like that and release it. What would FreeTF2 look like? The idea of multiple clients implementing a proprietary game netcode and all simultaneously playing together is really interesting to me, at least.

This has happened with Second Life but only because Linden Lab explicitly facilitated it. They actively encourage third-party developers and release the code of their official reference client. Second Life The Network is also basically just a bunch of scripts and textures coming down the pipe so it's easier to implement than say an unofficial client for an FPS or RTS, which is very likely much more opaque.
Some of it has been mentioned in the other comments, but for me the biggest changes:

- You get away from commodity-based pricing, which is huge and makes charging clients what you’re actually worth a lot easier
- No anxiety about what’s considered billable work or how efficient you should be since more efficiency == less billable hours
- Don’t have to use a time tracker app, so more time spent on doing actual work than micro-managing your time

Hope that helps. There’s a plethora of value-based pricing out there too!