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Our older daughter hated to be read to - she just wanted to get to the next page and look at the pictures. After getting my fingers jammed in her board books one too many times I just let her enjoy it. In elementary school she really didn't want to do her 20 minute reading assighments.

Now she and her sister, who loved being read to, are both doing just fine and they both read piles and piles of books.
I still believe it's reasonable because once you've read one, you've read them all. They all pretty much say the same thing. Jawbone doing this or Facebook experimenting with the feed should not come as a surprise to anyone who has skimmed over a TOS.
I found the Bandit examples rather disorienting. Can anyone explain what the "[&](){" business means?
As a parent of a 3 1/2 year old, this was a great read. Development in early childhood is so rapid, I still feel like a new parent. Here's the two things I'd add:

- How to fall down and pick yourself back up without crying too hard.

- How to laugh at yourself good-naturedly when you make a mistake, and try again until you get it right.
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Exactly - this is the first thing I thought of when I read this. Why not start by getting your existing degree programs online? Then they try breaking up into modules, experimenting with different teaching methods, etc.
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When the colours are summed up? I would hope it is - otherwise data is missing. But you can definitely see differences between cities when you zoom up. For example Glasgow seems to be a primarily "No" place, but Kirkcaldy is mostly for "Yes".
I knew what most of the BASIC keywords did on the computer before I understood their meaning in english. I'm not sure I even completely grasped that they were words in a language until then.

But yeah, english is pretty undisputed as the lingua franca of most things computer, and so developing professionally beyond a certain threshold is difficult without english.
ASK:HN- What should I teach my kids
I'm looking for discrete skills and facts that can help them get ahead, while making it age appropriate. Let's say that I'm starting at three and then working up.

Plan is to use a Spaced Repetition System where possible and then hands on activities for reinforcement.
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You can still dos it in Australia, for domestic flights (albeit you have to pass the security check.) Still, I was quite surprised the first time I noticed so.
I know that this is a cop out argument, but trust me, we all went through this phase. Eventually you'll see static typing as another tool in the box, that is only helpful and doesn't get in your way.
Missing is the most important advice for toddler-parenting: ignore what other toddler parents are saying. If you want advice get if from parents with older kids.
Although I use Chef on most of my servers, I like Rex because it doesn't require any client/agent running on the machine.
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Show HN: Discover Top Tech Industry Bloggers (TechStarsDigest.com)
I have a list of about 40 of my favourite tech bloggers who I follow (mainly entrepreneurs, founders of successful startups, VCs). I created a script around this list, which is pulling the newest posts and letting users to vote for them and comment.

The idea has to parts:
(1). A website HN-like list of posts with voting and comments.
(2). A weekly newsletter [1] with summaries of the best articles from a given week. Most of the posts are very long, and if you are crazy busy (aren’t you?), having weekly summaries allows you to stay on top of the tech stories without spending hours on reading.

What do you think?
On the bottom of the page there is a link to Suggest a Blogger Form.

http://www.TechStarsDigest.com/

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[1] http://webdesigndigest.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9a5d5e2de300c8782ff8758a6&id=90e77955b5
Does better coffee mean a better company?
This is a nice way of priming your mind for the concepts you're interested in--and is probably another example of why the current educational system languishes under standardized testing for metrics: when the goal isn't in the students' direct interest, the system can only provide an indirect benefit for their minds. It's very inefficient.

The class structure has grown out of the physical limitations of presenting course information to mass groups of people in physical classrooms. Take the MIT Modules, make them asynchronous and add accountability (limitations and commitments: something like, only 5 active modules at a time until you've completed them) and mentoring (which is your next module? If you struggled with X, maybe you should go back a couple dependencies?) and you could have a really effective system that creates even more amazing people--at the pace that suits them best.
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Contractor probably measured by throughput, not capture rate. Hence incentives are to push people through.
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I subscribed to FT in feedly but have never been able to view their content because of a paywall. Normally I would consider paying it, but IIRC it's a pretty expensive subscription compared to other paywalls.
I use it all the time. In my experience, it produces much more optimized code that the alternatives (which seems to be true for the UNIX vendor's compilers in general as well)... and as I work on a large-scale system that must perform well, that alone is sufficient reason to use it.

It has definitely had its annoying moments from time to time tho.
http://i.imgur.com/TtehVD6.png
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Think of it comparable the difference between "pop science" and "academic science" in book publishing. Its cool, and usually pretty informative, but largely just for fun or minor utility.
It was all going well, until:

> musical instruments (real ones and multicultural ones)

Er, what exactly is a multicultural musical instrument? Like a bongo drum? One of them 'ethnic' doodads?

Just encourage your kids to read and they'll educate themselves. No extra work required! Once they get the bug they can read about history (in a better way than school ever could), science and adventure to their heart's content.

I think books, lego and a gameboy (grant me some concessions, we didn't leave Windows 95 until about 2004) were all I needed to get through childhood.
> you have to go for an in-person "interview", which is really just so that they can fingerprint you...

Well, in Finland, we have to submit to fingerprinting to get a new passport these days..

Oh, and Japan started fingerprinting all foreigners a few years ago. You just can't get into the country without it.
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'They' is a perfectly acceptable singular pronoun, and has been in use that way for centuries. The idea that 'they' isn't a singular pronoun comes from the same stable of grammar rules that say it's not okay to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
I always thought learning should be more modular, which is why I broke down educational content on my site into modules.
https://www.learneroo.com/modules
(Some people were confused by it though.)
> Doing exploratory data analysis in a static, strongly-typed language, for example, is extremely painful.

As bullish as I normally am on static typing, I agree with that wholeheartedly—today.

I'm also completely convinced that a language with good enough record row-subtyping will take over as being far better for EDA than any dynamic language within the next 5 years.

That's the thing about research in types—it's almost always about discovering new techniques to appropriately structure and represent more complex programming techniques. It can lag for reasons of sophistication, but once it's in place it'll be hard to beat.

Already I feel it's absolutely the case that good static types (Haskell I'm most familiar with, but I imagine it's the case with Scala, OCaml, F#) are a win for short, one-off scripts. The difference is that the types you use are looser than the ones you'd use for a super robust application. The typing ends up looking a lot more like the typing you'd implicitly apply to a Python program [0].

So, "use the right tool for the job" applies to typing technology as well. Static types, I believe, will eat the use cases of dynamic types.

[0] This is essentially an extension of the "unityped argument". If you program in Haskell in a "always IO, frequently ambiguous" fashion then you can get all the flexibility you're used to in scripting in Python with little overhead.
I've seen French and German code that got by with no significant English (outside whatever wrapped the core functions).
It's easier in some languages than in others.

Back in the good old BASIC days, there were even hacks to make those tokenizing interpreters on home computers use German symbols for their keywords. (nice side effect of the tokenized representation: the code remained compatible)

Excel and {Open,Libre}Office Calc work with localized symbols for their functions, too.

I think I've even seen a C header file that wrapped keywords (through macros), types and libc names in translated versions. Luckily those are rare...

So, programming without English is possible - but I really wouldn't recommend it.
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1 absolutely could be a function—all you need is a function type to instantiate Num.
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This is a nice idea. My UX suggestions:

- display the heatmap first
- have a prominent link saying something like: add your vote to the map. When someone clicks that link, ask them to enter their location (city or town and country), then ask them the same question the Scots will vote for in the referendum: Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes/No.

I think the auto-detect location causes too many problems and may have privacy implications if, as another poster says, you can identify quite precise locations.

What would be really nice would be a map similar to the Book Depository ("Watch people shop" map):

http://www.bookdepository.com/live

In this case, you would display a pop-up each time someone voted with the name of their town or city and whether they'd voted Yes or No.
This is a big debate in my household. I look at the clear stand-out stars of the world and it is undeniable that the vast majority of them started working on some aspect of their talent between 4 and 6. Whether it be Golf (Tiger woods), Violin (Itzhak Perlman), Cello (Yo-Yo Ma) Mathematics (Neumann) or really any other field, the absolute dominant people started early - even holding the prodigies aside.

Most importantly though these people were able to cultivate their talents in an environment that encouraged practice and dedication.

I think the right answer is that a 4 year old should be exposed to many different things, see what they gravitate towards and then given narrow and focused instruction on that[1].

I used to believe in the idea of working on weaknesses, but that is only a good way to be "well rounded" - which is almost worthless today. If you want to really excel in the world you need to be the best at a narrow skill and you do that by working really hard at what you are already naturally good at from as early as possible.

[1]I will say that people do need cross-disciplinary knowledge to really make breakthroughs in fields so that is an important aspect that should be taken into consideration
It's not about "using it", it's about transporting as you see fit. A good-quality rifle can easily cost $3000, and is a device of precision mechanisms & optics - not something you want strangers throwing about for hours a la "checked-in luggage", especially as if you're transporting it you will need it in good working order upon arrival (likely the point of the trip). Sure it's long, but a slim-fit case can go into the coat rack well; "takedown" models in-case would fit well in the overhead bin.

Yes, I have travelled with one. Check-in etc was more a hassle, and no more "safe" for all concerned, than if I'd just carried it on.

Some smaller flights make the issue laughable: for all the trouble of checking in luggage, screening it, and securing it for the trip, it's all ultimately just stowed behind a curtain in the cabin.
> they just need to offer quality online education - not 10 year old material.

Quality and freshness are orthogonal, at least at the undergrad level. I earned an electrical engineering degree a couple of years ago. I also collect older texts in my areas of interest. Using only material from the late-1950s I could have passed my classes. Using material from the mid-1970's, aced them. (If you are curious, the reason for the difference is the development of the MOSFET.)

This is not to say that the material taught was 40 years old. Rather that 40 years ago the body of core knowledge hit what could be reasonably taught in a four-year time span. None of this "old" material has been proven wrong (at least at the scales undergrads deal with). The material won't need revising until either the silicon transistor goes the way of the vacuum tube or Laplace transforms are part of the standard high school education.
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AM was short for Automated Mathematician.
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They always have been. It's only "big government" when it benefits their mates and future board positions.
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Every time I fly.
It's both...it's a problem of incentives. The government guy aint getting stock options or a real bonus or whatever for a job well done. And he's probably close to impossible to fire if he does poorly. So what does he care? And while this is a problem in itself, it also creates a self-selection problem where good candidates don't want to work there in the first place.
That's the syntax for describing a lambda function.

CPP reference has a nice overview of it: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda
That is not the TSA doing the checks though. In Beijing, there is gate screening just as you described, but it is done by locals who don't speak English, and they definitely aren't looking for cash.
You would have been closer to correct if you said sea ice.
In terms of offering entire degree online, I'm not sure existing universities have a substantial advantage that makes it important they do it as opposed to some new startup. OTOH, using online/digital resources in innovative ways to do what they do better is something which universities are uniquely positioned to explore.

These "zero to entry level developer in x months" startups seem to be getting results. Imagine an alternative semester, summer term, using MOOC technology, etc. They have the students. They have the teachers. There is a lot of tech out there waiting for good opportunities to apply itself to. All that's needed is some initiative and some stones.
> But there's no way to reliably get information to all people within ten seconds.

This is HN, right? Come on folks. If I can send packs transcontinental and back in 100ms, then you can get a message out to the people of CA in under 10s. This is not a moon shot project. Our entire telecomm infrastructure operates in ms increments, not 10s increments.

Now, if only the SF startups could work on something useful like this, rather than yet another cat video app. You could even show ads for home repair companies and insurance adjusters during the warning/quake.
Where would they do it? At boarding? Most US airports have no wall between domestic and international flights.
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With a forward zone in bind with a long TTL, an unreliable DNS server shouldn't be an issue, as long as it's sometimes available. And you can have multiple forwarders, as well.
> Airport security does stop security threats - it raises the bar considerably.

As somebody who flies a lot for work, it raises the bar enough to stop a really stupid terrorist. Those business travellers that you see flying week in, week out know more about airport security flaws than the TSA.

On the other hand airplane security does raise the bar. The change to have reinforced cockpit doors was the only thing that changed after 9/11 that makes flying safer.
Reading your post, I realize that I don't know what you mean, but the first thing that came to my mind it's that it's possible to bioengineer a new organ, a virus filter (or blocker) that it's atatched to a vein.
It's anybody working at this? Sinthetic new function organs, blocking new virus, or toxic molecules (plastics, pesticides, etc..) that can be grown outside the body and implanted to work as a natural organ. Residues could be excreted in an encapsulated way through the intestine.
Famedgod also got doxxed? Huh, that didn't take too long, did it?
So would you start hating the killer or start hating yourself for not teaching good vs bad.

Plus - considering the other comment - the concept of permanency is - at least in my very short experience - a difficult concept for a toddler.
Sure, but there are lots of failures in pretty much every language, right?
> if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight

The laws of thermodynamics are a established fact, but somehow concluding that ingesting less energy will somehow cause you to lose weight is the same kind of logic fallacy that would lead you to fill your car with only half a tank of gas expecting to get twice the mileage.
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Your reading comprehension is really embarrassingly limited, since both links are all about Microsoft and other companies doing that. Or I suppose you are just lying in order to troll. Not sure what the point of continuing here is; you are not entitled to your own facts.

Microsoft is so notorious for their abuse that they're attracting congressional reports on the issue:

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-microsoft-avoids-taxes-...
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There's a missing negation unless I'm misreading your comment: it's only big government when it doesn't benefit their mates.
I'd like to see a source that "the vast majority of them started working on some aspect of their talent between 4 and 6".

I'm not claiming you are wrong, only that I am unconvinced by a couple of examples.
Over the decades of following online discussions, I'm growing ever more irritated at pedantic declarations of wrongness by countering reasonable generalizations with obscure/rare exceptions. Yes, out of the total vast number of commercial "airbus" flights ever, a minuscule number have suffered such incidents; likewise, a tiny number of holy sites are secured due to extreme attraction of violent nutjobs; taken in context both in absolute percentage of instances and in this being a casual discussion involving short comments of understandably less than peer-reviewed encyclopedic thoroughness, we don't have to spend time arguing minute absolutes.
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might look into this language. Facebook used it to scale. http://hacklang.org/
I find personalized 3rd party tracking objectionable, unless the person volunteered or consented.

That said, it would be quite nice to have an open API where I could query an area for the count of cell phone users active there. Of course this should have upper and lower bounds on the area, perhaps on its shape too. I emphasize that it is just count that I seek, not querying the location of a specific cellphone.

Is anything like this available, free, for a fee, for specific providers ?
might look into this language. Facebook used it to scale. it works with PHP. http://hacklang.org/
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As a matter of TSA policy. They're directed & empowered to take things which are harmless (save for absurdly extraordinary efforts with minute operational payoff), under the threat of "give this up or lose your paid ticket".
I wonder how many rolls of tape would be needed to hold a launching rocket to it`s pad? Not taking into account the heat which would probably melt it?
I'm afraid I can't see a thing, is it down due to the load coming from HN? Just a white screen with a sort of google-maps-ish compass in a box. I'm very keen to see something like this, with the referendum so close!

edit: back up now
You don't need a sleep monitor to function in the 21st century.

If you try to take a Jawbone off, I believe it will take a few seconds.

I dislike these data collection and analysis as a service gadgets enough that I'm not using any of them, but I think you could be a little more considered in your criticism of them.
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Not even that. If the sample size in general is extremely large (irrespective of its proportion to the population size), than the results are statistically significant.

A sample size in the thousands counts as "extremely large."
The good part about launching into space is that there are many places you can launch into space, including outside of the US. Can't they just move to another part of the world, or across some borders?
Just in case folks are wondering why funding for seismometer networks has fallen off a cliff, it's not what you might think. It's due to the end of the cold war.

From the 50's to the 80's there was a significant amount of defense funding (mostly DARPA) for seismic monitoring to detect, locate, and analyze nuclear detonations in addition to civilian research purposes. After the cold war ended, the majority of the military funding went away.

Also, on a side note, for those of you looking at the hardware description and thinking "all that exists", notice the sample rate and power requirements. (Don't forget data transmission and/or storage, either.) It's already possible to get dirt cheap sensors. (For some purposes (e.g. surface waves), off-the-shelf accelerometers are good enough, and even traditional oil industry geophones are fairly cheap.) (Obviously broadband stations are a completely different story...) The problem is sample rate and power draw.
Methinks he was referring to not what we think of now as the "gate" (the extended building reaching to the plane), but in fact walking right out on the tarmac.
It's not living expenses alone; I have worked for a company that does a significant amount of offshore hiring. The going rate for a competent developer in India is less than $20,000 per year. In India, $20k a year buys you a comfortable life. The equivalent salary in the US is probably $100k. The numbers in China are similar (though Chinese developers are harder to work with because their English tends to not be as good).

Given this context, some of these "game dev fail" stories about making $20k from a year's worth of work suddenly turn into success stories. So imagine if you went and hired a hundred developers and started cranking out 10 games a month. Some would succeed, most would fail, but the failures can just be reskinned and sold again.
Also it's possible to have traffic lights that vary the frequency of its light changes depending on the traffic on each side of the intersection.
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I don't believe so. I once worked for a startup that offered not only coffee, but allowed beer as well. On the weekends at night, engineers would be having beers and smoking. Productivity was OK, and the owners meant well, but the culture sucked because they hired anyone who could do the job, rather than tailor their workforce. No one clicked. I left a year later to work for a major company.
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