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Too many parents want to prepare their children for "work" and not "university". I see it at my own kids' elementary school. My least favorite phrase is that they are "training my kids for jobs that haven't even been invented yet". Really? That sounds pretty complicated.

The thing is, the mentality has to change. I want my kids to have homework. I want them to be required to read more. I want them trained to go to College, not the work force. When they go to College, that's when they can decide what field to go after. If we do this, the kids that don't want to go to College are no worse off.

OK, now that being said, I wish my own public high school had been far more demanding on ME to read. I didn't take the initiative myself, and when I went to College and had to read 100 pages of an anthology in 2 days, I was pretty much screwed. I just hope my kids challenge themselves in school because I don't believe the teachers are going to do it, and I'm not sure if they'll want to listen to me much as teenagers :)
I'm so glad my current corporate job doesn't feel like this. Thanks for inadvertently encouraging me!
There is not a conventional fan in the base. There is an impeller. The ring converts this high speed, low volume air flow from the impeller into a low speed, high volume flow.

Some people act like a product has to uncover new laws of physics or be powered by enslaved fairies in order to be remarkable. For others it is enough that they don't have to look at ugly fan blades, and if the marketing people are to be believed some people don't like the buffeting of conventional fans.

But it still makes noise, so I don't need one. Call me back when the impeller noise is above 20kHz. (And you have a thick carbon fiber shield around it for when it comes apart at 250000 rpm. Actually, in a few years I probably won't notice 10kHz.)
It's a huge (and generally very reputable) firm -- they're kind of the gold standard in the startup world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Sonsini_Goodrich_&_R...

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Did you read the whole article? Men's attractiveness ratings of women are healthily distributed, almost unbelievably so. And women rated about 8.3/10 (rather than perfect 10/10) got the most messages.
This feels much more like a publicity stunt. We don't know if the CEO was planning to leave all along and they just decided to try something to get press and spill the beans about some Kodak connections in the process.

Think about it, if this hadn't gotten sticky, that little interview never would have reached a real audience, and they clearly wanted everyone to know about the connections they were building.

This is all wild speculation and conspiracy theory, but if I'm right, it worked out nicely. I've now heard of TweetPhoto and it sounds like they are going to be connecting it with a major photo printing company... so... interesting.
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I'm twenty years old; I was in elementary school slightly less than a decade ago. I'm reasonably sure I almost never had 4 hours of homework a week, much less 4 hours a day. So the options that present themselves to me are:

1) my teachers were all incredibly slack by modern
standards (which strikes me as unlikely)
2) I am far, far more intelligent than most people (which
strikes me as highly unlikely)

I suppose it's possible that there are just outlier schools where such a thing is the norm, but it's something completely alien to me.

Is anyone here capable of relieving me of my ignorance?
Well, I don't trust priceline anymore. I used to recommend them to everyone, but not anymore. I booked hotels and rental cars frequently when I traveled and I need another one soon, but I think I might not use them this time.
Yeah in fact as it turns out his kid acquired English fine in school and forgot how to speak Klingon, just like most immigrant kids whose parents speak to them in a language that they don't use anywhere else in their lives.

What I really find amusing is that this incident is from 10 years ago, but the original link breathlessly reports it like breaking news.

Wired, August 1999: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/mustread.html?pg=8
For me it's been six months with two emails. I replied within minutes to both. They overcharged me 250$ or so.

And even though I should be peeved, I love their services and would never change :)
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Klingon is not a language, it's a contrivance. #2 is bizarrely unrelated to anything I said. #3 is obvious and irrelevant.

Language is a critical part of human development right from the beginning. Depriving a child of this, and by extension of a normal parent-child connection, in the name of some arbitrary curiosity strikes me as perverse.
Huh, the lengths some people will go to for content. The original page did seem suspect.
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Rainbow tables are useless against any marginally modern crypto scheme (e.g., any that has a salt). I imagine a child pornographer (if they were using crypto at all) would likely use some simple off-the shelf software like Truecrypt - which is essentially uncrackable.

And what's the point of that really long anecdote? I don't see how that relates to this article ...
They funded a summer-of-code project for PyPy, so Google did sponsor it in a way.
etc includes: pander to the young college crowd that's playing a ton of video games.
Ok, but now your email password is the password to all your accounts. I know that in reality it already is since your email is used to reset the password for most accounts, but consider this: to fully automate the process, you'll have to give your browser (or plugin) your email password to store so that it can log you into the site without entering any password.

On a lighter note, even if someone has to enter their email password each time, it won't be such a pain to most people since they already use the same password everywhere. And hopefully this will be slightly more secure than having hundreds copies of the same password scattered about the 'net on servers with varying levels/quality of security.
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> I'm sure I have a dozen restore password emails in GMail somewhere

Maybe that should be the next Google Labs feature. The 'Mission Impossible' option. (i.e. 'this message will self-destruct')
We'll be rolling out more features, including a calendar over the next few weeks (calendar is next week). Stay tuned.

We have a webshow we do to chronicle events, which is what I think Ajay is referencing. While we were in transition to launching our beta from our alpha, we've been hosting the show on my personal blog: http://jasonevanish.com/2009/11/15/greenhorntv-episode-2-glo... and on DartBoston's site: http://dartboston.com/greenhorntv-episode-2-global-entrepren...

I think you'll find when our calendar is up that is easier to use than Gary's guide if you're looking for entrepreneurial events.

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It's worth noting that this is how 4chan users 'hacked' those Christian Facebook pages.

Database of Christian dating site logins -> Same password as email -> Same password as Facebook and/or use email to reset
My point is that no one should be able to decide whether or a language is a "contrivance" or not. It is a slippery slope that is a dangerous because any language (ie. Chinese) can be deemed contrivance and thus "unethical to teach" using your same logic.

This can be compared to someone teaching their child their own religion. No one should be able to restrict that because religion (and most human belief, pending that it doesn't hurt others or themselves) ought to be outside the bounds of morality.
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I don't know why you're being voted down - it seems to me like they are doing science, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a reference to Okcupid in a university study or a pop science book.
I believe the 4 or 5 star match event only happens if you are using Quick Match, not just browsing your matches. I could be wrong though. Also, I don't know what portion of ratings are done in Quick Match instead of just browsing profiles.
He's saying the browser would automate the process. Presumably it would speak POP/IMAP and poll your INBOX. Some immediate technical issues here:

1. If you're not using a service with super fast SMTP processing (i.e. Google) your email might not show up immediately. This would delay the login process while you're waiting for the email to arrive.

2. What happens when the email is dropped? (due to some stupid spam IP/Domain blacklist at the server-level)

3. What happens when the email ends up in your spam folder?

4. In relation to point #1, what happens when your email provider has an outage? You can't log into any other websites? This seems counter to the idea that the internet routes around problems. Your email account becomes a single point of failure. [I know that it's already a single point of failure from a security standpoint with password reset emails, but if my email server goes down, I can still login to sites as long as I remember my password]
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> If you are going to do this right, you need email encryption. In which case, you have a client-side certificate. In which case, you might as well just authenticate over SSL with that certificate.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but isn't most email encryption done with GPG/PGP or S/MIME? Where do client-side SSL certificates come in?
Then I think he meant "any human language", which makes more sense than "any human language."
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Sorry to state the obvious but the "data" doesn't prove anything.

Working at home might make the Rescue Time team more productive, but it definitely isn't true for me, and probably many others.

Come work at my house, guys ... my kids show you what distracting is all about
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"That said, the BGGA proposal is a bit of a disaster in my opinion: the distinction between "restricted" and "unrestricted" closures, along with non-local returns, just makes no sense."

The BGGA proposal was recently updated:
"The concepts of restricted and unrestricted function types and closures have been removed. Now, all lambda expressions are restricted. The equivalent of the previous specification's unrestricted closure may be passed to a method by using the control invocation syntax."

It is rumored that it is something like a compromise between the BGGA and the FCM proposals that Sun is pushing.
I'm not sure how they can separate stress caused by fear from stress caused by the physical challenge alone. I don't think this is a good experiment.
Rather condescending from Dean Hachamovitch I think. I blogged more about it here: http://thedailyt.com/2009/11/one-more-internet-explorer-to-w...
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If this is true - why isn't it also true in reverse? (i.e., good-looking women can find a mate just as easily, so would not be registered on a dating site).
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What's funny is that game consoles are usually subsidized by the makers, hoping to make their profit on the games. Not positive about PS3, but that's probably why they're getting such a cheap computer for this purpose.
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Why do you believe point #1? Sure, you should include historical speakers, and speakers of particular interest, but if no one has ever said anything important in Klingon, why does speaking it have any value at all?
I don't understand how the QuickMatch/profile rating mechanic can be the ratings cited in the article. IIRC, The QuickMatch/profile ratings are from 1 to 5 stars. The cited ratings are from 0 to 5.
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My problem is the following: I have quite a bit of knowledge and I like to help, but have no idea how to start actually being a mentor. I've "mentored" quite a few programmers in reverse-engineering, but it's never been a formal thing, just helping out from time to time. I guess these are the questions I have:

What are the responsibilities of a mentor?
Is this relationship more like a teacher-student relationship or like a senior team member bringing on someone new?
How long does this typically last? (Formally, at least -- I'd imagine that if the process works out well, the relationship will likely continue past the end)
What sort of time is dedicated to this?

This is something I'm very interested in, just don't quite have all the information I need to jump into such a commitment.
Except OS X is far from cruft free. It has a lot of cruft from NextStep floating around.

Af for the interconnected DLLs, have you ever worked on a largish project that tried to release independent parts? It's hard. The practical problem is that you get two seemingly independent modules that want to work well together, not duplicate code between each other, and be independently distributable. These can conflict, and if you're not dedicated to all of the goals, and clever, you fail in one or more.
I've worked from home for a year but now I'm back at an office again. Working from home seems very good for concentration, but I missed discussions with other people. It felt like after some time I would run out of energy to do it. This might be different if one was "doing his own thing" and be very motivated, but I think the ideal for me would be working from home (or somewhere else than the office, as I now have kids at home) for a couple of days a week, and then be at the office for the rest of the week.

I think to make telecommuting really work, one would need to get a good understanding of the intangibles involved. An antipattern of telecommuting would be spending more time in meetings during the days in the office, to "catch up", communicate or whatever. Rather, one would need to somehow make the people working from home feel like they are socially part of the working environment. Maybe having some kind of non-meeting social settings during office days would work. Perhaps a long lunch or dinner or something?
Probably not. I would be surprised if their accounting department has not found ways to completely offset all of their tax liabilities.

I know they don't pay state tax: http://crosscut.com/2008/02/02/microsoft/11167/
What open source code would you consider worth reading?

Lua is said to have a nice code base, djbdns is probably the most bug free code ever written and TeX is also legendary.
That's very cool.

It's nice to see there's still innovation going on in the spreadsheet arena. I used to think that Lotus 1-2-3 v1.01a was all that I'd even need (much as WordPerfect 4.2 seemed to be the natural end-point of word processing), but it's nice to be surprised from time to time with something new.
The difference between this idea and OpenID is that real people actually know their email address, but not "that thing with all the squigglies in it, you know, the email address for Google".

I really, really wish the OpenID standard had used email addresses as the identifier.
I was pretty unreliable about homework, but the school I went to didn't necessarily take it out of my grades. At the time, I felt that the homework was unnecessary to learn the material being taught, so it was a waste of time.

Now, with kids of my own, I'm wondering if the reason I have so much trouble doing work that I find uninteresting, even when I intellectually believe that I'd be happier having done it, is that I never practiced doing boring work while everyone else was. So even if homework is useless as a teaching tool, maybe the act of doing boring work teaches a useful life skill.
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It's not just that submission - there are several more:

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It's perfectly legitimate. It's fine to speak to your child in a language that is not the official language in the country you live in. It's obviously more helpful if SOMEONE also speaks to the child in the official language, but that's besides the point.

Klingon is a constructed language, but it is sufficiently complex to be generative enough for actual use. Constructed languages aren't evil or irrelevant either -- look at Esparanto, which has a substantial amount of native or fluent speakers (more so than some "real" dialects).

Sapir-Whorf (heh, Worf) notwithstanding, we know that the "choice" of native language does not affect the child's cognitive capabilities negatively in any way (basically, as all languages are generative, you can express everything in any language -- if you lack the words, you make them up).

It's unusual, but it's hardly something to get your panties in a bunch over. There's no difference between speaking to your child in Klingon or any other minority language, constructed or natural. That's the beauty of it. The human mind is quite adaptive when it comes to utilizing language.
This is an interesting concept. I would like to see the quality of relationships that Nurall will be able to generate.Mentoring is a give/take relationship and is a Hard Problem to solve.
Nuron (sounds like Neuron) is our Mentor/Protege Communications Manager and Yes his name is derived from Nurall (sounds like Neural) :)
How often do people that need to write device drivers need to use a high level language? Is there really a lot of demand for this sort of thing?
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This is good. The end-users/web devs will benefit. We have more options, more competition and hopefully better browsers because of the competition.
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I don't know any self-respecting CEO that would agree on that.

They better be paying the CEO a nice severance package for him to agree in ruining this reputation for good.

You have a wild imagination man.
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This post seems to come up a lot in hn: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com...
Why not just have the browser remember your password? Much easier to automate --- none of that messing around with pop/imap.
And that's why people never fall in love with jerks, because all they care about is the personality.
It is totally up to the Mentor to decide on the level of engagement with a given Protege. The type of engagement is usually determined by the problem the Protege is trying to solve OR a plan/goal he is trying to validate. It could be one time or a periodic affair. The end justifies the means in a Mentor-Protege relationship. A long-lasting synergistic relationship is the ideal case scenario and we would love to enable that.
I think there would have to be a special kind of service: a photographer who can take photos that look as if they were casual, but aren't. Even for Twitter and other social networks casual is probably better, but few photographers (if any) understand that so far.
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A dating site for geeks would have to include automatic A/B Testing for profile pictures.

Can't wait for their analysis of what makes a photo attractive. Especially as for men, men don't seem to have a good grasp as to what would appeal to women.
You should at the very least be reading your own code.

It's the feedback loop to improvement.

>> " Coders don't need to develop an elaborate aesthetic sensitivity to judge whether their work passes their goals - unit tests and benchmarks will do just fine."

If your goal is "It works", then sure. But some of us aspire to something more than that.
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We agree, it is a challenging problem to solve and we find that exciting. We will share our progress with HN...
Probably not, but it would be nice if there was one global language thats suitable for all problems... I'm not sure that its realistic though.
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They sent out a letter on law firm letterhead that made reference to violations of the law and wrapped up with a blunt request for a response within 24 hours. They are trying to bully the interviewer by using carefully crafted language to make it look like the interviewer could face legal consequences from not complying with the request. In fact, the interviewer has done nothing illegal and has no legal obligation to take down the podcast containing the interview nor an obligation to even respond to the letter.

This, is bad karma.
Why should it have been easier to learn that as a kid than as an adult? You were bored as a kid, you are bored now.
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