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> I have signed up for updated versions of courses I had finished earlier simply because I wanted to show three minutes of lesson 4.2 to someone, and I've told my students to "sign up" for course X because its materials at week 4 explain a particular concept very well, and I'd recommend them to watch that - but the materials aren't available if you don't sign up.

Yes, I really wish Coursera et al would have "lecture archives" which didn't require login or, if they did, didn't require joining a class. This would help boost their completion rates, so it would be mutually beneficial. I suppose a few of the partner universities might like having restrictions on their content, though.
Don't they already? And if not, is the private ownership of ISPs really the impediment to achieving that?
And the box the refrigerator came in is the best toy of all.
For what it's worth, I think Hg is an easier sell to mid-size companies transitioning from SVN to a DVCS. With Git, you need to absorb a certain "git mentality" to really understand what all of the commands are; with Hg it seems like I just need to say "you COMMIT and UPDATE from this hidden folder on your drive, then you PUSH and PULL from that hidden folder to these other hidden folders in other places."

If it makes you feel better, at one point at this job I replayed a bunch of SVN changes through Hg because there were a bunch of independent updates that needed to be grouped into different branches, so that I could finally find out that the cause of the bugs in the code was that someone had changed `if (x == "true")` statements into `if (x)` statements...
"A strong personality..."

I've seen a good number of boondoggles. At the center of each was a personality of such magnetism that people simply fell in line behind them. There are people who have the ability to spout utter nonsense, but to do so with such alpha authority that nearly everyone in the room just glazes over and nods. Whatever it is that our brains take as a signal of alpha status, these people know how to crank it to 11.

When are people going to learn that primate dominance gestures are not a reliable proxy for much else?

I will say that when actual merit and this level of dominance actually align in the same individual, amazing things can happen. But I see no sign that this is more common than would be predicted by the random assortment of traits.
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Another factor from my experience: I don't feel much incentive to "complete" a MOOC. I take a MOOC to learn something to a certain degree, and once I feel I've acquired the knowledge I was looking for I move on. Perhaps this is to my detriment long-term, but it seems like a more economical use of my time given so many competing interests.
As a software developer I am of course biased but I feel like Ive wielding so much control without a strong technical counterpart is a mistake. The first evidence of this in my mind was the iPhone 5C - a cute shell around 1 year old technology. It's too early to tell but I feel like the Apple Watch has similarities - cute designs and features without compelling utility or really any sort of technical innovation, which is surprising. You also see this in the lack of focus on stable software throughout Apple's ecosystem which I honestly think has gotten a lot worse in the past year. I can appreciate what Apple has done for industrial design, user interfaces, and heck even in packaging, but there is a tipping point.
I'd add a concern that the animation can probably also induce motion sickness in some people.
Saying RSUs tend to be better is potentially true (at least a higher expected value) since they are likely to be issued by public companies rather than early stage companies.

If you're doing well and the company is sensible they will continue to offer you additions equity grants so there isn't that incentive to leave as your compensation falls. This post describes the "evergreen" aspect to granting equity: http://firstround.com/article/the-right-way-to-grant-equity-...
For small runs this is really the cheapest option, though. Especially if you account for time spent on board layout.
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Maybe I'm weird here, but I think the Magic Mouse is really great and comfortable to use.
Dan Grossman at University of Washington gave a presentation of the data from his Coursera MOOC's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T4IQrOJr5U

The punchlines are that completion rates correlate with course duration and that the absolute numbers of people who complete a course are a quantum change.

The point of comparison in Grossman's view is that MOOC's are like textbooks more than traditional courses.
I'm glad there are plenty of people here giving their positive views of making their own path. I left the US on and off for several years before I made it stick and realized I'd likely not be returning to the States (other than a quick visit here or there), no matter where I decide to live/move around. So far, so good.

I've lived tons of different situations, with extremely poor people, some who were rich, and others, middle class. I've lived in the countryside, the big city, the burbs, on the beach, in the mountains, and in the middle of nowhere. I've paid high prices, low prices and no price to live where I have. Once, I went through all of this within the same big city. Sure, during these years living abroad I've mostly done the '$500 thing' (and mostly, not by choice) but it's amazing what kind of experiences you can have on a shoestring and at this point I wouldn't trade it.
The effect "High karma can give you a little boost" is not due to HN karma itself. Many contributors to HN already have a reputation for good content and thus people are more likely to read/vote new submissions from them. So the boost is earned by the contributors by having impressed HN audience, not granted by HN solely based on past karma.
They wouldn't give it a shot because they've bargained it for a less risky lower jail time option.

A collusion insinuates secrecy or illegality. There's a plain treaty about extraditions. If you get prosecuted in the US the default mode is that you get extradited.

In practice extraditions are almost never blocked, you would have to be in very special circumstances, like if you'd be at risk of being put to death in the US. Or have some illness that's not treated properly in the US. Maybe a very big public outcry in The Netherlands could work in your favor.

In this case it's very plain. There's no public outcry, he's viewed as a common criminal in The NL. His actions are most likely illegal here as well and it doesn't seem like a very good moment to go discussing the US' extreme penalties for intellectual crime.
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Interesting, I had not thought of them playing it safe. But I suppose you are right about the "reactionary" part of it to some extent. But what about software? The new Yosemite look was widely hated on release, as was iOS7 changes. (I myself like Yosemite btw)

Would you not see the Apple Watch as a risk? Or a risk in the wrong sort of way?
I think that REST service for Pygments would be a nice thing for solutions that could not run python scripts directly.
You summed up my doubts perfectly, especially the black swan events.

The series conveniently puts a quintillion people through dark ages where no major technological breakthrough is supposed to occur. Psychohistory seems to be based on a more fundamental assumption: technological advancement is not going to change our baseline behaviour.

However, Mule aside, the real world shows a small sample of people changing dramatically in only +-200 years. Technology is not only a tool, but an environment that shapes us in an unpredictable way due to physical and biological unknowns. Deviations compound over time and, eventually, will result in the transhumanist ascension.

The same deviation makes any long term analysis flawed. I can't see how analyzing a much bigger population would make it any easier, like Boyle's gas law. Hopefully, time will prove me wrong. :)
See also:

http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/

"Pentadactyl was once called Vimperator, initially written by Martin Stubenschrott, then developed and maintained by Doug Kearns, Kris Maglione, and several other invaluable contributors. Doug and Kris, the primary Vimperator developers for several years, have left the Vimperator project and now develop and maintain Pentadactyl in its stead."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8911217
or modified open source with licenses that required contributing back the source code

Which license does that?
I found that using a trackpoint and 3 physical buttons has eliminated any carpal tunnel like pains in my hands.

While the touchpad on MBPs is nice, I found clicking a button which isn't a button quite stressful on the hands. Also, moving my hand to the touchpad and then back up to the ASDF-JKL; typing position is uncomfortable having gotten used to just moving one finger to the trackpoint.

The trackpoint does have one major flaw though - drift. Sometimes, it seems to move itself and you have to correct it. Apparently there is some kind of calibration going on, but it's quite annoying and I wish/hope there is some kind of fix.
Why are such projects always coordinated as one big blob? Isn't it possible to just fund startups that are active in this industry, and see which one survives? Of course there should be regulation to a specific degree. VCs are doing the same, and it seems to be working (for the VCs).
Thanks for taking the time to reply! :)

'Web cookies for the physical world' sounds exactly like what I depicted - and I guess we all know what the impact of web cookies have on privacy [1].

The reason I wrote this post to begin with was the lack of advertising iBeacons generally have had. This could however be caused by me living in Norway and not having the same exposure for new technology as someone in (for instance) SF has.

Although I admit that the usage examples you present are valid, I still can't help but think that if something is free then I am most likely the product. To expand on this: If I was given an iBeacon at a shopping mall I would immediately suspect that the data which was being generated to improve my 'shopping experience' would mostly benefit the shopping mall.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Tracking
Here's the thing, I do know Javascript pretty well after reading Crockford [1], Braithwaite [2], and Javascript Garden [3]. Much of the behavior of the language is simply too subtle and failure-prone to bother with, especially when working on projects that aren't composed entirely of world-class JS devs (e.g. every project ever). In its full expressiveness, Javascript yields code that simply does not do what you think it does, unless you've memorized the 6 books of material documenting counterintuitive behavior.

I'm with the prevailing industry consensus, that Javascript has some brilliant parts to it, and when used judiciously, and with the right abstractions, it's not so bad. But some of the more subtle concepts in Javascript, logical consistency aside, simply don't make for great programming.

[1] http://javascript.crockford.com/

[2] http://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge

[3] https://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/
> MPBs ... don't have a DVI/HDMI connection

The 2012+ versions of MBPs have an HDMI connection on the right side

(Source: using HDMI without an adapter now - also using dvi with an adapter)
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To be fair, I think there is a place for stuff like the Arduino, RPi, &c.; for example, I've got a couple of projects prototyped on my breadboard Pi right now, before I reimplement them on an MSP430 as I2C-connected peripherals, and even that's an intermediate step on the road to my (very eventual) ultimate goal of making them operable via USB.

Now, as fancy as all that sounds, I'm basically a software guy who can just about use a soldering iron without putting himself in the hospital. If I had to start at the end, implementing a USB interface I as yet know next to nothing about, it'd be a very long time, if ever, before I managed to achieve anything.

If I had to start in the middle, with a simple-minded little 16-bit MCU and an I2C interface, I'd have almost as hard a time, not least because I'd have to find some way to bridge the devices I'm building and the software that drives them. (Off the top, I guess I could dig up an old USB-to-parallel adapter somewhere, then bit-bang I2C on the data lines or something, but I wouldn't be delighted at having to go so far out of my way.)

Being able to start with an RPi, where I can address GPIO pins with `cat` and `echo`, and validate my idea before I start working my way up the complexity curve, is a great aid to actually being able to accomplish something. If I had EE training, that'd be one thing, of course, but I am, as mentioned, a software guy, picking up a new hobby in my spare time. Not having to learn everything all at once makes that worlds easier to achieve.

And, hey, if there are people who figure the answer to everything hardware is "buy an Arduino and some shields", is that even necessarily so bad? They're not looking to get into electrical engineering work, or at least I hope they're not; they're just excited to be able to do things they couldn't do before, because the necessary degree of complexity was beyond their capabilities. Isn't that more or less the whole point of technology?
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> It's not like they're going to obey an encryption law while having no issue with killing multiple innocents.

That's kind of the idea. No investigation needs to be conducted, simply listening to internet traffic for encrypted information is enough to prove a crime (or terrorism).
Ha! Even better... I always use rlwrap when I have to use sqlplus.
I always hear this but I don't buy it.

The client and the server have different jobs to do, how much code re-use is really happening in real world apps?
absolutely!

(in general the shares reflect engineers' preferences, as they do require a certain level of salary and don't want to take as big risks as the founders. founders would be happy to give them more share and less salary! they have a huge impact on success.)
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They aren't, there are many small grants for scientific research. You just don't read about those in newspapers.
I think it's implicit in the premise that only people who are interested in the topic would be prepared to pay anything to read something on it.

The charitable interpretation of his question would be "who, of the people who find this topic interesting, would not be willing to pay $3 for it?".

The question you are presumably structurally answering is "why wouldn't absolutely everybody in the whole world pay $3 for this?". In answering that, you were either being insulting to GGGP, or looking for a pretext to wedge in an "I don't care about this" comment. I suspect the latter.
Can Anyone shed some light to debunk this: http://fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/

The argument is compelling, but I am not one who knows either way.

What studies show Fluoridated water's benefit?
This thing was on the new show 'American Makers.' The Neurosky sensor in use doesn't allow for much more than getting the unit to hover based on the EEG reading.

After the initial wow factor of using your first EEG sensor, the limitations quickly start to add up: you are left with nothing more than a ball that can move up and down based on how furrowed your brow is. It looks like they added an accelerometer to the headset too, but it's still severely constrained in what you can do with it.

We're not at the point where "brain controlled" helicopters are a reality for the consumer set. You can't throw this on and think "go higher" and "strafe left while decreasing altitude" and I fear that level of expectation will drive many impulse buys to be returns.
I think there are too many models. I just came across the L range, which is basically the same as the T range but cheaper and slightly bigger, but not by much.

What's funny is that this L range can have 16 GB ram whereas the much nicer X range can't because it has to comply with Intel's requirements (I believe of 8GB max) in order to be labelled an Ultrabook.
I wish this idea works. The problem is that the main cause of rhino horn use is magical thinking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros#Horn_trade_and_use), but I suppose you can't grow the magic part in the lab and the users will want the real thing.

It's similar to the jewelry use of diamonds. You can create artificial diamonds in the laboratory, they are cheaper and they are used a lot in industrial applications (maybe they are better because you can control the impurities?). But for jewelry the people wants the real diamonds because they apparently have some kind of magic.
The word science gets overused, diluting what truly is science. This quote from the article says it best:

"Science is not a body of facts," ... “Science is a method for deciding whether what we choose to believe has a basis in the laws of nature or not.”
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Thanks, I will give it a go!
>What I rarely see is nomads successfully travelling the world with: 1) A Significant other / spouse 2) Children, and/or 3) Assets

Welcome to the world of boating!

I lived 10 years of my youth on a sailboat with my family, and in our travels, we met many other boating families that also met all your points. Some may think it's not the easiest lifestyle, but to many others it's the dream come true. I, for one, am thankful for the wonderful upbringing that it means for me.
My guess is that they probably share the models at most, but even so they have different funcionalities on client side and sserver side.
Apparently so, given that I do go through mild withdrawal after a long period of heavy use - but as I said, it's so mild I hesitate to ascribe it to withdrawal - more just a shift in what's normal.
That's definitely true, speaking as someone who learned HTML in '96 or 97 mostly by reading other people's HTML source.
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I would say that is a feature and not a bug.
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Thanks, that's brilliant!
> For some reason the checks and balances have completely broken down and D.C.

A - What makes you think the states are any better or different.

But more importantly

B - They clearly haven't. Just because you have an issue with this topic, doesn't mean everyone does. Congress has something like a 95% incumbency rate. The ultimate in checks and balances, sending someone else if you don't like them, send them right back to continue doing what they're doing. People don't care about this and they want the government to protect them from terrorists.
This looks interesting and it would be cool to see more OCaml/web projects.

Other webby things in OCaml include Ocsigen project [1], which is where js_of_ocaml and Lwt came from (for a while there was also the web framework Ohm, but I think development stopped). There are probably many others that I'm not yet aware of.

Personally, I'd love to have a blog-aware static site generator in pure OCaml, that's as straightforward to set up and use as Jekyll -- major bonus points for also being OPAM-aware [2], so you can easily include your packages and docs. So far I haven't found one but I can't be the only one to want this.

[1] http://ocsigen.org

[2] OPAM is the package manager for OCaml.

Edit: I've now added the static-site idea to the MirageOS Pioneer Projects page https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects
I think you kind of solidified the point though. You removed one source, it simply came back somewhere else. While I don't think we should by any means allow hosting providers to host abusive material without recourse, completely removing a hosting provider from the web simply causes the predators to move somewhere else. You WILL NOT stop it from occurring, and hurting millions of innocent people in the process is stupid.

The "think of the children" argument is tired.
I just get the splash page, and then nothing. I assume I'm missing something?
Also, having just looks at the article:

> having the same language in client and server can simplify the data management between them

That isn't called "simplified data management" it's called tightly coupled. What backend language/framework doesn't support json, xml (and even html fragments) for working with a JS frontend?
The shell isn't all what Ive and his team does. They will work closely with the electronic engineering team. They also will have a decent level of technical knowledge themselves; that is what an industrial designer is. Industrial design degrees tend to be bachelor of science degrees...
Oh right, so it really is a calculation of points vs age, according to the formula, plus penalties -- which my analysis didn't catch. Thanks for the background.
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Haven't used it, but I have stumbled upon stog [1], a static site generator in Ocaml that claims to be "kind of Jekyll developed in Ocaml".

[1] http://zoggy.github.io/stog/
One thing I rarely see mentioned in these discussions is your proximity to an Apple store. Macbooks are great as long as they just work. But when they stop working, life sucks if you can't walk your machine into an Apple store. Most of us use our machines every day, and it's pretty hard to mail your computer away for a month of service.

I'd consider a macbook more seriously if I lived anywhere near an Apple store. Fortunately I'm quite happy on a Thinkpad (T430s currently).
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The writer doesn't quite make the link I wanted between product and code. Regardless of the number of features, the product should be understandable and then the application design and tests should be able to be clearly mapped to the product features, and is well documented.
It's quite humorous to think about how Git's popularity is as a result of a platform that in many ways subverts its interface and even core architecture of being distributed. Is it a Pyrrhic victory, I cannot tell.
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Hi, my company operates in the same area (viblast.com)

I would like to add on Rodi's answers above:

- Yes, for mobile (data-plan based) connections P2P puts a heavy load, but WiFi-connected smartphones/tablets are not a problem to serve.

- Latency is not the issue being discussed here (from the Twitter example above), even Twitch latency is no less than 12 seconds: http://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/2j8b4c/has_the_strea... It seems that you are talking about asynchronous viewing, and that is something that can be made to work better so viewers at least watch with the same delay.

- The real value of P2P streaming is mostly seen by Broadcasters who wish to send their online linear signals at high and uninterrupted quality, but low cost as their traditional model.
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Can the authorities force me to confirm or deny my control of any given bitcoin wallet though?
Quirky picks ideas at their own risk trusting that they will be successful. They put 100% of their own money into developing the ideas into products and getting them into stores around the world. Some they win and some they lose. The spinoff of WINK is great encouragement of the continued success of Quirky. It's exciting to see what their next spinoff may be.
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