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Every decade or so someone comes along and makes a "new kind of school" based around the concept of self-directed, community supported learning [1] and thinks it's new.

Montessori[2] wrote the book on this approach, has been around a long time and has been rigorously studied in practice.

This is not a novel concept. What we need to be doing is getting away from the hierarchical institutional model for governance which drives most schools into being either pre-jail or pre-industry subsidized holding pens for children while adults go do "real work."

Making schooling "democratic" while the rest of a nation remains un-democratic is like pissing in the ocean.

[1]Summerhill, Waldorf etc...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
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It's not rewritten, but built on top of.
The funny thing, though, is that parents routinely read fairy tales to their children, that are just as grim. Just think of Hansel and Gretel.
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> Making schooling "democratic" while the rest of a nation remains un-democratic is like pissing in the ocean.

Not a bad idea, because it does no actual harm, and at the very least, relieves pressure on your bladder?
Thanks, that's really interesting. I hadn't even thought of the adverse selection problem. And you're right the $1.45 was high. I looked at the paper again and that number was before adding in costs. With trading costs the number was much lower, but still profitable (can't remember the exact number off the top of my head), and that paper was just US equities.
It doesn't have pluggable-storage-engines.

Postgresql is working with bidirectional replication (master-master).
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Are you guys open to accepting a trainee or an apprentice? This sounds like somewhere I would really want to work and I'm willing to start from the bottom if necessary.
Yikes, the example just added a bunch of exclamation points and the word "lovey" for the most part. Flip this on to immediately alienate someone who thought they knew your writing style.

Novel concept, but I think this is one of those things that's more a showpiece than something you'd actually want to use.
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Your math is incorrect. 3,000,000 snakes * 10 seconds / 86400 seconds in a day = 347.22 days, which is less than a year.

If he was spending 3 minutes per snake, 8 hours per day, every day of every year, that's 51.37 years of snake-handling, which is less than what he actually did. So, his claim may actually be plausible.
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I studied Japanese lit as well as CS in college so I've read a bunch of his stuff in english and japanese. This is one of his better short stories in a while. If anyone is looking for something international by him I recommend Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World ( http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Boiled-Wonderland-End-World-Inter... ). Read it in your first language: you're missing nothing. It's one of the best Japanese -> English translations I've ever seen.
Re: storage engines, my apologies; those mean something very specific in the MySQL world and the more appropriate term for Postgres-land would be foreign data wrappers.

I stand by my point about flexibility regardless.
the section on loops, in particular, really captured a small but ubiquitous frustration in every language I've used. we really should be able to say "this is the first iteration", " this is the last iteration" (though that one might not always be possible) and "did the loop run at all?" without getting into index comparisons or manually setting and modifying flags.
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Sci-Fi movies of that era - the good ones, anyway - used to have great atmosphere. And they were about telling a story.

These days, many movies seem to be about expensive special effects and little else. While there is nothing wrong with special effects, using them as a substitute for a story or atmosphere ruins a movie.
Wow, what a wildly ignorant comment.
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I think XSLT is great for templating, I don't see it often in HN. Sadly so many bashing it. But perhaps some day someone makes it cool again. :)
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I saw Aliens when it opened and I was about a week from turning 16. I had seen Alien when it came out (my Mom was a movie lover), and had been about a month from turing 9. I had not even seen the trailer so I was expecting another creepy horror film. I was totally blown away, it really felt like an action adventure with some horror. Since then, they released an extended edition with the auto-cannons and it seems like a different film.

Funny thing is the first movie was scary when I saw it, but not something I dwelled on. I did get the big Alien that glowed in the dark for Xmas, and that scared the crap out of me when my Dad hung them by their tails in the basement.

Plus, for how many times you hear: "Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" or the actual quote "Nuke the entire site from orbit--it’s the only way to be sure", it had to have a bit of an impact.
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This useful reference says "GNU Guix1 is a functional package management tool for the GNU system", so it's not a "Distro" as the title here declares? but rather, it's an aptitude replacement via guile? It's always nice to get from protracted video, and odd headline, to: "ok, but what is it? what's its function?"
Yeah. Unfortunately that's a limitation of PHP. It should be possible to use something like the Runkit extension to allow function and class redefinition, but it's not the best experience, and it requires compiling and installing a PHP extension that doesn't ship by default with any pre-built PHP I know of.
Should be done by tomorrow!
http://psysh.org :)
Same issue, 90% of links redirect right back to landing page
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I would love to see an opposite too where all the fluff is removed and only hard data remains. If nothing remains you get a kitten gif instead.
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Wahoo! this is neat, and in ruby!

However, I have some issues here. First, I don't know that I like the interface. Adding to the class instead of an instance of the class irks me. I also find the documentation hard to follow - the examples are too limited, and others are poorly formatted.

But its ruby, so I have no excuse to not try and clean it up some. I'll tinker and see what I can come up with in a PR.

Related, can anyone point me to something digestible that will bring me up to speed on the finer points of the mathematics?

Also, curious what kinda things this is used for in the wild? I don't know of anything that operates at all based on probabilities, so some examples would be helpful.
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How does Guix compare to NixOS? Now that both have been around a little while, what are the relative merits of Guile and the Nix expression language, in practice? How big is each community? The Guix package list is much smaller than the NixOS list?
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Because you can't survive playing video games. If the final goal is sort of hedonistic lifestyle, it is sometimes best to do the exact opposite of what you want to end up doing to maximize the time actually enjoying the lifestyle.

Sort of like you see a person setting up a hammock to lie in comfort and enjoy the beach. You tell him to stop setting up the hammock and just start enjoying the beach.

Assuming that the monetary restrictions no longer apply is not useful for almost any hedonistic outcome.
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> predictable performance

Hmm, maybe.

Where I work we use Postgres a lot, and the performance (for our workload) can only be described as "brittle". We often see problems whereby making slight syntactic changes to queries will cause confusion in the query planner and performance will go through the floor.

Getting around this often involves trying out a few semantically equlivalent ways of phrasing a query and trying to find one that doesn't suck, then just remembering that for next time.

Another problem we've had is that after a while the query planner can go nuts suddenly, making bad decisions based on accumulated stats. It's fun watching what is usually a two-second query last multiple hours because the query planner has lost its mind.

Anywhere else I'd claim that this is down to incompetence, but we have two senior engineers with multiple decades of DB experience, and even they end up tearing their hair out over postgres performance.

Overall, I like postgres, a lot, and I'd choose it over MongoDB and other noSql solutions for most workloads, but it's performance can be very hit-or-miss compared to other (proprietary) relational databases.

TLDR: postgres performance is usually pretty good, but in some cases can be brittle, resulting in a lot of effort spent needling the query planner into doing the right thing. The effort spent is much more than would be spent with some other (unfortunately proprietary) databases.
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VS Express 2010 is a 800 meg download. So 15-20 minute download on LTE, for something you'll use for months or years. Even 2013 is only a one-to-two hour download over LTE. It'd be far cheaper for the government to just pay for the LTE bandwidth for the small number of people who will avail themselves of these things than to build fiber out to everyone hoping a few will do so.
From the linked page:

> Last but not least, Guix is used to build a distribution of the GNU system, with many GNU and non-GNU free software packages. The Guix System Distribution, or GNU GSD, takes advantage of the core properties of Guix at the system level. With GNU GSD, users declare all aspects of the operating system configuration, and Guix takes care of instantiating that configuration in a reproducible, stateless fashion. See GNU Distribution[0].

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Related to this might be the decision of a psychology journal to remove p-values from published articles: http://www.nature.com/news/psychology-journal-bans-p-values-...

Even though p-hacking is bad, I'm not sure whether banning p-values is good or bad. The real question is what will be used to replace the p-values.
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Partially because Murakami i very involved in the Japanese to English Translation. He cares a lot about translation, he's actually a very accomplished English to Japanese translator himself, he's translate F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote among others. Plus he has an excellent series of English translators, like Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. He's noted that he really learned to love novels by reading imported English language dime novels as a teenager in Kobe.
> Fun fact: Jenette Goldstein (Pvt. Vasquez)

Did you ask her about the auditioning gaffe where she turned-up thinking it was a film about illegal aliens?

Hence the Vasquez recruiting joke that made it into the film.

Anyway, I have found that it's pretty much impossible for a group of adults to sit and watch Aliens. Everyone wants to shout Hudson's lines, at least after dubbing-over Frost for the first 30 minutes. Completely spoils the atmosphere.
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The second episode of the excellent "I Was There Too" podcast features Ricco Ross, who played Private Frost in Aliens.

It's an excellent episode (and show) filled with cool trivia from the cast and film shoot.

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Also, Aliens is the 2nd greatest action movie (after Die Hard) of all time, and #1 sci-fi action movie ever.
Thank you for this challenge :)

It was easy to solve, but I'm struggling trying to get the design right, also trying to be more robust with the parsing (there are fields that can be interpreted as uint64, int64, int32, uint32, etc).

Most of the hex editors available for linux are broken, ghex for example, the "grab these 4 bytes and interpret them as float32" functionallity doesn't work at all. I don't know what people who work doing this kind of things use.
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So, this note says that browser JITs are the main thing that typically needs writable and executable memory right now, and the author (Ted Unangst) is going to try to fix that.

It seems natural to think that JITs would want that feature (so they can compile things into native code and then jump into it). Can someone who has worked with DOM rendering or Javscript interpreters opine on whether it's plausible to get rid of the use of write+execute memory segments without sacrificing a lot of performance?
> From the links, it seems like consulting is primarily focused on UX, and agencies are responsible for the implementation

I would say that's mostly true. A lot of the "pure" consulting I've done has been in the form of teaching, critiquing and building reports/style guides that other designers and developers use internally to build products.

I will say that finding consulting work like that is exponentially harder than finding your typical freelancing gigs (which is expected).
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I saw Event Horizon when I was like ten or eleven. I saw IT when I was about the same age. I used to stay up and watch old reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents with my dad.

...I'm not convinced that that was a good thing.
I wish the after part of the gif showed a bit longer. Or a side-by-side with the before would be nice.
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Yes, I'm hearing a lot of this kind of chatter in the asian american community. In the Korean and Chinese communities(where I live anyways), a lot of people are paying very very close attention to this. A lot of anger is rising, and it crosses age groups in their community. At my old college(ivy league, so big school), there was a large undercurrent of racial tension. A lot of students, even 2nd generations asian americans, mostly hung out with groups drawn along racial lines. I honestly fear these attempts to curb racism/discrimination are increasing it significantly.
You probably can survive almost just playing video games. Get on welfare, live in a trailer park in the southern US. You probably have to be classified as "disabled" but doctors hand that out like candy these days.

My aunt gets about $900 a month from the government and lives in subsidized housing, so that she only has to pay about $200 a month in rent. So income-wise she's doing a lot better than me (I am a grad student).
i cannot believe i didn't have the mental model outlined in this video (the intro video to the site) after developing for the web for so long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ ...a great, very simple explanation.