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tkahn6on Terrorist Hunt Sends America Over the Edge

I'm using this definition of 'intellectual hipster'.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...

tkahn6on Terrorist Hunt Sends America Over the Edge

1. I'm getting really good at predicting what the intellectual hipster perspective on a particular issue will be. I knew yesterday we would see op eds like this.

2. Not Hacker News. Flagged.

tkahn6on Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts

I still don't see how that speaks to my point, which has to do with an expectation of danger in different contexts.

So I suppose this would be a red herring on your part, if we're accusing each other of logical fallacies.

tkahn6on Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts

That is a true statement, but what is your point?

tkahn6on Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts

Is it really surprising or disappointing it took 'so long'?

I think your understanding of how easy it is to locate people is influenced by fiction and dramatization.

One man is tiny compared to an entire city. What can you realistically do if that man decides to hide in a covered boat in someone's yard?

tkahn6on Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts

> 4 people killed in a week is not a lot compared with the background level of deaths in the US

It's not every day that people have their legs blown off while enjoying a public social event.

There's an expectation of danger while driving a car. There is no expectation of danger while spectating at the Boston Marathon.

It's not complicated.

tkahn6on FBI Updates on Boston explosions

Surveillance video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80DXI932OE

This is from the FBI Youtube account and it's linked to on FBI.gov.

Guy in the white cap is the one who they say placed the bomb.

tkahn6on What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

Start here:

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

This is good too, but I found it somewhat dry:

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/

I think that learning Haskell will make you a better programmer. It's really a different way of doing things.

tkahn6on Own your own Bitcoin Exchange

Could be HaLVM

http://corp.galois.com/halvm

tkahn6on Exposed Webcam Viewer

This is Virginia Tech... not Haymarket, Virginia.

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40

tkahn6on Jack Of No Trade

It's more the ecosystems than the syntax and semantics.

Bundler, gem, pip, npm, blah blah blah. It's a lot of stuff to grok if you want to get anything done in the 'right' way.

tkahn6on Defaulting to hire on credentials will put you out of business

Also in "In the Plex" they talk about how Google kept a record of everyone's SAT scores and GPA and alma mater and found no correlation between those things and skill/quality/productivity/effectiveness.

tkahn6on Poll: How do you rate your coding skill compared to your peers?

I think I'm better than 75% to 100% of coders who think that 'coding skill' is a total order.

tkahn6on To be a better UI/UX designer, go to a foreign country, rent a car, and drive.

Uh you shouldn't be surprised by a red light unless you're cresting a hill (and even then there will usually be a flashing sign indicating a red light up ahead). The yellow light indicates you should start slowing down.

tkahn6on Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

How about insects?

tkahn6on Everpix

Are you guys A/B testing index.html?

A: https://www.everpix.com/landing.html

B: https://www.everpix.com/landing_video_explore.html

tkahn6on Vacations and Fingerprint Scans

How can you be sure the government doesn't have a deal with the hotel you stayed at to have the maids lift fingerprints and DNA samples from your room?

Edit: /s

tkahn6on To Fight Gridlock, Los Angeles Synchronizes Every Red Light

When I lived in NYC over the summer, one of the things that blew my mind was how easy and cheap and quick it was to get anywhere in the city. YYMV though, I guess.

tkahn6on Show HN: April Fool's Pranks

Someone does this every year and the jokes still dominate the front page.

Some people get upset about this and some people let those people know that it's not a big deal because it's only one day out of the year.

This discussion is repeated on every joke submission.

tkahn6on Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention

You can do the same with a video. You pause it, get on a relevant IRC channel or internet forum and ask "what does she mean by X at 23:51?" Or you Google the term or process you were confused about and find someone else's explanation (I have personally done this loads of times). Or you turn to the person you're watching it with and ask. Or you call up your study group on skype. Do those two latter things usually happen now? No, but they easily, easily could if this type of learning became mainstream.

Is having a professor there that you can ask immediately in the moment (and interrupt the lecture for the other students who understood the material) worth $1000 per credit hour?

tkahn6on Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention

I usually sign up for a bunch of classes just so I can access the material at a later point when I have time or when I'm interested. I'm pretty sure that in most cases Coursera locks you out of old material unless you were enrolled. I don't follow along with the class.

Synchronous learning, IMO, is an anachronism. We have video recording technology, practically infinite bandwidth, and near speed of light communication. The idea of synchronous learning, where you have five thousand teachers teaching the same Calculus I class every year, is predicated on a world where these technologies don't exist.

As an aside, for this reason I think the collegiate model is going to completely change in the near future as people start realizing how absurd it is. The real value professors provide is having someone to answer questions (and in a lot of cases, professors don't even take questions during lecture). And even that functionality can and is (in my experience) mostly replaced by other students in the class or students who have already taken the class.

Put the material up, and let communities form around it. I don't need the professor to answer my questions, all I need is the relevant forum (in the original sense) to ask.

tkahn6on Why Asm.js Bothers Me

Context Free Grammar

tkahn6on Stuxnet Likely Constituted Illegal Act of Force, Study Says

> The argument has been made that Stuxnet was self-defense, but anticipatory self-defense, which makes it a valid use of force. But that is open to debate, because depending on stance made, Stuxnet’s usage could be seen as justifiable defense given Iran’s statements of hostility, or as an act of war against Iran itself.

So... basically Stuxnet is an illegal act of force iff this argument is unsound? Isn't that the case with any use of force?

tkahn6on Try Haskell: An interactive tutorial in your browser

Would you accept:

> 'a' : "" => "a"

Because that's what you did.

tkahn6on Why Github and Stack Overflow are the wrong tools for democracy

Not only that, they host dumps of all the questions and answers.

tkahn6on [dead]

Seems like Orson Scott Card is the opposite or an anti-Semite.

http://www.red-alerts.com/comintern/orson-scott-card-on-the-...

I always interpreted Rose Da Nose and the 'Kike squad' to be endearing.

tkahn6on AngelHack Launches A Startup Accelerator, Bringing Its Hackathon To 30+ Cities