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"Her job is really just catching the 10-20% of people who don't know how to use tech..." or people that need something that current tech simply doesn't provide.

The last time I traveled to another big city I actually sought assistance from the metro kiosk worker - information that wasn't limited to metro data. Could I have gotten the info I needed in other ways - yes, but it would have taken me longer than the time I had available. The kiosk worker was familiar with the area and the metro and was able to address my needs in a way that technology simply can't (at this point).

Maybe some other bugs too... There's a capital L shaped area that is marked as all 1995-2005 but when I click on it, it alternates between:

- 1738 - Vijfharingenstraat 5 6211EC Maastricht

- 2002 - Grote Staat 5 6211CT Maastricht

http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/?utm_source=buffer&utm...

Personally, I've been wanting years for someone to come out with (a) steady release caffeine patches and (b) [I don't know why I want it in this form factor] quick acting caffeine eye-drops.

>Think of the positive places this could go!

My first thought reading it was that some coma patients could finally 'talk' to their loved ones and doctors (e.g., http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230092/Rom-Houben-P... ).

My second thought was wondering whether we could crowd-source the origin. For example, multiple people sending commands, with the majority command being acted upon. Creepy, but potentially cool (I'm not sure what this says about me.).

My third thought was wondering whether the receiver would develop 'muscle memory' of the actions taken. In other words, could the receiver learn how to do certain movements.

A generalized version of one sentiment really, really resonated with me ... "Turns out, what I love doing is personal passion. Not hyping personal passion or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak." What working adult among us hasn't felt this at some point?

I think this is proof of Principle 1's pros and cons. (I still don't have a self-hosted blog because I tend to account for all contingencies. Therefore, when I finally self-host, it won't have this flaw. Meanwhile, you already have a self-hosted blog and are simply working out the kinks as they happen.)

I've got a big moral problem with a country interrogating a non-citizen and not allowing an attorney to be present or consulted.

More than a few years ago, I had key evidence about a felony and therefore had good reason to cooperate with the investigating officers. The initial questions were simple, factual, and related to the felony. But then the questions changed. At a certain point the questions became almost accusatory, at which point I started to ask WTF. It was then - and only then - that I was told I was a suspect and read my Miranda Rights. As knowledgeable as I was about my rights in my own country, all this still left dumbfounded. (It turned out the suspect in the felony had subsequently accused me and a colleague of a different felony. For months we were still suspects, had our own rights limited and were interrogated frequently. Thankfully, evidence came to light several months later that firmly cleared me and my colleague.)

I can not imagine being in a foreign country and going through a comparable situation. Beyond the right and wrong of David Miranda being interrogated, I've got a huge moral problem with any country interrogating a non-citizen without legal counsel.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but there are accessible papers listed at http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/index.html Three of the listed papers have Cheung as an author/co-author, the first two look relevant to his conceptual and research progression.

"How do they attach and unattach"

FTA: "The team is now developing an assembler robot that can crawl, insectlike, over the surface of a growing structure, adding pieces one by one to the existing structure."

FTA: "Cheung produced flat, cross-shaped composite pieces that were clipped into a cubic lattice of octahedral cells, a structure called a “cuboct” — which is similar to the crystal structure of the mineral perovskite, a major component of Earth’s crust. While the individual components can be disassembled for repairs or recycling, there’s no risk of them falling apart on their own, the researchers explain. Like the buckle on a seat belt, they are designed to be strong in the directions of forces that might be applied in normal use, and require pressure in an entirely different direction in order to be released."

There was slightly more info in the article, but these sections were the most relevant.

The thread started off with hnha asking, "why on earth is this a link to Facebook of all things?" followed by RexRollman responding, "I agree. I see Facebook in a URL and I won't visit it, regardless of what it is.", followed by you asking, "And why is that, exactly?". None of which were asking, "can I access this link without logging into facebook", so positing that the discussion can be ended simply because this link can be accessed is a non-sequitur.

Interestingly, in the same thread that hnha started, there is also a posting by brokenparser about NOT being able to access the linked content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6228750 So, not only is your position a non-sequitur, it is also based on inconsistent evidence.

On main laptop: OS X 10.6.8 with VMWare Windows XP and VMWare Ubuntu 12.04

On personal server: Ubuntu 12.04

On phone: Android 4.1.2

His proposal includes "entertainment displays", so there is some sort of built in distraction technology.

Or individuals in wheelchairs?

There was a famous marshmallow experiment out of Stanfard looking at self-control. It's been followed with many other related studies. One recently had two groups of students do a mental task (if my memory serves, one group had to add or memorize 2-digit numbers, the other group had to add or memorize 7-digit numbers). As the students left the cognitive activity area, they were offered a snack and could choose between fresh fruit or chocolate. The students with the easier cognitive task more often than not chose the fresh fruit, while the students with the harder cognitive task tended toward the chocolate. Again, if memory serves, it was a pretty strong correlation.

The points being, (a) at any given moment we have a limited amount of self-control, and (b) that limited amount of self-control extends beyond any single given task or situation.

We can increase our overall self-control (e.g., focusing for five minutes can be increased to focusing for five hours), but not significantly in a short period of time (e.g., it might take years to increase a persons ability to focus from a five minute period to a five hour period.

I can't post a long response, but there are many other student-driven reasons, including self-pacing, self-direction, accessibility, drastically reduced discrimination

Previous post discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120548

Personally, none of my friends or family, have ever bought a phone outright. We've always done some 'pay over x months' type of plan.

I'm particularly hesitant to pledge a large sum (and yes, for some of us $775 is a "large sum" to drop at once) to a Kickstarter, even a Canonical Kickstarter. But, I understand and believe in the idea.

I'd be much more willing to kick in a sum in the range of $20-80, to get a reward of my name on the founder's page and a discount of the same amount once the hardware is sold to the public.

This means I can actually afford to make a contribution that is reasonable for my budget, and that if the hardware doesn't see the light of day the I'm only out a month's cell phone payment. More importantly, if there are others out there like me, it means that Canonical's Kickstarter would be getting a little bit more of a financial boost, and people like me would be buzzing about it a lot more.

So over 26 years, there have been 120 edits? Including bug fixes? Which means not all 120 edits were bug fixes, presumably it included other things like feature enhancements? That's less than 5 changes a year on average for a 26 year old program. In my book, unless you're working on a life-or-death system or a space-bound system [1], less than 5 changes a year over 26 years is something to be proud of!

[1] And no one individual programmer should be solely responsible for life-or-death systems or space-bound systems.

So they have a vested interest in your subsequent earnings. Wow, on first blush, I think all schools should have a vested interest in your subsequent earnings.

Nope. {{hug}} elicits --> "Comment - Please only use letters, numbers, and punctuation."

The field of Adaptive Learning predates Khan Acadamy. In particular, one of the key predecessor fields - Programmed Learning [1] - predates Salmon Khan's birth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_learning

"Sufficiently advanced testing is indistinguishable from instruction. In a fully adaptive classroom, students will be continually assessed, with every keystroke and mouse click feeding a learner profile. High-stakes exams could eventually disappear, replaced by the calculus of perpetual monitoring."

I see this, combined with more adaptive selection of learning goals, natural learner exploration, and a little bit of 'gamification' as the true future of education.

Distributed Denial of Service - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddos

And handwriting can be (a) drastically slower and (b) less legible (therefore more prone to mistakes or lost information). In a 911 environment, either of these alone can cost lives. Throw in all of gregd's additional variables, and it would be a nightmare of the sort described in the article.

It'd be great to publicize a dataset of hit-times from each ip and from twitter accounts.

I actually think "paradox" is a perfectly acceptable word in the context used. The common usage meaning - contradiction - is particularly apropos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox

edit: fixed nasty typo

I put something like this on my to-do list a couple of years ago, but haven't made it to that project line item yet :-(.

Thank you for sharing what you do have, even if it's rough!

RE: "You may have to install PyQt4." - Yes. When I './run.sh', I received...

  |  Traceback (most recent call last):
  |    File "main.py", line 4, in <module>
  |      from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
  |  ImportError: No module named PyQt4

Unfortunately, I don't have time right now to find PyQt4 and install it.

"Maybe it depends on whom you hang out with."

...and your existing bills and how you are able to pay for them.

I've got a 1 hour commute each direction, and an 8 hour a day, soul-sucking, brain-energy-sucking job. (HN is sanity retention medicine for me.) By the time I get home in the evening, fix dinner for the kids and me, eat, catch up with the family, etc. I don't have a lot of time or energy for anything else.

10 hours a day, 7 days a week, for almost 6 months

While it is far from a definitive diagnosis, it isn't 'normal'.

Without a doubt it is ambitious, and her progress thus far impressive!

If only we all had 10 hours a day for a full 6 month period to spend pursuing ambitious goals ...

mattmight is a University professor, and presumably advises graduate students in his department. So he's in a slightly different role than your average joe programmer or even rock star computer scientist at the latest startup of Y-combinator fame.

In my masters program, there were about 16 books that I saw in every single one of our professors' offices. Over my coursework there, I had to buy about a dozen of them for specific courses. Before graduation I bought the others. While I haven't read every single one of them from cover to cover, I have extensively referenced every one of them. His list should serve the same purpose for the audiences he's identified.