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by runako 14y ago

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ColinWright 14y ago
From the Guidelines[0]: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. What can be of more intellectually interesting than education itself? Hn has shown itself over and over again to be horrified at the existing education system, and interested in how to change it, by evolution, or by revolution. Indeed, many startups are actively trying to disrupt education. This article is in some senses a call to action. Just my $0.02. [0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- runako 14y ago
  I'd agree with you if this article were more about hacking education, or one of the many education startups around. But it's not, really. <Edit> Obviously the guidelines can be used to justify any posting. "...anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" would seem to include anything. But as a community, we don't discuss the intellectually stimulating points of Victorian literature. That's not really what HN is about. If you read further in the guidelines, you'll see the point that makes this post off-topic: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This is exactly the type of story the local news channels run. </Edit> It's fine to agree to disagree on this point. I believe Hacker News can and should be different from Reddit. It's certainly easy enough to find articles like this on Reddit or Huffington Post; why crowd out articles about gdb in favor of general news? Maybe the HN community would rather read general news here, which is fine as I only have one vote.
- jhcoaps2 14y ago
  It's obviously against the guidelines. There are about 7,200,000 teachers in United States. If we assume that teachers are nearly perfect creatures who (on average) exercise seriously flawed judgement once every ten years, then we should have about 2,000 examples per day. Reading about every uncaught exception is not intellectually stimulating, it's horrendously BORING. Please don't redefine terms to pretend otherwise. It's dishonest, disrespectful and degrading both to yourself and HN as a whole.

Flagged: off-topic.

by runako 14y ago

Flagged: off-topic.

deleted 14y ago

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ColinWright 14y ago

From the Guidelines[0]: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. What can be of more intellectually interesting than education itself? Hn has shown itself over and over again to be horrified at the existing education system, and interested in how to change it, by evolution, or by revolution. Indeed, many startups are actively trying to disrupt education. This article is in some senses a call to action. Just my $0.02. [0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

runako 14y ago
I'd agree with you if this article were more about hacking education, or one of the many education startups around. But it's not, really. <Edit> Obviously the guidelines can be used to justify any posting. "...anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" would seem to include anything. But as a community, we don't discuss the intellectually stimulating points of Victorian literature. That's not really what HN is about. If you read further in the guidelines, you'll see the point that makes this post off-topic: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This is exactly the type of story the local news channels run. </Edit> It's fine to agree to disagree on this point. I believe Hacker News can and should be different from Reddit. It's certainly easy enough to find articles like this on Reddit or Huffington Post; why crowd out articles about gdb in favor of general news? Maybe the HN community would rather read general news here, which is fine as I only have one vote.
jhcoaps2 14y ago
It's obviously against the guidelines. There are about 7,200,000 teachers in United States. If we assume that teachers are nearly perfect creatures who (on average) exercise seriously flawed judgement once every ten years, then we should have about 2,000 examples per day. Reading about every uncaught exception is not intellectually stimulating, it's horrendously BORING. Please don't redefine terms to pretend otherwise. It's dishonest, disrespectful and degrading both to yourself and HN as a whole.