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It's not enough.

Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) blocks a bunch of stuff on StackOverflow.

Blocks Scripts:

www.google-analytics.com

edge.quantserve.com

b.scorecardresearch.com

Blocks Cookie Only:

ajax.googleapis.com

www.gravatar.com

i.stack.imgur.com

Blocks nothing:

cdn.sstatic.net

Add content relevancy is one part of the equation, but not allowing third parties to track my actions on your site is the other, more important part of the equation (to me at least). Privacy Badger is the only adBlocker I use (besides having flash not run automatically), so I will happily view ads that don't involve tracking me.
"High school math level" may mean something different to you than it does to US students. Also, since the students taking the test haven't actually completed high school, the test won't cover material from the last few years of US high school math (which typically includes most, if not all, of the items you list). The test is not intended to be a comprehensive high school math test.
Their users are suffering because of phishing.

Measurably.

And as to "sufficient warning," sure, I can see that it would be nice to have given people like you more lead time. But then again, "GMail has always supported encryption in transit using TLS," and if you care about running your own email server, it feels to me like the writing has been on the wall for that one for a long time.
I guess the assumption is that anyone looking for parse-server has already used Parse in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
> The law you're citing -- EMTALA -- merely requires hospitals to stabilize patients.

Yes, and that's what's necessary in an "urgent emergency."
I once googled (before I had privacy plugins) for a coffee machine. Bought coffee machine. I was stalked by coffee machine ads for a month.
Could shallow underpasses be express tunnels for small robocars?
Wow, this is great, thanks!
Whether you bought a copy of the book or borrowed it is pretty much irrelevant. Particularly if your computer is on line.
You are correct in your geometry, but you forgot one thing. The earth receives a smaller portion of light for stars that further away, but the number of stars at that radius goes up by the exact same amount. So from any shell the amount of light we get is the same. If the shells go out to infinity, the light becomes infinite (well, according to the naive argument).
But why does it exist then, if it doesn't cover the high school curriculum? These are honest questions; I'm just completely buffled by the level of these tasks. They seem more like an entrance exam into a middle school than something you take when you're about to finish high school
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Well I would say memory safety, not necessarily garbage collection. It was also a bit overstatement but I would really love memory safety for many core utilities.
> In a reasonably well-behaved datacenter environment, the timing assumptions will be satisfied most of the time – this is known as a partially synchronous system [12]. But is that good enough?

Please consider this answer [0] (which I personally understood as - YES, real systems are always partial sync):
"Asynchronous systems have no fixed upper bounds. In practice, systems tend to exhibit partial synchrony, which is described as one of two models by Dwork and Lynch in Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony. [1]"

[0] http://bravenewgeek.com/category/distributed-systems-2/

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm88.pdf
BTW that's (4)(pi)(a gazillion light-years ^ 2) in case the point wasn't obvious!
Couldn't agree more. I run a number of my own services on my own servers but email is not one of them. I don't have the time or energy to keep up with it and it's imperative that I receive all emails sent to me and all my sent emails are received. Google apps does that perfectly for me and I don't have to worry about it.

As far as "I take issue with Google making the decision that everyone is going to switch, now and with out sufficient warning." it would be nice to get some notice on these changes no doubt but email is shit. It just is but we are stuck with it and at least google is attempting to drag it forward even if in doing so they leave some outdated servers/services behind. I'll take more secure of infinitely backwards compatible any day.
I am going to guess that physicists have considered your resolution and it is incorrect in the face of current measurements and models.
Google scans, stores, and indexes billions of web pages, with obvious and fairly incontestable public benefits. How are books any different? The contents of an article, a blog post, and a NY Times Best Seller all get the exact same copyright protections and considerations.

What you're proposing is no different from saving the contents of a web page to your hard drive.
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The real reason class sizes are limited isn't to maintain an "air of exclusivity", it's because the social networks that allow kickbacks and mutual aid only work if they're limited to a certain size. "Prestige" isn't a naked payoff, it's a proxy for access to that social network.
Your explanation is correct for individual stars, but it doesn't take universal expansion into account, which independently reduces the energy available from distant sources (apart from the 1/r^2 law). The reason? Same energy, more space, so a reduction in energy per unit of volume.

Also, setting aside the issue of expansion and redshift, if you imagine a sphere with a uniformly illuminated interior (imagine a surface composed of so many stars that counting them individually makes no sense) and an observation point at the center, if you increase the radius of the sphere, there's no change in the energy received at the center.

This idea works for an infinite plane as well, and is a bit easier to grasp. Imagine an infinite plane with a fixed optical brightness, and an observation point at some distance d. Now double the distance -- no change in received energy because the plane is infinite in extent.
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We have a 13 year old who is on the autistic spectrum. We were told early on that he would never speak. Now he's quoting Lord Of The Rings (from the books)

What I am suggesting takes an iron will, but that falls out of a simple idea.

The most important thing in my life in my relationship with my wife.

I think about that every single day. The required willpower comes directly from that basic, foundational statement.

And our son is better for it, even though we have taken time away from him, every day.
Because of their skin color? No.

For other reasons? Yeah. They get help too, though.
"tu muertas"???? What does that even mean? You obviously don't understand any spanish at all. LOL
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Does Stack Overflow have ads? I have been running ad blockers since they started
Not that I think it effects your point, but just off the top of my head:

System clock will take a larger step than usual. It won't go backwards.

Assumes that checkpoint and restore to a previous time won't happen.

NTP only drifts the clock (under normal operation).

Unless it's a system like this. Note that this was pulled at about 1pm EST.

Waiting for clock tick...
...got clock tick
Time read from Hardware Clock: 2016/02/09 22:36:50
Hw clock time : 2016/02/09 22:36:50 = 1455057410 seconds since 1969
Tue 09 Feb 2016 02:36:50 PM PST -1.038948 seconds

Under normal operation it will only move forward

'Under normal operation' is not really a high bar for distributed systems. After all, the network is reliable 'under normal operation' too.
Yeah, you are right. Go is too heavy weight. But the nice thing in Go 1.4+, you can install go std and dynamically link your applications. I will do it in the next blog posts to save some space, but yeah, I would still need some huge lib.
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Firefox does. I recently see an, ironically, advertisement on Caltrain, sells me that. Guess they might use TV ads to promote their ad-free browser, when this becomes the norm?
So essentially, the math questions are being revised to involve more reading comprehension and less actual math?

I can't help noticing that most of those questions contained at least one bit of completely irrelevant information. Each of those questions could be worded less ambiguously and more concisely--to test math skill, rather than reading skill. You can trick more students into getting a wrong answer by inserting red herrings and ambiguous sentences into the question, but in doing so, you are no longer strictly testing their math skills. There is no particular need to ask these questions as story paragraphs rather than lists of known facts.

The following are the same math problems, with dramatically simplified wording. If you find them easier to understand than the originals, that is because I have removed the part of the problem that involves translating the text into facts relevant to the question.

1. Armand spent 5 hours texting at a rate of m texts/hour.
Tyrone spent 4 hours texting at a rate of n texts/hour.
What expression represents the total number of texts sent?

2. P = 108 - 23d models the weekly workload of an employee.
P is the number of work units remaining for this week.
d is the number of days the employee has spent working this week.
What does the value 108 represent?

3. h = 3a + 28.6 models height (h) in inches at an age (a) in years.
How much taller does the modeled subject grow per year?

4. A vendor sells salads for $6.50 and drinks for $2.00.
The vendor sold 209 items for a total of $836.50.
How many of the items were salads?

5. Cultivar A of a fruit tree produces 20% more fruit than cultivar B.
Cultivar A produces 144 fruits.
How many fruits does cultivar B produce?
As I understand it without using credit cards you don't build any. I lived for years with only a debit card but because of the need to 'build credit' I'm now forced to have credit as well.

It seems silly to say "Americans Can’t Help Themselves from Borrowing More on Credit Cards" when the system relies on credit ratings
No, infinity times infinitesimal is undefined, you have to define your infinities more carefully to get an answer.
UE4's editor is also filled with bugs and inconveniences, and tooling and documentation for programming outside of Blueprints is haphazard at best. Crossing the C++/Blueprint boundary can be a pain, especially with interfaces. And the 2D support pales in comparison to Unity's.

On the other hand, Blueprints and the node-based material editor are really nice for quickly snapping content together.
>> That leaves the majority of Manhattan with spare subway capacity to move people around.

> I don't think this is true. One of the reasons the green line is so overcrowded is because so many people work on that line. It's not only about where people live. If you put people next to the E, it doesn't mean they only take the E.

First, I'm not sure that's the case. Most of the jobs in Manhattan are in midtown and downtown. Downtown all the lines converge and in midtown there's multiple crosstown subways. Sure if you work at Hunter College you have to take the Lexington line, but that's a relatively small number of people.

Second, inasmuch as its about where you work rather than where you live it doesn't matter whether or not you put new housing in Manhattan. If you put it in Jersey City or Brooklyn you still need to get those people to work. A moritorium on new housing in the entire metro area is a non-starter. So from that POV, you might as well put them in Manhattan.

--

Certainly though I agree that Albany and Washington should quit ripping us off so hard and that the MTA should be less dysfunctional. We could use more and better running mass transportation.
Now I can just get a free cert and turn on TLS. What's the problem, exactly?

Most people are not capable of running their own mail server. The convenience of services like Google, plus the risk of turning your mail box into a spam machine, vastly outweighs the downsides for most people.
Isn't 30$/hour low for Norway ?
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First TBL accepts DRM, now he eschews HTTPS because it changes the URI protocol and breaks the old http link?

Who are you and what did you do with the inventor of the WWW? Redirects are an easy solution to deprecated http links. And I still wish you understood DRM. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/mar/12/tim-b...
If you need a reference?
Can I suggest https://www.eff.org/privacybadger?

It selectively blocks add based on if they are tracking you, but I would imagine that most annoying adds are tracking you. You can also individually re-enable scripts/cookies on a third party domain per site basis.
Its great that Google wants all the lines carrying data from their servers to be secure and tamper proof. It would be interesting to see if they ever support end to end encryption which would lock them out of scanning the data as well.
> As the Earth's distance from a star increases, it subtends a decreasing angle in that star's "sky."

But the number of stars at a given distance increases as the distance increases, and this increase exactly cancels out the decrease in the amount of light from a given star that reaches the Earth. So your argument does not explain why the night sky is dark.

> Now divide the surface area of the dot, by the surface area of the sphere (4)(pi)(r^2). That's how much of that star's energy our planet catches.

Now do it the other way: draw a sphere around the Earth with some radius r. Calculate how many stars are on that sphere. The number increases as r^2; and, as you have shown, the amount of light reaching Earth from a given star decreases as r^2. So, as I said above, the increase in the number of stars exactly cancels out the decrease in the amount of light from each star that reaches the Earth; thus, the total starlight reaching Earth from a given radius r is a constant, independent of r.
> Also, this is a personal pet peeve of mine: if you are asking what a singleton is in a job interview, you are interviewing for the wrong thing, so no wonder you are getting the wrong interviewees.

I have to agree.

The database indexing "how" also seems to fall into this; Maybe you understand what the limitations of the decision are, but even this is moving more into Architect or DBA roles.
People who just want Twitter will find GNU social a very different experience immediately anyway, and I'd rather leave that offering to a particular server (such as Quitter) rather than the whole project.
Cardio isn't powerlifting. Every single workout is more or less the same. I worked out three times a day on cardio because the balls of my feet would get irritated after about 45 minutes, so I couldn't just do 3 hours in one sitting. The calculus changes when you're doing 14-21 workouts a week.

I want to do more cardio. Even now, I wish I could get on the machine. I've come to need it just like my morning coffee. I have to keep myself away from it so I don't get injured.

It will take me probably another year before my body adjusts to the massive amounts of cardio I want to do.
"How do you deliver software your users/clients want?" is really the only technical question you should need to ask the 10+ crowd.

The highly-experienced type of dev who could easily walk out of the interview and become your next competitor is the one you want to hire.

So, would you ask a competitor questions about one pattern, inner vs. outer joins, and naming conventions? Or would you use that time to actually learn/discover info about your (potential) competitor?
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Could you link to the feature you're talking about? Unity uses a relatively ancient version of Mono IIRC, so it's unlikely that the feature is available in Unity unless your definition of "modern C#" is "after generics were added".
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A lot of people write books, in most cases, they aren't worth reading.

The value of a creative market segment isn't measured in the average but the by the maximum. Who cares how many crap movies there are if you're watching The Godfather tonight?
It's a really standard form of 2 formula substitution, you're missing the fact that there was 209 drinks and salads sold combined which constrains the solution to a single answer. From the setup you get 2 equations where x is the number of salads and y is the number of drinks:

> [1] 6.5x + 2 y = 836.5

and

> [2] x + y = 209

Solve [2] for y and substitute into [1]:

> 6.5*x + 2(209 - x) = 836.5

You can also do this with linear algebra but this is the way I would have known as a normal high schooler taking the SAT.
> That blew my mind! So now it turns out Einstein was wrong??

No, because the light speed limit only applies to things moving through space, not to space itself, which can and does expand faster than light speed.

> We can't get particle to seriously travel faster than light and there is entire galaxy going faster??

The galaxy isn't traveling through space at faster than light speed, it's being conveyed along with the space that surrounds it at a speed that exceeds light-speed from the perspective of some distant location in space.
So "Quitter" is obliquely referencing someone that has "quit twitter"?

I guess there's a certain logic behind it, then -- but as a name that (1) creates a positive emotional feeling and (2) is intuitively obvious, it falls very short.
Possible light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 at high temperature
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well the video included shows a bit of a scare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylImuwPWLBo
I would probably fail your interview but at the same time I could probably join your team and be one of the best members of that team. Funny how that is possible.

I would definitely fail the singleton question but if it came up in work (and it hasn't for me) then I would either ask someone or look it up and then I would know it.

EDIT: Although to contradict what I said above.. I would do intense study before interviewing for a job I wanted so I would probably do well..
Just a quick note of gushing praise, OfficeSnapshots is one of my favourite sites, I've been a reader from being a teen to a twenty-something, I never expected the creator to show up on HackerNews!
The goal of GNU social isn't to provide a social network. It's to provide social networking software.
>why would they join?

I don't use twitter and I'm not looking for a new job, but it seems like an interesting enough place to work.
Scientists Investigate How Viruses Like Zika Cause Birth Defects
more like.. what secret military mission was taking place during this time...
This is a weird comment. I didn't assume the parent commenter was a GamerGate person. It is possible to dislike Sarkeesian and not be a GamerGater.

I "singled him out" because his was the first comment about this subject, and, at the time, the top comment on the thread.
Appears to be a network card.
> When we say in general relativity that particles can't travel faster than light, what is that speed measured relative to?

Relative to a local inertial frame, i.e., relative to an inertial observer (i.e., an observer in free fall, feeling no force) who is at the same spatial location as the particle whose speed is being measured. That is the only context in which the concept of "relative velocity", as it appears in the "can't travel faster than light" condition, has any physical meaning.

All of your suggested examples attempt to compare "relative velocity" between objects that are not at the same spatial location. That has no physical meaning in GR.
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Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Harness Superconductors
This depends what you mean by economic simulations -- if you are looking for general equilibrium models, Dynare is pretty popular, although many people would just code from scratch, and there are various codes here and there.

Someone else mentioned agent-based models; these are interesting, but there is a reason why there has been some (now decreasing, as models develop) skepticism towards them -- for example, quite often we see rather dumb simulated agents, who do not react to environment and do not learn from their repeated mistakes (for example, by not adjusting their behavior to tax rates...)
The question is Who does google optimize for?

As a publicly traded company, it optimizes for GOOG. I have nothing against google, but I do think there is not enough skepticism our fear about them eating the whole stack.

* Receive gmail link from friend.
* Use Chrome Browser as gateway to internet.
* Use DNS to resolve that URL.
* Site built on Angular and has new SPDY tags.
* Libraries and Fonts served from CDN.

see something unclear at the url.

* use google search to find that link
* google analytics beacons on both websites report your traffic.

I am concerned about the temptation for google to get up to something naughty. Luckily, as we now, it is an undisputed fact that our data is 100% safe with google and there are no organizations trying to actively attack their network or intercede. We also know, that compromising an individual (either an employee or a customer of google) is 100% impossible, never has happened, and never conceivably could happen. So it isn't a big deal.

So, is the issue you can't run a mailserver? Maybe. Maybe not.

You can't crawl many valuable sites now, unless you are google bot or a big vendor.

2 (3 if we count microsoft) companies can ban you from competing on mobile.

etc.

The slight losses in some areas to optimize for what google wants are small. In aggregate, they are wildly irresponsible for us to accept and we shoudlnt.
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