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What about getting someone to change your WoW password unless you exercise 4 out of 7 days?
Why do wealthy corporations fire poorly performing employees but not bad corporate officers?

That question is probably more important and relevant than trying to find yet another rationalization for attacking the middle class. That articles like this appear on HN at all is an embarrassment.
In other words, they're upset that AT&T's vacant marketing hype posing as a genuine technical specification is diminishing the value of their own (and better established!) marketing hype posing as a genuine technical specification.

How...frustrating.
I don't know about scam, the search page itself is definitely lacking--all I found was geophysics. It could be that the original analysis is good, but the web page is lousy.

When looking at median salaries for physicists, on the BLS site (where this data is taken from: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos052.htm), it is $103,000 which isn't all that bad (if you can get a job). But, the problem with the proxy that the author uses (given job, extrapolate major) is that it doesn't account for fields where relatively few people actually get jobs in that field, but tend to migrate to other fields--depending on what field they migrate to, then the salary may be much higher or lower. Take physics for example. The fraction of physics PhDs who actually get jobs as professors is rather small. The fraction who go on to national labs is small--even the numbers for industry (doing physics) is small and many people leave for other fields (programming, financial engineering, management consulting, etc.)--So to get accurate numbers, what you need to do is to survey people at companies and ask them what their degree is and what their salary is....
Microsoft's solution was also cloud-hosted:

Microsoft, in an e-mailed statement, said Interior “determined that the dedicated, U.S.-based cloud solution offered by Microsoft met its minimum security and other requirements after a careful and thorough evaluation, and that Google’s solution did not.”
Google taking over another industry?
I don't see anything at all wrong with the Metro PCS offering. If you want any of their options, you're getting a fair deal. Completely unlimited internet access is still being offered, so no one is actually restricted or harmed.
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If you seriously think the US government is doing than most "governments of the World" to control information, you need to be better informed.
At 33 million miles to the millimeter, the about 4000 million miles from the sun to Pluto would be around 120mm. Just beause you had an error in your calculation doesn't imply that either your teacher nor science as a whole are wrong.
People have been using paper as a content creation medium for millennia; there clearly isn't anything inherently anti-creation about the tablet form factor. Tablets are only bad for content creation if you consider 'content creation' to mean traditional creative computer software. Photoshop CS5 would be terrible on an iPad, yes, but that doesn't preclude the future existence of equally deep and compelling tablet image editing software (for example).
Yeah, I figured it was, but I wasn't completely clear on it, so I commented.
There's more people working on search quality than ever in our history. The PR team for search quality does a great job pitching stories about search quality, how it's hard, etc., but lots of reporters prefer to write about the shiny things (or more tangible things--you can hold a phone in your hand) rather than improving search quality.

But Google continues to work hard on improving search every day, even if that doesn't always get covered.
You can't really compare a 125k reward ticket, with extremely limited availability, to a full-fare unrestricted last minute F ticket.

In terms of restrictions, it's much more reasonable to compare to a Z fare (highly restricted first class), which is probably closer to $3-5k r/t.

flyertalk.com is the hackernews of frequent flyer mile optimization, though.
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Thanks for checking out the site. Some case studies would be a great idea, I am about to use the software myself (in real business) to setup/manage a few JV's, I shall publish the results. Thanks for that idea.

Monetization - freemium model. Once numbers have increased to a threshold, the amount of businesses you would wonder who you could trust. Business relationships are formed around trust. So additional verification added to businesses who want to upgrade and also the current limit of a max of 5 active Joint Ventures lifted, among a few other things.

Thank you for giving your feedback. I appreciate the time you took to do it.
I've watched that particular Frontline special before, and I must say, as a current college undergrad, it is eyeopening. Although, I must applaud the University of Phoenix investor, Michael K. Clifford. He is at least doing some form of philanthropy with all the money he's is making from for profit universities.

I wish I had a mentor of some sort as a teenager, who would have convinced me to attend a public institution or a junior college first, which would ultimately lower my student loan debt. I was suckered in by all my advisers and and the media that the only way to succeed is going to college.

I'm currently going to be somewhere in the ball park of $100,000 in debt after my 5 year BSIS degree at Drexel University in Philadelphia. I do not even live on campus; I commute from my childhood home. All I've had after 4 years there is horrible professors and teaching assistants from another planet. I wanted to learn how to program and create things, but all that I've learned is that I could have received a better education from my local public library.
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I clicked on the link to this article expecting some thoughtful questions on why poor teaching is a contributing factor to poor education overall in America, and how the system is doing much about it, but I feel like I read an entire article that can be summarized as "A lot of teachers are doing good work, sometimes under tough conditions, but plenty of them need firing too. We need a way to figure out the ones that need to be fired, somehow. Possibly involving test scores."

In my opinion, the question we need to be asking is not "how do we find bad apples" but "how do we improve the quality of the apple tree." Good education is hard to come by regardless of what teacher, or indeed, school district you come from. The problem may not be how good is teacher performance, or even how good is student performance, but what is the quality of the teaching goals and design of lessons. Once we've successfully answered that question, then we can focus on the teachers who consistently have "losing seasons."
The top result for [diy solar homes] looks pretty good. http://www.builditsolar.com/ Looks like it has a lot of resources, though I don't know where it gets them or whether it has any claim to them. Was this one of the bad results for you?
god I hate headlines like that
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That thought already crossed my mind and while the search results wouldn't be as accurate until you signed in and provided more details about the business (as you said the business would have to have goals/values similar to yours) it could be done.

But then I come to the chicken and the egg problem. With no businesses to start with, it's not useful. And no businesses will sign up until it is useful.

And unfortunately unlike Quora or other sites, I just can't fake that user data until I make it. Any suggestions?

And thank you for your time in checking out my site. It's much appreciated.
I rummaged up the numbers from the BLS this fall for unemployment vs. education over the past 10 years. They came out to something like this:

No HS degree: > 10% unemployment

HS/some college: 7-9% unemployment

Associates: 5-7%

Bachelors+: 4%

Seasonal fluctuations drop dramatically as education levels go up.

I have heard anecdotally that Masters+ is 2%, but the BLS did not provide data there.

The BLS did not quantify the jobs (e.g., the MA in English working as a barista qualifies as employed).

My conclusion is this: the data recommends a degree for employment, statistically speaking.
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so Bill Gates really would have been a nanny if expectations had been different.
The contract is probably for 3 or 5 years, so the yearly cost is probably around $110 - $190 per user per year. $190 would probably be a bit on the high side, but it depends on the technical and security requirements.
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I think there are a few factors at work:
1) In the developed world for people with good incomes and health insurance, people live in relative safety and misjudge risk. Many diseases are rare or nonexistent, so are not viewed as risks as compared to autism (which may receive more media attention, than say the last measles outbreak).
2) Difficulties with distinguishing correlation/causation
3) Interested parties intentionally muddying the waters. The tobacco industry is a prime example of this and Merchants of Doubt makes for excellent, albeit chilling, reading.
4) A desire for control--it's easier to blame someone else if your kid gets autism then to ascribe it to unknown causes. For a parent (who believes that the risk of not vaccinating is small), it may be more satisfying to believe that they can protect their kids against autism, rather than face the fact that either due to unknown environmental or genetic (or an interplay between the two) factors, their child may become (or was diagnosed with) autism and there is nothing that they can currently do (have done) to prevent it....
Do you have any lifestyle/diet resources you can point me to?
Yeah, sure it is, because that's horrible advice. Does anyone actually believe that all degrees are equally valuable?

I think people have a general idea of which degrees are more valuable than others, a flawed and vague idea to be sure, but it's not obvious that this data is more accurate than that.

I wonder if you couldn't get very similar results by asking people on Mechanical Turk to rank degrees by what they thought was their value.

Regardless of how it fares against other advice, it still has flaws that can significantly affect its accuracy; and I'd want anyone I cared about to understand that before making decisions based on it.
Just an idea. If made the search open to the public, but required a little bit of information at the start e.g. what industry you are in etc (some search parameters, but not identifiable information) then it turned up unimpressive results (as it would at the moment since there are not many businesses in there)

Then say, do you want to be notified of any other businesses that are interested in a JV with you in the future.

Would you signup to that? Or would you move along?
Scale back your practice, and dabble in web programming. You may realize you don't enjoy it, and would rather hire someone to do it.

Give yourself 6 months of dabbling, then reevaluate market conditions, & lifestyle conditions before jummping in.

Keep in mind that Ben Bernanke is turning off the taps in June, and the markets may drop. And who knows how the global economy will react once its fix of cheap USD is gone.

Web 2.0 is in a bubble. The fact that a doctor wants to get in on it is a signal that the bubble may have reached its apex. So wait 6 months, and see if it pops. If it does, and you still want to proceed, you can hire developers on the cheap.
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Looking at that photo of two programmers in white lab-coats just proves that anti-virus companies are in the business of fear theatrics, bamboozling and lies. Scum of the earth.

I can't imagine what public presentation would merit this monochrome spectacle of terror. A debug.com/symdeb.exe disassembly and hexdump of some antique 16-bit DOS virus, presented by a panel of scientists in lab-coats. Makes you wonder why they aren't wearing gloves and gas-masks.
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Bill is like many others, haunted by his past, but appart from that he was a great men. Others would have killed many people rather than avoid much pain.

see you some day bill.
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So we find out the emperor has no clothes. Unsurprising.
Of course, those studies are based on what gets funding. So, science is not a pure pursuit of truth wherever it leads, but a pursuit of the truth that gets funded. Sometimes only part of the truth can be more misleading than an outright falsehood.
I've been wondering what the outcome was since the suicide note was posted here briefly the other day, and have been meaning to look for an obituary. It was a very powerful note. I hope he can finally access the peace he sought.
If you ever see an injustice being committed without the perpetrator being caught and punished, keep this in mind.

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Someone with more time on their hands. I've actually worked close to this subject area already. It can be solved, but I'd have to care more than I do to bone up on the material to tackle it.
I also found martial arts to be a great workout! Sparring was a lot of fun (especially against people from different styles) and burned a lot of calories. Now, I play badminton--it's not sparring, but it does move quickly :>
Once Google has significant amounts real human ratings on the usefulness of a site in general or the usefulness of the site given a specific search, machine learning techniques could then be used to predict the usefulness of unrated sites.

I just know I see a lot of worthless junky sites on the first page, and I wouldn't think it would be hard to recognize them using ML techniques, which requires training data.
> Windows 8 on ARM won't support legacy x86 code, but will run .NET. I can see Windows 8 on x86 supporting legacy code

Hmm, I don't believe so. That'd introduce fragmentation that Microsoft's typical users (mom and pop) should not have to deal with.

Also that'd be a pretty drastic policy shift for Microsoft seeing the pains they've gone to maintain compatibility with older software.

My guess is that, at the very least, Win8 apps running native code will be packaged into a universal binary of some sort. I find that half-hearted though, since it requires recompilation of the original software.

wtracy suggested the possibility of JITing x86 to ARM, that's ballsy and it'd be awesome if Microsoft pulls that off.
I think it is an insight just in your statement that there is no such thing as an institution for innovation. That means I should foster innovation where I find it, no matter how unlikely, instead of looking to build utopia.
> b) They get paid for the risk. Many schools pay more for a football coach than they do for the school principle.

Some good points in your comment, but this one is off - coaches aren't getting paid for the risk. They're getting paid because talented ones bring in immense amounts of revenue and are in short supply - thus, the wages/price of coaches sets in at a high equilibrium.

There's not the same scarcity of organizational administrators as there are sports coaches, which requires an extremely specialized skillset that's in high demand. Thus the, hmm, "increased revenue over alternative candidates" number is lower for principles than coaches. A lot lower. Thus, they get paid less.

Rest of your comment has some good points though.
> mussels, beef stroganoff, garlic whipped potatoes, green beans, steamed broccoli and a pineapple and blueberry salad

Hm, that sure beats the spinach and cottage cheese I just mixed together and called a "salad". But hey, dinner took 40 seconds. Now a quick check of HN, and back to work I go...
i don't think Bill is into your fallacy dude, your "see you someday" fallacy killed him, have a little respect.

(clearly the promoters of the comment above either didn't read the note, or have absolutely no sense of respect for what Bill said, ATROCIOUS)
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Also, instead of using institutions to foster innovation, I believe innovators should use institutions for their innovation.
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We're working on revamping our libraries and will most likely add something like this in a future release.
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The power of that p6 chip is too much for you.

nvidia congrats, this has been a long time coming. if feel like nvidia is tron in this case and intel is the mpc, fight for the user.

it's time to embrace massive parallelism. this will change everything.

I am really excited and happy to be a shareholder of nvidia now.
Maybe Google could scrape DDG on the fly for each search, then do a diff, and filter out any results that arn't in DDG... that would be the fastest way to remove spam ;)
This has been known for several years by people who have followed Brian Deer’s investigations and the Autism Omnibus Proceedings.

At the same time there have been massive targeting of parents of autistic children by quack therapists.
One thing that I notice about the spam sites and scraper sites is that they often have very similar content and/or layout. What if Google was able to determine how similar certain sites where and consolidate those into a single result, like they do with Google News?

Then when I search for AMD Bulldozer news and there are 20 sites all with the same article, from the same date, I don't have to change my search parameters to show just the last month. Instead, it would determine that the content was similar, smash into a single result, and leave room for 9 more less-similar results that may better include what I want.
You raise an excellent point. I normally do shove my email address into things to be notified of in the future, and the weirdest thing is I hardly ever get notified.

I think this would work well (for people like me anyway...)
UChicago gives a speech every year entitled "The Aims of Education" to its freshman class. One quote from a while ago: "There are no aims of education. The aim is education. If -- and only if -- you seek it... education will find you." From what I know of my UChicago friends, they really downplay majors and emphasize their liberal-arts core.

In other words, it seems that education is generally a pursuit for personal enrichment, unless you happen to love whatever field will make you money (I thank my lucky stars that I'm in computer science and my internships are quite well paid; my friends in other disciplines like journalism are not so lucky).

I have generally judged people who major in economics here but hate it (it's a big thing at Northwestern, since we don't have undergrad business). It always seemed like those people are saying "I want to get into a good business school and then stuff myself into a suit for the next 40 years"; it's a depressing analysis of one's own strengths. But then again, maybe those people are just smart and I'm just lucky.

I also wish we'd work with kids on finances before they pick a college. Here at Northwestern, student loans are capped at $20k. It's one of the most expensive schools in the US, but the financial aid office does try to keep its students from drowning in debt. Other schools, though, don't really care how much debt students rack up, and they're the ones with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to work on.
This is actually a good line of thinking. Although you feel your best and think the clearest when you've kept near-perfect sleep and nutrition hygene, sometimes you need a different bag of emotions to get an idea. That could mean fasting, sleep deprivation, alcohol, caffeine, smoking...

However, not knowing which one is useful to you at any time, it's hard to know which is the most effective for work. But being mostly sober/mostly healthy is known to be the best (long-term) for staying alive and well, and startups are, on a human scale, a long-term game. You don't make $1,000,000 because you stayed up all night to ship.
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I agree that the government's job is to keep others from infringing on individual rights, but I don't see a content provider's rights being violated. Let's say Verizon starts offering "everything on the net except NetFlix" as a package. They're not obligated to carry any traffic they don't want, and there's no law that stops them from blocking that traffic right now. They don't do it because they'd lose tons of customers; this is one evil thing that they have an incentive not to do. (If all ISPs, or even all ISPs in a given area do this, then rights are violated, and they'd get slapped with violations of the RICO Act; that's a different matter, though.) They lose money if they do it. What if the FCC decides to kill off NetFlix, though? The downside for them is that somewhere down the line (still waiting for this in the case of the DMCA...) a judge tells them they can't.

Let's say it's fine for the FCC (or another government entity) to do this, though. What if I run open WiFi, but I block bittorrent traffic? Have I violated my neighbors' rights? I think I can do what I want with my pipe, but would this be under the FCC's authority? I'm not a business, sure, but what about the WiFi at, say, Starbucks? I trust a non-monopoly much more than I trust a government, which has a de facto monopoly over imposing its will by force on the populace.

Built into the laws of this country is an inherent mistrust of the government., the idea that authority over the populace has a corrupting influence, and that it should be kept limited to the extent possible. You hope for the best (a benevolent set of leaders) but plan for the worst (a power-hungry group of totalitarians). The Constitution's plan for the worst is to avoid trusting in our leaders' benevolence and keep them from getting enough rope to string us up. It's what I love about this country.

I think most of the commenters here agree on that principle, so I would like to apologize as it seems I've been a little abrasive, and we're all on the same side here (at least apparently). But I am secure in my belief that the government is too big already and its authority needs to be reduced, not expanded in any direction.