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(a) I am a grad student who works with Mazur and the post-doc who founded Learning Catalytics, so I think I am in a position to make a useful comparison. (b) I only intended to offer my opinion because, as the other commenter mentioned, some people feel Learning Catalytics is very different and I don't. I specifically wanted to avoid a lengthy back-and-forth about the nuances between the two. My two cents is that anyone who would use this product would be better served by Learning Catalytics. (c) The web link was just to alert you to the the existence of Learning Catalytics. If you want details, search harder. (d) I don't care about link style, especially not in a one-line comment. My comment wasn't hard to read or obtrusive, so why are you splitting hairs about the formatting?
Freelancers Union has an excellent tool named Client Scorecard for rating clients:

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It's anonymous and well-curated, if a little thin as of yet.
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Shutting down the connection is apparently something that they do remotely: it was difficult to ensure the data connection was shut down after canceling. I still have no guarantee OnStar did what they were supposed to

If it were me, I'd pull the fuse or if necessary cut the wires to the transmitter.
You committed a felony every day last week. Have you paid the price?

You protest that no you didn't? Oh, you did. You may not know what the felony is, but I assure you that in this country there is no way you got through an entire week without being felonious, probably multiple times a day.

Sixteenth century platitudes about breaking the law and paying the price need to be updated for a 21st century reality in which a careful reading of the law reveals that there is very nearly a law against everything, and the only thing holding society together is that we don't pay the price.
We'll have to wait and see how legal it is until a lawsuit is brought or outcry online embarrasses the company into action to change it.

Sad that those are the only two things that will get this addressed, but it seems born-into corporate existence to poke and prod at the rules until someone slaps its hand.
(function(){var k=[];return function j(){k.push(i);j();}})()();

Love it, but what that code says to me is Stack Overflow. But I'll reinterpret it to mean Mind = Blown by all the random cool things you learn in this field (infinite data structures in Haskell being the most recent one for me).

PS - I couldn't help running it in the Node REPL:

> i = 1;

1

> (function(){var k=[];return function j(){k.push(i);j();}})()();

RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

Lol :) Seriously though, you may be on to something.
The fact that a person who has not lived in the US for 30 years, has been a citizen of a foreign power for 30 years and has never earned a penny in the US nor held directly any US assets must now worry about the long arm of the IRS is ridiculous and unjust. Regardless of whether the law's aims are necessary and just or not.
If OnStar is collecting data after you cancel service, I would think that they've made themselves liable to "duty to rescue" if they observe you getting into a wreck.

If they aren't doing this -- that is, if they are observing and ignoring wrecks -- then I hope that someone starts a class action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue

"In the United States, as of 2009 ten states had laws on the books requiring that people at least notify law enforcement of and/or seek aid for strangers in peril..."
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I see lots of comments about income inequality in India. I find them very amusing.
Refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ....
You would see that India's income inequality is less than Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. The pressing problem in India right now is not income inequality. Its the lack of income, really. At this stage of development all India should worry about is earning wealth. Trying to redistribute that is a 'premature optimization'. :)
Good point. My bad on the title. Didn't think that one through. Hopefully most people still understood.
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India doesn't have as much inequality as you think. Their Gini index is very middle of the road at 36% (comparable to Switzerland and Spain).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...
I had a friend who lived in Florence for several years before email. Once he was expected a letter from home and it didn't come and didn't come, so he decided to shadow his mailman to see what was going on. Turns out the mailman did as much of his route as he felt like, and then emptied the rest of the mailbag into the Arno at quittin' time.
The title "President Obama Could End Software Patents Today" pretty much guarantees that the "legal analysis" is bunk.

As to the "conclusion", In re. Bilski wouldn't invalidate Bezos One Click patent.

Also, one shouldn't assume that all software is a "mathematical algorithm".

And then there's the RSA patent - while one can't patent algorithms, one can patent using a specific algorithm for a specific purpose. (That's been done since before computers were invented.)
As an aside, I'm curious who all the startups/disruptors are in the consumer healthcare industry? Closing the information asymmetry in consumer healthcare seems like an obvious opportunity.
It's just a bit too wide to comfortably read when I have a full-screen browser window. Otherwise, it's very good, and simple to follow.
so many pixels are wasted examining exactly how
open source Android is

From my perspective, Android is this kickass open-source technology that Google released with good intentions.

I would be pretty sad if that changed. Android in its current state (talking about 2.x) is disruptive. I hope they'll continue releasing the source code / keeping it open-source.

But "open" has become a battleground between Apple
and Google and the quality of discource has
plummeted as a result of the ensuing misinformation
an partisan sniping.

I totally agree. Sorry for adding to the noise.
The statute of limitations on unfiled taxes is essentially infinite, but the window to audit a return is only six years, so if you just file a 1040 with a zero on it every year and 20 years from now the IRS decides to get frisky, you're covered for all but the last 6 years automatically.

This is not technically correct. There are three time limits that apply:

In a normal circumstances, they have 3 years to conduct an audit.

If they suspect you've under-reported your income by 25% or more they have 6 years.

If they suspect fraud, they have unlimited time to conduct an audit. (Fraud requires intent to deceive, so it's a higher bar than just making a mistake or not understanding a rule.)
First, you are absolutely right, though you may have access to the same basic set of services whether you are in rural Mississippi or New York, the quality of those services are different. I'd rather be rushed to the hospital in New York than in Mississippi. But it is far better to have those services than not.

Second, I wasn't suggesting that only the US has all of these services, and cities in India do not. I was saying that every city (even the poorest) in the US has all of these services, whereas there are many cities and villages in India and China who are lacking some or most of these services. Outside of the major cities in India, would most small villages have these services? I don't think so. I have driven across the United States, and seen towns of 1000 people that have all of the services I have in Los Angeles.
Nope, he had a family and was the sole income source. It was a long time ago (90's) and I do believe he transferred departments not long after. Responsibility trumps rage in the short term sometimes.
It's not the code that's hidden though, it's exactly which revisions correspond to the various releases. That's still not in the spirit of free software, but if later versions are better, freely available and almost entirely a superset then it becomes a bit of a pedantic distinction.
Hell, I had more than twice that when I was a broke-ass sophomore in college. This seems to apply to all but the homeless.
semantics everyone knows what they mean. Call it public health system if you want. The idea is you are not charged per visit or per service rendered.

And a vast amount of people in countries with public health systems aren't paying a cent considering they don't pay taxes for various reasons. You can't get healthcare like this in the US you pay or get nothing.
I think Strict Transport Security does more or less exactly what you're asking for: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-strict-transpor....

But besides that, as I understand it, this attack doesn't require an HTTP request to the victim site; it only requires an HTTP request to any site, followed by an HTTPS request to the victim site, so STS wouldn't be much help here unless all websites turn on SSL and adopt STS. (Though someone should correct me if I'm wrong.)
you seem to be incapable of grasping the concept of questioning whether laws are just or unjust.

and yeah, every fetus about to be born in the us signs a licensing agreement around the third trimester. it's entirely comparable to being a licensed apple developer.
It's true that OnStar's TOS is awful, but the author leaps to several inflammatory conclusions that, to me, seem unjustified.

The most obvious one is when he mentions the boilerplate about a part of OnStar being sold, and then theorizes that they are actually planning to sell, perhaps even to one of those great boogeymen, Apple or Google.
Every so often I scan through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws for a reminder.
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Broken is when an attacker can decrypt your gmail without a fake cert. That's broken.

Are you saying that TLS 1.0 is not broken?

Sounds like instead you are saying that it's been broken for so long that this isn't breaking news. But "broken" as in "breaking news" is not at all how anyone parsing your initial post would grok it.
Tattoos, piercings, hair coloring, makeup, clothing are often for ourselves, not for being pretentious.

And yet he posts it on the web, and specifically asks for other people's opinions.

In my experience people who very much care what others think of them, often claim not care what others think of them.
This is my opinion exactly. I am a big fan of Elon Musk and SpaceX. I often feel that we have accomplished nothing since the 60's and 70's in terms of spaceflight which is very disappointing. It's also disappointing to see how much money we have spent. Now Musk is doing everything NASA did and more at literally like 1 thirtieth of the cost. I really hope we begin to invest more as a society, but from the private sector.
I would think this isn't limited to in-vehicle hardware like OnStar, but rather it seems applicable to smartphones too. That smartphone in your pocket is moving just as fast as your car and could just as easily be used to gather such data. Perhaps not as fine grained as the OnStar information (talking coarse vs fine location) but there's certainly enough data casually collected by your dormant smartphone to enable much of the same exploitation.
I think this is the JS monkey equivalent of having the Chinese characters for 'strength' and 'wisdom' tattooed on your forearm.
read you ignorant idiot http://news.change.org/stories/americas-third-world-pine-rid...
I'd rather him bring it up to HR. If he quits, do you really think the manager would realize it's because of him? And do you think that his manager would even realize what happened?
Of course RMS is upset about Android. Linux came to be, or at least became popular, largely as a result of the GNU project's complete failure to produce a kernel. This in itself has been an annoyance to RMS, thus the constant GNU/Linux rants. Now Google has combined the successful Linux kernel with an entirely non-GNU userspace to create a wildly successful system. However, despite having no GNU components itself, Android could not have existed without GNU initially fuelling the popularity of Linux. To RMS, this obviously stings, and being RMS, he must point fingers and cry "non-free" rather than take it like a man.
I can't speak for everyone, but for some it's a case of never being able to get your brain to shut down properly from a work point of view, which can be both the reason for sleep problems and the reason for success.

My current boss summed it up once when he said "the reason I'm always working outside hours [he works most evenings, will often get an email from him at 3am, most days a call sometime between 8pm and midnight - and this isn't some young startup hacker, he's a successful CEO of 10 years] is that I'm afraid of missing any opportunities".

Another way of putting that is Carpe Diem, one of my favourite quotes.

I'm the same, no matter what I'm doing - including trying to get to sleep - thoughts keep cropping up. Should we be talking to Company X. Do we need to hire Person Y. Why haven't we created Product Z.
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Hopefully GOG.com will get it sooner rather than later.
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> It’s taxation without representation.

No it isn't. She still gets to vote in US elections if she wants to. That's WHY they still collect taxes.

I'm not saying it is right, but that is the explanation usually given. Because even though you don't live in the US, you still receive benefits, like protection from the military and other benefits that all US citizens get.

I actually don't think it is entirely unreasonable to tax ex-pats, especially since the first $80K is exempt.
"the origin of the organ which produces human thought was fundamentally misunderstood without the evolutionary framework."

This is a concise version of the fundamental category mistake Dawkins makes. In one sentence, we've dogmatically blown past thousands of years of deep reflection on the mind/body question. It's not as if the idea that mind were reducible to matter had never been broached before, or that the Mendelian breakthrough provided some evidence that was philosophically pertinent. And Certainly Origin of Species does not put a cap on that discussion any more than Dennett's Consciousness Explained does. It's very much a live question to this day, as it was a live question when Cicero and Lucretius engaged on the very same terms.

If the mind/body problem has not been settled now (and it certainly wasn't in 1859, that's more than anyone could possibly claim) then for that reason at least no one should take Dawkins seriously on this count, and fortunately very few serious thinkers do.

"although neuroscience will get us close in the next century"

This is first-rate eschatology, more cashing out of the infinite blank check of the Future of Science (let us pray). This is dogmatism, not science, not philosophy. It's hope.
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Considering that many people were "born into" that 'licensing agreement', and considering the penalties for leaving that 'agreement', I would say the contract is practically the definition of unconscionable.
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A lesson to be learned is that execution is more important than content. You could listen to 1,000 people deliver that joke and it's likely no one would do it as well as Norm.
Android is open-source in this same way id Tech is
open-source

On the stuff released by id -- that's pretty awesome what they are doing there and a lot of enthusiasts and even small companies have built stuff on top.

Of course, Android is much more than a game engine and the difference between Google and id is that being open-source comes in Android's value proposition.

it's no longer commercially viable

The Quake engines are still commercially viable for mobile phones. It also beats starting from scratch when low on budget.
My thoughts exactly. Between reddit and HN I see a Benford's Law post every month or so.
"Understanding our reasoning capacities as the outcome of a natural physical process leads to my agreement with Dawkins's claim that any philosophical result prior to 1859 can be disregarded"

On a side note: Of _course_ _Dawkins_ would say that, being an evolutionary biologist... :)
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Make sure you read the debate in the comments. It's as fascinating as the article.
And in 2060 developers will probably think something like what would think today, if shown a tattoo of "ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y" in the flaccid forearm of a 70-year-old.

Still, much, much better than those at Hanzi Smatter [ http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ ].
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I don't consider genuine questions noise. I personally could talk all day about the ins and outs of free software/ open source community management and the ethical implications thereof. Similarly for RMS's article, while I think he's got a couple of facts wrong, he's putting across a fairly nuanced argument.

But just like a Creationist discussing the flaws in an evolutionary theory, or a tobacco baron discussing how hard it is to actually prove cause and effect in science, I find most discussions of the openness of Android to be agenda driven to the point that they're actively reducing (the geeky subset of) the population's understanding of these issues rather than expanding them. That's noise.
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Interference can be a problem, to be sure. But you can't create a successful business without feedback of all kinds, including technical. It's just that it has to be done thoughtfully, with respect for your talent and opinions.

You could be right, and it may well be that someone with zero technical knowledge can lead a team to success by being completely hands off. I just have to believe that success is more probable when the boss can sit down and brainstorm solutions to problems with the dev team when needed.

And perhaps more importantly, I know I appreciate it when my previous bosses understood when they were asking for something hairy, and appreciated the level of effort and skill that went into crafting a solution.
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Interesting top response in the previous discussion. I disagree almost completely with him.

A majority of people who play a sport (or learn any skill for that matter) are specifically not deliberate about their practice, and hence never surpass mediocrity. Within the first 50 hours or so (varies greatly depending on complexity of the skill), many of the actions required for a majority of the skill become automatic and learning slows significantly as a result. People highly skilled in something naturally (or consciously) never fully sink down in comfort and automatism, and remain deliberate and conscious about becoming better at every sub-skill within the greater.

The guy attempting the 10,000 hours (supposedly, I haven't been following him to determine if it's true) is specifically talking about this latter form of practice. The person commenting may not fully understand how much more can be accomplished with heightened focus, determination, discernment, and deliberation.
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I'm not a fan of words in tattoos, so I could never get behind a code tattoo—

But I really like how it uses the interpretation of code as a flow of information. It's how I think about programs, it's both fundamental and often misunderstood, and it makes for a great story.
Interesting service and a nice UI. I just gave it a shot. Interested to see how well it works!
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Worth to note that it's not about 10000 hours, it's about 10000 hours of deliberate practice. The amount of people who do that is far smaller.
> Surely he has them on some thumb drive with other keepsakes in the attic or something.

Do you really think that that's how folks (who aren't ex-Clinton officials, that is, Sandy Berger) handle classified materials? Hint - they don't take them home as keepsakes. They'd go to jail for that, or less.
#2 is definitely a factor for me - regular hours never worked well for me.
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It's easier just to jam the satellites directly instead of shooting them down. In the case of anything less than a full-on shooting war it leads to much less diplomatic trouble as well.
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I always wondered why Google had decided to use native code and not a portable and somehow standardized solution like LLVM. (Yes, I know about PNaCl)
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Yes, there are problems with socialized medicine. But there's problems with US style medicine too. Theorists can argue forever about this, but it's pretty empirically clear that the US system sucks, and costs a lot of money. The other systems suck less, and cost less. Which would you prefer?
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What trolls? The starter of this subthread raised a legitimate point.
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1. 'compose f g' doesn't call g and then f, but it constructs a new function of the form \x -> f (g x).

2. Maps store mappings between keys and values.

3. Left and right folds both process a list recursively from start to end. However, left folds apply the given function first and then recurse. Right folds recurse first and then apply. As a result, in right folds the given function is applied to the last element first.
This is really not ok, and means I'll never buy any car that has OnStar.
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