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New York loves feel-good laws, but this may improve how businesses deal with batteries. Many workplaces will have policies now for how to deal with batteries, particularly unionized companies where the employees will rat the company out.

IMO, there should be deposits on noxious, easily recyclable substances like batteries, plastic bags, etc. Society spends tens of billions on waste disposal and manufacturing that could be recovered by recycling materials. Without fines, fees and deposits, how else to you make the consumers of a commodity take on that cost.
Have the Indian politicians learnt nothing from the events unfolding in the Middle-East this entire year? Or could it be that they _have_ seen the power of the 'net, and are scared? This (defamatory pages) could just be a ruse to assert control over the 'net, to prevent an Indian Jasmine Revolution.
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I had the same thought about somehow using AI to make this completely automatic and increase the quality of the story. Turk does have the ability to allow workers to upload files so producing binary data like images or videos is definitely possible.

As for the cost, I was following ProPublica's advice. Apparently workers assume that less expensive jobs can be done more quickly, and if you make them too expensive the process can actually take longer:

http://www.propublica.org/article/propublicas-guide-to-mecha...
lighter, deadlier cars

Lighter <> Deadlier

For one thing, lighter frequently means "more agile", i.e., better able to avoid a crash.

But even given a crash, modern engineering can yield great safety with light weight. See the results of a "Crash Test 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air VS. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu (Frontal Offset)" [1]. In it, the dummy driver of the big iron Bel Air is pretty thoroughly killed.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g
The article is a single anecdote from the wrong side of the college continuum. After helping my daughter all year with geometry, it is not surprising to me that he couldn't do the math. Those kinds of tests ask questions like "Can you prove these triangles are congruent" and you have to remember all the SAS, SSA, ASA, etc theorems and postulates to have a chance. You will forget those after 20 years, no matter how much you excelled in high school, if you aren't using them (or derivative concepts in higher math) regularly.
Not sure what you mean. The VoIP panel is on a website and the voicemails are stored there and/or emailed to me.
Yes. This site does not require an account, and it doesn't host your profile.

It generates a zip file, generated by VPM after you've entered with your own text and images.

Then you have full control and ownership over your own profile, and you can host it wherever you like, such as mine on http://www.jasonwinder.com
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Sounds pretty cool to me. In my opinion, this is what good security forces ought to be doing today. Whether or not the government should be doing it in public places is one matter, but if I was the owner of, e.g. a football stadium or large building complex, this is exactly the type of resources I would want my security force to have access to.
Congress gets to decide which rights the states get when those rights are originally given to Congress, as is the case with interstate commerce. Nothing in that post implied that Congress can do this with everything.
Is that what you should be comparing, though? I think there's an impedance mismatch between WordPress and jQuery. WordPress is not seen primarily as a programming tool.

'Using' jQuery could mean visiting a website that employs jQuery which doesn't bring you any closer to writing anything. What we mean is people who program with jQuery, though.

The average WordPress user (say, an author or site owner) doesn't do any programming at all. A user who does do programming, like someone who customizes WordPress for people, could write one of these one line plugins. Ultimately it's comparing JavaScript to PHP, and I don't think one is more difficult.
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"To refute this, we either have to come up with a way of measuring whether streaming students based on their scores is a benefit, or we have to come clean and say it's arbitrary."

This is a false dichotomy. You could also come up with a good reason/argument/explanation of why the test would be effective, which no sees a refuting criticism of.

It's not just evidential measurements or arbitrariness. Ideas matter too!

(And in fact you need ideas to interpret measurements or evidence. Is your attempt to measure itself correct? You could try to measure that, too, but you'll immediately face the same problem again. At some point you'll have to do something other than measure.)
Thanks...that is the niche I'm aiming at, though I really don't want to give off the impression that programming has come so far along that it's as easy as pie. But it's certainly a lot less maintenance than it was when we had to compile everything.

I think that there's a good solid group of people with the smarts and dedication to do something with programming, if they can see that it's something that has virtually limitless application. I personally went into programming because I thought I wanted to make video games, and after I decided I didn't, I basically stopped doing programming until I realized how it could help me in just about every day-to-day thing I do with my computer.
There are different levels of scaling, and for different kinds of apps, the trade offs that you can make are different.
Unless you are making a really huge leap, most of the time it will be a gradual process. So unless you are talking Google or Twitter Scale in a matter of months, it may not be as bad as it sounds.

Monitor, optimize your current configurations, cache, load balance, cluster, use messaging, use existing industry knowledge on distributed systems, read academic papers and innovate...
For advanced distributed systems, checkout Prof. Indranil Gupta's lectures amont many others:
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/fa10/cs425/lectures.html
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If said service requires passwords to all of my accounts, then, no, for reasons others have mentioned.

But what about a slightly different model: Panic Button service makes deals with Facebook, Google, & other big players[1] which create channels for Panic Button to be able contact them and change passwords or lock accounts on behalf of a user, but Panic Button doesn't actually store passwords for these services?

When a user wants a lockout, they contact the Panic Button service, via at least 2-factor authentication, possibly more.

[1] No doubt rather difficult.
Simple math? What? Who said 'simple math' and how do you define it? I know my GP probably couldn't 'simple math' his way out of a paper bag, neither could a lot of valuable professionals who don't use math on a daily basis.

There's more to life than knowing how to do math. And the people ruining the world are generally not the ones that suck at math.
This is like saying 'lets save the VCR'...it's a dying technology that no one wants to save.
That is why our educational system should be based on capability and progress, not age, from grade one. Kids shouldn't be put in a situation where they will drown as it only sets them up for more difficulty later.
Sir, your ability to cram as much fallacious argumentum ad verecundiam as possible into a single paragraph is unparalleled. I salute you.
I totally agree, but I see more job openings describing hyper-specialists than "smart multi-talented cross-skilled people". Maybe who posted the job opening is like that, and he or she doesn't like competition around.
Once I lost an opportunity just because I didn't know what a particular acronym stood for. It was said the acronym was a prerequisite for the job.
What if they were just some sort of automated password manager and encrypted all the passwords with one password which you'd need to know to reset the others.
I do not have a high opinion of school board members and the article seems like superficial fluff.
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See https://www.google.com/takeout/#custom:stream

(Choose "Stream", not "Profile") You'll get each of your posts as a separate HTML file, and even the file timestamps seem to match the dates the post was made.
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Here's my take at a definition:

A privately owned network is "on the Internet" in the usual sense if it uses IPv4 (or maybe 6), is properly assigned IP addresses that are not in the private use area (publicly routable IPs), and has some systems that can exchange packets with the diversity of other networks that make up "the Internet". NAT devices tend to complicate this definition.

But that's a technical definition. You're asking about how it could be politically regulated.

Almost all privately owned networks (other than ISPs themselves) pay an "internet service provider" for "internet services". So you're not going to weasel out of regulation by nitpicking about the definition of "the Internet".
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My mother died of a sudden heart attack at home. It was so sudden that she seemed perfectly fine that very afternoon and evening according to everyone who had seen her that day. It was a shock to hear about. On the other hand, my father died, unconscious and hospitalized, after a week of unsuccessfully trying to recover from emergency surgery after months of intensive medical treatment and going in and out of hospitals. Speaking from experience, I think a sudden death is far less cruel to your loved ones. At the very least, it doesn't require them to make tough decisions.

You never get a choice, though. Some people, like my father, survive their first heart attack with no apparent long term damage while others, like my mother, don't. Some people get cancer. Some people even get hospitalized for things that aren't life-threatening--but when something life-threatening does happen, those medical problems become obstacles to effective treatment.
Actually, we are planning to have the game distributed to a bunch of reviewers and have them review the game to provide feedback to the developers. Sort of like the reviews you see in the Android Market but a little more comprehensive.
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:) Thanks for sharing your work. If you have the time could you elaborate on why Redis is not good for Rails exceptions?
What about poor language skills? You made a mistake in nearly every sentence in your comment.

Then I guess he won't be using his comment history on HN as a reference for his next interview.
It may seem counterintuitive, but I think the opposite is true. Think about it: what will people remember about you? If your death is relatively quick, the majority of their memories will be of happier times spent with you in good health. On the other hand, if you have a long, drawn-out, multi-year struggle, that will be what they remember most.

I don't have the link handy, but there was a study a while back comparing hospice care to class 3 chemo (that's the really, really poisonous bad stuff). The study found that families of those who went into hospice coped better with the loss. Furthermore, almost counterintuitively, those in hospice care actually lived longer on average. Sometimes, taking stress off the body gives it just enough room to keep fighting on its own a bit longer...
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LMAO - These guys think theyre the next Google Maps
Here's the thing... it would be one thing if privacy was gone. i.e. EVERYONE had access to the cameras, data etc. That's really the only way to avoid the panopticon.
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You are attempting to make the logical fallacy of arguing from authority. Hacker news is smart enough to see through this.

The only data I've cited is TIMSS data which is published and presumably peer reviewed. It's true that Tino Sanandaji PhD (note: he graduated, not that it matters) pointed this data in a blog post. So what? It's the same data you cite.

The data says the groups of people with top math performance worldwide (circa 2007) are:

1) Taiwan 598
2) South Korea 597
3) Singapore 593
4) Asian Americans 582
5) Hong Kong 572

From this data, how do you conclude that American schools underperform?

I'm not asking if you speak Chinese or whether "hundreds upon hundreds" of your Chinese buddies agree with you. That is irrelevant to the topic at hand.

I'm asking you for a logical argument, based on data (in particular the data that you cited), that concludes American schools underperform. Any such argument needs to control for the quality of students, since student test scores are obviously a function of both the school and the students.

If you believe the dead tree books you hint have such an argument, please tell me which book and which pages.

Or feel free to continue making logical fallacies. I'm not really posting for the purpose of arguing with you, I don't expect to learn anything from that. I'm just trying to make sure others reading your posts are not misled by vague assertions that hundreds of unnamed authorities might agree with Chinese speakers like you.

P.S. To make myself appear smart, while providing absolutely no facts, I'll cite dead trees also:

http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Book/dp/0...

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Diary-Call-Girl-Belle/dp/044654...

Some more irrelevant facts: I have a PhD, I lived in Asia, I often have sex with Asian women, and I'm a good cook.
Yes. Though I wouldn't pay for it. I have friends who would, but they're a bit more paranoid than I am.
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Same here. Both cars and bicycles are routinely careless and inconsiderate. Seems to me like the only group that's mostly on one side of the story is pedestrians, who are routinely treated poorly, if not endangered outright, by both groups.

(And that "endangered outright" comment does apply to bikes, too. A few years back a woman was killed in my neighborhood by a speeding cyclist who blew a stop sign.)
>Why? (honest question)

I meant to say StartSSL, which is the free SSL certificate provider. As far as I'm aware, their free certificated come with no warranty of any kind (although I could be wrong). Depending on how large your business is, you would more than likely go with a trusted brand such as VariSign/GeoTrust/Thawte.

Although for small projects, they're more than fine if all you care about is quickly and cheaply securing transmissions.
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Let me ask again the parents question for clarification. Do people really pay for the received sms-es? It sounds like total bullshit, because you don't have an option not to receive sms from a person, like you have with calls.
I don't track anything. I just jump in topics I want to learn at any time.
I would argue that inside a company it's communication that's important not polish. It's only when your company is interacting with the public that polish becomes important.
I think you're being a bit alarmist, the most likely attack is that someone compromises one password and then logs into a higher value site with it. They can't do it in this case.

That's not going to happen with that scheme.

As long as you're not also using this for email/banks, it's not that silly, I use a similar scheme myself, it means you can log in from computers that aren't your own to certain services without having to install anything or carry round a bit of paper.
From what I've seen from tutoring 3 younger siblings in math throughout their high school days, I think they should spend the first 3 years of high school drilling Algebra into their heads. Then in the last year they can spend half a year on geometry and half a year on trig.

From what I've seen the biggest problems my sibs had with higher math wasn't the higher math, it was the algebra underlying it. They get one year of Algebra in 8th grade and the move on to Geometry assuming they have mastered it, but they havent.
Also doing this kind of things, but with local wiki system(Golum based) and shared via DropBox.
Does this product match what you're looking for? (Pricing: "call for quote")

http://eqatec.com/Analytics/Overview.aspx

Edit: Per the Amon website, local-to-the-machine is a feature: "You don’t trust cloud based solutions and want to be in full control of your data"
I love stories like this. It takes a lot of courage to quit your day job and pursue your dreams. This seems like a great idea, I hope it works out!
I love this post, but must point out something about banks and passwords:

Malware trojans don't care about your password.

I don't know why people care about 'password cracking' when it comes to their bank accounts. Please watch "Modern CrimeWare Tools and Techniques: An Analysis of Underground Resources" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj4VkCB6obI) and your jaw may drop. TL;DW: Bank account sessions are automatically detected and wire transfers happen immediately to shell accounts. Login accounts are detected and sent to databases at C&C servers. People who know nothing about computers can generate a custom trojan to drive-by infect most computers.

Probably 95% of the time, if your bank account gets owned, it's not because someone cracked your magical password. It's because trojans are incredibly sophisticated and will take your money at the moment you log in, all undetected, with no fancy MITM or phishing or SSL cert faking.

Yeah yeah, they got your password and because it's unique now they won't get into some other account of yours. But carders don't care about your other accounts. You're one in a million people owned by their trojan. They'll get the other accounts once you log into them.
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I find it remarkable that this comment is even considered, let alone one that I jump to automatically.

The US is simply not trusted to maintain privacy, regardless of where you're from.
It's an incredible thought to reflect on.
Free or not, it seems to work pretty well for the citizens there. You don't have a sizable portion of the population filing bankruptcy over medical bills and they haven't gone bankrupt like Greece. Something Sweden is doing is right.
For everyone contemplating the prospect of hospice care vs "fight to the very end", this study might be of interest [PDF]: http://www.nhpco.org/files/public/jpsm/march-2007-article.pd...

The salient point:

> For the six patient populations
combined, the mean survival was 29 days longer for hospice patients than for nonhospice
patients.
Would've been nice with a little more meat .. like convering all the steps performed when detecting the actual SMTP servers (including connection attempts, alternative lookups when no mx records exist etc).
I've created my own service like this. The goal was to provide an archive of images for clients, showing their website's content over time and 'proof' of this or that. The setup involved a system to create VNC/xvfb screens, which ran a real browser and created a snapshot further processed with imagemagick. This required a bit of a larger VPS than I would have needed otherwise. There was some overhead and complexity. I researched the systems available at the time, and most of them were either too expensive or inadequate (i.e. only provided thumbnails, and we needed full size snaps).
I tutor all sorts of math students, from middle school and high school students to people preparing for the GRE and GMAT. The most common question I hear, by far: "Why does any of this matter? Will I ever use it again?"

Until 8th grade or so (pre-algebra), students learn math that (I think) everyone should know. After that, it can be hard to give a good answer. Why does someone who is not interested in studying math after high school need to know the quadratic formula? Why does someone studying for the GMAT need to know anything at all about geometry? Math curricula simply cover the wrong things (and as a result math tests test the wrong things).

Take a look at these two sample 10th grade math tests (the level taken by the guy in the article): http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/2011/release/g10math.pdf http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/o...

There is TONS of focus on geometry and coordinate geometry. There is NO focus on math concepts that are much more important (in my view), like basic finance, basic statistics, basic probability. These are things people need to know in order to be informed citizens, understand policy, process things in the news, rent/buy a home, take on college loans, etc.

None of this means that tests are bad of course. I think tests are, generally, a good way to understand what people know (in math).

Finally, the guy says: "The math section had 60 questions. I knew the answers to none of them, but managed to guess ten out of the 60 correctly."

If he really knew the answers to NONE of them, I have a hard time taking him seriously. I love how he gives himself credit for managing to guess 10 correctly. These tests are mostly multiple choice!
I have found that those who write poorly in the corporate world generally think poorly as well.
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This sort of service can be automated more easily.
If library authors release built, static libraries + headers (possibly as a framework), then this approach (UNIX packaging system style) is basically unnecessary.

As it is, I rarely have trouble incorporating 3rd party libraries into my projects.
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It's a lot more fun that that, a single hop is barely 'routing' :)

For bonus points

Go back in history to when mail was literally routed hop by hop through SMTP? How'd that work?

What is the sending SMTP client expected to do when the server is unreachable?

Have you seen the headers of a mail your receive on gmail? How many smtp hops inside gmails network?

In an enterprise, how many smtp servers does your email hit before it exits?

And that's partly how the horror of sendmail evolved :) Not even going into handling multiple email protocols and incompatible encoding types.