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Additional links about this issue, which are in the form of online PowerPoint files, can be found at

http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/teaching/lecture/

The presentation titled "Presentation - False Positive - CMU 2011 10 05.pptx" is especially interesting, as it talks about "researcher degree of freedom (also known as p-hacking)."
I’m not saying that your customisations are breaking Firefox, I’m saying that something in your profile has gone awry and is causing it to crash. I’ve not used the page colour customisation but it’d be worth trying a stock Firefox then dropping your customisations back in to see if that fixes it.

You can create a new profile by following these instructions: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager#Linux

You can also see a list of crash reports from your install by going to about:crashes . These link through to the Mozilla crash log server, which often then links onto the appropriate bug in Bugzilla. You might find that what’s causing the crashes has been fixed in an upcoming release.
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Edit: this is my 1st 'submit' wanted to try it
The headline is sensational, but this is just Europe spending money on "valuable research".
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It says in the second paragraph he's an elected official.
What is this? Watch your speech, because Big Sib has installed the Netpolice; that which does not ingratiate itself to the fancies of the power-mongers shall be expunged.

No service provider should bear, or provide any means to further, this idiocy.
Hehe it'd be the first time I hear from them. Looking forward to it!
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> ... password managers like LastPass ..., but let's think about this for a moment. I have the choice of either making my passwords so memorable and reused that i'm at a grave security risk, or of making them so secure that i need a computer program to store them for me. This is fucked up. This is fucking broken. This should not be allowed to go on.

Uh, how are SSH keys not using a computer program to store your secrets? Just use a password manager. You discovered the hard way why your special scheme doesn't work. Use a password manager (like KeePass). Use it with Dropbox, use it with a Flash drive.
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In my case, if the site becomes important to me, I change my password for that site. Except for certain sites, I don't make use of the browser remembering passwords feature.
Really cool article, I learned a bunch. It's cool that she talks about the role that imitation plays in a creator's growth. A different sphere but reminds me of this rap from the song Dr. Carter.

Good afternoon Dr. Carter
I don't know about this one
His confidence is down, vocab and metaphors needs work
And he lack respect for the game
[LW] Uhhhh let me see
[FN] You think you can save him?

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Okay respect is in the heart so that's where I'mma start
And a lot of heart patients don't make it. But, hey, kid
Plural, I graduated
Cause you can get through anything if Magic made it
And that was called recycling Re: reciting something
Cause you just like it so you say it just like it
Some say it's biting but I say it's enlightening
I strongly agree. The learning process takes as long as it takes. What might take one person an hour, could take another person a week. But when it comes to education funding in general, the easy way out is to set a easy to quantify metric and use that as the yardstick
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Sometimes the things you've forgotten are important indeed!

The other day I was building something and realized that I hadn't done a trig problem in at least 10 years. I felt pretty sad when I had to look up how to solve it. I still remembered the general concept, but the details were lost on me. Yet, it was important that I knew how to do it.

I'm trying to go through Khan Academy in my spare time to learn and relearn the math that has slid out of my memory.
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A lot of people have voiced similar concerns on this thread and I strongly disagree, at least with the part where you say "no math=no value". I know plenty of people at my work who probably can't add two fractions together but are still extremely valuable to the company as a whole. Managers, lawyers, graphics designers, salespeople, the list goes on. Though a passing knowledge of math may be mildly useful in a few situations, having no knowledge of the subject at all really isn't any kind of problem for some people.

I agree that everyone should learn math in school, but that's so they can learn how to think and analyze. If the skills have atrophied through disuse I would conclude that they have found other ways to achieve the same goals.
I believe they are associated with the Global Heart new age spiritual movement. Which would explain the, fringe site. I see the dolphin research efforts on the news from time to time given that I am in FL and I spend a lot of time in the keys. Other people in marine research in FL treat them like a legitimate organization, doing legitimate research, but their site reveals their bias http://speakdolphin.com/home.cfm . Take it with a grain of salt but I don't know if the conspiracy site is reflective of their organization. It may be a little unfair that their message is being carried in that light. While some members of the organization may subscribe to such beliefs, it may not be all of the organization. There is most definitely marine animal conservation ambitions which is a big bias in favor of dolphins being intelligent.
I live in Berlin and I see non stop clones, I just would like to hear views from users in the US , how they feel about such blatent cloning.

I find they hold back the scene for people with great new ideas in europe as investors invest a lot more in these " safe bets " .
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That's the interesting thing, once you 'know the road' you know all the places where you can't see the road surface but because you know where the road is in the terrain ahead you can make optimised judgements about visibility to oncoming traffic, comfortable cornering speed etc. Also you'll know which corners have passing places which allow two vehicles to pass comfortably at speed. A lot of people not used to single track roads are frightened by local drivers coming round corners 'too fast'. Often it's because people don't realise that to keep on the left you need to take an extreme outside line which means steering away from the corner into a passing place and back again as you go around. I tell people this when they come to visit and they usually find it a lot less stressful driving here afterwards.
Great example. Would've done well as an example in the post.
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I'm not convinced it's quite so straightforward. The problem isn't exactly that the kernel is sleeping when it shouldn't. After all, there's nothing to do, so sleeping is sensible. The issue, as I understand it, is that the C6 state in modern CPUs causes them to sleep so deeply that it takes a long time to wake up when an interrupt does occur. From the time of the interrupt to when the handler can run, the high-throughput device (such as a camera, but this also happens for external USB 3.0 hard disks and SSDs, it's just less noticeable as the data isn't realtime and unbuffered) fills up the available DMA buffer(s) and has to stall. So I guess the trick would be to detect when high throughput is expected and not to sleep quite as deeply in those situations. For cameras, that ought to be possible, as they use USB's "isochronous" mode, for which you need to decide the bitrate in advance. Storage devices typically use "bulk" mode, so the driver would need to detect devices which respond to requests quickly and avoid deep sleep when issuing a bulk command to them.
> "I help oversee an organization with 22,000 employees and a $3 billion operations and capital budget, and am able to make sense of complex data related to those responsibilities."

...which all requires a completely different skill-set than what kids are being taught in school. Politics, opportunism, cold-blooded back stabbing if necessary and clever PR being just a few of those.

Also, when he actually was in school, the curriculum was probably (at least somewhat) different, different tests and questions. He cannot really base an educated opinion on the school system and standardized tests from just that alone - leaving what you personally feel about the school system out of the equation for a second.
The problem is that math education is not only not relevant to your career, it's also not relevant to your future education!

#include <lockharts_lament.pdf>

Students are correct and so is this board member, math education as it stands today really is worthless. It is of no value. It has no practical value and it has no theoretical value. And if you think otherwise it is likely because you managed to escape from the system, possibly with a four-year degree in computer science or other relevant field, with little more than a glancing introduction to actual mathematics, which are arguably one of the most valuable things mankind has ever produced.

There's no need for the cognitive dissonance necessary to insist that math as learned in school is incredibly value even as you, if you search your heart, know better. All you've got in its favor is that you've been told its valuable, so by golly it must be. It's not. It's taught terribly and all the value has been sucked out of it.

http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
I think the only way I'd feel comfortable if somehow all the apps I used used a standard way of locking down the account without needing the password.

The thought of another service keeping my password in a reversible fashion, and transmitting that, scares me a lot.
The page links to a Wikipedia entry that contradicts some of its claims.

According to Wikipedia: "As it can be seen in the project's documentation, INDECT does not involve mobile phone tracking or call interception. The rumors about testing INDECT during 2012 UEFA European Football Championship also turned out to be false."
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Searching online is mostly done using Google, Yahoo and Bing, but what if you start using a search engine which can solve tricky math problems or helping you combine all three search engines into one?
I have a "Save For Later" Bookmarklet/Button in my browser. It makes the current side show up in my feed reader.
> simple math

The point probably is your and other people's definition of what "simple math" is and should be...
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Absolutely agree about the first part but I don't see that this necessarily has to be a bad thing.

No matter what kind of business you run, the seller knows almost all the time more about the product/service/etc than the buyer. And as long as you don't have perfectly comparable products markets are far from ideal. Therefore the individual relationships between people matter because you can never fully quantify human relationships.
from personal experience, you don't gain expertise in scalability until it's too late and the website is down and you are running around to get it back up!!!

when i first initially coded the website, i took some shortcuts to get the product out there soon before it was too late. Once we launched and the traffic started growing and i noticed the slow response times, i went back to the basics and went through all my pages and tried to optimize as much as i could. A lot of it I had to learn on the fly. Anything from SQL query optimization, playing around with database indexes to speed up the searches and then implementing Memcache and finally separating and loadbalancing the database and web server. Many of these issues you can prepare yourself for but the best way is to fall right in the middle of it when your site goes down and you need to get it back up!!

i'm sure everyone who was in the same position at one point would agree that even though the site is down and you have to go through and optimize a lot of code, it's GREAT FEELING knowing that people are actually visiting your site and using your creation!
I don't think this works very well for soft-drink containers.

At my home in NJ, where there are no such deposits, I regularly recycle everything that is recyclable.

At my summer cabin in NY, where there is a $0.05 deposit on soft drink containers, there is also no convenient way for my to recycle containers other than soft drinks. So I do recycle the soft drinks, but juice bottles, soup cans, etc., go straight into the trash.

The action of making the one thing easier is interfering with the peripheral items.
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Firesheep is about session hijacking, not watching actual logins (which would normally be over ssl even if it is non-https served/https form target).
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How many kids have mastered trig in the 10th grade? The standard math track is two years of algebra, a year of geometry, then trig (as far as I remember), and the more advanced track has you starting, but not completing, trig in the 10th grade, then moving on to calc.

My guess is that the test had a lot of algebra 2 material, which requires some memorization of formulas. It's not hard math, it's just sort of plug and play, but it's hard to remember what to plug the numbers into if you haven't had a recent refresher, or you're not teaching it.

As far as getting a 62% on the reading portion, well that's just pathetic.
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The regulations for CAFE -- car emissions -- are far more onerous than this, and they've been completely litigated and found to be Constitutional.

IIRC, it was found that so long as there's a strict hierarchy of standards (i.e., non-disjoint), it's OK, because a manufacturer can aim for the most-strict regulation, and thereby be legal everywhere. The problem would be if the standards were such that two different products needed to be created in order to satisfy the requirements of different states.
A lot of the criticiscm of the article seems to be missing the point it makes. The author and subject are criticizing the standardized tests as having been put in place without evidence linking its scores to outcomes. Neither the test nor its champions have any accountability for it.

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.

Saying that high school doesn't teach you anything vocational but you learn how to learn is interesting, but to answer the OP directly we need some evidence showing that students are indeed learning to learn. Otherwise, it's just faith.

We should be especially wary of survivor bias hre. Most folks here are educated and pleased with their career arc. It's easy to assume from n=1 that our education is the reason. But many who took the same classes aren't doing so well. Maybe our education isn't the reason for our success.

One criticism of IQ tests is that they measure the ability to pass IQ tests. Do we have the data to refute the accusation that standardized tests measure only the ability to pass standardized tests?
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Despite all the comments about this guy and his incompetence, it might be even better if a public version of these tests were made available (and could be graded automatically) for the public to take and review. Instead of speculating about this guy's ability, of which I know nothing, I'd rather just take it myself and then draw my own conclusions. That being said, I was always very good at taking tests, even if I had no idea on the subject matter. Unless you put in "none of the above" as a choice, I could pass almost any test. It wasn't until the LSAT that I had any problems at all with a test.

Here's a novel idea: publicly commented and curated testing system. Wikipedia-like. People write questions, other people can take the test, leave comments, suggestions, etc and those can be factored in to build a smarter and better test.
Whoa! Calculators were nowhere near as fancy as that back then. We were allowed programmable graphic calculators but the invigilators pressed the hard reset button on the back as you went in to the exam to make sure you hadn't stored anything on it.
Where did you get this "at least 5% chance of working" number for cryonics?

It's at least 3 orders of magnitude lower than that: no one was recovered from that frozen state alive so far.
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And on top of that even more questionable what this having 15 credit hours towards a doctorate are supposed to tell us? That he wasn't good enough to finish it?

And more specifically what it is supposed to tell us with regards to children's education? So, let's assume he is a highly trained expert in 1 or 2 fields and then the doctorate is like putting a needle-like focus on one (comparatively) tiny area of those fields and going in deep all the way. This, again, has nothing to do with children's education... it's like complaining that a brain surgeon cannot even pass basic school-level French grammar.

All this is flying too close to the "why do kids have to learn all this crap like math, art, music, history?? all they wanna do is become rich managers and bankers or CEOs anyway!" argument.
The article is a bit abstract - it's not clear what the author deems as ripping off. It seems that the author believes that any work from which she (or her fans) can discern resemblance to her own projects is suspect. And, if it's cutting into her wages, it makes sense that she's concerned.

But, that doesn't mean that this blog post will stop this behavior. Nor, should it. And, I would hope that other designers and illustrators don't stop ripping off as much as they should from her and others. I'm not encouraging blatant reproduction of work with no added value (e.g. copy and pasting). But, soft copying of themes, concepts, re-structuring, etc are all useful.

These intellectual transactions are very helpful to our overall intellectual economy; they help us progress. The more they happen, the better we are. There will always be 'elite' (5%) creators, on the forefront of risk and away from convention. And there will always be the other 95%, who compile, aggregate, and reproduce and fill out the space. And, that's okay.
Everyone (irrespective of their profession) should be able to master basic math.

> If simple math isn't valuable to your profession, it might at least be worth a think about how valuable your "profession" might be in the first place

I don't think the requirement for maths is a way to judge the value of a profession. I think it's essential for every day life, but not necessarily for work.
The devil is in the details, I think. What you're describing seems lik something that adds insecurity (single point of failure, etc.). The overarching idea is a good one, and if you can reframe it so that it gives comfort to technical users (who will then become your evangelists) you may have a winner.

I think ideally it needs to solve more than one problem, e.g. Make it easier for websites to handle user accounts or avoid having to handle them while not being Facebook or twitter.
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Managers Sales people, and Lawyers with poor understanding of math as basic as adding fractions are vary risky. It's not that they can't preform most job fuctions it's that they are extreamly likely to make costly mistakes. When should I add one more person to keep people from charging as much overtime. Or the old should I offer overtime or comp time etc. As to sales people and Lawyers effective negotiation require them to be able to say: I can't drop the price any more but I can do X (which costs us less) etc.

Graphics designers often use a lot of math directly when working out layout's and things. An intuitive understanding and lot's of effort can help compensate but it's a significant loss if they can't do simple math on how tall / wide things are when you scale them.
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Yes but isn't that better than having never known it in the first place; better to have a known unknown than an unknown unkown?

At least in this case you know what things to look up; imagine never having learned those things in the first place.
they already did: http://informationweek.com/news/government/policy/232200069

HN Thread regarding it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267861
I have to completely disagree with this. I think in modern education, it is understood that problem solving and analysis, and being able to learn something and then immediately apply that new knowledge to a different problem, is seen as the most important tool for students today. And I believe that most schools emphasize this today. I found this to be true when I was in high school, college, and also grad school.

I also have a very close friend who is now an elementary school teacher (4th grade), and says this as well (they don't just teach with rote memorization). Recently, she was telling me about the subjects she was teaching and the different learning tools they were employing in the class room, and we were having a discussion about how great it was that they are focusing on problem solving and knowledge discovery and not just on rote memorization.
Interesting, but only seems to go half way. Half the battle is getting library maintainers to package things in a sane manner.

This alternative has been working really well for us so far: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods

It has the added benefit of encouraging good practices in library development as described here: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/04/04/using-open-source-stat...
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It weakens your security overall, as it provides another vector of attack.
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Actually one of the ways to prove that requires the fact that R completes Q. The concept of completeness was introduced by Cauchy in the 19th century and it might not have been completely popularised in 1869.