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>> So? Set up with a VPN that has stateside IPs, or build your own on AWS.

Is that a serious suggestion...?!
There was an MIT study in the 1980s and 1990s that found that females were outperforming their SAT Math relative to males when it game to college GPA. So they adjusted the admissions process. As a result, females come in with roughly a 30-point lower SAT Math, but ultimately end up having similar GPAs once in school. So to get that 45/55 mix, the school did have to take affirmative measures.

That said, MIT is way ahead of the industry on this. Only 18% of engineering graduates last year were women. This is despite the fact that about 45% of all high school seniors who score 600+ on the SAT Math, and 40% of all high school seniors who score 700+ on the SAT Math, are girls. Even at the perfect 800 level, it's 33% girls.

And this isn't directed at you, but whenever I see "aptitude" in these discussions I get skeptical. A lot of people don't agree with the findings in the "Bell Curve", but even if we take those results to be completely true, the fact of the matter is that the differences don't really matter that much in the range we're talking about. It's an explanation for why there are so many fewer female Einsteins, not why there are so many fewer female Cisco engineers.

And it's not even the math and tedium. I was pretty shocked to find that half of Big-4 accountants are women. About 30% of one major Big-4 firm's partners are women. These numbers blow away anything you see in engineering, in a field that is arguably much more numerically-intensive and boring.

The fact is that the other professions are leaving engineering in the dust when it comes to making representation in the field equal to aptitude. Accounting firms and law firms are dealing with the next issue--which is how to have a strong representation of female partners while dealing with the fact that the partnership push coincides with women's prime reproductive years. And they're making progress on that issue. Engineering is in the rearview mirror, hanging with the neanderthals in banking.
Holy crap! Brilliant stuff Andy! Work like this continues to strengthen my position that the 'chain of trust' doesn't exist and thus the only security is the ability to operate in a hostile environment through adaptation by rapid detection and response.
Any particular reason you only plan to work for that company for a few years? "to have the company in question on my resumé" seems like a poor reason; if you actually want to work there, why not work there for a substantial fraction of your career?

Also, have you considered the possibility of finding an apartment close to work? Unless you already own a home, moving to shorten your commute will save you huge amounts of money and time.
Reasonable math. Personal anecdotal support:

Daily commute is 1.5 hours each way by public transport. 75% of that time is useful. Net result is 5 * 2 * 1.5 = 15 hours spent sitting on the train each week, of which just(1 - 0.25) * 15 = 3.75 is wasted (mainly in changing from one vehicle to the next). This, superficially, doesn't sound so bad. My employer is understanding so I travel outside rush hour so I always get a seat and can do stuff on my laptop. This means that I arrive at the office late and leave the office late. My colleagues just say that I work in a slightly different time zone.

What really kicks hard is that when you're at work you're 1.5 hours from home, the simple stuff - like going to the supermarket or the post office - becomes complicated. I leave before the supermarket opens, and I get home after it closes. Tricky things like being at home in the morning to receive a parcel become really complicated and end up costing much more than half a day.

tl;dr the math is good, but the model is too simple. Living a commuting life costs more than you'd calculate.
Along the same lines, but more rewarding, healthier, and energy efficient: use a bicycle. Though unfortunately many Americans' commutes are prohibitively long and the surrounding infrastructure not very inviting to bicycles.
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An egregious, disingenuous accusation by constitutional law attorney Mark Barber, who says sex-education programs are doing to children what pedophiles do to groom them for sex. He is wrong; children need help understanding sex and their sexuality
Ah, that sucks. Allow APKs to depend on an external media archive?
Lowering the speed limit might actually have a negative effect (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1904038).
It works, is cheap and pretty simple. Using cloudfront (the CDN) in front of S3 gives you much better performance.

http://aaronblohowiak.com/blog_posts/using-amazon-s3-and-clo...
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I agree with that, but in the specific case of AEDs it's hard to get something badly wrong to the extent that you actively harm: the main failure case is not doing something properly that could've been done. So you should definitely yield to someone who has better training, if available. But if there isn't such a person available, the AEDs thesmelves are completely automated and intended to be used by non-experts (experts use EDs that aren't fully automated): they sample the heart signal for several kinds of situations that can be corrected by defibrillation, and then apply the right one if detected. They won't fire at all if they're not placed correctly and/or if it isn't one of the situations where defibrillation would help, so you can't accidentally give someone the wrong kind of shock that makes the situation worse.
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yeah well of course it's wrong to get a job just because of the gender. though if HR departments and CTO's want to hire us girls so badly then wohoooo.........i would be stupid to not use this to my advantage :D
Note that a proper IQ test must be administered by a trained professional and takes a couple of hours. This is simply because there are so many pitfalls that there is no other way - anything else that calls itself an IQ test is a pale imitation and can't be anything but flawed, for all the usual criticisms. What the author describes may be what Mensa need for admittance, but it's not a proper IQ test.
Funny, the police in Police State USA prefer low IQ's
' on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training'

Or perhaps that being smart doesn't make you an enthusiastic state thug?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...
Right, and that is probably a negligible cost as you can get first aid training for free in a lot of places. The point is the op is advocating that businesses be required to buy expensive equipment that they themselves probably wouldn't be willing to spend the money on.
Unless they have zero days in the Gmail stack, I would think so.
You mistake the point of my comment.

This ruling may be devastating on companies like Zucker's, however that is what happens when your business relies upon a product that is then regulated away by the government. Zucker should have known the risks when he got into the industry, and at least should have known the risks when doing business within the United States.

I see this ruling more as an attack on what I can purchase as a consumer. Why is the government telling me what I cannot buy, or even what I cannot give to my children? If you really want to get into it, I'd be more than happy to tell you why I think the CPSC itself is a threatening institution to my civil liberties, but that seems rather out of scope. What makes this ruling more egregious than any other that comes to mind is that it seems to have been made selectively and without good reason. Warning labels were not sufficient, yet the warning label on a box of cigarrettes is just gravy? If you work out the percentages, regardless of the potential to do harm, not that much comparative harm was really done.

So why was this done? It doesn't take the harmful objects out of the market, so why set this precedent? It makes me wonder what they could do to, say, maybe a politically charged children's book?
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> Isn't the reason you use that service (waste less time here) specifically to avoid getting drawn into the discussions? Serious question! :-)

No, not really. There is usually ~1 article each day where I get interested in reading the discussion. When that happens, it is often disappointing to find the discussion high-jacked by a top-voted comment that goes in a direction that doesn't interest me. I'm sure there are interesting comments further down the page, but on this site it's hard to find them. I think Slashdot handles this a little better by letting you set a point threshold.

In the even fewer cases when I want to join the discussion, it is pretty meaningless to add a comment to the bottom of a page which is more than a day old.

> I think the issue isn't curation, since Slashdot is technically an editor curated news service, but the timing. That is, how do you have a good discussion when the timescales are so large rather than over the course of a few hours?

Yes! That frames the question much better.

> Sites like MetaFilter - http://www.metafilter.com/, Edward Tufte's forum - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1, QBN - http://www.qbn.com/ - and numerous blogs have solved this problem to a great extent, IMHO, and intriguingly are all single threaded (or in the case of blogs, most, but not all).

Haven't used those sites, and it was hard to get a grip by taking a quick look. How do they solve it? I think single threaded is great, but in my experience it breaks down when the number of comments get too large.

Manually or semi-automatically curated discussions would probable be very valuable.
"Motorcyclists were 35 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash in 2006, per vehicle mile traveled, and 8 times more likely to be injured."[1]

I'm all for recreational motorcycling but I'm not as convinced it is a great solution for commuting overall.

[1] http://trafficsafety.org/safety/sharing/motorcycle/motor-fac...
I made this as a sample project using clojurescript.

The canvas is clickable - clicking will swap the value of the spot. Heatmap shows how long a piece of bacteria will live in a spot (Black being just born - White living 25 iterations). It helps to point out patterns that are persistent.
Mostly I just got the impression of someone trying to invoke condescension. Have you just never heard of cost-benefits? Otherwise, elaborating a bit more might make your points less opaque.
All reasonably-sized gyms should have Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs). CPR on its own is not incredibly useful on its own (although it does buy you time for paramedics to arrive).

They're only about $1k, which is about 25% of one of the treadmills. I'm surprised it's not mandated by law.
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PG, would you please change the way HN opens links so that by default it opens all links in a new window/tab?

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Thanks for the great explanation. It definitely made things clearer.
A genetic defect, if not impacted by lifestyle, would do the trick. However, 'normally measured features' may not fully capture cardiac health.

I'd still like to see studies of cardiac arrest among hunter gatherers, or as another poster commented, primates. Lots of genetic problems can be impacted by lifestyle (epigenetics).

I don't know about about the condition you posted to say how lifestyle affects gene expression in that case.

Assuming the disease isn't strongly affected by gene expression, my statistics are likely off then. Wikipedia listed the condition as having a .2-.5% prevalence.
I did not assert that all parties have full and unlimited right to choose the venue in which their case is heard.

I made no assertions about today's situation.

I was proposing an alternative where people could choose who they do business with based on the proposed final arbiter of the contract.

People can already do this by choosing to business in a different country where a different final arbiter is in charge. I'm just proposing that sort of competition within a country.

I guess today's contract arbitration could be interpreted as exactly that. But people certainly have a choice to sign or not.
Singaporean here.

My biggest gripe with Singapore's state as it is (and why can't we criticize it?) is that while Singapore does have a stronger emphasis on education (GREAT!), it still falls behind in knowledge.

Singapore has no natural resource, and thus no natural export. Its main exports (other than "tourism" which doesn't count) is through secondary products like petroleum, and through its workforce, considered high-value by companies around the world.

Its workforce, being a resource, is therefore treated like a resource. And resources must always be more readily available, more efficiently farmed, more accurately quantified. The only way to survive in this country is to go through the gauntlet, and get stamped with a quality grade like beef.

My personal hope for the future of Singapore is to slowly make the transition away from treating its humans as a workforce resource, and to start treasuring their humans as a knowledge bank. Indeed, I believe Singapore has realised this, with its growing bio-technology sector, A* etc. However it is a race against time; unlike other resources, its workforce can turn against it.

No I'm not really speaking about revolution etc. But years of being a resource has put a toll on the population... just as a engine that is run in overdrive for too long wears out. Many of the Singaporeans who can afford to find a better life elsewhere, where their knowledge is valued higher, are doing so. Those that do not have that knowledge are simply resigned to being the nation's workhorse, and take no effort to seek it themselves (or perhaps they cannot afford to).

This puts Singapore in a weird position. It is suffering from "brain drain". And the current remedy for it is importing knowledge from elsewhere. Unlike regions like the US, EU, AU, where populations are made up of many varieties of cultures, Singapore is a young country with only 3 major ethnic groups, and outsiders are viewed as such. This further axacerbates the feeling that local workers are just their workers.

Anyway, after that long blob, my 2nd personal hope is I may be able to return to my country and contribute back, not through workhours, but through knowledge.

Disclaimer: this is all my views and intuition, I don't have any links or numbers to back things up.
Another option is to commute with a significant other.

My wife and I both have a commute by car that is 25-35 minutes each. We recently changed our schedules to make it easier for us to commute -- together. So now, instead of having an hour out of the day that couldn't have been spent with each other, we now have it together. We can talk about our day, talk about any issues going on, plan various "things." It's really quite nice.
One thing I do is get deliveries sent to my office instead of my house. That definitely makes receiving stuff a whole lot easier, if your employer will let you do it.
I've actually had a different experience with commuting. Even with the downsides you can make a lot of use of that time for a finite time period.

Things I've done with the time (which otherwise would have never happened):

-Used Pimsleur I-III to learn some Mandarin, and more importantly, HOW to learn a new language(/other things). Spoken Mandarin is less intimidating than westerners think, and the grammar is simpler than English in a lot of ways.
(Caveat: My Mandarin is by no means good. I couldn't find any good systematic ways to keep going after Pimsleur III)

-Listened to podcasts on nutrition and got very in-tune with how what I eat effects how I feel, how productive I am, and what happens during my gym time.

-Neuroscience podcasts, ditto. That stuff is interesting. Especially relating to dopamine, if you're a heavy internet user and you check your email every thirty seconds on your phone.

-Developed a better idea of how successful freelancers operate and how they've transitioned into that (Kalzumeus podcast, Ruby Freelancers). Ditto for very successful startup founders (Techzing, Stanford's Innovation Thought Leaders podcast).

-Developed my musical taste.

-Developed my rock climbing grip by using a grip trainer.

-Learned to calm my mind and relax and not waste mental energy on situations I have no immediate control over. Shitty traffic is a great time to practice this specifically because it's so aggravating.

That said - the key thing is that this is for a finite period of time, and you have to act on stuff you learn. The eventual endgame is that you gradually run out of interesting things that you can pick up from a podcast and then do on your own. You want to use the time to work on something more specific.

In addition to the time cost, sitting in one position and staring in one direction for an hour destroys any kind of flow that you have. It doesn't matter whether you leave work energized and ready to rock - when you get home, sitting in a car for an hour will usually make you tired. If you work on complex side projects or like to go out after work, this has a pretty substantial impact.
This comparison between magnets and cigarettes just doesn't make any sense to me. Nobody in the world thinks it's really a good idea to give cigarettes to little children. But there are plenty of parents who wouldn't bat an eyelash if their own child ingested a magnet. That's the problem.

The regulation proposed on magnets is effectively identical in principle to the regulation against lawn darts back in 1988. Any idiot can look at a lawn dart --- a large, bottom-heavy weighted metal dart meant for throwing --- and intuit that the pointy end needs to be kept away from kids heads. And yet kids were routinely showing up in the emergency room with darts in embedded in their skulls. In fact, they still were in 1997!

These kinds of determinations are literally the whole reason we have a CPSC. The CPSC is only suddenly a threat to our civil liberties because they pushed back on a nerd toy. I'm sure the manufacturers of lawn darts were plenty pissed too, but we didn't have the message boards back then to hear about it.

Nobody, including the CPSC, is saying that rare earth magents are intrinsically evil, or that you shouldn't be allowed to have them. And so you'll be able to keep buying them even after this rule is put in place. The CPSC is simply saying that tiny magnets make a bad toy, just like weighted darts did.

And note that it isn't the evil, capricious CPSC that's behind this; the movement to suppress this particular bad toy was spearheaded by the American Pediatric Association.
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Yes, asking customers what they want isn't usually that helpful.

However, listening to customers is very helpful. It's not easy, but by listening to customers we can identify trends that help us answer: "What should I build?".

Then, instead of building the whole tractor (or rocket ship) we can show them a model (or prototype) and gauge their reaction.

In my case, with the sneakers, I could have purchased my own pair online ($90), and shown customers and friends to see if there was any local demand. That would have saved me a lot of money! (I ended up having to sell most of the shoes at a loss)
Snazzy UI. I made something similar: txt reminders for new episodes of tv shows: http://remembertowatch.com
If that was a window into what its like to own an Android phone, I'm glad I drank from the river Lethe and kept buying Apple. Malware! In 2012!
I take a 40 minute train trip either way and get a seat at the same time by pushing my work hours off peak. I just sit there and relax with my kindle and have read hundreds of books that way distraction free.

More people should push work off peak - who's bloody idea was it to get people to work 9 to 5? Why not 10 - 4 like me?

Hurried, stressed people under commuter pressure don't work well anyway and those extra hours are just wasted with busy work. I'm talking office workers here - blue collar workers have it completely different.
We're extremely good at some things but at the expense of everything else. Thus our lives generally aren't very interesting. I'm a pretty smart guy (140± IQ) who dropped out of the system when I was 15 and went through non-systematic but relentless self-education. The learning habits formed in school helped. But I was 'free'. My point is whatever the status quo, there will be a minority that will abandon the system taking along with them only the good parts and then become interesting. So with a bigger population, you get more of such minority which causes Microsofts, Googles and Apples to happen.
Not to be a downer, but I suspect that we are decades away from meaningful diagnostics that would get you anywhere close to being able to declare someone in "perfect health". In fact, I will say that we are 20 years away, and we always will be.[1] For someone who believes that "perfect health" is of little meaning in an adaptive evolutionary framework, this isn't a big issue, but it could be disquieting to some.

Let's say you sequence everyone's genome and can do it for $0 per person. Even if you could, having a genome sequence gets you only so far. We don't know what many genes do; even less so do we know what changes in their structure or in their regulatory elements may do. We have useful, powerful ideas coming from evolutionary biology, but these won't be enough to let one feel confident about health claims.

And this says nothing about infectious, environmental, and behavioral components to risk.

[1] = I know that the fusion "20 years away and always will be" actually refers to the fact that if insufficiently funded it will always be 20 years away. But most people don't know that part of the reference, so I will ignore it at will.
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My point was the OP appeared to be judging by the jobs an individual held at one point in time. Judged by the same criteria, Einstein, Wittgenstein, and Kafka would have fared no better.

The fact that Einstein and Wittgenstein held more prestigious positions at other points in their lives would not have spared them from an attitude like the OP demonstrated at the time they held the more menial jobs, and judging only by those menial jobs.

Who knows what heights of glory this particular Target employee will climb to in the future? History is even more full of people who once held menial jobs but then went on to achieve vast fame and fortune (and perhaps even be judged a "genius" by many).

We also don't know what this particular Target employee did before he worked at target and taught LSAT courses. Perhaps, like Wittgenstein, he'd been a lecturer at Cambridge and was awarded some prestigious degree.

Ok, I know that's stretching credibility. He probably wasn't. But my point is that we don't know his past or his future. All we know are two job titles and his boast of being a genius. Should we judge him based on just those couple of facts? Or should we withhold judgment? My vote is for the latter.

Finally, I never claimed that Einstein or Wittgenstein weren't recognized during their lifetimes, just that Kafka and Van Gogh weren't, and that many others who are generally considered "geniuses" now weren't either.
you think cracking his own copy of the software, which he purchased, so that it will run on windows 7, is somehow less ethical than paying the publisher another $10k for the same software that they have unlocked for window 7?

edit: here's a thought experiment. supposing he managed to build some sort of passthrough sandbox that simply intercepted one or two system calls and made the application think it was running under window xp when it was actually running under windows 7. would you find that unethical too?