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Maybe it could be better written, but their advice gels with how I try to approach technical writing. The most common problem I see are authors packing too many concepts or facts into a single sentence. The writing becomes difficult to read for a reason that I was aware of, but could not articulate until I read this piece: readers are searching for syntactic closure. The more stuff - no matter how important - you put inbetween the subject and verb, the harder it is to read. The way I think about it is that until the reader gets that syntactic closure, all new words go into a temporary buffer. If that buffer spills before reaching closure, the reader is lost.

I encounter this in CS papers I read and co-author frequently. My most common editing remark is "split into two sentences."
I'm sorry but I don't know how did he do it. I was wondered when I saw that I can't login in to my gmail account. I thought that it's impossible someone to hack my gmail account, because Google is a big company they should have some good codes there. But it's possible. In that day my friend sent my new password per sms my and said that it was a joke.

if you want to hire someone, go to free-lance.ru, in left menu select web-programmin (Веб-программирование)then secyrity (Защита информации) and hire someone. Some of them will do the work, if not, they know someone who can do it.
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I'm not sure if I follow the second part. Adding more comma-separated words doesn't do anything to the other lines, this is just an overlay of multiple graphs. Adding or removing 'taxes' doesn't do anything.
They haven't made any decision for you. Even after the rule goes into effect, you'll still be allowed to buy & sell magnets of the exact same size, strength, and finish as the Buckyballs.

The CPSC ruling is only devastating to Buckyballs because they are primarily marketed and sold as toys, and when they stop being able to do that, far fewer people will buy them.
The only thing that we've absolutely had to have shipped home was delivered furniture.
As to your final point, the authors were trying to suss out why we want the independent variable first. Their answer: it provides the context to understand the significance of the dependent variable.
That was my first thought, but then my second thought was Easter Egg.
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I looked up the info on the CPSC website myself:

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12037.html

>Reports of incidents involving these high-powered ball-bearing magnets have increased since 2009. Specifically, CPSC received one incident report in 2009, seven in 2010 and 14 through October 2011. These 22 incidents have involved children ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years old. Of the reported incidents, 17 involved magnet ingestion and 11 required surgical removal of the magnets. When a magnet has to be removed surgically, it often requires the repair of the child's damaged stomach and intestines.

Hardly 1700 emergency room visits.

Edit:

I think this focus on the numbers is silly. One incident is too many, and even if no children had ever been harmed it would still be important to properly educate the people about the dangers of the product. But I do believe that a wholesale ban is using a shotgun as a flyswatter. It doesn't solve the root problem (uneducated parents or inattentive parenting). Why not focus on making sure the public informed about the dangers of all kinds of products that could potentially harm their children, rather than trying to ban them one by one? It just seems like the wrong way to go about this.
I'm going to have to disagree here. At almost 8", it's still to big for most pockets, so it isn't easy to carry around casually. Spec wise, it's also inferior to the existing iPad in pretty much every way. The iPad mini seems like the "special use" device in my opinion.
Your argument seems to be "if the CPSC does their job, they won't not do their job" which I'd generally agree with, however I'm quite worried that the CPSC does not do their job, as error-prone humans run the agency.

You also seem to misunderstand the argument here. If you had read the article, you would know that even when taken out of physical stores the CPSC continued to push for a banning of the Buckyballs. So clearly this legislation isn't about eliminating it from toy stores, as that already happened and wasn't sufficient for the CPSC.

I'm very much not trying to be disingenuous, I realize children were harmed. However, if that is the simple criteria we are using to determine businesses to legislate away then the selective enforcement is even more worrying.
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I'm planning on blogging a bit on this particular topic tomorrow. If you have any questions, please let me know and I'll try to address them.

I don't think the gTrends argument works though (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4741590). Most of the results inserted are super-recent (and so I expect the recency of the trends data -- like the last 90 days -- to dominate). Of course it is all a black box so who knows.

Some of the more interesting things to me are:

--you can't reliably de-personalize (as you cited).

--the variation in results across our study was great.

--variation for signed out (even incognito) users was not much different from signed in users.
That is a scary line of thinking IMO. If you work for 40 years and lived by that philosophy you'd have worked for nearly 20 companies. While if you're a freelancer that might seem normal, but as a normal salaried employee, that seems like quite a bit. I realize that "getting the gold watch" and hanging around a company for 40 years isn't the norm these days, but to be counted as a negative just because you stay at one company for merely 2 or 3 years seems harsh. Have you had experience with this sentiment? I haven't encountered it yet.
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So modifying software you've purchased is stealing now? I read the situation as him fixing another company's bug because they refused to do so.
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Screw it— you have nothing to apologize for. It is because of people like you— fixing bugs big an small— that Python is a viable for big projects.

And to the dude who put it on his resume— good move. This helps a ton when someone is screening resumes.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=CPSC-2012-0050...

No, I don't think we should ban balloons.

I think you're wrong about how dangerous super-strong toy magnets are, but I don't see anyone involved in Buckyballs as trying to "earn a living at the expense of children's lives". We can definitely disagree about this without moralizing.

I think the CPSC is making a sound policy decision here --- and, more importantly to me, is being more carefully empirical than Buckyball's Internet advocates are being.
I thought the point was that one can find oneself in a menial job where one is not looked upon as anything other than a bozo. Before the grand slam, nobody is going to recognize you as any kind of genius. Probably agreeing with you, but wasn't sure about the wording.
"...In the hands of a human, decisions like these might be viewed as biased. For a Google algorithm, they are simply a matter of numbers..."

I hate to continue the political thread, but "biased" doesn't quite cut it. Algorithms don't automatically make everything magic. There is a structural issue that just saying "it's the algorithm" doesn't explain or address.

No doubt the data leans that way because Obama has been a searchable term for longer. This just leads to the natural question: should incumbents be given extra chances at a target audience simply because they've generated a lot more content? I don't think so, but I find myself arguing with a mathematical formula. The nature of the social value of making democratic decisions is different from the nature of the personal value of targeting results.

Weird.
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Sorry for not being clear (was also trying to not be verbose!). All it shows is that all those terms were searched a lot less than Romney for the past 90 days, and yet they all were found to alter subsequent search results after searching them (unlike Romney).
Indeed. Overloading on return type is one of the few things that you can't do in dynamic languages by design (and in most statically typed ones, neither, but that's an accident).
How is this funny? As someone who occasionally votes Republican, I'm tired of being told by my peers that I must be stupid and evil for doing so. For the record, I've never met a Republican that doesn't believe in gravity.
The CPSC didn't simply continue to push for a ban on products like Buckyballs because they were on tilt against a specific company. They pushed for a ban because even after the products were removed from toy store shelves, reports from physicians continued to increase. The CPSC is a data-driven operation; read the proposed rule, which I linked upthread, for their methodology.
Actually it wasn't clear at all that you saw him near your house.
Here is the point: if all you know about someone is that they run a cash register, that doesn't tell you that they are unable to do anything else. This argument does not rely on sample sizes.
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Have you considered that you might have Chrome Sync logged in on another device?
"The full sized iPad is tiring to hold for extended periods of time"

It's 1.44 pounds for F's sake!
"the screen size of a tablet is the one spec that customers clearly recognize and associate with value"

I don't think people want to pay more money for a larger screen when they are buying a tablet. Consumers have an ideal screen size (probably around 7") and a larger screen just means a heavier device. So a larger screen is more a liability than an asset.
Again: you're reading a different number. The CPSC runs a nationwide statistical survey; you've cited a data point, and I'm citing the epidemiological statistic. Don't read the press release, read the proposed rule, which goes into detail not only about where the 1700 number comes from, but about all the other magnet ingestion incident data that they decided not to include in this figure.
All responsive design does is force you to spaghetti-fy your application to the point it cant be maintained. A web app using responsive design will never fit it on both android and iOS because it will not look like it belongs on those platforms, so it will to the user look like crap. But oh you say I can shoehorn iUI into the iphone version. Why would anyone bother with this when it is EASY to target these platforms separately. IMO RD is not worth the time. And that goes for phonegap and cross platform app kits. Total waste of time.
You learn a lot more about Einstein's potential by testing his IQ than by looking at his job history. If it turns out that the Target Einstein is too lazy to do any physics, that's OK, the IQ test will still tell you vastly more about what he COULD do under the right incentives.
I would prefer Cocoa Controls: http://www.cocoacontrols.com Great job on your project, but instead of moving on with this one, I'd recommend you to contact Aaron (owner of Cocoa Controls) and maybe work on that project together, because that site works just fine and already has a lot of repositories.
Did you bring up the Diginotar hack/scandal because you think having a citizen authentication system is a terrible idea? I think the diginotar incident showed more of how bad the SSL CA situation really is than of the lacking security of digid.

I personally think digid is a great idea, and actually that it should be opened up and extended to allow more (non-government) organisations to make use of it for true "real name" authentication.
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Or spell the header text correctly

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As an aside it would be interesting to see the legal structure of this transaction. At that age you can't (iirc) enter into a contract, at least not in the US.

Obviously his parents would need to be involved in this. It's possible also that one of the big draws for the investor was the obvious publicity potential (for the venture) of funding someone 15 yrs old vs. someone who is (ho hum) 20. This type of angle plays well in the media.
I was more talking in generalities in that specific comment, though the government has certainly effected my decision when buying similar magnets, which is arguably just as offensive.

I still fail to see your logic that this legislation will prevent these magnets from being sold to people who want them as a novelty. When taken completely out of physical stores sales held steady. The market has clearly communicated a demand, and they will buy them whether they are marketed as novelty toys are not.

If the CPSC's main goal is to prevent Buckyballs from coming into contact with toddlers this band aid legislation seems like a laughable effort.
What Apple patents has Apple promised to license to all comers under FRAND terms in exchange for getting those patents into required parts of international standards?
I believe that you are missing the point: most Republicans do not believe in evolution because, as they say rather cluelessly "it is just a theory". Well, it turns out that gravity also is "just a theory".
I think this is a great suggestion. Linode is much easier to get started with than AWS if scalability isn't a priority.

A linode VPS is just a standard linux server, while EC2 has lots of quirks.

For instance, AWS/EC2 has a variety of types of storage, and their persistence properties aren't always what you'd expect. So, EC2 requires you learn how to run a linux server plus a bunch of AWS specific stuff. Linode only requires basic linux administration skills.

If you are set on EC2, I found boto very useful for keeping track of my AWS resources.
Yes, creating lot's of domains is precisely what other affiliates do and what I have been trying to avoid - it feels very dishonest to me. I am extremely aware of how this looks, how affiliates are viewed, and how credibility is destroyed at every step. That's why it is so fascinating to me and why I'm trying to understand if there is a problem to solve for affiliates.

There is also a good chance that this is just not the right kind of content for this community.

How would you feel if Referly much more clearly said "hey, if you decide to buy through my links that is totally up to you - but if you do I am going to earn 6-8% commission. This doesn't change the price of your products, but I hope it will serve as a nice tip to me for organizing all this info in one place for you. If not, no worries"
Wowzerzz! Looked like they got completely pwned!

In all seriousness, sure, show they have bad security. But this isn't the ethical way to go round it. All their source is in the open, it's the worst thing you could imagine.
Fashionable or not, intelligence tests are still much more indicative of (e.g. academic) potential than many other things people use to make hiring decisions.
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First off, good luck young man! You've built something and attracted people to your work, and it's paying off. Additionally, you realized your own limitations and used the resources provided to build a better product by hiring skilled developers and engineers, that should be commended.

Now.

The algorithm works by selecting words from a given article to build a summary that will perfectly fit onto the screen of your iPhone--no more scrolling to read or waiting to load.

I have a serious problem with this. On The Verge he made the statement that the activity of scrolling was "horrific"[1]. Why? This is mainly personal bias-as someone who carries serious nerdboners for long-form journalism-but I don't think the problem with news on mobiles is something you solve by shrink wrapping content so you don't have to move your finger a few inches on an iPhone.

IMO the problem with reading content on mobile has already been addressed by XKCD [2].

I have no problem with D'Aloisio wanting to change media for the better, to make it more accessible, easier to digest and syndicate written content. I do have reservations however about algorithmically summarizing news articles because of a perceived notion that there is something wrong with reading long articles.

Again, this is personal opinion.

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[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/1/3583720/summly-nick-d-aloi...

[2] http://xkcd.com/869/
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It's not complicated. It will simply become unlawful to sell "aggregations of separable, permanent, magnetic objects intended or marketed by the manufacturer primarily as a manipulative or construction desk toy for general entertainment, such as puzzle working, sculpture building, mental stimulation, or stress relief."

Contrary to knee-jerk Internet opinion, the CPSC is not out to rid the country of small round magnets.
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What Motorola's patent they promised to give for cheap?
FRAND does not mean cheap. It never meant. Microsoft and Apple are trying to change the term now, because they want to tax Android products, and cheapening SEP is the easiest way to do that, because that would disarm all others OEMs, and they would be able to tax them with "utility" patents.
You could just go to an apple store and buy it. Pretty lazy to pirate something thats pretty cheap to start with. If you dont have 149 bucks, maybe you have bigger problems than word processing?
I like this idea, although I am not a graphic tee designer, so I cannot comment on its viability. I think the site look and feel could definitely be improved, though. Bootstrap is a great way to get the site started, but the site feels sparse, both in information and layout. Which printers are bidding? What shirt sizes can the bidder expect? What is the expected turnaround time? Has anyone seen a success story with the service?

The website needs a lot more content and information, and it would also be nice for customers to know who is behind the site. A sales email address and an 888 phone number seem a little impersonal when so few details are revealed about how the service works--especially since it doesn't look like users register for accounts to keep track of bids?
I'm sorry, I misunderstood part of what you said. I'm actually cool with people cracking software they've already paid for. That's fine. To me that's like modifying your car in ways that stop it from being street legal. You should be free to do so but at the same time I won't feel bad for you if you were ever stopped for speeding. Now that I understand your example better I don't think you're comparing equivalent things. It's one thing to just take something because you don't like the price and it's another thing to break contract and modify something you've already paid for. Both are still wrong but I can see the justification for the latter.
I'm not sure exactly what technical problem you're alluding to, but it is possible, albeit very difficult to perform computations on encrypted files without the key.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
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Here's how to easily de-personalize your google experience

1. Disable cookies for encrypted.google.com

2. Set the default search engine to: https://encrypted.google.com/search?&q=%s

Edit: Sorry, de-personalize, not anonymize.
I believe in the UK you can be a director of a company at 16 and you can hold shares in a company at any age. I would guess that Nick has a registered company and the investment is in that company, which probably has his parents involved somehow in some nominal capacity.

edit: upon investigation it would appear that Summly Limited has his mother as a director ("MS DIANA JULIA D'ALOISIO") and he is listed as secretary ("NICHOLAS D'ALOISIO-MONTILLA") -- search for "summly" via http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk and then select the option to order information.

edit edit: so from the filing the following is true:

Summly Limited has Nick's mother as a director along with the investors, he is a secretary.

The company has 900,000 shares. 600,000 "Ordinary" are allocated to his mother ("DIANA JULIA D'ALOISIO") 120,000 "Series A Preferred" are allocated to GERSHWIN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED and 180,000 "Series A Preferred" are allocated to TWINHILLS LIMITED.

So it seems that Nick has no actual stake in the company and is using his mother as the proxy for his ownership.

edit edit edit: Something might be worth noting, the site lists "Summly Inc" as the company responsible for Summly, not Summly Limited.
It is sad that the eastern european work ethic is only mentioned near the end of the article.

In my island there are many romanian - hard working, well educated individuals. And I know one student that decided to go to university in Romania, because medicine there is being taught in french and the costs are very competitive.

Maybe monetary policies are not the only thing that matters you know??

Romania is definitely one country to follow in the future - especially if the emigrants decides to try to come back home to start new companies - it might give very interesting investment prospects.
Ironically, this is similar to the original logic of the IQ test. If you are able to pick up and figure out the given questions quickly, you should be able to pick up and figure out many other things quickly, which is a pretty normal definition of intelligence.

There is no shortage of people who will do poorly at IQ tests because of cognitive difficulties and (sure) lack of motivation to practice. Does loading on factors like these make IQ tests less predictive of academic or career outcomes? No, both of those things also require a combination of cognitive ability and motivation.
I can't reply to your other comment about reading the actual proposed rule, but I just read through it and this is what I found:

> Reported incidents involving children continued to increase unabated from 8 cases in 2010, 17 cases in 2011, and 25 cases in 2012 (as of July 8, 2012). Twenty two incidents were reported before the PSA; 28 more followed during the eight months after it. A high percentage of the injuries resulted in surgeries or other invasive procedures. Of the 50 reports known to staff, 22 required surgery, and 10 required either invasive procedures such as endoscopies or colonoscopies. In 2011, and into spring 2012, staff continued to identify additional firms offering this product on the Internet with labeling and marketing violations.

It seems that 1,700 number consists mostly of cases where children visited the emergency room, were treated, and sent home, with no surgery required. This means your earlier statement:

>In the same year, more than 500 kids were treated in the emergency room for ingesting small rare earth magnets; according to the APA, "almost every one" of those cases required endoscopic surgery

Is incorrect. The number of incidents that required surgery is very low--in the double digits.

I think this argument has reached a stalemate. I'm obviously not going to change your point of view, and I concede that you are entitled to your own opinion and I can't fault you for it. However, I am glad I am able to make my own case and go on the record that I feel this is a case of selective enforcement that will achieve very little when it comes to children's safety.
Plus once you have my envelope you have my vote - we don't trust you or the code btw