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Ugh, motherjones, that perpetual bastion of leftist bullshit!

Why is this tripe being upvoted here on HN? You might as well have posted something directly from Rush Limbaugh's blog (or website, or whatever he has). It's crap.
Yeah, smells like edutainment. How is a breadboard a bad thing? It costs 1/3 what this pen costs and can be reused to make circuits that carry real current and signals, not just electronic holiday cards.
For now, the proxy will still try to dispatch sockets to every network interfaces specified at launch. But such a feature could perfectly be implemented.
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Every platform which runs NodeJS in fact.
I understand the motivation behind this, but after doing the same thing I find myself checking my phone more because it no longer alerts me when there's something I might care about. Instead I check it much more frequently than I need to because I have no idea which little addiction icons will be lit up when I check each time.
On the other hand, nobody who's busted out a newspaper on a train was talking to friends or family on the other end of it.
With a term like zombies, it's implied that there's a shortage of self-control at play. The risk of paying the bill can be seen as simply a training exercise to build confidence in a non-phone experience. Baby steps!
Oldest Javelins Predate Modern Humans
>I'm wondering if a doctor would balk at signing a document of liability for {x} resulting from vaccination. If she wouldn't put her career behind her belief, should I believe her?

For one, there is a law in the US that removes vaccination liability from doctors.

A bigger problem with your suggestion is problematic math behind it - if vaccines killed one person for every ten saved it would still be worthwhile, but your suggestion would quickly ensure no doctors ever willing to give any vaccines to anyone, ensuring higher death rate among you and your relatives. The actual incident rate is much smaller - for example between 3000 and 49000 people die of flu each year, and only about a 100 people die of vaccine complications (most of them of egg allergy, totally preventable if treated right away).

It's precisely due such poor understanding of statistics is why there are large groups if people opposed to vaccination - they fixate on a smaller probability negative outcome in the immediate future and ignore large probability negative outcome three months down the road.
Its opt in ...
If you have separate stacks for each application instance why wouldn't a separate instance of Redis be part of that stack too? Do you really want some buggy code overloading test-redis and bleeding into production?

More generally, you can always use key-prefixes if you want a name-based way to segregate data in the same redis+db instance.
Reminds me of the time my wife's mother was very sick with cancer and we were at dinner and her dad was texting her updates. One time we happened to be at dinner and he sent her some messages so they were texting back and forth for 2-3m. During this time, the older gentleman at the table next to us actually says excuse me, can you get off your phone? You kids always being on your phone is getting really old. Because, you know, at 31, I personally embody ALL kids.

I guess maybe the moral of the story for me is that we would probably be happier people if we weren't fretting about a harmless thing people were doing and instead focused on our own happiness. Maybe instead of sitting there getting grumpy that a stranger was looking at a screen this guy could have just had a conversation with the person at his table? Maybe its time for people to stop throwing a fit about things other people are doing and maybe that would make us all a bit happier.
Author, if you're reading, kudos on the thin website. My eye muscles thank you.

Anyway, this problem is easily solved: http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Black-Unlocked-DualBand-Phone/dp...
The first version that takes 5.9 seconds is naive. The second one certainly isn't, and the third one is based on cleaning up the second version with the use of some library code. As somebody who isn't a Haskell programmer it isn't clear to me at all that anybody would write the final version of the code if they weren't trying to optimise it. Maybe they would but the article doesn't really argue that case and it appears that stream-fusion isn't a part of the language/standard libraries (you have to install it with cabal).

Once you start modifying code to make it run faster it's no longer a 'naive' implementation. No matter how nice or logical you think those transformations are.

I'm not saying you can't compare the stream-fusion version against other languages, just that it's highly disingenuous to optimise the Haskell code with some external libraries but then argue that optimisations of the C version are unfair.
In my opinion, one of the most egregious examples of phone zombie-ism is the amount of people taking pictures on their phones / tablets when at some sort of famous monument or location.

To quote (of all people) Maddox:

> I kept staring at "my" picture, looking for some glimmer of justification for its existence, I thought that maybe I could show this to my friends as proof that I'd seen the portrait with my own eyes. But I'm not in this picture, so there's no proof I was ever there. Even if I was in the picture, it could have been photoshopped. And why would I need to prove it to anyone anyway?

I used to do this when I was younger, but I've come to realize that:

1. A professional photo of a famous destination looks seriously better than an iPhone photo.

2. The only reason people take these photos is to get more likes on Facebook and Instagram.

3. Nobody actually cares.

I've found myself enjoying a photoworthy location much more when my head is out of my phone and focused on the scene itself. This notion has served as inspiration for a recent project and venture I've been working on.
Slightly OT:

Can anyone recommend something similar for Java (Android specifically)? The tutorials I have found so far seem to assume I'm either a complete imbecile or have a CS degree.
Milton Friedman's Bitcoin prediction from 1999 [video]
Los Angeles Was Once a Forest of Oil Derricks
Just because YOU didn't get cancer from smoking cigarettes, doesn't mean that smoking cigarettes doesn't cause cancer.

There are significant health risks associated with smoking pot, including serious mental health issues for some people. Quoting from http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana:

Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person's existing problems worse. In fact, heavy marijuana users generally report lower life satisfaction, poorer mental and physical health, relationship problems, and less academic and career success compared to their peers who came from similar backgrounds. For example, marijuana use is associated with a higher likelihood of dropping out from school. Several studies also associate workers' marijuana smoking with increased absences, tardiness, accidents, workers' compensation claims, and job turnover.

I know "correlation doesn't equal causation". But there are clear risks associated with marijuana use that should not be dismissed so casually.
I just sent some postcards recently for the first time in my life. 3 weeks ago when I was in the Philippines, and 1 week ago in Singapore. I looked around for some postcards that represented the local culture rather than a beach or landscape. I also used the country's postal system (I had the option of sending it through the US Military's system) to get the country's postmark.

It was humorous having to lick stamps. I haven't done that in over 15 years! :-)

I've considered looking for a service that would allow me to send holiday cards to friends and family on my behalf while I'm at sea, but right now I've decided against it. Too impersonal.

For me, it's not just about sending a message, it's about sending an experience.

I don't think I'm your target customer, but I imagine your target customer is out there somewhere.
> After waiting twenty minutes, we are ushered into a room upstairs. A woman from the agency hands each of us a time sheet. For the sign-in, she tells us to write 8:30. “I know you were told to be here at 8:15,” she says, anticipating a protest that never comes, “but that was just to make sure you got here early.” And, like that, fifteen minutes are lopped from our paycheck. It’s a small but important lesson in what it means to be a “flexible” worker.

> But there are significant challenges to organizing the industry. “Because of the temp nature of work, it’s very easy for a worker who speaks out to be retaliated against,” says Palma. “They might not be called back to work the following day, or have their hours decreased.” That’s exactly what happened to Rodriguez, according to the WWU. After he spoke to the media and participated in strikes over unsafe workplace conditions—leading Cal/OSHA to fine the warehouse nearly $30,000—he was fired earlier this year. Federal charges have been filed against the company, alleging retaliation, and an investigation is under way.

I'm not a fan of labor unions, but I'm not sure what else can be done about this sort of thing. Litigation can only tackle small parts of the problem, and class action settlements leave the lawyers as the only winners. Fines are never high enough to disincentivize the activity. There's a high chance of not getting caught, and even when you do get caught the fine is barely higher than the cost of complying in the first place. Maybe a punishment of public floggings for executives at companies who violate labor laws?[1]

[1] There's a lot of Singapore worship among certain circles, so they shouldn't mind adopting some of their customs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore.
> As a good rule of thumb, only perform transactions in bitcoin doing legal things

How is this a good rule of thumb? If you want to stay in legality, then do legal things, if you don't want to stay in legality, then do whatever you want. Your good rule of thumb seems more like a "how to be a good sheep" to me.

> you seriously shouldn't have bitcoin, they're not good for you.

Who are you to judge what people are doing with their coins? People like you are the ones who give a bad image of bitcoin. Don't enforce bitcoins onto others, don't enforce your personal view of bitcoins onto others.

> Oh, and drugs are also not good for you, so please don't do them.

We're not on a rehab website, I don't see how this comment influenced from your "lifestyle" is relevant here. If you're not drinking alcohol, not smoking coffee, then good for you. But we've never asked for your input.
Two issues at stake. Are they effective and what are the side effects?

Vaccines are good against a known thing, such as Hepatitis B or Polio. So you would want your kids to be vaccinated against things like that. However the flu vaccine is not really effective.

Side effects? If you take a Flu vaccine shot or Whooping cough shot you get a different one from that given to pregnant women and babies. Think about that. One contains mercury, the other doesn't. So why doesn't everybody get the safer one? Manufacturer cost.

Which leads to a third issue which I didn't mention - money. Corporations abuse whenever they can, why wouldn't it be the same in the pharma industry? Take the flu vaccine, the effectiveness is not proven, yet we are bombarded everyday with marketing/propaganda that flu shots are available and they only cost 60 bucks.

The Andrew Wakefield MMR-Autism paper has been discredited but it did make a lot of people ask questions. Why are kids today getting so many more vaccinations than before? Why are more kids getting diagnosed with autism? Is there a causal link? Why instead of single shots are different shots getting combined into one super cocktail - to save money, cut corners?

If you read Ben Goldacre's books on the pharma and health industry, you will quickly understand that most big pharma medical trials are poorly controlled experiements and mainly used as marketing tools for new products. They will sponsor/allow dozens of tests confirming a positive result, to crowd out one or two better controlled tests which produce a negative result.

Obviously citations needed, but this is from memory.

At the end of the day, parents have tough decisions, use common sense and understand that medicine evolves.

The last few years, doctors recommended kids take Tylenol before vaccinations to help pain management. Now doctors say take Advil, because Tylenol in young infants and children may be linked to asthma and exczema - and some research indicates Tylenol reduces the effectiveness of the vaccine shot itself!
Why I'm leaving New York
You're using escrow already when you use a bank account, CC processor, paypal, google wallet etc.

You don't really get a choice, and you carry the mandatory cost because merchants roll the cost of chargeback fraud, CC fees and banking fees over into your purchase price, no matter if you think you'll need the added service or not.
If overconsumption of technology harms productivity of people, great! Less competition for me. As they say, "it's a dog eat dog world." While you're browsing Facebook, I'm advancing myself in the world. Good luck catching me.
To this day, I still don't own a smartphone. This will eventually change, because I need it for more practical things, like having a map and being able to search google for things while I'm on the road.

But what completely boggles my mind is actually letting the phone buzz me for anything other than an actual phone call. Even when I'm at my desktop the only notifications I get are skype conversations, and sometimes I turn those off too.

I think the problem isn't phones, it's notifications. We have become addicted to notifications on both phones and the desktop.
Another component of a solution for this is giving parents better control over the time and energy kids are allowed to spend on their smartphone. As ADHD as I am as an adult, I wonder what the the effects an always on entertainment device would have had on my issues with distraction in my developmental years.

Maybe this already exists, but ideally I'd like to have unrestricted voice, but limited non-voice (I.e app) usage settings per day on phones.
We can guess at the details.

A lot of forums like phpBB are installed via cPanel and may have default passwords and not be secured fully.

If you have a machine in the ISP, which just means renting 1 machine per ISP, then scan the local IP ranges for open MySQL ports... or more nefariously scan for Memcached as that is hardly ever secured.

Then use the default credentials or the credentials stolen from Memcached to access MySQL.

You're dealing with a known set of forum software, probably phpBB, Vanilla, vBulletin and Invision. So you only need to map out a few schema to be able to make sense of hundreds if not thousands of sites.

Forums are slow moving, even the big ones only have a few thousand to low tens of thousand of posts per day... and your rented machine could easily poll for differences and send it back to HQ.

This is all just speculation of course, but it wouldn't surprise me that this is how it was done.
I don't own a smartphone either, and I don't normally carry a cellphone. I figure if everyone around me has one, I don't need one. The sad thing is when you meet new people and are expected to exchange phone numbers, it takes a little explaining to make sure they don't take "I don't have a phone" as "I couldn't come up with a more plausible excuse to never see you again."
It means that some people have a "gut feel", and they believe their gut is more accurate than bazillions statistically validated studies on the proper vaccination schedule.
Vaccines come in multiple doses. Some countries space out each dose every other month, others do it every two or three months. It varies. The US schedule is similar but not the same as many countries in the EU.

Big pharma also keeps pushing cocktail shots, multiple vaccinations in one single shot, whereas before you would take multiple visits and each time it would be a separate vaccine.
Do you have zero addictions? Are you a perfect, rational person that never does anything against their better judgment?

If so, congratulations.

As for myself, I have no problem avoiding sugar, bad foods, alcohol, lottery tickets, cigarettes, drugs. I have dodged all those bullets. But the internet has a hold on me. I want to use it less, but it's compelling.

Some people don't have that, but they suffer other compulsions. Unless you have zero compulsions, I would not be so quick to judge others.
I think you and the article raise some good points. I guess I'm vain enough to think that when I take someone out to lunch I expect at least the majority of their attention. I won't fault them for replying to a text. But if you're browsing Twitter/Facebook/whatever while I'm trying to have a conversation with you, I'd naturally be annoyed as I think anyone would. Wouldn't you? I'm surprised that the older gentleman would say something, though.
If Google is not a single cohesive whole, how can you speak for it?
Thanks :)!

And yeah, I have a similar phone laying around that I've been thinking about trying. The battery life on those suckers is absolutely insane relative to smartphones!
A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring practices) (2011)
Social Networks are getting scary: Part I
Social networks was supposedly built to give people freedom to build connections, speak their minds and express their opinions to the world . It certainly did what it was built for. However, unfortunately, that freedom is leading to incrimination and discrimination of the people. Freedom has come at a massive cost.
It seems to mean that they feel it's wrong, that they feel it should be slowed down, and later that they feel the ingredients are dangerous.

It means they don't have any information to back it up.
F# doesn't have "OO bolted on it as an afterthought". Sure, F# strongly favors the FP approach to things, but the language's OO features are important -- critical, even. Without support for OO programming, F# wouldn't be able to easily consume existing .NET (C#, VB.NET, etc.) libraries, nor would you be able to use F# to implement components/libraries to be easy consumed by C#. The ease of interop'ing with C# is one of F#'s best features, IMO, and an important part of the wider adoption it's now seeing.
With tools like Chef, Puppet, Pallet, Ansible, this is a unbelievably solved problem.
How old are you? I'm 28, and people my age and younger do this all the time. The younger they are, the less likely there is to be any apology.
Oh, I don't know.

I noticed this the other day, and I realized the root urge behind "phone zombie" is to connect with other people: Friends, news, the world at large. Mobile phones are the inevitable byproduct of humans being incredible social animals.

(I try to minimize my own notifications and mobile phone usage, but to each their own).
> I'm wondering if a doctor would balk at signing a document of liability for {x} resulting from vaccination. If she wouldn't put her career behind her belief, should I believe her?

I'm wondering if a programmer would balk at signing a document of liability for {x} resulting from their code submitted on a tight deadline. If they wouldn't put their career behind the belief in their code, should I believe them?
Sorry, I did generalize quite a bit. But your right, they did not keep their money in cash. Much worse, they converted their excess cash to illiquid and/or depreciating assets.

Also, many people do not have access to a 401k:
50.6% of Americans work for an employer that sponsors a retirement savings plan.
40.4% of employees utilized a 401(k) or pension in 2008.

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_11-2009_No336_Ret-...

If they do have a 401k plan, it really depends what assets you can buy. If the plan offered only allows you to purchase mutual funds with high load and yearly fees, your wealth is being transferred to others. Over time, you will lose money vs the index. There are also penalties for early withdrawals.

Also, people are not forced to put money in a 401k or to buy a house or car. They could save that money and do something productive with it. On that link you posted, the wealthy DID NOT have most of their wealth in a 401k, it was in equities, equity in their business, rental properties, and other assets.

So, the point I was making was - the wealthy put the money to work for them rather than other way around. Imagine if you had excess money during the 2008 recession, you could have had many opportunities to make money. Most had their money (as you mentioned) tied up in their house or car. So, really it is about the wealthy being in a position to advantage of all available opportunities.
When I was 35 I had 300K and was earning six figures. If I had just stayed put my net worth would be 500K.
Not directly, no. But it's still clearly inspired by it.
Sure we're attempting to connect with other people, but I argue that it's degrading the quality of the connections we're supposed to be making in real life.
Ironically, I love the fact that I almost never receive unplanned phone calls anymore, and that when I want to talk to my friends, I can use video.
no kids, but I want to start a family. It seems like it would be hard to save for retirement and raise kids.
as I understand it, the chances are very slim, but a solution might be to "ban" addresses with stolen coins from making transations... but there probably always will be a black market.
Yep, the Erik Meijer wrote the original Rx while at Microsoft Research. Others have expanded his work: now there's RxJS, RxCpp, Rx.rb, Rx.py, etc.:

https://rx.codeplex.com/
Those look like commuters. Commuters are already zombies. Going back and forth between their home and office on autopilot.

The thing I find interesting is watching the different types, like for example, very early in the morning you get 'lower' class workers with a standard tabloid newspaper and overalls. The closer it gets to nine, the more they look like managers or office workers, and the more focused they are on their gadgets.
There's one solution few people consider: don't get a data plan.

The original iphone launch trained us that smartphones must have a data plan. You couldn't buy one without data. But now you can. I have an iphone with unlimited calls and texting, for $40 a month.

I use wifi at home, but when I'm out and about I'm not connected. I've never had a single problem as a consequence.

You might say "but....google maps!". I've found that without Google maps, I am forced to actually learn my way around. Within a day or two I know a new city better than most locals.

My phone is much less distracting as a consequence.
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... adding "tight deadline" imbalances this equation a bit. In a place where a vaccine will stop rampant spreading of a virus, then you could consider it a tight deadline - though in a place where it's mostly under control, the comparison doesn't hold as apples to apples.
The body can tolerate millions of antigens being presented to it simultaneously. In fact, it does every day. So do the bodies of children.

This is not some push by the "pharma" bogeyman. It's a push by doctors to reduce the chance that a child fails to complete his or her vaccination series.

If the probability of missing a visit is, say, 0.05, then the probability of missing a shot in a series of 3 is (1 - 0.95^3) ~= 14%, as opposed to 5% if you can actually do it all at once.