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The idea isn't that only a doctor can evaluate a doctor's performance, but that you need a doctor to explain why the other doctor may have done what he did. Without this expert opinion, no conclusions that you can try to draw from it as a non-doctor hold any weight.

i.e. Get some climate scientists to weight in on this and evaluate what they have to say on it rather than just looking at some of the evidence on your own and drawing your own conclusions.

I'm not saying to have a climate scientist give you a 'yes/no' answer to "Is this a fruad?" and then blindly trust their answer. I'm saying that someone in the field of climatology should be able to explain some of this away in a reasoned and understandable manner with facts that can be verified if this isn't some sort of fraud.

Declaring something a fraud by looking at snippets of emails and comments from source files out of context is not the way of rational debate. I highly doubt that you or many of the people rushing to label this as "100% of everything said about Global Warming since the beginning of time is now false" have done more than read snippets from blog posts.
Obviously (I already did that), but if it's going to be searched on keywords, you lose out.
I know Directed Edge and I think their approach is very impressive. I could not start down the same road of writing my own db at the moment, though. Hoping for some middle road for starting out.
Hi Rokhayakebe,

some suggestions and observations

1. The label manage is not clear enough. I guess anyone who has the manage link has admin right and can delete the doc.

2. Please check the screenshot. For some reasons the powerpoint I uploaded took up the whole screen. http://tinypic.com/r/3524zed/6

3. I liked the simplistic approach. I guess it will be better if you can make the upload field bigger and bring it to the centre of the page, maybe somewhat similar to google and the value prop can be placed above it.

All the best
The differences aren't invented. I see them every day within my own family. My Dad literally argues with himself out loud. I used to think he was arguing with me, but he's not, because now I just remain silent and the argument still happens. He's not being brash, and he's not shooting first. He's just figuring out the problem with his own method. And when he's done, he's usually right (warning: son idolising father bias).

I don't see the problem labeling my Dad an extrovert... there's nothing negative about it, and it describes one general aspect of his personality pretty well. Even more so, recognising this aspect of his personality has helped me interact with him in a much more productive manner.
Seems like a slippery slope to me. Ok, so the university doesn't let these ~2 dozen students graduate because they refused to enroll in a 'fitness' class that was only required for the obese (if I'm reading the article right).

What other areas of 'student unhealth' will the university decide to make a conditionally-mandatory class for next? Tobacco? Alcohol?
This might be what you're looking for - http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

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Could probably take Yelp's business too. I know I'm much more likely to Tweet about something than write a review on Yelp.
This is a really really good idea. I expect clued-in companies use this to search for developers instead of LinkedIn (if GitHub charges less than LinkedIn for access to the hiring profile). We'll finally have something like a "portfolio" for developers, where you can show your code in a slick UI instead of talking about it on your blog etc.
Agreed (sorta). I think achieving a certain level of proficiency is a necessary condition (not a sufficient one). However, as noted in the article, sometimes reaching a particular level of proficiency creates the "I like this" emotion.
Internet prices and retail is actually something I have been thinking about recently. Someone, please help me with the economics.

What if a retail store offered great advice and let you order online so you get the best Internet price?

One reason why I almost never visit a retail store anymore is because the best deal is always online.

So rather than take it as a challenge for retail, embrace it. Can one build a retail business that relies on ordering stuff from the cheapest online retailers?

I can think of the obvious reasons why not. But if you think creatively, wouldn't that make sense? Even the cheapest online retailers offer some kind of referral compensation. There may be other ways to make money than making a profit on the big ticket item that your visitor came in to order...
One way that taught me a lot. Go to a third world country and just for fun, negotiate retail items (baseball cap, tshirt, whatever). Shoot for 80% off. Can you do it? Then go for 90% off...

You'll quickly learn that you have two weapons: money in your pocket that the other guy wants, and the ability to walk away if you don't like the deal.

Everything else is fluff.

PS: another way to practice is go through timeshare presentations. Keep saying no. You'll be amazed how low the prices can get. You'll be handled by 2,3 or 4 different sales people, each with supposedly more authority and better deals to offer you. Keep saying no. You'll see :-)
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You have to eat more calories of crap to feel satiated than eating decent food. Crap is much cheaper than decent food, so people struggling financially are much more tempted by crap.

I don't think you can easily eliminate the economic impact on obesity rates.
Couldn't happen to a nicer couple of companies.
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If nothing else, the class should be required for all students. Even if they're not tipping the scales yet, if they are developing the habit of eating lots of junk they will need to change or face consequences later in life.

They could add content on Tobacco, Alcohol, etc. to the same class and students could then make their own choices based on that information.
But do you then to this add "...but I'll try to find out for you" ?
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Most of the typically criticized, "fucked up" aspects of ASP.Net (like the page life-cycle event model) has been cleaned up in ASP.Net MVC.

I still want my debugger though.
> How so?

Learning a foreign language is all about internalization. It takes time and is hard to correct. The last thing you want is to inadvertently internalize the wrong thing. Root vocabulary would be relatively easy to fix, but pronunciation and grammar would be very hard.
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Why fantasy stories? Why list the best fantasy books if movies are probably being made about all of them? Yeah: a crime/thriller novel might have danger and chases, a fiction story might tell of human struggle and a biography might give insight into someone in history. Can any of those characters cut down five orcs with a single arrow? Can they slay a dragon with just a blast of spell-fire? Can they defeat an ancient evil threatening to spread over the world with nothing more than determination and a magic sword? No? Didn't think so.
Did you even read the attached article? This is not an isolated case, as I mentioned with the olympic swimmers who were unable to ride a bike.

I'm not sure where you get your info from about "tall" people are stronger, perhaps you should tell that to the international weightlifting federation or the powerlifting federation. I'm sure they would be interested. Also, the UFC should just throw out all the smaller guys, and just select purely on height. :)
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f) use different pictures...I dunno, kittens with ribbons or clowns or something.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to a game involving bikini-clad girls, and it's true enough there are other apps out there with more overtly sexual themes. And I get that it's basically a simple game you're trying to spice up with some eye candy, and girls in bikinis are a popular form of eye candy. It sure seems like approval or disapproval is arbitrary and changes with the weather.

On the other hand, how hard can it be to try out some alternative content? Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's not worth selling. Maybe the market for kids' games is underserved (using the examples I gave above). Hell, try it with hunks in Speedos and whether the ladies would like some silly fun.
You know what sucks, commuting. I need go go out of the house into the cold, heat up my car, drive through traffic, find a place to park. This is obviously bad for the environment, and heck, it's almost 2010! Why are we still living with a broken 1930's solution?

So, despite the issues involved with bringing a total new commuting paradigm to market, let's look at what a perfect commuting workflow would like like. First, I'd have a box in my house that I'd step in. Then, using a combination of specialized nanobots and nuclear energy, I'd be transported directly to a compartment in my office.

Of course you could poke a hundred different holes in this plan, but if some random nobody like me can crank out an idea like that in a few minutes, just imagine what kind of real progress we could make if some of the world's smartest engineers and entrepreneurs got to work on this?
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One other way of looking at it is more of what Cialdini describes in "the psychology of influence". Basically, the world around us is too complex for our biological brains to really grasp, so we look for short cuts to get us through the day. One of those shortcuts is deferring to apparent authority. Same results (looking to others for answers), but a little more based on evolutionary bio / psychology as opposed to a "people as sheep" POV.
She did address that. She said if she gets cancer, she will die, and that is that.

I suppose it would be interesting to see if she stayed with that conviction once she really is sick. But, she's 67 already, and has managed to stick to some difficult convictions already, so I wouldn't bet against her.
That someone said "I learned X from Y" is not evidence he's correct.
Amazon affiliate revenues go up to 9%. I'm sure you could negotiate something similar with other providers.

Possibly you could offer people an guided Internet shopping experience in the mall - people come in and, with the help of an 'Internet shopping expert', buy things at Internet prices for later delivery. As you suggest you could monetize by collecting the affiliate commission.

If running a kiosk in a small mall cost you $20,000 a month (?) you would need to persuade people to buy ~1,000 $200 TVs a month.

The biggest barrier I can see would be overcoming the hostility from the other stores who would be really keen to kick you out once they spotted what you were doing. Because they occupy more square feet I'm sure mall management would oblige.
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How much stock do you put into the MB personality test? I remember taking it as a college freshman as part of a statistics class. At the end of the section I was pretty well convinced that all the MB stuff is really just babble.

Yes, people have different personalities. But I think we inconsistently have inconsistent / different personalities, so putting a blanket label on someone (for me, I've found my personality type varies significantly dependent on time) is really worse than useless.

Mark me not a fan of MB.
You do have a point. Chinese and Indians are much thinner than Americans and people of many other rich countries, despite being much poorer on the whole.

Rice is cheap. Not going for that third soda in a single sitting is also a money saver.

In the end, money is a very poor excuse. If people living off of less than 100USD/month can live full lives without getting fat, then the American "poor" don't have any poverty excuse whatsoever. Pervasive marketing and ubiquity of unhealthy foods are much more likely culprits.
> It’s like a dirty word. “Introvert.” Western societies tend to value life-of-the-party types over people like me

I thought that introvert had to do more with whether or not you thrive on social interaction or not. It's possible for an introvert to be a 'life-of-the-party' type.

I consider myself introverted because sometimes social interaction really exhausts me. Whereas someone that is extroverted feels exhausted and tired without social interaction; and social interaction energizes and motivates them.

Even though he's trying to talk about intro/extroverts it seems like he's further perpetuating myths about what those terms actually mean.
More to the point! The big disadvantage ML methods is that they are just fancy statistics. The main faulty assumption here is that they believe the future looks a lot like the past, so they try to find even more complex patterns in historical data to extrapolate future trends slightly faster than everybody else.

In order for this approach to work, you need very precise market conditions. When markets are stable, your edge is zero and you would be better off investing in some sort hedged index (minimum effort, decent result). When markets are not that stable, it is when you can anticipate trends and get a decent profit for your effort.
However, when markets suffer big unexpected turns is when fortunes change hands... and it is when your algorithms give you negative advantage! While you are warrantied to keep following the numbers wherever they take you,a savvy finance human agent has a chance to smell the blood and discretely head for the exit before everyone else.
So, it is your call guys. In my opinion, this will not be a viable approach until we get some type of semantic-web-ly mine-able news feeder.
Plenty of business in retirement & death + low competition.

Bad for living "the start-up life" - but it might be a golden opportunity for business.
"She still lives with money, just not with the physical pieces of paper."

The pieces of paper, or the equivalent numbers on a bank web site, check, etc., are the common meaning of money in normal conversation. In every day English, I think that exclusively relying on direct bartering does qualify as "living without money."
I agree that the story does not explain WHY it is bad to trust authority. But it tells the story of HOW the author have learn to mistrust authority.

It's one thing to know that you shouldn't trust authority, it's another thing to have practiced it. And this is exactly what the professor teaches: giving the students the tools and practice of constant skepticism toward even qualified authority.
This is what I need to tell people when I try to explain my love for racing games (and motorsports in general). To me, it really is the epitome of a mastery-based genre, especially when dealing with time attacks. Multiple failures with incremental improvements is absolutely required - "I need to do that lap in 1:30 and I did it in 1:36; if I brake later on the second turn, maybe I can bring it down to 1:34.4". Check results, adjust strategy, and repeat.

For a real-life example check Top Gear's visit to the Bonneville Salt Flats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKPPdTuk8I. "To reach our targets we'll have to get the wheelspin off the line exactly right. Every gear change, exactly right. We'd have to get our line in the salt, exactly right. Every bit of the run would have to be perfect."
http://twitter.com/hdmoore/statuses/6009657364 -> http://shodan.surtri.com/?q=port%3A23+%22list+of+built-in+co...
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"Or rather it depends - for people like the woman in the article it is probably a good thing, because she excels at social interactions. If her world order would become the norm, the people less skilled in social interactions would lose out."

Yep, as an introvert, this is the part that would terrify me about adopting such a lifestyle.
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Heh, I can imagine that it must have been a shock! I've been traveling through India for the last few months and at first I had a really hard time haggling.

Westerners feel guilty and have all kinds of emotions fixed to this process, while it's commonplace in India. I think Indians have a big advantage in that aspect.

BTW: I love your country and GJ on the shield case :)
Money allows a lot of worth to be removed from the system without any positive input and a huge amount to be removed solely on the basis of improved liquidity.

Suppose I have chickens I sell at £5, outside forces reduce the value of that £5 such that chickens are now worth £10. If previously a haircut was £5, and is since I cashed up now £10 (inflated the same as the chicken did) then because I use money I've lost 50% of the value of my chicken; simply by using money. If I swapped that chicken for a future haircut then it wouldn't matter what inflation does or the charges banks put on transactions or how competitors try to low-ball the hairdresser out of existence. I get a haircut, they get a chicken.
What you would need to do is start a retail store that either:

A) Sold the product at a price competitive to the online retailers (competitive can mean price or value-add services like knowledgeable salespeople, free delivery, etc.)

or

B) Provided great advice, directed a customer to the cheapest internet price and then had a value-add service. The store would then get paid via the internet store from which the item was purchased. The problem with this approach is that after time it would be beneficial (in the short term) for the retail store to direct customers to whichever online store gave the retail store the best kick back.
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Exactly. There's no reason why the paid twitter business accounts should be priced at the $20/mo. level. Maybe for verification alone that makes sense, but twitter could easily charge $100/mo. or more.
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In the poorer places of the country, it is far easier to get fast food than food from a grocery store. A lot of these families don't have a car, and lugging a week's worth of groceries on the bus absolutely sucks -- I've done it before. Even worse if you have a family.

Obesity is a very complicated issue in poor neighborhoods. It would involve fixing a few other things. And I don't like the "bah, lazy people" attitude. I have no idea how I'd handle the situation if I was raised in that sort of environment. I do know that it takes a much larger amount of effort to eat healthy in bad places.

The issue is further complicated since we try to push the same nutritional guide on everyone. It is a little known fact that Native Americas have a hard time with bread. Rice isn't as healthy for people as you think, unless their bodies are adapted for it.

In all, the University's heart is in the right place.
Tell HN:  A solution to the poor state of math education in the US.
For most students, I suspect that there is little that is inherently interesting or practical about much of what they learn in math classes.

I believe the solution to the poor state of math education in the US is to give students a killer app for math -- namely programming.

If their math classes can facilitate building some cool games say, then maybe students would care more -- even if they find math difficult.
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Agreed. The "trust" part of "trust but verify" is important, too.

For me, it was learning to build ways where I could invisibly monitor someone's progress without bothering them. Setting up Subversion/Git to alert me at commits. Having the database show me a progress of tasks completed/uncompleted, etc.

But yeah definitely: interrupting people doing good work, asking them to do things with "status" in them, is the worst way to go.
"I can't believe there isn't a well-defined analytical expression for that..."

Well, yes, there is some solid mathematics behind the pot stirring!

Writing out some appropriate mathematics, will likely want all 33 billion combinations of 38 things taken 18 at a time.

With this math, there is no use of 'prior probabilities', and the Monte Carlo is just a fast way to replace finding all 33 billion combinations.

For more, can see (with TeX markup):

E.\ L.\ Lehmann, {\it Nonparametrics: Statistical Methods Based on Ranks,\/} ISBN 0-8162-4994-6, Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1975.\ \

Jaroslav H\'ajek and Zbyn\v ek \v Sid\'ak, {\it Theory of Rank Tests,\/} Academia, Prague, 1967.\ \

Sidney Siegel, {\it Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences,\/} McGraw-Hill, New York, 1956.\ \

So, it's old material. There are many such hypothesis tests.

But the old material essentially always has, for the student case, only one number on each student. The part about what to do when each student has 4 scores can take us into the journals and maybe start some more research. Similarly for the 12 numbers from the 'system' to be monitored.
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I don't buy that whole, "I chug on cheeseburgers because I'm poor", I feel it has more to do with laziness, lack of discipline and simply not caring. Compare an apple to a bag of doritos, or an oreos smoothie with a cup of tea. Price and marketing manipulation sound to me like a lame excuse.
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Ask HN: What would you do with almost free bandwidth?
S3is roughly $0.10/GB of xfer right now, which seems like a great price until you start looking at the aggresively priced dedicated server providers who range from $0.0098 to $0.049 per GB of xfer. 10tb.com, for example, arbitrages SoftLayer's bandwidth pooling options in order to include 10TB/month of transfer with each server they rent out.

So if you could deliver 10,000GB for $100/month, how would you try and make money off of it?
I would tell them the benefits of standardization and assemblage. Making things to specification is a little appreciated, but very useful, concept.

E.g., a component of America's success in many wars (although I've read the disparity between her forces and the enemies were greatest during the Revolutionary War) was the fact that the gunsmiths made parts to spec. So I could buy my gun in NY and have it repaired with off the shelf parts down in Virginia.

For all the printing press folks, I think a big part of the success of the Gutenberg press was the fact that it was one design, could be build and distributed, and could be fixed from standard parts. Don't ever underestimate the influence of maintenance!