jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I lack the ability to defend that analysis, but as I mentioned, it's not the only analysis showing reduced 1st dose efficiency. AFAICT, there's a consensus with Israeli HMO researches it's not as good as the Pfizer trials.

>I looked at the preliminary Cialit findings. This is much more sane: a case control study. They find benefit-- about 33% efficacy-- post day 14, unlike the data you've been showing.

I suspect you're talking about a different analysis then the preprint I'm talking about. IIRC, the preliminary analysis you're talking about was released earlier and without external verification.

Anyway, I don't see how your criteria can be falsified. If the data were to show 16% 1st dose efficiency, it would have been possible to claim the vaccinated are taking 4-5x risk. But how can you separate that from the possibility 1st dose is 4-5x less efficient than in the trials? Same thing for the reported 33% efficiency, it could be vaccinated are merely 1.25x less careful.

If so, there's a reasonable chance 1st dose isn't enough for Pfizer and by implication Moderna.
It's a runtime, not a runtime environment. The common meaning of a JRE is some system-wide Java environment, that the user obtains from a third-party (Oracle) and installs on their machine, with a system-wide "current" Java version. That no longer exists.

It is true that if everyone understood the difference between a JRE and any other Java runtime, yet chose to call them all "JRE" and expect the meaning to be understood from context, insistence over proper terminology would have merely been pedantic, but that's not the situation. Discontinuing the JRE in favour of custom runtimes was a big change, and one that people still don't fully understand.
Pfizer does most of the production of the vaccine, but in Europe a large part of the vaccines is also manufactured by their German partner BioNtech. BioNtech is setting up a new factory in Marburg Germany right now.

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...

From their press release: "Facility will become one of the largest mRNA manufacturing sites in Europe and the third site in the BioNTech manufacturing network in Germany expected to produce BNT162 for global supply
Expected to be fully operational in the first half 2021 with an annual production capacity up to 750 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccine"
ZX Spectrum / C64 etc.
At the moment it's only a bot service for me, and I'm reluctant to add other users, but it could definitely be on the cards if there's demand.

I haven't done any historic runs but perhaps I should do this weekend. Will see if I can find historic fundamental data though.
It's normal. It's incredibly difficult to unit test most things in games (graphics, sound, player controls). Also most game logic is pretty simple and it either works or it very noticeably doesn't.

That said, often game logic has some unit tests.
I thought the most sophisticated has been stuxnet
Intellectual humility is a beautiful thing.

Education usually blasts away many natural preconceived notions about the world. It makes engineers run tests and scientists run experiments. What better way is there to get people to question their own knowledge but by showing them other viewpoints?

It also arrogantly presupposes the professor's intellectual environment to be less bubble-like than the students'

I think the professor's intellectual environment is a different kind of bubble. Maybe it's a higher level of dogma, but we need students to believe in themselves while simultaneously understanding that what they believe could be wrong.
I find it sad that people feel the need to establish arbitrary demarcation lines between the arts and sciences. Poetry may not be "useful" in the sense of creating utilities and infrastructure, but it is definitely used by many people, myself included, as a creative medium to get emotions and thoughts ordered in a way impossible with programming. Nothing soothes me more than to read a poem to my friend or lover, and then have them reciprocate. Art is a powerful thing.

I, for one, dread the day when poetry is considered "useless."
You already play this with your friends on a daily basis. Haven't you ever teased a friend, or pretended something they did was silly? You're lowering their status and raising yours, if only temporarily and in the spirit of fun.

Keith Johnstone even argues that this sort of status game is the sign of a close friendship, implying that the two of you are comfortable enough with the status dynamics of your relationship to play around with them.
Thx. Seems to work! Looks like the defaults are:

net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart_flightsize: 4
net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize: 1

Also useful: http://spatula.net/blog/2007/04/freebsd-network-performance-...
I think it is a mistake to make something a human right that has to be provided by somebody else.
Personally I view this as bad news for the Android ecosystem.

The iOS/iTunes ecosystem is incredibly accessible. You don't need a credit card (important for minors; a huge market). You can buy credit everywhere. iOS users seem willing to part with cash.

Google Checkout on the other hand is not available everywhere Android is. People seem less willing to use it (eg 50k paid from this post). You can't buy credit in the retail chain. Google gives developers 95%.

The last one is actually a huge problem. Google's 5% will never pay for retail distribution (Apple's 30% clearly does).

Developers have come to the obvious conclusion: they'd rather have 70% of (potentially) a lot rather than 95% of much less.

iOS has the option of paid and ad-supported. Android only having ad-supported (realistically) is a major disadvantage.

The only way Abgry Birds could make it to Android is on the back of the success of iOS. I wonder how much money their experiment is really making.
Something the article doesn't keep in consideration is the fact that Angry Birds is so famous that most likely those people on Android who downloaded it have seen their iPhone friends playing it and praising it for months...
To give you guys a reference point:

It's $62.95 for shipping it to Germany. Ouch.
From the map it looks like all of Canada is Vitamin D deficient. Interesting, and a bit concerning. Maybe I should be taking more supplements.
This seems to say really bad things for the Android marketplace. If a game as good and popular as Angry Birds can't survive if charged for, it doesn't seem like a good place for developers. Ad supported doesn't work unless you can get to millions of downloads.
I'm not familiar with K2. I'll do some Googling around, but if you have good sources, I'd appreciate it if you shared them. Thanks.
Can someone give me a good reason why Google should care what Wall Street guys think and how much they value casino chips that Google gave them to play with?
Thanks Matthew.

Appreciate you stopping by :)
Two points in response:

1) Many people love/crave McDonalds. The menu is optimized to appeal to human cravings for fats, carbs, and sweets.

2) McDonalds is also very inexpensive. Android phones sell for nearly the same price as iPhones.
I like the puns, but wish more people would use "epic" instead of "epi".
Wow. That's almost as if someone would take the original Xerox Parc computer designs and, you know, build a copied computer of and sell in their own name.
Thanks for the feedback max.

I didn't want to make the price too low, because I am not sure how many users I can realistically support right now (given that it is me alone). That's also why I didn't do a free account.
Out of all the confusing and misleading monad tutorials out there, this one finally made it click for me: http://ertes.de/articles/monads.html. He doesn't use any off-the-wall analogy like spacesuits or ghosts inside of boxes. Instead, he just explains monads for what they essentially are: reified future computations. Once I saw monads for what they are, instead of all the things they are not (e.g. bananas), it all seemed so simple. The fundamental similarities between various monads such as IO and lists, which had previously eluded me, really came into focus.

I wish more tutorial writers would realize that just because someone is a novice doesn't mean a challenging concept must be candy coated or abstracted to the point of near-meaninglessness in order to be palatable. Quite the opposite, in many cases.
Here's a fairly simple strategy for beating challenges 1 - 5. Basically drop off people in the elevator according to whoever's floor is closest. Then once the elevator is empty go to the closest floor that has people waiting to be picked up.

https://gist.github.com/cspags/93f18a2fe505bf4f1686
My son, who is a little younger than your brother, wanted to learn to code and I tried a number of things but they didn't really stick. He kept "wanting to" but never really learned past regurgitating the tutorial. Finally, he picked up my TI NSpire CX CAS and started playing with it. For us really old guys it's like the next, next, next gem TI 82 graphing calculator.

The TI has always included a programming language and interpreter in their calculators. It used to be "TI Basic" but now it is full Lua. They have hundreds of example programs to look and and learn from and tutorials galore.

The thing that finally made it click for him was, he could take this little handheld machine anywhere and whenever a programming thought struck him he could try it. Soon he was building reusable functions and libraries of reusable functions and everything clicked.

Now he's transferring a lot of that knowledge to other languages, most recently Python, without any trouble at all. I would recommend it to anyone with a kid who is interested in learning.
> the research did uncover a few unexpected insights... Only 4 percent of those surveyed said social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn were “very important” to their jobs.

I'm gonna guess that 96% of people would say that this result was completely expected.
This is a pretty big tangent, but I fairly strongly disagree with pg on this.

The fact that upvotes and downvotes are not treated symmetrically seems to imply that they really aren't suitable for merely conveying agreement or disagreement. Somebody's comment shouldn't literally be greyed out, sometimes to the point of being illegible, because a few people disagreed with it. This combination -- using downvotes freely to express disagreement, and hiding or fading out downvoted comments -- is a recipe for groupthink. It's very nearly a form of censoring comments that are maybe contentious but in no way inflammatory or off-topic or poorly written.
The post on the 2nd day was the one that had 8x the previous post's upvotes.
By that logic why bother with for? You can implement any control structure with goto, after all.

The value of using map is precisely that it can't do everything a for loop can. It can only do one simple thing, which makes it easy for the reader to understand what it's doing.
Java doesn't have Object or any Object derivative arrays. Only elementary types can be arrays. Of which reference type is one. So when you say:

Integer[] boxedInts = new Integer[5];

You're allocating an array of references with length of 5, so usually 5 * 4 + 8 bytes. Additionally, each of the referenced Integer Object instance take up 16 bytes. Multiple arrays (or reference fields) can refer to same Object instance.

The example was about Integers, but it's basically the same story for FactoryWorkerPersons.

Java doesn't have arrays of objects. Only arrays of elementary types, up to 2^31-1 entries.
Everything in the Sprawl plugs into something. The most common verb I can remember for using cyberspace back in the 90s was "jacking in". Characters had "cortical sockets".

This was an intensely connected future. But it was an intensely connected future hooked together by <em>wires</em>.

I've read science fiction most of my life. I grew up in a 70s and 80s that looked absolutely nothing like what books from the 60s predicted. And now that the twenty-teens looks nothing like what books in the 90s predicted, I'm not surprised. SF is about asking "what if", not saying "I think this will be". And it is especially prone to making good guesses about a few things, and looking incredibly silly because the author failed to anticipate some out-of-left-field thing that made a huge change in how society works.

(It does, however, never cease to amuse me that the polyamorous, legal-dope-smoking societies I laughed at in 60s books is pretty much what I live in now that I'm an adult in 2015 Seattle. I'm not sure how much of that can just be chalked up to moving from "kid in the South" to "grownup on the West Coast" though. But I digress. Probably because of that legal dope.)
ES5shim pretty much takes care of that.
This is, possibly literally, the shittiest article I have ever read, and you should be ashamed for linking to it.
As much as I like Apple it seems like they are in the back pocket of big media when it comes to this topic. AFAICT Apple only supports h.264 and h.265 meaning 1.3 billion iOS devices have browsers that can't access open standards for video.

Yet one more reason why Apple should be required to allow alternate browser engines IMO. Some will claim it's a battery issue but Apple has the resources to add hardware support for other codecs and I'm only guessing could already handle it just fine with their current "Bionic" chips. I'm not sure what other executes can be dreamt up. I'm sure they'll follow in the comments below.
It is generally repeated that the Go stdlib webserver is internet-facing-ok and production-ready (with appropriate timeouts being set on the http.Server), making a reverse proxy unnecessary.

There are also dead-simple TLS libraries, some that will even get LE certs automatically.
they looked bad long before this. I don't know why this story didn't get me attention:

https://vpnpro.com/blog/confusion-in-the-vpn-industry-is-nor...

someone from PIA's patent company was caught trying to smear other VPN's but forgot to hide his profile image.
During WW2 he gave up his post a Cambridge and went to work as a porter at a hospital.

"Wittgenstein, however, detested Cambridge academic life, and urged his pupils not to become academic philosophers, but to do something decent with their lives. When the war began he was eager to be involved in war work and to be, as he put it, 'where the bombs are falling'. In September 1941, through Professor John Ryle of Guy's Hospital (brother of Wittgenstein's friend the philosopher Gilbert Ryle) he began work as a porter at Guy's."
That still puts you a single firewall mistake away from disaster. It also places a lot of trust into the applications and hosts that can access ES on a network level: They get full access with no control at all.

To add on that: No security also means no TLS, neither in the cluster communication, no TLS speaking to the client etc.
Perhaps you should come up with your own term to describe such disclosures instead of co-opting the well established one that means something else entirely?
What formal training do you recommend for cultivating social and communication skills?
That's for the latest version of YouTube, but I believe an old version of YouTube will still work fine with today's servers, at least for basic video watching (commenting etc. broke in the big Google plus debacle)
The string encoding is actually the best part of python 3. There's a large number of small feature regressions that really irritate me, like the removal of comparators, and gratuitous changes like the removal of print statements and moving shit around without providing aliases. But the bytes/str distinction is actually really useful for anybody who uses unicode, which is everybody.

If Python 3 had just made that change and no other breaking changes, the transition would have been much faster and the value propositon much clearer.
If you want opium, google for "dried poppy pods" and you will get raw, dried opium sent to your door for a reasonable price and in a professional manor. That we are waging a war in Afghanistan to stop the supply of opium when it is so easily available (legally!!!!!!) on the internet is just one more example of how the world is insane.
This quote was interesting to me, "That would be the end of the world for serious writers, who are not performers and who can’t earn a living giving concerts and selling T-shirts. Nobody knows how this is going to play out."

There isn't an audience for successful writers to be speakers?
Bolivia had better watch out for falling lithium prices.

When a government depends on resources for their revenue, they are setting themselves up for failure when prices fall.

Norway could have been in a similar situation with oil, but they avoided it:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabd...

Hopefully Bolivia learns something from Norway and this does not happen to them (Venezuela definitely didn't take a hint).

Similarly, if Afghanistan does not set itself up well, it could have the same resource dependency problem.
Actually, I think the screen tech is already there and it's really the terrible scaling support in OSes that is holding things back. Nobody buys high DPI displays because the experience of using one with Windows sucks. If it's true that iOS 4 automatically scales apps while improving text sharpness that will make it far more advanced than both Windows and Mac OS.
I have Solr mostly working on AppEngine.

Obviously (for those of you who know the Solr codebase), there are some pretty extreme hacks to get around the lack of file system access, but nothing that couldn't be cleaned up.

I was a little surprised about the lack of interest in it when I emailed the solr-dev list.
Well, that and toxoplasmosis.
I'd forgotten about the comments. Blocked them out, really.
I used to like the idea of (originally zope's) metal/tal templates. In theory the templates where valid html, complete with example values - and could be edited directly.

Unfortunately this breaks down as soon as you start to break up the page into sections (you end up with a component that needs a "layout" to provide surrounding <html><body>(...) etc).

Ironically, now with html5 being rather loose and fast, you might actually get a decent preview of such a widget again... But it's still not right for "web applications" as opposed to "hypertext applications".

Full applications need full gui widgets - and html isn't a good fit.
Would drinking tonic water help?
Based on what would they expect to win business, from whom? Could they do it at lower cost? Probably not. Do they have any technology that leapfrogs the others? Not aware of any. Do they have good business relationships for this sort of thing? No. So what else is there?
Is there a difference between 1.0 and 1.0.0-rc.1.1?
I'm skeptical about Microsoft recovering. They clearly missed the mobile revolution.
But let's hope they'll be able to tackle directly the next challenges (wearable computing, etc.)
There is also such a thing as criminal negligence, right?
Did you send this to Malcolm Gladwell? :)

Igon send it to him if you can't :)
"Including some content" and making a political point based on it pretty much fullfils the definition of "political" to me ;) Even candidate speeches do exactly that. They're hardly ever "purely political". While I don't downvote nor dismiss the article, you seem to be hairsplitting to me (as for point 1).
There’s a “spot” open now.
Lol I found a bug in Ryan Tomayko's dotfiles when he put them up. https://github.com/rtomayko/dotfiles/commit/d462da485294b516...
Am I am saddened that I am no longer surprised that this is happening.
Some examples:

- Hires: You start an open-source project, it gets some nice traction, a company start using your code in production, but they want to make sure you spend your time working on the project. They hire you to work full time on it. So you're technically employed by the company, but all the community is benefiting from your work.

- Consulting: you sell consulting services for your project, or an hosted implementation (think MongoDB or Wordpress, for example)

- Sponsorship: you get sponsored either by a company that has an interest in the project (but you're not an employee of the company), or by universities / research grants / etc... I think Nokia sponsors some KDE developers, for example. The European Union also spends some money sponsoring open-source projects.

- Donations (from individuals or corporations). Either in money, or in hardware / software / services / etc... Usually not a good way to make a living, as a developer, though.

One thing is for sure: it is definetely possible to make money with open source. But more likely as a project (ie: you found a company that develops a piece of technology which is open-source), than as a developer (ie: you're not very likely to make a living of being a regular contributor to open source projects)
Depending on your point of view, this is a perfect example of either what makes ruby so amazing or so awful. I don't know of another language that gives you the power to so concisely potentially screw yourself in such a creative way.
In what version of adsense does it not use an iframe? It's always used an iframe, dynamically generated from js.

The top ad on scribd actually has about 5 iframes.

No idea why my original comment stands a 0. Please do your research people.
rssCloud support in Twitterfeed would be fantastic!

Yay!!
Looking closer — I think no?. Some of the European countries which criminalize forced marriage, according to this June 2012 survey ( https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... ), include: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, and Germany.

In Austria: "Forcing someone into marriage is a distinct criminal offence in Austria. Austrians and people living in Austria are facing legal consequences for such actions only if this kind of marriage occurs within the country’s borders. From January 2012 the Federal Government has amended the anti-forced marriage law to allow prosecutors to press charges against perpetrators over forced marriages abroad.

In Belgium: "Forcing someone to marry is a criminal offence."

In Cyprus: "Forcing someone to marry is a criminal offence."

In Denmark: "The Danish Criminal Code includes an offence of unlawful coercion, prohibiting the use of threats by a person to force another person to do something against their will. This offence would apply to marriage if threats were used to force a person into marriage against their will. The penalty for this offence ranges from a fine to a period of imprisonment not exceeding two years."

In Germany: "Forcing someone to marry is a distinct criminal offence and can be punished by up to five years in
prison. The law also gives non-German citizens who are forced by their husbands/families to leave the country after their marriage a legal right to return to Germany. "

I don't know what I'd do in this situation — I'm not even sure I can understand what it's like. But with a Schengen visa and Spanish residency, one option might be to move to Germany and seek protection from the government there. This is a tough situation for people to be in.
The German researchers who first described these symptoms grouped loss of smell together with loss of taste. They saw this in 2/3 of their cases.
I'm working on building my own function generator!

If you're not an EE - a function generator is a pretty common piece of electrical engineering lab equipment.

I've got all the source files up on GitHub - feel free to take a look: https://github.com/cushychicken/bfunc

I've also been keeping a weekly project journal. I just posted the latest installment today if you'd like to see what I've gotten up to: http://cushychicken.github.io/bfunc-weekseven-log/

I'm already planning a second prototype and board spin with more functionality.

If you need or want a really bare-bones function generator for your home lab, get in touch! Instructions for how are in the post. )