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The problem is that there have been no studies made regarding vaccine and autism...(A study that takes populations of vaccinated children and unvaccinated children and compares their autism rates) No studies are available, and years later, that remains true.

Simply false. Here are studies which compare children given MMR to control children given no MMR vaccines. Both find no statistically significant correlation between MMR vaccine and autism:

http://journals.lww.com/pidj/Abstract/publishahead/Lack_of_A...

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...

There are also temporal studies comparing autism rates over time after the reduction/removal of thimerosal from vaccines (disproving a narrower hypothesis, that thimerosal causes autism):

Hviid A, M Stellfeld, J. Wohlfahrt, and M Melbye (2003). Association between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. JAMA 290:1763-1766.

Madsen KM, MB Lauritsen, CB Pedersen, P Thorsen, AM Plesner, PH Andersen, PB Mortensen (2003). Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence From Danish Population-Based Data. Pediatrics 112:604-6.

Fombonne E, R Zakarian, A Bennett, L Meng, D. McLean-Heywood (2006). Pervasive Developmental Disorders in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Prevalence and Links With Immunizations. Pediatrics 118:e139-50.

Fombonne E (2008). Thimerosal disappears but autism remains. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 65: 15-6.
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For dell or HP, no. They don't even need to design the thing, get HTC or someone else to do it, wack on Windows 7, start selling it for 30% extra.

For Apple, it takes a long time.
http://github.com/facebook/three20/tree/d7bbd117ea798f3dc134...
That's a constant fractions... 16/4. :)
I would then argue that REST and XML-RPC fit in different niches and solve different problems, even if there's some substantial overlap between them, so people like the OP that argue that REST completely obviates the need for XML-RPC is missing the point.

Human exploration of a loosely-defined API is great for certain use cases, but doesn't provide the hard API contract and level of tooling that is what lead to the adoption of SOAP in the first place. So people like the OP that whine that people don't get it, and insinuates that everyone who uses XML-RPC instead of SOAP is some sort of unenlightened idiot, aren't making a compelling case if they just ignore the whole reason why SOAP is popular.
Poor, Poor Child. You have no idea.
Look at their reviews on glassdoor...
Google has to respect Chinese laws, but the Chinese govt can choose not to.

s/Google/The consumer/g

s/Chinese/French/g
A nice alternative to the hosting solutions twilio and voxeo
My favorite line here was "I said fuckit".

I guess it's not quite as reflective as that girlfriend thing, but I strongly suspect that everyone who actually succeeds in releasing working software to the world has an "I said fuckit" moment.

I care less about the PHP/Rails thing, which is probably what got everyone riled up. To be, this could have been about tech A and tech B. I just like hearing that people who have succeeded in writing software that others use eventually feel this way, cause man do I ever sometimes.
How is this possible in IE?
I don't think you're doing that right.

PUT is idempotent, so it should only be used to update an entire resource -- no creating (POST), no partial updates (PATCH).

It would be best to have a URL linked to in a response somewhere that you can POST to to add to the queue, which responds with a 201 or 303.
A very risky bet, with high payoff and low risk. AKA, a good bet.

Chance of Success * Reward - Cost. Just because the chance of success is low doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
What you say sounds true and good, but I'll ultimately listen to what the people around me have to say, rather than theorize about what's good for them.
Very on point. What's more about Sharepoint: even companies that use it (like my current client) don't have the culture to use it effectively. The top-down approach is very much ingrained in the culture of large corporations. Unless this fundamental point is addressed, things aren't going to change. Corporate bureaucracies are designed as hierarchies.
Awesome, thanks. (and just donated too; thanks again!)
Very risky, yes. But it is chicken risk, not pig risk.
In '03 and '05 Intellisense would intermittently quit, but start working again after a build.
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In fact, this really isn't restricted to science journalism. If you talk to people working with prostitutes, they'll tell you that journalists show up looking for quotes to fit into their already determined story, and if you aren't forthcoming with appropriate quotes, they will just make them up. I was friends with many journalism students at uni, and it deeply broke my trust in journalism.
If you carefully read the instructions, you can learn how to compile libraries with it - there is explicit support for this use case. (which is likely what jQuery have done.)

Exports:
http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tutorial3.h...

Extern:
http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tutorial3.h...
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Next-Jump-Reviews-E156468.h...
I haven't looked at Live events yet, is there anywhere I can read through a rundown of what they offer?
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Glassdoor's Next Jump reviews are generally accurate: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Next-Jump-Reviews-E156468.h...

There are some obvious shill pieces (they use a lot of the same language that the management used to use), some positives that I think are genuine, but the negatives are pretty spot on. A lot of great engineers work there, it's mostly the management that's the problem.
Forms are the biggest difference between Rails itself and Rails-inspired Python frameworks (I'm talking about Pylons's default helpers, Toscawidgets and Django here)

After working with Rails for 3 years I am absolutely don't get the need for "form" classes. And indeed, judging by open sourced projects and posted code examples, submit handlers in Django and Pylons always look insanely complex as compared to Rails.
They have an ML dialect called F# as well.
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Sure, but an appendectomy implies that the appendix itself is inflamed and infected, right? Seems like it could easily spread to the blood. Not to mention working near the intestines, that are full of bacteria as it is. Sounds like sepsis city to me.

Then again, like you said, he could have just been pouring alcohol on the whole thing the entire time.
I love the implication that the Daily Mail isn't comfortable lying about other subjects.
Right, but if the entire site really was about a week's worth of work (or anything like that order of magnitude) then I wouldn't say this was insanely risky, I'd say "why the hell would I not try this?" ;)
In a nutshell you can bind to selectors dynamically - so if content gets added to the document that matches an existing Live binding, jQuery will go ahead and create the binding for you. It didn't work with all event types in previous versions of jQuery; now it seems that they're essentially all covered.

See here: http://api.jquery.com/live/
Nothing compared to things like IRC/email/IM etc.
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Who funded the studies?
Money skews the findings, I think we can all agree...
Using my web bank today, I thought how nice it would be if, say, Google offered a banking service. It feels ridiculously far behind. I can name my accounts, but only up to 8 characters or so, statements are hard to read (where did the money come from/go to?) and there are no analysis capabilities whatsoever.
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This is very interesting coming from someone with a strong background in security and definitely not what I would expect to hear.

Has IE ramped up security in later versions, has it always been like this or what?
"Firefox forces you to download an executable and then manually run it, so a user would be conscious that he or she is installing a program."

Unfortunately not. I already encountered malware specifically targeted to Firefox that was fully automatic.

It used some Mozilla specific JS hooks to launch Acrobat plugin. This in turn loaded tiny infected PDF that exploited some Acrobat security hole which allowed to directly execute code on your machine.

It was enough to visit a compromised website, no further user action required. All was happening automatically, practically invisible to the user. I only noticed it because Acrobat plugin is a massive resource hog, so I managed to kill it in time before it could execute a payload.
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Both are good! Documentation helps ease users in, while proper hyperlinks make the service discoverable.
The examples given hardly warrant the breathless title. Neither the Daily Mail (a UK tabloid) nor Fox News (a conservative US news network) have much of a record of objectivity and if they're comfortable with distortion, it's certainly not just about science.

The ABC piece employs the typical journalistic practice of presenting both sides of the issue which, while it can be argued gives undue legitimacy to wackos like Jenny McCarthy, is a very long way from 'lying'.
Well, I'm sorry to say I strongly disagree with the mathematics part. Basis in linera algebra are a definitive plus and helped me approach programming in a sensible way.
Of course he was solving his own problem in the process - so worst case scenario : An educational programming experience that leads to a useful personal tool.
When axod and I worked at our first startup, we would periodically get journalists coming into the office to film a short piece on the company. They always wanted us to put "something cool" on our computer screens (invariably lots of fast scrolling text "like in The Matrix"), and pretend like we were reading and analyzing it. I've always been rather skeptical of journalism since.
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Man, do the downvoters around here have ANY sense of humor? This comment was funny...
While there are clearly differences between languages, I think it is rather deterministic to put that much weight on the first language? My first language was GW Basic. By your logic, there wouldn't be much hope for me I guess..
I imagine that its profit in the next financial year will be more. Also, he isn't in it for the money. Would you walk away from a fun success?
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In the beginning of Hillegass's book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, he has a great quote of someone from Caltech being asked about the real world usefulness of a degree in astrophysics. His response was "Not much, but if I run into a hard problem and start thinking I must be stupid because I can't figure this out, then I remember I have a degree in astrophysics so I am not stupid and this must be hard. So in that way it is useful." I'm paraphrasing (the book is buried somewhere) but that always stuck and your post reminded me how important it is to keep at it because coding is not easy, but it is worth it.
In your glass shard story, I'm not sure what would be worse, being the doctor or being the patient. I don't want to be on either side!
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Yes. But fonts are generally sold with professional use in mind. There is no market for fonts that are used just for fun.
Those graphs performance graphs per browser are very confusing. I'm guessing that the individual colors show the time taken per browser, but the fact that it's stacked makes me think that the slowest ones are on top and the fastest ones are on bottom, but that can't be right since IE6 is always second from the bottom.
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I'm guessing he didn't just write it then sit back and let it run. Things tend to need tweaking/maintainence/upgrading, especially if you're scaling to the numbers he has...

But I agree, why not try stuff like this... Might just work.
People are thinking of Dave Winer as "less intelligent, informed, clued, aware, whatever" because he's Dave Winer, because he can't be "part of an intelligent discussion". The only thing it has to to do with his age is that he's had decades of practice at screwing up technical matters, spoiling communities, and fucking over business partners.

He has a hell of a reputation as an asshole. I don't think anyone besides service employees care that he's old.
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What is up with the stacked bar charts used to show performance improvements in various css/html features? I can't really think of a seeing a more useless/opaque chart in quite a while. They make it impossible to do effective 1.3 -> 1.4 comparisons for specific browsers and since no one is running on all five browsers at once the weird style chosen doesn't even coherently communicate an overall point.
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I personally think bgc3 is a lot more secretive (not sure if it counts as a startup considering bill gates is supporting it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BgC3

has anyone ever heard of anything related to this company? I have heard a number of theories, mainly concerning it being a patent troll.
It's ok to suck at maths if your idea of maths is limited arithmetic, something computers are indeed very good at and your idea of programming is limited to hooking up web forms to databases.

I'm not a linguistics major but I do speak several human languages and have no trouble thinking in them and expressing ideas in them. The first computer languages I learned (6502 assembly, BASIC) don't enter my conscious thought when I think about the programming problems I encounter with the languages I use today.
Ask HN: any good hosting providers offering SSDs?
I am looking for a hosting provider for my startup. We'll be looking for dedicated servers on a monthly plan.

The only well-know provider that I've found to offer Intel solid-state drives as an option is SoftLayer. Do you know of others? Do you use them?
Coverage is degenerating in to a link baiting excise combined with a hell of a lot of nationalist hyperbole.

Can we please get some fscking facts around here.
Thanks for mentioning this.
I've actually been working through that book over the past few days and think that anecdote really got under my skin. For some reason it didn't dawn on me when writing the article. I'll make note of it.
I want to turn it into a massive gave of Pong.
I have the same question, but what if the uptime requirement is only something like 97%? Backups is a requirement though.
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There's raw numbers at the very bottom of the page
a) C and C++. Oh, but they're not modern, you say; balls, I say. Both standards were revised very recently and C++ is changing quite a bit.

I develop quite quickly in C/C++.
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Programming isn't hard, programming is fun! Ok, it is hardish sometimes, but hard in a fun way not hard in the non-fun way this article seems to imply.

And I really don't think your first language is all that important, programming is still fun usually, whatever the language. It's only later that we learn the fine art of language snobbery ;)
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"Both sides" implies a binary black-and-white issue. Much of science isn't, especially medicine, weather and social issues.
Somewhere somebody has indoctrinated us into accepting "both sides" as complete coverage. Usually it amounts to presenting extravagant claims by polarized spokespersons.
w.r.t Firefox I use a plugin these days called NoScript.[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722] - Allows active content to run only from sites you trust

Finding it very useful!
As I understand it they changed how they did things in response to the linked blog post.
Hard and fun are not mutually exclusive.
Only seen it done by ordering/colocating your own hardware so far.

SSDs are still bloody expensive for one, and the people who really need them generally already have a decent HW footprint and are more likely to be renting whole racks, though I imagine companies like Rackspace/etc will be adding it to their dedicated offers fairly soon, I'd suggest dropping them an email, you might get lucky.
Seriously, which text was this? I've got the cormen et al Intro to Algorithms in queue right now, curious if this is the one you're referring to.
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Seconded. As your command of mathematics becomes stronger, many aspects of programming become a lot easier.
NextJump is only 1 year younger than Amazon.
We've found that nothing makes us more money than being drastically simpler than the competition. No single feature is mentioned more often than "simple", "no need for training", and "easy to use" as the reason for why people use our products.

We live and die by renewals. There is nothing to be gained for us by just keeping to add a bunch of stuff left and right that'll rock the foundation of simplicity. Whatever we'll pick up from the initial excitement will be wiped out by raising the barrier and getting too complex.

So less is indeed how we made a name and continue to make money.
In fact, it seems to me most of the succesful folks are motivated by the fact they are going to do something cool and have fun and not necessarily by the idea of making billions. That is the one thing I cannot stand about mixergy: it's always about millions, billions and gazillons.
I think it really depends on what you want to make. How does math help you make a CRUD application, for example?
Perhaps it's (finally) time to see the OPEC and other resource-rich countries step up and rebuild Haiti?
Heh, I actually don't mind DHH in written form (let's face it, it's a long name and plenty of people can't get the spelling right). It's when people start calling me that in-person where things get a little weird.
It doesn't really imply a black-and-white issue, but it doesn't matter what it implies - it may be lazy or lousy journalism but it's not lying. There is plenty of room for insightful commentary on mainstream journalism, I don't think hyperventilating about how the news media is 'comfortable with lying about science' qualifies, though.
Absolutely, but there is fun-hard and there is hard-work-discouraging-hard and this article seemed to me to be talking more about the latter. In fact I'd say that non-hard programming usually gets not-so-fun (although it still has it's charms)
Not much until you need to actually need to do something with the data, which is usually returned to you in a large, two-dimensional array, basically.

At that point, if you haven't figured out basic algebra at least, you'll have trouble conceptualizing the data. At best, this means you won't be as efficient as you could be, at worst, you'll write buggy code.
He just had to bring up climate change at the end. Great way to get everyone to miss the point of your post.
NoScript is great, and it may reduce the attack surface of your browser, but it's not a panacea. If you look at the history of browser attacks, they're not overwhelmingly Javascript-based.
(I was agreeing ;-) I think Andrew combined 10 million and 8 figures.
Not that I'm vouching for the project, but IE may be among the 5 products that receive more security attention, internally and externally, than any other product.
Too big to exist in the realm of charity.

No thanks, I won't feed that inefficient monster.
Why OPEC countries? These are oil producing countries, but very few of them belong to the rich countries in the world. I think that perhaps the richest countries in the world should help rebuild the devastation of one of the poorest countries in the world.
I didn't get as far as you in figuring out what it was talking about. Mostly it made me think of Wolfgang Pauli's famous quip - 'It is not even wrong'.
What I haven't seen explained is what exactly needs to be rebuilt? If someone has nothing, and there is an earthquake, exactly how does billions of dollars restore nothing?

Or because of this earthquake the world should build their infrastructure for free?
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"simple", "no need for training", and "easy to use" is not the same as less. You added plenty over the years. You continue to add developers to your team. You are doing more and more. You are making it easy to use, but you are not doing less. You are not removing, you are constantly adding.

You guys are brilliant at marketing. No doubt about it. You know how to make things easy to use. No doubt about it. But you have to add more and more features just like any other successful company to stay relevant. If you do not do that you would not be growing and people would not be renewing.
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I think his success is great. I also think that describing 5% of 20MM annually as a trickle is really funny. I want to be trickle profitable someday.
This comment demonstrates a misunderstanding of the problem. The problem probably isn't that the Chinese can trick people into running programs they download. The problem is that your browser has secret, subtle, horrible security vulnerabilities that allow attackers to embed executable code on web pages that will get run without even creating a new process.
Which you don't see until you scroll all the way down there. What annoys me about the chart is that it is obvious how to do something like this (two bars, before & after, for each browser) and the creators of the page apparently know how to create such a graph because the first graph is exactly in this format -- it is all of the remaining graphs that use the information-free format.
Nice analysis.

[advice for those not doing it right]: if your sshd config allows id/pw login, turn this off and only use kays. Also, move your sshd listener port to something besides 22 to eliminate most of the bot login attempts in your log files.
It's fine, my own entry got mangled a bit by pure accident, but I just re-filled it and it's fine.

Thanks for sharing the awareness Louis.
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Hospitals, prisons, drinking water distribution, sewage, housing, electricity, police stations, firefighting capability. Is this a trick question?

Haiti didn't have nothing; it had a very crappy version of most things.

Charge Haiti whatever you'd like to build a basic survivable level of civilization. They'll never pay, but that doesn't matter. The alternative is Somalia in the Carribean.
> However turning the entire freight industry from Steel to Aluminium containers would probably require depleting all the earths aluminium reserves, and then likely require discovering an extra-terrestrial source and probably depleting that too.

The 8 most common elements in Earth’s crust (by mass):

* 46.6% Oxygen (O)
* 27.7% Silicon (Si)
* 8.1% Aluminum (Al)
* 5.0% Iron (Fe)
* 3.6% Calcium (Ca)
* 2.8% Sodium (Na)
* 2.6% Potassium (K)
* 2.1% Magnesium (Mg)

(from http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/crust_e...)
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