skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's really interesting. I think that Britain is firmly in the wrong on this one. That places a lot of trust in a lot of individuals hands, which I don't necessarily have a problem with because of a number of psychological factors related to their employment in the army, but that doesn't discount someone infiltrating the systems and activating the missiles.
I don't think it's exactly a long term goal. Biotech is in the middle of a rapid development phase, developing vaccines now is useful in the short term. However, basic research would probably pay a higher ROI in the long term. Few useful things you could do with that money are really short term goals just vaccinating the young falls into the range of somewhat long term, 40 years from now some of those people would be benefiting from that vaccination. So it's really a comparison to midrange vs long term.

This is not to say I think short term goals are bad, just the fact you need to mix them. If I had Bill Gates’ wealth I would build a full scale fusion reactor using an updated and modular version of ITER's design. It might only reduce the time till the first commercial power plant by 10 years but I would still do it
> So the people who are most affected by changes to the minimum wage are teenagers who aren't paying for food and shelter, but looking for disposable income.

> Ergo, cutting the minimum wage won't be a boon for new jobs nor will it be cutting anyone's standard of living.

Not so fast.

Many of those teenagers are learning to work, which makes their future labor more valuable. If they don't get such skills, they'll never be worth employing.

Also, some of those teens are contributing to their household's income.
It's not OO but you can roll your own. See: http://sleep.dashnine.org/manual/functions.html#3

It does threading using a fork(&function) abstraction. You can pass an initial set of variables to share but otherwise it's shared nothing. The fork returns an I/O handle which you can use to communicate values back and forth (even serialized objects). You can also wait(fork(&function)) to get a return value when the thread finishes.

The Manual, covers the whole language:
http://sleep.dashnine.org/manual/

An article talking about some of the fun things to do with continuations:
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/24/fun-with-contin...

Blog with Sleep examples:
http://www.jroller.com/sleepsnip/feed/entries/rss

There is also a web app server for it.
http://www.hick.org/~raffi/moconti.html
That's the thing...unless you're a very experienced skydiver, you could not land under with a parachute inside something that small much less by flying your body at 120MPH. So, I think you'd be best off aiming for something big and kinda good -- like a bunch of scrub brush or a marsh.
A lot of geeks got rich and the poor are getting vaccines - pretty good distribution of wealth! :)
Conversational URLs in rails
Water vapor: a warming wild card
A lower ratio of body weight to drag force reduces terminal velocity. How's that?
Thank you, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Perhaps I'd have made it clear the problem is corruption and lack of [education on] birth control [constantly sabotaged by religious groups. (Perhaps you wouldn't agree with the last bit?)]

From a neighbour country, down south, have an upvote :)

Edit: Clarification in square brackets.
If your surface area to weight ratio is higher, then yes. Small women end up strapping on 10+ pounds of lead weight if they want to fly with the boys.
Nothing happening here with select + ctrl+C on Chrome/Mac.
I think that the author is completely right about the iPad (the names still makes me grimace) being an appliance. As are all of Apple's products, more or less. Microsoft is a little off the mark on this one, but it IS their job to criticize their competitors. I look forward to seeing their technological rebuttal since they sound so cock-sure. They better act fast.
The mantra I've heard among BASE jumpers is "if the chute fails, go in head first" -- e.g., if the shit's going to go down, finish it quick instead of ending up a mangled vegetable.
Econ 101 gives a very easily understood prediction of huge, obvious disemployment effects which do not occur in reality. Something much more subtle, hard to measure, and not yet understood is happening instead.
Reddit.com: seen it
I've read previously that you can move up to 12 miles in any direction while falling if you aim for it. Over most of America this gives you ample opportunity to find a tree.

I've also read that you should come down in a sitting position on top of a tree. Haystacks seem like they would be too hard to spot until it's too late. A grain silo might be recognizable and have a thin enough roof to be helpful.

I suppose you could aim for the suburbs and hope someone has one of those obnoxiously large trampolines.
Good idea: Comparing criticism at the iPad's introduction to criticism at the iPod's introduction

Bad idea: Cherry-picking quotes that are catchy at best, like those that complain that new product did not meet unfounded expectations

Worst idea: Saying iPhone instead of iPod.
If someone's hobby is throwing themselves off of high cliffs and buildings, I think that would prevent me from ever accepting their advice about anything.
The 256 MB (or whatever) is not Android limitation, it is limitation of specific device. Large applications can put data on SD card, where they are limited by the card size.

I have the ADP1, which has around 70 MB partition for applications, yet I use navigation app, which has 2.8 GB worth of data (entire EU + few surrounding countries).
If you're interested, here's how to do it: http://brooknovak.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/accessing-the-sys...
Not funny if intended as a joke, and ridiculous otherwise. More dumb stereotyping.
Data Serving the Cloud - Yahoo Research [pdf]
Reading the comment, I think he did.
Here's 2000 and on: http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=5794_201&ID2=DO_TOPI...

It seems that computer use should be naturally bounded by literacy. It'd be difficult to use a computer without being able to read.
Well I tried not to (compete), for a very long time (almost a year).

After which I had to turn towards projects, which lead to Grails, which in turn lead to iFreeTools CRM (you can read about it here : http://rrajkumar.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/grails-to-ifreetoo...). This in turn lead to the requirement of CRM to be customizable, which lead to Creator. And this post :-)

I do respect Zoho and lot of people in there.

Will be integrating with Zoho's online services where possible.
Nope; I'm using https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epieehnpcepgfiil....
Tokyo building uses QR code to drive AR application
Yes but Apple hasn't.
Yes, but it's also interesting that he's chosen to wear modern shoes.
Revolutions: R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award
Some excellent points. I must admit I hadn't thought of abandoned cart reporting; that's an excellent suggestion. I think that so many sites are lagging in their ability to categorize products and then to suggestive sell at the checkout. These are related concepts and both are not very effective. Development is needed in identifying customer habits to increase up-selling and cross-selling on many sites. I believe that a new method of grouping items for quick access is needed as well. With the amount of product that is available on the internet, even looking for the simplest of things can be an overly arduous task. By carefully grouping products to appeal to each unique customer as fast as possible, sales would increase and so would site loyalty.
Salinger and the Estate Tax
I thought recursive resolvers are geographically local enough for caching web services. I checked mine and it seems to be 4 hops away, 2 beyond our network perimeter.

\24 is very intrusive and what about those who are behind ISP NATs. \24 may not be as useful to Google.
You should never be ashamed to admit ignorance, especially after it's been cured. :-)
What about Windows ME?
Yes. I have been preached about this, by my prof. in start-up school : If an idea occurs to you, it very well has a possibility to have occurred to N other people, a few of those would already be working on them.

A little competition is good for everyone and makes life interesting. Bring it on :-).
"Many people are not aware that before a vaccine was available approximately 10,600 persons were hospitalized and 100 to 150 died as a result of chickenpox in the U.S. every year."

That's from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/varicella/dis-faqs-gen.h...
Well, you could also look at it as taking advice from people with domain expertise in hard landings :)
Jobs gone forever? That's depressing news.

If only there were a way to make more. I mean actually make more, not just tax the people with jobs so you can hire and pay the people who don't have jobs to do work nobody really needs them to do. You know... jobs the employer can afford to pay for not because the employer forced earned money out of everyone's wallets, but because free-willed participants in a fair market agreed to pay for those services without being threatened with jail time.

Wouldn't that just be the bee's knees! If the government could create more jobs out of thin air like that? Well, for the government it'd be thin air anyway. For everyone else involved, it'd be blood, sweat, and tears. Almost makes you think it's unfair who gets the credit for job creation.

Maybe that's why the government makes it harder than it needs to be by getting in the way a little: because government leaders know they don't deserve the credit but there's no way avoid it, so they decided the only way to receive less undeserved credit for job creation would be to make it harder for people to create jobs. Sure, those people might have to bleed, sweat, and cry a little more to create those jobs for others, but in the end our noble government leaders know that sacrifice is worth being able to maintain their humility. Being a politician is a hard job, you know.
Mahalo Sells Corporate SEO Services?
It was adopted due to compitition with television. Like that are doing now with 3D movies.

TV was going to put movie theatres out of business. (At least how exec's thought)
In other words, we are the Terminators of the animal kingdom: we just keep on coming when any reasonable animal would be collapsing of exhaustion.
Show us how to design a mobile platform, Microsoft.
That's nothing. In the US, we fly nuclear warheads across states. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20427730/
What about when “green” isn’t good enough?
Symptoms of Bone Cancer
The Bone Cancer symptoms may vary from person to person depending on the location in the body and the size of the tumor(Benign or Malignant) in the bone. All types of bone cancer are painful. The tumors which have formed near the joints of the bone may cause swelling near the joints.
I am not making any claims about the actual, present presence of malware. My only claim is that it is unduly optimistic to believe that a vetting process offers a complete immunity from malware.

Maybe I mis-interpreted your position, and you meant only that malware is less likely in a ‘gated community’ such as that offered by the iPhone and pals. If that is what you mean, then I agree.

If you would like a more grandiose claim, then I am willing to strengthen it slightly by making the definite claim that, some time between now and the heat death of the universe, there will be malware on the iPhone. However, this statement, being (practically) unfalsifiable, isn't worth much, which is why I didn't make it originally.
Probably iPad 3.0 will be widescreen and they will call it an inovation.
>I disagree, simply saving someone's life from a sickness doesn't matter, if they die from starvation because there is not enough food in the country.

It would matter to me if someone saved my life from sickness, even if I did die of starvation shortly afterwards.

>If a country is really that badly off, what difference does it make if we save people from one form of suffering only to have them be subjected to a different form

I don't understand. By that logic, action is only worthwhile if there is exactly one form of suffering. Surely that can't be right.
maxwin here relates to his background and calls for recognition of what bill gates is doing, not mentioning with a single word Steve Jobs. Yet, you've managed to post a rant about him.

What is wrong with you? This is like watching guitar playing videos on youtube, where you watch a great guy going at it, playing virtuously some fine piece of music - it's about him, his skill and that piece of music - yet someone posts about some other guitarist how great he is and whatnot.

Let me be the one who says this. Who cares about Steve Jobs and Apple and his fans or whatever where we are talking about what Bill Gates and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are doing about fixing the shit world we live in.

Stop being a teenage girl, this ain't no Backstreet Boys vs East17 or something like that. Though sometimes it is exactly like that and I am truly ashamed of people that behave like that in a group of people I gravitate to.

</harsh_rant>

edit: apparently maxwin edited his post and I hadn't realized it. My sincere apologies then, but if I'd seen original post by maxwin - a bit altered rant would be directed towards him.
> you're forced to work at some minimal pace.

Many of the comments here are advocating self-study. I would suggest that an important part of universities (online or traditional) is that you are rewarded and punished according to your output. I feel ashamed to admit it, but I work harder under external motivation. For people like me it's worth paying a university, so I will work hard.
I think the point was that the current situation is acceptable. I can't agree with that.
All objects have the same acceleration (g) but not the same gravitational force. Terminal velocity is reached when Fdrag = Fgravity. Remember F=ma, so Fgravity is (mass * gravitational acceleration).
I am going to have to go with Lazier Python programmer
Is there...a way to read PS without installing new software?

It's not great compared to say Google's viewer for PDFs, but here is a long-standing service that works: http://view.samurajdata.se/
"With Microsoft’s platforms, developers can build whatever they want"

Except on the Zune & Xbox platforms that is.
I had to google the windows one just to make sure it wasn't real.
12 miles in any direction from 22,000 feet (the moment you reach breathable air) seems unlikely to me.

That would imply 2.9 feet horizontal movement for every vertical foot.

Edit: typo in the calculation fixed. (29 => 2.9)
wait, is @tailcall part of the Python standard library? or just something the author made-up for illustrative purposes?
1998's DES cracker implemented on today's FPGAs is faster. There is no algorithmic advance -- this is just a thinly-disguised ad for their particular FPGA card. Moving right along...
This is an uninspiring ripoff of the older original here:

http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....

And here is one that is actually well done for Haskell.

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
Well... Microsoft has had tablets around that can do all of those things for a while. They can do more, actually. No, they do not look as sleek nor are they as targeted. However, all it takes is one hardware vendor to put together something solid together and MS has a strong competitor to the iPad that doesn't tie one down and could provide a much richer applications world.
I've heard both with equal frequency.
Only in Physics 101 is the article incorrect. Outside of Physics 101, we stop assuming a vacuum.
ACID Transactions with STM.NET (Software Transactional Memory)
JuffEd 0.8 su Ubuntu e Debian
That only works if the other person is withing sharing range. It sucks for talking to people in other town/states/countries.
Why has Hollywood forsaken conservatives?
Wow! That's six whole displays I can't do anything useful on!
> I've read previously that you can move up to 12 miles in any direction while falling if you aim for it.

Skydiver here. You could manage a mile or two; no more. But both this and changing your body position is quite a bit harder than you might think. You have to push against the air in quite a counter-intuitive manner. A beginner will just flail about and probably start spinning; especially without any tuition.
The Omni Group announced they are working on Omni Graffle for the iPad. To me this is a killer app. A great example of where a desktop application would actually be better on the iPad than the desktop.
From my read of your post and that of the parent, the two of you are in agreement on that point.
Nope, I use Opera ;)
I've run with Vibram originals on asphalt and also run sock-footed on a treadmill almost daily. At some point everything clicked, and I felt like all of my lower body joints were built to run this way. There was a fluidity, and an optimization of movement that seemed to kick in. Upper body movement is reduced, posture is improved, and overall strain is reduced.

And yes, the first few times my calves felt like they were going to explode. Very sore and stiff. I would wake up and nearly fall to the ground when I tried to walk. After a few weeks this problem went away.
How unique -- and trackable -- is your web browser?
When, Where and How One Should Use an iPad
Ask HN: Education and Poor
Can some one please suggest some good writing on this subject? I would prefer mostly PHILOSOPHICAL stuff.
I really want to start running in this barefoot style but I am having trouble knowing if I am using a proper technique. I know it is mostly about landing on your ball or just below it but that is about the extent of my understanding. Could you provide any resources?
dupe
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1087092
>I would much rather have Gates spend his money on clean energy research or infrastructure projects.

You have to look at the margins. Is the benefit of $10 billion spent on vaccine research greater than $10 billion spent on clean energy or infrastructure? I think it is.

There are already many companies, subsidies, and grants for clean energy. Honda has revenues of about $120 billion per year and it spends 5% of that on R&D. Of course not all of that is spent on clean energy, but Honda is only one car company. $10 billion is a small fraction of the amount spent per year on clean energy research. For comparison, the WHO's yearly budget is around $1 billion.

What about infrastructure? The new bay bridge has a price tag of $6 billion. If that's anything close to the typical price of building big stuff, then vaccine research is definitely more cost-effective in terms of lives saved.

> these sorts of programs in undeveloped countries actually create more poverty then they solve.

Yes, it's a trade-off. More poor people for fewer dead people.

Living in Somalia sucks, but living in a Somalia with smallpox would be even worse. We know the problems of many 3rd world countries are more than just matters of supplying basic needs. You point out the harm caused by corruption and crime, but you neglect another reason for the lack of progress: disease. Workers can't work if they're stricken with malaria, or crippled from polio, or dead from smallpox.

It's true that many cannot afford to pay for vaccines. Luckily, philanthropists and governments like to give money to groups like the Pan American Health Organization (which eradicated smallpox and polio in the americas). If everyone had to pay for their vaccines, smallpox and polio would still kill millions.

Smallpox killed 400 million human beings in the 20th century. That's more than every war since 1900. Now it is gone. Polio crippled hundreds of millions. It remains in only four countries. There are hundreds of millions of cases of malaria each year. Several million die from it, mostly children. It is the biggest killer without a vaccine, and it's about fucking time that changed.
I noticed that the article tried to make a call to ads.techvibes.com:80, but Little Snitch reported it and I denied it.
Vixie will not like this, for sure. Another way to do this is to use your HTTP and DNS logs to "triangulate" seen user IPs with seen resolver IPs. It's surprising how many DNS resolvers are ill-placed with regards to their clients.
You forgot step 0:

0. Invent an enormous blogging platform and be an all-around cool guy

Garry links frequently get my auto-upvote.
I don't disagree. As we've discussed in previous threads on the iPad, many are opposed to it's closed-system. Everyone is touting open-system as the better approach, and I definitely support that as the way to go, but few are discussing the best way to meld an open-system with turn-key simplicity. Microsoft products lack the industrial design that Apple is famous for as well. So I agree with you when you say that a well-designed, open-system product with turn-key activation and networking with other devices will certainly subvert Apple's domination of this market.
Personally I would find a cam awkward. Mainly due to having to hold the pad at the right angle. However for me, IM is critical.
The Chronicle does this too. Copy from any article inside www.sfgate.com and it does the same.

FYI, works in Chrome/Mac for me.
I don't think that's true.

Apple are excellent designers. They've designed a pretty solid interface that is very specifically not OSX. MS tablets run Windows.

I believe that's the difference between the two and why Microsoft will never have a successful product in this space. That's the same reason Apple ate Palm and Windows Mobile's lunches: Windows Mobile is trying to be Windows on a small screen.

I'm sure Bill and Steve B sat in board room meetings patting each other on the back for making Windows run on a cell phone. Everyone knows the Windows UI so it can't fail! Think of all the enterprise customers!

Microsoft and other companies focus on protecting their empires. Apple focuses on making more usable products. A hardware manufacturer isn't going to be able to fix Windows/PCs enough to compete with the iPad.
His Windows work has given him plenty of experience with viruses.
I always did find it funny that the CEO of a so-called "human-powered search engine" could get away with claiming to not understand SEO.
> Surely every manufacturer knows how much their supplies cost?

They know the price today, but not the price next year. Think about Apples predicament with PowerPC not that long ago. It probably cost them quite a lot to make the change to Intel. I think A4 is a hedge against that same situation happening again - where they face a technical challenge altering their platform to avoid a critical performance disadvantage.

> Also, for the iPad it is only the chip that Apple creates themselves.

From a performance (battery and speed) standpoint the chip is probably more important than the display panels. Disks and RAM are debatable. AFAIK they manufacture the controllers for those though. That allows them tight integration with their OS. That is definitely an advantage since they can write their code with a much more limited architecture in mind.

All this being said, I doubt this is an advantage that will last. Companies that specialize generally outpace companies that generalize. I wouldn't be surprised if in 5 years, once Intel or whoever catches up with a chip specialized for this type of hardware, then Apple switches back.

This is really more a first mover advantage. They get to come out of the gate with a better overall package because they rolled their own practically everything (and can you think of anyone else who could ... from chip to OS and most of the inbetween). Remember this is a new category of product - the types of internal components well-suited to this type of technology are not in wide spread production at the moment. By the time they are turned into commodities Apple hopes to have a market lead.
All large foundations invest their assets with the goal of maximizing returns, not just the Gates foundation.