skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dose is based on the extent of envenomation, weight of the person, and ongoing symptoms.

Horse serum is actually a giant pain in the ass to deal with. It's a crystalline structure that is really hard to dissolve. And, when it gets dissolved, it tends to foam terribly. It generally takes at least 1/2 an hour of slow mixing to dissolve the crystals and get them to stop foaming.

So, to compensate for the difficulty in mixing the horse serum, they don't put as crystallized serum into a vial, and the dose requires multiple vials. The standard adult dose is 4-6 vials depending on the size of the person.

Hospitals don't stock too much of the stuff (unless you're in an area where rattlesnake bites are endemic) because of cost and infrequency of use.

If you're interested in learning more about it, there's a good article here: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/771455-overview
Good one! I bet if you didn't turn it on it wouldn't get hot at all!!!
"This American Life" had a great segment awhile back on the Rubber Room, which is this room in the NYC school system where teachers who are under investigation or something get stuck. They report there instead of their classrooms, and some of these teachers have been stuck there for years because they can't be fired. Pretty incredible.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/350/H...
Interesting that "many" of the knock-off websites are in North Korea. Looks like they're getting pretty desperate in the internet-fraud department.
It's still being paranoid. You shouldn't be checking out anything while you have working copy changes unless you really, really mean to. This is why it's not a big deal that it's named the same.

Also, git defaults to working on a branch if the names conflict. If I have branch 'foo' and file 'foo' (both terrible names for files and branches) and try: `git checkout foo` it will switch to the foo branch and not checkout the file. Why would you ever do this with working copy changes except in very rare circumstances?

In short, I'm suggesting that if you have working copy changes then `checkout` means "restore this file to it's state in the index" and if you don't have working copy changes then it means "switch to this branch".

Since you always know if you have working copy changes or not, this is a pretty easy distinction to make.
"deliver a decent Flash implementation on a mobile device before touting your mobile position."

I wish they'd do the same for desktop too.
Flash doesn't really 'run' on my 64 bit ubuntu , it sputters and crawls and fucks up in a plethora of ways.
ALL code is ugly. Yours, mine, everyone's. Code Is Ugly.

I couldn't agree more. It's 2010 and we're using text files to describe rules. We're using text files to describe data.

My God. Everyone just stop what we're doing and look at your code. Look at it! It's worse than ugly; it's monstrously stupid. It's idiotic to a degree that beggars the mind. And here we are, in 2010, ignoring the elephant in the room: that code, the way we do it, is petulantly retarded.
The CRM tool looks really nice.
except Yahoo is not tech but media company
I'm amazed and slightly worried that they haven't stopped donations yet (assuming this is possible with Kickstarter).
The only drawback for me is the navigation across the tops of pages. Fade effects might be a current fad but it doesn't quite work (I feel quite strained reading the nav)
Comp-Sci A-Levels? I have no idea what this means, is this like first year of university?
I would think that a stylus would be awesome on the iPad for drawing applications (or even prototyping apps such as Omnigraffle). I haven't used an iPad yet but I imagine drawing with my index finger to be a little clumsy.
I always thought that code is like babies' diapers.

I'll change my own. I'm so used to the smell, it don't even notice it anymore.

You change your own. It smells so bad my eyes are watering.
Concur.

I block print, and carry a notebook everywhere. So, having something that I can use in my "accustomed fashion" that would also be searchable via handwriting recognition would be a big win.

I also work in an industry where drawing geometric shapes are commonplace (chemical modeling). Yeah, you can do it with your finger, but sometimes the detail work is important and one's finger is a bit broad. Thus, working with a fine point/stylus would be an application win.

Is this a big enough market segment to matter? Not at this instant, because they're selling every one they make with NO difficulty. Would be nice to see something once the sales ramp down a bit, though.
Cool idea, but why would you use a video with cheesy promo music to explain it, instead of a paragraph of text with a screenshot or two?
The Road to Redemption (problems with frequent-flier points)
The myth of the $600 hammer
here is a website for the debate: http://applevsadobe.net
Slightly off-topic, but if haven't read this article explaining why a contractor would bill out a hammer at $600, it's a good read:
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1298/120798t1.htm
So Steve Jobs is a jerk -- keep it up, dude
Did you pay a flat fee data rate per month?
Ok, who else just searched for "anal prolapse?"
While I really like the look of the sidebar I find it weird that the Discussion page is deemed more important than the History.
Looks good. Line lengths can still get way too long when surfing full screen on a high res monitor. My browser window is at the moment only 970px wide and one line already has more than 100 characters – that’s nearly too much.

Yeah, it sucks when you get wide empty margins but running away from the problem won’t help.
Tough question actually. I've spent so much time browsing the net that it's hard to unravel these things...
Flash runs just as well on my nokia n900 as it does on desktop, So I don't think the problem is at adobes end. Of course, I don't even remember when was the last time I actually needed to use flash (on mobile or on desktop).
I don't follow this at all. Taking time to learn a new and improved way of managing your source code is a deal breaker? These are exactly the people I'd hope to catch by doing phone interviews. "So, what's the last thing you picked up and learned for fun?... Oh, nothing? Ok, thank you for your time."

The creators of git have created/are creating a modern changeset management tool which, yes, you will have to learn to use effectively. This is a good thing.
Any suggestions on how to do it better?
Sounds like Chandler all over again. "Hey gang! Let's build an Outlook killer!"
Oh, sure. H.264 is just a codec, and <video> is just an HTML tag, but somehow, that's exactly what I want. I can (very easily) make a H.264 or Ogg Theora video and wrap it inside <video> tag and it is going to work, I don't even know how I would do that with your "complete solution for advanced video distribution". Except "put it on youtube", of course.
more laws = more corruption
20K * 50K = 1B
Folks, the only way to really get these things killed off is for your home country to reciprocate. Until US-ians are made to do what they make others do, there will be no pressure applied to Washington to change things. Fingerprints? Do it with indelible ink. Fees? Ask for cash. Rinse, repeat.
This is not particularly surprising, the EU Council is unelected and undemocratic, and the Council appoints the members of the Commission.

There is still a chance to defeat this in Parliament I guess, since they're elected and (marginally) supposed to be somewhat responsible to the people who voted for them, instead of being beholden to corporate agendas.
Make Room For The Ideas Guy
It's clean, but losing left-side navigation hurts a bit, since that's my default on almost every website. I'm not going to need to change languages or contact Wikipedia very often.
Master Theorem
"For existing Flash content developed with mouse input in mind, Flash Player will automatically convert the touch events into mouse events. This allows Flash content designed for the desktop, to work seamlessly on touch-based devices."

I can't wait to try http://www.dontclick.it/ on a touch based device!
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.html

"git gc tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote tracking branches, refs saved by git filter-branch in refs/original/, or reflogs (which may reference commits in branches that were later amended or rewound)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million
I think it can be useful to compare git and svn. True, it is comparing apples and oranges. However, that's a reasonable thing to do when you're considering migrating from apples to oranges.
Quick Coding Quandry... formulas...
Can you embed a clever, excel like gadget in simple HTML page?

A friend has very kindly designed and produced (in HTML) our website - http://www.napa-technology.co.uk

I want to create a gadget to calculate pay back etc - just like this one:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ak7w8e-WyzvkdEk0NklqdDltd3F0NGFkTER6eEJybGc&hl=en_GB

Just want to assess the feasibility as I'll be looking for someone to do this and want to know what i'm asking for!

Any comments on our new site are much appreciated - I like the design personally but think it could be modernised a bit in terms of layout, coding etc.
I don't disagree, but they have some smart and fun hackers at yahoo.
Yes. And what I consider even more interesting, IMHO, is that Google really became a company which is not indispensable (like for example 5 years ago when Google Search was de facto indispensable).

Currently, if I must I can survive with Bing for general search and for real-time search (increasingly important), twitter is even better than Google.

I am still a Google user since I like some of their products more than the competing ones (Chrome, Gmail, GReader, Adsense), but I will not hesitate to switch away from any of those if better alternative will emerge.
They might have open-sourced the code of Flash, but getting bugs fixed and critical enhancements implemented in the Flash player (or in Flex) is still a lengthy, opaque process that takes years. It took them 3 years to add a global exception handler and fix the scrollbars in Mac, for pete's sake!

As a Flex developer, that pisses me off to no end. I work in Flash all the time, and I use it because I have no choice, to do what I want to do, but I hate Flash because Adobe is so glacially slow at implementing small, obvious fixes to make my work easier.
Maybe the iPad should be built with some consideration for the web? The web shouldn't be built with consideration for a single device. The game is HTML5. Fine. The iPad obviously has performance issues with that. That's the iPad's problem. Apple didn't want Flash, they wanted HTML5 and standards. Now they have to pony up.

But no, the iPad should conform to standards, and support those standards. If the iPad is not capable of supporting those standards in a usable manner, it's the iPads problem.
http://s0.2mdn.net/1295336/Adobe_Flash_WeLoveAltHead_728x90_...

and

http://s0.2mdn.net/1295336/Adobe_Flash_WeLoveTechTandem_300x...

are the ads on that page.
New - definitely. Improved... it depends. If you think it's improved, fair enough, but this is your opinion. Not everyone has to agree. For example I think, it's got more features, but is lacking regarding the interface and usability. Overall, I don't consider it "improved" enough to adopt in everyday development.

Not spending time on completely learning how to deal with an inferior (imo) tool, gives me more time to learn things which matter to me. So it's the exact opposite of "learnt nothing".
A subtext for the iPad ad could be: "it's all about color", to contrast it to the colorless Kindle.

All the shots (except for the sheet music) has lots of color.
As contrived as those examples are, Python does have one feature that I currently miss, which is that trailing commas are ignored.

mylist = [
"ape",
"bat",
"cat",
]
Wouldn't White Meat Be Better Than Red Meat
I am not adobe apologist, but in whole lets bash adobe movement, people tend to forget the innovative applications that have been delivered in last few years.
E.g. ChatRoullette I dont think HTML5 would be able to do that at least for next 5 years. And creating a multi platform app would be a nightmare.
But with Flash it was a small job for a teenage Russians.

And I believe that is real innovation and not the magical IPad (a big ipod touch).
I think this is just an example. If the author really tried to demonstrate that all code is ugly... Well, it would be a very long gist, don't you think?
A-Levels are taken by UK Students before University (typically aged 16-18), I guess the last 2 years of US High School.
I'm using git on AWS running Ubuntu Hardy. Is there a GUI tool I can use to look at my repository from a remote Windows box (where I use SecureCRT to access the instance)?
I think that's the point. I am not that into games. My gaming happens mostly on a PS1 emulating classic arcade games or from an Atari 8-bit computer.

But that's really a matter of taste.
LiquidMountaineering WAS a hoax (much debated in the previous thread)
Tremendous Term Paper Guidelines
The following term paper guidelines would help students to present their research paper, with confidence. However, it is important for them to understand that term paper writing involves documentation of intelligent information
Instead of plugging your blog, why not put what you said here? It's your content, just copy and paste and link to your blog at the bottom. (If you do a good job, people will check you out.)
Git Internals, the 1 page guide (by weavejester)
No, more motivated would involve having a risk of losing the benefits if you don't teach well. Rewarding... well.. nothing, simply for the sake of rewarding breeds complacency and apathy, not motivation.
Gold at all-time highs: $1240
Could it be an elusive big-site redesign without a user backlash?
The length of the explanations in this thread says something about the usability of git. Not hating, just saying.
More interesting would be why has it become a dirty word.
The thing is that it is intuitive if you only take some time to learn the new tool's features and how it is effectively used. Simply treating it like svn wont work. Yes you can 'get by' with some svn-like behaviors, but really dvcs is an entirely new thing you will have to learn to make sense of.

Here's an analogy. Svn is a horse and git is a car. You can imagine all these horse-riders (and there are tons of them) sitting around in a bar saying to each other "these new cars? What is up with them? It makes no sense that you change 'gears' and push pedals to stop and go! I just want to <insert whatever you do to ride a horse> and I'll get to my destination!" -- Well, yea, horses work fine a lot of the time. But it's 2010 (1910? :)) and I have more eclectic needs in my change management. I'm willing to invest some time in learning it just like I was willing to invest time into learning vim, or Erlang, or anything else of value.
Spreedly's Kickstart package was different than Kickstarter the bounty site. Spreedly actually sold an expensive, "lifetime" service rather than just asking for money to do anything.

We bought one, I think it was $700 for a lifetime of no monthly fees and transaction fees pegged at 1%.
Quite the contrary. It was the EU that slapped Microsoft for anti-competitive behaviour related to interoperability and open standards.

I guess some folks who stuffed ISO NBs to pass OOXML found new occupation.
Or to make it more dramatic, at 10,000 $/startup, one million dollars invested YC style would seed 100 startups.

Also IIRC YC tends to invest amounts that are nearer to 10K than 50K per startup.
In determining the best coding style, ease of spotting errors is one thing to consider. Another is ease of interpreting correct behavior. At a glance, comma-first is harder, but that may just be because I'm used to comma-last.
Fantastic point. We all want the respect of our peers. Even if this doesn't affect FB's public status, their ability to attract great people will be severely diminished.
If they get big enough... no they don't have an obligation, but the idea of many people depending on them should be enough. It's like MS had no obligation to satisfy expectations of IE5 users (not sold directly) - sure they didn't - but many got very annoyed because of that and because of the market share, we had internet-wide consequences for standard-compliant websites. Still - they had no obligation.
Let's see. Text files are easy to diff and merge, to query using regexs, to generate from programs and to parse for input.

I'm struggling to see what is stupid about it.
This feature is also in C and in Go language. It makes especially easy to write code generators, because you don't have to deal with first/last special cases.
Just think of all the employees that roll-up to those 500 CIOs who just had themselves a little giggle.

My favorite quote from the interview was "...one day we realized that death would eventually take care of this."
My tuppenceworth
Some high level language VB, C# or Java
then
the first half of Code by Charles Petzold
then
The elements of computing systems by Schocken and Nisan
followed by
the rest of Petzold's book
IPhone game developer Ngmoco Buys Stumptown
If standardized tests are meaningless, they should be fixed. That's a separate problem.

Also, rather than holding teachers to a standard "all students must perform as well as X", we can measure value added. Come up with a statistical predictor of how well a student will do. Then measure actual performance and evaluate teachers by (actual performance - predicted performance), averaged over all students.
Clickables:

http://www.napa-technology.co.uk

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ak7w8e-WyzvkdEk0Nkl...
I find this interesting from a historical perspective. You can really see the thought process that led to the design decisions on the iPhone and iPad: Get desktop sync right, optimize for user consumption of data, avoid handwriting recognition (since it's inefficient anyway), the PDA is dead (instead, a phone has to have PDA features).

I also like the subtle way Jobs deflects the issue of whether or not tablet devices would be great for reading. He cracks a little joke and redirects the discussion.
Thanks for the pointer. I tried desultorily to get a (net-)look at the Gow text, but no dice. I'll have to leave it to some weekend/vacation time to chase sources.

It's curious that the A.E.H. vinegar does not get wider circulation. My copy of Matthew Parris' Scorn only features a couple of harmless barbs (one the 'malt/Milton' line). There are some scraps over at
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Edward_Housman , and here
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n13/frank-kermode/nothing-for-ever-...

(Also, a passing appreciation by Chesterton, a guide I trust, here
http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Autobiography_%28Chesterton%29/C...)
Worst-Case Thinking
Not the ones I use.

But actually, there are other benefits: easier to add new lines to the list (just duplicate the previous one and change the value; no need to remember to add a comma at the end of the last item).

Also, someone mentioned another (small) benefit in the comments: when diff'ing files, using comma-first will only cause one line of difference, instead of two.

These are all small benefits, but since I can't think of any disadvantages to the comma-first style, I think I'm a new "convert".
The "problem" is that carriers would rather seel $40-60/mo datacard plans. Tethering cannibalizes that.

That said, I've managed to tether every Sprint phone I've owned over the last 8 years.
I don't think Carol Bratz has a degree in MBA! atleast, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Bartz
Given that human ability to think with abstractions is likely connected to our ability to use language, I don't see why textual representation would be the fundamental problem in programming.

There are subproblems (e.g. state machines) in our craft that benefit enormously from different kind of (visual) representations, but in my opinion textual representations is the best basis for programming.

On the otherhand, you might just hate text files as a way to organize code and would instead use a more elaborate format. Maybe there is better ways, but I think simpler formats fare better when you need to communicate with other people and over organizational boundaries.
On faith and good design
Larry Ellison On Sun Ex-CEO: Blogging Was Silly Diversion
I still like the pattern matching version, better. It's more concise, and I can actually follow it easier. (but my brain is weird):

def qsort[T <% Ordered[T]](list:List[T]):List[T] = {
list match {
case Nil => Nil
case x::xs =>
val (before,after) = xs partition (_ < x)
qsort(before) ++ (x :: qsort(after))
}
}
Just like the oft-quoted two-line Haskell definition is not really quicksort, this isn't either. It has to be in-place to avoid worst-case O(n^2) space.
Ellison: "The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn't succeed. Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales."
Full interview here: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10630034
There's a free book about git available at

http://progit.org/book/

Both the basics and advanced topics are clearly discussed.
*haven't?
Do handwriting interfaces have more traction in China, Japan, and Korea?
For the people who do switch languages often it's very handy to be able to do so quickly. Wikipedia is in its way an excellent translation tool when you're looking for relatively specialized terms.
Honest question here...

Why would SVG make more sense than canvas? Doesn't Canvas use a similar vector drawing model that you find in Postscript, Java2D and SVG? It seems to me that the main difference between the two is that one is an API and another is markup. So what makes SVG more suited for vector games?

I would think needing to have objects for each element in the SVG's XML would be unnecessary overhead, and wouldn't really buy you anything in return.
oh, and movies could be easily replaced with music, film/tv (writer's guild?), etc.

"creative accounting" as they say.
Humans have been writing language as text for thousands of years. You're going to have a hard time changing it.

What would be worse is something like mathematical or musical notation, with non-trivial layout rules and endless ambiguities. Or a complex binary format that only a computer can decode. Text files are actually pretty damn perfect as a simple mapping from computer (raw data) to human (language).
As anybody with a netbook can tell you that many videos which are extremely choppy in flash (yes, even if fully buffered) are quite playable in vlc for instance.

Now given that one of the main uses for flash is streaming video, that should simply not be the case.
I love this feature, but it bites me in the ass every time I work in a language that doesn't support this - like javascript and SQL.
Presumably "graphical" programming tools like labview and gedae. But I'm not a fan of them as they are very mouse-dominated which doesn't do my RSI any good.
This is classy stuff. In my opinion a good way of responding to Jobs' criticsm. Adobe have gone up in my estimation.
Pascal was one of the first languages I learned, only after learning Pascal did I really understand a lot of fundamental concepts. That said, I never used it to make anything half-useful. I used C, C++, PHP, Java.
My company: 5 months work from home, one month work in a 5 star hotel
According to other info downthread, the link did go to his portfolio.

I agree that the copy could have been done better, but he did get the results he wanted. :)