skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please provide credible (i.e. peer-reviewed) references to the symptoms you describe being a known side-effect of MMR vaccination? And to doctors being "encouraged" not to admit said side-effects? I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying what you are describing is really unusual.

Which brings me to my next point: any decision has consequences. If there is a 1 in 1 billion chance of a side-effect, and a 1 in 5000 chance of getting a debilitating disease, I think it's still fair to make the argument that the treatment is not just for society but also for the patient. Who is "society" if not "all the patients?"
Sure, but a large part of that is because the current generation of browsers on current hardware is a LOT faster. On the n810 you had hardware buttons to zoom, so it's not as if that was less convenient interface wise, it was inconvenient because it was slow.
The problem with anecdotal evidence is that what you are saying may be 100% true, but statistically, it was bound to happen that two unrelated episodes would coincide the way you describe them. What you don't see in this thread is millions of people sharing their experience that they had the MMR vaccine, and nothing happened after 10 days.
Google, can't you solve these problems with money?

Pay army of users pressing ham/spam buttons, mechanical turk style.
Standardized until it's changed in Alley or Calico.
Yes, in order to validate the chain of trust the TLD must be signed but sibling 2LDs have nothing to do with whether a particular 2LD can be signed. If wikipedia.org wants to sign, they can do so, because their parent (.org) is signed, but it doesn't matter whether widgets.org is signed.
More correct title: AT&T cuts the iPhone 3GS price -- at their own stores -- to $49
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Nice, I signed up for a class. Is there a way to mark other classes in a queue of sorts to be taken when you are done with the one(s) you are currently taking?

Thanks!
Or, what if they just need to expand to be able to afford continuing the development of cutting-edge graphics? The profit margins must be getting thinner.
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In general yes, I think improved UI can guide user behaviour to more desirable outcomes.

However I don't think it's as simple as changing the button text. Even a process driven UI, like a wizard style interface where you have to click next to progress through each step might work, but users very quickly become immune to dialogs. They don't read them, they just evolve the actions that get them to their goal the fastest, and the users goal does not include reporting their spam.
If your subject doesn't move, two cameras can be approximated by taking two pictures a set distance apart.[1]

Also note that the method used by this app is very short ranged, and uses the LCD's backlight while it's imaging, so there's zero feedback, making any kind of interactive application impossible.

1: There are third party accessories to make this easy and repeatable, built with varying levels of quality. Here's a fairly cheap one, circa 2003: http://www.dansdata.com/photo3d.htm
There's definitely a time for action. Just not until we decide when that action should be taken.

As for forced attrition:

1) I would want to see a comprehensive professional development program put in place for all teachers. Teaching well is difficult, and teachers generally don't get any useful feedback from anyone (when I taught, the biggest piece of useful feedback I got from my principal was "Make 'em afraid of you. Today, 3 kids didn't turn in their homework. If they're afraid of you, they'll do your homework").

It's entirely possible that plenty of our "bad" teachers simply need some support and guidance and a more concrete direction.

2) While this is happening, a comprehensive discussion of the goals of education needs to occur. Right now, as near as I can tell, our primary purpose is American competitiveness on an international scale (how dare those children from Shanghai score better than our children?!), which will somehow translate into economic competitiveness.

I'm not talking national goals, at least not yet. I'm talking a comprehensive building of the things that an adult need to be able to do in order to choose and set the course of his own life to the greatest extent possible. Obviously, not everyone gets to be an astronaut, but it'd be nice if we took a few steps toward the American ideal of "With enough gumption and hard work, anyone can be reasonably accomplished".

3) Finally, I'd be okay with forced attrition if it were shown to me that the replacements would be better. Others on this board have said things like "pay them more", but the fact is, teaching is not a glamorous position, and is becoming less, rather than more, so as either a direct or indirect result of articles like the one posted. Additionally, most schools nation-wide are struggling with the budget (between California and Illinois, 40,000 jobs were cut last summer. Even in Omaha, where I live, the wealthiest districts are freezing their hiring if they haven't done so already).

You might point to programs such as Teach for America, but even they have a pretty high attrition rate, and that's only a 2-year committment (also: do you really want someone who will teach for 2 years and then go do something else?).

Finally, the points I outlined in my original comment still stand.

I'm not unilaterally opposed to forced attrition, and in fact I'm not even strongly opposed. I just want it to be conscientious, deliberate, and well-thought out, with concrete steps taken to make sure that the new crop coming in has a really good chance to do better than the old crop leaving.
Fewer humans do that query because it is kept almost secret (why do bots like allintext?)

I wouldn't mind answering a captcha from time to time, but instead Google just bans the use of allintext for several dozen minutes (or more). Really frustrating.
Yep, I also saw a significant dip in the quality of my education when I began going to public school (moved and enrolled at in the 5th grade after moving). I always felt too many steps ahead of the rest of the class and was forced to slow down and wait for them. Luckily I have realized in the last year or so to take my education into my own hands and have learned to study topics on my own for my own sake.
The problem must be solved for all (or at least the majority) of users.

Perfection being the enemy of good enough, and a common and valued and traditional mechanism to delay product shipment.

And Google might well be able to utilize information from that 1% of users that have sorted that out - 1% of a Really Big Number of searches, factoring for the folks looking to game the search results (downward, in this case) - to provide feedback back into their search results.
How about criticizing the article instead of the person? Hero worship gets us nowhere.
I don't think that has anything to do with the usage of "app" on the iPhone

Really? Why not? The iPhone is, after all, running a decedent of the NeXT codebase too.
I feel like developers will, an addition to building "Lite" versions, will start adding text to the production description that link users back to the website where they can download a full-featured trial version.
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No, there isn't, but that sounds like a good idea. I'll try to add a way to do something like that. Thanks.
Doesn't censorship just help retain the derogatory aura, (for some) of a word which in itself merely comes from the latin word for black?
This is why people say that Google don't get social. What if I don't want to submit a bad search right now, but in a month? How am I going to find this HN thread?

Create a better mechanism through which people can submit bad searches for human review.
ExpertsExchange is at least original content (as far as I know)
stackoverflow consistently provides high quality answers though. If someone was to come along, take the creative commons material and present it in a way that actually improved my experience of finding the answer I was after I'd be all for it.

In my experience though the sites that are taking the content are ad ridden messes which remove value rather than add anything.
Most of what you describe is not a problem, due to the law of large numbers.

Regarding (1), it's very true that a test is just a sample of the material taught. Say you teach 90% of the material well, 10% poorly. The probability of the test being comprised primarily of the 10% you taught poorly is highly improbable.

Regarding (2), this is irrelevant as well. VAM compares your group of 30 low income students in district A being taught curriculum X to the overall average of low income students in district A being taught curriculum X. While it's possible that all your 90-150 students (depending on how many classes you teach) have a worse home life than the average low income student in district A, the probability of that is very low.
http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/what-is-a-functional-...

Note: NOT written by same guy who did "Scala not Functional".

Everybody has a different definition of FP in mind with these, uh, parameters:

- "no hidden side effects"; clearly demarcated IO functions, database calls.

- curry, partial function application; lexical closures

- TCO

- 1st class, higher-order functions

- Immutable / persistent collections / data structures

Altho most people agree that these are orthogonal to the definition of FP, (but nice to have:

- type inference (ML's is variously referred to as Damas-Milner or Hindley-Milner) or static typing

- lazy eval

- pattern matching

- green/lightweight threads with message passing OR STM/MVCC

- monads,arrows, functors, CPS

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/485418/distinctive-traits...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112773/what-are-the-core...
That's the point. It might make your results clearer, but it doesn't solve the problem for good original content producers which is the real issue here, not the individual.
For a keyword that only gets 100 searches a day, it wouldn't take many down-votes to affect the rankings of the relevant sites.

Why do you assume a flawed implementation?

Naturally there would be thresholds. There is no reason to devalue a site that's only displayed in 100 search-results/day at all.

The sites we want to hit are orders of magnitude worse at polluting the results. We're talking about the Mahalo's and expert sexchanges.
So what's the solution? In the absence of libraries that never break and are fully backwards-compatible with newer versions, we have to make some tradeoffs...
simply add -site:foo.com to your search request.

And no, this doesn't solve the problem.
plus a monthly of $39.00 or more and a $15.00 data plan...
bigresource has annoyed me most recently, I don't think they could make the thing more unusable if they tried, merging together only slightly related posts from different sites into a list without providing any of the responses to the posts.
I'd like to know as well. The truth is probably that digi-key saw some profit changes or personel changes that make an increase in traffic from a quality aggregator like octopart advantageous. It could also be a look at all the other places that are on octopart and see that they don't have the inventory that digi-key has; so they might not be the low cost leader on all the parts but they have 1k in stock. Maybe octopart hired a salesperson? I hope they chime in.
The lindows desktop software marketplace was online in 2002 (if not earlier): http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9489846614.html

Steam Store also opened it's doors in 2002: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)
This bastard belongs in jail.
Google Wave and AdWords were built on GWT, which is Java->JS. So yes, they do.
Sure, of course. Like most every other smart phone.

That's still a lot of phone-ness for $49, albeit w/ contract.
This is correct. And we had it administered to our then 14mo old son. He's fine.

Hooray for meaningless anecdotes!
Semi-related, I don't understand why most JavaScript/HTML/CSS projects only have demonstrations tucked away on another page (or in the download package, or missing entirely).

This stuff works on the web, right? A demo is the first thing anyone should see when visiting your project.
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Steam have run an app store for sometime now
FWIW ramen isn't fatty (hot pockets are, however).
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Makes an XAMPP server into a personal cloud. Available at ikonique.net

We just made Moglens dream a reality. FOS all the way!
Exactly. The point is that users who consider eHow useful, don't filter it, and users who do, do. Let the user decide instead of doing it for them.
We included "production" because this is coming out of our experience deploying and running dedicated stacks for production sites, not just hobbyist sites on shared infrastructure.
Emscripten is the most exciting project IMO - it's basically a more portable NaCl. I wonder if Google will start using it if they're serious about NaCl.
It was a combination of a few things:

- Building a relationship

- Having users that were vocal about wanting Digi-Key listed on Octopart

- Time
I see a lot of people asking what happens when a group of people downvote a site just to ruin its ranking. Sure that's a problem, but there's an easy solution on Google's end: your blacklist only affects you. Yes, that means all of us have to hide efreedom ourselves. Doesn't seem like a problem to me...

Plus, we are talking about a company whose core business demands that it can identify groups of bad-faith voters. Given time, they may find a way to incorporate this data safely into the ranking data (if anyone could, it would be Google).

And I know there are extensions to do this (mine mysteriously stopped working recently), but doing this on the client-side in a way that's bound to a single browser install just seems wrong to me, especially for Google.
sweet naming! good luck to you folks!
Our university wanted to order some Pandaboards (http://pandaboard.org/) from DigiKey, but we were kind of scared off by the weird, weird ordering process (and strange localisations) compared to other online shops :(
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The URL for the actual group is: http://bostonandroid.org/
I notice that nowadays, I don't really care where the answers come from so long as they they answer my question. While I tend to look for and click on StackOverflow links and skip efreedom links (just because I want to be loyal to them), I find that I still use eHow and About.com and ExpertsExchange results since I find that the answers there most times help me with what I am seeking -- for me it doesn't matter really that it is the original source of the info or not. I think these sites are better than the true spammy sites that really have no content on the answer to your question, but somehow manage to get up there in the search results.
> Why, Apple, why?

Probably because it's version 1.0
I'm sure someone much smarter than me could draw many parallels, both good and bad, between malls and apps stores.

Personally, I say I hate malls myself, yet once in a while I get the urge to go and buy a few things I didn't know I needed. I find comfort in the consistency of the stores, that you can go to any mall and find roughly the same vendors. Once at the mall, my choices are narrowed down (which ties into the whole Paradox of Choice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...).
A parasite that kills its only host didn't have enough hosts.
Ask HN: What should be my next programming language?
I am trying to decide what programming language to learn next. Couldn't think of a better place than HN to ask for recommendations and start discussions about programming languages.

I've worked on ruby/rails for over a year, so that's the language I'm most comfortable with, but these days I work on C and PL/SQL. I'm trying to pick up a language that's very different from the ones I've worked with. Here are the languages I'm considering:

Erlang/Haskell/Common Lisp: Understanding functional programming would be a challenge, coming from ruby's object oriented world and these languages seem the top contenders in that category.

Scala: It's has both object-oriented and functional features, so will it be easier to catch up with functional programming in Scala than with a purely functional language like Haskell?

Smalltalk: It would be fun to learn a language that's been around for over three decades and has had so much influence on the design of other languages.

Any other language? Clojure? Go? Brainfk? ;-) Tell me what language you think would be most interesting to learn and why you recommend it?
I think it's a win for any talented developer, even in the short-term. Lots more customers, even at a lower price, equals more revenue. Sure, Apple's taking a cut, but retailers used to take a cut, too, plus sales tax, plus the cost of boxing software...
It's also a subtle way to get the new age devs to forget about supporting two architectures. It's not so big of a deal with something that's entirely Cocoa, but this would cause a lot of problems with games and anything written with low-level, performance happy functions. I think.
Ask someone who works at a bank what mainframe support from IBM costs. Over $1,000,000 per year is not uncommon.

Also, I'm fairly sure this $15,000 is intended to be in support of an internal team of sys admins, not in place of them.
You report spam when you know it's spam.

And when it's about search result. People are browsing and clicking through adsense filled "landing page sites". Most of them think that it's their fault that they couldn't find the thing they were searching for.
Disappointed to see Twitter among the most popular apps. For mobile devices the native-app-front-end-for-existing-websites was arguably necessary and beneficial, but for desktop clients it really feels like a big step back to start moving back out of the browser.
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Wow, that's a blast from the past, from the Palm OS days. Interesting that they're still around.
Maybe something more automatic : a user makes a search, clicks on a link, if it is spam, he'll probably hit the back button within a couple of seconds. The average time spent by a user on a result before going back to Google could be used a as metric of quality.
interesting to see one branch of the government that isn't getting budget cuts :P
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Even if Facebook's valuation isn't a bubble valuation (as I've argued previously) it is certainly the case that money lent at excessively low interest rates will create bubble valuations.

What can you do about it? You could stop accepting dollars, I suppose.
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I want a search results page similar to the "Priority Inbox" we got recently in gmail. Set sane defaults and let me override them with "Important/Notimportant" buttons (or thumbs up/down or whatever) next to results.

Let it learn what I think is a good result for my needs.

If you make it a little bit social, make sure you weight other people's opinions by how much they agree with my own in other areas (making it harder for sockpuppets to muddy the waters)
Right, we didn't decide one day "oh, let's build a Django deployment and management solution"; we've already been doing this for two years and are now wanting to provide it for more than just our development clients and own sites.
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I have a real problem with the way a large number of people on HN dismiss college because there are better & less expensive ways to learn the things you need to know and get the credentials you need. Of course there are. The diagnosis is correct, but the prescription is wrong.

There is no better & less expensive way for someone between the ages of 18 and 21 to surround themselves with people the same age, who are as smart as they are, and learn how to be a positive social creature.

Maybe it's because I have a liberal arts degree instead of an engineering degree, but college taught me how to be a person, in the broadest sense. I'm perfectly happy to admit I went to college because that was "the thing to do," and I'm glad I can relate to so many people by virtue of having done it.

My best friends are still the 5 people living on my freshman floor who played counterstrike on 2ms ping university servers at 4am with our doors open, shouting at each other down the hall.

College is FUN. F-U-N. It is a highly structured 4-year period where you have exactly 2 responsibilities: graduate and don't die.

Sure, there might be less expensive ways to socialize, but none that so forcefully eject you from the shell you built around yourself in high school - something I suspect many who hope to eventually be in startups have built. You can say "oh, go to tech meetups", but you can still stand in the corner there, an intimidated 18-year old, just as easily as anywhere else.

If you can take Guy Kawasaki's advice: live off your parents as long as humanly possible. And if you have to pay for college yourself, consider it an investment in what many people consider the best 4 years of their lives.
Where's a working demo?
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It would also be a significant undertaking if the down-votes are tied to google accounts.

Not only do you have to bypass the captcha, but also the heuristics that google could (does?) employ to detect fake accounts.

If the votes were weighted by account activity then the spammers would not only have to sign up and vote; they would also have to keep all these accounts busy with fake queries or other means.
App Store app is just a different interface to the itunes servers, you can try to copy links in App Store and you'll see the exact same kind of url as for tunes, movies, iOS apps, etc...
In fact I don't understand why they didn't integrate App Store in iTunes. Maybe they realized iTunes is crap, or they didn't want to change the icon once again.
Doesn't make me feel like they have long term strategies lately.. kind of the same with Facetime desktop not being in iChat.
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thanks hexis
But forums are great (bring a dagger)
I know the founder of this site, so I trust him pretty highly, and in my past experience with FairSoftware, where people would meet for ideas but struggle to find someone to implement even an MVP, I think this site is a great concept!

The price sounds right to separate the fakes from the serious customers.
If this deal is successful for Octopart, Digi-Key will no longer own the customers; people will go to Octopart instead to search for parts. That means Digi-Key has to compete in a competitive market, which is going to substantially reduce their profits.
This goes back to the traditional engineering parable: is it better to create a million dollar car that gets 900mpg (gasoline), or to make a 5 dollar widget that adds another 5mpg in every car?
Do you happen to have more details about this?
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Supporting old browsers by XYZ: you have to, to profit.

Supporting old OS by Apple: of course they want you to upgrade, to profit.

I would not say that's because Apple is brave, it makes business sense.
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