skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next time you want to make a point, pick a site with a bit more credibility.

I'm not here to spoon feed you information in line with your heuristic baggage. You can "take me seriously" or not.

But your inference is that because of this, vaccines are ineffective.

My inference is that vaccines were not instrumental in the longterm decline of infectious diseases, contrary to the OP's claim. I thought I was pretty clear on that point.

to completely wipe out an infectious disease, you need vaccination.

This is a sound public policy message to encourage vaccination, but the data, as far as I can see, does not support such a strong and sweeping conclusion. Yes vaccines appear effective in the reduction of some infectious disease. It does not follow that vaccines are thus necessary to wipe out infectious disease. Surely this modest level of nuance is not too much to grasp?
Could you define "middle class lifestyle"? Also perhaps explain which people you mean?

If you define it in relative terms (i.e., "a middle class lifestyle is the lifestyle of the middle 40%), then by definition it is always affordable to the middle 40%. So this can't be what you mean.

Or maybe the problem is that in the race to be in the middle 40%, some professions have overtaken manufacturing, and this lowers the relative (but not absolute) lifestyle/status of manufacturing? (Though it's hard for me to see why that would be a problem, unless you are emotionally attached to some sort of caste-based ordering of jobs.)
In my experience the only people making >100% are the partners. So you are correct that they are not employees, but not necessarily that they know what they're doing...
It seems like the Firefox 4 project simply got out of control, there was no clear cut-off, features were added willy-nilly throughout the beta process, and the browser (for a while) seemed stuck in perpetual development. It doesn't look good, and doesn't make Mozilla look like they can ship without the temptation to add more or tweak more.

Netscape all over again?
The deletion of the sites is purely political.

The BBC needs to make visible cuts in places where the British (anti-BBC) press accuse them of providing services that they believe should be provided by private companies.

If the site doesn't vanish the press wouldn't see it as a real cut, would they?
The install line is completely unnecessary, nobody needs to be told how to install it. Make an article "how to install packages in ubuntu" if they do.
Why politics and investing don't mix
I prefer Textual. Open source if you want to build it yourself or throw the dev's 5 bucks and get it from the mac app store.
Also, if you try to upload photos or documents through a web app (I tried facebook's, but I've heard others work) you are given a simple browser that will let you view the underlying file system and see the contents of your USB flash drive.
This book did not appear to have value for me when I attempted to read it.
Basecamp in my mind (I wrote the article) is establishing a product that gains adoption and reaches a set of realistic milestones that can be achieved within 2 years rather than focusing on the summit (how big this can ultimately become). I'm going to update the article to make this clear. Thank you for prompting.
JP Morgan: If you 'Google Madoff you will see the risks'
I just got an Android with that great Virgin Mobile deal, and I was surprised at just how much the Back button is used in almost all contexts. It's severely overloaded: want to get out of an on-screen keyboard? Back. Want to move back a screen? Back, except when it's Google Reader that opened a Browser window, in which case it takes you back to the previous page that Browser had. Back through a menu? Back. Back to a previous page in Browser? Back.

It's as if people just substituted the button for any instance in human language where "back" was used.

What's somewhat interesting is that I found myself wishing that I could just swipe left in order to achieve the same functionality, if I am going to be forced to do it so much. Then I realized Windows Phone 7 uses swipe left as "back" in some contexts. Sometimes you do have to give Microsoft credit :)
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"Doubles every year" is just a simple way of summarizing geometric growth to the layman. I'm sure info generation doubles every t, but the chance of t being very close to one year is quite low.
I don't think he's presenting worst-case scenarios, he's presenting averages for the often-ignored hidden costs associated with an employee. His estimates for things like taxes, administrative overhead, and bench time are in line with my own experiences in consulting. If someone is thinking about expanding their consulting business by hiring, this is a not a worst-case scenario but rather the everyday conditions you are likely going to face.
And people are 86.3% more likely to believe a statistic if it has a decimal point in it.
"The key is that these magazine-style layouts automatically look great on all devices."

Exactly. Build once ship on all devices.
Also while I am here, since when was it a requirement to read an author's entire output before commenting on any of it?
Which Test Won? Results from Real A/B Tests
Designed to Fail: Hacking Poverty Event
Show HN: A simple bookmarking app that's not social
Why I made this app: I've never been a fan of delicious-type bookmarking sites. They have too many features and it takes too long to bookmark links (I hate tagging). Saaave replaces the need for tagging with full-text searching of your bookmarks.

I find Saaave incredibly useful, so I figured I'd share it here. No more searching site:news.ycombinator.com to find old articles!
One thing that is seldom introduced into such discussions is human life span, or "generations".

In the long run, we may balance out to a world economy. (Or not.) But in the short term, we may disenfranchise entire generations of our population.

If it were truly a "free market", workers could follow the work. (Work -- the oft neglected other half of "the market".)

That is not the case, now. (And even if it were, income disparity would make it a one-way trip of separation from family and friends -- not that that's anything new.)

I agree, society presents -- and depends upon -- a diversity of mental and physical types, and excising an entire sector's means of gainful employment is a distortion to that balance.

You can have a country of gated communities and slums, or a country where you can walk down the street in safety and comfort. Which would you prefer?

I'm not sure there's a viable alternative to the way we're proceeding. But one should be ready for the consequences.

The "free market" doesn't care about deaths. (Some would argue they are an efficiency.) That's left to human morals and values. The hook being, again, what kind of community you wish to live in. One where you can enjoy the company of other people, or one where you fear it.

--

Addendum: I meant to include the comment that "white collar" work is moving overseas (as compared to e.g. the U.S. and other "first nation" countries) more rapidly that many realize. Even the (non-ownership) bankers, lawyers, and other "management professionals" that were supposed to be this country's future, are soon -- already -- going to find themselves priced out of the market.

The need overseas to educate a generation in this work, and to have sufficient legal and regulatory stability, delayed this occurring. But those prerequisites are now falling into place. And why is someone going to pay 3 - 5 or more times as much for a U.S. resource, when they can get as good somewhere else?

True professionals -- the truly creative and proficient -- may always have a job, even if they have to move. But a lot of "value added" people are going to find that, well, they don't (add sufficient value, or have a job).

At least, not abroad. There will always be some domestic work. But, their fortunes will fall with those of those of the disenfranchised around them. No one's going to pay them outsize incomes to "manage the world".
I personally find larger version numbers a bit odd. Generally people tend to work better with smaller numbers. I think the Ubuntu system is pretty good, use the major version for the year and have the month as the minor version. The Chrome 2 month releases could go 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, etc. That way they wouldn't chew through so many numbers. Ultimately I guess projects must go through a reset of their versions before they get to really ridiculous numbers.
I agree with you. There's only so long that you can operate at that level. However, the main point of how much can be done when truly focused is not lost. What if you did two days each week like this? I think that's sustainable, and you could get '4 weekends' in each month.
Could you explain your thesis in more detail? You seem to agree with tomjen's claim that everyone, poor or middle class, seems to be consuming more now than historically. And this is certainly well supported by the data - modern day poor people consume more than 1960's middle class people.

So isn't the purchasing behavior, rather than the label attached to the consumer, what grows the market and increases business opportunity?

I.e., isn't it better for a modern day poor person to consume a house, a car, an AC and an X-Box than for a 1970's middle class person to walk to work, live in a smaller house, and suffer in the summer with no AC and entertain themselves with only a legacy mechanical music players?

[edit: better for the purpose of creating "business opportunity"]
The speed really depends on the size of the view and the depth of the objects. The pixel dimensions of a folder determine whether to render it's children. I'm normally able to live resize the window without too much chugging, but as you hit higher resolutions the speed drops.

At some point I hope to get it into Grand Central Dispatch and see what effect that has, the nature of the visualization makes it perfect for being parallelized.
Anybody remember 'pig' from the DOS days?
I remember some wit on Slashdot commenting that "SAP is how Lucifer interacts with our world". Having had some experience with various Tier-1 ERP systems I suspect there may be some truth to this theory.
I love the back button, and I love how easy it is to get out of whatever I am doing.
Doesn't fail gracefully with javascript disabled. That's three strikes all at once for me. Thankfully, they still have a full-content RSS feed if you dig around deep enough for it. You can say RSS is dead, but I'll probably see your proclamation via RSS. This solidifies LH as a site I will never intentionally click through to.
Tips to use boolean variables in Java - Extreme Java
Wow, what a dream world... "Hi, all you 'little people' who don't have jobs? Go to China and compete there, so I can enjoy this empty country and my immigrant labor"

Time to get cracking on methods to replace that class of people with small shell scripts...
Quantum optimizer a quantum step in the right direction
I recently did a Startup Weekend and coded basically non-stop for a couple days. Afterwards I felt great, like my skills were being used to their fullest; and I had created something significant. It wasn't until days later that burn-out set it; but I wasn't burned-out from working all weekend, I was burned-out from my day job. How little real, valuable work I did at my day job compared to what I did during the weekend made me feel worthless and insignificant.

Paul Graham has talked about how heavy a work-load starting a startup is, and how much founders enjoy it compared to life at a big company in spite of it. I was skeptical at first, and thought that you had to be some super-human workaholic to handle it, but it turns out creating value is really enjoyable and fulfilling. It's a different kind of work, a kind that invigorates you rather than drains you.
I don't know if I'd call those worst-case scenarios. Everything he describes there is pretty standard issue
If I'm reading this right, this means that the fix for the problem in 2.2 was supposed to come in 2.3, but maybe will now come in 2.4.

Except that, going with how Android upgrades have gone so far, most users on 2.2 will never see 2.3. Why is Google not pushing security updates free from carrier/manufacturer control? This is pretty terrible.
I guess the first issue would be to define what "data" is. Speech is data, weather is data...
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (Philip K. Dick)
So now your argument is that there are about a dozen "consulting companies" in the world and the rest are loose collections of "freelancers"? Banal use of semantics aside, you still haven't said anything that refutes the problems/solutions surrounding "consulting companies" (or "freelancer gaggles" if you prefer) as they were defined in the article.
If you come from a solid grounding in (specifically Greek) philosophy, the concepts and questions Pirsig raises are familiar, but for me the way he addressed them seemed much less self-indulgent.

Greek philosophers were public intellectuals and, for me at least, reading their texts was somewhat off-putting because of the level of... grandstanding for lack of a better word. ZAMM seems so much more honest. It's framed as a man attempting to pass on actionable wisdom to his son that will make him a better person.

The questions are the same questions people have been asking for thousands of years: what is good? (and derivitives thereof) but Pirsig frames his answers with a very appealing humility.

Having lived off of my writing for a spell, I struggled deeply with the problem of metaphysical quality and no amount of classical philosophy ever brought me the admittedly limited clarity I felt like a got out of ZAMM. YMMV, though.
Fun to play with but no free level for the API seems odd. The FAQ is unhelpful: http://help.datamarket.com/kb/using-data-from-datamarketcom-...
Declaring constants in Java J2EE applications - Extreme Java
Against UI Chrome (not the browser)
There is treasuer in those email archives. JP MOrgan and Madoff, Rupert Murdoch's henchmen and the UK phone hacking scandal. Keeping digging...
"Stylish" Web-Malware
They were treated unfairly compared to the union, yes. But it still beats Chapter 11 (probably).

Update: the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that this is true. If the company really had to be liquidated, the bond holders may have been paid off. But the equity holders would have really taken a bath. So the government did, in fact, keep the equity market rolling.
You don't have to stop to copy from a log-structured file
In this case, this seems less about "educating B students" than it is finding multiple venues in which students can be successful. The student who does not get A's still has quite a few skills beyond the usual collegiate regiment of "Write this paper / take this test / attend this lecture".

Frankly, I'd like to see this entrepreneurial spirit be encouraged in high school (and even middle school!) as well as college. Students do pretty amazing things when they're given a chance to take ownership and responsibility of something with actual meaning.

One must certainly be prepared for failure and for flakiness. But I'd be more than happy to accept the risk of either in exchange for the chance of success. I'd definitely be willing to accept the risk of either for the chance that even just a few students would recognize that there is more to life than simply accepting one's place.
Charlie Stross's awesome Accelerando also deals with this and let's just say he thinks phishing is not an exclusively human endeavor. Accelerando, which is top of my best SF of the first decade of the current millenium, is available as a free ebook at Charlie's site: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera....
There is a demand for medium skilled jobs. E.g., I see lots of ads for careers in “medical billing and coding”, which is not the sort of work that requires a bachelor’s degree, but you can’t just hire someone off the street to do, either.
Maybe not a homegrown tape format... but how about Teletext, FM Radio, Freeview, HD on Freeview, iPlayer?
Based on the primary sources I’ve been able to piece together, the more accurate (but far less sensational) quote would be:

"23 Exabytes of information was recorded and replicated in 2002. We now record and transfer that much information every 7 days."

Call me crazy, but that sounds every bit just as sensational to me. Seems like all this article is doing is getting overly picking with some throwaway oft-repeated trivia stat. Who cares what the exact numbers are? The purpose of the statement remains the same.
Ask HN: Rate my idea - Eclipse plugin for cloud-stored code snippets
I actually developed this idea and got this working a while ago as I got frustrated by looking up the same thing on google every 3 weeks or so "java almanac serialize xml", and a dozen like it - the copy/paste etc.
Just could not get myself to launch it publicly - mostly discouraged about how to market it.

website - we have a website front-end and a database - all hosted on Google AppEngine, this looks pretty much like most code snippet websites out there, except that users may submit enhanced versions to the same snippet on a page, in addition to commenting on it.

use from IDE - we have have the ability to search for snippets directly from Eclipse. The auto-completition feature built into eclipse wasn't as extendable as we thought so we went for opening a popup on CTRL+Shift+~ (adjustable) - this would allow a full text search in snippet names/descriptions - then it would list them showing the most voted/used version of the snippet (much like the autocompletition box shown on CTRL+Space). On selecting one (Enter, dbl-click) you get the snippet inserted at your cursor, while the imports are automatically added (only supported in Java files).

submit from IDE - if you select text in your editor and you hit the same shortcut (CTRL+Shift+~) you get into a form to submit that to the cloud.

business model - free accounts to submit stuff to public domain, payed accounts to keep stuff in your private space on the cloud, with the option to share it with your co-workers.

So what do you think? Would you be a user of this?
This article makes good points, but it fails to raise alarms for me. Knowledge has few national boundaries (and largely shouldn't), why should capital?
"Data (plural of "datum") are typically the results of measurements"

Weather isn't data, a measurement of temperature would be data...

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

[Not that I am trying to imply that other things aren't data - but I don't think weather itself is data although you can, of course, have weather data!]
Why I made this app: I've never been a fan of delicious-type bookmarking sites. They have too many features and it takes too long to bookmark links (I hate tagging). Saaave replaces the need for tagging with full-text searching of your bookmarks.

I find Saaave incredibly useful, so I figured I'd share it here. No more searching site:news.ycombinator.com to find old articles! :)

Any comments?
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His argument hinges on consulting not being worth it at $100/hr - that is true, but it's also irrelevant, since typical consulting firms actually charge much more. Secondly he asserts that consulting doesn't scale. Well, with one example (of many such firms) tipping the scales at 200k employees, that point is demolished too.
As arethuza said.

Obviously there would be plenty of questions, ranging from the most basic (a CD released in 1990 contains 'x' MB of data on it... but there's also the sleeve design, printed track listing etc...) to more complex (how do you measure the data of a painting in computer terms?), but I'm sure if someone were to set about trying to work this out, they could think up (albeit debatable) definitions.
Maybe... was that new at the time?

Here's what I was looking at: Typography. Wired's cover has the headline set in Myriad Pro. In 1997, Apple's corporate identity used a variant of Garamond Condensed. In 2003, they would retire Garamond after nearly twenty years of service – for Myriad Pro. It's now the font on every Apple ad, web headline, box, and hardware nameplate.
Small pond over here, but I don't know any developers who specifically override the middle-click functionality - though the javascript link is something even I've done.
I may be wrong, but hasn't this article already come up on HN before? Maybe I've just seen it before, it's not new.
It's funny to see the first 3 comments are essentially "looks good, but I'll keep using X" where X is different each time. I was just thinking that it looks good, but I'll probably keep using XChat.

IRC Clients: They may not look pretty, but there are tons of 'em.
Calling this a fad isn't helpful. There's a reason why this is happening and if it's a fad, so be it, but it's one we all should understand and act upon.
Walmart doesn't care if they lose people to turnover

Source? Turnover is a high cost to any business, and if there's one thing Walmart is good at it's watching expenses.
http://goo.gl/Cycor
What is an XML Sitemap?
What You Need to Know About Cloud Computing
After Web 2.0 cloud computing has to be one of the most widely used buzzwords, one which very few of us understand fully
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WikiLeaks cables reveal ACTA negotiators avoided official scrutiny
Curious as to why this has been downvoted. Do you suppose AOL will sit by idly while you undermine part of its business model? What legal methods of obtaining the subscriber list do you suggest? Do you think a business helping people to unsubscribe from a $10/month or so service will be valuable enough to defend against a legal challenge from a major corporation, valid or otherwise? Am I missing something?
I've suffered through a gastric obstruction before. It is the most painful thing I've ever experienced (even the kidney stones I've had didn't compare). It's also incredibly scary if you know anything about the sepsis that can be caused by an intestinal tear.

It says something about Andrew's commitment that, in the midst of that, he was worried about Mixergy. That's is truly the "founder focus."
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That's revenue per employee, not revenue per billable consultant. There are a lot of employees on the payroll that don't bill out hours.
I have no way of knowing when, but lets try to extrapolate a bit.

In Dec we heard the figure of 1.5 million devices sold to Carriers. A month later we hear that 2 million devices have been sold to carriers.

Not all of those devices were sold to customers, so we can't say they are running 500k activations/month, so lets take that down to say 300k activations/month after being on the market for 4 months. Assuming they sold 200k in the first month, that's 10% growth/month. A nice comfortable number.

If they are able to continue on that growth cycle it is 24 months to 20 million devices.
However, with the explosive growth that Android saw, 300k handsets activated per day, I suspect we'd see WP7 reach 1/4 of that within the first year.
So let's say at 16 months they are activating 2 million devices a month.

Either metric, you're looking at 1.5-2 years to reach 20 million devices.

Thoughts?
It's just "Firefox".

Mozilla has been talking about faster iterations for a while now. 3.6 was, I think, supposed to be the start of that initiative; 3.5 was June 2009, and 3.6 was January 2010, even after slipping by a month or two.

You could argue that the platform version change from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2 isn't that big of a difference compared to the jump from 1.9.2 to 2.0, but you have to keep in mind that the decision to dub the-platform-behind-Firefox-4 as "Gecko 2" wasn't even made until over the summer.