skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current tests have very low accuracy (the article says 40%). These tests are likely being administered by trained professionals, and if the cost of each test is sufficiently high (for materials, and that it would take several tests to get a reasonably accurate answer), it might be cheaper in the long run (or even short periods of time) to buy these medical professionals smartphones and the lenses instead of the supplies for existing tests. If the cost of a smartphone and lens is greater than a full microscope with a webcam attached (to allow the computer or a dedicated device to do the analysis), then smartphones are still a useful proof of concept as well as being far more portable and being easier to power.

It doesn't seem logical on the face, but once you start adding up costs it's quite likely that it would be, especially if they can convince a smartphone manufacturer to donate a few hundred or thousand units (I'm sure that there are smartphone manufacturers donating money to the anti-malaria efforts already, as it's good publicity and can be used in advertising. Donating smartphones instead of money is a very small step, as well as possibly cheaper - the retail price for a smartphone is not the price of manufacture).
Also, there's a beta version of Swype. Kind of wonky, but single finger SMSing is still nice.
> So you don't think a term emulator on MacOS X is useful to you

Where did I say that? The discussion was about if iterm2 has needed features which an existing emulator/mux combination doesn't have.
This is awesome. I wish more companies would take the time to show data in meaningful ways.
The reference manual is very well written http://www.lua.org/manual/
During the interview http://askobama.twitter.com/ at 42m20s, they claim that 10% of the questions are on Education, whereas twitsprout shows only 2% were on Education.
Yeah, you're missing a lot. I don't know where to start. A lot of people in poor tropical countries live in dilapidated shacks but have a TV and smartphones. And anyone, rich or poor, in these countries can get malaria. A friend of mine died of malaria that he contracted in Africa, and he was a millionaire who only stayed in the best hotels.
The sad part is: This app is basically useless. Malaria has very distinct symptoms. Malaria also has a 3-day pre-roll period where you know you are about to get malaria, but you are not yet in bed. Also, Malaria is the #1 drug every chemist stocks in malaria-infested areas. Furthermore, taking a malaria pill even if you don't have malaria has no side effect.

What this means is that if all the criteria of bad luck come together:

1. Person does not know the symptoms for malaria

2. There is no chemist around who stocks malaria pills

3. The illness for some reason instantly hits the person without the pre-roll period

...then the person for whom all these criteria comes into question is about 99.99% not likely to have an Android phone around. And 100% not likely to have a lifelens attached to the phone.
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I have had that experience in some communities. I have not in others. Like I said, the Cocoa developer community? I have a hard time thinking of the last time I had a problem with someone. Online gaming? It happens half the time I open my mouth to talk. Sometimes it's just honest surprise, like a guy I know that was shocked the person he talked to occasionally over text and had respect for being pretty good at what I played was female the whole time. Most times it's just someone being an idiot. Usually the latter seems to be because there is some kind of anonymity involved (see also: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/). It's one thing to be `YouJustGotOwned` in a game or `foobar` on irc, it's another to be talking from a twitter account that is associated with your name, company and professional reputation, for example.

> Notably, there were just as many sexual or suggestive advances from women as there were from men.

Well, two things:

1. I never claimed women weren't capable of doing that. I have participated in female-majority communities where the men were hit on and treated badly, and I didn't like it. Everyone needs to treat others with respect as much as possible.

2. A big part in whether or not that is acceptable behavior from anybody is if the other person is/people are okay with it. I feel okay flirting and hitting on others when I know the interest is mutual, and I don't feel bad doing it. I can be as sexually suggestive and crude as I want in front of friends and people I know. What is distasteful is doing this to someone that doesn't want any part of it. What is also distasteful is misreading someone's behavior as implicit permission to do things like hit on them.

> otherwise there's very little difference in the way that people act towards people that they suspect to be girls online

I like to subscribe to the theory that the vast majority of people are somewhat reasonable. Most of the time there isn't a difference and that is where I'm perfectly fine being open about who/what I am. It's definitely a small minority (and partially due to selection bias) that can cause headaches though, and they're not always obvious or in public. That doesn't mean they don't exist.
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I'm not saying any such contracts exists... But, if they existed, why do you think you'd be aware of them?
I totally agree on the Doxygen documentation and indeed, while writing the Lua/APR binding the APR unit tests were more useful to me than the public headers and documentation.

I must admit I also looked through the implementation here and there, when the documentation didn't explain the 'grand scheme' and there were no tests to read :-(
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No harm, no foul. They really do exist, unfortunately.
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Right. That was our biggest deviation from their numbers. There's quite a lot of things that could account for it -- both of us are using imperfect heuristics to classify them, and they didn't exactly explain their methodology with regards to what counts as a unique question. In our case, we counted rephrasings, RTs, and quotes as retweets, not just the native ones. This may account for the difference.

We may make the data set we gathered public some time, so people can draw their own conclusions about which categorizations are more accurate.
The first edition of "Programming in Lua" is available for free online and might make for more interesting reading than the reference manual: http://www.lua.org/pil/
+1, thanks I'll likely use paypal, I'm not in the US.
Usually, a hash function is explicitly designed to have very different output for similar input.
I' m curious about that too.
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In three words: "Be high status".
When I was getting started I bought the "Programming in Lua"[1] ebook, by the author of Lua himself.

There's an older edition available for free online[2].

Then there's of course the lua users wiki and its "Learning Lua" section[3].

I find the wiki a little hard to navigate so I just went ahead and bought the book. IMHO the gems in Chapter 10 (Complete Examples) and the clear explanation of coroutines are alone worth the price. The rest is a very nice bonus too.

[1] http://store.feistyduck.com/products/programming-in-lua
[2] http://www.lua.org/pil/
[3] http://lua-users.org/wiki/LearningLua
If you liked Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language", then you'll love "Programming In Lua". The first edition is available online here:

http://www.lua.org/pil/

Like K&R, it's style is colloquially terse, yet each sentence is chock full of information. It's a great book for someone who's already coming from another language like Python.

If you're into graphics programming, then http://love2d.org/ would be the perfect vehicle for you to get into Lua while you read PIL.
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I completely understand your struggle. I'm working on our startup with two other team members. We're all in our mid-twenty's, two of us married, one of us with a kid, working full-time (sometimes more-than-full-time jobs).

We've been doing it for a year, and as much as we continue to push, we just don't seem to have time for anything. Our finances have taken a hit, our personal lives have taken a hit... sometimes it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel and sometimes it feels like we're just building until someone notices.

The only thing I can tell you is that the harder you work now, the better you're life will be and the more fulfilled it will be later. Remember: entrepreneurs work 16+ hour/day jobs to avoid working 8 hour/day jobs for someone else. Keep your head up!
The answer is subsidized consoles. Microsoft and Sony are already moving there with the paid online experience. They just need to codify it into a 2 year contract.
I don't know, it didn't even occur to me that it was sales he was talking about. Perhaps it's because I know he powered his latest demos for console games on an iPhone?
"inflict" is a good word choice for that blue bar :)
SpaceX can, sort of, already deliver people and cargo to the ISS. And the Dragon looks more spacious than a Soyuz.

The shuttle, cool as it is, is a money drain. All but one of its mission profiles can be fulfilled by cheaper vehicles.
Thanks for the tip. Good catch - it's now corrected.
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Yes, but be cautious. Sometimes you have to talk to them for a bit to get them to care. You'll eventually learn the 'buying signals'.
How many brilliant developers have you not worked with, because they looked at that kind of comment, and decided that they would rather spend their spare time working on a project where they _wouldn't_ get told that their fingers should be cut off to prevent them ever writing any code?
I take great umbrage with his graph depicting teachers both as relatively high paid and not working that hard. He says he's been a teacher, but given the plot on the graph, I highly doubt it. It's way harder than you think, and unless you're a tenured professor at a university, teachers make shit.
I use nearlyFreeSpeech.net, a simple and very cheap webhost: billed by the cent, and 10$ lasted me years. For the software, I wrote my own blog 'engine'(s).

Just started using ___.sh: a 42 lines, recursive, multimarkdown, sed & bash static html blog 'engine'. (http://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins). I have the sources for my posts in three places : my computer, github and the web host.

I host these two sites there :
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Good C++ experience, good algorithm knowledge (sometimes a problem for experienced programmers who don't often have to think about performance), and good attitude will likely get you a job at many companies like Facebook or Google easily enough.

Being confident and doing your homework about the company and the position, and otherwise being prepared is probably all you need, as well as being responsive and proactive with your recruiter. There's no real downside to applying - it'll give you confidence and a reality check even if you aren't given an offer, and prepare you for later interviews.

Some companies (like Facebook) may allow you to choose which team you join - find that out in advance, or know which team you will be joining when you are interviewing.

Even if you don't immediately get to work on the team which does the Big Data work, most good companies will allow you to move around once you have proven your skills and fit, especially if you show a strong interest, speak to the right people, and contribute.
I would, but it looks like I missed the edit window. Sorry
I think the Open Accessory was the most significant announcement of Google IO this year. It'll be interesting to see what kind of stuff comes out of it.
Not for me... i signed in and then it said "Google+ is in limited Field Trial" i think you just lucked out. Can yo send me an invite?
You could make an exception for .jpg and .png and only hash the part to the left of the dot otherwise hash the whole thing!
Larger exposure for the inevitable tour that, if GP is accurate, doesn't make money.

Why people don't go the route of Jonathan Coulton or Pomplamoose, and just scratch it out on their own talents, is beyond me. Hell, I think even those "hide your kids, hide your wife" news parody musicians apparently make more money than major label star. The math just doesn't seem to be adding up anywhere being on a label, is what I'm trying to say.

I guess you have to be a blindingly white-hot ultra-mega-super-duperstar to make a penny from labels and touring, and everyone else should just pack it in or go indie?

Seems like it sucks worse to be a musician than to be a struggling actor or indie mobile app developer.
As a professional musician, I can corroborate this, but I can also say that this is why most musicians have day jobs. We go into the business knowing that it will never pay our bills, and usually involves investments which will never pay themselves back. (Orchestral and studio musicians are the exception, but those jobs are few and far between and reserved for the best of the best.)

Being signed, though, indentures you to a label. If I'm going to be playing music for love, and not for money, than I'm certainly not gonna put on shackles and let somebody else make money off of my music.
This is the story of how I tried to start my own start up on nights and weekends and couldn't handle the balance. I may have lost the love of my life, and it's forced me to examine what I really want to do with my life, and how everyone needs to do what they love. I'm submitting this in the hopes that others don't go through the same mistakes I did, and perhaps others could share how they've been able to find balance or the trials and tribulations you've been through to find happiness in life.
Very very nice. This has convinced me to use this technique for non-player characters in a game I am working on. I see you licensed the artwork from three artists. Did you have it especially drawn for you, or was it already released under some CC license?
It's from Salon, and claims to be a transcript of a speech, so I doubt they could have been easily deceived regarding its authorship.
>liberating electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon. Or you can concentrate the sun’s rays using mirrors

// Or you can concentrate the suns rays in organic material growing bio-diesel crops. Bit more lag but it's still essentially solar energy capture.
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Sounds like someone didn't read the guidelines for this. Raising the $185k is peanuts compared to what else you need. Over the 6+ months you have to prove to ICANN that you have the technical and financial ability to run a registrar which will be able to handle the number of customers you expect.

No group of donators will be able to do this without the support of a major company.
This is quite literally true; many organizations even refer to their employees as resources. But strangely, managers aren't PowerPoint resources.
Sure, email me who needs an invite, i will invite. email is in profile

[Update] - I found out that i was actually invited, but so far i was unable to use it. Except for now
Not that I'm saying laws are applied correctly.

But I sure am glad that the music industry CAN "bully" an industry far greater in the same way that I am glad that I can (if I had time and money) to do it because of the freedom of litigation.
A (humorous but) very engaging similar story: http://lifelessboring.com/less-boring-life-start-time/

Less facts, more stories, but another perspective on the 'be high status' concept.
If it works effectively, you wouldn't really need that many smartphones. A lot many countries go by with shared resources for many areas to get things done.

E.g. In villages in India or Africa etc., there might be one person with a computer and an internet connection who might offer his/her services as a co-operative for the residents of the village. The same way, one smartphone equipped with the relevant applications per district or a village can effectively tender assistance to all those in need from the surrounding areas.
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I can't tell if you're joking or seriously advocating a pure democracy. A pure democracy is nice in theory, but it's effectively mob/majority rule. It is also a considerable burden to write, read, and vote on every piece of legislation. A representative democracy mitigates those issues by appointing a single person to represent the wishes of his or her constituents. This also slows down the progress of democracy by forcing voters to wait until they can elect a new representative. But is that a bad thing? The waiting is effectively what prevents the mob rule syndrome.

Then again, it would be difficult to bribe >50% of the population to pass a bill.
one of the commenters: "the question seems to lead to the idea that traveling faster than the speed of light == traveling backwards in time"

It's just a point of language, but that's silly. Seeing a video of France is very different from traveling to France, so one would imagine that seeing the past would not be described as "traveling" backwards in time.

edit: although, you may think about going faster than the speed of light as traveling backwards in time because of the "effects" of time dilation when your speed is > c
"downside of death?"

She probably risked her life more by driving to the Starbucks than she did confronting the thief in a busy public location in one of the safest cities in the world. Turn off your TV and get outside.
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"I would say their economy is maturing with domestic consumption becoming a dominant portion."

You've got it completely wrong.

Consumption in China has been rapidly decreasing with respect to GDP. Their consumption was some 55% of GDP in the 90's. Then it came down to 46% around 2000 and now it stands at 34%. [[1]] All the efforts that China made to increase consumption didn't materialise. The fast growing Chinese GDP is only giving an illusion that Chinese people are massively consuming. But that's not true.

On the other hand, the percentage of fixed-investment (roads, bridges etc.) to GDP has been steadily increasing in China. If Jim Chanos is to be believed, the fixed-investment now stands at a whopping 70% of GDP. [[2]] This seems to be the actual lifeline of Chinese economy.

So in order to maintain the GDP growth, China has been recklessly building roads, bridges etc. fuelled by local government debts. [[3]] This has been creating massive bad-loans, over-investments and bubbles. China is building not 'because of' its economy. It is building 'for the sake of' its economy. This won't see a happy ending.

[[1]] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/consumers-fade-in-c...

[[2]] http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/jim-Chanos-Soft-Landing/...

[[3]] http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/features/why-china39s-local...
Read about a similar service yesterday - loosecubes.com. Not sure if they have meeting spaces or not, but TechCrunch called them the Airbnb for workspaces and they are in Amsterdam. Might be worth checking out.
Thank you (and all other commenters) kindly. I purchased the book.
Ah yes. It's been a while! Thanks.
I agree with you that the title of this post is click bait, however, this statement:

" Frustration is an expression of emotion and has no place in a bug report."

Again, you're right, and again, you're wrong. Now we need moderators and rules and timeouts and bannination and more rules on how what as developers expect from bug reports?

It's hard enough for users to make bug reports.

What I want from bug reports is accuracy, precision, specification, and oh my god, a reproducible test case.

If after registering for a bug account, after taking the time to create a reproducible test case, after taking the time to enter that in my reporting system, if they want to call me a simian -- I'm okay with that.
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EA and Activision, with their single title console releases of over $500 million would beg to differ.

Zynga may be making money by the bucketload, but Zinga is the exception (and very heavily dependent on Facebook; there's plenty of horror stories around about how this kind of dependency can bite you in the end). Most other developers of casual games are not so lucky (with an average of $3,800 per title). Not exactly blockbuster hits, let alone a "majority" of anything.
Yes, but it's the kind I can appreciate. Instead of a 'hey connect with facebook and then go through my signup process as well' he's using FBConnect as the authentication backend.
At the risk of incurring much wrath, I have known a teacher (a friend) who did not work very hard 9 months out of the year, and then didn't work at all the other three months. I also have a friend, a teacher, who spends significant time not merely grading papers, but improving her curricula, knowledge, and teaching skills. She does so 9 months out of the year. I am not trying to belittle the work that teachers do, but there is a significant amount of time that many teachers are not working. I would assume that is a significant reason for the dot's location on the graph.
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Two thoughts:

1. They should've reduced the reward over time. If the effort had been successful, there would've been fewer snakes, and less need to get the snake population under control. This makes economic sense event without considering this effect. If there's a million snakes, you really need someone to do something about it. If there's only 10k, who cares?

2. This is why it's important to focus on the actual goal. The goal was not to kill snakes. The goal was to have fewer snakes. Killing snakes was just a means to an end. Actually, the goal wasn't even fewer snakes, it was to reduce the risk of dying from a snake bite. A successful anti-venom would've been just as much a solution as the eradication of the snakes. Of course it's a lot harder to measure, "Are you doing something which is likely to reduce the risk of me dying from a snake bite?" than "Did you kill a snake?"
What would be even more totally cool is if every hacker space (and every space indeed in the future) had a pool of telepresence bots ready for you to check out, and you ftp your personality into one of these bots for the duration.

zipbots?
Innovation is not something China has a lot of, you've been reading the party papers too long.

China is controlled by the most Machiavellian politians, not technocrats.
After apple released a non-att option, I have lost all my ooph for JBing devices

Did they ever fix the "JBing horks up your notifications part of the time" issue?