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Many thanks for the explanation. You sound like a teacher; I feel like I've really learned something this morning.

Quick question: is there an issue with resistance when it comes to vaccinations? I understand the problem with creating better combative medicines is working out how to attack the critters before they produce resistance. Either way, it sounds like a profound breakthrough for affected countries.
I couldn't disagree more. I think the visual execution is great, and really cohesive with the rest of Google's re-design. I also prefer the black/dark themes. I imagine it has the functional benefit of using less power on OLED screens, as well.

But the visual stuff is almost beside the point. I've been an Android user for a couple of years now, and the sense I always got was that the OS was very engineer-driven, with plenty of interesting features piled on, but no real sense of user experience. Duarte is clearly bringing a lot of focus on UX, by optimizing real usage patterns, making them fast and delightful.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised at where Android is going.
Outstanding UI design. This is enticing me to learn Ruby at last. Thanks!
Picture a dirty trailer home, behind on rent, no job, fast food for every meal and a rented 52-inch rear-projection TV that is on all. the. time.

That is absolutely appalling. Rear-projection? It's 2011, get an LCD already!
The people who are most upset about the single founder rule are the people who were rejected by YC because they couldn't find a co-founder.
For Python, both the #pypy and #pocoo channels on freenode have good discussions.
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> The chance of getting the disease is also low, probably not substantially more than getting injured in an automobile crash.

Worldwide it was estimated in 2004 that 1.2 million people were killed and 50 million more were injured in motor vehicle collisions.[1]

It is estimated that malaria causes 250 million cases of fever and approximately one million deaths annually. [2]

If we focus on the 800 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa where 90% of malaria cases occur, a rough estimate would be:

If we assume that Africa's traffic accident rate is the same as the world rate (it's not - I see that it's higher when I examine a few countries in this table[3]), it would be 141,000 deaths from traffic accidents and more than 5.9 million injuries from traffic accidents. The world death rate from traffic accidents is 20.8. I'll arbitrarily pick Zimbabwe's 27.5 to be representative of the region so the numbers should be 32% higher. That would be 186,000 deaths and more than 7.8 million injuries.

Taking 90% of the world malaria numbers, there are 900,000 deaths and 30 million cases of fever from malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa.

So if you're one of the 800 million people in that region, you're 4.8 times more likely to die from malaria than a traffic accident and 3.8 times more likely to get a fever from malaria than be injured in a traffic accident.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision#Epidemiology

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Epidemiology

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
"China accounted for 16 percent of fourth-quarter sales, or about $4.5 billion, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on a conference call yesterday. Quarterly sales in China were up almost four times the year-ago level, he said."

This is staggering. From http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/18/china_sees_ama... :

"In China, revenue rose from 2 percent in 2009 to 12 percent this year and 16 percent this quarter, thus making China “the fastest growing region by far.” Total revenue for China amounted to $15 billion for fiscal year 2011 compared to $3 billion in the previous year."

That is just insane growth. At this rate, China could account for 1/3 of Apple's revenue in a couple years.
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Just "ip" works as well.
Regarding cultures with high child mortality and the effects of vaccine: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...
If these cultures can focus on development instead of battling sickness the surprising fact is that the earth population actually will stop growing...
Go is mind-stretching in its practicality and pragmatism.

Most (but not all) its ideas have been implemented before elsewhere (but then, that is almost bound to be true of any new language).

But the real 'innovation' is in the careful selection of those ideas and in how well they work together _in practice_.

This puts off people who are used to this or that feature in other languages, Go is not about checklists of features or abstract arguments about how languages should be, it is about what works really well when you sit down to write (or read) code.
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Haskell does not support unboundedly highly kinded types (or whatever it is called).

There is no direct way in base Haskell to declare all of 1- to 10-tuples with a single type declaration in a map or loop, for example. Template Haskell can do this, though.
This isn't about hardware, it's about software. Confused?
I hope it is a great help! Checked out your site, too (I love coffee but am not much of a flyer). Maybe I can offer you some copy optimization tips in an upcoming [video] optimization session, to be posted on my blog. Free, of course. I'd be happy to.
Up next: What ports do I have open?
For months... what? This is what it shows me, here in my studio apartment in London:

http://i.imgur.com/uXBJk.jpg

Edit: I knew that IP looked familiar - this is likely because of the Modify Headers Firefox add-on. Oh well, still broken.
For breakfast, totally can be! I've met folks that don't drink alcohol or caffeine, so I suggested milk. Would you prefer tomato juice? :)
Great point, I'd also add emotional support in the darkest hours.
No. It was, once, until I realized that I could have my startup or my sanity, and I chose my sanity. (And then my life became my work once again once I got put on an important project at my employer, go figure, but again I figured that I could choose my smarts or my sanity, and again I decided to go for sanity.)

Ironically, I've found I became more effective once I let go a little bit and gave myself permission to be lazy once in a while. My startup failed despite my best efforts, and I struggled for almost 2 years after getting a job to get promoted. And then once I said "fuck it", the promotion came within 4 months, I started becoming respected within the organization and known as the "go-to" guy for projects, people started listening to my ideas, and I became a whole lot happier inside and outside of work.

I suspect that what's going on is that that hyper-focus causes you to ignore the world around you and miss opportunities. I wrote a helluva lot of code in that time period, but most of it was solving the wrong problems. Once I took a step back and said "Okay. Enough code. I'll start paying attention to people instead", I got a much better sense of what they actually want. I write a lot less - and a lot of the time, I just get someone else to write it for me ;-) - but what I do write generally makes someone happy.
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This is really awesome, and helps bootstrapping blogs for startups. What I would personally pay for is: the same functionality, but in the end, give me an option to export as a Wordpress/Tumblr/Posterous/Blogger theme. That would be kick-ass.
Yeah, but why would you want to implement Joy[1] when Factor[2] exists?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
[2]http://factorcode.org/
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What concessions (if any) did Apple make, especially with respect to cloud-based services?
Maybe if pg responds here, someone will write a story about it too.
Someone posted a similar comment on my blog, too. I hadn't realized that "copy" was such an unknown term that it would require defining or otherwise explaining. That's my bad!

I don't think it's because I'm too close to copywriting (my sisters and brothers constantly remind me that they have no idea what I do) but because I assume people in this particular community will know about "copy" just as they know about "interaction design" and "UI" --- and other terms my siblings don't know.

Or maybe it's because I watch too much Mad Men and assume everyone else does, too. ;) (In which case you'd know that Donald Draper and Peggy Olsen are both [albeit fictional] copywriters.)
Great, this saves me that agonizing click on whatismyip.com.
Well, until it gets so cheap there's no way to know whose glasses or jacket contains a gun capable of shooting you dead on the street. This sort of thing is like the tide coming in: legislation against it can only ultimately be effective by severe restriction on allowed technologies for the people of the country.

Substitute whatever anti-social mechanism you prefer.

The drone wars are coming: pilotless aircraft, possibly autonomous, from the size of a small car to the size of a gnat, with intel or lethal payloads.

Bioweapons or nukes. We've had suitcase nukes for a few decades, fortunately they haven't been used. Suitcase-sized conventional explosives are rather frequently deployed in some parts. Weaponized chemicals or biological agents are another option.

It's trivially possible to adulter drugs or drinks. Some of the oldest laws on the books deal with food and alcohol purity.

Having the technical capability to do something doesn't mean it must needs be accepted. Legal sanctions may be swimming upstream at times, but other norms (social, cultural, religions. technological) generally help keep us from tearing one another to pieces, most of the time.
Let me add to the OMeta love. I did my PhD using OMeta/JS, and I'm using it now in my startup. I find it's a perfect companion to CoffeeScript, both of them compiling to JavaScript as they do.
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Feature creep.
For the record, I read "There is a reason Honeycomb adoption is abysmal" as relating to users' adoption of Honeycomb (which seems necessarily linked to adoption of tablets, IMHO much more so than to the amount and quality of third party software available) rather than Android application developers' adoption of Honeycomb APIs (which I'm now thinking might have been your intended meaning, and which obviates my entire post).
I was actually surprised to see no mention of Bill Gates or his foundation.
You're going to feel awfully silly when this thing gets reviewed and it's Pentile. If it was RGB, Samsung would have said so by now. It was the whole reason they put the "+" in their last screen iteration. Notice how this one has no "+"? Every AMOLED screen is Pentile unless you hear the magic word: RGB.
A true REST purist would say that you shouldn't put versioning in the URL. Use different Content-Types for different versions of the API, and use Accept headers to indicate the version the client is using.
This is exactly what ActionBarSherlock[0] does.

[0]: http://actionbarsherlock.com/
Asking for the address for digital downloads is about your only defence against PayPal's chargeback frenzy. Anyone who has sold digital downloads knows how PayPal randomly returns money to customers (and let's them keep the product) because "something triggered a response" in their system.

With physical goods, the seller is paid by default (when the seller responds). With intangible goods, nothing the seller says can get the chargeback reversed. You only get the money if the buyer responds, which they rarely do because they are about to get a full refund and free product. PayPal's only recommendation is to capture the address (and send a free CD). I found that just capturing the address made the problem mostly go away. And with the couple of chargebacks, when I responded with the address, I was paid.
1) Not really; see this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128316 .

2) A lot of people still aren't buying smart phones because they're really expensive. It looks like U.S. smartphone penetration in general is around 50%: http://www.google.com/search?q=smart+phone+penetration+unite... , and most of them don't have cameras nearly this good and won't for a while. People who can afford a $50 – $200 pocket camera might not want to pay more than $100 a month for a smartphone data plan.

3) That being said, the smart money is definitely on the low-end pocket camera going away over time.

4) High-end cameras, even pocket ones (think the Canon S95 or S100 class) are going to be around for a long time. Ditto dSLRs. Until the laws of physics get violated, dSLRs are going to take vastly better pictures than camera phones. Which doesn't matter to most people but does to a substantial minority.
I am under the impression that iOS works the same way in that it closes off apps it doesn't need. The only difference is that it enforces a stronger save state feature. Is this not correct?
Read James Fallows "Hacked" article in The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/8...

Though the hacker who attacked his wife's account deleted all mail, Google were able to restore the messages -- first the current year's mails, and eventually the full history of the account.

This implies that, though deleted, the data persisted on Google's systems. This is actually a really good system design (most data destruction is accidental deletion by a user, not hacking, and a robust recovery system is a feature). It does raise certain troubling questions, and it would behoove Google (and any other SAAS service provider) to establish a clear policy as to what the grace period during which deleted data may be recovered is.

I've had my own experience where, shall we say, legal obligations made it expedient to remove certain content from our systems. Use of a CDN and extensive caching means that there's no longer a single point of existence for any given piece of data, and explicitly flushing large volumes of content from our systems was, if not horrendously complex at least non-trivial.
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Note, I didn't mod you down, but it was probably just the naked politics of it.
There is no such thing as 'common sense'. Everyone learnt what they know. Genetics alone gives you a series of reflexes, some body changes and a few basic urges. Everything else was learnt somewhere, somehow and at some time. The only 'common' part is where you learn something or experience something in much the same way as someone else. We do not all share the same collective experiences.
Non-geeks don't call it lag. They call it "I wish I had an iPhone but the salesman at Verizon talked me into this thing because the commission is so much higher." Just because you don't know the industry term doesn't mean the problem doesn't bother you.
And thus one line of code kills a dozen websites.
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My site (http://dan.cx/) uses MooTools and it seemed to work fine with Blogic. So it might not be MooTools.
An alternative solution: if you're willing to allow non-ASCII characters into your source code, then DrRacket provides a keyboard shortcut to insert a λ character. I'll illustrate with anonymous recursion.

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Your boss has called his users "dumb fucks", doesn't delete data about them that he says he does and is tracking all their website visits and more. Can you perhaps see past your big salary to how people are, in general, worried? Given the number of lies already told and weird stuff already done why shouldn't people believe new rumours? Watch the video report he was emailed, by your company, huge amounts of data. Much of that data was supposed to be deleted.
Yep, I am, and it's somewhat disturbing. But I suppose it's a bit catchier than "European Union's Privacy Regulations vs Facebook".
Why is this not a 'just don't use the service if you don't
like it' deal?

Because people are ignorant/lazy/desperate and need to be protected against themselves. That's one of the things we want our governments to do: to protect us when we overlook something in the complex reality of our daily lives, without caring for why we overlooked it.

You can't sell yourself into slavery, you can't sell an organ and you can't sell the right to your private information without retaining the right to have that information disclosed to you. If you want to do business in the EU, be prepared to disclose any piece of data you have on a user, if he requests you to do so.
"Samsung can't get high enough pixel density with AMOLED" was what I was arguing with. The pixel density is very high. They weren't "forced to just keep making the screens bigger" as you claimed.
Although they could -- and should -- write a story about the unsung hero of Dropbox.
Above and beyond that, any non-trivial web architecture is going to involve multiple tiers of data and caching.

A given text object will exist in the primary database, in its replicas or clusters, and in backups. If the outfit is at all legitimate, multiple backups representing frequent points in time, stored in multiple locations.

A binary object (say an image, video, or audio file) may exist in its originally uploaded format, several variants of different size, resolution, sampling rate, etc., and is often served through some sort of a content distribution network (CDN), which will have its own content management interface. Some of these are surprisingly primitive -- web-based forms in which a few score objects might be entered at a time, if you're lucky. Even script-driven purge methods are frequently limited as to the number of objects which can be included in a single request, and the number of outstanding requests which may be pending.

Given the large numbers of individual objects, scaling variations, redundancy, etc., deletion overhead can easily scale to tens to hundreds of millions of objects in a relatively short period of time (days to weeks). Dealing with all of this is fairly non-trivial. Especially if the site architecture didn't take these needs into consideration.
Duck Duck Go does this.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip
If it's not necessary to be human visable/readble, you could also embed RFID tags in walls / the street.
No, you're not the customer.

You're the product.

What's particularly entertaining is how many people get annoyed at being reminded of this fact.

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Dropbox took in $250 million cash for 6% of the company. Heroku took in $240 million cash for 100%.
Go read some WWII history.

Particularly those parts in which certain large information business organizations were subject to hostile takeovers, rendering prior understandings of data acquisition and use obsolete.

I'm thinking in particular of, say, the German Bundesrepublic and Vichy France. Though you might argue that the former was sanctioned by democratic processes, I suspect even you would be hard pressed to say the same of the latter.

If nothing else, it'll keep you off HN for a few hours, which would be a net benefit for the rest of us. With a low p-value, you might actually accumulate a few drams of wisdom.
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In NYC, the MTA has opened up an API to their turnstile data:

http://www.mta.info/developers/turnstile.html

They even put ads for their data API in the subway.
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http://jsonip.com/ is good too, but http://whatismyip.org is even better because you can just select all and copy right away.
Another issue with altitude is Ebullism. It's not so much a problem for mountaineers, but more for balloonists, pilots, etc. As the boiling point of bodily fluids reaches our normal body temperature, our bodily fluids form bubbles and turn to gas. I think at 19,000m, without a pressurised suit, the two temperatures meet.

I wonder what effect this has on mountaineers at say 8,000m. The boiling point of water is still about 70C at those altitudes, but maybe there's some onset problem.
The German word for octopus is indeed "Kraken", and looking at the pictures in the article linked by the GP, I'd bet on the former, rather than the latter.
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That’s good to hear! I test any Android device I can get my fingers on but I have not yet had an opportunity to test the Galaxy S II. (The stores I was in never had a charged one.)
Oddly enough Drew and I talked about this question tonight on a panel at the Computer History Museum. It was a big risk to recruit someone as a cofounder that he didn't know before (and I've seen a lot of cases where it didn't work out) but in this case the risk was mitigated by how much they had in common.

One thing they had in common was Kyle Vogt of Justin.tv, who introduced them. So in retrospect the YC alumni network was having a big effect even back then.
You don't even need to do it in a question form, just a search for 'ip' works

http://www.google.com/search?q=ip
Galaxy Nexus looks huge. Is such a large screen so important for a phone? It's still too small to be usable for most productive tasks.