skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“As always, the children who are most at risk are exactly
the very many children in our society who have the fewest
resources,” Alison Gopnik, a psychologist at the
University of California, said in an e-mail.

Indeed. And such "at-risk" children often inherit genes predisposing them to exactly the kinds of issues the studies uncover (and blame on watching too much TV). The problem is that most of these studies don't control for genes; there's no way to tell if TV-watching is the source of the problems or if it's the genes of the parents who let their babies watch lots of TV. Until the studies are re-done while controlling for genes, the conclusions (and the corresponding recommendations) are useless.

Parents who read a lot to their children have children who grow up to be more verbal. But parents who read a lot to their children also tend to pass on genes for verbal fluency. Studies that adequately control for genes show that reading to children does virtually nothing for their verbal ability—it's all in the genes, and in random events over which the parents have no control. See http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_chalks_it_up_to_the_b... and http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/01... for more.
I'm a senior in college as well and I just happened to come from a career fair today. Based on my experience, companies may ask you conceptual questions regarding what is listed on your resume. If you're interested in Amazon, they tend to give you a small coding question to be solved on paper.
There is. As there is with most of the "4S vs 5DMkII" comparisons.

For example, the 4S photos are highly saturated (known to be a trait of the iPhone) and sharpened (whereas the S95 and 5D shots do not appear to have had any sharpening). In the first set of photos, the iPhone shots have a completely different DOF to that of the two cameras (and not even shot from the same position).

The "4S versus 5DMkII" video comparison going around conveniently ignores the little footnote in the accompanying description where the tester states that he "adjusted the 5D settings down to match the 4S options available", i.e. "4S video matches highly handicapped 5D video"...

No doubt, the 4S has impressive still and video functionality, but you're looking at a couple of lenspieces smaller than a penny versus 12+ pieces of glass in an L lens...
I had, but that's not the situation I had in mind. You can only use ptrace on a child process. You can't use ptrace to attach to, say, another user's process.
His interview last year was anything but stodgy as well, with the movie "The Social Network" out and so much growth happening at Facebook. It will be interesting to see what he talks about this year - perhaps privacy issue in Europe?

The other repeats I see (Ron Conway and, of course, the person I'm replying to) will have no problem coming up with things to talk about, given their position in the startup ecosystem. In fact, I felt that the combination of subject matter and the speaker's experience with it outweighed some rough edges in delivery for all the speakers last year.
I saw this article and I thought: less people who die = more people on the planet.

Isn't overpopulation the biggest challenge we are facing right now?

Who is working on this problem?

(if someone I care about was ill from Malaria, I would be happy to be able to cure that person, but my belief about overpopulation remains)
I see a lot of differences in hue/saturation between the S95/5D and the iPhone 4/4S. Reds are redder, blues are bluer. Over saturated images can definitely be pleasing, but typically are not natural.

If the S95 was set to "Vivid" in the color settings, I think the result would be very similar to the iPhone 4/4S.

The other interesting thing...

According to the EXIF, the iPhone was shot with an ISO of 60. The S95 EXIF reports 20,480. That sounds strange to me... And possibly purposefully misleading.
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Really nice. Can anyone comment on the architecture/stack used to create this, esp. with regard to the front end?
This is probably the longest article I've ever read on the internet - fantastic introduction for me, a person who knows very little about trojans except that the Greeks made a big one years ago.
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Precisely.

For the most part they stripped away the complexity of computers and made the internet a consumer-level technology.
Actually, areas with higher life expectancies generally have much, much lower birth rates, in part because you don't have to worry about having half your kids die off.

Japan has actually been paying couples to have kids to stave off population decline.
Overpopulation isn't a problem really. Projections show that the fertility rate is slowing down. See http://www.economist.com/node/14743589
People have lots of children when the risk of any given child dying is high. Lower mortality => lower birthrate.
And I'm arguing that's still one concern among many when it comes to a language used in so many different places. The arguments here are, I think, unsympathetic to the difficulties of designing and maintaing a general purpose programming language, in particular one with the design goals of Python.
Now we just need there to be a vaccine scare in africa so that malaria mutates and the vaccine is ineffective again
Please go over the superficial outrage feeling. I know that it is more popular to celebrate saving lives but I still would like to discuss this question:

Is there anyone working on the overpopulation problem? This problem is the root to many other symptoms.

I am not speaking about terrorism or single child policy that didn't seem to work well in China. Is there any other suggestions out there?
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Isn't global warming a consequence of overpopulation?
Aren't ecology problems caused by the increasing needs for resources?
This isn't a bunch of schoolchildren inventing new words or some literary movement to change the spelling of a class of words. This is one mistake by a dude who wrote something years ago that now everyone has to duplicate. It is a terrible example of "living language".
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Even though Europe's population will decrease, many developing countries will grow quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation
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It looks like Google has really improved the overall look and feel of the UI. It feels equal parts, Android, iPhone, and Metro.

But.

Does the fact they're moving from hardware buttons -> software buttons mean that current handsets are left out of the upgrade process? If so - I think it's a huge mistake. They didn't seem to cover it in the meeting... hopefully current Android owners won't be completely left out of the upgrade...
I hope that the discovery of vaccines like this increase in frequency over time. I'm not sure if that IS the case, but I'd really like it to be so that one day soon AIDS and Cancer are as benign as Polio.
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I'm also getting push-install of ICS updates such as Music right now. Version 4.0 of Android looks impressive so far - a lot of UI and admin improvements I had wanted for a long while.
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Hm. This comment reads like something straight out of an SF novel and yet I can't shake the feeling that it is just around the corner. Interesting times indeed. Thank you for opening my eyes a bit further. Gargoyles seemed like a fun thing when Neal Stephenson wrote about it and Steve Mann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann) was experimenting in that direction.

I never expected it to possibly hit the mainstream this quickly though, and especially not with some of the possibilities that you are hinting at.
Whatever language the person who's going to be doing the most coding is most comfortable with.

If there's no consensus there, then make a decision based on the strength of your framework's community, quality of your framework's documentation, and the availability of good libraries for what you anticipate doing.
The full details: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html
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See PT_ATTACH, and wouldn't both Finder and Dropbox be running as the user?
>The problem which many have mentioned here and elsewhere is that while Japan is unrivalled in craftsmanship ("monozukuri") -- making physical things -- exactly the opposite is true when it comes to "unphysical" things like software.

This is something I do not understand. Why is there a cultural aversion to creating beautiful software? As an example, Honda has some of the most beautifully designed interiors in the automotive world. Simple, elegant, functional, with quality materials. The design is often very Apple-like (at least relative to other manufacturers, though they are improving). I would think that the culture that gave us wonderful interaction with a vehicle would be able to provide a similar sort of experience with a phone. What's bizarre is that most pre-iPhone Japanese phones have the UX of a mid-90s Buick: lots of buttons, nothing really arranged properly.

To me it's just strange that they were unable to produce it, but I am not surprised at all that the iPhone is so popular. I feel like the iPhone should have come out of Japan, but didn't.
Looks cool, but are there any real central docs to look through (aside from that README)?
Plenty of people working on projects far less interesting and far, far, far less worthwhile than this for 24 years.
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Disclaimer, jack works with me at Facebook, so he's going to be biased (as will I). However, it is true that there appears to be a circular dependency between speculation and outrage here, and that probably isn't the greatest thing in the world. All I can do is tell you to keep looking for evidence (seriously, keep us honest), and we will earn your trust again some day.
I'm seeing the same thing but I assume this is because the site is getting a ton of traffic right now.
I can't believe how much stuff they managed to change and add in this version. It's like Android starting over and being made for the year 2011 and beyond.

I'm also really excited about that camera. Instant photo capturing, and the video recording looked incredible. Hopefully it works as well as advertised, too, when launched.
I, for one, believe they will.
Interesting point. You are saying that they make babies because they think they have a higher probability to lose them? I think it is too rational.

I would have thought other factors like lack of contraception and education would be more correlated.
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Indeed. I know it from bicycle racing.
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I am not a gadget guy. Having lived in Silicon Valley for 15 years, I've always had the laptop that was state of the art two years ago. Mobile phones never mattered. But I gotta say that what Google is doing with Android is positively exciting (sure, there are issues, but they're pushing the boundary forward so quickly that the issues fall away in the rear view mirror). I had an iPhone 3GS and now have a Galaxy I phone, and I'm dying to upgrade to the Galaxy Nexus.

Oh crap. I may be a fan boy. And I may be a gadget guy... Stupid technology and its awesomeness.... <insert Homer Simpson drool sound>
I tested this out for you. It just stops at 00:00:00 and nothing happens at all!
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Doubt it. There's no reason why hardware buttons that do the exact same thing as onscreen ones wouldn't work.
> I'm not sure Go belongs on the list

The parameters of the list were simply: new language, last 5 years, interesting. Go fits like a glove.
Documentation for simplejson mentions that it should be faster. Though it contains reference to Python 2.5, 2.6 so It is unclear whether the claim is outdated:

It is the externally maintained version of the json library contained in Python 2.6, but maintains compatibility with Python 2.5 and (currently) has significant performance advantages, even without using the optional C extension for speedups. </quote> http://simplejson.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

I see there are performance patches to stdlib's json since 2.6: http://hg.python.org/cpython/search/?rev=_json.c&revcoun...

An order of magnitude difference might be an issue with your python installation.

On my machine version from 2.6 (1.9) is 15 times slower than from 2.7 (2.0.9). Though simplejson (2.2.1) is still faster on both 40 and 2 times correspondingly for .loads() timeline.js from the example as measured by:

% timeit json.loads(timeline_text)

it seems that C speedups available on both versions:

python -v -c'import json' 2>&1 | grep _json.so
python -c'import json.decoder as d; print d.scanstring'

Is your python version old? Otherwise it is worth to open issues at http://bugs.python.org to merge speed improvements and at https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/issues to mention in the docs and on http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson more clearly that Python 2.7+ stdlib's version is also slower.
K-pop is really crushing it in Europe right now -- and as for Japan the rising start to look at is the amazing Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: http://youtu.be/yzC4hFK5P3g
No, it's getting information some random website can access by offering you a picture of a lollipop. Stranger danger?
No one is working on this problem because there is no problem. In fact many parts of the world have the opposite problem: Not enough young people.
Can you summarise the interesting points rather than sending us all off to read a whole book to find out how advertising has changed over the past few decades?
They optimized the focus for taking pictures of groups of people and landmarks, most likely, and neither of those tend to sit inches from the lens.
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This is a brilliant way to promote their app (cam plus) - a great blog post that adds value, and indirectly is used to promote their app while drawing traffic to their site.

I should use that idea with promoting my apps!
Malaria causes anemia, which causes lethargy and low energy. But it doesn't kill many people, it just weakens them.

That in turn causes people to be less productive, which in turn means they have less surplus available for things like education.

This causes areas with malaria to forever be stuck in a primitive state of development. Cure malaria and things may change a lot.
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Be interesting to see how quickly ICS is adapted by the public at large. I mean it'll be interesting to see how quickly Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices are upgraded to Android 4.0.
UI design by engineers. It's been a problem for most (but not all) Japanese hardware products I've owned, including every single device with a lens or screen attached.
Also the rather neat Information Leakage from Optical Emanations[1], which demonstrated the ability to read data from networking equipment based on the state of the Rx/Tx LEDs on the front panel. In a lot of cases, the LEDs were being updated for individual bits sent and received.

I can't remember where I came across it, but there was a vendor with an advisory of something like "Mitigation Strategy: Cover Indicator LEDs with light-insulating tape".

Edit: Just remembered about the demo of an attack against signals radiated by (non-wireless) keyboard leads, and their
detection and decoding: http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/

[1] http://applied-math.org/acm_optical_tempest.pdf (PDF, obviously)
I think it's that you're giving them access based on a picture of a lollipop, while having absolutely no idea who you're giving that access to. Never take candy from strangers.
They don't match though. Search = (search?), Menu = App Switcher?

I'm sure it won't block upgrades, but it's definitely at least a little bit awkward. I'm also wondering what apps will look like with the menu button--is there a 4th added onscreen? Then how does the hardware/software button mapping work?
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How much of your privacy are you willing to give up in return for a lollipop?
> they want to be the "Filesystem of the internet" - this is scary, I really hope they won't succeed.

Why? Are you interpreting this differently from me?

I see them as wanting to provide universal storage for web & mobile applications, in a way that allows you to access your documents & photos across multiple devices and platforms.
If you try going to see some live theatre in person, I think you'll understand the difference between it and television.
Plus there's the issue of time: If you have 100+million to throw at something and get it right now(in 6 months after due diligence), or spend the 100 mil on an in house project, wait 3 years, and get it then...which would you take?

Personally, if I had that kind of money to throw around, I'd want it now, so I can start implementing my vision now.

Don't take the numbers here too literally, 3 years might only be 1 year. I highly doubt it'd be less than that, given Apple's size.
Have you looked at Japanese websites? Most of them have pretty terrible design/UI. It's the same thing.

My take on this is that you have to look more broadly to understand the tendency for cluttered design in Japanese interfaces. Walk around a small neighbourhood in Tokyo and you'll see how cluttered the layout is. On small "roji" (back alleyways), Japanese like to stack potted plants outside their front doors in a pretty disorganized arrangement. Streets are generally not straight, neighbourhoods rarely follow a grid layout.

(Shimokitazawa is probably the best example in Tokyo of this: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/04/japan-debating-the-... )

It's the same thing with cluttered interface design, except that whereas in urban layout it produces something amazingly complex, intricate and fascinating to explore, in UI design it just results in frustration and inefficiency. But I'm convinced the two come from the same source, and that you can't entirely separate them.

The beautifully designed interiors you mention come from a completely different place (mentally, not physically). I don't quite know how to reconcile the fact that the two come from the same country/culture, but I do believe they have both been here for a long long time. It's just that software somehow tends to bring out the former, whereas monozukuri brings out the latter.
There are very few companies whose idea I initially thought was useless that have ended up going big - twitter is one of the only ones on that side of the spectrum. Sure, they may have some issues that need to be overcome, but for the most part, the ones that have gone big have a very obvious core appeal. If everyone thinks it's useless despite understanding the crux of the idea, I think that's a really, really good sign that you need to go back to the drawing board.
The search button would just send the search intent, so it depends on the app. The menu button I'm not sure about.
No, the other half is getting people to use the product. It's easier if you can make it seamless and bake it in rather than a third party solution. They probably wanted to own the solution to leverage any trust they have with their customers.

It's the same thing that happened with backups, they came up with Time Machine. Pretty much all the Mac users I know have a Time Machine backup.

I believe the same thing will happen with version control once Versions support is wide spread. Normal people will know about keeping versions of their work rather than multiple differently named files.
The top result when I google 'gingerbread' is the android SDK.

This headline is funny, and a little stupid. I wish more stuff was just version numbers and not codenames. /endgripe
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"Not enough young" is only a problem because of the number of "Older people".

The aging of the population is a different issue to the overpopulation issue. You could get 100% young population and still have a overpopulation problem.
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Google really needs to provide an action bar implementation in the compatibility package (for 2.3 and lower) if they want developers to port apps over to ICS.
It depends. In countries with a lack of social security and pensions people tend to look on their children as providers.

If infant mortality is high then they will likely decide to have many children to make their bet more safe. If they have girls and the local custom centers around having sons then that too might work as a reason to get more children, and the reverse will be true in places where large dowries are paid for daughters.

Having many children is also seen as a sign of affluence or blessing.

Lack of education and contraception are factors in the developed world too, people that have lower levels of education tend to have their first children at a younger age and tend to have more of them as well (both due to starting younger and due to not being able to accurately gauge the impact of having children on their lives).

I'm sorry you got downvoted, overpopulation (or simply the problem of how to match our numbers to the available resources without drastic measures or apocalyptic events) is a subject that requires one to face some harsh realities and ask some very tough questions.
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As someone who worked in the development world for a year, I can honestly say that if this vaccine pans out, it would be the biggest development in recent history and would change the livelihoods of so many individuals and families.

If this doesn't deserve a Nobel I'm not sure what does. Bravo Joe Cohen.
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Note the difference between "developing" and "developed".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
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Everyone working on raising people's living standards is working on the overpopulation problem.
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Is it my imagination or did the consistency they talked about involve the same swiping action doing completely different things throughout the OS & apps?
I haven't used PHP much compared to Python but here are my 2 cents:

- PHP seems to have more security problems, so you should probably avoid it if security is important for your app.

- PHP is simpler to deploy, which might be important if you want to distribute your code for deployment by other people (eg. CMS, blog engine...)
This could have adverse effects, similar to medication agains HIV/AIDS. People will get a vaccine and reduce their efforts of protection against Malaria by mosquito nets and other means. I hope that will not happen.