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Mailing contagious items: Not cool.

Local "pox party": I have no problem with it.

My ex caught chicken pox from our children around the time he turned 32. Chicken pox in adults is much more serious than in children. I finally dragged him to a doctor against his will after watching his fever go up 0.8 degrees a day every single day until it was over 104F. Above 105 is dangerous. It was on track to hit that mark within the next 24 hours. Years later, he swore it was never really that bad (ie his life was never really in danger). I suspect he partly just didn't remember how bad it was. He wasn't lucid for much of the time. He was left with much worse scars than the kids. He had fantasies he would stay home from work and play computer games, like the kids. For at least a week, he laid on the couch, unable to sit up for long. I had to leave meds in a covered candy dish to get any sleep. His hands were swollen and his palms had spots on them, so he couldn't open his medication bottles.
I mean, famously the popular press and internet provide a totally infallible account of information.

Here's the scoop. I did take undergraduate biology courses. I studied biochemistry to bachelors and masters degree level, and I can tell you for absolutely nothing that the "popular media's" interpretation of science is pretty frequently bordering irresponsible. The media is there to sell papers.

Your analysis of the need-case for an AIDS (and HPV) vaccine is ignorant and frankly offensive.
You seem to have a lot of topics without a lot of posts. May I suggest consolidating the topics until there is enough activity to justify the fine-grained classification? It might simultaneously improve focus and reduce maintenance workload.
Hi,

Photonic is a web based photo viewer for iOS and Android devices that provides the same photo viewing experience users are accustomed to when using native applications.

I've started this project because almost no web site (not even the photography-centric ones) offer close-to-native photo browsing. Most of them make you click the 'back' button or even open a new page for each image.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Cata
Would be nice to see a need a list of modules that are ready for 0.6. I rekon our moderately complex app we will be on 0.4.x for a while
9.99 per month ?!?! Good joke
I think a lot of the discussion (including the accepted answer) is missing the point: how, _in the presence of competition_, is the theater able to profitably price discriminate. The competitive assumption is supposed to imply that price should be driven to cost. Without competition, any business will price discriminate if they can.

As others have pointed out, probably price of popcorn is not a big factor when choosing theaters. People don't have it in mind, or don't expect to buy popcorn (but then are suckered by the butter smell). It may come down to whether people are responsive to popcorn price; showing times and proximity are probably bigger factors.

Even if people were responsive to popcorn price deltas of ~$2, perhaps theater owners know that none of them has a unique ability to compete on popcorn price. Theater X can cut their prices, but theater Y can always respond and match it. As long as the cut is being matched, the theater does not "steal" any customers, and is only shedding revenue.

Two theaters can compete all the way down to marginal cost; what, $1 for a bag of popcorn? Let's say theater X has even better popcorn technology: it can produce popcorn for $.90, $.10 cheaper than anyone else. Still, theater X is not incentivized to sell their popcorn cheaper, since it is doubtful theater-goers will choose a venue based on $.10 off popcorn.

So with a little foresight, perhaps theaters realize none of them would profit by competition on popcorn prices. That's the other answer being kicked around: collusion.
Dude, the trial is 60 days (fully functional) so at the very least its' not a hard decision to download and try it out. Or do I have to wrestle you ? ;)
It deserved to hit front page of HN. Great insight.
The exercise was 'wouldn't it be neat if there was a lisp-based facility for doing things like this awk one-liner, since it might get people into using lisp' not 'translate this awk into CL'. Your response is almost identical to the one parodied in the slide.
In the words of Douglas Crockford, Javascript is Lisp in C's Clothing. http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html
I'm completely fine with people admiring all three for their good. In fact, I do so. But I'm critical of one taking different stances just because of the people involved and not based on the merit of the discussion. You can see this contradiction occasionally in HN.

You just need to scroll down to the end of these comments to see people who worship Steve and hate Bill.

Also - for some reason, Firefox in Android does not show reply link for deeper comments.
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It's actually fine to compare an ensemble method (using weak base learners) to a single instance strong learner. In this way, you compare the benefits of combining the weak learners with the benefits of using a single classifier. I see where you're going with that, but comparing ensemble methods with a single classifier is often a useful measurement.
Except that if "rational actor" didn't describe humans at all people couldn't even manage to get to work in the morning. There are a large number of ways in which people aren't rational actors - we are loss averse, we overuse the availability heuristic, we're subject to anchoring effects, etc. However, if you look at the space of all possible ways someone could behave, we're not too far from being perfectly rational. If I'm in a store and I'm thirsty I'll buy a drink rather than some salt or a mop. If I want to get to my friend's house I probably won't try to get there by swimming except in really unusual circumstances.
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1) Consider getting an assessment for ADD / ADHD / etc.

2) Stop drinking caffeine for at least a week, see if that makes any difference.

3) Sort out sleep - do a web search for "Sleep Hygiene" and see if that helps. (Do you snore? Do you have sleep apnea? Get that checked, it can be dangerous. But if you don't, well, lack of sleep affects concentration.)

4) Learn a good note taking system. People seem to like the "Cornell notes" method. There are many templates around. This means you'll be concentrating on what's being spoken, and writing stuff down in a useful way, and not distracting yourself with other stuff.

4a) Take notes on paper, not on computer, unless you really need computer. Avoiding computers means you avoid solitaire / facebook status checking / HN / etc.
Any idea how to get reset? I'm sure I've voted on a few things for friends over the years. But I would hardly call it a voting ring.
With timezones, there's two pieces of information that one needs to be aware of: the given time, and the offset from your local time.

Without timezones, the only information needed is the given time. Each party knows their local context, so everyone just deals with the absolute times.

The latter is only problematic if you're “cold calling”, a situation which in reality would probably not be that big of an issue (you might know that your colleagues in LA are likely to be out for lunch at around 7500 beats just as you might know they're out around 12 local time which is N your time).

…

The swatch time is neat; I at some point also made a quick http://decimalti.me (the difference is that it's 0'd on UTC and it's divided into 100 000 units, rather than the 1000 beats).
Most of the features you list are available by default in Nautilus. For example, I can hit F3 to have dual panes in Nautilus, view FTP and network drives like normal directories, go into and view and move around stuff between archives and folders without extracting, preview a large array of file types, documents, and media quickly, and have bookmarked directories and files on the side to be quickly accessible.

Nautilus is pretty customizable with hotkeys, ways to interact with not only Git but other VCS-es through plugins or otherwise. I appreciate you introducing Directory Opus though, I'll definitely take it for a spin on my Windows boxes.
5) BrainGym is some bullshit nonsense but it's used quite a lot in UK schools. Even though it is nonsense you could try a few of the exercises, because i) short breaks do help and ii) placebo effect.
There was a suicide note emotion classification challenge:

http://computationalmedicine.org/home-0

Very noisy and sparse data. 25 teams. 22 system description papers. The winner used SVM ensamble.
Hi infocaptor,

I am offering a free 30 day listing, if you want to test it out. Like any site, we are just starting out - so obviously we don't have a pagerank etc. But hopefully, with support from customers like you, the ranks will come in near future.

Regarding fees, to be bluntly honest - it just takes too much of my time to be doing it for free (even the most subtle of tasks end up taking a good chunk of your day). Moreover, I do not want to offer any advertisement, nor do I want to clutter the site with any and every submissions. So, the only way towards any revenue is a small fee.

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My point was that there are so many more healthy cells vs infected cells except on rare instances that even it kills healthy cells too they are far larger in number. Just like what happens during radiation treatments or any number of other treatments.

Still it would likely be a staged treatment that wouldn't kill the entirety of infected cells in a single dosage. The benefit is that you could see if there were adverse reacts before continuing.
Yeah, the skittishness is my biggest critique of it.

I think adding a quarter of a second delay would be a good fix. If you move out of an element, go into another, you've got to remain in that one element for a quarter of a second before it changes. If you exit it before then, the timer is reset and you stay on the original element's details.

Also: if you're navigating by keyboard and on the orbitals tab, there's a bug when you're on Be. You can't hit the up arrow to go to Helium, despite it being visually placed above Beryllium. Nitpicky, I know.

Edited to add: not the creator, just offering some random impressions to the creator, if she/he's reading.
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I think this is like flight pricing. People don't typically think about luggage fees, meal cost, wifi charges, etc. They only look at the flight price and whether the flight time is convenient for them. This means airlines/theaters are free to charge a premium once you've purchased the main ticket.

Also, the numbers involved here are pretty low. I don't know many people who would drive across town for a theater with cheaper popcorn, even if such a theater existed.
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Oh yes, its not the page size I worry about, but whether the template already has some info that you don't want to share (OK, probably most interesting info is dynamic, but anyway)
What if that woman is unable to get a job because all the jobs are shipped overseas and cannot buy a new dress at all?

What is that corporation's worth to society that it is not generating any domestic income and only extracting dollars from a society?
> It appears to be common Hackernewserthink that "productivity" equals "the ability to write code as fast as possible". Beyond the first few weeks of coding, you'll spend much more time reading code and refactoring it.

And even more time thinking.

This is one of the reasons I never understood the obsession many people have with vim/emacs/whatever shortcuts and the like, for me they are distractions from what is really important: thinking about what code does and what it should do.

Fun fact: Ken Thompson doesn't touch-type, and a couple other amazing hackers I know are the same. I suspect this might even be a benefit as it encourages them even more to think before they type.
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It's called the hygiene hypothesis, not the vaccine hypothesis. Let's take a look:

>In medicine, the Hygiene Hypothesis states that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms (e.g., gut flora or probiotics)

Okay, so if you've had the chicken pox vaccine, your immune system has been exposed to infectious agents -- just inactivated ones! The kind that don't cause shingles. Vaccines do stimulate an immune response, after all.

The article you linked contains precisely one reference to vaccination.

>Th2 immune disorders such as asthma and other allergic diseases are probably related to the hygiene hypothesis. A baby has many Th2 cells, which stimulate the production of antibodies. When not sufficiently stimulated with early life diseases, the immune system will have too many Th2 cells present, leading to a greater risk of Th2 immune disorder. If a child is exposed to infection diseases then the cell defense will be stimulated via Th1 cells causing a reduction of Th2 cells and subsequently a reduction of antibody stimulation by Th2 and therefore a lower risk of developing an allergic disease such as asthma. Unfortunately, vaccination only uses the Th2 mechanism.

Interesting. I wonder if there's some data to back this up?

http://journals.lww.com/pidj/Abstract/2002/06000/Childhood_v...

>There is no association between diphtheria, tetanus and whole cell pertussis vaccine, oral polio vaccine or measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and the risk of asthma. The weak associations for Hib and hepatitis B vaccines seem to be at least partially accounted for by health care utilization or information bias.

This was a study with n > 100000. That's a good study. Apparently vaccines don't cause athsma.

On the other hand, there actually appears to be some hope that vaccines can fight athsma:

http://www.jimmunol.org/content/166/2/959.short

>Vaccination with Allergen-IL-18 Fusion DNA Protects Against, and Reverses Established, Airway Hyperreactivity in a Murine Asthma Model

http://www.jimmunol.org/content/167/7/3792.short

>Active vaccination against IL-5 reduces key pathological events associated with asthma, such as Th2 cytokine production, airways inflammation, and hyperresponsiveness, and thus represents a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of asthma and other allergic conditions.

"The miracle of modern medicine."
Well downvoting instead of providing an example to the claim is a bit cheap...
And add to that how much more enjoyable it is to develop for WebOS and you get a winner.

I'd bet US$150 on that.
I was confused by the quote too. I did some searching - The TS Elliot quote is what I think of when I think of Mac vs Windows, and iPhone vs Android.

http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/picasso-good-artists-c...

Also:

http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borro...
Would like to see the code if you have the example. Would be a very interesting case-study as to why Functional fits such problem domain as opposed to OOP because this would open a new perspective.

Please share more. I'm interested. (Let me know if you can only share your experience via private channels).
Somehow Guy Fawkes is becoming the Che Guevara of our time. Ironic that a mask is the symbol of resistance today.

I just hope it doesn't become too much politicised through all the OSW stuff and that someone still cares to keep the lulz alive.
It will be great if he makes tutorial showing how he creates this ptable and which tools/libraries he used. It's pretty cool.
> Also - for some reason, Firefox in Android does not show reply link for deeper comments.

That's a feature of HN, not of Firefox. There's a delay before the "reply" link appears, and the delay is longer the deeper the thread is nested, to prevent fast back and forth comments degenerating into arguments, I believe.

As for the comments at the bottom of that page, you're absolutely right, and I unfortunately overestimated the quality of the discussion in this thread. All the more reason to avoid the bottom of the comment page on stories with hundreds of comments.
Speaking as a wannabe ex--Google Reader user:

1. `N` doesn't move me onto the next item.

2. There are icons at the top --- X, Q, etc --- and I don't know what they mean. I expect there to be mouseover text explaining what they do, but there isn't.

3. It's a bit slow (admittedly this is with Firefox 3.6 on a netbook).

4. "FlowFS, a Feed Reader to Keep Your Inbox Clean" --- When I hear "inbox" I think of my e-mail inbox, and "[keeping my] inbox clean" means (to me) getting down to zero e-mails in my inbox and staying there. But FlowFS is a feed reader, not an e-mail client, so I don't know what the sentence is supposed to mean.
You are propounding the Broken Window Fallacy. To discover the flaw in your reasoning see:

http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
One of the reasons Go programmers love it because it does not appease Java and C++ developers.

On the other hand Go for the most part appeases C developers quite nicely.
How is preventing aids by not engaging in man on man encounters and shooting illegal drugs ignorant and offensive?
Can you write a tutorial(s) on how you created it? which js libraries did you use etc? That will be really helpful.
As a Kindle Direct Publisher myself, my problem with the Lending Library is they have excluded KDP books from it. I want my books in the Lending Library!
Go still compiles to native code and provides direct control over the memory layout of your data structures.

This alone makes it considerably more low level than anything that runs on the JVM.
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Is there any indication that anyone wants such a tablet?
Great article on agile marketing!
The difference being, of course, that in the old days Microsoft was not a convicted monopolist.
Maybe a dalvik to dart to JS compiler for migration?
Go's cross-platform portability is quite good, writing portable Go code is infinitely easier than writing portable C or C++ code, and probably as easy or more than Java.
> com.lang.lisp isn't "the Lisp community".

It is "the Lisp community" in the sense that there is no other widely known, recommended way to get in touch with people using Lisp. The community may exist somwhere else, but they are hidden from newbies, whose first contact with the community still is the cesspit that is c.l.l, often by the spam ridden Google Groups interface.
The real point is: Proving stage and scaling stage are fundamentally different.

Not making the transition at the right time (or at all) has probably killed as many startups as over-engineering in the proving stage.
I also should add this link. http://www.sitepoint.com/copy-great-designers-steal/

Case Study 3 is fun.
Jacques site: solution is right, but this brings up an interesting, slight flaw in Google's search engine. I would've thought that their natural language processing would catch this kind of phrasing, especially if it's as straightforward as "a [subject] that/which/is/does [noun]"
There are several problems with this post.

First off, the concept of a language #winning is a complete waste of time. Neither AWK nor Lisp is Charlie Sheen.

You use a particular language so that you can solve a problem. Some languages are better suited to solve certain problems than others. You also use a language because you like it. Using a language because it's popular, unless your job requires it, is probably the least sustainable situation.

Secondly, I'm inferring the author wants to spur Lisp's popularity by promoting new features, but encountered resistance by people on a newsgroup and gave up. This is pretty weak in my book. In what situation, both social or professional, would someone NOT encounter resistance to new ideas? To give up at the first sign of resistance, and call the people who didn't like your idea "sick" is the hallmark of a whiner.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is stopping you. Fork the code. Make a prototype. Demonstrate it. See if you are right and they are wrong. You don't need the approval of a handful of faceless Usenet posters before you start a project.
so the argument here is to follow the steve jobs model....if you want to study liberal arts, drop out so you don't have to pay and just sit in on classes.
I appreciate that. I got called an "Apple fanboy" and worse at the time. Ironically, I didn't own any Apple products when I wrote this, and still don't have an iPhone (even though Blackberry is getting killed by the iPhone and now Android), I needed a cell plan that included Canada, which AT&T didn't have, and that one thing saved me several hundred dollars per month by going with another carrier and a Blackberry.

The important thing to remember is it comes down to customer needs. If most people needed what I did, the iPhone would have flopped solely because of the exclusive arrangement with AT&T. But, it clearly was a game changer. That's hard to dispute today.
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I think I'm done here.
I think plenty of Apple products are pretty shitty -- though perhaps not always quite as shitty as Microsoft products.
I was really hoping this was a CrunchBase replacement.

$10 for a link to my startup (http://bizen.com)? No thanks!
For starters, blatant homophobia. Risk of AIDS is hardly limited to illegal drug users and gays. Medical professionals and police officers are fairly often exposed to blood (and other bodily fluids), either accidentally or intentionally, in the process of dealing professionally with people at higher than normal risk of carrying AIDS (or other infectious agents).
So you thought the version written in a language you're familiar with was more readable than the version written in a language you're not familiar with?

But seriously, take a look at the two examples again. Are you really suggesting that the Lisp version is easier?

All you have to understand for the Awk example how field variables work, then you can read the whole thing at a glance. The Lisp version contains custom macros and is four lines long!
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sorry, the $1 per stream is referring to Concert Window's royalty to artists (the artists get $1 per webcast ticket sold). Then as for Spotify, which is separate, I had originally thought that Spotify paid 1 cent to the artist/record label per stream, but in actuality it's a little under $0.002.
This is like startuplist too.. but paid? I don't know why I would pay for this compared to anything else. Also, the site design leaves a ton to be desired.
I think this makes a lot of sense even though it is kind of crazy. Chrome really seems to represent Google's philosophy for development more than Android does. Both in that it is developed more in the open and that it is all about web development for everything. I know that Eric Schmidt has talked for years about having everything come through the browser, Chrome is Google's platform for that vision.
So, here's the thing: Early effort is more expensive than later effort, because if the idea doesn't survive, all that effort has infinite cost/benefit ratio! Before you have any value, what are your tests supposed to be defending?

Once you can quantify the benefit, and know what your business is, then a development process based on testing can accelerate value creation while minimizing risk to existing value.
This observation would work just as well if "C++" or "Java" were substituted for lisp, so I guess those languages will never "win" either.
It is a ridiculously short sighted analysis but the point is that the thousand bucks you cited is likely to be a fraction of that if anyone can go listen to the album whenever they want for free. There are plenty of ways to market your music without making it pointless for anyone to purchase it.
I _just_ started on Java on eclipse, after 4 years of _IDE-less_ coding in python.

Care to tell me what you find better in IntelliJ, as compared to eclipse, so that I dont waste a lot of my time with Eclipse? :-)
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