skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You assume of course that this research leads to a vaccine that's 100% effective and distributed to the entire population of the planet.

No, this is not correct. As I explained elsewhere in the thread where you made the same claim:

A vaccine can effectively stop a virus with far fewer than 100% actually receiving the vaccination.

First, depending on the type of vaccine, the immunity may be communicated to other people through contact. Other people in the household, work, school, etc. are contaminated with the attenuated virus (in such a vaccination, as with the Salk polio virus).

Second, with a sufficient portion of the population immune, they act as firebreaks interfering with the transmission of the virus through the population. This is called "Herd Immunity" [1]. According to the linked article, for example, smallpox is effectively stopped with 83%-85% of the community vaccinated.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
You are correct about "last", "start's, etc., but there are also good examples in the CS sourcecode of easily avoiding naming conflicts with a sensible naming convention:

browser.coffee:CoffeeScript = require './coffee-script'
coffee-script.coffee:{Lexer,RESERVED} = require './lexer'
coffee-script.coffee: {Module} = require 'module'
command.coffee:{EventEmitter} = require 'events'
grammar.coffee:{Parser} = require 'jison'
lexer.coffee:{Rewriter, INVERSES} = require './rewriter'
nodes.coffee:{Scope} = require './scope'
nodes.coffee:{RESERVED} = require './lexer'
repl.coffee:{Script} = require 'vm'
Just because something is on LinkedIn (or any website) doesn't mean that it can be used for any purpose.
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Stocks are valuable because they're a claim on a stream of future dividends. Bitcoins, in contrast produce no dividends and aren't intrinsically useful. So the question is why are they valuable at all?

Also, the name-calling isn't necessary.
quart is (at least where I live) pronounced to rhyme with wort (or, I dunno, sort).
When? iPhone had this type of multitasking since day one. It was multitasking for third-party apps what was missing.
Do not take this as me defending Apple (I certainly don’t want to). This is only a statement about technical capability and not supposed to endorse or support Apple with this in any way.

The very first iPhone had multitasking during calls (and multitasking in general). The first Android phone came out after the first iPhone so your statement can’t be correct.

Again, this is in no way an endorsement of Apple’s behavior.
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Exactly the situation my daughter is experiencing now. Her Java I instructor cannot program her way out of a paper sack and is going at a snail's pace (an entire semester and they have yet to learn decision making or looping). She's so bored she's decided to drop Java II and switch to an online C++ course so she can go at her own pace. She doesn't want to be a programmer, her love is for digital imaging and animation. But she loves mathematics and wants to understand everything related to her art. /proud father is proud/
> He's overreacting. This whole blog post apparently started because he had a naming collision with "log" in one of his programs

Surprised at that reaction, he's had a problem and he's written an excellent blog post about it.
> the main plot involves ... simulated beings ... bootstrapped on a normal computer.

You might want to re-read that short story. It involved real people and was bootstrapped by very rare real people.
With the advantage of phonetic languages, that you can read new words that you have never seen before. Impossible in Chinese. (Probably the reason that everybody but China has made the switch from symbolic to phonetic at some point in the past few milenia).
wow, thanks man! your answer about not selling the house is very diplomatic :)
http://goo.gl/bTwm1
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And don't forget about his most recent book, Surface Detail, that is entirely about simulated realities for the dead.
Your post seems to boil down to "there are reasons why it is impossible to build a Dyson sphere out of computing substrate from the materials that surround the average star" - which is a fairly extraordinary claim at this point. Everything we know about matter and energy says that this is in fact possible, and a weight of rigorous work exists to show that this is the case.

Remember that we're talking about timescales of millions of years here.
He is talking about if you don't do anything extra (in this case, use the var keyword). Much like the nonlocal keyword in Python requires knowing about it and wanting to use it in order to actually use it and get the non-default behavior.
Not to mention the construction of virtual Hells in Surface Detail:

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

(A truly ghastly concept).
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Did the total market grow? Article doesn't say anything about that, title slightly misleading as it is about new phone sold, not the total of users. I'd expect android to sell more, but apple to continue to hold the high end.
Did you call them autocrap tools?
You mentioned the GRE, and I assume you mean the famous GRE general test. But another option to look at to prove mastery of material is the GRE subject test. While the GRE General is mostly an IQ test, GRE subject tests have a knowledge component to them. And, they are quite challenging: for the GRE CS test less than 1% of the test takers in the past 3 years achieved score above 900 (maximum score possible is 990).

EDIT: anyone interested can download the test booklet here which has an example test:

http://www.ets.org/gre/subject/about/content/computer_scienc...
I've been thinking a lot about internships versus apprenticeship:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/14216183124/internship-or-...

I'd say Hungry Academy is definitely an apprenticeship.
If an Apple app can control this ball, surely the inPulse from http://www.getinpulse.com/ should be able to get Apple to approve bluetooth control for them?
The difference between SOAP and REST
That is a great book. It's well written and touches on details that most "physics for the masses" books skip. I also regret the use of the term God Particle though. I know he was being cheeky but it is all too easy for people to grab onto something like that and believe that this is some sort of religious quest.
It is not a victory until it has been tested in court.
Math books released in 2011
FYI - your email address in not (visible) in your profile.
The Problems of Open Source (2009)
The big problem with most people's responses to the Fermi paradox is that they invoke some form of universality of behavior for intelligent life. This can't work - if even one species of the expected very large number of species sends out self-replicating probes that do large-scale work, then we should see the evidence of that. It really doesn't matter what expected distribution of behaviors and psychologies is: the expected numbers we're dealing with (time, planets, species) are so very large - and it only takes one subgroup within an advanced species, never mind one species, to kick off a self-replicating wave of expansion.
I would say you should read the claims to see what is actually covered before jumping to conclusions, but eek the article title isn't sensationalizing at all.

As far as prior art, the claims only cover in-call multitasking in a finger-touch based UI.
I think it's a regional/accent thing. I'm on the West Coast, and I've always used (and heard) the DS9-style intonation of the word (which, to my ear, sounds a lot more like "quart" than "lark").

Midwesterners and New Englanders are probably more likely to hear and use the "lark" pronunciation in the word. (And the James Joyce explanation needs to take into account that Joyce, being Irish, would have pronounced and rhymed things a bit differently from an American).
reminds me off those old adbuster think different posters for apple with famous dictators.
One big problem with this analysis is that the information conveyed per word cannot be compared exactly like this. The Chinese language as a whole is very idiomatic, and often 'words' are combinations of 2-4 characters. Analysis on a per character basis doesn't make much sense. What really should be analyzed is an 'Ideas per Minute.' Perhaps the best way would be to have parties from both languages who are fluent in a 3rd language try to summarize a passage in the 3rd language as succinctly as possible into Chinese and English respectively and see which language is more efficient in this manner.

While the post does note that he is in Taiwan, I suspect that there are large differences in reading speed between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese for a few reasons:

1. Simplified Chinese has less information density per character

2. Simplified Chinese combines more character and uses less characters overall

3. Traditional Chinese uses more 'old-fashioned' vocabulary and idioms which are nearly gone from the Mainland Chinese vernacular

Really my only complaint here is that he should specify that he is talking about Traditional Chinese.
Heroku error: Backlog Too Deep, the third option
what the hell is that - i'm seriously confused. making bottles? ... like as in asctual bottles... I'm still confused
Everybody talks about bandwidth as if that's some terribly important metric, but the real metric is brainwidth. Vendors are fighting tooth and nail for time on your brain.

And they're doing very well. It's very rare to pick up a device that does just one thing -- the days of the wristwatch and one-function cell-phone are gone. Now everything you touch is competing to take up all your braindwidth. Information is not passive any more; it's sticky. As a consumer you are not a entity who receives services from a webapp. You are a target for absorption by way of total immersion. Potential vendors can either get on board with your addiction or lose out to others who will. This is why we buy Facebook, Google, and game ads. Your brainwidth is already being sucked up. As vendors we have to go where our potential markets already are.

If you want to talk about extrapolating history, our books are full of useful examples. Time and time again people could not make the changes necessary for society to evolve so they packed up their bags and moved. You can't move any more, and lots of immersive content providers want to take your frustration and turn it into your being plugged in all day.

Who wants to go live on the moon? We can do a lot more exciting things in our own custom-designed universe. A couple hundred more years of this and we won't be going anywhere besides LEO or doing much of anything except patting ourselves on the back and telling ourselves how many important things we have right here.
I read that article on lego, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357522 and hence thought it might be continuation of that debate.
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awesome to know! I just saw this the other day and made a note to buy it

you should also teach your daughter to program, the title of your link is pretty much the definition of sexist
Neat little site. Before I invest $16 I think I would like to listen to a 30 second preview of the last three of four days of songs, mostly to get a feel for the audio quality.

Also, if possible it would be cool to send today's song out immediately when someone signs up.
I received this as a gift literally yesterday (having asked for it). So far very impressed.
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It is just [my-HN-handle]@tripadvisor.com.
Fire in the Library
Guy nearly gets fired for commenting on Steve Jobs' cancer
Ask HN: What are the pros/cons for developers leaving Ubuntu/Linux for Mac OS X?
I'm thinking about leaving my PC notebook and go for a Macbook Pro 13".

I currently use Ubuntu. Any thoughts on the transition from Ubuntu to Mac OS X? Specific annoyances?
What is the difference between this documentation and http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone ?

At first sight they look the same.
I think the most fascinating point in this is that wages remained constant in Germany whereas they rose in the countries that are in the worst shape right now.

Can anyone corroborate this data? Is this actually true? That would be such an easy explanation…
Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies
I don't think that race is the problem here.

I distinctly remember a news reporter twisting someone's words to make silicon valley look racist before. It seemed quite silly then as it does now.

This entire post is also riddled with....errors, is this a joke of sorts?
Would probably change the title to teach your child programming...

have bought the app anyway :)
> this is in no way an endorsement of Apple’s behavior

As if Apple invented the Kodak/Nokia/Motorola/Qualcomm portfolio licensing pricing game.

(Though at least these companies invent and sell things, a point Joe Wilcox forgets when he lobs accusations of patent trolling at them.)
That claim is really hard to read without line breaks and indentation. [Here's a link to the patent itself](http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat8082523.pdf), and the claims are on the last couple of pages.
Unity is a bit more than just a different shell. They have all kinds of things because of the menubar, libappindicator, etc.
The title is a DISGRACE!

What about the 1% of the audience that will teach their daughter instead?

This extreme sexist attitude is why there aren't enough women startup founders --and not enough women at the parties me and my buddies throw, like last month's "Yacc and Lex Appreciation Party". We even had free Jolt Cola!
None of the three reasons you said is correct. Yes, a Simplified Chinese character contains less strokes than a Traditional one, but they convey almost the exact same quantity of information. You will understand this when you notice that although people in (Mainland) China and Taiwan wrote differently, they speak almost the same, using the same number of characters to express the same meaning.

On the other hand, there is a difference between Classical (Literary) Chinese and modern plain speech Chinese. The Classical Chinese, used in ancient times mainly for writing purposes, with its different grammar and vocabulary, does use less characters.
This is true.

I've seen entire hedge funds run on excel sheets. Our traders do alot of trading right out of excel sheets with custom C# addin's.
I wish this had been a root level comment (so it would be more visible). I think this is by far the most plausible explanation especially if you think about human history and technology differences.

Imagine our current spy agencies with bleeding edge technology spying on the Romans. Its only a two thousand year difference, but there's absolutely no way they could detect our signals and/or equipment (unless we made a serious mistake).

It seems entirely reasonable that another civilization may be tens of thousands of years ahead of us in technological advancement. If you consider the increasing growth rate of technological advancement, its easy to see your explanation.
Just like the much else about patent world, being first to build a dubious portfolio to shut down competition doesn't mean much. It is still behavior unworthy of endorsement.
Thanks. So, to be clear, it's not the price that has you hesitant, but just wanting to make sure it's worth the money?

So would a free trial be better for that, or a few previews of past songs?
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http://library.gnome.org/, also included in GNOME 3.
[quote]In this mini-book, I'll be covering a complete run-down of Backbone.js; including models, views, collections and routers. I'll also be taking you through advanced topics like modular development with Backbone.js and AMD (with RequireJS), how to solve the routing problems with Backbone and jQuery Mobile, tips about scaffolding tools that can save time setting up your initial application and more.[/quote]
Will Americans really buy any crap?
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In France Apple doesn't have home advantage and as strong patent portfolio as in US, so it has to compete with the others only on the merits of quality and price of their phone.
Broken in GNOME 3.0, workable in 3.2. Hopefully better in 3.4.
How could this possibly be patentable? We've been able to make calls and multitask from laptops for over 20 years. You can't claim it as inventive just because the laptop can now fit in your hand. In the patent world, this is the very definition of obviousness.
"""If it doesn't bother you, so be it, but you're not going to sell me on it because it's crap; I can't stand Python."""

Yeah, I thought that was your conception on the issue: i.e just blind prejudice.

"""If you don't think it has ever caused bugs, then you aren't thinking very hard or you've not looked into the opposing point of view at all. In any case, I'm done discussing it with you."""

You invoked some mysterious bugs due to Python's whitespace rules, I asked for a specific example, but conveniently "you are done discussing it".

Nice.
Useless without the marketshare stats for other phones. It's like saying I sold 4 more sandwiches on Tuesday.
This comes at the perfect time. I have just started a project where I am using Backbone for the first time and I have found the documentation to be lacking at best.

I think one of the things that Backbone really needs is some opinions on how to organise projects. Coming from Ruby on Rails, I really appreciate how that framework recommends (or forces) you to structure your stuff in a certain way (they even structure how to use Backbone inside a Rails project). Backbone feels more like a loosely connected set of tools (View, Router and Models), without a clearly expressed vision of how to use them together.
This looks more like a quick start condensed guide for someone who has already has a good understanding of JS. The official documentation is more extensive and will take an hour or two to read.
Pretty good analysis (for an infographic).

They correctly show that government debt did not cause the current crisis but total debt did. By stating that the increase in private sector debt caused it they almost (incorrectly) imply that therefore the private sector (and the people) are to blame. Of course it's the responsibility of the government to take corrective measures to ensure long term financial stability. The European governments were completely negligent in that regard. Note also that the financial sector is not mentioned at all in this analysis.

The nasty dilemma offered at the end is a false one. First the article observes that government spending was not the cause of the crisis, and then the solution revolves around government spending? The current eurozone debates are about politics: the people in western Europe want to punish the countries they see as irresponsible. That's why we have all the talk about austerity measures. Austerity will only further cripple the economies of the GIPS countries as we've seen during the Great Depression in the 30s. Austerity doesn't work: it leads to criminal levels of capital waste: high unemployment, low standards of living, poor liquidity, and so on.

So the question isn't "Should the GIPS countries spend money to prevent a worse recession?" the real question is "How can the GIPS countries get the money to prevent a crushing depression and a lost generation?". There are a number of options: ECB bailout. Eurobonds. Bailout by the richer part of the eurozone. Various forms of quantitative easing. Unfortunately this is difficult as long as the people in Europe are angry at the GIPS countries. No politician is going to support a bailout at the expense of the richer countries if the people want to see blood.
How come scientists ccan find all this shit, yet can't cure the common cold??
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Exactly! I'm currently expecting my first child; but putting the purchase of this app on hold until I know for sure I'll get a son. ;-)
Need to support legacy files. The last (and biggest) was to import word docs into a commercial typesetting system. We need to keep the barriers for our clients as low as possible so couldn't require they give us .docx.
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Would you mind sharing which in Europe are those?Because I've read quite a lot of founder stories and the only college I'd put on that list is Stanford.UIUC also seems to have a lot of tech entrepreneur and VC alumni.
When government acts like a company. #Dubai #data #opengovernment
> Also just the other day it prompted me with a late notice about a cancelled weekly meeting.

Isn't that just user error (failure by someone to send out a cancellation notice)?
Here's some worldwide figures:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/gartner-windows-phone-mar...

From Q3 2010 -> Q3 2011 iOS went from 13million to 17million. Android went from 20million to 60million.
You'd be surprised, constantly manually changing the thermostat can have adverse effects, but with PID-based management system, you attempt to heat/cool a little past the target temperature before occupancy. From there you occasionally cool/heat when it hits a deadband of, say, 2 degrees back to the target temperature. After analyzing bills and normalizing area weather, we've been able to show 8-15% savings.
You may want to look at EmberJS[1] if you want a more opinionated framework for single-page apps. It's still in development and I'm not sure if all of the components are production-ready but I've also heard (??) you can use it alongside Backbone.js

[1] http://emberjs.com/
I think this can be made into a very empirical line of reasoning.

Measure what people spend their time thinking about. Track this over time.

The author of this feels that people feel less and less about external realities and more and more about virtual ones. I don't think you need to be an old fogey or a puritan to draw some conclusions in this area. Yes, the argument is anecdotal. Stereotyping those who might agree with it doesn't make it any more or less valid or interesting.

Another line of attack is to say this has been going on forever: people observing the way society is changing and saying that it's becoming terribly self-absorbed. That's true, but like the boy who cried wolf, eventually the wolf actually shows up, and it's not a good thing for anybody involved.
I guess they got my email, they updated the article and removed the line entirely (rather than fixing it). They also significantly fleshed out the article compared to 2 hours ago. The "last updated" time was not changed though.

How come some papers keep a record of changes/corrections at the bottom of the article, and others just silently change it?
You don't consider things trademarks, it's either a registered trademark or it's not.
Mistake #1: read and agree with any article you see on hackernews.
"The French market is showing increasing signs of price sensitivity," Kantar's Dominic Sunnebo told Reuters.

So just price then.

Also have any phones actually been banned from sale in the US yet? I thought HTC had time to change their product.
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> The simple solution is to either add a nonlocal keyword like Python has or to introduce a := parameter that works like = but explicitly overrides a higher level variable.

I disagree. The simple solution to this is to write tests.
Why nobody opposed this? I see comments that this "invention" is obvious, yet nobody opposed it when Apple applied for it.

Isn't it more effective to prevent Apple from getting this patent in the first place than to wait for it to sue somebody over this patent and then battle it at court?