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There's quite a bit of disinformation in your comment.

* that people live with their parents is only "shocking" if you happen to come from a country where that is considered taboo. In many countries it's not considered shameful to live with your parents while you're single. It didn't start after the bubble, it started like 1000 years ago. Yeah, there's a downside to it, but then there's also a downside to getting into debt in order to live by yourself.

* the percentage of car ownership is quite high. Just google it.

* "Japanese health care is a joke" compared to what? Look at life expectancy numbers, doctors per capita, etc.

* Internet banking has been around for years. ATMs are open 24/7 in convenience stores.

* etc
agreed.

it would work as a hack for your own use on the websites of your particular interest, but it doesn't fit for any mass-market model
I think the way to go here is have the user fill out some sort of questionnaire in their preferences section that spec's out their ideals. The the app assigns scores of desirability to scanned objects accordingly. This would allow the user to vote with their dollars in a very powerful and easy way.
I know someone who got a six-figure settlement because he could establish that the process leading to his termination was atypical-- that he didn't have the same amount of time to improve performance and the same opportunities (i.e. transfer) as other people in the same circumstances. This wasn't a discrimination claim. He was white, male, and in his late 30s. IIRC there is language (at least in NY) covering people who are terminated and not given the same process as someone else. Companies aren't required to have a termination process, but if they have one and don't follow it, they can get in trouble, unless there was obvious cause to fire the person on the spot (i.e. he did something illegal or dangerous).

It could be that the firm was more worried about image than losing the lawsuit, but my point is that it's not that simple. You may not be able to get wrongful termination, but there are other claims. Example: you don't get along with your boss and (instead of getting fired) you try to transfer to another group. If this works, great. If it doesn't, because said boss said something negative about you to the manager of the group you're trying to transfer into, then he interfered with your relationships elsewhere in the company. Get him for harassment, IIED, et cetera.

LOL. If a person is fired for discriminatory reasons, it is definitely worth the effort to sue.

I said "usually", and I should have qualified that with "for most HN readers". If you're 55 and on the cusp of retirement, or if you're a member of a minority in an obvious discrimination case, it makes sense to sue. If you're a 25-year-old white guy in finance or technology, it's usually not worth it to risk your reputation, because lawsuits go into the public record.
Provide value first and then create a service for your users... has worked over and over for me.
Yes, most of it is done in higher level elisp modules.

I think you are right, however, in that it is not obvious that it would be faster in all situations. You would get the advantage of compiling the elisp modules to machine code, but you might loose some performance in the actual operations. However, there is no fundamental reason that the C sections couldn't be left in C and called (if the performance difference is really big).

There is no reason (that I can think of) you couldn't write a cross compiler from emacs lisp to CL. They are actually fairly similar (except for maybe some scoping rules).

I'm kind of torn on this because, honestly, it has already been done a couple of times... lisp machines, and mcclim emacs, are the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. Anyway.

On a 64 bit machine it should be very good, on a 32 bit machine possibly less so.
So then the problem isn't taxes but what your government does with them?

Fine, I can see that. But your post barely says anything about this problem, focusing instead on how much it is you would have to pay.

Which is exactly what every shopkeeper does after you buy him some drinks. Hence the confusion :-)
since Internet service would cost $10/mo more without a bundled television package

I'm convinced that the only reason for them to do this is to whitewash the "myth" of cable-cutting. Comcast in my area has a similar deal - it's a couple of bucks cheaper per month to get Internet with "limited" cable rather than Internet on its own. To the networks and advertisers, I'm still a TV subscriber, even though the coax goes directly to my modem and nowhere near my TV.
"...every congressmember who supports..."

There's listings by state and by bill...so everyone in the House is at: http://sopaopera.org/sopa/
Seriously? I don't know who posts these, but this extension, as well as many "game simplifier" apps have nothing to do with disabled people. Modern operating systems have great facilities for all kinds of disabilities. No, this type of apps are cheats used to ruin the gameplay for those that don't use them, and to piss off game developers.
Furthermore, I absolutely despise how most press/bloggers routinely neglect to add citation data to articles. Without citation, this article means nothing. They could be making up the results for all I know. Where is their primary source? Nothing makes my blood boil quite like seeing unsupported scientific articles.

This version of the article is more informative, but still lacking citations: http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDOD-24ab59

Ahh, so we learn that this vaccine will called NeuVax and is being pursued as a partnership between the military and Galena Biopharmaceuticals. Digging around, we turn up this letter from 2008: http://journals.lww.com/oncology-times/Fulltext/2008/06250/B...

That article has some inline citations, but it was written while the primary literature was still ePub'ed ahead of print.

So lets go to the clinical trial page for the new 2011 study: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT01479244

This gives us enough information to find the previous phase I trials:

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00841399

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00854789

Which lists major publications that came from the trials at the bottom. Skimming through those, we can find this paper:

"Combined clinical trial results of a HER2/neu (E75) vaccine for the prevention of recurrence in high-risk breast cancer patients: U.S. Military Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Group Study I-01 and I-02."

Got it! There are other publications there, but this is the major summarization of the phase I trials and a good overview. (EDIT: From
busyant's comment, it looks like the Phase II data is unpublished: http://investors.galenabiopharma.com/releasedetail.cfm?Relea...). This took maybe 15 minutes for me to find, and would have been easier if the journalist had just asked the guy he was interviewing what paper to cite.

Basically, I'm saying this article sucked and most scientific journalists suck even more. Quit being so damn sloppy and do your job.
true enough, that is both a more accurate and more humane representation.
That's really too bad.

So was the Gaming Simplifier mainly meant for or used by people with disabilities? Or was it meant to get around various interfaces meant to get extra pageview "clicks", and it ended up being amazingly useful for particular people with disabilities?

It can be pretty interesting to look at people with disabilities' use of software and user interfaces as use cases. Making software good for PWD to use can result in better software all around, the way curb cuts for wheelchairs are also great for people with strollers or skateboards, or the way thick-grip utensils originally developed for people with arthritis or Parkinson's are more ergonomic and easy to use for everyone.

Of course there isn't one way to "be disabled" and different people have different requirements. But particular environments can be very useful to particular communities of people with disabilities -- for example, MUDS can be very accessible to blind and visually impaired people.

Facebook and Facebook developers should try taking a look at this case from the point of view of making good and useable software. I know... as if that'll happen!
> Sadly the support for it is directly connected to where they get their money from (For democrats and republicans).

Chicken or egg?
Very useful - to send a curl to someone - to explain why a response is incorrect or provide context about a service response... Sure you could use curl + gist - but there is something I nicer here - for example on my iPhone I could use hurl.it to explain a bad response via email without having to drop into a shell... Great service thanks!
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You're right, and I'm playing my even-more cynical self here, but the problem with this action is that they have 2 choices - change it to be like Apple's philosophy, in which case they'll get sued by Apple for using Apple's patented "a vowel occurs in every word" technology(1) or they'll change it to be NOT like Apple's, in which case it'll be different from both Apple and MS, and no one will like it or be able to figure it out since it's neither intuitive nor familiar.

(1) There is no such patent.
people like these are what class struggle is for, amirite?
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An optimist here, eh? :)
All of your arguments presume a lack of quality - I would not do that. Also, YMMV - it seems your mileage has already varied, but please don't extrapolate too much from your experiences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction).
regardless of the designers intention, it is nonetheless a potential side effect that such an extension might open up play to a wider audience, including people with varying levels of ability or impairments.
I would love to do this, but I live in an area where I can't get OTA broadcast of Fox or NBC.
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We place too much onus on considering and evaluating potential outcomes of our actions and inactions. I find that most things that we are involved in are not make or break situations. Losing a customer, getting rejected, failing at a project, are all pretty minor speed bumps and most times they will not impact your life/business in any drastic way.

Life is composed of small incremental steps. It's important to keep an open-mind, learn, grow, and tread forward. As long as you do that it doesn't much matter much if you miss some steps, there will be plenty of opportunities to correct course when you stop to introspect.
So my browser will send an HTTP request to this website which in turn sends an HTTP request? We need to go deeper…
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Here's the relevant data (bottom paragraph). Note that the results are not "stat sig". http://investors.galenabiopharma.com/releasedetail.cfm?Relea...

I'm surprised this story is being upvoted here. The original article seems like a puff piece and cancer vaccines have quite a checkered history. Also, Galena's press releases related to the vaccine seem a little scammy (e.g., "Galena Biopharma Announces Investigational New Drug Approval for Phase 2 Trial for NeuVax(TM) (E75 + GM-CSF) Combined With Herceptin(R) (trastuzumab)"... The title is trying to play off of the phrase "new drug approval" when in reality, they simply received approval to run the trial.

A total of 187 patients were enrolled in the combined trials (vaccine=108, control=79). Patients enrolled in the trial were node positive or high-risk node negative breast cancer patients with any level of HER2 expression (IHC 1+, 2+, or 3+), and rendered disease-free after standard adjuvant therapies. With 60 months median follow-up, the vaccine group experienced a 10.6% recurrence rate compared to 20.3% in the control group (48% risk reduction, p=0.098). Recurrence rates for vaccine and control patients with different disease features (nodal status, HER2 expression, tumor grade, and hormone receptor status) were also analyzed.
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I like your ideas, but you're not accounting for time and energy costs. And it also seems like they don't have much motivation left in the tank.
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Then he visited the hospital Centrino specifically deal with cases involving mental illness krimimal in Italy,
Do these type of attacks typically occur from some state-run organized cluster of computers, or are they from zombied/infected "run of the mill" boxes on everyone's desktop?
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Why go through all this complication? Use bugs that have actually occurred in your app, repurpose those into coding problems, and see how the prospect solves it. You might be surprised that they fix the bug better than your existing employees (or you).
Richard Stallman didn't want to use Common Lisp when he wrote GNU Emacs. The work on the Common Lisp definition started in 1982 and CLtL1 was released in 1984. Stallman started his work in 1984. Richard also knew the Emacs variant on the Lisp Machine. He did not want lexical binding (Common Lisp), he did not want object-oriented programming (Flavors on the Lisp Machine, later CLOS in Common Lisp) and he wanted a simple Lisp dialect based on Maclisp. He did not want to have a more modern Lisp dialect based on Maclisp, like Lisp Machine Lisp or Common Lisp.

There is a long standing advice, not to use the CL extension of Emacs Lisp.

The GNU project at one point wanted to settle on Guile/Scheme as its extension language - there was some talk to use it in Emacs - but it never really happened.

There was also a long discussion about using Common Lisp - it never happened.

What now happens is that Emacs Lisp gets changed a bit - for example by providing real lexical binding.

If the GNU Emacs project would use Common Lisp, the nature of the extension language changes. Less painful would be to use a Common Lisp variant with the feature set of CLtL1 + threads. ANSI CL with CLOS is a different thing.

Of all the many variants of Emacs (for example Hemlock in Common Lisp, CLimacs in Common Lisp, ...) none has the feature set and the multitude of extensions like GNU Emacs.

Still, multi-tasking in GNU Emacs would be useful...
It becomes unmanageable. It's the bike shed problem. No one seems to want to edit or read the question for an answer that is a duplicate of what the user wants to say but everyone wants to put their fingerprint/mark on the question. Compare Hidden Features of Java with Hidden Features of C# where the community actively maintained the question into something that could be easily traversable (contents). So the harm in leaving the question open tells new users that it's okay to post questions like this since it has a high number of votes. But a high number votes neither proves or disproves the value of a question. At the onset it might but as popularity increases more votes are meaningless and it thusly turns into a popularity contest.

It would interesting to see how many users (who voted) actually paged through all 100 answers.

Take instead the Greatest Hits which do take into account data to determine value http://stackoverflow.com/questions/greatest-hits and you will notice none of these hidden features or list of x questions make the cut.

The argument used to keep them open is that they have value (which is why the notice was added), developers and moderators alike have said that they have gotten valuable information from these questions (Nick Craver, Joel Coehoorn, Bill the Lizard)

> This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here.

As for the single binding vote made by a moderator this could have been a result of many flags made by users that he had to act on. SO moderators and to an extent SE moderators will always be called http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22overzealous+moderators%22+s... and that's something they just have to live with in order to keep StackOverflow a place that is different from a forum. SO emerged because of a need to get Q&A different from a forum. Elections (http://stackoverflow.com/election) are held every year to get moderators knowledgeable of the process and users the community trusts to make decisions the community might not normally. Most SO moderators never see the main site regularly and are stuck in the flag queue answering the community needs.
That could indicate that the thread had a medium relevance for a wide range of people, not a high relevance for a specific set of people. SO seems to focus on the second.

I think they fear a slippery slope to becoming /r/programming with everyones favorite cartoons, favorite quotes and "what do you hate about php?"-questions on the front page.
Editing is a part of GNU Emacs. But it is also a Mail, News, whatever client. It comes with a million lines of Lisp code.
Yes - hardly counts as "news". Why does this get posted so often, and how on earth does it get to the front page of Hacker News?
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I would hope most C# developers are aware of most of these features and how they facilitate the writing of good C# code, but this article seems like a good jumping off point for gaining greater understanding of the nuances of C#.

A better title to this article would have been "Less Understood Features of C#," as things like nullable types, boxing and unboxing using as/is, readonly variables, Nullable<T>, type inferrence and most of the rest of the articles content should not be hidden to anyone who intends to have more than passing knowledge of the language. Most of the things mentioned by the post benefit from having the additional explanation so they can be understood well though.
A general point to keep in mind here is that unemployment numbers are hard to compare. The best example is a country like India which has no social security net to speak of, so if you're unemployed and are not rich you will actually die of hunger. Which means that the unemployment rate is actually the percentage of people who can afford to stay unemployed. A less drastic comparison might be between unemployed people in Sweden and the US. I'd think that being unemployed in Sweden is lot better than being unemployed in the US because of the US's lack of a medical safety net.

Similar logic applies to your example of people doing "meaningless work". There are lots of those in India as well. I'm not going to judge whether these jobs are meaningless, but I'm pretty sure they produce a drastic improvement in quality of life for those who are employed in these jobs. Life as a greeter at a mall or a lift-operator is way better than life as a struggling farmer. And this doesn't even consider all the second-order benefits these people enjoy. Life in a big city means better education, more access to information, more opportunities, all of which almost certainly guarantee a much better life for their children.

This was a bit of a rambling post, but I guess the point I'm trying to make is that both comparing unemployment rates as well as comparing the types of employment on offer are too simplistic to make any useful judgments about an economy. I think some aggregate quality of life measure is what we really need to look at.
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I'm sorry, but perhaps if you have difficulty clicking, perhaps a game who's entire purpose is to sit there clicking on stuff is not the right game for you.
one reason, i think, is that you can't downvote articles.
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Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that supports class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that supports functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), one that supports coroutines (like Icon or Scheme), and one that supports parallelism (like Sisal).

I'd be interested in current opinions on this. e.g. is there something one should look at before Icon if they want to lean about coroutines?
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I got 2 pieces of advice:

1) When you're building any app that requires a network effect, the most important thing is not fixing bugs, or usability, or creating an awesome product. That's important, yes, but it all pales in comparison to: getting users. So, from day 1 you need to build a list of people who are interested in using it. Spend 20+ hours a week building that list through Adwords, forums, talking with people, networking with bloggers, etc. That way when you launch, you avoid the scenario you just had. "Build it and they will come" is the absolutely worst thing you can do for a social app.

2) If I were you, I would pivot this idea. I would make this app immediately useful to everyone in the US by aggregating social or free events in their city, and having a weekly newsletter that they could subscribe to (ala DailyCandy). I think someone recently got featured in TC for doing something like. Plug in your zip code, we sent you a list of weekend events to meet singles. Cool, simple value proposition. Doesn't require any network effects. And a very apparent future business model: allow people to advertise their events in the email.
Clear 4G is a dream to setup though. No shady install guy and 4 to 8 hour window. You get a box in the mail next day and plug it in.
It's not portable. A compiler would have to be written, and it would not produce human-editable output. Emacs Lisp will be around forever, but that doesn't mean that it needs to run slowly or be the only language with which to extend Emacs. (This is a Python 2 / Python 3 type of situation. Some programs can be automatically translated, but nobody really wants to maintain the result. A proper Python 3 port is the correct solution, using the automatic translation as the basis.)
I'm not sure it matters, but the primary intent was not to help people with disabilities. It was closer to a "video game trainer" from the days of yore.
I would like to see the congresspeople who haven't openly supported or opposed SOPA. Those people represent opportunities for education.
Try plugging in your TV into cable outlet directly, bypassing the cable box. I've found all network channels are available that way as well
I need to ask whether someone know if installations through other packaging tools (apt-get, aptitude) are somehow considered too?
It was around ten years ago that I first read this article, and I've since followed just about every piece of advice given. I have since come along ways, but am still learning and improving every day.

I think this article gives excellent advice, and it has certainly worked for me. I always recommend it to people just starting out.
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Useful for The DebuggerStepthrough attribute! I have been thinking that such a feature must exist but hadn't gotten around to looking it up.

Otherwise yeah, no real surprises. Except maybe the Generic aliases.
This is why I read HN, the comments contain better journalism than the articles posted.
I'm arguing my case here:

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/97396/in-russian-rou... (in the comments)

There seems to be a strange relationship and independence between initial advantage and overall (to the last move) odds in this game that's difficult to define.