skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, that's a poor argument. The medical industry would make more money if they let the people get sick so they need to be hospitalized for weeks or even, in the case of some polio victims, need to be in an iron lung for the rest of their lives.

(In Ontario, for example, a cost-benefit analysis shows that a universal free influenza inoculation program reduces costs of the medical system; see http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj... .)

I can turn the argument around: companies don't want people to get vaccinated so they can sell more expensive palliative care. Why would a hospital want to get less business if more people are vaccinated and so don't need their services?

If a given argument predicts X and it predicts not-X, then it's a poor argument. This appeal to the profit motive is a poor argument.
> You have made an implication, without basis, that the
> immunization policies in the US are "unconditionally pro",
> or at least that the people here are "unconditionally pro."

You have interpreted this. Read my comment without considering me as anti-vaccines and maybe you'll understand you over-reacted....

My reflection was about pushing administration of vaccines against for example stomach ulcers (vaccine in development) or rotaviruses in developed countries. Would you be for mandating, in high-income countries, the administration of a vaccine against rotaviruses knowing their efficiency is only 45%? Rotavirus is evaluated at 1% of children deaths in these countries [1] (from CDC, a source you mention yourself). Will you also push for a vaccine for the 99 other percent?

[1] http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/5/02-0562_article.htm
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If one was forced to immunize their child, that child then dies from a reaction to that vaccine. Is that the "unselfish" act? You might of well have said it's against your "morals". Your full of it, might as well say we should cull the autistic kids from the herd, you know to protect the herd.
You are not wasting your time with learning PHP, but it also is not a good foundation - the language is a collection of tools that someone somewhere found useful.

Employment wise it is a safe bet - there is a lot of legacy code for a person to maintain for a few lifetimes and then more.

The hatred towards PHP is explainable - if you use Haskell or Clojure today it is because you chose it. If you use php it is because you were forced to use it. So every little and not so little gotcha in the language (and there are a lot of them) is causing a lot of pain.

I have used python/(tornado/gevent)/flask/ stack with success.

Disclaimer - PHP programming 4 years, python 1
But that's the point. Dell and company could, but they don't and instead choose to go further down market chasing thinner margins. They don't compete in the high end market so the perception is that Apple products are high quality, and PCs are low quality.
php has the ability to have global keyword in a namespace to use something out of scope.

And it is easy to use it ... and you don't want to maintain code written like that.
Berlin UNCUBED: Love your job. Get uncubed.
Last sentence of the article:

"Random numbers are used everywhere in cryptography, for both short- and long-term security. And, as we've seen here, security flaws in random number generators are really easy to accidently create and really hard to discover after the fact. Back when the NSA was routinely weakening commercial cryptography, their favorite technique was reducing the entropy of the random number generator."

Consider that the article is from 2008 and correlate it to the current revelations about NSA.
A lack of moderated opinions is hurting a lot these days. Read my answer to dalke, because I would like ask you the same question: Would you be for mandating vaccines against rota-viruses in high-income countries?
sounds like old arguments against gays and, later, against gay marriage. Still, civilization seems to be chugging along, and will survive some guys/gals going "synthetic" as well.
Read "I'm Feeling Lucky: Confessions of Google Employee...". I'm surprised no one has referenced the book.

Fiddling with logos was (and still is) considered a bit sacreligious when it comes to branding but in the case of Google in the early 2000s, it was a big hit - what is now Google Doodles. Those were attributed partially to Marissa Mayer implementing the idea "over the weekend with the help of a designer".
Works now on FFOS, see:

http://youtu.be/2Bhy2wvwDoU

Runs smooth, comparable with Firefox Desktop Browser. But the scrollMask doesn't fade nicely and I have no clue why this happens. You can reproduce it using regular Firefox Browser (use Tools > Web Developer > Responsive Design View).

Changes on github: https://github.com/c2prods/Project-Tyson/pull/4
> Japan is in the gutters and has a debt of 230% of GDP (twice of what Greece has)

Greece's debt is to foreigners. In a foreign currency. Big, big, BIG difference.

Japan can erase its debt with a stroke of a pen. So could have Greece, actually, but at least someone would have complained.

I mean it's ridiculous really. 230% GDP debt - it's a complete joke. Everyone knows it's unpayable, if it had to actually be repaid, which it doesn't. If you are exposed to that, you deserve what you're going to get, which is nothing. But that's OK, because no-one is exposed, because it's basically the Japanese Govt writing a bunch of cheques to itself, and the only effect will be to devalue the yen, if anyone cares, which they don't.

Frankly Japan's debt is turning into a sort of glitch in the matrix where something is obviously wrong but no-one mentions it because to do so would be to prove that none of it is real anyway.
Does anyone have experiences with this kind of recruiting event? Is it worth the time/money?
Then why haven't you left already? As someone who has done this years ago, I can only recommend it. The longer you stay, the harder it will be. And next time you want to start using a product, first ask yourself: Could they keep me prisoner if they went evil? Or would I be able to just export my data and leave?
He's just saying he'll probably be dead before the next crisis will happen. Not too comforting coming from a 55 year old guy.
This formulation was not very good, I agree. Thanks for the constructive comment.
What I meant is that some push for overly-broad vaccination when the benefits/risks ratio is too small. Just like rotavirus vaccination in high-income countries like I mentioned in two other comments clarifying my initial post.
Thanks for feedback. Algorithm is still not ideal, we are working on it. You are sure that "a" should not be placed before "good contact" phrase?
I've been playing around with a wikipedia layer on Google Maps - http://retred.org - code here: https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander. It's just a couple weekends play at the moment, but the cool thing about it is the date slider at the top - you can see what was going on in a certain area at a certain time.

It's a bit shit at the moment (and only has 10% of dbpedia's births, deaths, city foundations and battles at the moment - things with both a time and a place) , but have a play and try not to break my AWS micro instance!
"it's a shame that no numbers are mentioned on that side of the coin"

Here you go: "The rates of virologically confirmed aseptic meningitis per 10,000 recipients were 16.6, 11.6, 3.2 and 0 for the standard MMR, Takeda MMR, Kitasato MMR and Biken MMR vaccines, respectively." There were 38,203 recipients, and the vaccines "were arbitrarily given".

Source is "Adverse events associated with MMR vaccines in Japan", http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8741307 .
I suppose it depends on the context. The only way this could happen is if you're talking about a bad theory. Whereas something theoretically possible can be practically impossible, even for a good theory, if real life situations can't match the conditions of the theory.

In this case the NSA didn't even do anything theoretically impossible. They did a workaround. They added backdoors, which violates the conditions of the theory. It's like saying I got through your unbreakable door by coming in through the window.
I guess it's also worth mentioning Mirah, a JVM language heavily inspired by Ruby. Unlike JRuby, it compiles down to byte code ahead of time and needs not support libraries.

http://www.mirah.org
Learning is never a waste of time, but would that time being better employed with another technology? I think, definitely, yes.

Important point, whether you like php or not, you need to know why. If you like it because you are comfortable with it, make sure to know why. Being comfortable in a dev environment is great when you are learning, but very dangerous in the long run, since learning something new will be much (much) more painful.

Also, what is your final goal ?

If you just want to learn to build websites, regardless of top notch ways of doing things, just stick with what you are productive and comfortable with. The more reputable tech you use, the better, but it's not the point.

If you want to learn websites because it looks like a good way to learn programming in general, don't stay in the comfortable zone, don't fear the steep learning curve, embrace it. Well, it's not masochism either, if it's too painful, just stop. You have been intimidated by Java, but don't let it divert you from all other techs. Django/Python, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS and some others are much more easier to step into, will teach you much more about programming in general.
Vaccines do the precise opposite of what you just wrote - they expose you to huge numbers of viral particles ramping up your immune system so a state of enhanced immunity performance.

When you travel to foreign countries, you tend to take a number of vaccines just so that your body is ready to fight off the endemic diseases that are prevalent in the region you are traveling to.
So I've never used the browser integration, which might be why I've had a more stable time of it, but I use it over dropbox on windows, Mac and Linux and have had exactly 0 stability issues, with either the 1.0 or 2.0 clients.

The only downer is that the Linux / mac builds don't support automatically locking, which is a pain. If I get time I'll look at submitting a patch
> sort by user ratings

> see http://headphones.techcrunch.com/l/904/Razer-Electra

> close tab and never visit that website ever again
Why Tesla is so good when pretty much every other electric car has been reviewed bad and impractical?
Thank you. These kinds of articles down play the importance of mothers, and are ironically anti-women because they perpetuate the belief that stay-at-home moms/dads are inferior to working moms/dads.
Your wording is one of the reasons people skip on vaccinations.

> Vaccinations are a risk, which are designed to mitigate another (larger) risk.

People don't understand risks, the lottery is one excellent example of people that don't understand basic probability. The difference between 1 in 10.000 chance of death vs 1 in 1.000.000 of sickness is huge, but when presented to most people the risk seems the same (very small).
"Read my comment without considering me as anti-vaccines"

I didn't regard you as such in the first place. I regarded you as making the incorrect appeal to argument by moderation.

Now you have switched the topic, from the implication that the US health policy and/or supporters in this forum are "unconditionally pro" vaccination, to a question about a specific vaccine and disease.

I do not wish to discuss this new topic.
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Why they do it? Because it works (until it hits HN front page).

From my experience, running client sites, Google is blindly trusting anything from big brands, screwing the small business sites. It's almost like content quality doesn't matter at all, especially after all the animal updates (Panda, Penguin etc.) Small sites are desperate as they have lost as much as 90% of traffic for no apparent reason.

It must be profitable for Google too, their earnings have skyrocketed since then, even as they hit a plateau in market share. Occam's razor and all.

Edit: The competing theories as to why Google does it are that Google wants to shake small business into advertising, considering that brands already do. Once you lose traffic you can advertise or close doors. Another one is that so-so search results are better to increase ad clicks. Considering that Google has a monopoly and still a strong brand, the second theory cannot be ruled out.
Because that is always good advice for a depressed person 'get over it and do something new'... I take it you've not suffered from medical depression or anxiety?

It's easy to think people can just snap out of their worries and issues, but do you really think that advice to someone with what seems to be serious people issues is going to be productive?
I don't understand why you think I'm discussing US policy... It seems we don't understand each other and ending our discussion is indeed the best option.
That's what the article says as well:

> In other words, in the race against the machine, some are likely to win while many others lose.
“There’s a difference between incompetence or mismanagement or poor judgment or excessive risk taking from actually breaking the law,” Gorman said. “There’s nothing I’ve seen that would suggest that any of the major participants in the financial crisis should be in jail for their actions.”

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Misconduct of financial companies goes unnoticed and unpunished most of the time, and when it is caught the penalties are usually in the form of fines that are dwarfed by the gains accrued from misconduct. Morgan Stanley is typical of Wall Street firms in that it has been caught doing a variety of dirty deeds (which are probably just the tip of the iceberg) but has been forced to pay almost meaninglessly tiny fines in "restitution".

The city I live in collects train-fare on the honor system. There are no turnstiles, gates, etc.. There are machines to buy tickets and trains. Occasionally, transit officers will perform a spot-check on a train that's between stations and you get a fine if you don't have a ticket or pass. If, on average, you get spot-checked once a year, then a fine needs to cost your more than a year's worth of passes or it makes no financial sense to buy them. Not surprisingly, the fine is several hundred dollars. In the financial sector, the fine for being caught is a tiny fraction of buying a single one-way ticket!

Gorman is absolutely wrong. Penalties for financial misconduct need to be far harsher than they are now to achieve even a basic level of deterrence. This may be very difficult to achieve purely with fines. No matter how diligently the government works to "patrol the trains" and set fines high enough to encourage honest behavior in the financial sector, the financial sector will find ways to game the system. That's their core competency! Lasting personal consequences need to exist. Jail-time is probably not the best way to deal with these sorts of crimes, but confiscation of personal property and restrictions on the jobs convicted financial felons can hold would be a very good start.
Someone replied pointing out the correct solution (build with -DPURIFY) a few hours later [1], but I think the Debian developer in question was too young to understand what Purify is or why that's the correct approach.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=114654760312453&w=2

Edit: also, the Debian developer didn't actually identify himself as such on the mailing list, or I have a feeling people would've scrutinized what he was suggesting a lot more closely.
For a European example, this profile of Zara is interesting. Its very much lean startup applied to retail, so about what customers want not manipulating demand http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/magazine/how-zara-grew-int...
I do NOT need a desktop, but I would immediately support a startup building a good Linux developers laptop with crucial criteria being:

* Excellent keyboard for fast typist and programmers, must be better than the Thinkpad keyboards

* Ability to chose the keyboard layout, i.e. being able to chose US International or whatever you like (Lenovo allows to chose US international independent from the country where you deliver to, this is one of the reasons why I use them)

* Having a great Trackpoint, at least as good as the one from Thinkpads

* Having a 3:4 screen ratio and great screen specs, colors, brightness, resolution, should be available from 12" to 15.6"

* Needless to say that Hard-Ware components MUST be fully supported by Linux

* Build quality must be rock-solid

* The option to order it withOUT paying for Windows

* Must be as light as possible with the given specs and material (e.g. I do NOT need a CD/DVD drive)

* Must provide an options to pay for at least 3 year worldwide warranty including coverage for accidental damage

I guess HN fellows will have some more criteria to add. But for me those are the most important.

I am ready to pay a premium for this.
I suppose forking PHP is as realistic as forking Perl :)

Also i can imagine two major reasons PHP is not forked:

1) You have a small committed developerbase which is too much invested in the ecosystem (Zend and others).

2) Every other user (aka webdeveloper and PHP developers that want a major change) in the ecosystem may rather move on to another language then try to fork it. In the end: What what you do with a PHP fork that doesn't move in the direction of Ruby, Python and Co.?
Because most of the people outraged that Google supplied "-s 0" instead of "-s 64" when running tcpdump weren't quite bright or were not thinking it through? I've yet to hear of any intelligent reason to be upset about the WiFi collection thing.

And more precisely, it's the NSA, who has the job to break encryption. There was outrage when Carnivore was made public (late 90s?), then that AT&T room the NSA tapped that was leaked in 2006. By now, it's just taken for granted (by technical people anyways) that unencrypted communications are going to be recorded. You don't even need a state-level adversary to achieve this on a limited scale.
I'm using 12.04 still and was stuck with Gwibber, hoping to see something like this. I just installed TweetDeck (and an open-sourced Google Authenticator app) and what a pleasant surprise!

I'll have to test these more thoroughly but both installed no problem and appear to be working perfectly.

This is especially good timing because I'd like to move off Android to a Firefox OS mobile handset soon. Once I see something performance/spec comparable to a Nexus 4 I'm on board.
actually yeah, what you're talking about is something called checks and balances, where the bad is mitigated as much as possible.

Even in your situation where government works in its own benefit, these are conflicting:

- The executive wants the data logging because it makes investigations easier , so less police work

- The judicial would not want this because it would make more open and shut cases, those reducing the need for workforce there

Even here , by applying your logic, checks and balances work
The bulk of Japanese debt is to large Japanese pension funds, so yes theoretically the government could just declare that the Japanese people wouldn't get their pensions and simply steal them, but somehow I don't think that's going to work...

Btw. There's an interesting problem with the Japanese debt - if you look at Japanese demographics the population is aging rapidly. This means that the pension funds that hold the debt will have to sell out because the money needs to be paid out. Who will they sell to? Every major institution in Japan is already stuffed to the gills with bonds, so there are two options: print money or sell to foreign investors. Printing money is balancimg on a knifes edge ( which is what the Bank of Japan is currently doing). Currently Japan pays an interest of less than 1%, and yet they spend 25% of their turnover just on interest payments. If you print money inflation and thus interest rises. When they reach 4% they will spend 100% of their income just paying interest on their loans. They can of course print more money and keep depreciating their currency, but history shows us that that doesn't end well. Alternatively they can try to sell bonds to foreigners, but somehow I doubt that there are any takers unless the interest rate goes up. As a comparison Greece pays around 8%.

I'm not saying that Japan will definitely go bankrupt, I'm just saying that there are some pretty big red flags, and maneuvering around them is going to be damn hard. Since there are equally hard problems elsewhere in the world economy (as I hinted at above) there's a real chance that something somewhere goes awfully wrong.
> Your wording is one of the reasons people skip on vaccinations.

Unfortunately, my choice of wording is not the problem... you are welcome to restate what I said, if you like.

In the case of vaccinations, it is economically rational to skip a vaccination (from a selfish point of view) - you receive the majority of the benefit from herd immunity and don't have to take the risk of the vaccination.

The fact that people almost always do choose to take vaccinations shows that we humans have a good altruism and excellent appreciation of the consequences in wider society. I don't think policy should undermine that by disguising the mathematical truth of the situation.

In most cases, we trust that people can judge their own risks. Every medicine has a list of side-effects with their possible risk attached. Vaccinations should really be no different.

(We can argue about your lottery example another time - there are several rational reasons to play)
PHP is fantastic, it's definitely the best web platform if you want to actually get things done.

Having said that, learning a language's syntax is not the same as learning programming (or web development). If you are serious about what you are doing, learn OOP theory, design patterns, the internals of the web (TCP/IP, the HTTP protocol, etc.), security, and a bit of cryptography can't hurt.

So you can use PHP while learning all those things, and you will be golden. Ignore all the FUD and hate around it, eg: "php is insecure", "php websites are a mess", "php is for noobs", "php is slow". Using a different language won't fix any of that, learning how to program will.

And if you ever decide to switch to a different language within the same paradigm (procedural / OOP / semi functional, eg: ruby/python/javascript/java), it won't take longer than a few days, because you already know how to program, so you only have to learn the syntax.
I giess this will really make devs understand that one day, they might see a world without google or any search engine, and they will start to adapt and create a more decentralized internet.

I'm not talking about a come back to the stone age, but I'm sure there are tons of opportunities to do networking with decentralized apps so that users can actually own their data to make it more relevant. Today the internet is completely ruled by big companies, and users can't really decide how the internet should view them.
If you own the entire datacenter (like I'm sure Google does in most scenarios) and you're having racks compromised, then you probably have much larger issues that crypto won't solve.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. I never said that the motivator was ending up with more money.

But yes, they will pay less taxes.

So, if their tax rate is 35%, every donated dollar costs them only 65 cents.
Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter vs sqlite)
What's stopping an individual Tor user from selecting 5 hops instead of 3? Or a random number of hops between 4 and 8? (Besides the sacrifice in performance, of course.) In the current environment, wouldn't even going to 4 hops prevent analysis, as current analysis tools are going to be set for the default implementation?