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Interestingly, many of the 'alternative' layouts don't have the same advantages on the phone.[1] For example, any of the layouts that emphasize home row locality, such as the * aks, don't really help when you're typing with two thumbs. The Sholes "slow you down just enough to avoid a physical constraint" method turns out to be useful when you have two digits flopping around with the potential of being in each other's way.

Also, you can change the default keyboard at the application level[2], but this leads to annoying "edit here, copy, paste there" workflow solutions. You can also change it at the system level if you have a phone that can be jailbroken.

A particularly awesome example of alternative keyboard implementations on iOS is Hipjot[3], which affords two-finger swype-style typing. The developer demonstrates 120wpm touch-typing on his phone[4] and advertises 70-90wpm on the Hipjot app store page.

[1] Pretend I acknowledged the iPad.

[2] Fleksy includes an SDK option. http://fleksy.com

[3] http://jormy.com/hipjot/

[4] http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/11/new-ios-swiping-keyboard...
Bill Gates just addressed this [1], showing the faulty thinking behind this idea that saving lives is ultimately bad for the earth.

"It may be counterintuitive, but the countries with the most deaths have among the fastest-growing populations in the world. This is because the women in these countries tend to have the most births, too.

This pattern of falling death rates followed by falling birth rates applies for the vast majority of the world. Demographers have written a lot about this phenomenon. The French were the first to start this transition, toward the end of the 18th century. In France, average family size went down every decade for 150 years in a row. In Germany, women started having fewer children in the 1880s, and in just 50 years family size had mostly stabilized again. In Southeast Asia and Latin America, average fertility dropped from six or seven children per woman to two or three in a single generation, thanks in large measure to the modern contraceptives available by the 1960s.

Because most countries—with exceptions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia—have now gone through this transition, the global population is growing more slowly every year. As Hans Rosling, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and one of my favorite data geeks, said, “The amount of children in the world today is probably the most there will be! We are entering into the age of the Peak Child!”"

Saving lives will improve humanity and -- as humanity has discovered -- actually contributes to fewer births. This is one of the reasons we see shrinking populations in 25 nations including Japan, Ukraine, Italy, Greece. [2]

The reality is that saving lives counterintuitively decreases population through lower birth rates, which may ultimately help the earth.

Also, observe that the world is at its highest population today, and yet, billions of humans are totally resource-secure. Why this counter-intuitive phenomenon? It's largely thanks to technological advancements in farming and genetics. There is no reason to believe this trend will not continue.

[1]: http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/?cid=bg_gn_ll0_01202...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline
Well given the subject matter they've both chosen to revolve their life work around, doesn't seem that implausible.

Edit: Basically I'm just agreeing with you.
Once there was a consensus the sun rotated around the earth and that was dis-proven by a guy with a telescope and good record keeping.

There was a recent article in Scientific American about this (unfortunately, subscription required).

Given the size of the image of a star seen thru a telescope, either the size or the distance can be calculated from the other by elementary geometry. Because of diffraction from the wave nature of light -- which wasn't understood back then -- these calculations said that if the stars were the same size as the sun they couldn't be much farther away than the farthest planets. Which would be close enough to see annual parallax if the earth really did move around the sun.

And so because of this and a couple other reasons, Copernicus had to resort to proof-by-theology since the available evidence appeared to disagree with his position.
It's a start. You don't go from a tiny handful of sites started by Bitcoin enthusiasts to being accepted on Apple.com and in Starbucks retail locations in a day. A year or so ago, we were pretty much at the tiny handful of sites stage. We're starting to get some fairly second-rate internet retailers now, who have no reason to be interested in Bitcoin aside from pure business potential. It's a good step. Widespread adoption of something so unprecedented, poorly-understood, and potentially disruptive isn't going to happen overnight.
Obviously my data is anecdotal, but I really haven't seen much IBM hardware deployed in communal datacentres (e.g. Peer1 or similar).

If IBM's selling that kind of volume, it could be to governments and other large enterprises with private datacentres.

Then again, that's revenue, so for every IBM server there could be five commodity Dell units in the rack and they'd have the same net cost.
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Do any of the source links provided in the circles work? Almost all of them are 404 or non-responsive servers.

Also, it looks like some of the bubbles are duplicates, one is 4000 in California, then one from a few months later is 5000 and it looks like the 5000 is a report that just adds 1000 more to the previous report, but it's counted as two separate things.
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I think we're well overdue for a surveillance DrStrangelove.

It wouldn't work. No film depiction could possibly be as absurd as what has already been foisted onto our everyday lives already.
heh, interesting. as somebody mucking about with containers in Go, i also recognize it to be a sub-problem, and not one really worth having a language-level debate over.

perhaps odd, because i come from a crappily-typed PHP background. but if PHP teaches you anything, it's that you can accomplish just about anything with arrays (maps/slices).
That's like saying that Amazon doesn't actually embrace the US dollar, they just embrace payment services like Visa and Mastercard.
you're describing my exact scenario here.
Inline Javascript is outright banned by default. Read the HTML5Rocks article they linked, it is much more comprehensive and answers most of the questions like that that I had.
There is one very significant wrinkle, though: The difference between ongoing practices and hypothetical, emergency actions.

In the former case--ongoing practices--it is hard to make a credible argument against oversight.

Some details may need to be withheld from the public to protect basic operation security. For example, the identities of overseas informants ought not to be disclosed, lest they be immediately imprisoned or executed by their governments. Nor should there be a Twitter feed giving up-to-the-minute location data on US special forces teams. These examples seem farcical, but they illustrate the point that at least some operational details genuinely deserve secrecy. (Unless you reject the underlying premise that the United States should conduct intelligence and military operations overseas at all. But that's a very different discussion.)

But even though specific details may need to be kept secret--for a reasonable amount of time, until they're no longer actionable by enemies--the nature of the government's ongoing practices ought to be disclosed.

The latter case--wherein lower-level officials are permitted to make judgment calls in time-sensitive emergencies--is rather different. This is the situation contemplated by the White House during the Cold War.

As the reasoning went, the American nuclear deterrent must be credible, or else the Soviets would seize the opportunity and launch an unprovoked attack on the US, Germany, or both. If a communication breakdown between the White House and the military could render the nuclear arsenal unusable, that would tend to diminish the credibility of the deterrent. On the other hand, the risk of a lower-level official making the wrong judgment call and starting a world war is appreciable.

Given these considerations, reasonable people could disagree on what the optimal policy would be. It is not unreasonable or morally repugnant to conclude that certain trusted military officers should be granted the authority to make a judgment call when a) the situation is an emergency, and b) the chain of command has broken down.

Again, the key distinction here is between ongoing practices and emergency measures in a hypothetical, worst-case scenario. That distinction must affect our moral judgment of the respective policies.
Those 1,5k per month could be a reason why, true.

For my student job I only make 500 euro a month, but that's well a side job while i study tho. so of course that is somewhat low, because i'm only working 9 hours a week there.
> I know this has been beaten to death

You don't say.

1. http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/12/esmereldas-imagina...

2. https://github.com/kr/godep

3. http://golang.org/LICENSE
The most reputable source I could find that touches on pertussis vaccinations and disease spread is http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc..., particularly this part: This research suggests that although individuals immunized with an acellular pertussis vaccine may be protected from disease, they may still become infected with the bacteria without always getting sick and are able to spread infection to others, including young infants who are susceptible to pertussis disease.

The study, conducted on animals, does not, however, suggest that the vaccine increases rate of disease spread, rather that vaccinated individuals can serve as unaffected and unsuspecting nodes of transmission. This can happen with the acellular type of vaccine, not the whole-cell.
In a fair amount of Biology and Medicine, it's not at all common practice to place a pre-print in arXiv. It doesn't surprise me even a little that the folks here haven't done so.
They also used to charge an "inactivity fee" if you used less than a certain minimum amount of data in a month, even if you were supposedly on the free plan. That wouldn't be so bad, except that the only mention of it is buried in the middle of a 5,000 word document that isn't even directly linked at any point in the signup process: https://www.freedompop.com/service_plan_terms.htm

It looks like they abandoned the inactivity fee in June 2013, but even so, it left me with a very negative impression of the company.
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Have you actually read the article? It looks you haven't. It's about the deniers who obviously trolled everybody at the expense of the taxpayer's money not bringing any scientific improvement at all.
Without commenting either way on the veracity of the GP comment's claim, it sounds like you're asserting something on the basis of your own bias, here, too.

EDIT: particularly so, given the follow-ups to your comment's sibling, citing animal studies demonstrating exactly the thing claimed: that even vaccinated individuals can transmit the disease.
>During the Cold War there were nuclear anti-aircraft missiles, nuclear anti-missile missiles...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-26_Falcon

I guess it wasn't the author's fault, but that's the one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. Until about 1990, anti-aircraft missiles were horribly inaccurate. I read somewhere that the chance of scoring a hit with a korean-war era air-to-air missile was about 5%. Why would anyone want to launch a nuclear missile that's pretty much guaranteed to not his its target?
I watched Stalker years after reading the novel it was based on. It was the first Tarkovsky film I watched and I didn't even know who Tarkovsky was at the time. My thoughts immediately after watching it were "wow, this is bad, the book is so much better", and then I found out that this is actually a critically acclaimed movie. I don't get it.
Well, that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that women are less tolerant of assholes, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Women (overall of course, individuals vary) and men in general have different social cues and expectations. That's why each gender will act differently in the locker room than they will around the boardroom table.

Personally, I think there is nothing wrong with suggesting that women in general are less tolerant of being directly criticized in a public forum than men are. I don't view it as a sign of weakness. Men are much less tolerant of the behind the back insults that happen in women's circles than women are. The genders (overall, again) relate differently.

Neither is a sign of weakness, although they are exactly that when one of the two methods is dominant. And that's where we are today - computer science is closer to a locker room in culture and behaviour in many ways than it is to a boardroom. I see no reason not to accept the fact that many women would not be comfortable given that.

It isn't the women that need to change, though.

(I also see your point. My first comment may not have been properly clear.)
That is so clever. If you can convince your coworkers to use it, you can figure out if you're underpaid.
Being one of those people, and an Epidemiologist, if this team manages to succeed, I'll happily shut up.
The initial comments appeared to me to be skewed toward criticism that was negative and/or tangential to the book's goals. It appears to have improved somewhat.
Okay. I hope the Visual Studios Express (free) compiles it in Windows 7 running in VirtualBox.
WTF is this crap? Have we gotten so deep into the PC weeds that any criticism of something a woman does is de-facto sexist/incorrect?!

If the (rather mild) contents of this thread are what you're hemming and hawing about, please make good on your threat, leave and take the horse you rode in on with you.
I had this problem with my 5S (never my 5). It seemed to be related to heat?.. when I had my local hotspot, iTunes, etc, running. The device would get really hot and then shutdown. When it was cool enough, I could reboot it. When I took it to the Apple store, they guy was like 'yeah, this happens to mine too'. He was cool though, he gave me a new one.

Have no idea why it was happening.. if it was a heat issue, then I would have expected it to happen sooner (I had the S for about two months).
Is that the next talking point for the Bitcoin opponents/skeptics? I guess once "no retailers accept Bitcoin" dried up, it's no surprise they found a new one.
The two methodologies aren't mutually exclusive. Maybe when this book comes out your kids will love it, perhaps even have a better appreciation for the concepts because of their experiences. Or, since Ruby is very different than BASIC, it might give them a glimpse into the variety of the world of computer programming.
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Thanks for the suggestions! I'll add Github issues for those.
Sounds very like the UK Trident submarines which couldn't be dependent upon explicit authorization from a central authority.

In a very British way, our ultimate deterrent relies on hand written letters from the serving PM carried by each sub:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
'inline' is also treated as a separate source. If your policy is 'self' that only means same-origin code is allowed to run, and inline JS is disabled.
Here we go - it's another strain one can still be colonized by, not pertussis, but parapertussis: http://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-... ("An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.")

tl;dr: "We missed a spot." Which is going to happen. I don't think it validates being anti-every-vaccine, but it does validate asking questions and furthering research (and ceasing the vilification of the population that does ask questions!).
I'm 100% with you. Feels dirty to write Clojure that becomes Javascript, I rather be writing Lua or Scheme or Python. But LT already exists, and the imaginary editor we want doesn't.
> It seems like believing you are vaccinated would increase risky behaviour. This is bad in itself. It is also bad if the vaccine is only partially effective, since the risk effect might balance the vaccine effect.

But this will also be true of the vaccine as employed in reality, and thus a useful piece of information to capture.
Because you don't really need to "hit" the target.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike

Anti-aircraft missiles with optional nuclear warheads. Basically, the idea was to nuke their nuclear bombers.
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Someone should have given him a laser cutter. I can't imagine hand-cutting all those pieces.

A 3d printer would struggle with the voids, and would still need to print each piece individually.
So downvote and move on. You're not adding anything on topic with this meta comment and you could have foreseen it would hijack the top spot.

To add insult to injury, you're being drama-royalty: just because a few nobodies level unfounded criticism at her is not reason to "quit HN for good". Or you would've quit long ago. And instead of rubbing their face in their dumbness by explaining to them how wrong their criticism is, you're just going to stand on a soapbox and complain in general about how annoying the world is. Do something about it! And no, what you have posted is not doing something about it.
It's simply a sort algorithm that takes into account any possible signal including OS, Browser, IP / Geo, past purchase behavior, etc. If you figure out that Mac users on average tend to click more on "boutique" hotels that have better design, why would it be wrong to feature those higher up in the results list? It just so happens that those hotels tend to be more pricey but they certainly did not "price" up the same hotel for Mac users. One is standard personalization, the other is price discrimination, and the headline made it sound like the latter.
Diversity could be: Income, Country of Origin, Sex, Sexual preference, Ethnicity... much more. It's a broad term.
I agree almost completely with this article. However, there needs to be a reasonable timeline established between a candidate and an employee for a decision. Customarily, a job offer expires after two weeks of issuance which seems reasonable. A company needs to be able to move onto other candidates before they become unavailable.
Great, that's what I was looking for. Saying "provide the vaccine for free" on the site, I was cynical and assumed it just meant the results/formulation would be published but someone would still have to create it and ultimately it would be a product that is sold. It's good to hear your goal is to have the vaccine be actually free to the end consumer, that's awesome.
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Right now the project is only relying epitopes derived from actual controller targets. Our hypothesis is that if we go after the epitopes that HIV controllers preferentially target that we will get an immune response with memory in humans just as we have so far in our animal studies. The only way to test this is to execute on our clinical trial in humans. The current experiment we are aiming to perform is a good middle ground since we will be immunizing human blood against HIV in a controlled environment and then testing that immunity.
The funny thing is "идите" can mean both "go away" and "come with me" depending on the context and intonation. They should've simply translated it as "go!".
Only time I bought anything from TigerDirect recently was a desktop. It arrived DoA (well videocard was), TigerDirect shipped a new one, and paid return shipping on dead one, at no cost to us.
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> I read somewhere that the chance of scoring a hit with a korean-war era air-to-air missile was about 5%. Why would anyone want to launch a nuclear missile that's pretty much guaranteed to not his its target?

Because with a nuclear air-to-air missile in its intended role, you don't need to "hit the target", you just need to detonate somewhere in the general area of the bomber formation that you are trying to whittle down.
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I definitely see it as being the biggest roadblock for most sites. The report-only mode is useful for getting a work list of what needs fixing.

Plus long term moving inline JS to separate files must improve maintainability, version control, and also means your caching might work more effectively. So there is a little gain for the pain (aside from just the content policy).
I switched to Emacs after being very impressed with nxml-mode. I found no better xml editor on Linux.

Emacs is great if there is a mode that's written for what you're doing--for instance, nxml-mode. I can imagine it's also great for C, for instance, because that mode is old and has seen lots of work. For lisp I'm sure Emacs is peerless.

Emacs is not so great if there's not a good mode for you. I grew frustrated trying to edit Haskell in Emacs; there are a bunch of half-baked modes out there. The problem is that without a good mode, even basic tasks like indentation are painful in Emacs, while Vim will indent anything well without a specific mode.

Often cited as Emacs' biggest advantages is how it integrates with other tools or, perhaps, how Emacs can become those tools. You can run your debugger in Emacs. You can read mail in Emacs. You can do version control in Emacs. The problem is that Emacs is never truly good at any of those other things. Running a shell in a buffer has problems. (You can run a shell inside a real terminal emulator in Emacs, but by that point you might as well just use a real terminal outside of Emacs.) Emacs is not a great mail reader. It's not great at doing version control and, what's more, it doesn't keep you from having to learn your underlying VCS, so now you have to know two ways to do things. Same goes for dired--it's a completely different way to manage files, but you still need to know how to use a real shell, so it just ends up being too much trouble to learn dired.

The thing is, when you strip out all the other stuff Emacs is supposedly good for--managing files, being a terminal, etc.--all you're left with is a middling editor with a good lisp interpreter. That other stuff is supposed to make Emacs great, but it all ends up being middling too.

So I have switched back to Vim. It excels at being an editor and doesn't try to do other stuff. In some ways Emacs is still better (for instance its support for multiple "frames" is something Vim can't get close to.) But with Vim I spend less time fiddling with the editor and more time editing text. If I ever need to do something for which there is an outstanding Emacs mode (edit XML, for instance) I will load up Emacs for that. But without a good mode Emacs is not worth it.
> You end up with the same result but no need to do any particularly challenging algebra.

And a larger code which means it's bad for an IOCCC.
No, it isn't the same. Visa and Mastercard pay Amazon with USD. BitPay and Coinbase do not pay TigerDirect in Bitcoin. Amazon is fine holding reserves of USD. Retailers like TigerDirect and Overstock are not yet willing to hold reserves of Bitcoin.
Partial immunity in Kid #1.

More pressingly, Kid #3 could have any number of pressing medical issues that mean they cannot be vaccinated, and are thus vulnerable.