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Ouch, unbalanced curly brackets to end blocks? Maybe it's something like significant indentation (python) that will become natural once used. On first presentation though it sure seems scary.
How are you supposed to make an educated decision about the safety of these vaccines, when there's a good chance that the CDC is lying to you about the data?

Just read RFK's article on the vaccine autism link:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7395411/deadly_im...

I've seen a ton of evidence since this article saying that the vaccine-autism link is false. However I've seen zero evidence that the alleged CDC cover up of the safety information didn't actually occur. How are you supposed to make an educated decision about the safety of these products when the head of the CDC vaccine division goes on record saying they are hiding information about their safety.
Well, that's just it isn't it. More people with flu symptoms are going to the hospital and being diagnosed with flu, whereas in the past, they stayed home and got better.

All because of bullshit reporting like this:

http://www.krem.com/topstories/stories/krem2-102009-flu-deat...

A women felt ill. Then felt a little better. Then got ill again within a few days and died in the Hospital overnight.

Without even CONFIRMING that it was Swine Flu, they are reporting it like it is, and they are scaring up everyone in town to think that if they have a tickle in their throat they are going to die in 3 days.
Haha, point taken. I always error (literally) on the side of conciseness. I'll add more verbage.

I added better messaging and error handling since Twitter seems to be really flakey this morning.
Thanks, added some more verbage and error handling.
Do you know whether those Q1 changes have actually been merged into CPython? Will they be coming in 2.7?
That's not what the article says. It says you have to deliberately move your eggs around according to the business cycle.
Summary: Complaining achieves nothing. Figure it out.
Does that take into account R&D?
The other problem with all this foolishness is that the resistance provided by these groups changes the research direction of the big drug companies. It is unwise to walk into a never-ending set of lawsuits. So, they make stuff that is less essential, but still makes them money (e.g. 'enhancers').

Even if you spent all the money and the FDA approves the drug for a specific use, the company will still get sued and it could be devastating. Look at the actual stats for asbestos and how many companies are out of business and how many NEW ones are being sued.

Hysteria and foolish courts are going to wrack up a heck of a death toll.
I hadn't had a flu shot in years. But with the added risk swine flu has brought, I plan on getting on this season.
Er. Doing a very quick search on Google for "real time lisp" and "embedded real time lisp" returned quite a few links and papers showing that people have and continue to be interested in such developments.

Also quite famously: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
I've only had the flu one time in my entire life and it was the same as the only year I got vaccinated. I haven't had a flu vaccine since and I haven't gotten the flu since.

Edit: Not saying I don't believe in vaccines in general. But I'm not sure I believe in the flu vaccine. I can't explain my flu infection, nor can others who experienced the same circumstance: getting the flu the only year they were vaccinated.

I have been vaccinated against other diseases since then though.
What is a veteran graphic designer going to be using?
If you head over to python-ideas there's actually some really good discussion about removing the GIL right now. Someone has proposed using CAS operations (which I know nothing about) to remove the fine grained locking that is needed under the refcounting GC without the GIL. In addition Antoine Pitrou has been working on a patch to make the GIL more performant on POSIX systems.
Right, because the SUCKERS like me who spend far less than they earn and keep their money in a savings account with the highest interest rate they can find (at essentially NO risk) were hurt so badly last time the economy crashed. Right?
Not to bash on the technical prowess required to make these robots, but that looks like an awfully wide millimeter.
who said that failing is bad? Failure it's integrant part of success, otherwise who could you learn to walk or drive?
Pick Your Pleasure: RAID-0 mdadm Striping or LVM Striping
This dude seems cool http://doejo.com/. I saw his design work and was impressed. He has an address listed on this website and I looked it up and it turns out to be this coffee shop near me. I chalked it up that he must work out of that coffee shop a lot.

A few months later, I just realized the guy OWNS that coffee shop :) And another one too in chicago. He also owns a vintage clothing store across the street from me, and sounds like he's building bar.

Looks like he's constantly still designing web applications and manages to run all these other non techy successful projects (his 2 coffee houses are pretty busy and get very positive reviews).
i've been toying around with the same idea for a while, but the things i've thought about seem to be capital and time intensive. i recently read an article that compares opening your own restaurant to throwing your money away. i guess it depends on location and product/service.
That isn't a very good sorting measure. It simply means you were the first one to comment.

You can game Hacker News currently this way. If there is already comments in a topic, don't start a new thread, instead reply to the top thread no matter what they said. You will get more replies and more votes.
Japanese cars absolutely eat into BMW's sales, or have you not noticed the army of hybrids gliding around?
Actually, it's 10.3x less memory (they've subtracted 1), so it's using 9.7% as much memory as the previous release. I would have said that 90.3% less than before, but maybe that's just me
It is quite common to have reports, BI tools and other applications going through your database, so now you have to do the checks on different fronts.

And another very important point, applications errors can be hard to fix, but Terabytes of inconsistent data over the years that your business depends on, now that's nightmare.
Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push
Mozilla Throws Its Weight Behind Improving Web Type  Adopts WOFF for Firefox
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You seem to be right, that would be what is happening.

So, how do we mass produce medicine?
Being in the same industry, I cannot agree more with Patrick. GWO is an amateurish attempt by Google in this industry. It is pain to work with.

However I think it is just a matter of time when the Google catches up. Better, I should buck up!
Pour & Stir - In Pursuit of the Perfect Business Model
A very convenient "have you stopped beating your wife" type poll. Isn't it funny how one can create a movement from ether by just setting up a loaded questionnaire online?

Instead of an anonymous and questionable poll setup by someone with an axe to grind[1] I give you The Road to Lisp. Real names, real people:

http://wiki.alu.org/The%20Road%20To%20Lisp%20Survey

--

[1] The author of that blog is a NewLisp user who made it a habit to troll comp.lang.lisp and other Lisp fora, demanding people treat NewLisp as an equal/real Lisp.
Maybe the headline should be: "Why Doing Nothing But Saving is for Suckers"
No, actually. Well, not directly anyhow. English became the lingua franca post-WW2, mainly because of the powerful position of the English speaking countries militarily and economically after the war.
Google Fail: "Paypal Donation Tracker"
comic book studio in middle school. i had a high school friend who was an amazing penciler/inker, so we teamed up and pretty much blew our friends away. we stopped after he went to college in oregon and i repressed my creativity to make room for practical stuff like AP classes, standardized exams, etc. i always look back on those times fondly and hope to revisit it someday.
I wanted to add one of those thermometer thingies to a site to monitor donations to a paypal account. You'd think someone would have a code snippet for that up somewhere.

Instead every result is for spammy-looking blogs selling licenses to use their code snippets.
Well this is basically what Wired does with most of their articles - take a fairly normal and standard thing that exists in just about every medium and find a way to make it sounds like A Really Big Event in the headline.
That sounds like an excellent idea. How is it working out?
I think I'm missing something here - doesn't GitHub already support Twitter under their service hooks?
Uh... so exactly why should I stop using C, Python or Java (which are mature, distributed and have a lot of libraries) for a language which does not offer advanced new features, about no libraries and also features some... akward syntax? (Don't get me wrong, I can live with syntax with is not C-like, or python-like, but unbalanced braces are certainly just akward).
and the very first post in response to the NYT blog:

I will never get another vaccine, just another way for the goverment to poison us off. Vaccines are the biggest scam ever created.

sigh.
Shouldn't this survey have a "I never learned it" option?

I can't vote on / use something that I don't know.
One-size-fits-all cures. You can buy a treatment, but whether or not that treatment works for your disease is your own responsibility. Let the buyer beware - if you die, it's your own damn fault.

Medicine's not the only industry that faces this problem. Education also requires that the product be tailored to the customer. Except in the public education system, the government did try to mass produce it, having standard curricula that all students must learn, and if it's not appropriate for your brain, that's your own damn fault. Go drop out of school or something.

Those of us who went through the public school system know how that turned out...
You mean the article that the submitted article explicitly calls out as unbelievably shoddy, and for which Rolling Stone has issued multiple corrections?
This sounds a bit like the old trick of setting your alarm clock 15 minutes fast to trick yourself into getting up earlier. It works at first, but eventually you get used to just making the adjustment in your head and hitting snooze a couple more times
Doubtful, since the number would change with every single dose produced if it did.
Is there a big difference with just using a hook like this one? http://gitorious.org/tweetthegit
I started a company looking to do some small scale manufacturing. In a non-web space, it really depends on IP, either currently had or to be developed. Also, any product that is larger than a hand-held widget is going to cost into the hundred thousands to produce (molds, jigs, etc.). There is no open-source manufacturing.

Anything like coffee shops or restaurants are going to take all of your time and be difficult to scale. Only if you reach a level where you can franchise can you get to sustainable growth. Otherwise, it is how much time can you spend on growing it. Anyone who would be capable of taking over some of your responsibilities is likely to go and start their own restaurant.
If you like this interview, could you vote for it on Hacker News? --Andrew

I really wish people wouldn't do crap like this.
Lisp also loses to PHP on maturity, documentation and support

Lisp is 50 years old and standardized for 15 years. Has both an ANSI and ISO standard, freely available books and manuals written by the best and the brightest of the Art. There are 4 commercial Lisp companies and a total of 8 standard-compliant implementations.

There is absolutely no comparison, and it's both telling and sad you would utter them in the same sentence. Take it back.
As much as I love Vim (and I use it all the time), I truly hate it's scripting language. I think Bram devote his time to improve VIm.
Is the "%" key missing from your keyboard? If not, why are you abbreviating "percent" to "pct"?
Mine does. If you're interested: www.clearsky-systems.com
The headline seems a bit misleading - it seems to be in favor of spending all of your money as soon as you get it - the article's actual point, that it is better to put your investments in places that do better than 1% per year, is quite valid.
That's not what the article says. It says you have to deliberately move your eggs around according to the business cycle.

A pure cash investing strategy (money market, CD, T-Bill/Bond) now has a track record as good as the US stock market over 30 year periods. Except the much lower volatility of cash makes it superior.

Plowing money into stock indexes is for suckers. To get any decent returns one is forced to analyze macro economic conditions and allocate accordingly between cash, equities, and inflation/currency hedges. The article makes this point in different words.
It always surprises me that people talk about "immigration" as if it's a binary field, either on or off. To me, it's all about degree. There's an ideal level of immigration - go too high over it, and it leads to overcrowding, social upheaval, displacement. Go too low, and a society stagnates.

It's not just about numbers, of course, it's also about the type of immigrant. While it may be politically incorrect to say so, migrant farm workers who send most of their earnings home may very well result in a net loss, whereas highly educated workers result in a net gain.

The issue is so intense in the US that I think it's productive to ask how you'd design an immigration system for a smaller country with lower population density. Right now, New Zealand has a population of about 4 mil and a land mass only a bit smaller than California.

Would New Zealanders be better off if fifty million immigrants came into the country over the next 20 years? If not, how many immigrants would you consider to be ideal? It's not all about GDP - it's a beautiful country, essentially a giant national park, and that would be lost if they allowed mass immigration.
Ottawa's "Green Bin" Municipal Composting Program is About to Take Off
If you own 100% of the business, then paying yourself for your own product is just a trick. But if you have partners and investors, then it will cost you (not the business) real money.
It's really frustrating that we can't get honest numbers on how much it takes to bring a drug to market.

In the anti-pharma camp you see people quote the manufacturing price, and then you get the pharma companies quoting their entire operating budgets.
its 1 millimeter between the can and the pin, not 1 millimeter between the cans
Making it easy for people to invite/tell their friends is critical from a business perspective. That's how anything viral gets started.
You are a programmer: your primary responsibility is problem understanding, searching the solution-space and evaluating your options.

Even an automaton like the Google algorithm can search data and correlate them. When I type "Common" it auto-completes "Lisp". You should be able to search, find, and compare technologies on their own merit.

The entire programming fora are burning with altruistic recommendations for free Lisp books, some of them classics of the field.
Yea, boto is a great library. IME, SQS seems to be a good option only when you have low throughput. I tried running a high volume of jobs through SQS and found that I needed a lot more workers (EC2 instances) to do the work because each message was so slow to pickup. That made things cost prohibitive. I'm currently working on another AWS based project. It was initially using ActiveRecord based db queues but that, of course, failed at high volume. So I replaced it with kestrel, which works with any memcached client, and that's been great. However, kestrel doesn't do topic/group subscriptions where lots of receivers can get the same message. That's where these message servers seem to be potentially valuable options.
Edit: Changed India to Ireland; apparently Indians speak English.

So do Irish. Well under 5% of Irish people have any real level of fluency in "Gaelic". I got a well above average grade and I discovered yesterday that I'd forgotten the words for ear, eye and egg (linguistic noodling). Everybody in Ireland speaks English.
Which is better, to live wealthy with high risk or to live poorly with little risk? Sure you can make out good when the economy crashes (which is rare) but in the meantime (while things are good) those taking high risks are sure enjoying themselves. Remember; it's just money, you can always make more, try to enjoy yourself a little bit while you have it and don't wall yourself off from the world just to keep what little (or a lot) you may have.
From below:

> GitHub provides similar functionality but it's pretty lame since you have to hand over your creds. OAuth ftw!
My point was that eliteness is nothing to do with Mac usage.
Air Force Shoots Down [Unresponsive] Drone Over Afghanistan
> all instances of your HTTP client share the same cookie jar?

It's cool that you're expanding your horizons by reading code in a new language, but if you hold off on snarkiness until you actually understand the code you're reading, (particularly with regard to what the binding form does) that would be great; kthxbai.
I agree with your sentiment. I also keep quite a bit of money in cash, but these days I'm keeping less so since it seems likely we'll have high inflation in our future, given how much money is being printed. I've moved most of it to gold or silver.
Automatic CRUD interfaces for Turbogears using Sprox
Doesn't seem like that would work if, say, I'm a startup trying to sell high-volume VoIP service to large enterprises.
Ukrainian (waits for the hordes of Ukrainian nationalist to descend)
Exactly. ING Direct has an ad that shows up when you log in that says, "There's no such thing as saver's remorse." So true. If you decide you are not happy with your return on investment of a savings account, you can always move the money somewhere else. Once you've lost all your money buying whatever security Mad Money tells you to buy, you aren't getting it back.

Personally, I have done well with a S&P500 index fund. But I still like to have a big chunk of money immediately available, so if I need the money I can get at it without worrying that today is a "down day".

(People will argue that this is a waste, because inflation outpaces whatever you earn from interest, but this is not entirely true. Other people will enter into similar "money-losing" agreements with me; my rent will cost the same number of dollars every month for 2 years. So while I'm technically losing money, I still have the ability to pay for the same stuff. Compared to actually losing money by buying into whatever fad is popular today, I prefer this one...)
Internet Carriers Consider Use-Based Pricing
Microsoft quite happily sell X-boxes by the tonne to football-playing beer-chugging mouth-breathing fratboys, if that's your definition of "alpha male".
Just pick one of them randomly. Once you know enough about the language, you will be able to choose the implementation that better suits your needs.
Chuck Klosterman on the Game of Football
I am considering giving it a try under Cygwin. If you get there first, please, tell us.
Gold seems to continue to drop in price, even as we print paper money. It's possible that debt is more valuable than yellow-colored metal coins. (Gold does not have a lot more intrinsic value than anything else. If the economy collapses, will people be willing to buy your chunks of metal? Why?)
My big python app (the robot end of a telepresence connection) suffers from GIL problems. Mostly, threads are used for C-only stuff like video compression so they can easily release the GIL while running. But I gotta say, the complexities of GIL correctness, thread performance, gtk/gobject, callbacks, boost.python, GC-correctness of both Python and C++ objects, and polling make my head hurt. Simplicity would be a find goal for the new system.
Interview with Jeff Minter (coder of the mutant Camel series)
jfyi: CAS is the abbreviation of Compare-And-Swap, which are dedicated native machine instructions that offer atomicity and therefore simplify locking.
Making it shorter is trivial :)
I have never tried posting code here, so I I'll try to get the formatting right.

#The import line is unnecessary. It can be inlined, like so:
def is_prime(i): return (i > 1 and all(i % x != 0 for x in range(2, int(__import__('math').sqrt(i)) + 1)))

#Mersenne prime can be put on one line with some functional beautification:
def is_mersenne_prime(p): return p == 2 or not reduce(lambda x, y: (x ** 2 - 2) % (( 1 << p ) - 1), range(3, p + 1), 4)

#With a list comprehension we do not need "if ..:" and can put the loop on one line as well:
for p in [range(2,33219) if s_prime(p) and is_mersenne_prime(p)]: print("M%d"%p)

Three lines. Of course the functions are unnecessary, so inline them in the for-loop and we have our magic target, one line!

I have replaced the list comprehension and range with generators, so if you run this one-liner in your python terminal you will get a continuous stream of primes (if it flushes the prints properly).

for q in (p for p in xrange(2,33219) if (p > 1 and all(p % x != 0 for x in range(2, int(__import__('math').sqrt(p)) + 1))) and (p == 2 or not reduce(lambda x, y: (x ** 2 -2) % (( 1 << p ) - 1), range(3, p + 1), 4))): print("M%d"%q)

Easy as pie.

I don't know anything about code golf, so perhaps I am breaking some rule with the longer than 80 char line? Using ; to sequence statements as in the original is definitely cheating, IMHO :)
The data seems to go deeper than Google Finance however.

At least looking at my own place of employment, Tracked shows you compensation, shares sold/bought by insiders (including direct links to the filed SEC forms), how compensation compares to other companies in the same industry, etc.

For the same info Google Finance seems to just link you to Reuters.
Very interesting. I don't think I would ever enjoy using a keyboard like this, but I kept reading their site because they had a section about Emacs commands. (I have found enough keys to do everything they advertise in one key sequence... but at least they are trying. Much better than "hurr, you can zoom Google Maps more easily.")
I was being cheeky. Sorry if you missed that.
banks traditionally borrow short to lend long. that is how profit and loss capability is generated. that is the s&l proverbial plan. its built into the design and is not a flaw. the problem is expecting the taxpayers to bail the players out when things do not go according to plan and the banks turn out to stink at their jobs.
I know franchisers typically want personal assets in the low-to-mid six figures to get started.

A former co-worker had a friend who became a burrito chain franchisee.

Last I heard it was running like a machine and he had already stepped back out of day-to-day management after the chaos of initial build-out and first phase of operations. I think the franchiser wanted him to open up more locations but he was doing well enough with the first that he felt no need to rush into it.

Of course I was told his family was rich and that's where he got the fundage (and he was idle before that), so . . .
> I think Bram devote his time to improve VIm.

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i always liked gnus usage of scoring individual news articles by either subject/author etc etc. having that would be really nice.

just allow folks to score whatever/whoever they feel like, rather than foisting your version of 'goodness' on others. make low scoring articles fade into the background...
A better way of stating it, is that while Lisp is older, there is a lack of real world experience, documentation, and support for using Lisp as a language for web development. The volume of material, understanding, and optimization strategy for PHP is far and away greater than Lisp.

As an example, search for a simple question on how to do some developmental task on google for both PHP and Lisp. PHP will have more informative pages.