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I appreciate that the effect is medically significant but the intervention was conducted at just one centre. Can it be repeated or is it particular to this centre? There are many, highly statistically significant, results published which faded into obscurity because nobody was able to repeat the results. I hope this isn't the case here but until it is repeated we can't know for sure.

The other point to note is that this article has been written for mass consumption and as such highlights the good but perhaps also misses the problems. I've had a quick look for a peer-reviewed article. I've found this (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647682/?tool=pu...) which I think talks about the initial part of this study but it doesn't include the 2 year follow up.

I really do hope this is as positive as it initially sounds but there is still some way to go yet.
Socialism has killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century. I think it's fair to put it into the "doubtfully useful techniques" bin, where a higher standard of proof for usefulness is required to make use of anything that seems socialist.

Unfortunately, exactly the opposite is the case today. Free enterprise and competition is looked on skeptically, while socialism (multiply disproved and damned by the experience of history) is gleefully embraced and readily adopted with insufficient skepticism.
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It is sound, as long as you are allowed to tune it with "constants" that aren't and "variables" that won't.

Why the mass hierarchy? And three generations (now that is odd...)? All that just to ignore gravity?

Given some tuning parameters, any formula can be made to be a model accurate enough.
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I use SciTE ( http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html ) at home and UltraEdit ( http://www.ultraedit.com/ ) at work.

My needs are simple: I just need an editor that can handle LF-delimited or CRLF-delimited text and one that has some syntax-assistance ( highlighting, brace-matching, ...etc. )

UltraEdit was chosen by someone else at work. It has a lot of features that I admire, but don't really use. I do enjoy the ability to perform column-oriented copy/paste operations and hex viewing with it, though.
Far better than the linked article. And, slightly, distressing: I would be quite concerned about the quality of a product if the chief arbiter of taste for that product professed a dislike for jazz because of an inability to predict what's going to happen next.
What's so bad about the site in Chrome? I'm looking at the site in (Linux) Chrome and Firefox side by side and, aside from the extra 4 lines of vertical screen space that Chrome gives you, they look exactly the same.
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Yeah they do know how to milk their hits. There are already 9 One Piece movies and another one releasing next month. To top it off the series has been running for fourteen years.'

To say nothing of Gundam...

That said, getting a hit series is not really an easy thing for authors (mangakas). They work about 14 hours everyday and have to produce 19 pages of content every week. The gruelling workload takes a toll on a lot of mangaka's health, forcing the series into a hiatus, which further reduces their chance of becoming hits.

And often even when something does become a hit, it creates its own problems: for example, from what I heard, the author of Death Note planned to end the story at what eventually became the halfway point. Instead his publishers told him that it had become so popular that they wanted him to make more of it, and so he dragged it on for a whole bunch more chapters.

There's also the fact that a huge number--probably the majority--of authors don't seem to care too much about making huge hits. Just look at the sheer volume of doujin productions: nobody there ever intends to even make enough money to pay for their own time, yet there's probably more doujin manga than professionally published stuff.
Finals are compiler-enforced, not a VM construct, as far as I know.
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Ramit Sethi has written a blog post on Cal NewPort titled -
"Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and finishes by 5:30pm"

URL: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/time-management-ho...
>and ending with the industry's hypernarrow demographic targeting.

Do you mean outside Japan? In Japan I'd say the target age range is pretty wide
I've had a look on the MS Society website and the only commentary on this research I can find is this: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/news/news-detail/index.aspx...

At the time that article was posted the only peer reviewed article showed a correlation between MS and reduced blood flow but no details on treatment. To my reading it seems fairly balanced in that context.

To some extent I'm playing devils advocate but here goes . . .

Why shouldn't people be tested? Tested by who? Are there sufficient qualified people? How would it be paid for? Would it take resources away from other treatments which we know, even if not very well, do work? What would be the value? How long would people be waiting before they could be treated? Would people be a little more lax in taking other treatments during this time? If the treatment proved not to work as advertised what would be the effect on those who had hoped it would?

Donating data is a good thing? What would be the selection criteria? Those rich enough to pay for the scan themselves? Are they representative? What would be the administrative overhead? Just as adding a new developer to a project behind schedule can slow things down further would an avalanche of volunteered data slow down the overall process? To what standards would this data be collected?
Yet the Beatles continued to pump out more than one album a year. I think there are incentives other than money - fame, status, power, creativity, curiosity etc.
A small sample with no control and a (so far) very short followup period, all at the same facility, for a disease which is known to be strongly episodic and to stay in remission naturally for years at a time, and you wonder why people are approaching it cautiously?
That wasn't very interesting (for me at least ...).

It spends two pages talking about the new bug tracking and project visualization/UML features (but not comparing them to any of the dozen existing tools in the space).

And not even a mention of any of the really cool stuff like F#, M, concurrency/parallelization tools, etc.
If it doesn't say so (plainly) in the warranty, there will probably be a class-action lawsuit sooner or later.
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" If you doubt that, imagine what people in 1830 would think of our default educated east coast beliefs about, say, premarital sex, homosexuality, or the literal truth of the Bible."

Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson didn't believe the Bible to be literally correct. It's well documented. Jefferson even went as far as to create his own Bible, editing out most miracles, the resurrection, and immaculate conception.
Bad example. The Beatles only released albums for seven years, then quit.
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Procrastinate until when you can. When you know, if you don't do it now, you are screwed, you will do it.

PS: Kidding of course!
They have a full right to ask money for indexing their content.

Seriously?

A Dewey Decimal catalogue system should pay money for listing a book?

The White Pages should pay me for including my phone number?

People pay to get entries in the Yellow Pages, not the other way around.
Agree, more like 1/100th of a look for managers...

Any professional C# developer has already seen many more meaty topics by following blogs and twitter.

To that list I'd add all the little "quality of life" framework additions, dynamic objects, covariance and contravariance changes, DLR, WPF 4, ASP.NET 4.

Hard to get excited about modeling (great, a new tool for the architect to wank off with) and TFS...
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All other editors are dead to me now. Sublime Text is amazing.
That's what I thought at first. Then I saw the word "breakthrough" and I knew it wasn't Microsoft.
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I'm in the US on broadband, and I still have to pause videos. I'm not sure what the reason is, but it doesn't seem like that's it.
Experimental surgery is performed all the time, perhaps every day. Sometimes surgeons just do new shit because they find themselves in a novel situation and they have to improvise but more often it's a more calculated decision: weighing the risks and urgency, informing the patient, consulting with other surgeons.
I would do it only when absolutely necessary and there is no other way going forward.

I have a feeling that some people think about approaching a VC just because there is so much stuff written about VCs and funding and it seems necessary. I think it is not something you can't do without, and as other posters suggested, it's best to do it at the absolutely necessary point, if at all.
There are several things that break concentration:
1. Distractions. I'm a super-minimalist and I don't like to see even one extra bar or button on my screen. I've gone to the extent of removing the tab bar from my browser so I can't see which tabs are open (I use Conkeror). And I obviously turn off Twitter/ IM/ email while working.
2. Too many choices. Every second you spend doing one thing, you're losing out time to do something else. Deciding in advance what you're going to do for the next few hours helps.
3. Lack of recreation. Once a week or so, I spend several hours on photography and drawing. I've become a lot less restless/ fidgety over time.
4. Emotional clutter. You might want to maintain a daily diary that you spend 15 mins a day updating just before going to bed. It helps clear your mind.
It's neat but I'd rather make a link to an IRC room via mibbit. That way people can get to the chatroom with other clients too.
TextPad has worked fine for me for years. It does have a bit of oddness but, between TextPad, Visual Studio, and SQL Server Management Studio, I've been able to do what I need.
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Socialism has killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century.

I disagree completely. Implementing socialism in disenfranchised states is by far a more streamlined process than implementing any brand of capitalism. What killed "hundreds of millions of people" was the coupling of fragile citizenries with malicious and self-serving leaders, not the establishment of socialism. I see correlation, but no causation, and I find hasty dismissal of socialism as the "disproved and damned" counterpart of capitalism as completely flawed--especially in a society where the two have been working together (I'd say successfully) for quite some time.
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Yes, Haystack encompasses quartiles 2 and 3, quartile 1 being unable to afford and quartile 4 not needing to list. Anyway, I was just summarising a view I've heard more than once of late; not being in the market for a designer, it's not actually my personal view. YMMV.
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Murdoch seems to think that people use Google to search Murdoch's sites.

By Murdoch's logic, clearly if he withdraws his sites from Google, people will stop using Google to search his sites. But hardly anyone using Google has the intention of "searching his sites". People just want information--most people don't care which site has the information as long as it's good information.

If Murdoch pulls out of Google that just means fewer people will visit Murdoch's sites. Nobody is going to give a toss about the fact that Fox won't show up on Google. This entire strategy suggests that Murdoch misunderstands his own readers.
When I do begin to work on my own startup, I plan to bootstrap as long as humanly possible. I want to avoid OPM (other people's money) as long as possible. Things will get a lot more complicated when you have other people to answer to
The simple rule is: do it as late as possible.

I'd add a rider to this: Raise money as late as possible, but no later.

Yes, the longer you wait before raising money, the better the deal you'll usually get... but only until you reach the point of "we need to raise this money or we're going to go out of business". As PG has said on several occasions, the term "angel" is a misnomer; they're sharks who can smell blood, just like any other investors.
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I wonder if this strategy is really intended to gain a foothold against Google in search, or if they're trying to do something a bit more clever.

Google is the number one search engine, but grew into that position while the web was growing, during a period when people went "on the internet" to find information, rather than to any specific site, and a substantial proportion of users were new to the internet altogether.

Now that the web has reached a higher level of maturity and become a tool of mainstream, day-to-day life, people have begun to view many sites as destinations in themselves.

Look at sites like Wikipedia, eBay, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. They are very collaborative, and function like platforms, but unlike Google's core business, people visit these sites specifically because of the content they host, rather than as a means to explore the wider internet. Add to that the increasing presence of traditional media content, e.g. Hulu, that have been able to leverage conventional marketing to drive users to their sites.

Most of these sites are likely no longer heavily dependent on search to attract users. These sites may be willing to delist from Google in exchange for a direct revenue stream. If they do, it will diminish the value of not just Google, but of web search in general.

This may be a strategy to fragment search as a primary driver of web traffic, and create an incumbent advantage for content providers and web services with high traditional brand awareness, such as its own, at the expense of startups which continue to rely on search to build their user base.
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TextMate and RubyMine (Ruby and Rails), Eclipse (AppEngine, Wave robot dev), IntelliJ (Java), AquaEmacs and SBCL/Franz/Gambit-C (Common Lisp and Scheme).

For documentation/writing: OmniGraffle and Latex (and sometimes Page or OpenOffice.org)
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I'd still argue the textual format is not the AST itself, but a textual representation (just like any code) which is the transformed into the actual AST at parse-time using the syntax rules. Therefore, s-expressions have syntax, even if its minimal.

(x y (z a)) is code, its parsed according to the rules of the syntax and is converted to an in-memory AST representation.
E-TextEditor is pretty nice (http://www.e-texteditor.com/). As a longtime Textmate user on my Mac, I was looking for something to mimic that functionality on my Windows netbook. E also integrates with Cygwin and can be fully customized to your liking.
I'm excited about it. I've been attempting to blog, and using node.js as my subject matter. (Don't want to link-pimp as I need to enhance/edit, but you can check my profile if you're interested).

It's my opinion that JS is the new lingua franca of programming, and it's about time we replaced C/Java. It has consistent syntax, some great functional aspects, dynamic typing, and it's now become a top target for optimization by some of the world's smartest engineers.

Breaking into systems coding is the next step, IMO, in JS becoming a legitimate option for "anything" programming. I think node.js is going to be the library for it. It's really idiomatic and concise, and it's got just the right amount of opinionatedness I think to become the systems and JS version of Rails.
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The article from the MS Society sounds very reasonable.
Ask HN: What country would you lend money to?
Many nations besides the United States are seeking to borrow funds by issuing bonds.

While in the past the U.S. has always been a "preferred" borrower because of a world "dollar standard" and a presumption of good governance there are many indications that this perception is changing.

With so much of our exploding debt being short-term any fall off in a willingness of others to finance it could be disastrous for our future.

If you were one of those bond buyers (and being broke I'm definitely not a bond buyer, but very interested in our future)...

What country would YOU lend to?

Are we still the best "bet" on the planet? Are other nations "tied" to us in ways that prevent them for NOT lending to us?

Or should we all start hoarding stocks of non-perishable foods?
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I worked with VS in ~2001 until 2006 and I absolutely loved it. There was those things that you could click and all the panels every where.

Since 2006, I worked with php & rails in ubuntu. I tried everything from Eclipse to Kokomodo but never found anything that could be as good as VS. I mostly use gEdit.

A week ago, I started to work on VS2008 and it finally hit me... I hate Visual Studio for all the same reasons that I loved it before.

Writing code in gEdit is a freeing experience. It's just you and your code.
And also:

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This quote is astounding:
"What I discovered is that our Web sites are being 'scraped' by other companies -- our competitors! Some of the information on our sites is valuable intellectual property. It is provided online, in a restricted manner (passwords and such), to our customers. Such restrictions aren't very difficult to overcome for the Web crawlers that our competitors are using, because webmasters usually don't know much about security. They make a token attempt to put passwords and restrictions on sensitive files, but they often don't do a very good job."

So this company puts "valuable intellectual property" on the Internet behind token passwords?

And if their competitors are accessing their Web site using stolen/guessed credentials, then I think they need the FBI, not F5.
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I definitely agree with the fact that good services cost money. And I don't mind paying a high tax rate per se, but when almost every full-time worker ends up in the highest bracket, something is wrong.
I tried using Aquamacs for a long time, but it didn't work out, and I just switched back to 'plain emacs' now that the mac version builds out of cvs.
I also use iTerm, Fabric, django, mysql and svn.
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Yes, the series is inspired by Nietzsche's concepts to a large extent. Did not belabor the connection in the series since it would lose half the readers.

There are subtle differences between what I am describing and the ubermensch concept though. My categories, I'd say, are closer to being varieties of "men without backs"/last men (see Fukuyama's "End of History"... and no I am not a neocon :))

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Honestly, if I had enough money, I'd invest - in return for citizenship (some countries do this) - in a country that meets (as close as possible) the following criteria:

1. Isn't in the EU

2. Isn't the US or too closely tied to the US

3. Isn't too closely tied to the UK

4. Isn't terribly unstable, unpredictable or currently at war

That doesn't leave me with much, I guess... though then again, I'm doing this for the citizenship, not the investment, so maybe my criteria isn't the most useful ;-)
I'd probably be just as pissed off or more pissed off if a malicious app screwed up my macbook pro, lost my data, and emailed everyone porn. Both run the same complex operating system. You do not see us regulating those apps. Oh, because there's a 3g connection attached? Not sure I can buy that one.
This is the crux. Socialism/communism as implemented bears little resemblance to the utopian vision, instead of utopia the result is human tragedy on a grand scale. This has happened so many times that it's unlikely to be mere accidental correlation (Stalinist USSR, communist Eastern Europe, China under Mao, North Korea, Cuba under Castro, Myanmar under the Junta, etc.)

And yet, because the vision and practice differ so much this provides a ready excuse for every new generation of socialist utopians to put forward the theory that those historical examples were not really, truly faithful implementations of socialism/communism. Rather than the more realistic theory that utopian socialism is impractical and unstable, and when attempted to be implemented it inherently degrades into the totalitarian examples we've seen so many times from history.

My contention is only that this line of reasoning is dangerous and harmful, and that socialist ideas deserve far more skepticism in public debate than they typically receive.
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