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Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673271 and previous links in there.

Start by practising: try to make this question better, discuss what you think and what you found researching about asking good questions.

Ugh. I suggest reading "Ina May Gaskin has blood on her hands" (http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2012/05/ina-may-gaskin-has-b...).

At home births have caused deaths and brain damage that could easily be avoided in a hospital. The article hand waves these away by saying deaths caused by unnecessary surgery aren't scrutinized. To that, I say "then show it to us", because we can readily see the harm in at home births:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2012/03/09/wren-jones-2/

http://skepticalob.blogspot.com

http://hurtbyhomebirth.blogspot.com

There is pyprocessing, probably others: http://code.google.com/p/pyprocessing/

Read about it and spread the word: http://www.google-melange.com/ :)

Here's a place that teaches you about joining, giving nice experience for when you start your own: http://openhatch.org/

The Overstock CEO has this to comment: http://www.deepcapture.com/joe-floren-screws-the-pooch/ (tl;dr: Ha-Ha!).

Hey, thanks for wrecking page display for me! :)

Some responses from the Dart team: https://plus.google.com/115362263245161504841/posts/82jKeP4Y...

Author has recently submitted a patch to CPython which he believes will speed up the interpreter (looks too invasive and not discussed enough to have a chance of landing anytime soon IMHO): http://bugs.python.org/issue14757

Mail thread: https://groups.google.com/group/cython-users/browse_thread/t...

Here you go: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:39agAaD...

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Diego_Garcia and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia, there's a Wikileaks document about creating a Diego Garcia marine reserve for the purpose of avoiding the return of the Chagossians.

It seems to be faster (starts building faster) and gives progress information make lacks. See http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.h... (for motivation) and https://plus.google.com/108996039294665965197/posts/SfhrFAhR... (for benchmarks). TLDR: Firefox takes 14m to fully build with make and a nop build takes 57.9s, Chrome takes 30m with ninja, but a nop build takes only 0.74s.

With some images of each (which I can't judge for accuracy): http://semiaccurate.com/2011/08/18/intel-moves-transistors-f...

FWIW, PyPy is close to supporting 3.x (for x ~ 2 IIRC): http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/04/py3k-status-update-3.ht...

There might be, but yeah, that's not the main reason for searching IMO.

See http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html, but it boils down to "something really interesting can be found along the way, primes relate to other important topics so learning about them has intrinsic value, there's some money in it (but you have a 99.9% chance of spending more than the prizes in your search... and you still won't win)".

"What do you want to tell people that no one has ever bothered to ask you?"

"Oh, nothing really..." proceeds to give the best answer in the interview

Some background (announcement, talk): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3692055

A bit OT, but has anyone noticed that Twitter seems to have stopped using SPDY? Any information on that?

Press "?" for a list of all keyboard shortcuts ("?" also works on some Google properties).

Fixed, thanks!

Here's Brendan's post on the subject: http://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/

I believe the PyPy folks are working on an implementation of R in RPython (which would give it a JIT for free). See https://bitbucket.org/cfbolz/rapydo for code without much in the way of docs or overview.

The blog is from Google, so the logo is OK. The post, OTOH, has clear attribution.

Edit: Also:

    The authors of these posts include Googlers and guest 
    bloggers. Opinions expressed here do not necessarily 
    represent Google’s views. We hope the numbers presented 
    will inspire meaningful conversations and inform policy 
    debates.

Oh man, it was posted one hour earlier and mine got all the votes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3808719. I blame the new localized blogspot[.com].xx domains, I suggest that HN should special case these when looking for duplicates.

Someone requested a new password for your account. Maybe they were actually trying to log in, forgot their password and mixed the username up, maybe because they thought they had (malicious) access to the corresponding mail box, maybe because the new passwords are easier to crack than arbitrary ones...

If you go to http://marketshare.hitslink.com/, it also shows that Windows XP had an increase in marketshare. So my guess would be that some huge market (China?) added noise to the numbers, due to their methodology based on "estimated internet users per country".

They are building a "Metro style enabled desktop browser" (see http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/02/building...) which has a lot more power than Metro apps.

I couldn't find a peep about the meeting in TSA's blog. I find it ludicrous that they can boot a top tier expert without enough time to replace him by anyone that could bring similar points to the discussion.