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Even if you made it free, most people still would not show up. But baby steps. Healthcare costs are huge and so are economic costs of sick employees, if they are diverted towards gyms, not much will be lost and much will be gained.
Maybe for some companies/use cases, however my feeling is that the setup time and dealing with hardware directly will always be too much hassle for the majority.
> which I think is a mostly valid reason for downvote-and-move-on. For instance, it's not clear whether you think the prosecution of Capone was just or unjust

I don't see why this makes the comment less worthwhile. I think going for Al Capone that way was a terrible idea, but you seem to have changed your own mind in the other direction based on my viewpoint-free comment. (At least, that's what I get from "I'm not sure that I think a seven-year sentence would have really been sufficient for the fullness of his crimes".) I highlighted a point from your comment and pointed out that a lot of people don't share that value at all; I think that's worth noting regardless of whether your ultimate conclusion is "hmm, Al Capone illustrates that only punishing people for the crimes they committed is a bad idea" or "the US justice system has been going downhill since the early 20th century, but I wish people would come to their senses".
> I continue to get push back from people who assert that "it is really too hard" to hack biology in a garage, or too expensive, or that garage labs just can't be up to snuff. This sort of dissent usually comes out of National Labs, Ivy League professors, or denizens of the beltway. All I can say to this is -- Doodz, you need to get out more.

Are there any examples of significant biological advances or discoveries from "garage biology" in the years since this article was written?
I just started as a senior developer at COS. I'm actually on vacation right now but I can attest to a week of productivity with an awesome team. They have done and are doing things to further science every day.
> The problem some people have is when exercise increases their appetite to the point where they continue consuming too many calories.

It's very difficult to overeat good exercise with good food.

If your idea of exercise is to sit around at the gym for an hour and do a couple of lifts, that's not gonna help. I've seen a lot of that. People go there for two hours, but only get like 15 minutes of real exercise done.

But if your idea of exercise is to go on a 10k run, or doing a boxing class for an hour ... well those are going to burn around 700 calories. That's a lot of calories for someone who's supposed to eat 2000 a day.

Eating 2700 calories (your normal 2000, plus the 700 you burned) is hard if you're not eating cake and stuff. I personally struggle every day to keep my weight from plummeting because the amounts of food I have to eat are astounding. Especially on the days when I do a 30km run (that burns 2500 calories).

Honestly, it's taken me over a year of sustained effort to train my metabolism to digest these sorts of quantities of food.

And yes, I am an edge case. My point is that you can outrun a bad diet. It will take a lot of running though.

PS: the biggest mistake people make is thinking that weight == health. You can be skinny and still super unhealthy.
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Why would you say a billboard is any more disruptive than whatever else I'd be looking at if the billboard weren't there? Maybe it's a tree, or a fence, or a cow, or a farm tractor, or just sand and dirt... but when you're driving on the Interstate, at some point you're going to get bored and your eyes are going to wander looking for something to fix on for at least a few seconds, other than the road in front of you. Well, mine do anyway. Maybe I'm abnormal.

Anyway, I acknowledge that a lot of people get really worked up over billboards. I just have a hard-time getting excited over that. Maybe there are better examples of this "cognitive pollution". shrug
>America is spent out. The US personal savings rate is under 5%. Everything else gets spent, and the saved money gets spent later. There's no "pent-up demand" waiting to be unlocked by advertising.

Though potentially you could persuade people to work harder.

Take me, for instance. I could theoretically retire, if I were happy to live, Mr Money Mustache style, on a very modest income. But every time I pass one of those Jaguar billboards I am reminded to keep working so I can retire later with shinier objects.
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"To use an analogy, if SICP were about automobiles, it would be for the person who wants to know how cars work, how they are built, and how one might design fuel-efficient, safe, reliable vehicles for the 21st century."

On that note can anyone recommend SICP-equivalents for automotive, locomotive and aerospace engineering?
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It's expensive and a bit of pain, but not really difficult. You can go on a guided tour. Actually, it's the only kind of visit you can make, as you might expect.

Irritatingly, a lot of "undercover" "documentaries" about North Korea are merely the reporters taking the tour and filming it.
They're also not socialist, in the sense that the parent comment was (I think) hinting at. There's plenty of capitalism at work in both Sweden and Norway.
And the thing is, they didn't even solve the issue people wanted.

Yes, you can buy everything for US$19.90 per month.

Or you can buy PHPStorm+PyCharm for ($7.90+$7.90) = $15.80

So, under the new model, it's still cheaper to just buy two full-price licenses. There's no discount for the 2nd product.
I feel very uneasy about this project.

SICP is a classic text, and although it is old, it has not aged. I wonder if this is a sign of a stagnation in the field of computing, that as the machines we use become exponentially more powerful, we still know very little about how to use them. In any case, SICP is still an excellent introduction to computing and does not need to be updated just yet.

The name "SICP Distilled" feels very misleading. The programming language has been changed, in what I assume was an attempt to be more trendy, and the content has been changed to the point that it only superficially resembles the original text. There is no better language to explain the concepts of SICP than Scheme, and it appears the author understands this, as he had to remove sections of the text to compensate for Clojure's unsuitability. It appears that he changed or removed a large portion of the text, in fact, and added in their place new ideas which are arguably unrelated to the spirit of the original book. Perhaps it is merely the name "SICP Distilled" that makes me apprehensive, and I would be happy if it was marketed as something completely unrelated, with only a nod to SICP as its inspiration. However, it feels wrong as it is.

Peter Norvig wrote that SICP "is a very personal message that works only if the reader is at heart a computer scientist"[1] It is entirely possible that this project will bring some of the most important ideas of SICP to those who do not fit that description. But is that a goal we should be striving to achieve? This question makes me think back to a portion of the quote, on the very first page of SICP, by Alan Perlis: "Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands."[2]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/review/R403HR4VL71K8/
[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html
I have worked with a couple of systems that used very course grained sharding at the application level. I did not notice these drawbacks. I have not worked with one that did auto sharding on the back end, that might be trickier.
The propensity of a not small portion of the professionally practising population of scientists to postulate the most high profundity to their belief system is a legacy of the discipline's origin among theologians and in the traditionally sectarian institutions that are universities. The proof of science's superiority is on as firm footing as proofs of god when it comes to logical validity, e.g. the Newton that is pointed it to is not the Newton who held the beliefs of Principia's author, as the Schollium demonstrates.

Be fair to theology, for it admits when it's proofs resort to revelation.
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yeah sorry, I deleted that part.
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You are being harsh on the parent. The photo clearly shows the guys doing very unsafe things on American streets. I am actually surprised that police didn't give a ticket. It had made enough news in Indian circles during apri-may 2015 timeframe I don't know why you do not think that photo represents an insinuation and not a truth.

And these guys are not under represented minorities like Blacks or Gays. They come from one of the richest and politically well represented castes.
How timely! I'm currently visiting India and noticed some stairs to nowhere yesterday. That's most likely what is was :)
How would you feel if your favorite machine tool manufactures decided that they would no longer sell you machine tools - only rent them?

How about if cars could no longer be owned, just leased?

This is why people are upset, not because they begrudge tool vendors getting paid.
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So I want to make a well-designed personal site like Paul Graham's : http://www.paulgraham.com. How do I go about doing it ? Where do I start ?
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How many sports must one try before being allowed to conclude that "a sport you enjoy" isn't in the cards?
As I am not an academic but rather an independent researcher working in industry, I have little useful to say about the academic power structure or its future.

To get back to why I joined this thread, do you accept that your scenario of having to visit a state university library in person to read someone's "magnum opus" in book form is unlikely enough that it is more fanciful than meaningful?

As you are also not an academic, I instead offer a better scenario. Many Masters and PhD dissertations are deposited in the univeristy library but otherwise unpublished, and even un-indexed. For some of those you may have to visit the library in person to see a copy or even learn that it exists.
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I'm insulted because you appear to believe that increasing intellect necessarily decreases moral traits, that "smart -> malicious". Which is pretty damned insulting to those of us who are clever!
I can't speak to locomotive or aerospace, but I found The Reluctant Motor Mechanic by John Fordham a great introduction to how cars work. It was written in 1979 and you can pick up a used copy from Amazon for approximately $0.01+shipping.

It's a thorough introduction to how the whole car works, written to be understood by actual humans who don't have experience with engineering. He goes through each system, starting with the engine, until he has covered every piece of equipment inside your car. It doesn't take as long as you'd think, either - he's pretty concise.

It was written in 1979, so it only covers technology up to that point, but since the car is basically the textbook case of what you can achieve through incremental improvements, it's still pretty relevant. Plus, it's got a lot of good illustrations!
Fuck, I forgot about that one.

Yeah, the interface is daemontools-like, but its primary differentiation is the use of jails.
No, of course not. It's great to imagine that all science is accessible to everyone. It's a great democratizing concept. The trouble is that it's departed from reality.
I thought this was hilarious, here's another funny one: https://medium.com/comedy-corner/local-library-would-like-to...
This feels like a complete waste of time
As many as it takes? I don't know ...

Really that's what P.E. is for, they were supposed to have exposed you to many sports so that you could find one you like.

I found boxing because I watched a few boxing movies. Then I decided to try and I liked it. Now here we are 6 odd years later and I'm training four times a week. Still no fights though, probably getting into that next year.

Surely you have some gut feeling about what you might enjoy? How do you find movies or tv shows that you enjoy watching? Or websites you enjoy visiting? How many tries did it take? How many tries did it take to find friends you enjoy hanging out with?

These aren't some deep dark secrets of life. It's just normal everyday stuff. Don't overthink it.
What explains the rise of humans?
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Even dumber: it's a Dodge.
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Systemd's a dead horse, no use flogging it any more. This article seems much more concerned about the init systems that /aren't/ discussed, but really should be.
I'm not sure either. So these are just guesses:

• You already know it.

• You want to use Go libraries.

• You want to extend a Go codebase at runtime, without integrating another language like Lua.

Weirder possibilities:

• You want to be able to use it as the basis for a Go "live image" system, where you can hot-reload modules on editor-save by re-parsing their source.

• You want to try building a Go version of Ruby's Pry (http://pryrepl.org)

• You want to enable your Go program to do stupid things involving generating strings of Go code and eval()ing them.

• You want to take some first steps toward some utopian dream of pushing live Goroutines over the network as frozen state + closure source, similar to what could be achieved on Mosix or the Erlang VM.
In my opinion, HN should be a place where people discuss about articles that are freely accessible to everyone.

Articles from sites that are accessible to a limited group of people have no place here. Instead, they should be discussed in the comments of the article itself.
I'd like to think the comments in this thread don't represent HN.

Should we also stop what's you favourite book threads since they are mostly paywalled or ask if we are allowed to link to the torrents?
I'd like to think the comments in this thread don't represent HN.

Should we also stop what's you favourite book threads since they are mostly paywalled or ask if we are allowed to link to the torrents.
It would be also nice if HK incorporated a filter, so people can choose if they want to see posts to paywalled articles or not.
They may have been forgotten by tourism, but not by videogame level design.
Sure - the "race to the bottom" for hosting prices inevitably means there's going to be options like GoDaddy offering "a year's worth of webhosting for $5" which clusters 400 WordPress and Drupal sites onto a single RaspberryPi or similar, but you don't _have_ to go there.

I can understand if you're an open source developer who gets paid in Uzbeki Som or Nigerian Naira, the calculation of "do I spend a day or two putting caching in place" versus "do I spend an extra $50 or $100 per year on hosting" might lean very much the other way, but I suspect for the vast majority of HN readers, the prudent approach is "pay a hundred or two dollars a year for hosting before bothering to implement complex caching strategies".
Sure but turning 200 pages looking for a specific illustration or caption in 2-3 seconds is something I very often do with physical books and is pretty useful for reference works.
I didn't see anything odd either.
Cool, but the tagline is redundant and awkward:

> a music programming language for musicians

I would suggest dropping one of the musics: "a programming language for musicians".
Maybe you travel wrong. Join me on one of my trips and we talk again ;-).

"All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time." – Paul Fussell

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." – John Steinbeck
Here is a potentially more urgent idea: Create a transpiler Javascript to Go. Now THAT would get my attention.
> (...) if you're not eating cake and stuff.

Ding ding ding. That's the nutrition part.
I could easily eat that 700 extra calories by eating pizzas. Hell, I'd probably eat 900 extra calories after a big exercise.
(But I would absolutely not run 30 km...)

The problem is that the people eating this stuff are continually being told that they need to exercise more. Then they get hungrier and eat the stuff that you can always eat more. They kill themselves on the treadmill and see absolutely no difference.
The vast majority of working adults in the US are employed in the making and selling of things people don't need. A world without bullshit is total, utter economic collapse. It's the end of capitalism. It's hundreds of millions of people with nothing to do all day and no way to sustain themselves, an inevitable civil war with the landlord class, and a revolution that manages to install a government's that quite possibly worse.

Every piece of bullshit you see is how a great many people pay their mortgages and feed their children. Casting them out to the street is unlikely to make things better.
> It isn't just isolated incidents of power trips in individuals. It is a culture that sustains itself. Maybe it is just human nature.

This behavior would not happen in the absence of a State-granted monopoly on power. Libertarian thinkers propose privatizing the police forces to avoid this very behavior. The customer (taxpayer) would not stand for its police force acting in such a way, and they would go out of business.

> I shouldn't be partisan in this case that affects all of us across party lines but doggamn Justice Scalia! ...

As sad as that situation was, I'm glad they ruled as they did. Can you imagine if the State was required to protect certain individual citizens, no matter what? There would be some sort of security posted at lost of random houses all the time, and we would have to pay for it! And what if two protected individuals got into a fight? Would the officers be required to fight against the other party?

I come down strongly on the side of the right of self-defense: of course the police are not required to protect you! It's simply tragic when the state removes your right to protect yourself while refusing to protect you as well.
Oh please. Little kids learn it all over the world. If a five year old can pick it up you and everyone else can too. Elitist my ass.
>What is the logic for reciprocity

I don't pretend to know, but I can think of a few possible reasons:

^ Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

^ Educate foreigners about the realities of how their country treats other people (obviously many don't know, even the author of the article is seemingly clueless).

^ Change the policies of their home country (as you suggest).

^ Realize that for an American, $100 is not a lot of money, so it's a good source of revenue in itself.

^ Realize that Bolivia is absolutely, jaw-droppingly stunning, and any American traveling in South America won't let the little $100 fee stop them, because it's clearly worth it.
Hyperanalyze what it means to be you, have an identity crisis, weep for three days, and work from there.
Psychopaths with incentives. Like as you said, people normally don't kill others, even when heavily incentivised to do so. In this case, the laws provided perverse incentives, and in a country with so many people, it is not surprising that psychopaths are involved in traffic accidents every day.

Interpreting this as somehow about Chinese culture etc. seems to be over the top IMO. Sure that law is bad, but other than that, there is no news here.
Supercollider is a popular choice! If you're interesting more of a survey, I wrote a blog post a few months ago where I compared music languages by writing the same sound in each one:

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/blog/2014/11/07/making-com...
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Nice architecture, but man, those things must've been a public health nightmare. Anything that got tracked in on anyone's feet when the water was low would have eventually have wound up in the water supply when the level increased.
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Yeah, when I had replied it was unreadable as all of the text and been crossed out, random edits introduced, etc.
Even tv is a problematic example. It's nothing more or less than a medium, and that medium can vary widely in the quality of what it presents. You could replace it with any other medium (film, radio, books, the internet) and have the same effect. One person's bullshit is another person's popular culture and creative outlet.
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Yeah this is great... In 1700 India had a population ~127 million people. In 1200 it was certainly much Lowe than that. Is the claim that this ancient technology would solve all of India's water problems for 1+ billion people?
OK, so a hole with steps is great when numerous people must walk down to the water level. But keeping junk out, while letting people in, is a hard problem. As historic places, they of course ought to be maintained. But today, deep cisterns with pumps make much more sense. Or maybe better, groundwater recharge, because you get natural filtration.
> The system was based on what the irs called “self-assessment,”

That's how it currently works in Japan, essentially.
No, they did not. Perhaps a occasional loss-leader was marked down that much, but overall Amazon has always sold ebooks for more than the cost of acquisition.
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Applying YC is time consuming and soul crashing at the end. More like a lottery now, what do you think?
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My experience with the Helsinki Bus Station is of wandering around the main level looking for the bus to Porvoo. I finally gave up, and asked for help. Turns out there's another floor lower down for the long distance buses.

There's probably a deep metaphor there. If I give a graduation speech I'll see if I can figure it out. :)
This link should take you there directly: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hvxf6NMPaCUd-1iqm_968SuH...
Translated into American, when good-old-boys (or high caste people) do this at a sportsball game (or wedding) in the US, they're just having a good time. When "those people" do this in what's clearly a parking lot, they should be arrested by the police.
Monument Valley is a great example of this!
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Incidentally, Fakena is the name of a tiny village in Burkina Faso, Africa.
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That's good, when I saw it the whole document had been defaced.
You mean it's 'murder' or 'take responsibility for your actions'
To those who look at this, this is my first "official" Python project. I really need help with test suites and whatever. But alas, the package manager works well enough. All feedback is appreciated.
I'm a black programmer and I have seen other highly educated minorities where I'm from.
I'm from Malta. This reminded me of a certain incident in the local news several years ago:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/18/davidward
Write blog post about it and submit it?
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