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> science will never progress unless we try, and that’s what these ideas and searches are: our attempt to move our knowledge of the Universe forward. And as always, as the LHC’s Run II has already begun, I can’t wait to see what — beyond the already-discovered Higgs boson — just might turn up!

If they want data from colliders, I would say it's a problem for experimental physics, or physics in general.
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I wonder if wearing weaker lenses would work? I'm -3.75 in both so can't really see anything without glasses other than rough outlines.
In general in Nim (see footnote for fine print), `obj.someFunc` == `obj.someFunc()` == `someFunc(obj)` [0]. It's not a method bound to an object, as in `obj.method` in Python. So whenever there is some `obj.` in front of the function name, that's an argument being passed to a function call.

[0] http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#procedures-method-call-...

You can pass functions as first-class values (which Nim calls "procedural types" [1]) by supplying the function name without any arguments or parentheses, eg, `someFunc` on its own.

[1] http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-procedural-type

The base case occurs when the function takes no parameters: In this case, `someFunc` is a procedural type; `someFunc()` is a function invocation.

Footnote for interested readers: closures [2]; setter properties [3]; multi-methods that use dynamic dispatch [4].

[2] http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#procedures-closures , [3] http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#procedures-properties , [4] http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#multi-methods
He didn't say that someone not liking PHP says something about them. What he said was that someone giving flak to another for using PHP says something about them.
Lately (last year or so) I've started to notice substantial data loss. Either old mails completely missing or large mails being truncated (destroying inline images f.ex.)

So to anyone relying on gmail for safe keeping: Don't.
All criticism aside, really impressed that Twitter is taking this step. Now if they could just reestablish faith with the dev community...
I still wonder if you could train falcons to knock down drones (the small ones obviously not a Predator).
Possibly because once you authenticate the token is kept forever unlike cookies which get deleted and such.

In either case I'm not sure I like the idea of a persistent token that can be tied back to the user 1 to 1 installed via a browser extension that has (pretty much) unlimited access to the browser and session data, I'll be having a close look at the plugins when this becomes a thing.
Thanks for your input. I agree the piece is an anectodal experience, but what led me to pursue it was a scientific paper I read. Yes, I agree that tests subjects might be in hundreds but not thousands, but it has worked for everyone I suggested to follow. Your eyes need to be in development stage for this to work, i.e. you have to be young, less than ~20 years.
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I spend most my childhood outside (my parents lived in a village and didn't get a computer at home until I was a teenager), but I still got myopia when I was in secondary school.
If you're using arrays, you've departed from the limited subset in question. They're structs on the outside but complicated on the inside.
There is something even better than sponges - "How mini sponges could save lives on the battlefield " .

Its called "Not waging war at all".
I remember reading a comment somewhere on the web that made it "click" for me:

"Gravity is so weak that force of a tiny fridge magnet is able to counter gravity pull of the whole planet".
That seems to me like asking whether you should buy a car or a toaster - it depends and most likely you want both.

Pure object oriented programming tries to force the object metaphor onto every problem disregarding whether it actually fits naturally. Pure functional programming pretends that there is no state which is as wrong as everything is an object.

In my opinion the really sensible thing to do is to be aware of all the available options and choose the right one for the problem at hand.
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I don't understand why everyone seems convinced that glasses cause vision problems. Is there any evidence for this?

To me, your comment sounds like blaming the barber for how your hair keeps growing, or saying maybe you wouldn't be so hungry if you ate less.
I've come to appreciate my ADHD, as well. I realized that it was the spark in my personality everyone seemed to always recognize but never be able to put their finger on. My intensity, my creativity, my wit (I don't mean to brag here, I'm no world-class comedian..), etc. are all part of a charm that I believe directly come from my impulsive, no-filtered ADHD brain.

It has also caused me to be less risk adverse and take career moves that have really helped me over the years. I haven't been afraid to try new things, to gain new experiences, etc.

But those upsides all had their downsides. The same impulsivity that let me drop everything and move to NYC for bigger and better things is the same impulsivity that saddled me with an embarrassing number of speeding tickets and car accidents, substance abuse issues (alcohol), etc. The same intensity that is a large part of my charm is also a large part of the reason many of my relationships become strained.

Being diagnosed and getting a handle on it has curbed the negative side effects greatly while still allowing the positives to shine through.
Regardless of what extremists in both sides tell, the future is actually hybrid.

Smalltalk had lambdas and LINQ like libraries.

Lisp had Flavors and then CLOS.

For those that tend to forget lambda calculus and place FP == Haskell, type classes allow for most of the ground principles of OOP design. There are a few interesting talks from Simon Peyton Jones about it.

TL;DR - Learn functional programming, what are the strengths and flaws of each approach to software architecture and use the best approaches for solving the actual problem.
Do cars get twice as fast and twice as efficient every few years? Computer technology isn't made to last, because the advance simply is (still) too fast for that.

Luckily with phones the support cycles seem finally to get longer, just like they have gotten with computers.
You may want to continue to look for better treatment options. Your medication may not be right.

Additionally, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been huge for me. Since I was diagnosed late in life, I had just shy of 3 decades of bad habits to unlearn and replace with better ones. I still struggle with some things - punctuality, sleep schedule, for instance - but I'm far more productive and far happier.
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Pretty much spot on. Local in-kernel file systems are hard, partly because of their essential nature and partly because of their history. A lot of the codebases involved still show their origins on single-core systems and pre-NCQ SATA disks, and the development/testing methods are from the same era. The developers always have time to improve the numbers on some ancient micro-benchmark, but new features often get pushed to the LVM layer (snapshots), languish for ages (unions/overlays), or are simply ignored (anything alternative to the fsync sledgehammer).

The only way a distributed file system such as I work on can provide sane behavior and decent performance to our users is to use local file systems only for course-grain space allocation and caching. Sometimes those magic incantations from ten-year-old LKML posts don't really work, because they were never really tested for more than a couple of simple cases. Other times they have unexpected impacts on performance or space consumption. Usually it's easier and/or safer just to do as much as possible ourselves. Databases - both local and distributed - are in pretty much the same boat.

Some day, I hope, all of this scattered and repeated effort will be combined into a common library that Does All The Right Things (which change over time) and adds features with a common API. It's not quite as good as if the stuff in the kernel had been done right, but I think it's the best we can hope for at this point.
Sadly John Gruber doesn't write constructive arguments >against< Apple.

It would be an awesome read if there was some criticism about Apple software, which nowadays is buggier than ever.

I'm using an old iPhone 4 as a second phone which has iOS6 and it definitely gives you the "stability" sensation I got from buying apple products before. Compared to iOS9, which only opening the "Watch App" gives me the feeling that I'm using some CYDIA software. Not to mention the UI bugs ( especially the search screen, which is tremendously slow on my every-day iPhone 5 ).
This answers your question:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/OutputStrea...

It's only logical if you think about the bigger picture. Does Java have access to the underlying disk device or does it work with the filesystem? Which component is responsible for the filesystem?
This issue is completely fixed by Maildir and was many years ago. Many clients, including Mutt, for example, support Maildir boxes
Medication and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Don't be afraid of medication. Find a healthcare professional that you trust and will work with you.

There is a book I recommend to everyone who suspects they may have ADHD: Driven to Distraction

It's a very easy read and will give you a lot of insight.

One of the lines I use from that book often with regard to medication and the stigma it has is: would you deny yourself glasses if you couldn't see? The medication helps focus your mind the way glasses help focus your eyes. The medication is the catalyst for other treatment options to be more effective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for example, works far better when you are able to actually concentrate and do the exercises properly without your mind wandering on you.

Most people find that the medication dosage they need of amphetamine is actually quite low. You're not trying to get high and become a speed freak like college kids popping Adderall the night before Finals to cram. Your brain simply lacks dopamine and is forever craving a fix for it - thus always latching on to the most exciting thought and causing impulsive thrill seeking behavior. A small dose of amphetamine feeds the brain this dopamine, rids you of the shortage, and restores the balance you need to be the person you expect yourself to be+.

+Very simplified explanation, obviously. But, it's the best way that I can relate to my brain's behavior - by always thinking of it in terms of a dopamine imbalance. While it's true, other factors are likely involved and ADHD is also often comorbid with anxiety and depression as many of the same chemical pathways are shared.
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Just out of curiosity ... if medication is an effective treatment for you, why the resistance to it? Do you avoid medication generally? Are you worried about side effects?
I'd agree on the teaching / training suggestion, except make sure you mix it up. Teaching the same thing can become boring.
Interesting that none of the cited software uses maildir.

Breaking a mbox is an extremely simple thing, as the format leaves no possibility of error checking, parallel writing, rewriting lost data, or anything else.

Outlook's mail folders are marginally better, allowing for error detection, but really, that's a lame first paragraph for introducing a great article.
As someone with ADHD I'm very interested how to improve the brain, now I'm working on the same(good sleep, meditation,physical exercice and less sugar).
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> It seems a bit like creating a book by sticking pre-generated paragraphs together.

But books are not tools or machines, whereas software applications are (not counting art & entertainment, generally.)

Nobody creates every screw and electrical component from scratch when designing and assembling other tools and machines.

"Programming by manipulating metaphors on screen" would be more akin to using predefined mathematical symbols and formulas, and just putting in the numbers and variables related to the problem you want to solve or the task you want to perform.

Even most popular genres of games could be made entirely from wiring up predesigned components together in a visual environment, without writing any code at all. You would just supply your own graphics and sound and other content.
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From the posts on this topic, I'd have never guessed your native language wasn't English, so this is in no way a handicap for you. (Other than it may be more effort for you than a native speaker, but your end product is quite good.)
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I think you're a bit tough, it's not their responsibility to summarize, and they provided an interesting and free article. I think it'd be nice if there was a service which systematically tldr everything, instead of having it in comments. That'd allow for a lot of information at one glance (though unverified). It's not my website but for what it's worth I found this website which does it, http://tldr.io/discover
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I think what grandparent means is that the question in the title is odd, I thought the same thing, maybe the article explains it bit bit otherwise this seems based on a perception and thus noto really more interesting than, say, why is 3 larger than 2.
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okay. so isn't the purpose of that is to auto scale based on system load? Am I missing something?
There is a surprisingly good movie called стиляги about this culture: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1239426/ - highly recommended for anyone who thinks Brooklyn invented the hipster :)
PG was quite proud of having just used the file system as a database with Viaweb, claiming that "The Unix file system is pretty good at not losing your data, especially if you put the files on a Netapp." His entire response is worth reading in light of the above article, if only to get a taste of how simultaneously arrogant and clueless PG can be: http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfaq.html

PG and company still think this is a great idea, because the software this forum runs on apparently also does the file system-as-database thing.

No wonder Viaweb was rewritten in C++.

EDIT: to those downvoting, my characterization of PG's response is correct. Its arrogance is undeniable, with its air of "look how smart I am; I see through the marketing hype everyone else falls for," as is its cluelessness, with PG advocating practices that will cause data loss. Viaweb was probably a buggy, unstable mess that needed a rewrite.
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> but conveniently he can't access them until 2020

Maybe that's his estimate of when the supercomputer he's built in Iceland will crack Satoshi's private key.
ADHD is not an inability to focus, it's an inability to direct and control one's focus at-will.

The ADHD brain is always seeking dopamine and constantly seeks out the most "exciting" thoughts. When you are actually into something and engaged, the brain is producing dopamine (the reward chemical) and so an ADHD person will hyper-focus on that thought/activity intensely for long periods of time, barely noticing the time as it passes.

This is one of the reasons, in my opinion, a lot of people in the software field are ADHD. Being able to sit at a computer and code for 12 hours while having it feel like 2 is not normal, per se. Hyper-focus allows us to be amazingly productive at this job. It's a gift as well as a curse, however, because it's that same hyper-focus that can keep us playing a video game far longer than we should even when we cognitively know we need to stop.

In people with ADHD, the executive brain function has a very hard time overriding the impulsive side of the brain. So, if the brain is getting its dopamine fix due to playing the video game and you're running late for an important meeting, it's going to be super hard to override it even if you cognitively know that being late to this meeting is a very bad thing.

What I find even more interesting than that, though, is that being late is stressful, and stressful thoughts are, as far as the brain is concerned, exciting! It's a double edged sword; as soon as the stress of being late is more exciting than what you're doing, you'll get up and leave. Until then, you'll sit in denial and read Reddit or HN or play your video game.

This is also one of the reasons ADHD and Anxiety tend to be co-morbid, I believe. Anxious thoughts are "exciting" for the brain so we tend to fixate on them.

So yeah, transition, in general, is very hard for those with ADHD.
The wiiu controller, despite its bizarre huge screen, was obviously an attempt to rejoin the mainstream with its conventional dual-analog 4 button 4 shoulder layout. Leaving out the analog shoulders is an odd omission.
Even mathematical axioms are fertile ground for further research.

Non-Euclidean geometry, for example, was born when mathematicians asked why Euclid's fifth postulate (the parallel postulate) is true.
That's for a cold start. Once the application is initialized, it becomes way faster.
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I believe all accounts require a phone number to verify, and that number can only be used once. Certainly I've always had it from any machine I've tried to sign up from for the past year and a half when attempting to create accounts for testing with.
Yes, but such an IP address would still be linked to you, depending on who your enemy is. Unless you wardrive to another city or country that is :-)
FWIW in the UK I just get the free pay-as-you-go sims that most networks will send you. Not the most elegant solution mind.
As boring as it may sound, I didn't do anything special, just the run of the mill practices: lowering brightness, running `powertop` and setting all tunables to "Good". At idle, this gives me ~3 Watts usage. With the 46 Wh battery, that's 15 hours. Of course when I start using the laptop that's halved more or less. With the screen off (when I'm using the external screen), it goes down to ~2 Watts, for a whopping 23 hours battery life at idle. I remember an Acer Travelmate I purchased back in 2009. The lowest I could get the power consumption was 7 Watts at idle. I'd say Intel for the most part, has come a long way in power efficiency.

EDIT: I use Mate Desktop BTW.
It is not silly. The only reason life exists is because gravity is so weak. So it is better if we are able to know more about it.

My favorite pet theory - was watching some of the superstructures of the universe - and was thinking how much the light matter represents the protein structure of a foam or a gel. The question is what is the filling since there is the vast bulk of the space in the universe.
Thats a very nice find, thanks for the link. I'm not entirely sure about putting everything into a header file -- and marking load of pretty big functions as 'inline' but well, it simplifies the build a lot it seems!
This was my first thought too. MBTI is not considered "scientific", by psychologists. But r/ENTP in reddit is filled with people who seem to suffer from extreme novelty addiction.

Other possibility would be ADHD or some weird version of autism. ADHD would often have difficulties to stay focused even in new things. Autistic are often very picky about their interests and get easily bored about everything else. Which isn't exactly neophilia, but might appear like it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ENTP
It's suboptimal that you get down votes for asking an honest question hoping to understand better. I think replies to your question will give a fair number of people a better understanding of the issues.
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Hello. I am in big need of wiki-like desktop application that could organize my math notes and code snippets.

I was using WikidPad since 2012 on Windows - and its perfect - but works horrible on Mac and Linux, so maybe there is a fresh software that could handle this? I don't need cloud sync as I synchronize data through git (so data should be stored as plaintext).
>That's for a cold start. Once the application is initialized, it becomes way faster.

If one uses Unicorn in production there's no such thing as a `cold start` Ruby is not the JVM lest you run JRuby or Rubinius ofc :-)
Given the way that first cup of coffee in months can affect a person, you seem to be suggesting that caffeine withdrawal is a permanent condition. ;)
> Strawman.

Nope. See my conversation with Diamons to be enlightened.
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I'm not sure that's accurate - most of Rails is lazily loaded now I believe, specifically to reduce start-up time. You can use a different strategy in production of course.
This is amusing. Apparently people took umbrage at an earnest suggestion that a fellow stop for a few minutes to collect his thoughts and phrase his argument in a way that makes it maximally effective. :D
10 years ago this question was asked constantly, these days not so much.

Lambda expressions and anonymous types are why. C# 3.5 saved you from having to seriously ask that question any more.

So the answer is no. But learning a functional language can help your skill in your existing ones.
That approach has never really done it for me, because what makes it seem impressive is that the magnet is so much smaller than the planet. If you made the planet more dense, it would be smaller, making the comparison less impressive. Squeeze the planet all the way down to a black hole, and it would be about the size of the magnet.

I think it works better to think of it in terms of the minimum force you can get. Imagine two test masses a fixed distance apart. The minimum non-zero electromagnetic force you can get between those two test masses is the force you get if each test mass has a charge equal to that of an electron.

I'm not sure what the lowest mass particle is that you could reasonably hold near a test point, but since you can reasonably confine an electron to a small region the gravitational force between two electrons is an upper bound on the minimum gravitational force, and that is a ridiculous number of orders of magnitude lower than the minimum electromagnetic force.
Pet peeve as a viewer - avoid disguisting body nioses - lip smacking and sighing between sentences, sniffing and saliva sliding around the mouth. I guess that last one is a microphone thing.
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Well,nothing ever gives full online anonymity. Only raises the cost to get to you.

One designs her own anonymity according to one's relevant threat model. For practical reasons, one can reasonably aim at evading global surveillance by not standing among the low hanging fruits, but aiming at staying out of reach of a state sponsored probe is an altogether different matter, think edward snowden different.

Then again some VPN providers exist where they can legally operate without collecting and retaining data about their clients. In any case, be sure to check your VPN provider for the level of anonymity it provides[1].

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