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Chronic fatigue syndrome research is already too mired in politics. It is disappointing to see how poorly KCL has handled both the trial itself (post-hoc protocol changes, perhaps to make conclusions more significant) and their refusal to share data so others could verify their analysis.

It is also disappointing to watch how vigorously a vocal subset of CFS researchers and sufferers oppose and attack any research that touches on the possibility of psychiatric treatments possibly benefiting chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers. KCL's poor behavior in refusing to release their data is only fanning the flames here, but the vigorous objections to CFS research that suggests cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is beneficial goes back much further than this study.

For some background, chronic fatigue syndrome has several different definitions, but many patients end up with a CFS diagnosis by exclusion of other therapies. This distorts the CFS community greatly, with many CFS community members not actually meeting the criteria for CFS. The PACE trial is a good example of this, with approximately 80% of the candidates excluded for various reasons (although obviously not all 80% were excluded strictly for failing to meet CFS criteria, but it's still significant).

The problem is that many CFS sufferers, all of whom are suffering from very real physical fatigue and other physical symptoms, are very resistant to any suggestion that the disease has a psychiatric component or can be modified through mental health strategies. This objection runs so deep that researchers receive death threats for participating in studies exploring CBT for CFS, and online CFS forums are filled with vitriolic hate for any suggestion that CBT or other mental health strategies could possibly be effective. Meanwhile, studies (beyond just this PACE trial) have shown CBT to be one of the most effective options we have for CFS. It's not a cure, but it does seem to help on average.

My point with this whole tangent is that chronic fatigue syndrome is so caught up in politics and resistance to certain ideas that most researchers don't even want to touch the topic any more. I certainly wouldn't want to research something if advocating the current best treatment option would result in death threats from sufferers. This is all very unfortunate, because instead of progress we're left with situations like the PACE trial where both KCL and a lot of the critical researchers are refusing to play nice with each other, and instead we get nowhere. And of course, there is now even more reason for researchers to not touch CFS research.
I am suspicious of an unintended end result with all the Mindfullness rhetoric being published. I have three friends very, very into it, and one of them ain't that bright. Their experience, as they relate them to me, is more like a fear of ones own thought processes and they appear to be developing thought phobias. I tell this person that they are misunderstanding something, because it should not be triggering stress, but there it is, stressing them out that they "think wrong". Anything that makes a person fear their own thought process is really, really fucked up.
part 1: http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/04/28/nes-graphics-part-1

part 2: http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/06/08/nes-graphics-part-2
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The string was not opportunistically chosen; it was added at the same time as the backdoor, and shows up in string diffs between backdoored and non-backdoored releases.
I've been thinking a bit about python and packaging, and I think there are few reasons to wrap the bootstrap process of packages like this in a shell script. As python is already a hard dependency, it should be somewhat easier to write a cross-platform bootstrap in python, than in posix shell (hello, windows?). It is a little unfortunate that expressing "needs python, headers and a c compiler" is as hard as it is. But if dependencies are beyond the (reasonable) reach of pip/setuptools, it seems it might make sense to simply defer to some other package that already deals with this stuff, such as ansible.

Nothing against automating systems with shell (or Makefiles) -- but it seems to result in much duplication of effort (eg: duplicating stuff from the "os" package in python's std lib) -- with an added burden when trying to support a variety of Linux and * bsd distros.

Writing a posix shell installer that works "idiomatically" on Debian is easy. Writing one that works across old-stable, stable and testing is a little more complex. Adding support for Ubuntu LTS along with the slew of Ubuntu-releases newer than previous LTS, can already get messy. Add inn SuSe, RedHat, Arch, Slackware and GNU Guix... and that's not even thinking of Open Solaris or the * BSDs.

It's not that it can't be done, but I think the only sane choice is to get upstream to do the hard work (eg: port/package python w/"os", port/package ansible -- or use something else, like package-config or ... autotools...).

I think the best way is probably to distribute a python script that sets up a virtualenv, and runs pip from within that to pull down/set up a package. I'm not yet quite sure if this is viable for python2x though... bringing venv into the std-lib is one great (and I think often overlooked) feature of python3.
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Maybe that's good news. I have suspected that the rats nest of doctor owned business entities is a significant driver of health care costs, because it's impossible to figure out where the money is actually going.

The doctors will still have "insider" investment opportunities -- in my locale, they own the provider groups as shareholders.

I will admit that I favor a government provided health care system, where medical training is free (maybe even for nurses, dental assistants, etc.) and everybody works for the government on a decent professional salary.
Adding feature X instead of refactoring the code base contributes to job security.
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One of the projects I deal with on a daily basis is a 200k line of code monolith on 2.3. We've got a paid for version of 2.3 from a company that releases security patches for it.

Everything else at the company is microservices now, but this one system still has a few million customers.
Most people I follow on RSS include the full content of posts in their RSS feeds. When someone doesn't, it's generally an oversight and they fix it when I bring it up.
I'm not insulting them. It's the culture of low end work. These are the kinds of stories you hear when talking to friends who work in those kinds of places:

- a guy who goes into the freezer room and eats/steals about $50 worth of jumbo shrimp every day.

- the guy who always picks up dropped food off the floor and proceeds to cook/serve it.

- the male manager who hits on new female hires and who has had a sexual relationship with 80% of the female staff.

- the phlegm served to a rude customer.

- boasts about how much free food was given away to various friends and acquaintances, and about how stupid the management is for not catching on.

- most telling is the absolute refusal to ever eat the food from the establishment again.

This is the culture of many low end food service places. If you work there you are entering that world and it will be socially awkward to disapprove of the behavior or to rat someone out. Thus there is pressure to accept the behavior as normal/reasonable and over time this increases the chances that an employee will participate in it him/herself.

There is also a big difference between working in such a restaurant in a wealthy suburb vs doing it in a lower middle class town.
>Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.

Well, nice that we managed to heed one of Eisenhower's warnings.
The difference is not one of "philosophy", but rather of using the right types. Haskell's so-called "list" type constructor is actually a type constructor of streams. Unsurprisingly, streams are much better than lists if you want to do stream processing.
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According to their respective Wikipedia articles, the lake behind the Hoover Dam has a volume 108x larger than the lake at Sarrans. [1] It's unclear whether the same techniques apply.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=32.22+km^3+%2F+296*10^6...
Apparently, the attackers had a different threat model; they were trying to keep the hash from getting noticed in source code or binary dumps, and thought a hash would stick out more (whether ascii-encoded or as random bits with statistically different properties from what surrounds them).

They might also have expected adversaries to be able to invert any hash function accessible in the code -- which is plausible for a nation-state adversary with some hash functions. (If scrypt isn't already there, you don't get to add it; that would really stick out.)
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Intelligence, perhaps not. IQ tests certainly do. And regardless of correlations with ethnicity, IQ tests would correlate with some mental disabilities, and people with those mental disabilities are also members of a protected class.
I would expect large majority to have a decent fixed price data packages. However there are people that have slow speeds and/or expensive metered data plans, so I wouldn't get too frisky. Overall bandwidth is usually the bottleneck, so yes.
Thanks for the book recommendation, I'll definitely check it out.

Shaila Catherine has written a couple of books on the topic of jhanas. Her most recent one is a meditation manual which covers insight meditation practice as well. It would make for a great companion on long retreats.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/086171623X/
The Mars atmosphere is 95 percent carbon dioxide, with slightly more than
a tenth of 1 percent oxygen. That rules out oxygen-breathing motors and
forces flying machines to rely on chemical or electrical propulsion.

Why does the high concentration of CO2 has anything to do with preventing eletrical propulsion work?
If anything FAA regulations for recreational pilots can be absurdly lax. You can get a private pilot certificate with iirc 25 hours of flight if you go to a flight school in the middle of nowhere, and as far as the FAA is concerned as soon as you pass your flight test you can go transition SFO airspace at 1000 feet that same day (I have done this).

You can go 20 years without touching an aircraft, and as long as you have a valid medical, a flight instructor can give you a 1 hour checkout flight and do 3 landings and you're officially a fully current pilot.

Some people refer to the first 100 flight hours after you receive your first license as the 'death zone' because the pilot is generally so unprepared that even a minor problem becomes life threatening.
> This observation fits together with studies that show the best way of maintaining mental harmony during mind-wandering is to be able to be aware of the fact that you are doing it

Given that being aware of something is the primary intent of mindfulness, I'd say this article's author is misrepresenting what "mindfulness" actually means by using it to define something which is only orthogonally related. Technically speaking, anti-mindfulness would be defined as the intentional practice of not observing one's thought or being aware of them. The quote above seems to indicate one is aware of the process.

I live in the Bay and I have not personally observed a group or movement with the primary intent of going around trying to not be aware of what they are thinking or doing. That happens naturally enough in people with their noses in phones on the sidewalk!
A 301 redirect would solve this, but it's just too much for an automatic script to insert a 301 redirect or HSTS headers on the server configuration.

That's why I'm planning to move my sites to Letsencrypt's certs, but I have no intention at all of using their client. I can place those settings there, but I'd be pissed of if it placed them.
> I would assume that the VCs in SV are a pretty smart bunch. How on earth did this happen in the first place?

Maybe the pg effect writ large?

“I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg. There was a guy once who we funded who was terrible. I said: ‘How could he be bad? He looks like Zuckerberg!’ ”
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Thank you for your precious work! I will donate to support the Internet Archive, but when will it have a proper Web Archive search engine? It will be a huge thing!
I haven't found any that I was happy with, last time I needed something similar (years ago now). But I've had some similar worries, and one of the projects on my short-list to look into more is:

https://github.com/coreos/etcd-ca

Not sure if that'd help much if you explicitly want to use an external CA though.
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> People can barely handle one-and-a-bit dimensions at 70mph

+1 just for this statement alone.

So far, statistics say that flying is safer by orders of magnitude than driving your car... that statistic will likely plummet to many orders of magnitude in the opposite direction if flying cars become a thing.

If we do end up with flying cars being the norm, I would hope they will be autonomous and not have people manually flying them without a full pilots license being required.
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There is such a thing as a lifting body but this at first glance does not seem to be one of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_body

A scale model can easily be over-powered to the point that it will fly (anything can fly if you strap a large enough engine to it and you can vector thrust), but to make this work for a life-sized design the amount of power required to make it fly would likely cause the vehicle to be so in-efficient it would not be economical to use.
You are correct.

14 CFR 61.133 (b)(1) states:[0]

A person who applies for a commercial pilot certificate
with an airplane category or powered-lift category rating
and does not hold an instrument rating in the same
category and class will be issued a commercial pilot
certificate that contains the limitation, “The
carriage of passengers for hire in (airplanes)
(powered-lifts) on cross-country flights in excess of
50 nautical miles or at night is prohibited.”

So you can technically get a commercial license without an instrument rating, but you won't be able to get a job until you do. My guess is it happens only in that someone is taking the courses for both and just happens to finish the commercial part first. In practice though I've never heard anyone who did that.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.133
Minor note -- it doesn't appear like it requires faye, but rather faye-websocket, which is just a particularly amazing websocket wrapper that sprung out of the faye project.
Their promotional video shows this vehicle as a VTOL aircraft, so theoretically you could drive to a parking lot and go : https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=188&v=wHJTZ7k0BX...

However, even if they do get the VTOL working successfully (many others have failed) there will likely be some regulatory hurdles for flying out of a neighborhood. That isn't unheard of though. There are suburban communities built around small airports with direct access to the runways (similar to golf course communities).
Given enough power, a brick can 'fly'.

This more likely is a flying body (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_body) or a blended wing body (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body), as 'give it an enormous engine' hurts economical feasibility.

But yes, it looks as if those wings are there only to have something to hang the engines from.
The text you quoted doesn't say that; it says that electrical propulsion is a viable option, while oxygen-breathing combustion engines are not.
The conditions under which the Central Limit Theorem hold are complicated (in particular, weaker and weaker conditions have been shown to be sufficient even fairly recently). But intuitively, they boil down to two conditions that are fairly sensible:

1. The individual observations can't be too extreme. Bounded variance, for example, is sufficient, but weaker conditions suffice.

2. The observations must be somewhat independent. Independence is a strong condition and sufficient, but again weaker conditions suffice.

If 1) doesn't hold, a massive outliers could swamp all other observations. If 2) doesn't hold, for example if one underlying factor influences all observations, all bets are off: the observations could "conspire" to be fairly large (or fairly small), thus giving rise to fat tails inconsistent with the normal distribution.

(Having IID (independent identically distributed) observations, btw, is not sufficient, if the distribution itself is too fat tailed.)
Is this really a philosophical difference? Granted, I've only used Clojure as far as Lisps go, but composability seems to be something that's emphasized.

Rather than

(remove-if-not #'p xs :count 5 :start 3)

It seems to me like most Clojure users would do something like

(->> xs (drop 3) (filter p) (take 5))

which is much closer to

take 5 . filter p . drop 3
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Not to mention, I don't really see all the fuss about EventMachine. I worked with it a few years ago, and it had some very subtle bugs that caused me hours upon hours of headache; it would deadlock under more stressful workloads, or it would simply ignore some packets (even though the proxy server I wrote for debugging it received them just fine and forwarded them).

I just hope that they resolved some of them. And Rails has always been a dependency soup, so I am not too surprised to see stuff piled onto the ever-growing list (I have nothing against Rails, I even use it, I'm just not too happy about the bloatyness).
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Really good way to prevent drunk driving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device

I've also seen breathalyzers in some bars where you can check your BAC before going anywhere.
Correction: statistics say that commercial air travel is safer by orders of magnitude than driving your car.

General aviation is already a lot worse than that today, and even pilot certification does not preclude accidents in general aviation. It is the whole process around safety put into practice at commercial airlines and numerous design details present in commercial aircraft that make flying with a commercial carrier as safe as it is.
Which is why even before the whole "self-driving" car madness started, I was thinking flying cars will never work unless they are fully automated.

A flying car should only be required the destination as input.
Not the most successful comparison, but it looks proportionally similar to the V-22 Osprey (also a VTOL aircraft).
Unlike CL/EL, Clojure is lazy by default. So it's closer to Haskell in that regard.
I imagine that ActionCable will support a variety [1] of pub-subs sooner than later, similar to how ActiveRecord supports multiple databases. I almost took a stab at working PostgreSQL support in a couple of weeks ago, but Tubesock [2] was just too darn simple to pass up for my very minimal needs.

[1a] https://github.com/rails/actioncable/pull/28

[1b] https://github.com/rails/actioncable/pull/29

[2] https://github.com/ngauthier/tubesock
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You have to be clear about which Lisp. Clojure and Scheme are Lisps, and their focus is very much towards simplicity and the use of combinators.

The complex, do-it-all-in-one-huge macro is a Common Lispism, not a Lispism.

Secondly, Clojure, like Haskell, is focused on sequence abstractions, not lists. Sequences can include collections, streams, observables, sockets and many other kinds of process that can be modelled as an event stream.
It's not really lazy by default, it just has a lazy stream type with nice syntax.
Clojure isn't lazy by default. It is a strict language with lazy streams in the standard library.
I suspect you may be missing my point. I don't care about the use of the package manager. The problem is that it shouldn't be run when I asked for documentation.

edit:

Understood, and yah, --dry-run support would be great, but I'll settle for working documentation.
The problem is not that Disney can own entertainment products they create. The problem is our society elevating base entertainment to the level of cultural artifact. Disney has no power if people don't treat their disposable trinkets like sacred totems.

The post near the top about spoilers is a good example. We're all supposed go out of our way go protect the sanctified experience of the movie for true believers. How messed up is that?
That isn't the case for ActionCable, which will become a dependency of the 'rails' gem [1]. You'll have to unbundle the rails gem in your Gemfile, then require the frameworks you want one-by-one in application.rb

[1]: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/rails.gemspec#L28
We are overcredentialed, I agree. Educated, I don't know.
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Sorry, yes. That's what I meant.
I agree.

Could this be the beginning of the revolt against mindfulness?

Also, proliferation of thoughts is covered in 2,600 year old teachings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_proliferation It seems we as a species have been revolting for a while ;)
Pascal was described with such diagrams in Wirth's Pascal User Manual 1975 and they were not new then.

They made learning Pascal much easier than trying to interpret BNF.
> "The Nordic countries, particularly Sweden, have the highest percentage of unicorns per capita in the world"

And yet no mention of Mojang. A unicorn among unicorns. No funding. $2.5 billion exit.
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I was having trouble articulating my thoughts on this article but I think you nailed it.

I don't think mindfulness and mind-wandering are inconsistent with one another. In fact as you pointed out, a key tenet of mindfulness is occasionally allowing our thoughts to wander, but knowing what is happening, and naming said thoughts.

In fact, mind-wandering paired with mindfulness can be very powerful. We can allow our subconscious to come out of the shadows, all the while noticing where it is going. The two don't have to be separated, they can go hand-in-hand.
Mindfulness is backed by thousands of years of evidence-based practice and millions of deliberate practitioners; this mind-wandering "movement" has, as far I can tell, a couple of web articles written about it and very few people intentionally practicing it.
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I trust them to maintain a secure CA (and I trust that there are adequate checks and audit mechanisms in place).

I do not necessarily trust them to not muck up my webserver configs, or to accidentally expose my private key due to some bug. While I have no reason to doubt the code quality of the official client (and I'm certainly not suggesting I suspect any malicious activity), I suspect the checks in place for the client are probably less rigorous than those for the CA itself.

acme-tiny is less than 200 lines. Short enough that reviewing the code took a trivial amount of time, and now I'm using a client that I can trust completely.

I could certainly do the same thing with the official client, but it would take me several hours (at least) to get to the same level of comfort.
Minor nitpick. The loop at the end could make the range by 'for i from 1 upto 4' instead of a list literal to more similar to the haskell code.
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