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I don't consider Common Lisp “more dynamic” than Python; at least in that you modify code at runtime and such. Frequently Common Lisp code is not particularly dynamic, because you can get the same level of expressiveness without relying on mucking around with magic at runtime.

Also SBCL only generates really fast code if you use a lot of type hints and (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)). That said, when you do, it's really fast.
There is a difference between being unconcerned when it is possible to be concerned and being unconcerned because concern is not a characteristic of its being. Indifference/difference is to nature what north and south are to the Sun: logically ill-formed.

There is no boundary between nature and other things, nature is all encompassing. There is nothing in nature that can be indifferent because nature can't be different from anything.
A bit off topic: did you really use Prolog for something else than just research? That is, did you write software that was used in production? I have learned it many years ago but always had a nagging feeling that it is better to use a "normal" language with AI libraries if you need the program to actually do something... Did I miss anything?
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Reproduction is not selfish. It's for species survival.
The C++ and python bindings suck. They are incredibly overcomplicated.
@david-given probably knows this, but that TH1 is Tcl-ish is no surprise, given fossils founder/principle author is drh (Richard Hipp).

drh is a former Tcl Core Team member[0], and probably most famous as the author of Sqlite, originally a Tcl extension that "escaped into the wild"[1]. Sqlite also has a comprehensive test-suite written in Tcl[2].

[edit: footnotes]

[0] http://wiki.tcl.tk/977

[1] http://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md

[2] http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
And in England we speak a mix of English and French words. Have done since around 1066.
There are a variety of adblocking technologies. The spectrum goes from the simplest which just block domains, to ones which block substrings of URLs and DOM elements to ones actively stopping "please stop adblocking" notices.

In general AdBlocking works very well on the open internet with the browser of your choice. However, they're basically non-functional for things happening in-app over HTTPS connections. So, with the majority of FB mobile traffic happening over the dedicated FB app - they are largely immune to blocking AND have a much better set of demographic targeting features.
The UN exists as a forum for all governments to come together. It would have a different purpose altogether if there were some democratic bar that would have to be met to join. Also, who would decide what that bar is? There's quite a lot of grey here, and it would be very very easy for certain very powerful countries to set the bar where it was politically convenient for them rather than at some place that actually makes sense. This already happens a bit, hence why the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) is excluded, and it is almost certainly to the detriment of the people of those countries as well as their governments, imo.
> Whatever tmux was supposed to provide of additional value I could not find.

(find-window) is major feature for me (91 windows currently).
That and no more "Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die..." :)
I don't know a ton about low level language implementation, so excuse me if this comment is misguided, but...

Does type hinting in Python 3.x (PEP 484) change this (i.e., reduce the overhead due to dynamicness)? I know it doesn't include runtime type checking, so perhaps it's moot but maybe someone has written an interpreter that does hard type checking either at runtime or through a compilation step.
It's also not a world government. It's a treaty organization designed to prevent another world war. Member nations can come and organize and say whatever they like. These things have no binding effect.

So in a way, this is akin to a "strongly worded letter"
You'd have to throw out two members of the security council, if your criteria is that you can't be a authoritarian government controlled by the elites.

I'm not sure you could get a majority of US citizens to agree with what their government does in the UN.
Well, to be fair, the original Ruby interpret was a very naive AST-walking interpreter. Not that Matz isn't a good engineer; I think he probably just wanted to experiment. (Take a look at the Ruby parser sometime if you need confirmation that Matz is both brilliant and possibly insane.)

Perl's internals are a little weird but are really fast at text processing. I wouldn't necessarily hold Perl up as a good piece of software engineering, but it's still much better than what most people could write.

(I'm agreeing with you though. Your parent's comment is absurd.)
https://projects.propublica.org/emergency/

It seems to be about an hour.

20 hours seems to be extreme.
People have an unalienable natural right to vote with violence and force. If people do not like their government and the government does not provide peaceful ways for the people to get their way then the people can always take power by force.

So if millions of people want the opposite, they would enact it but force of they want it enough.
This article is an amazing amount of rubbish and choses to cherry pick what the author wants it to be while neglecting everything to the contrary. Example from the wikipage mentiioned: "In 2007 Spitznagel founded the firm Universa Investments L.P. with Taleb as an adviser using black swan portfolio hedging strategies similar to Empirica's." So, Taleb (Tooleb?) is still in business and why would Spitznagel work with him if Taleb was useless. After all, Spitznagel made very good money in 2008 as well as in 2015 and early 2016. In terms of Taleb's academic credentials: since Daniel Kahneman as well as Benoit Mandelbrot were not only happy to meet Taleb but Mandelbrot jointly published an FT article with Taleb http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5372968a-ba82-11da-980d-0000779e23... while Kahneman joined him for this discussion https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2013/02/06/nassim-ta.... It can be assumed neither of the two qualify in your view either and you woould dismiss this as proof that Taleb is well established in academia.
These examples are only scratching the surface and can easily be googled by anyone who want to write a proper article. Don't quite know why I waste my time to reply to this one but I though BS sometimes has to be called out when it is so obvious.
Rosetta Stone works to preserve languages with its products http://m.news9.com/story.aspx?story=30485894&catId=112032
After I-140 is approved you will be able to apply for I-485 to get EAD which will allow you to change employers. Obama's executive order is making it so. You will now see two sets of date for adjustment of status filing in the visa bulliten. Execution of the order is still catching up.
It is just incredible how "entrepreneurs" of this kind brag in the social networks:
"John is actually Ritu Raj (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, AngelList, Medium). The dog kennel chain he founded (and sold) is Wag Hotels. The SaaS we built for him is Objectively.net, the new version of Objectiveli.com"
The rat doesn't know that...
Would you be willing to connect me with your coworker or ask them if they're willing to share their project plan?

I have T1 as well and am fascinated by how difficult it is to reliably obtain the physical objects I need to stay healthy. Would be interested in learning more about your coworker's solution. (kamens@gmail.com if they're willing to chat over email)
That doesn't addressing my point, and my point doesn't depend on there being a monopoly, just much-higher-then-typical returns. That was why I said "quasi" and gave a clear example of (what I believe is) an analogous situation, in airlines, to show why lacking government funding couldn't be blamed.

Nor did I ever endorse the claim the doctor compensation was a significant factor, although I should have perhaps made that clearer to avoid the rabbit hole.

My comment was intended to challenge the claim that the small number of Medicare-funded residency slots could affect doctor supply, which you seemed to genuinely believe and be able to defend. (If you can't defend this claim, I would recommend not repeating it.)
This will be difficult for those with democratic governments. Houston is America's 4th largest city and its economy is pretty strongly tied to the industry. Many other locations around the US have economies tied to the extraction and processing of coal and oil. Any meaningful legislation to reduction in the use of fossil fuels is going to severely hurt those industries, causing massive unemployment. Barring some sort of massive action to counteract the resulting economic deprivation, poverty will rise and bring with it a rise in crime and suicides.

Those suicides are ultimately worth it, but it will be difficult. Research into the tactics used by the UK's Thatcher government to push through their reduction in subsidies to the coal industry would probably be instructive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%8...
Uh oh, this doesn't fit the class-war narrative so no one is going to touch it.
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I have that book. Pretty good. If you want to save some money, buy the DRM free PDF copy on informit.com but wait for one of their 40-50% off sales which happen near major holiday. I don't see one for July 4th though.
> Saudi Arabia has been the major blocker of a deal at the G-20

Well, who would have thought... But seriously, why do we (or rather, G-19) even listen to them? Why can't we just cut the subsidies ourselves, have investments in renewables grow and watch SA slowly drown it its oil?
Medical professionals are the highest paid profession in America - http://www.businessinsider.com/top-paying-jobs-in-america-20.... 16 of the 30 jobs and all of the top 5 on this list are in the medical profession.

The high pay in these professions is simple economics: supply is tightly constricted through the number of residencies allowed. Those in the profession have a strong interest in continuing to restrict the number of people in their field and so they have trade organizations that do this.

The line of defense they use is that consumers are too stupid to select a good healthcare provider without their intervention. I believe consumers would be very good at selecting the best provider, and would love to see all of the regulations dropped to open free competition into the marketplace.
There's multiple factors to this and multiple ways despite laws against this that it happens.

1. They incorrectly code the encounter leading to a lesser charge. This is Medicare fraud if the doctor ever get audited, but if it's a tiny practice and no one whistleblows on the Doctor, the odds of a small practice getting audited are very low.

2. They charge the cash paying patient the full amount. Then enter a period of "negotiation" and then accept the lesser payment and write off the balance as charity care. This is more legal, but leads to people coming on online forums and bitching about a $3000 bill only to reveal it got lowered to $700. The issue here is that the doctor is super busy and unless it's a micropractice where the doctor is the one billing, some biller/coder somewhere else will send you nasty grams until the doctor intervenes and tells them to write off the balance.

You have to remember, it is law in this country that you must bull accurately. Either coding too high or too low is considered equally fraudulent which Medicare will send its auditors after viciously.

The only way to go outside the system 100% legally is to completely opt out of Medicare/Medicaid. Anything less is fundamentally a gray area that relies on the practice not having someone mad and whistleblowing on them to a RAC. Whistleblowers are entitled to a portion of the fine, so the incentive is there for a disgruntled employee just to whistleblow even on the doctors who undercharge as a kindness to their patients.

When you hear doctors say the government has royally screwed up healthcare, this is fundamentally what they are talking about. I can either offer reasonable/negotiable prices on a cash basis or I can participate in the insurance game, but not both.

My biggest fear is that they eventually make participation in Medicare / Medicaid a requirement of licensure, effectively making the cash pay system illegal.
I haven't checked Unifont but generally, zero with a slash has the slash only on the inside of the zero, whereas o with a slash, as you, being danish, know, but others might not, has the slash extending beyond each side. If Unifont has the slash going outside, then I agree with you, that is offensive, but if it does not, then it's fine.
These hacks have actually been modeled and generalized into a mathematical construct called Mixed Boolean Arithmetic [1][2]. With a few matrix operations, you can actually generate an arbitrary number of hacky-looking (or obfuscated, as that was the actual intention of the authors of [1]) expressions from any initial, simple expression.

[1] http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-77535-5_5 (and I deeply apologize I can't find the free PDF version, though sci-hub may help here)

[2] http://blog.quarkslab.com/what-theoretical-tools-are-needed-...
It's consistent with US representative democracy. Read through the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention and the Federalist Papers, and you can't help but notice that they were as worried about the tyranny of mob rule as they were of the arbitrariness of monarchy - which was rather pointedly illustrated in the French Revolution just a few years later.

People are stupid, and generally don't know what is best for them, and the more of them you get together, the more likely they'll develop mass insanity. You need some kind of buffer to moderate the fickle will of the public.
See Larry Hastings' talk "Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy" from PyCon 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AyI_u66Bw

As well as his earlier talk "Python's Infamous GIL".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zeHStBowEk

The GIL is a simple design that provides serious benefit to Python (end user) developers.

There are plenty of options for working around this for parallelism, such as the built-in module multiprocessing.
Is it just me or the transitions (translations and rotations) seem to cause dizziness (or motion sickness)?

I don't experience this problem with prezi or normal css transitions.
It's not a well-liked view, but I'm very glad that humanity is on the path to speaking only a few languages (or perhaps just one).

If you disagree, consider this thought experiment: Imagine if the entire world spoke a single language. Would we ever want to invent new languages, making mutual communication harder? It would be silly.

I do feel for the speakers of these dying tongues, but in the long run, this is a good thing. Do you feel stunted or unsatisfied because your ancestors didn't pass their native tongues down to you? I don't. And most people don't realize how great a cost we pay for having so many languages. Ideally, linguists and historians would document these languages and their cultures, then let them quietly fade. Teaching them to new generations is not only a futile effort, it's less beneficial on net.
I had a street fighting knowledge of Postgres. I picked up "Postgres Up and Running" which filled in a lot of holes in my knowledge. It was surprisingly good for an O'Reilly book.
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It's a problem of speed of changes, old people can't have a true discussion to young people anymore.
That sucks.
The rat doesn't (necessarily) know it's selfless to free the other rather. He's acting on instinct. That's the question at hand:are these moral instincts, are they a shared trait with people's.
>"Those suicides are ultimately worth it, but it will be difficult"
-afarrell

Source?
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Isn't it pretty highly likely that we need to do 20 or 25 different things that average dropping the price by 2%?

If we consider them in isolation, shrug and say the cut won't fix the problem, we won't fix the problem.
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Any country that is facing economic stagnation (most of the developed world) is going to be hard pressed to inflict short-term pain for long-term gain.
Given the belief that we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground and close mining operations, shouldn't that change the left's opinion of Margret Thatcher? (Or at least of the mine closures)
I really don't know what you are doing, but I can tell you apt hasn't broken anything here since the mid-2000's and all machines in my office are multi-headed and all of them use their GPUs. Even the laptops connect to big monitors when used on the desk.

Graphics card drivers are reasonable these days, even though manufacturers still tend to drag their feet. You have to understand these are computers, not gaming consoles. If I wanted to play games, I'd buy a Playstation.

Few developers want to use RHEL as their desktops, but that's what VMs and containers are for. My Mac development relies on VMs running Linux.
Nah, it just needs some fresh spin.

"Mortality inequality remains, even in 2016"

Then prescribe universal healthcare.
Security issues aside, there's also the concern of what happens if the piped-into `bash` receives an incomplete script (usually because `curl` was interrupted, often because of poor network connectivity). `bash` will attempt to execute whatever it already got from `curl`, which can cause all sorts of problems.
She was also a champion of financial de-regulation which culminated in the crash of 2008 which large swathes of the population have yet to recover from (underemployment, retirement-funds, etc...).
Because Saudi Arabia, with its massive supply and low costs of production, wields massive influence over the price of oil. And, as we've seen recently, are very willing to defend its market share against long-term (clean energy) and immediate threats (such as fracking.)
Obama's waste of time?? No way
That's a silly explanation. A smart JIT would be able to take successive Python opcodes and optimise them together as one operation, so how much time it spends interpreting individual instructions has nothing to do with the "speed", in the sense of "current speed" vs "potential speed".

If you want to talk about speed in any meaningful sense, you have to talk about potential for optimisation. It's possible that Python (and its opcodes) are designed in such a way that there is little potential for optimisation. This has to do with the semantics of the language, not how much time it spends in one part of the code or the other.

I don't know ultimately how much potential for optimisation Python has, but clearly it's a very difficult problem, so we can say with some certainty that Python is "slow", in the concrete sense that there are no low-hanging fruit left for speeding it up.

Edit: I say this as an avid Python user by the way. Especially combined with ctypes, I find the Python interpreter to be an absolutely excellent way to "organize" a bunch of faster code written in C/C++. I actually don't have any problem with Python itself being slow, I kind of like it that way personally. It's easy to understand its execution model if the interpreter is kept fairly simple, and this makes it easy to reason with. But then again I am not writing web-scale backends with it, I am just, more or less, using it to batch calls to scientific C functions. So it really depends on your use case. While I've spent plenty of time tuning every little performance gain out of a tight computational loop in C, I can't think of a single time where I've struggled to figure out how to speed up my Python code -- I just am not using it in ways that that would be necessary.
Because the G-20 wants to remain the G-20 and not the G-19; you can't kick out a member every time you don't agree with their opinion, regardless of who wrong you may feel it is.
I've noticed that whenever I've been to France. I learned French in school, and I notice there's an age cut-off when I can no longer understand what people are saying.

A small consolation is that the people who no longer speak intelligible French are usually somewhat better at English.
Years ago I switched to brushing with baking soda and salt, and my teeth have basically stopped degenerating. Bar soap is good too, for removing acid-producing bacteria, but I don't like the aftertaste of some soaps.
I thought this project was really cool when I first came across it, but there was one thing that really offended me about it and made me refuse to ever use it:

> How to Use It

> =============

> Use the source, Luke ;)

> Please note that impress.js was created for developers. Some basic knowledge of html, css and javascript is a prerequisite to install and use its features.

So, in other words, "please, reverse engineer my work because I'm too lazy to document my code."

Sure, they've put in a lot of comments, but there's still no clearly defined interfaces or guides for use. It's all comments like 'delegated handler for clicking on step elements' and big ascii art of yoda.

Documentation is not just for _newbs_. It's an important part of making a third party library. If you want other developers to use your code, then make it easy to use. To not do so is incredibly user-hostile, and it's not going to get you anywhere.

Could you imagine if people had attitudes like this in other fields of engineering? "Here's your new car." "Thanks, how do I change a tire or put in gas? Does it have a manual?" "Manual? Just read the schematics. If you know anything about mechanical engineering or combustion, you should be able to figure it out!"
This is (thankfully) the direction medical care is going in the US - a shift from "fee for service" to "value based care".

It's wrapped up as part of the Affordable Care Act, and basically hospital reimbursements are being moved from "Did you do the treatment? Here's $XX", to being based on metrics like re-admittance, customer complaints, etc. A focus on the population statistics, as opposed to just providing treatment.

So large hospitals today are already starting to have these "project managers", though they call it "population health" - and it is gradually becoming more directly tied to the hospital's bottom line.
I appreciate the pointers, but neither of my monitors has enough room behind it.
This is a conclusion drawn based on

1) A genuine belief that we do need to massively reduce fossil fuel extraction.

2) seeing what often happens to areas when their main industries close or move away (see: South Yorkshire, England or Detroit, Michigan)

Yes, I'm being deliberately inflammatory here. The people I've talked to about climate change post things like this: http://imgur.com/up6yu and ignore the fact that we are genuinely and earnestly pushing for policies that will destroy people's livelihoods.