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I think it's like the MS Office redesign. The new UI is supposedly better, especially for newbies. But the amount of bitching among experienced Office users was remarkable.
For those interested, these interfaces are just based on some findings on kinaesthetic behaviour. Signals are hierarchical and based on population vectors.

It would be interesting to see if one could model other working memory problems with population vectors...
Take the spreadsheet 'carbocation posted, sort it by "glycemic index", skip past all the nulls, and you have a list from "foods this SciAm article suggests are unhealthful" to "foods this SciAm article suggests aren't unhealthful". You'll find sugar, flour, potatoes, and white rice at the top of the list, and fats and oils near the bottom.
If you watch the video linked in the parent post, it claims/explains that doing the same with fructose would not be equivalent.
No. This is an extremely misleading title. The "US Government" could care less what hash functions you use.

It's also not an interesting article. SHA1 has been suspect as a security primitive for years.
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I've found that these types of comments make for easy karma. The longer, more thoughtful ones make for significantly less.
Today, Mark Cuban asked >> "What business is Wall Street in?"
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332422)

At a fundamental level, Wall Street seeks to match the demand for capital (investors) with the supply of capital (savers).

To encourage responsible execution of the duty, the government has two primary tools: regulation and taxation. IMO, the system requires three important changes to achieve this:

1) Transparency

Require more disclosure from brokers.

2) Education

Basic finance and economics should be a required part of every curriculum.

3) Tax short-term capital gains

Certain industries require funding on a short-term basis, so this must be done carefully. The most difficult proposal to effectively implement, but also the one with the most potential to have an immediate and positive impact. Fortunately, the government has already determined that short term investments are less desirable (hence the higher tax rate).

In contrast with this article, here is the other predominant perspective on this matter: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/03/video-six-reasons-to-r...
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mcsweeneys has been talking about this for months.

http://mcsweeneys.net/links/bedbugs/
The whole point of the web is that it's decentralized. It shouldn't be dependent on Facebook or any other site. Obviously, that extreme is impractical, but it's something to strive for.
I just moved into a house in Vancouver. Vancouver has a MAJOR bedbug problem. I cross-referenced every place I looked at with http://bedbugregistry.com.

Some advice - look at the corners of the mattress at every hotel or hostel you stay at for the black dots or an inky stain.
What a massively unpleasant troll. All based on a simple fallacy:

"If all it takes to break a privacy system is for one of your friends to copy and repost your “private” photos or tweets then they’re not private at all."

By the same measure, no email is private, no hand-written letter, no whispered conversation, no Top Secret document.

That's not how privacy works. Privacy is about trust between humans, and our understanding of what's private includes the assumption that we'll have to trust the other people involved. Where there's technology involved, there is a different standard: if it pledges to be secure, we expect the only leaks to come via the humans. I expect GMail to take pretty extensive steps to keep my email private, for instance, but I don't expect them to stop my friend forwarding my email to a third party.

Facebook was originally billed as a trustworthy piece of technology. Things could leak from it, but they'd leak via other people, not via the software. Now they've quietly changed the rules and are merrily leaking away. That's privacy invasion, and no amount of blaming the victim will change that.
Why don't we all use sporks instead of spoons and forks? It's cheaper and it needs less space to store the cutlery.
That's your only comment?
My voice and accent is what it is. If you want the technical details, it's called a High Rising Terminal.
Show us YOUR video blog and we'll all pass judgment on you.
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The latter typically depends in significant degree on the former.
You mentioned getting a scholarship in the other post about your college. What dictated your college choice?
I get emails like this all the time too.

I think it may be an macro-level attempt to defeat Bayesian spam filters. Put lots of random words into a nonsensical message, and the recipient will mark it as junk.

Keep doing it, and eventually the spam filters will start triggering false positives on non-spam messages that contain the same words, arranged sensibly.

Users then need to sort through their spam folders to find the real messages, and are then exposed to your Viagra ad.
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I'm not cynical -- I'm sincere. I even sent a little note to the Google Calendar team with a request for the feature.

In fact, I thought my comment would be filled with replies containing little improvements others had identified.
Yes. At least in my own company.

We were picking a vendor and had gone deep in talks with the MySQL folks to license their technology, and then Oracle stepped in and we picked somebody else.

Following the technology since then, it's clear that Oracle doesn't really know what to do with this thing. I think it would be a mistake right now for any company to pick MySQL for any major work without plans on moving it out of their product at some point in the future, it's simply on far too unstable ground as a database to rely on anymore.
Works as designed -

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."
— Leslie Lamport
interesting, looks legit. I love posts like this, just here's something useful that I'm really unlikely to come upon on my own.
Getting an IQ test also informs the child that their "gifted", meaning that they are less likely to put in the same effort later on as their peers assuming that their superior intellect will get them across the line.

Sure there are problems with the education system, but whatever path you take I think you need to show some intelligence in knowing what you need to do to achieve what you want. If you do want a degree, follow the rules of the degree, it may not be the best education, but it's what you want. If you don't, well great go that way. Sometimes you have to work within the limitations of the system to get to your goal.

Needing a degree as a tick off prerequisite for some jobs is of course another problem entirely.
its not really a problem until they've migrated to the bentley.. .then you know youre in trouble.
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It would have been interesting to see the shape of the sword after that guy used it for chin-ups.

Also, I assumed it was a novelty item, but the guy talking about it as a home defense weapon at the end took me a bit by surprise... Not sure it's as efficient in the hallway struggling with a burglar. :)
That piece completely turns my intuition about how the writing world works on its head. I always thought that writers wrote books, editors trimmed them and publishers sold them.

I never thought that publishing an e-book required as much work as a 'regular' book, other than the removal of the printer, but it does make sense.

In a way it's a pity, but maybe this could be cured by writers hiring free-lance editors and marketing on a performance basis?
"Academic success" is required to enter many highly paid occupations: law, medicine, finance, etc. So I would disagree it is a useless indicator, it is directly related to one's future income.
Gut instinct is that's unlikely to be caused by anything that a cache box can fix as international connectivity isn't as big of an issue on this side of the pond¹.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/3435625/Top-business-figures...

¹ I'm not saying international connectivity is great in Australia, just that it's a lot better than what the Kiwis have.
I love Google, and I would probably use it if I had an Android phone. MobileMe's biggest draw for me is its integration with Apple products with syncing and Find my iPhone/iPad.
Yeah, Sys-Con are a sketchy company.

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I think the promise can be realized in pure UI and AI other than that it is much a-due about nothing. COCOA is a good example of pure UI, as well as some of the JavaScript UI kits. I.E Dojo or YUI. Given that UI objects are well encapsulated via OO is is a natural fit. When you get back to the service layer, you end up either writing overly complex OO stuff or butchering the language to make it functional.

Thankfully Rich Internet Applications are cleanly separating these concerns and you can use an OO toolkit for pure UI and a functional language the stand up RESTful services.

The days of bastardized JSP/HTML/TILES/STRUTS/Kitchen sink are numbered, for just that reason. Trying to shoehorn all of these technologies into a server side OO framework was becoming way to cumbersome.
If you carefully read my post, where I emphasize that you restrict yourself to 250kcal of either, I think you'll find that we're all in agreement.

The video explains why fructose drives you to eat more (namely, it doesn't fulfill the hormonal role that glucose does). It also states that fructose is more likely to form advanced glycation endproducts, but this is far less important than the hormonal differences.

So from all practical viewpoints, I agree with you. Fructose is way worse! From the most limited perspective (basically, lock someone up and feed them 250kcal of glucose vs 250kcal fructose and don't let them have additional food), they will be very similar.
But taking vitamin B complex make my urine bright pretty yellow :-)
Step 2 in glycolysis turns glucose 6-phosphate into fructose 6-phosphate. And I'm not convinced that every glucose molecule undergoes glycolysis. According to the MD in the video (minute 45 or so), 80% of glucose gets turned to CO2 and water by the organs in the body before the rest of the glucose even makes it to the liver, where eventually, ~.4% of it turns into VLDL (which is bad for you). You only need a bit of pyruvate (the end product of glycolysis) to get the Krebs cycle going, and then that takes care of the glucose, turning it into CO2 and water, without turning it into fructose in the process. And at no point is there any native fructose involved. And besides, in the video, it says fructose can't be metabolized by the brain.

I'd also like to point out I'm not drinking a shitload of this stuff all at once. The reason I avoid this is to avoid an insulin spike, which would, without question, defeat the purpose of using dextrose.
I can usually argue with myself to get motivated. The problem is when I cheat and pretend I already had the internal conversation and decided not to bother.
I certainly could have made it persistent but then I'd be adding significant complexity to a little run-and-done single-file data processing app. I mean, even before changing to Mouse the thing took only a few seconds to start up. Now it's less than half a second.

(Also, SSDs cost money :))
More details for the interested: http://riskfactor.cancer.gov/tools/glycemic/
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Working through a few examples helped me quite a bit. I think the Moose::Cookbook[1] is pretty descent.

[1]: http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Moose-1.03/lib/Moose/Cookbook....
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I'm not the parent commenter, but where I went we had up through multi-variable calc and linear algebra, though really I thought the toughest was Prob/Stat in HS but that's probably because the teacher wasn't very good at motivating students. P/S was required on the 'accelerated' track- the accelerated track prepped you to take the BC Calc AP exam which will test you out of Calc and Calc 2. The Multivariable and Linear classes were both elective credits and only half a year each, and also there were no AP tests so you had to convince your college to let you test out of them on your own (though I can't imagine anyone had any problems with that). Both those courses had maybe a dozen kids in them (in a class of 400ish), and it was taught by the same teacher we had for Calc and Pre-Calc our Junior year.

Truly the best teacher I ever had without any doubt, had a passion for the math, the students, the teaching, and did an amazing job motivating a few of us that were used to doing the bare minimum and gaming the system (which as has been noted is what ends up happening to a lot of 'gifted' students). If only all our teachers (or hell, most) had half (or a quarter) the passion she had, our schools probably wouldn't be failing like they are. Not to take anything away from the great teachers out there, they exist, but the system just drives away the best ones.
I hear you. I've always insisted on figuring things out instead of memorizing them.

Here's an anecdote: back at high school, my class was told to write all of the basic sine-cosine formulae 100 times. The homework was worth 5 marks. I found I could derive most formulae myself, so I didn't do the homework. The result? Not only did I lose 5 marks, I also scored badly on the test because it was rigged. You could only solve the test questions if you had crammed every one of those trigonometric identities. (I did manage to solve most of those questions, but deriving the formulae from scratch took time. The test consisted of a lot of questions, each of which was worth very few marks.)

This has happened to me over and over in the past four years, in both high school and college. And no, I'm not "gifted". I'm just an average student who likes to understand how things work.
Short answer: money.

Long answer: I had an ACT in the 30s and a GPA of 3.9 upon graduation from highschool, and I took a few AP courses (my school only offered 3, and in addition I took AP Physics over the internet (terrible idea)), got a 5 in the AP Calc test, etc. but past that I hadn't taken the SAT subject tests or anything, so I wasn't really competitive. My family and I don't have a lot of excess money just lying around, and basically my options were thus: get admitted to a couple upper-tier-but-not-Ivy-League schools and pay with money I didn't have, or go to a crappy state school with scholarships.

I've had a job since 7th grade (but there are not a lot of tech companies in my area, so they haven't really been 'tech' jobs), but all of that was saved for buying my own vehicle, insurance, 'spare' money for college, etc. I remember getting excited when I received a ~$20K a year scholarship to a "Blah Blah Institute of Technology", only to find that it cost $50K a year to attend.

Overall, I'm burnt on the education system. My goal now is to get out with a stupid degree before I completely crash, but I'm already coming dangerously close...

EDIT: I was also in Duke's TIP program, which got me mail from Columbia and the like, but once again I couldn't really afford to go through with any of that.

EDIT 2: Before this sounds like just a bunch of whining, a huge chunk of this was my fault. I could have had higher scores and grades and whatnot, but I really just didn't give a shit. I hated school, and wanted to do as little as possible. I've always loved learning though.
Sigh. Glycemic index doesn't really tell the story.

Eat whole foods, avoid sugar.
I think I recognize the source of your distress. The same sort of thing I get when I see people use "natural" as a synonym for "good" and "unnatural" as a synonym for "bad", and think that once you've established something as "natural" or not, you can stop thinking about it.

In this case, in addition to the other replies, I would point out that refined is not merely a synonym for "unnatural". The refining processes in question make the refined food much easier to digest, which causes the insulin spikes and (theoretically) the rest of the problems that arise when that happens chronically.

Personally I don't think it's impossible to mass-produce quality food, and there are other forms of "refinement" that can either raise the quality of the food, or bring out specific characteristics of the food without much loss, such as cold-pressing oils, so I don't think of refinement itself as a sort of dirty word or anything. Much, if not most, of the reason we don't seem to mass-produce quality food is that we haven't had a correct definition of "quality food" here in the US for literally 50 years.
I dislike the experience of reading a physical book. I tried to read a textbook while I ate lunch today but I couldn't because it kept flipping shut on me. Books require one hand (or a heavy object) to constantly hold them open in order for them to be readable unless you're in the middle section of the book. The alternative is to crease the spine, which will hurt the book's resale value.

So I gave up trying to read the book at lunch and read something on my iPhone instead.

Also, I dislike lugging around the bulk of books or multiple books. I really can't wait until someone releases an eInk reader that can handle academic books and PDFs. I might get impatient and buy an iPad.

But I suppose there are some people that fetishize the smell of wood pulp and who love signaling how smart they are to the world with shelves of impressive-looking unread books, and who therefore overlook a reading experience that is superior in every other way.
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>I might be considered a huge failure because I've devoted myself to raising my son (and learning lots of interesting things along the way) rather than to a technical career.

The system in place would consider you a failure because you haven't lived up to the expectations of what the system wanted you to do. No one can claim that as an absolute, no matter how hard they try. (;
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C.S.Lewis has had some clever things to say on the topic. There's this brilliant paragraph in Mere Christianity that goes:

"… so many people cannot be brought to realise that when B is better than C, A may be even better than B. They like thinking in terms of good and bad, not of good, better, and best, or bad, worse and worst. They want to know whether you think patriotism a good thing: if you reply that it is, of course, far better than individual selfishness, but that it is inferior to universal charity and should always give way to universal charity when the two conflict, they think you are being evasive."

Think this applies here, too.
I've mentioned Ray Peat's articles before on this site but if you've found this article interesting, have a look at some of his articles: http://raypeat.com/articles/
You could back more than one candidate.
There are some interesting counterexamples; it's possible to make white bread with a GI of 40 or so. Flour doesn't necessarily mean high GI, nor are ingredients the sole determinant of GI. There's a paper kicking round where the authors baked white bread with GIs between 40 and 100 (from memory). The _only difference was proving time...
On an online forum? I don't doubt it.
Sugar is a fructose molecule bound to a glucose molecule. So yeah, it's about as bad as fructose alone.
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> Americans already put in more hours than workers in any country in the world - and that doesn't include the uncounted shadow work that technology makes possible after the regular workday ends.

No, not really. Outsourcing firms in India often keep people at work for ten to twelve hours at a stretch, and they don't even bother to cover it up. I think the reason nobody makes a noise about it is that these sweatshops often hire freshers, who don't know any better.
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You pretty much sound exactly like me. You're not alone at all.
I don't know any functional programming languages, and for me having the answers next to the question made it interesting. I am still curious to try functional programming, but I've always leaned towards elisp instead, since I have an obvious application for that.
Yeah, I hate it when they cheat in marketing, too. Obviously it was missing the bones for a realistic simulation.
The "just rewrite your app to use a different object system" doesn't scale very well, but App::Persistent has a constant per-app overhead -- deciding what code to run in the server, and deciding what code to run per-client. (It's not automatic because the "omg magic" is what made pperl unusable.)

The persistent version of Devel::REPL, for example, is just a few lines of code:

http://github.com/jrockway/app-persistent/blob/master/repl.p...

And if you use MooseX::Runnable, it is automatic. (Just load with +Persistent.)
Indeed. Self-teaching and instruction are not mutually exclusive, in fact, together, they probably amount to synergy.
The real Flash "killer" is whatever commercial product they release to compete with the Flash artist tools.

The only people who care about Flash are those with investments. Artists don't want to relearn tools, or worse; their worst fear is writing code as a replacement for an animation timeline. The businesses that employ these artists are happy with the existing pipeline, and any switch in platform looks like a huge risk.

Every unbiased developer I talk to perceives a move away from Flash as a better Internet. It seems we don't move for the same reason we're using QWERTY rather than Dvorak keyboards. Regardless of their motivation, Apple pushing Flash toward obsolescence is a net win.

The tipping point will be when someone, maybe even Adobe, releases a product identical to existing tools.
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Absolutely. All refined carbs are bad for you. This includes especially breads made of white flour, pasta, and potatoes. If you want to be healthy you need to keep your blood glucose at a steady level, which means eating complex carbs like whole grains, sweet potatoes, brown rice, etc. These carbs turn into glucose much slower than refined carbs, which cause a steady release of glucose rather than a sugar rush that you get from refined carbs.

Just because they aren't as quick as HFCS doesn't mean they aren't bad for you. A bagel at breakfast has over 100 grams of refined carbs that become glucose in your blood within minutes of eating it. Tell me that isn't bad for you. Eat one every day and you might just get diabetes...
It says the typical workweek in South Korea is "44 hours or longer", whatever that means.
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I recommend it too. The title makes it sound like light pop-science, but he did a lot more research than I expected, and unlike most people commenting on diet, he went to the primary sources, and even went back a far as 150 years to see where the current mainstream view comes from.
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Perhaps I was unclear -- I and probably over half of HN are familiar with that trick already. However, to my knowledge there was no pithy, memorable name for this practice before.

It's a good practice in almost any language, BTW. In scripting languages, the error will either be caught at parse time or maybe at runtime, but at least it will be noticed.
It wasn't a different object system, though. At the level I'm using Moose, Mouse was completely drop-in. I understand your point, but scaling isn't really a goal. I just wanted the script to run faster than it was.

I'm planning on building some persistent stuff at work and I'll definitely give App::Persistent a closer look when the time comes, but for a little script it's sort of overkill.