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Radley Balko: In Spite of State Law, Maryland Law Enforcement Officials Still Arresting, Charging People for Recording Cops: http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/29/maryland-cops-say-its-ille...
The demand-responsive pricing aspect is the most interesting:

>"SFpark will charge the lowest possible hourly rate to achieve the right level of availability in both garages and at metered spaces. This project is not about raising parking revenue; it’s about making parking easier to find. SFpark is designed so each block and each garage maintains have about, an average, 20% availability."
There is at least one MD who regularly posts here, that I know of. I'm not a doctor myself, I'm an EEG tech.

That said, I agree that without specific details, its harder to know whats going on.
It's not me.
Have you checked Vitamin B levels? My friend has very similar problems that are solved by getting a B12 shot. She has to get one weekly as her gut cannot absorb it. It's probably easier to just get the shot and see if it helps.
I really like STDP/EDT as a form of therapy. See if this resonates at all with you. http://www.istdp.ca/Somatization.pdf
> Can you go into more detail about how Python fixes maintenance?

It's pervasive, so there isn't any single feature I could point to. Python embraces a general philosophy that starts from the observation that programmers spend much more time reading code then they spend time writing it [1]. Thus, most trade-offs between readability and writability should fall in favor of readability.

For instance, let's look at the whitespace thing. It's the first thing new Python users bump up against, and it's a source of perpetual controversy. There's a not-insignificant group of users who try Python, hit whitespace-for-control-flow, and leave in a huff. I won't argue that these people are wrong, but I will point out that it's ridiculously nice to have all the code you read always use the same control flow indentation conventions. Though Python's my primary language, I do more and more work in JavaScript theses days, and I could go on and on about my frustration trying to follow the flow of code written with varying intendation, brace, and semicolon styles.

This is encapsulated by the observation, from The Zen of Python, that "there should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it" (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/). At its best, Python code eliminates any stylistic differences. This sounds like it's a stifling of creativity (and perhaps it is), but in practice it means maintaining someone else's code is just as easy as maintaining your own.

Take Django, for example: I can tell at a glance who's responsible for any given line of JavaScript in the framework, but it usually takes digging into SVN history to discover who's written some given line of Python [2].

Or look at Python's general lack of language features. There's a `while` loop but no `do ... while`. There's a `for` loop, but it's really just `foreach` and nothing else. There's `if/else`, but no `switch/case`. There's language-level primitives for basic types list, dicts and tuples, but not regexes, ranges, heredocs, or anything else more exotic. Python's a little language; I can keep it all in my head. I never have to run to the docs to find out what some obscure syntax does; there isn't any obscure syntax.

If I got to do green-fields development all of the time, I might very well choose a different language. I've certainly used languages that are easier to write. But I live in a world filled with old code, so I've tried to make sure my career involves code that sucks as little as possible.

[1] Indeed, I'd argue that reading code — especially other people's — is the most important skill a developer can have. I'd go so far as to argue that asking people to write code during interviews is pointless; we should be asking them to read it. But that's another show.

[2] I'm often surprised to find that the code was written by me, though I'm not sure if that's a praise of Python or a remark on my generally shitty memory…

[3] Well, until Python 3. Again, that's another show.
I think it is advocating something concrete: Drop the separate routing layer. Then it gives two concrete examples of how to handle urls: Sinatra-style and HTTP-style methods in the controller. I think the biggest problem in the article is its use of an ugly url in the examples.

I actually like the HTTP-style method approach. You mention pushback to prevent people from creating mega-controllers, and I think this takes it even a step further. It really ties the controller to the resource. As mentioned in the article, this is already how the methods are called in the tests.
Although the price is excessive, I think that we can't forget the target of the device: students. If this tool can improve the student experience, reduce the costs of the books during the year and enable them to do some homework (I haven't tested the system and I have no idea of all the gadgets available)... it might be a good idea for them.

I look back at my Middle School years when I had to carry a bag full of books every day and... 5.5lb doesn't sound that heavy.

Also, this technology has been developed for students. If the device ends up being successful, I am more than sure that other tablets will appear with a broader target.
Thank for the suggestion. We're going to continue to try our best to ensure international users have as many of their favorite web apps and sites available to them as U.S. users. We currently have over 1,000 web apps and sites in our database for you to choose from and we are looking to offer users the option to upload their own site icons very soon. Btw, the BBC iPlayer app is now available with the added ability to directly search it from your Favetop if you'd like. If you have any other suggestions please let us know through the "Suggestions/Feedback" link on our homepage. :)
EPIC FAIL:Israels Flickr Propaganda
I've never seen someone with osteomalacia before, so caveat lector: I would keep osteomalacia on my differential. Some of your symptoms - particularly your musculoskeletal discomfort and disability - are suggestive. Now, osteomalacia would not be the unifying diagnosis - it would be a consequence of low vitamin D. Your hypovitaminosis D could be the result of your diet (vegetarian) and lack of sun exposure, though there is, of course, another differential for low vitamin D.

At the end of the day, though, it's really hard to try to make a diagnosis based on a blog post. A doctor should see you walk into the room; hear your voice; be able to ask follow-up questions; carry on a relatively fast-paced conversation, so he may hear things quickly enough that the dots connect themselves. A doctor should see your lab values, and know precisely which tests you got and what the results were. There is a lot of diagnostic value embedded in the patient encounter that just isn't conveyed over the web. Now, your approach may work - perhaps this type of story is virtually diagnostic in some field - but it comes off as being pretty broad. Without knowing why your other physicians did what they did, knowing what they did actually makes me more confused, not less. Seeing your past medical history, as written by a doctor, would be highly informative.
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One thing I like about hacker news is that some complete moron, like me, can write 'boobie testucles' in reply to the topmost comment, thus keeping the reply visible to all on top even if its voted down by the retarded masses who don't know what a good reply really is. Man, lisp sucks. Please vote my reply up, thanks!
At that point, I suppose it is just a matter of taste: should the routes be specified inside each controller class, or should they be specified in a separate configuration file.

The over-engineer in me likes the way Rails 3 does it. That way I can pretend that my code is reusable, as the URL is decoupled from the code that eventually implements its handler.

But I suppose there is also something nice about a controller which self-defines the way in which it can be accessed.
This is big news for holders of disabled placards.
dl might make more sense here---meta information about the post in a dt and the post itself in a dd.
If raw veganism isn't working, the "paleolithic diet" or "specific-carbohydrate diet" are what worked for us (the latter, especially; they're essentially the same thing, but Google will find different communities for you).

Juicing may also work for you; it didn't for us (except insofar as fresh juice is so incredibly much better than bottled that it was worth it). Couldn't get the kids to drink vegetable juices without so much grape that the sugar hit seemed exorbitant.

But I can't agree more with #1 and #2 - exercise will help.

Tai Chi is good for helping you lift yourself. Yoga's good, too - and both combat stress, which has to be a factor here.
Agreed - other than coverage and update frequency, they're very similar results. I think I actually prefer Bing overall.
Busk is a rather nifty news search engine from Portugal.
I can't wait to see the live data feed that comes out of this.
I suggest the following:

- Go to the rural coast of Costa Rica

- Every day spend an hour or two swimming in the ocean, surfing, etc.

- Eat only fresh tropical fruit, beans, and rice w/ no added oils, etc.

- Try to run 15-45 minutes per day.

- No coffee, tea, alcohol, etc.

- Minimal sunblock, deodorant, etc.

- Drink > 1 gallon of water each day.

- Do 30 minutes of yoga per day.

- Read for pleasure for 30 minutes per day.

- Plan nice projects/surprises for people you care about. Spend 20 minutes per day thinking about these plans.

Follow this for 3 months. The food will cost < $2 per day and lodging may cost $10-15 per day if you live like one of the locals.

It's your life. Follow these instructions to the letter and I suspect you will feel more healthy and vigorous than ever before.
this is cool - but the real magic lies with in recur right? How is that implemented in clojure itself or does that require bytecode magic?
A large number of autoimmune conditions, including lupus, can be mediated by steroids such as prednisone - have you tried immunosuppression meds or other steroids?
Oh hells yes. This describes our past decade. Keep in mind that you can, eventually, figure it out.
I thought so as well. My doc and I are currently locking horns over this, as my Vit D levels are normal now. Initially this doc was quite helpful (and he spotted the Vit D deficiency- definitely a novel experience for me), but now he's very defensive and saying things like "which one of us has a medical degree?" when I ask about the Vitamin D again.

I honestly can't recall if the initial improvement when taking D started to subside before or after starting the 50K prescription.
Hold on there, the uk has far more liberal laws that the us, can you give any examples? Btw you can film anything here, including arrests. Only issue is if they think you are making a film to aid terrorists, but the police have had a very hard time using that.
Also don't forget that the uk is crawling in cctv, so the police are bound to be filmed anyway!
I think I'm feeling somewhat in need of this cure, too...

Actually - how does one go to the rural coast of Costa Rica? Do you have any information about that sort of thing?
That, I didn't realise. Great value :). Almost too great - I'd have paid for an upgrade!
Wow -- just wow.

Moving on.
If more companies did it, some unscrupulous users would abuse it by posting fake listings and not returning the money.
I wonder how this experiment would have turned out if all the applicants decided to play the same game.

- Submit their resume but with a name only. You have to Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, whatever to find the contact information.

or

- The employer will only receive contact information if he puts in a $1 security deposit in the prospective employee's bank account.
"... tried for two months to get the police to arrest me for selling art downtown so we could test the Chicago peddlers license law".
Sure, it's most definitely possible with a limited palette. Anything you can build out of proteins is easy. Other stuff is either harder or impossible, which is why I believe that nanotechnology will enable all sorts of great things, but a "universal assembler" will not be one of them.
Agreed. I always thought that Rails controllers violated the Single Responsibility Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle) by mixing collection and member concerns into a single class.
The biggest thing I took away from his comments on the Gizmodo thing last night is that Steve Jobs took the whole thing very personally.
All of these snippets are fascinating.

I can believe that this is a real phenomena.

But every discussion I've read so far seems like a snippet, a gloss, just a bit of information to get me to believe this but not enough for me to feel I understand what's happening.

What really qualifies as self control here? Refusing temptation? Concentrating on something? Not following habit? Suppose what I'm used-to is eating radishes but I how good cookies are good?

Does anyone have a reference for an article or book that really digs into this subject, give more than or two experiments, gives some quantification or theory or some kind of deeper understanding of this. I'm curious now but frustrated.
Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy can help Lyme disease.
The Vitamin D thing was one of the first things they discovered with me...but they started me right away on the 50K IU/week. As with you, the benefit lasted a short time and then I actually felt worse. It turned out that the Vitamin D thing was a red herring. Vitamin D is a hormone, and I had multiple endocrine issues from the viral and bacterial infections...
Not necessarily - it just seems that way because wheat figures so heavily in the Western diet.

I don't think Celiac is likely, but you can just not eat wheat for a week and see if it makes a difference. (Read every label if you're trying that.)
There's a "Hacker Friends" chrome extension that does exactly this.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mkdhfabjcebcgnpg...
Which he has a very low chance of actually running afoul of. Keep bringing the FUD, folks.
Have you had any labs to assess liver function?

Do you have a history of significant alcohol consumption?
Huh, didn't know that, but you're right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_alphabet#Diacritics). I declare myself out-pedanted :)
The headline is link-bait; as the article details, this is a system to detect when some market is going to change "from superexponential growth to some other regime (which may not necessarily be a collapse)."

It depends on detecting that the market is in a superexponential growth regime in the first place (the article indicates that was hard/impossible earlier) and matching the specific pattern of its behavior to human behavior model stuff. I can well believe it works and it'll serious utility if it pans out.

Even if it changes the market(s) as good prediction systems tend to do, since this is a particularly unhealthy type of market.
That's going to be true for any technical discipline. The majority of any engineering or maths curriculum is available on Wikipedia and mathworld in great detail.

Why CS is different is due to less of a need of verification of skill. Many don't mind giving an informally taught programmer a job because his/her work can be verified by reading or executing code. That isn't possible in civil engineering, for example.
I can't decide what I think of this. In general I almost never park in a metered space because I grew up thinking parking should be free and I'm quite happy to walk an extra fifteen minutes in order to avoid reaching into my pocket. This is why I rarely go into San Francisco except at night and on Sundays.

On second thoughts, they're probably going to use this as an excuse to extend metered hours to nights and Sundays, aren't they?

Car-unfriendliness is probably the worst thing about San Francisco. If it had a good public transport system it might be tolerable, but it doesn't.
Is this a serious question? Because the answer is: plenty more developers than are developing for Android.
Ironic, because I'm only 30. It's not outdated at all - take for example, the GIL - sure, get rid of it, and put in granular locking. You've now actively harmed the lives of every C extension author and maintainer out there, and slowed down single threaded performance.

Sure; it's "easy" - but the cure can be worse than the disease for most of the python-using population. It's all a series of tradeoffs and compromises - in time, things like pypy and unladen swallow will change this (for python) but given both of those are pretty bleeding edge, I'd argue my initial point still stands.
When I follow this link in my iPhone I get redirected to wireds mobile site. Is anyone else experiencing this?

It really grinds my gears when websites do this! Grrr
Just go to Tamarindo first and spend a few days there until you find a slightly more isolated place to go. Tamarindo is touristy but very small and so one does not need to go far to find untouched beaches and very inexpensive lodging.
Python does have lexical scoping though. The only difference with languages like e.g. Scheme is that you cannot rebind variables in the enclosing scope.
You're saying Windows' appeal to developers is mainly due to Steve Ballmer embarrassing himself onstage and little or nothing to do with how many users the platform has? I find that quite incredible.
Here's the health blog that was on the HN front page a few days earlier:
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/10/vitamin-d-its-...

He talks about bit about Vitamin A and Vitamin K2 at the bottom of the post; supplementing both might be something to consider.
I missed the MRI for MS part.

I really hope your ailment is just transient. Please be sure to follow up on HN if/when you figure it out.
Yes, there are apparently lots of studies about this.

Where would summary of these result be found?

Well, here's a couple

http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/seminars/2009/papers/rang...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
Dear god I hate it when someone says you can "optimize" a site for TV or in this case "10footify",

I've worked in the TV UI space for a long time and have developed several HTML based apps for TV. Its a completely different experience navigating with a remote as opposed to a mouse. Something as simple as a select list can be a complete bear to navigate via a cloverleaf remote.

Heck even something as simple as scrolling a page with a remote is a complete nightmare.

As long as we are navigating with a cloverleaf (w/o something like a wiimote pointer) then web pages are going to work _extremely_ poorly on the TV. On that front I have yet to find wiimote or something like an iphone mouse that performs well on a TV. As much as a pointing device "works" on the Wii, you lose a whole magnitude of pointing precision with it and I've never seen anything else that's much better.

This is completely outside of the whole content model for TV apps is such as a passive one. Reading some web content on TV is nice, but we will not be ingesting normal web content via our TV on a regular basis, we'll do what we do now with the TV on and everyone around it working on their own laptop, iPad or Smart phone.
Okay, but maybe some of the info in his long HN post can help you:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868325
+ fake company name (presumably fake website?), no background info on Google (after all, it's fake), no background on founders... etc.

I would've sailed right past that posting too.
> The granddaddy of all reasons, and the only one strong enough in itself to refute any contrary opinion . . .

Setting himself up for failure by claiming that the coming point brooks no rational argument . . .

> is that at any time Twitter, Facebook, etc., can make any change to their Terms of Service that their heart desires, leaving you high and dry.

And fails. Although this is a reason to be wary of platforms, sometimes to have a business at all you have to build it under the dominant platform. This may not be true of your level of risk tolerance, but for some people a risky business is better than no business at all. I'm sure that Zynga's owners feel this way after their recent partnership agreement with Facebook.
Fuck, that sounds idyllic.
I can't see how he could mean it in that way but here's the transcript verbatim so you can make your own decision...

Jobs: An even more popular development environment was Hypercard and we were ok to axe that.

Mossberg: It wasn't more popular than Flash was

Jobs: In it's day sure it was

Mossberg: On your platform right?

Jobs: No, No, No, No, No. Hypercard was huge in it's day because it was accessible to anybody.

To me it seems like Mossberg was trying to give him the opportunity to hedge or to clarify the statement and Jobs didn't take it.
> Is it difficult to write a few words that show you have taken the time to visit our website and understand the job description?

If they're finding you through an advertisement, that means that they didn't know or care who you were until they read the ad. At that point, yes, it's a bit hard. It's not hard because they need to regurgitate facts you gave them—that's the easy part. The hard part is being enthusiastic in the "I always wanted to work for you; I know exactly what you do, and I know that it's exactly what I want to do, even though I've never used any of your products or services" sense. It's too emotionally draining to write ten of those in a row.
Flagged as stupid and inflammatory. Don't feed the conspiracy theorists.

They're alleging the photos were faked because the date stamps on the photos are in the past? The date stamps on my photos are all over the goddamn place, because my camera tends to forget the date when I leave it turned off.

edit: Sure enough, now I come to look more clearly at the date stamps, one of the pictures was supposedly taken on January 1, the date that cameras tend to default to. The other was supposedly taken before 5am, which sounds awfully early to be up taking fake pictures to be used seven years later.
Ah, yes, the "splash of soy". And, will they charge you the soy upcharge, or not? ;-) (Back when I was a more regular customer, it seemed to depend on the staff and/or attitude/directive of the management at the particular store.)
Hmm. Python isn't a really big language, but it isn't as small as it used to be, not by far, and it never was as small or minimalistic as e.g. Scheme or Io.
If you think your health is outside the usual patterns -- and it appears it is -- then you have to lay aside what's "supposed to be enough" based on general rules of thumb. The mild recommendations of the mainstream may be too little, but also you personally might need significantly more sunlight. (Your comment about some improvement with Vitamin D especially draws attention here.)

You also haven't described the places you've lived in enough detail to know if you've tried significantly different elevations, rain/cloudcover levels, or lengths-of-day. ("Europe" runs from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean.) I recommend playing with extreme values of the sunlight, latitude, elevation, and days-of-sunlight-per-year variables a lot more intensely than you have so far.
Seems to be identical to ben.py.
I was on antibiotics for about 15 months before I had what you could call a dramatic improvement for some symptoms. It can take longer. Spirochetes can form cysts and biofilms, etc. Co-infections can complicate things. Different strains can react to meds differently, etc.

I'm still on meds more than two years after diagnosis. In any case, it can take years to get better in some cases. And some symptoms may just be from permanent damage or from the (theorized) auto-immune response to Lyme. Some of my symptoms (endocarditis, myocarditis, brain lesions, etc.) are definitely permanent. But I'm thankful I didn't give up on antibiotics because of the "experts."
How the hell does this help him? Did you even read what he said? This is clearly a physiological issue, not a mental one