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Fructose (et al) consumption is the result of distorted farm policy. Removes the subsidies, nutritional value of food supply will (hopefully) return to "normal", public health will improve.

Stil, it's a pretty good question.

Doctors generally don't push nutrition. I think that's changing as the best available science continues to improve and be more broadly accepted. I personally evangelize the "cave man diet", probably to the point of annoyance.

But the real driver is coming from public awareness and social change. There are now serious efforts to limit, tax, regulate, remove sugars from a public policy standpoint. Examples are taxes on candy, removing vending machines from public schools, etc.

Capitation, by focusing a wellness and efficiency, would accelerate that trend.
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Yes, it comes down to a choice, not scary hackers. That's what I wrote. Maybe I'm not understanding your point?
Oh, thanks for that, it looks awesome. I should show some of my friends that, maybe they can get some work there.
I joined the site pretty early when it was filled with mostly music snobs like me. every room filled to the brim with people playing mostly less heard tracks as it got bigger and more and more new users joined a lot of the snobs left making it less fun for me.
> Personal information becomes public when it's not properly secured

Really? Do you have any idea how wrong that statement is?

So if a song is played in public, it becomes public?
Why is this comment being downvoted? It's not aggressive, rude or otherwise mean. It's also not factually incorrect (because it's talking about a possible future).

I agree that I don't believe this future is likely, but that's no reason to downvote him.
In general I disagree, but in this specific case you are right that a procedural interface to manipulating books/chapters is preferable.

Essentially if your API is single-table DML, then triggers are preferable. If multiple tables need to be manipulated at the same time to complete the full operation, then there should be a procedural API and triggers are likely unnecessary.
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Same can be said for knowing too much. I know way too much about PHP, doesn't mean that there is anything malicious about it
This is a start, but it's about two levels below the level of abstraction I want. I'm thinking along the lines of:

Hey, buy a bunch of switches, sensors, etc. from us which all conform to an open standard (Zigbee?). Then, buy our controller unit and install our iphone/android apps. It'll work after just a bit of monkey-see-monkey-do configuration. Yeah, you have to get a screwdriver out and figure which breaker is associated with each room, but it ain't rocket science. If we go away, you might eventually have to buy another controller, but your investment in switches, sensors, etc. and all your time spent with a screwdriver won't be for nothing -- competitors are likely to support the same stuff.

This is what I want, and I would gladly spend in excess of $1K for it. Maybe $2K? This would be a bargain compared to paying for a Control4 reseller to come to my house and sell me a turnkey solution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17...

"Glenn Mangham, 26, had earlier admitted infiltrating the social networking website between April and May 2011."

I just checked my old emails and found XSS vulnerabilities I reported to Facebook, under their responsible disclosure policy but prior to the introduction of the bug bounty program, from late 2010 / early 2011. His timeline doesn't match reality.
> no law was broken.

We don't know that yet, do we?
Has anyone actually been prosecuted for simply passively monitoring unsecured WiFi networks?
You blocked Australia, so you tell me. :\
Consider these two paraphrased arguments against Crockford, each made independently by many poster-programmers here:

(1) I don't like comments, but removing them won't solve anything: People who like comments can just embed them as funky properties.

(2) I like comments, but embedding them as funky properties is annoying and awkward, and I don't want to.

Now look at (1).

Now look at (2).

Now relax your eyes like you're looking at a stereoscopic poster until (1) and (2) merge together and you achieve a Zen-like understanding -- or a view of a schooner.
Any advice you can give to me on starting a business in high school? This sounds like it would be an interesting and challenging thing to undertake. I'm 16, almost done grade 10. I can program at a okay level, having created a few web apps.
My point was that I agree with what you said. Nothing more.
Exactly. We don't go into people's homes not because they have a fence and a shotgun but because we were not invited, that is the whole point.

Most of the arguments here circle around "ah you were a fool to let your data out, so Google was wise and snooped it". WTF kind argument is that? Since when is it ok for a corporation to hire "experts" who go around collecting private data? What is this data for? Why, in the first place, do they have a wifi expert driving around doing that?
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Good idea. It's about time that search engines route around the power-law distributions of popular sites, popular bloggers and personalities to find the gems otherwise buried in the noise.
Etsy did. I don't think it was a good decision and I think the reasons they did had more to do with resetting from some bad architecture decisions, but they're the example I know of. http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/09/28/scaling-etsy-what-wen... I think the big lesson here would be: don't have separate DBA and Engineering teams.

On the other hand, I could name quite a few people who went the other way, like Urban Dictionary who run on our http://postgres.heroku.com service, too. (I don't normally name customers, but he recorded a video saying he liked us so I think it's fair game. http://success.heroku.com/urbandictionary )
No, just like photography being allowed in public does not mean that a video camera is going to be pointed at your house 24 hours a day and you'll be mandated to like it.

On the other hand, the existence of the paparazzi is not enough to justify banning the freedom to take pictures in public places.

All of these laws have to be carefully balanced to make sure we retain our rights.
I feel like I'm missing something terribly obvious, but...

How does "it is getting harder and slower to move large files over the net" lead to the conclusion "therefore we should store all our large files on the net and retrieve them whenever we want, rather than keep them on local media with negligible latency and huge storage space"?
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I don't know how accurate those stats are though.
I bet they wanted to make the UI as Windows like as possible because that's what most of the users are used to. The fact the chrome icon sits where the 'start' button sits on windows clearly isn't a coincidence.
So we should all be using the windows 3.1 ui?
That's about as rational as being uninterested because the author is a Gemini. CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript. They are 100% interoperable.
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* Check out wal-e (https://github.com/heroku/wal-e), we wrote it and we manage 250k postgres databases with it. :)

* libpq does basically suck, but go has a pretty great native implementation. suggestions are welcome for improvement, patches are even better.

* pg_cancel_backend() plus select-fu on the `pg_locks` table joined with `pg_stat_activity` = joy

* fast count(*) is possible via index-only scans in 9.2
It's not true that using arrays is using SQL against its grain. If this is an arbitrary list of phone numbers then an array is fine -- the domain being modeled is "list of phone numbers" not "phone number."

If you need to query specific phone numbers, then you should have separate columns whose names describe their roles (e.g. cell_phone_number) rather than the EAV monstrosity you proposed. :)
Try out http://publicsuffix.org/ - that plus a custom suffix list of overrides works wonders!
It's more like hearing a loud mouthed neighbor say to his wife "It's a secret! don't tell any one.. its very private too... we have won the jackpot"

I don't think I will close my ears at any point.
And what open file system is there for "web apps"? Dropbox and a cobbled together flash uploader / email attachment / webapp specific API which probably only goes to FaceBook?

Aren't webapps isolated? Funneled through a strict paradigm? And also at the other end of a comparatively slow link?

The idea of a general purpose computer as it exists in the current desktop form must be put aside. We can't head to a future of everything we do in one portable device and from there to ubiquitous life integration when every app can read all your data and send it to anyone for any purpose, Android is falling fowl of that right now, we have to have isolation and sandboxing, different trust levels, restricted access to more important data (contacts, for example), to make a solid and trustable future platform.
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Solution: VPS outside Canada to do your downloads from.

But what you describe is a networking problem (transit costs of your ISP passed on to you). Not a storage problem.

A "cloud storage" provider is just going to keep the data you store in a datacenter near to you anyway, not halfway around the world. But it's not like keeping your physical stuff with a storage company. You can easily store the data yourself with many more advantages. The marketing teams for "cloud storage" services will no doubt try to convince people otherwise.
>But if what you say is right, the pendulum, at the consumer level, will soon swing back the other way the first time that someone can't access the "cloud" on a trip or forgets to pay their "cloud access bill" (phone/internet whatever) and then gets locked out of ... well, everything.

One day the idea that you don't have internet access will be just as silly as saying you don't have electricity. Its in the very infant stages but its coming. For what its worth Im typing this on my Cr-48 which has 3G so I'm pretty much there.

I'm inclined to agree especially in cases like movies or music. The idea that we all have a copy of a song on our hard drives is odd. Leaving aside ideas of copyright and licenses there really isnt a reason all media shouldnt live in some kind of shared music/video folder in the sky. I'm going to watch Breaking Bad S2E4 maybe a handful of times and eventually forget about it. Keeping it in the cloud frees the user from needing to think about keeping it or backing it up or deleting it.

Or maybe I'm biased from living in a fairly cloudy world already.
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Counterpoints:

- using pg arrays is awesome, and for many access patterns is more performant and equally normalized
- MySQL is mostly quite correct, though I disagree with some of the implicit casting of values to integers and some nuances of GROUP BY. That said, operationally speaking, I'd say MySQL replication is less good and can get out of sync in awful ways, there are fewer awesome features (I made some slides: http://love-your-database.heroku.com/), and the storage engines mean you have to choose between useful features and like, not losing your data, man.
Presumably you've seen http://bellard.org/jslinux/ ?

If someone (Google, Mozilla) pushed for it, this could be merged with a browser API / VirtualBox for speed and completeness, and you could download a paused machine with state.

It's not happening now, but it's possible already.
Sure, but what is the parallel here?

The paparazzi make a living from those photos, so there is a reason for them to be out there doing that(not saying I agree, just saying there's a reason for it).

What is Google doing driving around collecting personal data for? Google is a search engine with several great products around it. WTF are they driving around collecting data for? See? It doesn't make any sense, this is plain creepy.
I think you are not aware of the context here. The reason they have a wifi expert roaming around is because they are marking free wifi spots as part of streetview.
It seems like you're missing the point. The only reason we're hearing about this is because Google is a huge, popular company and somebody leaked it. I could be listening to your wifi right now, and you wouldn't even know. There's no way you can know. Making it illegal isn't going to protect you.

The only way to protect your information is to not broadcast in the open.
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I find it hilarious that you are embracing cloud computing as your personal savior because you want MORE control. It's almost oxymoronic!
> It's more like hearing a loud mouthed neighbor say to his wife "It's a secret! don't tell any one.. its very private too... we have won the jackpot"

Yeah, if it was only near your home. But if you went around driving and listening to hundreds of "loud neighbors" for a day that'd change from passive listening to being outright creepy.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to express mail it?
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You've been here long enough to know that this kind of stuff is not desired here.
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This is my least favorite MySQL misfeature, and it's something that users migrating FROM MySQL often rely on in their application and get surprised/angry when they encounter errors rather than silent successes.
Hey, that's a thing we made. Happy to answer questions if you have any.
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I am aware of the context.

To mark hotspots you don't need packet sniffing or data capture of any kind. Why is Google capturing packet payload during "wardriving"? Nobody does that. All you do is store the GPS location, plus basic AP identification, period.
I wouldn't expect too much from XC in 1.0 state. When I last looked in on it there was still a ton of work to do before it was really operationally ready to put in production.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has managed to deploy the beta.
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I've been agitating for an API that would allow developers to build their own query languages on top of Postgres alongside of SQL. Some day.
I was also thinking about the irony of having Forbes, a dinosaur of the old press, talking about the impossibility of adapting to new paradigms.
The problem with this is generally speaking, if you take possession of a file, either locally, or on a remote filesystem. You are likely to use it, and also likely to use it shortly after taking possession. Be it Music, Photos, Documents, or a Movie, the data that normal people take possession of needs to be downloaded and viewed to be useful.

If at this point, there is no local storage, and it's stored in the cloud, you need to pay the bandwidth price every time you wish to view it, rather just on taking possession.

This particular example, about Canada increasing bandwidth charges, actually works against your argument.

Sure, some data won't need to make it to the client, but that's mostly only true if your a scientist, or otherwise run computation on data, but that's hardly the case for the general person.
I need predictability... but make it optional, maybe a check-box with a key shortcut (the `R` I suggest).
damn it was an inside job! :)

I'd been checking every few months for the last several years to see if sockets were available in NaCL, for this exact killer app (along with a vnc/rdesktop client)

Sad that it had to be done with an internal whitelist, but I'm mostly just happy that it exists for me to use even if I didn't get to write it!
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...because Google Maps has backup-geolocation through a database of wi-fi access point ID/GPS-pair mappings, which can only be discovered by exactly this wardriving process? It's kind of the central point of the story, here.
There is a reason that long stretches of unemployment, accidents, and tragedies lead to divorce. It isn't because compassion is the default reaction to stress in most families.
I use both Twitter and Facebook (unfortunately), but I would rather not have to link my account with either of these services just to log into your website
Yes we do, it's in the second paragraph of the article.

"The F.C.C. recently closed its 17-month inquiry into the project, Street View, with a finding that Google broke no laws but had obstructed its investigation."

Even if we didn't, that's also a reason for not disclosing this person's identity: innocent until proven guilty.
That's not a solution, you still need to get the downloads to a local system to use them for that vast majority of media.
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It's already beaten down, but I expect more nastiness for the price when they announce their quarterly fiasco^H^H^H^H^H^Hresults and the IPO lockups expire, both within a few weeks mid-May to early-June.

Remember, stocks can go to zero!
I was a big turntable user too and still am to some extent. I think the site still has huge potential if they can continue to update it, however their lack of updates over the past year leaves me worried.

They still have issues with:
Loading times, graphics rendering, max population limit to rooms, difficulty to "level up" and get more DJ points, stupid room rules

Things that give me hope:
Cool iphone app, easy sharing, STILL discovering new music off of it, pretty awesome guest DJ's (I'm a house/mashup nut and they had DJ Aoki and 3LAU)
> Making it illegal isn't going to protect you.

Well if making things illegal doesn't protect us any more then we're in serious trouble here.
Close.

I've been using WindowMaker for 10 years. It's pretty perfect. No gimmicks. No unnecessary features. Lots of flexibility. Minimal. User friendly. Fast. Stable. It just works.

If someone has used Windows 95 before, a whole slew of operating systems after will be intuitive and a random user will know how to use it without instruction. They don't need anything more advanced. They just need it not to crash or bloat or change and become confusing. Most people just want shit to work.
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I'm having trouble answering your question eloquently. I'll think about it more and hopefully write a blog post about it before long.
For an old-fashioned academic CV, you have to include every publication, leaving nothing out. (So, you can pay a price for that brief dabbling in fuzzy logic -- it hangs around forever.) By mid-career, the CV can run to many pages.

Once you reach that point, you have to also maintain a short version (maybe 2-3 pages), and a short-short version (1 page), usually for proposal submissions, brief bios, etc.
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This has kind of happened in Ruby, too.

Fortunately, Ruby gems are super easy to install and the standard library got some much-needed spring cleaning in 1.9.

Python could use the same. There have been many times where I've wanted to do some simple task that would be made easier with an external library (like Requests) but I'm not going to bother dealing with the Python module install pain for a one-off task.
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Too much simple carbohydrates of any type cause Type 2 diabetes, with devastating health damage. Sugars may be somewhat worse than starches, but you can eat yourself to death with grain and potatoes just as easily. Sugar policies are not a silver bullet.

Capitation gives the same payment whether diabetics are cured or ignored. What we need are ways to preemptively deploy extra money to diabetics. They need to go to fat farms and have visiting nurses nag them at home.
This happens in every language. I dont think it's that big of a deal.

In all honesty, you could continue to maintain a package outside of stdlib, and just require a newer version (which gets installed via the standard packaging tools). This type of behavior isn't well defined in Python, but it's not unrealistic to think it could happen.
Well this is because the word "computer" needs to be dismantled a bit.

Computers as a personal mainstream entertainment device will eventually work much like television. Data retention policies will be at the whim of the content distributor and consumers will select from sets of content dictated by different price packages.

Computers as midrange workstations for engineers, artists, musicians, and scientists aren't going anywhere and will be the same as they always have. Same goes for the NOC and the Datacenter. Devices that collect and analyze data will work much in the same way. The people that will create and maintain the consumption paradise will continue to do things on traditional configurations. The biggest change here is that display and input systems will continue to diversify in form and function. However, the machine will still be a rectangular block, with all the internal components you are used to.

The million dollar question is how will people that do mostly office-productivity work? For instance, the person at the dentists office that makes the phone calls and does appointment and billing management. Most could probably get by with a desktop version of a smartphone, but nobody has produced the right one yet.

But this doesn't mean that say, the traditional computer will exodus from the dentist office. Just the opposite. They are in every room now, hooked up to cameras and xray machines, talking to redundant servers either on or offsite.
Wouldn't a better and easier solution be to simply practice restraint and limit yourself to several websites like Google Maps, Wikipedia, Email (once a day), Calendar (in the morning)? Then you can include other sites one-by-one to see which are most distracting, and block them.
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I myself have been programming for about 25 years, 15 of them professional. Started out on the Timex Sinclair that plugged into a regular TV!