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> The video is poor because it's inconsistent; it starts by saying that Reallocate aims to "solve specific humanitarian issues" and then explains that the first project is to build statues of people attending Burning Man and delivering them via what appears to be AR Drones from Parrot.

Really? That's the most pressing humanitarian issue they could come up with?

Unfortunately, they only make sense if you've already read articles on Matternet. It's wise not to beta-test infrastructure before it's beta-ready, so customers aren't alienated. A bottle of pills can be expensive to us in the 1st world. They are even more dear in the 3rd. Better to lose some Burner's statue than some patient's prescription.
Over-supervising children hurt them more than helps. Children need their freedom too.

Besides, if you do not exercise - it's bad for your children. It's especially bad if they do not exercise either (because you don't have time to play with them, and don't allow them play alone, because you want them to be extra safe).
I use this system myself - except without the `security` command and with random passwords. Which is annoying as my generator is command line, so there’s a lot of cut and pasting going on. This will be a distinct improvement to the system.
Does anyone know how his squares with Long copy marketing which often violates both (well 2 is subjective verging on tautology) his requirements?

Write short when trying to capture those deciding on throwaways, write long when trying to convince or swindle erm assuage the uncertain?
Or "99% of US Congressmen own shares in the military–industrial(–congressional) complex, so we need any excuse to funnel $trillions over there"
IM assuming this rant is about public open source repos that allow users to submit pull requests. Reason I say that is because I've used git for years with numerous teamsall of which used a bit repo. We had no issues you speak of. We never logged into the WebUI to do anything other than admin of adding users or keys.
How is pull-requests in github different from e.g. tasks in gmail? If you use the gmail task feature, I believe you are unable to access it via IMAP or from your mail client either. Or perhaps the filter options in gmail too? (can you sync these easily with procmail?). I don't use it much, but some of the google-plus integration might also go beyond simple email...

I think there must be other examples of unique features that gmail offers over email.

That being said, if I continue to look at the email as an analogy, look at what's happening with facebook. They removed the subject line, gave people facebook.com address, built their own messenger app, all seems to work quite well, with many of my friends stopping to use email and rely solely on facebook messages. Sure, it sends you an email, but effectively obscures your email address from your friends... I think this is worrying, and I can understand at least some of the sentiment of the author about github implementing a feature that people like, use and depend on, but one that is essentially incompatible or draws away from git.
Java pretty much created the concept of a modern IDE where the editor knows about the libraries and does boilerplate expansion for you. This wasn't generally needed before the age of Java.
Great story, imho. Too bad they won't see 100th birthday, as 3D printers will be LEGO guillotine. In the near future I can imagine theLegoPirateBay where every kid can download blueprint of Lego set and print hundreds of bricks overnight. And, like with pirating of audio and video recordings, there is not much Lego will be able to do to protect their IP. Sad, but true.
In the early days there were some issues in the community which lead to the Phobos/Tango divide in the standard library for D1.

This is now past history as the community has joined around D2, just known as D, and strives to reach compliancy with the "The D Programming Language" book written by Andrei Alexandrescu.

D2 development is made in the open with source code available in GitHub.

Besides the reference compiler, dmd owned by Digital Mars, there are also LDC and GDC compilers available. Currently it seems that GDC might be integrated into GCC as of 4.8 release.

Right now it seems more people are picking up D, mainly for game development projects.
I bet someone could market yuppies their own flesh. It would be the ultimate "me" food item.
I really fail to see how you can put this forward for your first piece of "scientific literature on the actual physiological processes involved" just after complaining that all the studies I've quoted are epidemiological in nature, and do not prove causal relationships. This first study you trumpet demonstrates no causal relationship, is taken from a smaller sample, has muddier data and repeatedly supports the findings of the studies I cited!

It examines hypothetical damage from long term distance racing. It opens with:

"A routine of regular exercise is highly effective for prevention and treatment of many common chronic diseases and improves cardiovascular (CV) health and longevity"

And it clearly states that its model is hypothetical:

"Additionally, long-term excessive sustained exercise may be associated with coronary artery calcification, diastolic dysfunction, and large-artery wall stiffening. However, this concept is still hypothetical and there is some inconsistency in the reported findings. Furthermore, lifelong vigorous exercisers generally have low mortality rates and excellent functional capacity"

As I mentioned earlier, racing long distances isn't necessary for health benefits and can be damaging if you don't have enough of a fitness base. Training for long distances on the other hand is overwhelmingly positive.

The other studies you cited don't all say what you say they did:

2) shows higher cortisol from intense exercise than moderate

3) finds that high cortisol increases fat storage

4) finds that after a 100 minute weightlifting session, the BMR rises enough to burn only an additional 60 calories over the next day.

5) similar to 4 but with fewer details

6) finds more weight loss from 3x/week HIIE than 3x/week SSE

7) examines hormonal response hours after a long swimming race

8)finds that both resistance and aerobic exercise temporary suppress appetite, but did not examine effects on caloric intake
>Really? That's the most pressing humanitarian issue they could come up with?

I can't help but feel like you're being intentionally obtuse. Nowhere in that video did it claim that the Burning Man test run was a pressing humanitarian issue.
Its clear this is just to raise awareness/funds in support of the longer-term goal. The "no pressure" field-test aspect of it probably doesn't hurt either.
The biggest difference to Erlang is VxWork's inability to isolate task faults or runaway high priority process. (Tasks are analogous to Processes in Erlang). VxWorks 6.0 supports isolation to some degree, but it was released in '04, after the design work on the rover started. Without total isolation, a lot of the supervisor benefits of VxWorks goes away.
My bank has a particularly horrible one:

"What sports team do you most like to see lose?"

Especially considering it's a regional bank in the northeast US, you can probably hit well over 90% of accounts using less than a dozen answers.
I'm not sure, but I think web browser are limited to talking http over the network, so you would need a proxy some where to allow for this -- architecturally similar to eg:

http://engineering.linkedin.com/javascript/vncjs-how-build-javascript-vnc-client-24-hour-hackday

I've thought a bit about writing an email client (for the console, really -- but also thought about what would work on an Android phone) -- and I think making your own protocol and a server that proxies that protocol to imap/pop would be the way to go.

As far as I can tell this is how gmail works, and I seem to recall the original author of the SUP email client went in a similar direction on a new project (but I can't find the link atm).

I really don't like the idea of a "fan in" structure, where a proxy will end up knowing all usernames/passwords for every user's every email account. It would be better to have the "app" speak imap/pop -- but as I understand it -- implementing a useful subset of IMAP is not a trivial and makes ponies cry.
Complaining about java as a language for providing a namespace feature that's basically identical to every other language just shows a want to hate on Java.
Cool thing!
There are so many generalizations in this article I don't know where to begin...
Man if that's true it really ruined my day. Do you have proof?
is there some way to get different kinds of rain?
Rainymood only has one loop. I don't want to listen to the same kind of rain every time; it's not realistic.

A site with 10 different rain samples would be nice.
T1. Yes. A T1 connection was bought down. Details and source if anybody needs it. http://pastie.org/4449905
I think something higher level is a better first language, but C should be pretty soon after.
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While I'm not a religious person, and you won't be seeing me give money to any church, it's not that simple. Firstly, the idea that you can calculate the loss in taxes by just applying the tax on paper is fundamentally incorrect, since the tax itself creates an incentive not to spend money that way.

Secondly, churches spend part of the money on social assistance, and so a reduction in their income may increase the funding needs for governmental assistance programs.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to cutting tax breaks for churches, but living in a country where recent tax increases have lead to a massive tax revenue reduction, I felt the need to point out that you probably couldn't fund 28 rovers with it.
No, it isn't. Read the posts for a while and you'll see a pattern of certain groups who have an absolute view of what they perceive is right and aren't shy to say it. Maybe the mods are better now but I gave up reading anything there after a few months.

Another bad one is r/coffee lots of bickering there too, it must be the caffeine or lack of it.
this was my first thought in reading this! as other people would said you would have to think in gpu terms, but a quick glance at the code looks like you could just look into the compile functions. I hope someone out there beats me to this because they'll do a better job :D
Another quality of a great engineer: holding state in your head
So a Mars Rover is much closer to a browser/backbone/node.js app than I could ever imagine. The basic structure is surprisingly similar to javascript apps these days: isolated modules, message passing/event loop, fault tolerance.
You wrote: "This is all there is to know on that topic."

That seems pretty obviously false - there's more we know now and there's much much more we could know, even if we don't know it yet.

Before that, you wrote:

> Obviously, for long term results, it's best to eat good food, exercise regularly and do both with moderation.

What exactly constitutes "good food" is one of the things under discussion and is something else "there is to know on this topic". Whether it's "best" to do both "with moderation" depends on how the terms are defined and what your goals are. For instance, it might well be better to exercise irregularly than regularly.
Not even close:

According to the Office of Management and Budget and the Air Force Almanac,
when measured in real terms (adjusted for inflation), the figure is $790.0 billion, or
an average of $15.818 billion dollars per year over its fifty year history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
Really good article, with a lot of actionable tips.

With that said... I can't be the only one who is tiring a bit of the crediting of Steve Jobs with nearly-mythological feats. For example:

>People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents.

Even ignoring the "people don't download music for free anymore" implication, it seems pretty obvious that charging $.99 for a download isn't what led to the success of iTunes.
"Mark Zuckerberg truly believes that Facebook’s mission – to make the world more open and connected – is the biggest and most important in Silicon Valley."

open and connected.
and definitely more like Las Vegas...

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19162971
Actually, if you read my original post, I stated that it was the least transparent _in living memory._ You are welcome to take issue with what I said, but I'll thank you to stop trying to make my assertion far more absolutist than it is.
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> STM is nice for its "magic", but message creates very well defined, documented interfaces between code.

The author’s previous post has a good overview of how message passing contributes to that as well.

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2012/06/protocols-in-kin...
Great essay -- I agree with its main point: "worse" products triumph over "the right thing" when they are a better fit for the evolutionary and economic constraints imposed by an evolving competitive landscape.

Some examples:

* In the case of the rise of Unix, the market of the 1960's and 1970's valued simplicity and portability over "correct" design.

* In the case of the rise of the x86 architecture over the past three decades, the market valued compatibility and economies of scale over the simplicity and elegance of competing RISC architectures.

* In the case of the current rise of ARM architectures for mobile devices, today's market values simplicity and low-power consumption over compatibility with legacy x86 architectures.
Name conflicts are a compile error - the worst thing that can happen is that you have to change it back to an explicit include.
Sorry, I had a bit of a brainfart when writing that. You can add the probabilities simply because (1 - e - f) is a good approximation for (1 - e)(1 - f) when e and f are tiny. No other reason. The chance of having "two" collisions (I meant one existing collision) is zero because we were in a case that assumed that.
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It's not true. If it was nearly that simple, it would be a lot easier to fix.
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The motivation for writing the software in C is this: Code Reuse. NASA and it's associated labs have produced some rock solid software in C. In space missions commonly the RAD750 is used (with it's non-hardened version, the MCP), along with the Leon family of processors. Test beds and other ground hardware are often little-endian Intel processors. VxWorks is commonly used on many missions and ground systems, but so is QNX, Linux, RTEMS, etc... The only common thing the diverse set of hardware, operating systems, and compiler tool chains all support is ANSI C. This means that nifty languages like Erlang or whatever - though there may be a solid case for using them - is not practical in this circumstance.

I know some clever folks in the business have done interesting work on ML-to-C compilers, but it's still in the early R&D phase at this point - the compiler itself would have to be thoroughly vetted.
The figure is just mentioned to say that the code base is quite complex. And what are you talking about? It’s not a rant on anything. Certainly not the 2.5 MLOC.
> That's a win for the "Git way of life."

No it isn't. That's a win for the GitHub workflow. People learn how to use git locally, if they aren't using the mac or windows client. They don't learn how to collaborate the standard way, though.
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> Here’s a discouraging fact: A 220 lb. man walking up 27 flights of stairs burns the caloric equivalent of half an Oreo

I always hate these statements because they are misleading. It is true the amount of energy required to lift 220 lbs 27 flights of stairs is about half an Oreo, but you burn a lot more than that. To put things in perspective, you burn 35 calories smoking a cigarette.
You're just posting a stream of sarcastic comments. Please go back to reddit if this is your level of discourse:

"This is joke, right? I almost stopped at the first sentence."

"Derp"

"Most basketball players are tall. I guess basketball makes you taller."
If a function call in a node.js blocks, doesn't the app hang while waiting for it? A single process with event callbacks is almost the opposite of what is described here.
It started with a website[1] that answered the question "What the fuck has Obama done so far?"

[1] http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
A little, actually. But luckily I did get a bit of exposure from Yahoo News and Flickr Blog. They asked me nicely if they could use my images and how I would like to be attributed. I told them to use my nick instead of my real name, and also include link to my blog.

My blog entry on this new species is here: http://orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/08/semachrysa-jade-new...

You can find my flickr page from there :)
I didn't read it as arguing against C, just noting that there seems to be a lot of commonality between the ways the code in the Mars rovers are designed, and the way that robust Erlang applications are typically designed.
You've hit the nail right on the head.

I'm a huge believer in the free market, but the economics of journalism really do seem to be pushing a lot of serious periodicals into a crappy direction. Salon was never excellent, but it was good at times. Now it's utter crap. Slate was pretty good, now it's sliding fast. The Atlantic? Yep, just as you say.

Most of these places are ditching the "serious researched journalism" and even the "serious political opinion pieces" and going with fluffy bloggy chit-chatty crap.

"Round tables" are getting more an more popular, especially round tables that are just emotional reactions to lifestyle news. Four women discussing birth control. Five guys talking about Breaking Bad (Slate: I'm looking at you for BOTH of these).

And now the Atlantic is headed down the huffpo route.

All markets "clear" at some price and some volume. It may just be an unfortunate fact that in the Internet age the market for real journalism clears at $0 for 0 volume.

Again, my philosophical / political inclination is to deny this, to say that there's never a market failure, that everyone can always buy the magical pony they want at a price that sounds fair...but journalism seems to be giving me really good reasons to not say that.
I complained about this too, but for their new repo screen.
"python manage.py runserver" :P
1) It's down

2) Where is it testing from? Being blocked in China isn't binary; the great firewall is intentionally leaky. There are a lot of sites you can get to from western hotels that you can't from cyber cafes, for example.
Yes, that's what I thought too when I photographed that beautiful lacewing. The marking really resembled a jumping spider!!!

kurt (orionmystery)
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Daily Mail UK is the worse. The moderator wouldn't even let me comment on its page!
Anyone who discounts a thoughtful response based on some other criteria than that found in that response is not someone qualified to comment about ethics.
Er, I thought it went crap after 1.6.1 !!!!!!!

IIRC, and please forgive my terrible memory, something happened with ownership or the main programmer "selling out", which caused a lot of worry about privacy, etc. I believe that 1.6.1 was the last "safe" version in relation to that.

And for years I stuck with 1.6.1

Whether or not is was utterly wasting my time, I really dont know!!!
Kevin, we are not in Kansans (or Memphis) anymore!

Top 100 Defense Contractors (most privately owned) 2007: [1]

Further, histories like the one with Chertoff [2] makes U.S. politics really a dirty place: spend trillions of scared US tax payers' money on frying them with cancer in the name of fight on terror with Al Qaeda (quick hint: while we fight them here in US (and of course spend most of your tax money on it), we ally with them somewhere else at the same time [3]).

[1] http://www.govexec.com/magazine/2007/08/top-100-defense-cont...

[2] http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited...

[3] http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2011/03/27/us-allies-with-al...
I don't know if this makes me cruel, but whenever people talk about donating money to starving children in Africa, I always imagine the following: If I were to donate some amount of money to starving children in an impoverished nation every year I could, theoretically, bring some of them out of starvation. However, these children would then grow into adults, and then these adults would have children of their own. The number of these new children would almost certainly be higher than the number I originally helped bring out of famine, so at that point there would be just as many if not more starving children than we had to begin with. So in my mind the question really goes the other way, how does donating money to buy food for starving children in Africa improve Africa's condition in the long term? What problems caused these nations to produce more children than food and what is being done to eliminate the source of these problems, rather than just the symptoms?
IIRC, old versions like 1.6.1 were single exe files.
Let me spell it out for you: git would exist if not for github. The inverse is not true.
Do you need proof? If so you can watch the 60 minutes expose on their insider trading: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7388130n/

They don't just do this in the military industrial complex, they do it across the board, making decisions that benefit their portfolios and constructing their portfolios so their decisions get benefits from laws being passed.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/15/ethically-c...

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/20...
So the argument that research for the sake of research is worthwhile is perfectly sound, the condescending "let me explain to you how a budget works" and "it's not my decision to spend the money" parts certainly rubs me the wrong way.
hm. a machine solves both problems; I mean, I don't have kids but most of the cardio I've done in the last 5 years or so has been on a machine; instead of watching children, I watch silly action movies. For me? it's to distract me from the monotony. Action movies were made for my attention span; but it seems you could just as easily supervise children.

That said, I certainly feel a lot more difference from resistance training than from cardio, and diet changes have been more effective than either in controlling my weight. (e.g. an hour a day of running is not going to keep me from ballooning out if I use mountain dew as my primary caffeine delivery mechanism.)

I mean, you can get a really nice treadmill for a grand and a half; by the standards of medical care, that's really cheap; Personally, I've also had some success using the manual type (which can be had for $50 or so on craigslist) unlike most other cheap cardio equipment (I utterly destroyed a rowing machine through a month of daily use... most low-end cardio equipment wasn't designed for actual use by a 200lb man.) the manual treadmills seem to be fairly durable. "I'm going to go push the shopping cart" I'd say. It does take a bit more concentration than an automatic, just 'cause if you stop, it stops, but eh, it's certainly usable, and you get a little bit of upper-body work done, too; it really is very much like pushing a heavy shopping cart.
Heh, one of the few things I miss about the east coast after moving to SF is the rain and thunderstorms.
Precisely. One thing very must against using Erlang for this problem is that you need hard real-time behaviour. Erlang does not provide that. The other point, you need static allocation almost everywhere, is also detrimental to using Erlang for the Rovers.

That leaves you with very few languages you can use, and C is a good predictable one for the problem. Its tool support is also quite good with static verification etc. And it is a good target for compilation. As someone else notes, most of those 2.5 Megalines are auto-generated.