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> you have to break out of that paradigm.

That's why I never regretted trying to learn Common Lisp some time ago, even though I didn't ship anything into production, and why I really do enjoy doing the same thing with Erlang right now, i.e. trying to understand it and getting as comfortable with it as I can get (and preferably this time maybe putting something out there).

Both these experiences helped me see programming differently, a change of "paradigm" as you very well put it, so now even when I get back to Python or PHP I feel like I'm a better programmer. Plus, there's something to be said about the fact that always trying to learn new and interesting stuff and not only focusing on "shipping code" is what keeps one's passion at higher levels. After almost 10 years in this trade I've found that passion at what you're doing is a very valuable and in the same time very volatile resource.
Can I rephrase slightly (and take the odd strawman liberty)

The "mainstream" has been relying on incremental improvements for decades, and in doing so avoided rewriting legacy code until last possible moment

Some people have taken concurrency upfront and anecdotally seen cost / performance benefits plus more modern codebases and have anecdotally enjoyed competitive advantages in areas where concurrency makes a difference

We will never see the average, user interface bother with concurrency and legacy rewrites because the competitive advantages are low.

There are likely to be areas where the concurrency advantage is great enough - if you like erlang look for those niches
Exactly, that's 85%

Someone with a (big enough) caloric deficit will lose weight, sooner or later

Someone with a (big enough) caloric surplus will gain weight.

Big enough is because the body will adapt its metabolism to small (and one shot) caloric surpluses/deficits.

But what happens beyond that is very interesting. And so beyond the 'food pyramid' and "conventional knowledge" it's not funny.

Oh and by the way, protein diets (usually) work. Why? Caloric deficit (of course) promoted by modified hunger sensation (that's another piece of the puzzle).
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I have been good at the job of flagging spam posts. I wonder what happened and I stopped seeing the flag link altogether. Anyone knows why that happened?
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Happens all the time, at least in the UK: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
8 characters tab width is insane. :(
If long term projects can be made obsolete by their deployment time, then on what basis can long term project actually happen. What ever you do, it's a gamble.
> Among other things, JavaScript is necessarily single threaded...

That isn't quite true anymore either, because of Web Workers and ParallelArray.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=80186...

https://github.com/RiverTrail/RiverTrail/wiki/ParallelArray
Acupuncture, marijuana, diet therapy, light therapy, etc etc.
If anything Valve as a development studio has a notorious 'policy' of delivering product 'when it's done' (aka Valve Time) as opposed to MSFT product that are released periodically and that need numerous minor AND major patches with each and every enumeration. Based on that: How would Steam be integrated into MSFT corporate culture, without being killed? That might be the same question Newell is asking himself, in this scenario.
No it hasn't :-) Just to stay on your level of detail
but I have an Athlon II 640 which supports SSE -SSE4A?

They also said that CPU overhead would be low.
I'm getting ready to launch Indoctrinator (a program that uses obsession to achieve mastery at anything, even something you used to hate).

I'm happy to answer any questions.
Prof or Hobo [quiz]?
Bunker busters are not nuclear. They use turrets from tanks made of depleted uranium which is unbelievably strong - dropped from altitude to piece just about any underground dwelling and deliver a non-nuclear bomb.

I have no idea how I know or remember this, I must have read it somewhere but I am very anti-war, so why I know it is strange to me.
He-he. Exactly the same I did when I encountered this problem. :)
When did HN devolve into a place for conspiracy theorists? Your comment is an embarrassment.
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I am not sure whether or not I should be surprised that all of the profs are science profs...
Tim Minchin is a comedian, but sadly he's not the only one saying things like that. Apparently, it's a great way for lazy doctors to always be right.

For instance, check this guy:

“Calling ‘alternative medicine’ medicine is kind," says Dr. George Demetri, director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. "We need to be careful about how we use language. Show me an alternative medicine that works and I’ll show you a medicine that is no longer alternative.” http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10183664.htm
Roundness of the Earth is equally insane. But both are facts.

m@sauron:~ $ echo -e '\tx'
x
Really? I went there, was able to clearly see a well written article, not cluttered with anything distracting that gave me the information I needed, allowing me to focus 100% on the content.
You don't have to go back that far https://www.google.com/search?q=undersea+fiber+optics+tapped
Spending $50,000 per year to keep mild criminals off the streets is a bizarre choice.

Why not spend that money on drug rehab or mental health care, and turn these people into tax payers?
This is great. Came back explicitly to search and upvote as this was perfect for that initial quick sanity check of url availability.

Currently US centric - would be nice to be able to select to see localised (UK here) registrars and currency.
@Samuel_Michon

Acupunture isn't accepted into western medicine because it doesn't actually work. It performs as good as any other placebo (reduces pain, makes patients feel better).

It's getting more mainstream, but that doesn't mean it's an accepted medicine.

A review of reviews:

http://www.painjournalonline.com/article/S0304-3959(10)00689...
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> "It turns out to be easier and faster to iterate from an existing but wrong solution, than to deduce a correct solution from scratch. "

It is if you have no additional cost in building/destroying something, as in this game. If you had a pot of money and every piece you placed/destroyed cost you money (or even more than a fraction of a second in time) - as is often the case in real life - then the picture could well be very different.
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Some kind of aliasing issue, goes away as you zoom in.
I don't habe my copy of "Code Complete" here, but AFAICR it cites a study that says code comprehension is best at 3-4 charakter indent.

So, yes, a tab size of 8 is insane...
tab width can be any size you want, it's just many text rendering systems default to 8.

Personally I prefer 4 chars. In my opinion it looks tidier when reading back source code.
This looks genuinely useful. Getting more statistical power out of clinical trials, for free, means they can use smaller sample sizes and save millions. Lower entry barriers means more drug trials.

Not sure what the author finds "repulsive" in this.
It's normal for drug research to be prize driven after all if Viagra caused heart attacks none none of those billions would have shown up.
Dmitry Vyukov keeps a great resource for learning about lock-free algorithms (and other interesting things) here: http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/introduct...
http://tldr.io/ occasionally helps.
I don't see this as big. Kbr wouldn't in any way be responsible for adding asm.js support to v8. He's one of the core guys on accelerated graphics, but isn't involved in the JS engine. Also, you'd be well served to consider anything Brendan Eich claims in the context of his own motivations. Because other JS engine developers aren't necessarily enthused about signing on to support a spec that Mozilla developed mostly in secret without their input, relies extensively on engine quirks, and doesn't yet (ever?) address many hard problems like code caching and threading. I'm not saying asm.js isn't interesting, but it's not a guaranteed win either.
I'm still curious what would happen if we:

a) have a pill for every disease

b) give placebos if we don't have anything better

c) A/B-test viable new alternative drugs (or maybe multi armed bandit's minimum regret is appropriate here ;)

That way patients might get the benefits of placebo without resorting to alternative medicine and you would be able to test effectiveness of drugs much more accurately.

You could even offer people different tracks, such as 'conservative', 'regular', 'progressive' and 'experimental' where different (new) drugs with different risk profiles can be issued.

If you'd make regularly contributing data (completing questionnaires) on your progress / health status a requirement for participation we could even start doing big-data analysis on this (massively valuable) data set quite soon.
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Yes, precisely.

It's like designing a race car, or a fighter jet. Sure, they are amazing things. But are people ever going to commute to work in anything resembling a Bugatti Veyron or an F-22? Of course not. Neither maximum automotive performance nor air combat effectiveness are the sorts of things that are normally necessary to optimize for in daily life. Some time in the far future we're going to have both the tools to write amazingly efficient programs and to do so with a minimal amount of fuss from the programmer's perspective, but it'll be a long time getting there. And in the meantime there are going to be plenty of cycles of figuring out how to produce performance gains with the least disruption to existing ways of doing things.
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I'll bite.

Net caloric balance is an important predictor, but not the sole predictor. That's why it "drives people nuts" - because it is not true.

For example:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23127-abnormal-gut-bac...
> other JS engine developers aren't necessarily enthused about signing on to support a spec that [company] developed mostly in secret without input from other JS engines, relies extensively on engine quirks, and doesn't yet solve many hard problems

Wow, where have I heard that before? ;)
The current Core iX CPUs offer higher clock rates than the Core 2 CPUs from 2008? Using the highest clock available would have skewed the result against Armstrongs argument.
Vim exclusively for HTML/CSS/JS/PHP and learning Python.

Eclipse + Flash Builder for the occasional AS3.

Eclipse for toying with Android dev.

I went Dreamweaver 3 -> BBEdit -> TextMate -> Vim. I. Can't. Look. Back.
The lie was front page. The flip side, not so much.
Ben Goldacre makes a strong case for not using placebo. If there's already a widely used alternative, surely they should test against the best currently available treatment, instead of testing against nothing (placebo).

The more concerning point Goldacre raises is that unflattering trial data goes missing, and this is completely ok with the FDA.
There is a threshold to prevent excessive and abusive flagging. If
your 'flag' link disappears, then you've crossed the threshold.

The handling of flags on HN is a lot more elaborate and
effective than most people realize, and only some of the details
are publicly known. Eons ago pg said flags are scrutinized and
weighted. If a user consecutively makes "bad" flags, then the flags
of that user count less. On the other hand, if a user consistently
makes "good" flags, then the flags of that user count more.
Ok, what are the basic concepts? :)

(As you can imagine, many of us hesitate to upvote anything which might be considered spam, and even flag them; but certainly do upvote submissions which happen to contain insightful comments.)
I believe that's what Rbutr is trying to address: http://rbutr.com/
Crossing the JS to C++ barrier is not free [1]. Compiling the C to asm.js allows everything to live in the VM and avoids this cost.

[1] https://github.com/felixge/faster-than-c is a talk by a longtime node contributor on this topic.
I can't imagine this ever happening, but the question of "how to contact your own customer" is bizarre.

The fact is, when they are already your customer it's what is known as a warm lead, as opposed to a cold call. You seem to be imagining this "problem" without knowing the game.
And while we're at it, why don't those thieving Canadians get their own currency symbol!
Thanks, adding that to my reading list.
I do agree that there comes a point where you can get over zealous with indentation, but 3 levels deep is pretty common. In fact you idle at one level of indentation just with having your code inside a function. So basically all you need is one conditional inside a loop and you're already maxed out.
I hope you let them know first before you posted here.
"When I played my own game, I had the technical knowledge of how the game functioned"

I have this same problem when I test my own software.
I don't see the point... the article begins with:
> A landmark document created at the request of NATO has proposed a set of rules for how international cyberwarfare should be conducted.

Really? As if people really followed the rules during wars. History is full of people breaking such "rules" and nothing happens... after all "it's war".

I'm not suggesting people under extreme stress should be expected to act impartially... though I wonder why discuss such rules if none will be applied anyway.
True, good point. I tried to find something with a similar nominal clock speed and forgot about Turbo. But then, Turbo is a good example why single threaded performance is getting better even in the age of multicores.
If you wanted something in PHP, I would have suggested Wordpress. Its the largest and the most popular CMS out there today. I learned a lot by their methodologies and the way they do things or the they the theme architecture is built etc.
Sorry but this looks very much like the typical info ware: Someone believes (hopefully) he has the worlds' most valuable information and writing skills, but can't be bothered to write a monetized blog or get a real publishing deal...

Of course, whenever some of these ultra-secret material leaks it turns out to be not much better than an average blog post, but for the price of a couple of scientific text-books.
had the same issues with the dev-kit, hope they implement some sort of a multi-device mode in the future which gets rid of these occlusions caused by having only one point of view to the scene (you can do only so much with modeling, but that would be a start). The interaction experience for actual hand-gestures is, due to these limitations (sweet-spot-size, occlusion and hand orientation) far from what could be considered intuitive. Single tip input with chopsticks is the only mode that works immediately as one would expect.
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They say this explains why gastric bypass works, but from what I've seen, people who get gastric bypass can only physically eat a few calories per day in the beginning without terrible consequences. Eventually you can eat more, and I've seen the weight go back, so I'm confused why it would be bacteria.
No, it doesn't hurt everyone inside Egypt. I don't think you understand the extent to which Salafist thought has penetrated the Muslim world. It is by definition traditional and also by its very nature inward looking and isolationist. The idea of cutting off Egypt from the influence of the outside world is enormously appealing to such folks.

Indeed, this was the fundamental demand of al qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, for the west to halt contact with the Islamic world and stop influencing it.
Performance is truly impressive. And I really love how small the codebase actually is. I've been dreaming about writing my own text editor for quite some time. This will really help me to get started, thanks a lot nsf!

p.s. panic on opening a directory isn't really a best way to say that you don't support viewing directories...
Meet PeerCDN
and we thought the internet is slow in Pakistan because of the DDOS attack Cloudflare has been harping about.
why not just emacs?
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Mine was OK. In India
From PEP-8, "Use 4 spaces per indentation level. For really old code that you don't want to mess up, you can continue to use 8-space tabs." [1].

While I agree on ending the '\r\n' mania(which itself is a very hard task), pushing tab stops down my throat is not cool.

[1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
And I would argue that any spec tagged with these kinds of complaints rarely ever sees broad adoption, regardless who made it. From my perspective, the only thing asm.js has going for it that offsets the downsides is that the code at least runs in other JS engines even if they don't explicitly support it. And that alone might actually be enough.
It could be chance. Remember if you have a small sample size, it's possible that (by chance) the placebo control group just happen to get better faster, making it seem like the placebo works 'better'.
This will sure make me to learn python over ruby
I don't buy it.

>> reason to grant license to drugs of questionable medical benefit in order to reward big pharma and its generous support of the political process through campaign contributions

Is a fair (although not proven) interpretation of the available data:

1. Big pharma make very large political campaign contributions, sometimes via indirect routes which has the effect (even if not the intention) of disguising the funding source.
2. Drugs are being tested against placebo, instead of the best available alternative. We know that unfavourable trial results are frequently not reported. It's fair to cast question on the medical benefit of such drugs.
3. The final question is the FDA's motivation to approve such borderline drugs - ostensibly it's to provide options to doctors where the preferred treatment is not possible (perhaps adverse reaction in the patient or everything else has already been tried), your parent posits that it could be as favour to these companies.

While there's certainly no proof presented, i don't go along with the idea it can be cast aside as conspiracy theorist without some counter evidence.

One side needs to provide evidence - you or your parent, your parent's point is left open otherwise and your response doesn't counter it.
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I emailed the CEO of T-Mobile and got my contract killed
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At least Chrome Beta does, but iirc you need to enable it in about:flags.
"On a lighter note - you could unlock them both, then see who gets in first and locks the other out, then you'll have a clear winner!"

I think there is something to be said about this approach even if it was said in jest. You might also want to change your own terms and conditions before you do this, to allow you to do this.

I doubt very much if the parties care about you at this point, they are mainly focussed on each other, and if you hand over "the keys" in an email to both at the same time, and resign your role as supplier, with the support of your T&Cs your should be OK.
Indoctrinator is a multi-phase program that walks you through the steps of becoming obsessed.

For example, if you hate exercising or say, accounting, this program will show you how to get obsessed over it.
Micromacs was favorite in the late 80s. JOVE early 90s. And the commercial unipress emacs. GNU emacs outlived them, probably because situations where a light spot editor was desired are now fast enough that there is very little additional cost to a full featured editor.

That being said, I still have EDITOR set to /usr/bin/emacsclient.
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Puuuuhhhleeeeaaaseeee can I commute to work in a Bugatti Veyron??

Please please please :-)

Edit: sorry unable to resist. However I am on Joe Armstrongs side - I would far rather make a decent living doing fun Erlang work than be in a java shop making the next generation of POS

Added to that I think not using Erlang or some STM based concurrency language must be an informed decision - if the CTO of big bank says we have tried two pilot projects rewriting the ATM network in Erlang and the projected costs do not add up, fine. If he says "I have two hundred java coders, we aren't moving". I don't think that's valid
It's the only correct one. But it should have nothing to do with indent size.
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Because MBs during that era were basically Chryslers. MB picked up on the cost cutting when they owned Chrysler and produced a lot of junk during that time.In later years they got back to producing quality products.
Hmm, eBay has worked extensively with rackspace for cloud-platforming though, so I think it's mostly Xen:
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/case-study/an-open...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/0219230/ebay-dep...
That's true if you are building something tangible. You can't simply start building something (like a bridge) and fix the mistakes you make while you are making them.

But for programming ? You don't have those kind of costs.
Because it opens up a lot of very important medical ethics problems.

During trials, the doctor and the patient don't know that the patient is getting a placebo (it's called "double blind"). If people know that what they are getting is a placebo, I don't think it works as well. So the only way to get an effective placebo is to lie to the patient and tell them it's a good drug.

But there is a long history of abuses in medicine (Nuremburg, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, etc.), so "informed consent" is very very very important in medical ethics. This means you can't lie to patients. To use placebos as you suggest, you'd have to throw that out. This is a dangerous path.
The part of Armstrong's argument I was (explicitly) referring to was not about relative gains of multi-threading but about presumed absolute losses of single-thread performance. My argument against this is not refuted by relative gains of multi-threading..

Of course you realize even bigger gains on many common workloads using parallelism, but this part of his argument doesn't need the first part, which was wrong.
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INDOCTRINATOR is a different animal, so to speak. It's experimental and I think suits publishing and distribution via email perfectly. It may also include postal mail too, but that hadn't been decided yet.
What happened to eating less?
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Read Dr Ben Goldacre's book "Bad Pharma". Scientific misconduct is endemic in the pharmaceutical industry, most importantly in the form of publication bias. Vast swathes of research goes MIA, with the statistical analysis showing clearly that positive results are vastly more likely to be published than negative results. Industry-funded research is more than twice as likely to return a positive result than other research. This all takes place with the implicit endorsement of the FDA - the FDA have far greater access to trial data than any physician.

The pharma industry produces a lot of useful and important drugs, but they also do a lot of seriously shady shit. GSK habitually lied about the risks of Paroxetine and hid data showing serious safety issues. Merck committed fraud on a grand scale by falsifying and concealing data related to Rofecoxib, which led directly to around 60,000 deaths. It's quite clear that the ethical standards of the pharmaceutical industry are close to nil - most large companies are happy to kill patients with useless drugs as long as it's profitable.
a lot of articles about Go these days , interesting.