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Good points. But favoring Python lists over recursion is like favoring chocolate over logging. However, I'm probably just playing gotcha here. My apologies to HN and Guido.

My more important point is that recursion is good for real world stuff.
That's one drawback. If you're going up a hill, you'll slow down. It's not as bad as you'd think though, your inertia is usually enough to only cause a difference in 5mph spread over ~5-10 seconds.
Giles Bowkett wins: http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-...
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What the flying feeple is your problem? Should we all just roll over and die because no one invested in advanced medical tech that could save us?

Let me put this very clearly: Money is the basic unit which measures how much society cares about something. Money implements the power of professional specialization. Money is how real grownups get things done. http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/.

If no one is allowed to make money, that means society is not allowed to care. If scientists are not allowed to make money off suffering, it means that you are not allowed to hire scientists and pay them to work on the problem.

Grow up.
> the CEO said, "it's better to have 1 percent of 10 million than 100 percent of nothing."

A false dichotomy, surely.

The voice in the back of my head says its better to have >=50% of something small with real, stable growing than 1% of 10 million where you are trying to outsmart the wolf packs of the VC industry.
They would be profiting by curing the suffering of others.

The only way they make money is if they make people better. And if they make people better, they deserve money. In fact, money is a damn good incentive to make sure we have anti-virals like this ready.
I wonder if you could turn this into a business? Actors probably wouldn't be as committed, and if people knew they were going to a game they probably would never forget it's just a game.
But that is still different from willful disregard, or malice. Defending Matt on this is a proposition i'm ambivalent on, since i don't condone the content of his presentation (i think the presentation was alienating, and the presentation seems to have predominantly featured pictures of scantily clad women rather than women and men for instance.)
I thought another future idea was to attach some sub-like vehicle to something like a cruise ship and hitch a ride & hide in its "shadow". At some destination, maybe a port of call, frogmen secretly release it.
Personally I never use cruise control, even when I do 400 mile trips. I just don't find it safe, since you can only steer in case of an emergency + my legs become restless. At least when you gas/brake your legs have something to do
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very cool. Do you have any demos that show explicitly how Processing.js can communicate with the document loaded in the browser, ... for instance, to enter a value on a form and then submit the form? This would open up new creative ways for user interaction.
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Even so, you need to be able to make a very specific formal declaration of exactly what constructs result in the optimization being non-leaky. It needs to be completely straightfoward and easy enough to understand that no programmer gets into the situation where they think a leaky optimization is non-leaky.

And once you make an optimization non-leaky, it cannot ever become leaky again in any particular situation whatsoever, or it could break existing programs.
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So you hear? Don't act like you've never seen DVDA before, bro.
Given this, it doesn't really make sense to not trust TCO because it's somehow black magic.

I wouldn't say it's black magic at all--it's just that from my experience you can rarely even trust compilers with the most basic of things, let alone black magic.
I've never used those but how can it be so much better than eclipse + all the commercial plugins? Closed source can never beat open source in the end...
I think the degree to which this works depends on the sophistication of the code. If it's a simple form handler, then sure, it's an advantage to be using a language that millions of people know. If it's more sophisticated, it may actually be a disadvantage; the non-technical client has to sort through hundreds of responses to a job posting with no useful means of telling applicants apart. A language like haXe currently only attracts those who are genuinely interested in better languages. Such people tend to be decent programmers, so any of the 5 or so people who respond is likely to be a good choice.
I'm sure if you look at the thousands of references in the IPCC Working Group II report on impacts and vulnerability you'll find plenty. Or did you already look there?
I think we've got different magnitudes of hills in mind. Perhaps using memory foam for a spring would allow you to deliberately change position while still providing decent support.
The problem is indeed very complex, which is why I find it amazing that people who aren't studying the issue in question think they can make statements like this. (If you indeed are doing research in the field, please point me to your papers indicating that the simulations are unreliable to the point that they have no predictive value.)
flying penguins with glowing eyes...they need to reshoot terminator.
Beyond that GW is not proven beyond a doubt so if it happens not to be true we'll have spent all our time trying to stop causing something that we were never causing in the first place.

You don't believe in the concept of insurance, do you?
I'm sorry, but this is totally unclear (to me at least).

For example what are you computing (in part 3) if you know what X and Y are?

What is N?

What is "the number of decimal places you want"?

Can you explain in another way? Do you have an example? Why does this work?
Sorry, but this seems monumentally stupid, and likely illegal.
I think that makes total sense, in terms of longevity not being broadly inherited. Why would it be? Once an organism has lived long enough to be able to reproduce and no longer is able to reproduce, there is no evolutionary purpose for that organism to stick around. Genetic drift could account for some people having more longevity than others, but I see no selective advantage for it, from the point of view of the gene. Thus it makes sense that not too many people would be genetically pre-disposed towards longevity.

Personally, I don't mind the James Dean ethos: "Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse behind!" :-)
:) I agree if its your own startup it probably demands as much attention as your personal life infact there is no demarcation. I by nature never had that demarcation even when I worked for others.

But you know when somethings go real bad, like in the above post or even in my own case, with mental states, emotions and relationships because of this work stress you would regret. So this is just a reminder to be on the back of the mind.
That is kind of the point isn't it.
I'm gonna go with "don't be stupid" again. Putting stuff down on your floorboards that interfere with the full operation of the controls is asking for trouble. Your device could fall into the brake pedal, preventing operation. It could catch your foot at a critical moment. It could just surprise you after a long period of inattentiveness by acting "different" than what you're used to.

You want it to be a 'safe' device that simply prevents over acceleration. It comes with a royal boatload of possible unintended and unimagined consequences.

Don't be stupid.

Edit: (On reread). If "don't be stupid" makes you feel angry or defiant, please read it as "Please don't do this. Its more dangerous than you think.", with my apologies for sounding parental.
Part 3 makes perfect sense to me, it's an "x = x+1" style line.

N is (((the number of digits of X), divided by 2), rounded down.)

Edit: hmm, maybe I've got it wrong, the convergence is very slow. Anyways, here's how it works out for me:

X = 105362
X = 10.5362 so N = 2 (half the number of digits to the right of the decimal point...)
Y = 2
Y = 2*(300-10.5362*2*2) = 2.578552
Y = 2.578552*(300-10.5362*2.578552*2.578552) = 2.9646326
Y = 2.9646326*(300-10.5362*2.9646326*2.9646326) = 3.0742773

It should converge to around 3.24, at which point you would shift the decimal point back 2 digits to get 324.
In some ways war is a method to divide resources. War is probably inevitable until Earth provides unlimited resources.

"Global warming" is a catch-phrase for the changing environment (setting aside momentarily the always exciting argument over the cause). It is probably inevitable until Earth is more robust.
So, we need tail recursion so we can prematurely optimize the space/time of our programs.

Sarcasm aside I'm sure for some people, for some applications that is needed. But there are plenty of languages that do that and do that well. Why do people want every language to be "their" language. For Python I'm glad Guido is following the Zen of Python.
I think everyone would turn off the TV and not be on the internet when they are cooking and have friends over for dinner. Ditto for board games. If you enjoy those things as I do, do them. No need to make a big deal about it. Are we so twisted that doing those normal things and not being on Facebook or watching FOX is newsworthy. I haven't seen it.
I guess I'm confused by the fact that you are repeating step 2 which reassigns Y...

Clear on N thanks.

An example would make this easier...
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Should I Know How Much You Make?
Quite literally a hacker talking about news. This was a good read.
This is why I don't like people referring proper tail recursion as tail call optimization. It leads to an assumption that it is somewhat optional, or something that doesn't change meaning of programs but only affects performance.

Proper tail recursion is much more fundamental property of language. Whether you have a guaranteed proper tail recursion or not affects the behavior of the program in terms of complexity (as discussed in Joe's article). Consequently it affects your choice of algorithms and coding styles. An example is that you start feeling very natural to represent state machine in terms of function calls (function = state, tail call = transition).

I don't claim that proper tail recursion is the only correct answer. It is a design choice. But if you opt out, you'd better understand what you're trading.

That said, I agree with you that optional TCO which you can't rely on isn't very useful. The proper tail recursive language, like Scheme, defines exactly what are tail calls so programmers can rely on it.
Certainly scenarios can be and are described but not all possible scenarios can be listed because they are infinite in number, And this is true in a non-trivial sense.

When you say "They have the data." I assume you are speaking of statistics. But

- These are rare events and statistical analysis is at it's limits,

- The past is no predictor of the future. Example: the introduction and continued enhancement of IEDs in Iraq.

Although he doesn't elaborate on my first point above, I recommend that you also read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, "The Black Swan".
Truth to tell, those complaints are mostly valid. However, you can always bring the second (third, fourth, etc.) battery with you.
I am not doing research in the area, thankfully. I know people who are. I talk to them often, and I have come to the realization that this is an incredibly complex problem. One has to take into account the physics, chemistry, biology of the entire globe... plus the Sun cycles, the cosmic rays, and the effects of man on the environment. It's a daunting task.

I also remember that back in the days I studied Physics, it was widely accepted that computers can't predict the weather more than a couple of weeks in advance due to the chaotic nature of the fluid dynamics equations. If you can't predict reliably more than two weeks in advance, I doubt you can predict 20 years into the future. This is pseudo-science, and while scientists know there's an awful lot of uncertainty in it, these "results" are communicated to the general public as though they were absolute truths, which is nauseatingly unethical, not to mention dishonest.

All in all: I think it's time to take a deep breath, let one's head cool off and analyze the problem scientifically. Fostering fear is dangerous and counter-productive. A massive stampede usually eliminates anything in its path... and that's no solution.
The guy hung in for 6 years on a modest salary, not quitting until his hand was forced when the bankruptcy court rejected his buyout offer. How is that a "quick scam?" He kept the business close to the edge of solvency because he was optimizing for growth rather than profit on the entirely defensible theory that he needed to quickly get the business to a size where economies of scale would work in his favor. (It's a strategy that Bezos used at Amazon in the early years too, consistently forsaking profit in favor of growth and operating in the red to do so.) Investors know the risks involved. Nothing in the article suggests that they were "screwed over" as you claim. In fact the "risk it all, go for broke" attitude that you blame on the CEO is more likely attributable to his investors, who are going to push for strategies that result in a 5x-10x ROI.
$2 bill doesn't give it away?
I agree. She wants him to work his ass off, and when he does, complains about not having him around. And to top it off, she stops working on her own profession, gets depressed, and then considers leaving him (which would entail taking his child away from him). She says, "but I couldn't stop picking fights about his lack of time at home.". Nice, kick him while he's down.

Later -- talking about sales in general -- she adds, "When he convinces me to stay married to him, he's selling me on the better future we will have together.".

So, he's got to convince you regularly to stay married to him, eh? For better or worse too old fashioned I guess.

Regarding what she's given up: "I lost a friendship, an airplane, a lot of money. I sacrificed years of socializing that could have sparked new friendships."

Near the end she says: "I'm betting that before too long, Bill will decide to do it all again." Keep holding out your hope for all that money.
Why not setup your own hosting for your clients? Problems always arise when you give the client options on the server. They do not know these things. Usually they always opt to have the cheaper plan -- they are not technical people.

I have been using PHP for years now - no problems so far. Especially when Zend Framework came.
Companies often do - I've worked for shops that knew a rewrite was a good idea, and that hacking layers of old API onto their product was a bad idea in the long run.

But management isn't always focused on the long run.
She tries to present the facts, but her insatisfaction skews the story. Actually, I think sharing this personal story with all the details mainly from her viewpoint can be deemed as selfish behavior.
Yeah, it should read "repeat step three". Frequently, if you want to find x satisfying f(x) = x you can just let x be the limit of the sequence t, f(t), f(f(t)), f(f(f(t))) where t is some arbitrary number. In this case, we have:

f(Y) = Y*(300-XYY)/200

If f(Y) = Y, then:

Y = Y*(300-XYY)/200
1 = (300-XYY)/200
200 = 300 - XYY
100 = XYY

So it looks like the algorithm calculates an inverse square root instead, and then multiplies it by the original number (step 5.)
This kind of "server administration" topic is probably better suited to Server Fault but could probably be asked over at Stack Overflow for now (assuming it's more related to programming).

Server Fault should be out in the next week.
I suffer from "Compiling Procrastination". I go to HN and reddit when the code starts compiling.
"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the
Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the
standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom ... it scores over the older,
more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in
large friendly letters on its cover."

Twitter's combination of soft colors, clouds, and overall relaxed philosophy put people at ease in a way that makes the Internet not seem like quite so scary of a place. Also, while the architecture does basically support stalking, it effectively eliminates predators, as one click can make sure you never hear from that person again.
Those really exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_two-dollar_bill
Nice, but it is hardly fit for computing a root by hand.
Is it really a mystery as to why the flu is more deadly in Mexico than in the US? Have factors such as quality of medical care been taken into account yet?
(I'm not actually disputing the parent comment, just for the record. It just reminded me of something.)

I carry at least a couple $2s around constantly, as well as dollar coins and half-dollars, for tips. Whenever I travel, I pick up a few dollars worth of non-US currencies at the exchange booth, so I can throw one or two in with a normal tip.

For a long while, I thought that getting tips in a strange currency format doesn't make any difference. After working a coffee bar for a few years, "it's the thought that counts" took on a lot more meaning for me.
Thinking in powers of two, aids to get faster estimates of square roots. When you are calculating just by hand, you can tolerate errors associated with this method.

For example, the number of the explication is near to 2^16, so the square root is 2^8 = 256 approximately (with relative error of 0.7% and in less of a second :)

Of course, it won't work when numbers are farther of powers of two.
Just read on, the process becomes obvious after the next iteration. It is very simple actually.
"How about this mad cow disease? It was here a while then it went away."

My thoughts: This will also go away.

http://tinyurl.com/b8xyvh
As I said in the other thread, the only certainty in a pandemic is that the public will react in bizarre and strange ways.

The general feeling is that the reaction will almost certainly be an order of magnitude over the threat, given our knowledge and expertise with pandemics, and that most deaths will be from human response as opposed to the pandemic itself (as would be the case with a dirty nuclear bomb).
I'm glad this appeared on HN. I'm far more interested in this community's thoughts than those of the main stream media.
I found it interesting how little he talked about the monetary value of various compensation mechanisms, and how much about the emotional value. "So I was hurt, I suppose would be the most accurate word..."
On the site they give a price of $359 with a contract renewal, $399 without. Were you at the end of the contract when you renewed?
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Anyone know an online pharmacy stocking Tamiflu? The one I know only has Symmetrel.
Nothing. It is so simple it can be copied or recreated in an a few hours.

The hard part is getting people to use it and build on it and rely on it as a business. That takes years to unseat.

The next twitter will have to beat it on many fronts.

I believe most of twitter success was culture to allow the innovation and try (created from work at another startup odeo), timing and someone leading it that had already been through a sale to Google of blogger.com. The odds that that happens everyday isn't high. It was also the time when RESTful APIs were taking hold which Ruby on Rails had embraced, timing was huge.
fyi

Some relevant research papers by Dr. Henry Schneiderman

Face View Synthesis Across Large Angles
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=5137&...

Semi-Supervised Self-Training of Object Detection Models
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=4875&...

A histogram-based method for detection of faces and cars
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=3530&...

Probabilistic Modeling of Local Appearance and Spatial Relationships for Object Recognition
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=543&m...

Real-time Model-based Visual Tracking
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=1034&...
dare I ask, why?
As a conservative, I concede some negative correlation could be present here. Certainly not a strong one, but perhaps a statistically measurable one.

There are a couple of reasons off the top of my head for this. Our institutions of higher learning are, I think this is not in debate, generally left leaning. Kids that go there are smart enough to go to college, but they are kids, and some of them will be swayed left in that atmosphere, even if they might not have been if not exposed to it. That alone should skew the distribution as the article indicates. There's also the religious aspect, where intellectuals tend to be less religious, and by definition then, less conservative.

I'm not sure what someone would do with this information, other than use it to make statements that would not generally be accurate.
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One time I weighed myself at 7am and I was literally 5 lbs lighter than the personal measurement I have ingrained in my head. I was on the verge of wasting away.

I paid careful attention and put together personal regulations: I must eat breakfast, I must eat lunch, I must eat dinner.

By that evening I was 1 pound lighter than my target weight. I was still a bit worried, but felt comforted to know I had averted a disaster of catastrophic proportions.
The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1. It contains DNA from avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses, said the CDC, which is already working on a vaccine.

- http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE53N228200...
How?

I'm not disagreeing, I just don't see any obvious ways that the human response would cause a lot of deaths - so I'm curious.
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