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>Sola dosis facit venenum

Pedantically we might say that, but it's not really true.

Sure, what makes something poisonous/dangerous is the dosage, but the dosage itself depends on more basic characteristics.

It's not like we arbitrarily try high dosages of stuff. We don't go out eating small amounts of cyanide for a reason.

Nice taste facits venenum -- by making us increase the dosage. Think sugar, salt, red meat, etc.

Uplifting side effects facit venenum. Think heroin, alcohol, etc.

Adverse withdrawal effects also facit venenum. Else we could easily quite alcohol, drugs, cigarettes with a little self restraint.
When people complain about comprehensive error-checking, it makes my blood boil.

Checking and handling all possible error conditions is a GOOD thing.
So you're trying to tell me my phone isn't even the right device to make line comments in pull requests?
With regard to the functional-style "map" function, is it really that much less typing than a simple for loop?

output := make(output_type, len(input))
for idx, e := range(input) { output[idx] = convert(e) }

compared to:

output := map(input, func(in input_type) output_type {
return convert(in)
}
)

There are cases where functional programming can be a lot terser (for better and worse), but I don't think this is one of them. My guess is that the original poster is just adjusting to different ways of doing things between Golang and Ruby-- that's natural.

My biggest complaint about Go so far is that you have to use an external library to get an ordered tree structure. Maps suffice most of the time, but sometimes you need ordering.

[edit: fixed map example]
Ummm.... isnt 13.10 built with Mir - the new display server ? That in itself was huge.
A lot of JS usage on web browser is as a tool to manipulate DOM.
A bigger part of the problem, I think, is the DOM API. Another big part of the problem is of course inconsistencies between browsers.
Because of those 2 problems, our client-side code becomes complex. Changing JS with "$LANGUAGE_X" wouldn't help much.
If the DOM API is much better and web browsers behave the same way, things would be much different.
You can take your sugar in the form of whole (not juiced) fresh fruit. Your body will be able to handle it then.
Depends on the use case. I'd say that for many, many cases, all errors should lead to the same result in the application, but with an error-specific informative message. Even if you want to have special handling for errors such as 4xx that might mean something is permanently wrong, getting a 500 is the same as experiencing a network error (except in a client side app where the latter might mean you're not connected to the Internet and should try again, but then you should use yet another API to determine when to connect), and getting a 200 with the wrong content-type has an excellent chance of meaning the same thing as a network error, in the form of a captive portal. To this extent, APIs with many separate error paths that encourage the user to write their own nonstandard error messages are harmful, because they will probably do worse explaining things than with a common method of triage.

Of course there are other cases where the difference matters. It just... doesn't seem very "natural and idiomatic" to me, that's all.
AI, making absurd claims since 1956.
Fatty meat and fat is healthy as well!
"—a nutrition scientist at Archer Daniels Midland, a major food processing corporation—"

Facepalm
The link mentioned above is Robert Lustig MD's talk entitled "Sugar: The Bitter Truth". I found it very interesting and quite convincing, but beware that it's long (1.5 hrs) and you have to be willing to sit through a lot of biochemistry, since he goes through a bunch of cellular metabolic pathways in gory detail. If you don't care about the biochemistry, the parts about how everything we "know" about nutrition is based on shaky ground (e.g., the FDA's food pyramid, "fat in the diet is bad", etc.) is well worth watching, as is the history of how the amount of sugar in the U.S. diet has been dramatically increasing (e.g., the steady increase in the serving size of Coca Cola since 1915).
I just re-read it a third time and do not see what you're referring to. If you'll humor me and paste in the relevant paragraph I'll give it extra attention and (I hope) admit if I was wrong above.
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Net caloric balance is still the best long term predictor of average body mass, regardless of dietary macronutrient composition.

http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...

In turn, obesity is a strong predictor of many diseases, regardless of other factors.

In individual cases unobservable "noise" can affect the rate of gain or loss vs the estimated rate given by subtracting an estimate (calories gleaned from an activities database) from another estimate (calories written on the side of the food packet).

But when you look at population BMI vs population calorie intake, it looks suspiciously like a perfect correlation:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/calories-st...

Which is what we would expect from a basic acceptance of freshman physics. Energy and matter are conserved. No exceptions.

Singling out fructose as some kind of super-baddy doesn't work, for the simple reason that the population BMI-calories correlation appears in countries outside the USA. Only the USA has corn politics and only the USA has HFCS in the food supply in any abundance. Yet the rest of the developed world is getting fat on the same trajectory as the USA has.
For what it's worth - I've got clients and colleagues asking hard questions about data jurisdiction and data sovereignty in the last 6 weeks. The old "obvious answers" to cloud storage and computing are no longer considered quite so straightforward. Can an Australian company be considered to be doing "due diligence" if storing customer data on Amazon's cloud? Or Azure? Or AppEngine/Heroku/Rackspace/Force.com? I've even got clients asking if there are MessageLabs equivalents that're solely under Australian law instead of US law?

Personally, I don't trust the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to be any less morally corrupt that the NSA - though I hold some small comfort from the fact that they're significantly less well funded and almost certainly don't have the small country sized staff of Math PhDs that the NSA have…

Even though I don't assume we (here in Australia) have any better protection against government snooping - everyone I talk to seems to understand that acknowledging and accepting the risk of local government snooping is something easily explained to customers/shareholders/judges than having to explain why you stored confidential information on cloud services that you knew were under foreign surveillance.

My response has been to (bring forward the implementation of) "encrypt all the things". I suspect this is already costing US businesses - I wonder if Dropbox/GDrive/SkyDrive are noticing reduced de-dupe rates? I'm now using encfs for most of the free storage they're giving me.
Second "Master Key" Style APK Exploit Revealed
Screw map, let me pass a comparator function into sort for interfaces.
My droplet has been working fine in NY. There was an email earlier today about a problem detected and expected, intermittent downtime for tonight. Not sure if that is related.
Glucose is not really an issue. Fructose is the problem. Unfortunately almost all sugar used as a food and drink additive today includes significant amounts of fructose. Glucose is not that sweet by itself so it is rarely used as sweetener in real life.
I may have been joking about electroshock. :)
http://github.com/michaelmior/quine-relay

Potential some output missing as I think some filenames may be reused. I just ran through the cycle and then committed everything.
Oh I didn't know that Microsoft changed their licensing to allow that, I was under the impression that only select partners (Amazon, et al) were large enough and Microsoft cared enough about to permit that.
Holy crap. Codeception, now I can write in one language and run in every language :)
A very brilliant TED talk after a long time. Chinese communist party is just a namesake communist party. In fact they have been doing the most pragmatic thing to do in the name of communism.

It is true that an ordinary Chinese has lesser freedom than say an average American but in the end, average Chinse also have much bigger problems to deal with. With the passage of time I am sure China will give more freedom to it's citizens.

Also, with the news related to PRISM and all, we know that freedom in USA is nothing but an illusion and the government is turning more and more to be a modern soviet russia where anyone who begs to differ with government is either jailed or harassed.

In long run I would rather like to see meritocratic people ruling a country rather than the popular ones.
Arguably the downwards pressure on bond yields due to fed policy has inflated asset values enough to dislodge sentiment from valuations. Many people are rotating money into stocks since they can't think of any better place to get a return, and the bull market is enticing them to overweight.
Only if you have a meaningfully different thing to do for each type of error, see my response to the sibling comment.
Not really. Assume he cut out 300 calories a day of beer. So a pound of fat is 3600 calories roughly. By just cutting out beer he would need 12 days to lose 1 lb. not the rate he was losing which was 1/3lb per day. Many studies have shown pure caloric deficits do not lead to rapid weight loss.
I would say sarcastically that if NSA is spying without much efforts, just pushing a button and analyzing the data with well known algorithms then US can reduce their deficit by a big amount firing all those "analysts".

They can even anonymize the information and crowdsource the analysis like Kaggle.
How has your weight loss progressed since the dietary change?
First thing I thought of: maybe we can use it to study liquid tungsten. http://what-if.xkcd.com/50/. Lift a tiny piece, then heat it with lasers?
The second example should be

output := map(convert, input)

After all, map generally handles fetching the element from the array.
I cut out most sugar years ago, I think by not 'seasoning', you may be doing yourself a dis-service. Sugar isn't the only seasoning. There are lots you can do with herbs, oils and citrus (just stay away from vinegars which are often high in sugar).

For those who want to try restricting their diet to be more healty, a simple trick is to only shop on the outer isles of the grocery store. In more stores, you'll have the produce along one one, meats and fish along another, and then dairy and cheese along another.

Sadly, the bakery is also along a wall, so just be smart enough to avoid that one, and don't be tricked by bread, most of it has a significant amount of sugar.
I tried this argument (hurting USA's economy) as an argument to several friends on how harmfull the NSA sweep everything up surveillance will probably hurt our economy. They don't buy my argument because the US news media tells one side of the story only (mostly). It only takes a few seconds to find relevant foreign news stories, but there seems to be a hysterical blindness happening.

I enjoy playing Chess and Go, and it is very important to accept what is on the board as reality, and play the game accordingly.

I listened to Richard Stallman earlier today, saying that now is the time when perhaps the fight for freedom could work. I think Richard is perhaps overly optimistic, but we can hope. I have increased donations to EFF, FSF, and the ACLU - that seems the best I can do. I used to write frequently to my elected representatives but most of them seem to have their own agendas that are not aligned with what I think are public interests.
The accepted definition of a software fork is a copy of an existing project that is independently developed.

Therefore, LibreOffice is a fork:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)

It doesn't matter which people do or do not work on the project at this point. The original owners of OpenOffice donated the project to the Apache foundation (under less restrictive licensing terms I might add).

So at this point, it doesn't matter what happened to the project in the past, OpenOffice is now an Apache project owned by the Apache foundation.

TL;DR: The OpenOffice project (now part of the Apache Software Foundation) announced the second release candidate for the soon to be released OpenOffice 4.0.
I think that specific one was where someone simulated the same number of neurons that a cat had. However it failed because a virtual neuron isn't the same as a cat's and the training algorithms obviously weren't very similar.

Other AI projects vastly excel humans in some fields though (arguably chess is an example of this).

This link seems to focus on decisions making and the ability to appear normal in general. In this way I strongly agree with you. I've never seen an AI chatbot that could hold a conversation as well as your average 4 year old.
Documenting open source packages in node.js
If you work with node in an enterprise environment, you will likely need to document the licenses of all the open source projects you are using.

Shamelessly promoting an npm that I wrote to help with this process. Constructive feedback is appreciated. Enjoy.
The problem with refined fructose is that it contributes to you eating more because the liver cannot process it properly and does not send the "i am full" signals to the brain. Thus, it is in fact the reason why people have higher net caloric intake.

US style food is being exported all over the world. Sodas are sold all over the world. Obesity around the world is generally correlated to the level at which US style food culture is adopted.
Agree. The last time I heard was it was as good as retarded cockroach.
Release notes: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0...

Claims better document fidelity http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Fidelity_Impro...

and a new UI to differentiate from LibreOffice http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar
see also his "music box quine"

https://github.com/tric/trick2013/blob/master/mame1/entry.rb

from TRICK2013 (The 1st Transcendental Ruby Imbroglio Contest for rubyKaigi)

https://sites.google.com/site/trickcontest2013/
There was a good session at the Build conference apparently.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/4-184
They sent me an email stating that they are performing critical maintenance on core routers at both locations.
From what I can tell, OpenOffice is now the successor to IBM's Lotus Symphony (which was previously an OpenOffice fork). IBM donated their code to Apache, so anyone coming from that software can maintain UI elements that LibreOffice does not have.
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My other account seems to be blocked, so using this throwaway account.

I'm selling http://diglig.com. Diglig is a context aware task management application which consolidates all of users events from calendars, emails and social networks at one centralized location and then it makes smart recommendations on how to complete their tasks.

Our efforts were recognized by one of the YCombinators competitor and we were offered $40k of seed money. However, due to circumstances at that time we were unable to take the offer. Since then my partner moved out of state due to job change and I had a kid, so no more time to work on it.
The takedown request outlined in the article contains a reference to VLC as distributed by a popular torrent tracker, and not VLC itself. While this is still overstepping the boundaries of copyright, it is disingenuous to say that HBO asked Google to take down VLC.
Beyond iostat: Storage performance analysis with blktrace
So the story is essentially that a computer program was able to succeed at a pattern-recognition exercise, correct? Or am I missing something...?
Skynet isn't evil; it's just over tired and needs a nap.
You act as though Javascript will take over the programming world -- I can confidently say that it won't
And you have nothing to say about the content, then?
Exactly.

What I'm looking for is a board with a reasonably fast CPU (preferably dual core), SATA and a a PCI-E or USB3 port for a fast 802.11n/ac wifi adapter. PogoPlug v4 is almost there, but the CPU is too slow to sustain more than ~40MB/s of I/O.
"Enzymes in the intestine split sucrose into fructose and glucose within seconds, so as far as the human body is concerned sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup are equivalent."

I'm not an expert by any means, but from what I recall that point is still widely contested.
I go the lo-fi route and just copy the folders by hand to a raid array.
I think the spirit of it still very much alive, growing just as it always has. It's only being veiled by the big IPO social media coke binge (etc etc...) projects.

Just look at hot huge github has become in the past five years. not to mention open source linux distros, which have arguably taken over Microsoft in the 'best desktop OS' field lately (yet still behind, in my opinion, OS X). There's also new devices like Raspberry Pis, Arduinos and Beagleboards, which are bringing a new age in 'open source' learning. It's a rather amazing time we're living in, actually.
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Yahoo’s ID Land Rush Begins Today With Updated Security Measures
Exactly. Why? Not only that, who contributes to it, why?

Hasn't the train left the station so to speak? Why not just say ok it is called LibreOffice. Most devs moved there. Let's focus on that product. I understand Oracle maybe continuing supporting it on their own dime because they got butthurt, why did Apache Foundation bother?

This is in the same boat as Hudson vs Jenkins.
It depends on the quality of cake you are eating. There's a massive difference between a chocolate birthday cake for a 4 yr old or Profiteroles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiterole
I completely agree here. The moment common people start speaking a language - any language - there will be irregularities and native elements introduced into the spoken variant. This will especially be true if the language is as tough to learn as Sanskrit or even Classical Chinese and Latin.
Right, like how there's nothing innovative in automobiles now; they're all still on four wheels and controlled with a steering wheel and pedals. I mean, come on!
37Signals did something similar, which you might find helpful:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3257-backstage-basecamp-for-m...

https://public.basecamp.com/1679267/projects/764604-bcx-phon...
Artificial intelligence has the verbal skills of a four-year-old
The article takes the long winded approach to point out the rational argument about how to combat obesity that's been obvious all along: moderation. Laying the blame on sugar in general is a panacea; the problem more has to do with how efficiently sugar delivery has been engineered. Processed foods have made it so that you can eat a relatively small quantity of matter and get a huge amount of sugar (and fat).

Want to get healthy and lose weight? Cut the processed foods. If it comes in a box, don't buy it. If there are ingredients you have trouble pronouncing, don't buy it. Your body has evolved to know when you've had enough food (slowing down your eating will help too). But those foods that are designed in a lab have sugar and other "bad" stuff in disproportionately high amounts, so by the time you've eaten enough to feel full, you've eaten way too much.

TL;DR: stop eating so much, fatty
Quine relay in 50 programming languages
I've never sent an email, never will
How about "request takedown of something you do not own and all your takedown requests will be hand-checked for a month" which will put a reasonable and significant delay into processing. The law doesn't mandate immediate automatic action.
I doubt excluding sugars from your diet made a difference, or excluding alcohol alone did it. Beer in general do not have that many calories, it is usually junk food accompanied beer is what adding a lot of calories and fat.

^^^ IMHO, since there is a chance you were consuming pound of sugar and six-pack of beer daily :)
Could you explain what you mean? In Windows The GUI itself is scaled but it is still rendered at the native resolution of the display. Resampling virtual resolution pixels to physical pixels is the OS X approach.

Edit: It appears that Windows applications that don't support the High DPI interface are rendered then resampled as you say. So it's up to the app developer to support scaling, although you can disable the app resampling behaviour on a per app basis too.
Fortunately, in most of the world sodas use sugar instead of syrup. So it's not as bad as it could be.
Or instead of not eating boxed food, just do a research how much "bad stuff" in it and divide accordingly to meet your calories and nutrients target for a day.
Yes. Don't give up, math is on our side. AFAICT, this is still true if quantum computing takes off. If surveillance is a technological problem, let's solve it. I think it's just a matter of time. People already want more bandwidth for more mundane reasons, and there's enough people who want user-friendly crypto that someone is going to get it right eventually.
"This is one of those ideas that's like an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. On one hand, entrenched protocols are impossible to replace. On the other, it seems unlikely that people in 100 years will still be living in the same email hell we do now. And if email is going to get replaced eventually, why not now?" - Paul Graham, Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

Maybe email isn't as immovable as we all seem to think it is.
While most people want Bitcoin to replace the US dollar, I think that as a secure, decentralized payment method, it's more useful as an alternative to Paypal. Like everything else, it's usefulness is tied to the number of people who adopt it.
I was actually going to suggest $1099. Can I pay that instead?
If
- Men and women with the same employment histories get paid similar amounts - Women earn less, on average, because they work less
- Some women get paid less than men for the same job

Does it not follow that men are equally impacted by the "wage gap".

And if so, how would that influence your usage of the term?
It doesn't have to be originally American for Americans to embrace it. I daresay it's an idea that has passed through the head of anyone at a trial where they don't have that right.
> There are cases where functional programming can be a lot terser (for better and worse), but I don't think this is one of them.

That's only true in Go because Go doesn't have type inference for closures. In ML for example this would be:

let output = map (fn i -> convert i) input

or, more succinctly:

let output = map convert input
how about ATLAS ?
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Isn't syrup just water with sugar? How is that worse?
I wasn't a normally anxious person before but 2 distinct traumatic events that happened in the last 2 years has now made me super anxious. The weird thing about anxiety is that it's like both sides of your brain are fighting for control of your body.
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is sugar toxic? Maybe, maybe not. I dont know.

What I do know is a diet low in sugar reduces cravings by a lot. Its a lot easier to lose weight when you don't feel hungry all the time.
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