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Phil Fish spends as much time trolling for headlines as he does making games. Please don't encourage him.
I could never get it either, then I figured it out.

You know how when you cross your eyes you get like two different perspectives of whatever you're looking at? Well if you focus in the right way, there's a "middle" perspective between those two. That is where I can see these stereograms or whatnot.
It's certainly older than a few years. I understood it over a decade ago, and I certainly didn't invent it.

To be technical though, the article doesn't claim that Phil Galfond invented it either. Just that he "published a refinement". He probably posted something on 2+2 that was the earliest example the WSJ's writer found, though he must not have looked very hard if so.

Also computer analysis became a factor before the boom (Chris Ferguson won the WSOP main event largely due to it) but the article is pretty accurate about its impact. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that nobody was good at poker before the year 2000, or maybe even a bit later. The people who won a lot of tournaments back then would fail miserably if they played the same way today. Some of them do in fact.
"There comes a point that it is simply better to place your sales through Amazon and ebay, and circulate your news and promotions exclusively through Facebook and Twitter, as you know none of these will ever be filtered."

Even this is a dangerous opinion. The worst kind of censorship is self-censorship, where just the threat of being filtered causes organisations to self-filter far more than the government has ever asked for, because the boundaries of what is acceptable have never been defined.

You can say "they'd never block facebook", but just the threat of a government mandated social network is enough to get facebook to do what they want.
If anyone here is proficient at J, please (pretty please) contribute a guide to Learn X in Y [0]!! I don't run the site, I just really want a J guide in this format.

[0]: http://learnxinyminutes.com/
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depends on the jurisdiction. in Germany you are allowed to make copies for your close friends and family.
What do people think about soylent just replacing like 1-2 meals a day? And then you have your full course chicken breast and brown rice meal for dinner or something.

It seems like that might be a good compromise for people who are scared of their bones deteriorating, their kidneys waning, or their tissues slowly inflaming.

No one says you must eat only soylent day-in and day-out. But it sure seems like a nice way to save time and money on, say, a dozen meals per week.
> A Soylent diet is significantly better for you than what many people currently eat.

Zero evidence. Good job on the comment.
But you'll be looking and working in people's mouths all day. I say, don't do anything you're not passionate about. People end up in these fields for the wrong reasons, i.e., money, and end up becoming miserable people.
Lush as a language was developed in 1987, just like it says on the website. Older versions of it are reading the numbers off of your checks when you deposit it in the ATM machine. The ideas it embodies are significantly older than common lisp: it is a very pure hackers lisp: sorta has the eau de zetalisp about it (not that I really know anything about zetalisp, I ain't that old, but I've read about it). Studying it will make your brain grow.
http://lush.sourceforge.net/credits.html
I'm curious how this works out for you. A follow up comment would be interesting to read.
I looked for it after seeing this comment, and the response came across as kind of juvenile to me.
Downloaded items shows up on the notification bar on the first time. Clicking on it will open it. Or if you cant find the File Manager on a Android phone and browse the /Downloads folder, you shouldn't be using a smartphone at all.
I'm not saying anything is impossible. But all the solutions we find are usually complex and not easy. A phone is complex. A computer is complex. Transistors are complex. Organs transplant is complex.

So why do we expect the answer to food to be a simple bunch of ingredients mixed together?
Try this:
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/contents.htm

Or, download it and run one of the intro labs; that's even better.
This may be true of a wealth tax in the absence of a VAT. If you have any good sources on this, I'd be very curious to see them (though I'll look them up myself, too).

Regardless, too much consumption (and too little saving) has never been a problem for the group that would be subject to a wealth tax. By exempting the first $100k - $300k (or so) of wealth, most people would experience no such disincentive.

In any case, the larger point isn't whether or not it discourages investment. The real question is whether this kind of policy would be better or worse than what we've currently got. Capital gains taxes also discourage investment. Income taxes discourage work. Those impose real costs too. The claim I'm making is that any discouragement of investment or savings (among the already by-definition-wealthy) imposes far less of an economic cost than the current discouragements of by capital gains and income taxes.
These look awesome! I hope I can use them in my next project :)
Sklansky is a pariah because of every book he's written other than Theory of Poker. Many of them contain advice ranging from mediocre to atrocious. Also he's the kind of tool who says things like "Ken Jennings must be an idiot because he believes in God."

Excepting some of the timeline issues though, the article is reasonable. Computer analysis radically changed how poker is played, largely by making it more aggressive. Read some books from guys like T.J. Cloutier written before everyone had Pokerstove. They brag about laying down QQ in spots where anyone with a Monte Carlo sim would know it was idiotic to do so.

Most people (even among top professional poker players) can't understand all of Chen's book. Most good poker books go much lower level than ToP, which is useful too, as evidenced by the fact that every time Sklansky himself tries to he says something dumb. If the man who wrote ToP can't apply its concepts correctly, then there's value in other people trying to do so.
While I am highly dubious of Soylent as a product, Rinehart's approach seem solid enough. The problem with Soylent, as I see it, is that no one formula is applicable to very many people. RR himself had regular blood work done and tweaked the formula heavily based on his body's response. Given that it's been several months and he is alive and seemingly healthy, I see no reason why this approach couldn't work for anyone else. As long as you throw in a couple meals of varied real food in every week for good measure, this really seems pretty safe.
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Django cache libraries all suck. This is why I'm staying on rails. The new caching with 4.0 is so much between!
That's actually a very nice website, and quadruply so for being a government created website.
All of LA's 640,000 schoolkids will get iPads by the end of 2014
I assume a mod realised the Wired article was just a lazy rehash of this source.
Believe it or not we (docker team) are not behind 80% of that PR - we wake up in the morning and find the stuff on HN just like you :)

Not that I don't appreciate it - I just hope we can deliver on the high expectations!
First, longevity is not the main output of the human body. At least there's no single output. What if Soylent is good for your brain but detrimental to certain organs? Or the opposite?

I have a biochemistry background and from what I know the digestive process is extremely complex and still certain parts are not fully understood. So I highly doubt a bunch of whiz kids can find the optimal formula for food without any scientific background, sufficient research and proper studies to support the claims they make.

Plus, it's not like there are no variations from one person to another in terms of what you need in terms of nutrition. We know genetic differences exist, in some parts of the world you have deficiencies of certain enzymes to break down some types of food, and so on.

By the way, if you want a simple diet, you can probably live on rice and bread alone (mostly). You don't need to stuff your body with some shit people have no experience with. Rice/Bread may not be a very good diet but it satisfies a number of nutritional requirements and we know for a fact people can live (maybe not very well) on such diets (because they did for a fairly long amount of time).
I've been doing full time Coffeescript front end dev for about a year and a half on a moderately complex one page app. I would be happy to never write vanilla javascript again.

The value of coffeescript is that when written well you can get a very high signal to noise ratio in your codebase. When I say "noise", I'm referring to low value syntax and boilerplate, things like:

var someFunc, _this;
_this = this;
someFunc = function(){
return _this.foo;
}

By comparison, the coffeescript is:
someFunc = => @.foo

In the coffeescript example, it is immediately obvious what 'someFunc' does. A trained javascript developer will be good at filtering the junk, and extracting the bits that are actually meaningful and important. But any time you are parsing through a bunch of junk to get to the meaningful stuff, you are opening the door to make mistakes, and increasing the time it takes to comprehend/load the code into your brain.

Another important benefit of readable & concise code is that you can hold more of it on a screen at a time, which makes it easier to keep a full class in context and/or work on a small screen (e.g. laptop on the go). I would much rather work with a 100 line coffeescript file than a 300 line javascript file.

This is the same reason I really love the underscore library (not coincidentally also an Ashkenas product). Everything it does is something any competent JS developer can do. But it does it in one line, and in a way that is very easy to read.

Incidentally, using a library like underscore with good iterators also avoids a common class of the "variable capturing" problem, as you don't end up using named variables for iteration (opting instead for map/reduce/find/etc). We otherwise use descriptive names in our project, so the chance of a clash is minimal. In my year and a half on the project, I've yet to run into a "variable capturing" bug. Admittedly that does mean that when it finally happens, I probably won't be looking for it.
I don't know if it's next level so much as it is more or less standard verbiage from leadership at the agencies I've worked for.

I've tried to figure out why it is that some of the jargonized business talk seems more concentrated there than other places I've worked -- and the bigger the brand names involved, the more concentrated it seems to get.

My guess when you earn your bread and butter being the third party vendor that management turns to solve their problems, you do better in the marketplace when you speak the language they do.
I'm not sure this analysis is accurate. At any rate, I don't share your concerns.

The big problems with phage are:

1) Narrow spectrum
2) Readily cleared by the immune system
3) Bad at killing bacteria in comparison to antibiotics.

I worked with a a strain of Phi X174 that was optimized for a particular host by serial passages. It did a number on petri dishes, but I'm skeptical that it could have done much to clear wild type e. coli. Antibiotics are good and bad because they indiscriminately kill everything. If phage are every used in a widespread manner, I imagine they'd get deployed in a cocktail to broaden the spectrum.

It's easy to make highly pure phage. Colonies are clonal and form plaques when plated. If you did serial passages to ensure that the phage was near some local fitness maxima, it's unlikely that selective effects would move it away from that maxima. In Phi X174, which admittedly has a short genome (5386bp), I would have been surprised to see any clones with mutations. I was doing site-directed mutagenesis to change single base pairs, so I thought about this a lot. Worrying over a couple of base flips when mass producing phage is simply a hallucinatory fear.

At least one phage is dangerous, but I'm not aware of any other examples. CTX is a temperate phage that makes cholera produce toxin. There is a risk of immune response. The immune system tends to get pissy when you inject foreign matter. I've seen studies that compared oral dosing to intramuscular phage and IM seems to be the way to go for higher blood titers. In one study, serial passages were performed in rabbits. The phage acquired mutations in its capsid proteins and over several generations blood titers increased by something like two orders of magnitude. (I don't recall if they used the same rabbits or naive rabbits.) Makes you wonder if we could recover super fit phage from people receiving phage treatment?

Finally, with regards to safety, phage are currently in use as an anti-microbial again listeria.
First, I know the medical field quite well, as I'm working in it, and I can emphatically say that nursing is quite saturated now. It has always gone through boom and busts, and currently, it's going through a bust. Just read the All Nurses forums to see all these threads about new grads being unemployed and unable to find jobs for a year or more. It's definitely tough out there and will only get tougher since SO much nursing programs have become accredited in the past decade.

Secondly, being a nurse is a HARD job. It's a blue collar job, and it should be (probably was) on Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs. It's back breaking labor, stressful, and debilitating. Most of my family work in health care, and so far, my cousin has three herniated discs from lifting obese patients over the years, my wife had several blood tests done from being exposed to Hep C patients, and I've known several nurses who have suffered extreme burn out.

Being a PA is marginally better, I suppose, but you're dealing with the same garbage.

There are some definite pros about becoming a nurse over a doctor for sure. But, if you plan on staying on working the floor, become a doctor if you're smart enough. It's still in nearly every regard better than being a nurse on the floor. However, if you have more ambition, you can try to move up the ladder in management and administration as a nurse.

Finally, there are lots of other oppty's for nursing besides beside nursing. If one gets burnt out on patient care, one could move into case management, school nursing, teaching, etc...
My new job uses sourceforge.
Lesson learned: always ask if they are using GitHub.
The first few million would need to be leveraged to gain the support of others with money and influence. Probably the first bunch would be spent meeting with lobbyists to hear what they propose.

I'm afraid I can't speak to the returns on lobbying dollars spent, but clearly money talks in this arena.

There are a variety of strategic and tactical moves that could be made. I'd be happy to share whatever ideas I have about them in direct communication (pseudonymous contact info is in my profile).
Please give me one time in the history of the US where privacy that was lost was later regained?
I can't help shake the feeling that Chris Richarde started Xhibit as a parody and accidentally found himself swimming in real money.
You are asking a totally different question. It's not about understanding the inputs, it's the claim that the inputs can be super simple and can ensure your body still work as normal.
Don't forget that enjoying meals with other people and having direct connections to the earth and the people who produce your food is socially and emotionally healthy. The psychological damage to most people due to a strict Soylent diet would be significant, and psychological stress causes physical health problems.
Not just to you but to other comments too on the 'is_a?' issue:

The basic issue is that this is supposed to be a 'learn ruby' tool but rather than use the ruby class system (a fundamental thing to learn for beginners) to define what is in a Place they have used a custom non-class-based system instead. The result of this is that rather than allowing the user to choose their own way to do things (remembering that ruby is a 'there is more than one way to do things' language), it prescribes certain ways of working (or at least makes them easier than others).

I'm not saying everyone should program the way I do but I want to write a simple 'case warrior.feel; when Enemy;x; when Stairs;y; when Empty...' statement which is usually pretty clear and logical ruby but is prevented by this structure.
This happens with proprietary languages. How many people can afford $100k/CPU, however good it is? How many can play around with a language like that at home? Who's going to write infrastructure around such a thing?

Hadoop is pretty crap - I know, I used to use it professionally. You know what else is crap? Unix. People are going on about cgroups as an exciting new feature, when better implementations were around what, thirty years ago in Real OSes.

It doesn't matter. Commodity wins, and sooner or later if there are good ideas to be had we'll find them again.
> You may now go fuck yourself with a carrot scraper in whatever gender-free orifice you have available.

How the fuck is that "wonderful"? The comment was something along the lines of "I wish people wouldn't use that kind of language", and the response was in the form "If I insult you enough, I don't have to acknowledge your argument". Looking at the other comments, the one nitpicking about the choice of Lady Gaga is equally as useless, but strangely that one didn't get an angry reply.
I'm lucky I live in China. Here I can open any website i want, including adult content, just need 1 second to turn on the SSH, It has been working amazingly for 7 years, since i came to China. It's funny when i go to Hong Kong, and i see the signs warning you about the high fines you will pay if you throw a bit of bread to a bird, or if you smoke while walking on the street. Then when i tell HK people that I live in China and I love it and they say "but is not free there!" I just smile and say "yeah". In Europe you can't even buy a bottle of beer and walk away from the shop at night, If you take off your shirt in a hot day and walk outside people look at you like you are a criminal, while in China it is just normal. There are different kinds of freedom, off course, but the daily-life freedom we enjoy in China is better imho than the European daily-life's "strictly controlled freedom"
You can consider this problem in two ways. Either you see the need for increasing the patent lifetime - at least for certain drugs - or you consider this a weakness of a privatized pharmaceutical industry, and take it as an argument in favor of placing the government in charge of pharmaceutical developments.
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I wrote this blog post to show off the beautiful design of early computer manuals. I love the layout and style of print design of the time.
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Let's be honest. HN comments are the cesspool of the Internet, and really, if someone isn't going to read the article IDGAF. :v

HTH! ^_^

p.s. I suspect you're mad about the cardio comment. Let's not try to sugar coat the fact that science suggests your "feelings" are wrong, ty.

p.p.s – would say this all to anyone's face. good luck with your suggestion of 1 hr of cardio/day to people new to fitness... lmk how that pans out!
I'm in Barcelona too, and if you guys set up a meeting in the evening I'll definitely come!

contact in my profile.
It doesn't have to be this way. Why is it this way? There's a complicated answer and a simple answer. The simple answer is because human resources management for doctors is non-existent. It's an unknown, alien concept. Example - it required a major paradigm shift just to make a rule that doctors can't work for 36 hours in a row. So the question is, do you want to put up with all this because nobody can be bothered coming up with a decent way to manage a key part of the healthcare workforce? Or more correctly, because doctors can't get their shit together to demand decent working/training conditions?
From the business point of view, 'wifi everywhere' is a lot more desirable than say, clean water everywhere.

Precisely the problem with capitalism.
I have used Android for about 6 months and iPhone for about 3 years. I find using IOS like being in hand-cuffs.
Let me give an example. For about 6 months, there was an audio bug in IOS (that now seems to be fixed). If I plugged in my iPhone to a car charger/music player, and removed it while a song was playing, the audio would switch off.
Now Apple, being a hip company, had about 6 volume settings, of which you can't see the settings for most of these volume settings. The volumes I know of are :-
1) the volume level through the headphones
2) the volume through the speaker, when the audio is switched on by a physical switch
3) the volume through the speaker, when the audio is switched off by a physical switch
4) the volume through the headphones when the phone is plugged in through a 30 pin connector
5) an application specific volume (eg. playing a movie through a web browser - which does NOT use volumes 1-5)
6) ring-tone volume

Now, for some reason, Apple got the volumes mixed up so that it was IMPOSSIBLE to get any sound (except 6.) without plugging in a 30 pin connector and increasing the volume.

It took me MONTHS to work this out. All of the Apple "experts" I knew swore that this was not possible until I showed them. Even Apple said there was no bug and that it was faulty hardware, which I knew it wasn't.

The problem is that I keep on having similar issues with IOS. It's just "too clever" for its own good. Settings that you need are just not there (eg. accessing WIFI settings with a single click or slide).

There was also the time that iTunes REFUSED to copy music to my iPhone. If I used a 3rd party tool, songs would be copied and could play, but as soon as I used iTunes, it knew the new songs were "corrupted", and put the broken versions of the music on my phone. Thankfully, this bug only lasted a week.

I also find my iPhone 4s laggy. As an example, if I load a web page in the background, and try to scroll the current web page, the phone locks up for about 1000 milliseconds (ie. a VERY long time). It really infuriates me.

As for the Android lag, I am not sure what people are referring to. the Google hardware has not been a problem that I have seen - ever.

I think the best summary I can think of is that IOS is for people that don't want choice (eg. no FLAC, no 1080p MKV, no volume settings, you can't copy music files directly - you need iTunes, etc). Android has more that you need to know about, but at least you CAN find it if you want to.

I have a love/hate with IOS. But, when IOS pisses me off, it REALLY pisses me off. I can't say the same for Android.

You can see that I like choice.
I also agree with others that I'd rather see Apple do well than Samsung. Samsung have a highly unethical history. If it weren't for Apple, Samsung would still be churning out rubbish handsets.
That line was a bit juvenile, granted. The other comment wasn't really nitpicking. The commenter believed that Gaga has genuine musical ability, and the author wanted to make it clear that it was that classical training that made her the target of his blog. I don't want to misinterprete your meaning here, but are you trying to suggest the author would only react angrily to a female/feminist commentator?
It's not that all our advancements have brought us only small improvements over ancient Greek democracy. It's that most advancements over ancient Greek democracy haven't even been tried at the national level due to constitutional conservatism.
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