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Movitz was neat back in the day (last update 2008): http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/

That's a one man effort to write a Lisp OS for x86 from scratch. He wrote his own compiler, basically with the chain of macroexpansions bottoming out in WITH-INLINE-ASSEMBLER.

I only played with it once. I was struck by how cool it was that I could play with the Lisp REPL from inside the garbage collector (also written in Lisp). This was surprising but then seemed obvious: the GC is simply a Lisp function that's moving objects from old-space into new-space (and then deleting old-space), and it doesn't mind if you wake up and interleave a few more allocations into new-space.

Movitz was current back in 2004 when Pascal Costanza organized the first real european Lisp workshop in Oslo and a whole bunch of Lisp hackers who only knew each other through the 'net got to meet up in person. fun times.
Is there a cloud service that gives you those kinds of guarantees?
40. close enough.
Ha. Then he was referencing you :)
Good questions!

1) They naively structured Facebook in the early days, and Peter Theil had them restructure. Then Eduardo didn't move, so his stock didn't vest. That cost Zuck billions (according to his offhand comment).

2) When there was a problem, nobody would be allowed to leave. They don't do that anymore (because it's illegal), but teams sometimes commit themselves to it on their own.

3) People don't want to write him a check, but they also feel too bad to outrightly say "no". So, he had a ton of "they're about to write us a check"s, yet nobody ever did.

4) He wants us to show the world the benefits of SV's way of doing things. However, imposing it would upset people. Rather, we should be enticing them by showing them what it could be like.
I'm not seeing anything here that makes me think they had any kind of automation at all! In my experience, if they had automation things would have consistently failed on all servers the deployment was executed on.

That said, if you're going to fly the jet liner in full manual mode, you better make sure your co-pilot is watching the instruments.
http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2010.asp
Good point. I was thinking about it, after having read "Lean in" recently.

I think it's a missed opportunity, first of all. On "why", I truly don't know.
I guess that the organizers could do a better job in trying to involve "diverse" groups of people, but I would never blame them for having too many guys and just a few ladies attend.
I would agree with you on that! Pop definitely annoys me a lot and I would rather prefer instead a built in "Subscribe ME" option at the bottom of the site. I feel a popup in many cases negatively affects a visitor's reading experience.
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I don't think this is needed anymore. We have a avconv pipeline already working right now :) .
There are plenty. Welcome to Indian cuisine.

Try it.Trust me, you will remain a life long foodie.
I noticed this a while back. I'm guessing their blogging efforts were so successful, they decided to make it the focus and become a media business. I too would love to hear what's going on behind the scenes at Priceonomics.
The aside in the third sentence really bugged me. It seemed to imply that Bitcoin isn't a fiat currency, but considering it, like the US Dollar which it mentioned, doesn't have any intrinsic value, isn't it also a fiat currency?
Wow my post hit the frontpage! This gives me a fine chance to see happens to an uncached wordpress blog behind Nginx and php5-fpm. So far no explosions.

Now I realize the guys behind priceonomics might read this I hope they take it well. I liked their early blog posts, those were interesting!

This homepage makes me concerned that the original business plan is not working out. It feels like they are resorting, or pivoting, to a classical product recommendation site. I hope this is not the case. Maybe I just hit a bad combination of randomized A/B tests.
meh. It's a bit odd, and I don't understand why someone would choose to manually manage memory, but

-fobj-arc

and

-fno-objc-arc

are handy ways to manage ARC and non-ARC files in your projects, depending on what your yen for -retain and -release are.
Synchronization is non-trivial, but the question is mostly how fine you need the synchronization to be. E.g., if you are doing a live upgrade using e.g Erlang or Nginx, you can sort-of decide when new processes will be served by the new server, but existing processes and requests may linger with old code until much later.

But there's at least 30 minutes of downtime per week per market (usually per day), and the vast majority of downtimes coincide during the weekend - so this is all moot discussion and needlessly complex solution. If you can afford the downtime, switch midnight GMT between Saturday and Sunday, when all markets are closed.
This seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction :-)

I would add: if someone really _did_ do all the work to write a whole modern operating system in Lisp, it would be criminally unimaginative to use the Linux ABI as your interface to the world.

You would have to write your own userspace too for the whole enterprise to be worth bothering with. And then you have basically written SqueakNOS (http://squeaknos.blogspot.ch). :-)
> I am also using rice as a stand-in for the general case.

The existence of futures, commoditised goods, integrated markets and all the rest have clearly not eliminated shocks of the type I describe. What's your point?

> You are responsible for the consequences of the ideas you support and promulgate.

Again, you appear to be having issues with the concept of description. What I explained is how things actually work, why they need solved, and how they are currently solved by intervention. There is no argument here. I could very easily describe your arguments, and why they're flawed, and in no way would that amount to my supporting or promulgating them.

> I dispute the very terminology here

Dispute the terminology all you like, it's just a name for the what I described, it has no bearing on the concepts which you have failed to address cogently at all.

> There is a third possibility, which is that lots and lots of people think like me.

I think you mean that lots and lots of people think like me, and I would ordinarily dispute that too.
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Well, considering they now recommend things like eating more fish & whole grains, if we are implicitly never trusting what the government says about food you better start eating more red meant, refined grains & processed sugar. Stick it to the man!
how about instead of only using my friend's internet connection,give an use a gae app's, just like gaeproxy/goagent?
ooops. i meant "give an option to use a gae app's, just like gaeproxy/goagent"
It's very difficult to consume even 1000 extra calories from proper food, like potatoes

No shit, that's nearly 6 medium russet potatoes.
Even the recommendation against full-fat dairy may be wrong. Recent research suggests that children given low-fat or skim milk tend to be obese more than children given full-fat dairy products.
The business model of Pricenomics seems to be that of placing more power in the hands of the consumer, increasing buyer bargaining power. This is what many vendors, especially tech vendors such as Apple/Google try to avoid. Product release cycles are kept secret for good reason.
I would try to figure out what's stopping him from getting help; it could be that he's avoiding the issue because deep down he's ashamed of his appearance/health/etc and feels like he's letting everyone/himself down.

If that's the case, some of your ideas might cause even more shame and push him in the opposite direction you're intending.

Instead of just singling him out and isolating him as an object of shame, make healthy living an activity the whole family's involved in. Track everyone's weight loss in percentages like Biggest Loser, get everyone in the family committed to trying healthy recipes, center your get-togethers around healthy eating and family activities that everyone can enjoy. If everyone else is committed to it, he won't feel so alone and like you're trying to punish him.
Thanks! I will give them a try!
Less scut work is a good arguement when writing a kernel from scratch. The scut work has already been done in the linux kernel.
This post may shed some light: https://twitter.com/Quan/status/388165409469243392
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The other go-to on why the USDA guidelines are faulty is Gary Taubes and his book Good Calories, Bad Calories which also covers the history of the so-called lipid hypothesis (that saturated fats are bad for you). I cook with only ghee, bacon grease and coconut oil. Some articles by Taubes:

Sugar - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...

Fats - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-...
Your snip caught my attention, because "serum" usually refers to "blood serum". Indeed, if we read further:

a 20oz soda RESULTS IN a serum fructose concentration of six micromolar
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I hope priceonomics is doing well and do not get acquired like Decide.com did by ebay: https://medium.com/on-startups/d74efec8b1a8

Unfortunately I know them mostly from their blog and not their product.
Sketched (pen+paper) and scanned, touched up and colored in Photoshop.
Yes, It's a lot better than I expected it to be. My biggest gripe is browsing the internet, it's just impossibly slow...
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The Panorama team is awesome, this is just the beginning of something special. Congrats guys!
That may be, but I don't think anyone is saying they are right because they are the government, I think we are saying this a reasonable compendium of the best knowledge we have. You can make choices based on recent research that suggests things if you like, but I completely understand why documents published in 2011 don't recommend breaking research from 2013.

Anyway, my key point was that they have clearly been adjusting recommendations with the times, and being wrong in the past doesn't mean they should never be trusted again- that isn't how science works. (This is food science)
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I sampled a few of the reviews and the regularity of text patterns is just plainly obvious. I don't believe these are real reviews.
Please don't delete it! I'll edit this comment with my reply, just don't delete it!

Edit: Thank you for the pointers, I'll wait out tonight and gather data from top and google analytics. I think it might be an interesting post to make. At present top is reporting a load average of ~0.7 and the website is responsive.

As I feared W3TC needs edits to the nginx config. I was hoping to avoid touching the config files but that was just me being lazy. I promise the site will be cached before my next submission.
Yea I always used options as a form of protection, not the rest.
Consider that with bitcoin the "safest" asset is also the most liquid (easiest to exchange).
Government source code should be open source by default.

They should have to make the case to keep it closed, not the other way around.
Multiplexing is something that many application protocols could make use of and should be added between the application protocol and TCP, and not engineered into every application protocol.
Plus, HTTP is supposed to be a simple text-based protocol that I can run by typing into a telnet window. It doesn't seem possible in HTTP/2.0 though :-/
what the heck! this is preposterous. i wonder what "seo genius" decided that this was a good idea. hmmm lets totally get rid of the #1 reason why users hit our site and replace it with "seo friendly" articles.

edit: and im not saying that having a blog is bad, but to completely hide the main functionality of the site just doesnt make any sense.
If you're fortunate enough to be part of a newer Windows domain, you may already be using one of the more practical VPN clients in history; DirectAccess.

As frustrating and expensive as Microsoft tech may be, it sure works wonders sometimes!
Hi, I'm a co-founder of Priceonomics. Basically we started seeing more traction from two things (that weren't our consumer price guide).

First, the traffic from our blog was dwarfing the traffic (and engagement) on our price guide. We originally started our blog just to get links to drive SEO to our price guide. But, it turns out we love blogging so we really put our hearts into it.

Second, we started getting a lot more revenue from helping companies acquire and structure data than we were making from the price guide. All those blog posts we write were we crawl the web and do analysis based on the data? That was testing this out. We'll be writing more about that soon, so stay tuned.

The result is that we decided to focus on helping businesses get data and writing about data via our blog. About a month ago we started depreciating the consumer price guide.

Happy to answer any questions!
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great rough ETA? thanks!
Some theories:

- Food is a major component of identity. It conveys things about your values and belief systems. Thus, like other identity factors (race, religion, political position, sexual orientation, socio-economic class), when this is challenged, some people are particularly sensitive and respond very defensively.

- As food choices are widely accepted to be a major factor in overall health (and thus, susceptibility to serious illness, life-expectancy, etc), it's natural for there to be a significant amount of fear behind people's positions in the discussion. I.e., when someone says "this diet will give you a greater chance of positive health outcomes than the one you currently follow", that can be frightening to people who harbour fears - conscious or subconscious - about their health and their expected lifespan.
But we are discussing an economics paper and its use of the phrase!
so this is like cloudflare but for people whom google like?
based on experiences by previous clients, they would not refund the money.
The problem isn't investment in houses, its the monetization of houses. Unlike gold or bitcoin with finite supply, demand for houses creates a corresponding increase in supply which is a waste of resources which could have gone elsewhere. If inflation is particularly bad you could end up with Chinese ghost cities.

Lowering the difficulty of exams so that previous scores are reached again sounds like curing the symptom to me. How are the benefits outweighing the costs?

> Making a few people rich is the usual outcome of high-value expenditure

Its high value expenditure with newly created wealth taken from the savings of everybody else. It matters a great deal if it doesn't pay off.
So you switched to client-services basically? What sort of clients? I'm guessing buy-side (hedge funds) and maybe a touch of sell-side (investment banks)? Those are the only client-service relationships that immediately come to mind which are profitable enough to pursue entirely.
In a recession in a Bitcoin economy, Bitcoin wouldn't be the safest asset. That's also not quite the same meaning of liquidity.
It might even be faster under ARC since I think the compiler can optimize some retain/release calls. I think the ARC retain and release may be faster than -retain/-release, but I'm not sure about that.

Overall, yes, it's less smooth to include non-ARC code in an ARC project.
A non-economist wants to know: if liquidity is beneficial to our economy and liquidity is a function of time, how how does the time-benefit curve look as t approaches 0? I don't know if you can quantify the benefit and map this curve, but if you could I don't imagine it would scale to infinity as time approached zero.
If you know how to use retain/release, then you shouldn't have any trouble dealing with ARC edge cases... go ARC!
Real World Haskell is the go-to resource for beginners
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Free online. Once LYAH whets your appetite exercises and real programs are needed.
I think it can change from device to device too
Thinking about Haskell, reminds me of this http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20070219/0441...
It shouldn't but maybe I recall wrong... what are you looking at? You appear to already have the seo-friendly URLs setup in nginx? That, I think, is enough?

Basically you should disable cgi.fix_pathinfo in php.ini and have something like (in your server block)

location ~ ^.+\.php {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;

fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
> He argues that this software will be used in ways which we cannot yet understand

I feel the same way.

> But maybe your more approach is more optimistic in this regard, in that you're finding ways that could improve programmers' lives now.

I'm actually pessimistic that we have much time to innovate. I see programming as a viable profession only for at most another 20 years; by then speech dialogue based systems (aka AIs) are advanced enough to take over on what were programming these tasks before.
thank you for answering, your mentions tracker program must be working. I understand that blog traffic trumped your price guide, and you love it, and it brings in more money but did you ever think of your user/customer? it seems as though just from this thread and the tweet that was linked (amongst myself) there are a number of users that saw tremendous value in what you do. ever thought of turning the price guide into some sort of UGC engine powered by the people and moderated by a thin staff?
that can work depending on how many images you have... Note also that there's a decompression hit loading PNG too.
Ciao Emanuele, nice to see you here as well :)
Yes this is close to what I was thinking of. Basically I want a tool for manipulating ad-hoc collections (lists/sets) of data. Something that is as powerful as SQL (but easy to set up for throwaway pipelines), as accessible as Excel (but not as restrictive - Excel forces you to work in two-dimensional projections of your actual data), that interfaces well with standard formats (JSON, CSV, Excel) and data sources (grep, find, REST, SQL, log files).

For example, say I want to make a wiki page to track some kind of code migration project. Currently I might grep for usages of a term, and project out the (module name, term) pairs. I then run this query a few times for different terms, and use Excel to merge and pivot the data so the first column is a module name and the remaining columns mark occurrences of each term. I then copy paste into Vim and use a regex to mangle the data into wiki markup.

There is surely a better way of doing this, using a single tool to glue the steps together so that the pipeline is repeatable and the various steps are individually reusable.
Linux is a software,not a service. Linux is an operating system and is supposed to work for everyone's commodity hardware. healthcare.gov is a service, not a software you can reuse.
I'm in Europe, but thanks for the invitation .. always nice to meet a fellow enthusiast.

Anyway, I'm a backer of this Oscilloscope watch now, I can't wait to wear it, and I'll definitely be wiring up my LFO's to the thing so that I can watch 'em while playing keys away from the modular interface. ;)
But are you sure all the revenue coming from "helping companies acquire and structure data" is not correlated with the price guide access? That people that are long and short-term users of the price guide are the ones bringing their companies to your site?
Stop loss orders are not a panacea here. You could lock in a loss for no other reason than the market becoming very volatile due to some news item or some other reason like the flash crash. And you can't even guarantee to limit your losses at the stop loss price. It's just the price that triggers an attempt to unwind the position.

Also, the market may not go against you immediately. What if the glitch in the system means you're opening positions in stocks and you drive up the price by doing so? The losses are not immediately apparent. There's no screen where you could watch your losses run up in real time. The losses only become apparent once you try to unwind those positions and that's the case in many kinds of scenarios.

I believe it took J.P Morgan months to unwind the London Whale positions and really know what losses were incurred.

I think there's a better chance of catching a glitch at the point where the positions are opened.
Looks much better! Thanks for the quick update :D
Here's another thing about fructose:

Yes, glucose is needed and fabricated by the body, but one of the things the body does with glucose is synthesise glycogen.

Glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver. Now, glucose is good for replenishing both, fructose is bad at replenishing muscle glycogen.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3592616
I like that, though they'd need a Humvee.
I've used this to track down my scrolling performance problems in the past, although it's been a while: https://github.com/nielsbot/Profiler (yes, I'm plugging my own code :-)
See my other comments down there. In any case, not every thing everyone does should be open sourced. There are things you just have to hire smart people to do the jobs right and open source does not solve issues immediately.
He didn't say "open source doesn't solve problems", he said "open sourcing doesn't solve problems". The verb is very different to the noun.

Yes there are open source softwares that once completed are efficacious in solving the problems they were designed to solve. The point yeukhon was making was the act of open sourcing a project alone doesn't somehow inherently solve problems in its development. At least in this case not the two enumerated problems he sees with the healthcare.gov project.
Thank you Rohin and congratulations! I'm happy for you. It sounds like you've hit a market fit and will do well.

I am still sad for the loss of priceonomics as it was. I would be more sad to hear the business was not working out so this news is better. Still could the pricing engine continue to be a feature of priceonomics? Maybe remove the auto-generated image and the ads thus stripping the pages down to just the engine's pricing? Please?
This is a difficult space.

I started a similar company, Shopobot. We launched, raised, got good press. Things looked great!

Shortly after we watched as Decide and Priceonomics launched.

After months of beating our head against the wall, we came to the conclusion that we weren't competing against Decide and Priceonomics. We were competing against Amazon.

Everyone we talked to loved the idea. But we found their praise didn't turn into clicks. We'd ask them why, and they'd always say, "oh, I just went to Amazon."

One day our lead dev was telling me about a recent purchase and I asked him if he used our site to find a good price. "No, I just used Amazon. I have Prime." That's when I knew we were fucked. Competing against Amazon without a really really strong value prop is not easy.

We've long since pivoted, Decide shut down, and now Priceonomics is perhaps pivoting. I think CamelCamelCamel is still at it! After all the VC money flushed out, the bootstrapper is still standing. :)

This reminds me, I have a long blog post to finish about how comparison shopping and price guides are difficult to pull off.
The benefits outweigh the costs because the alternative is a depression - and that's a really bad thing, people die etc. Also this isn't a symptom of a problem needing cured, it's more a symptom of the human condition.

> Its high value expenditure with newly created wealth taken from the savings of everybody else.

It's either savings or new wealth, it can't be both.

> It matters a great deal if it doesn't pay off.

I'm not sure you'd be of that opinion in a depression.