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"you need to install a half-dozen third-party plugins (and a third-party plugin manager at that) to get basic functionality working; "

What? I've never installed half a dozen anything to vim, and some of my machines don't have anything added to them, so I don't know where he's coming from.
heh, did you ever upload a match between two engines to the site and let the online engine analyze it?
Unfortunately I never had such pleasure. I understand a little more the appeal to have consistency between mouse and keyboard operations.

Maybe I'm more a schemer than a lisper then because even though the function call protocol is eval args, eval body, one of the nicest thing about lisps is higher order functions. Vi feels exactly like this; a move is an abstract operation that can live on its own, or be passed to another abstract operation to be combined.

To the extreme it reminds me of point-free programming where you dont even pass ~toplevel arguments, you just accumulate hof.
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"Movement" is a good term for it.

There are a lot of people out there who have a quasi-religious attitude toward NoSQL databases.

It's a cause for them to rally around. In some ways, it gives them something to "fight" for.

Objective consideration about whether it's the best technology to use in a given situation is often disregarded.

There are a very small number of very rare situations where such technology is the best or most feasible approach. Otherwise, it's merely something that a lot of people get involved with in order to intentionally avoid learning how to use SQL and relational databases, or to feel like they "belong" to some greater cause.
"Who cares what it looks like on a big conference-room screen?"

It was written to be presented at the Code conference. I think it's rather silly to ignore the design constraints of its initial presentation mode just because it will later be viewed online.
Depends on the boat! A friend of mine just bought a beautiful 38' sailboat to live aboard. It was less than $90k.
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> Summing up, antibiotics are not making us generally ill.

Sure, as a people. But antibiotics are crude instruments, and we have just started funding research into understanding the human microbiome.

It seems like you wasted your time talking about lowering mortality rates and using all those citations when the article sets itself up on that concession.

Most of this article discusses the adverse affects that antibiotics may have on microbes that inhabit our bodies. What is your response to that?

Let me remind you that your anecdote about exercising and living healthy as your way of beating obesity, is just that, an anecdote.
The 2008–2009 Pirate Bay Trial demonstrated a level of corruption not normally believed to be possible in Sweden:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_Trial#Bias_alleg...
Wal Mart and similar retailers do offer very inexpensive check cashing services. They are even encroaching on another expense which capitalizes on the poor and illegal alien communities, money transfers by having cheap store to store transfers.

Pay day loans and such need tighter regulation, not the Post Office
The multiple-cursor is a nice blend between stateful things like regexp-replace and the purely stateless isolated ones likes vi :s/foo/bar/g

Sometimes you want feedback without leaving the declarative paradigm.
You can't not lose weight if you burn more calories than you eat. Where does the extra energy come from? I'd like to see examples of overweight people that are malnourished in the sense that they don't eat enough calories.

I fully support the claim that some foods make you more hungry than others, even if you eat the same amount of calories. It'd be pretty hard to consume 2000 calories of spinach without rupturing your stomach, but it's easy to eat 2000 calories of chocolate chip cookies with milk.
This has been called the "Emacs Thesis". Google returns this as the first link:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/The-Emac...
Risk is one aspect. But "transaction costs" are a bigger contributor.

APR is a problematic way of looking at this. These are at the extreme end of short term & small amounts. IE, a $350 loan payable in 4 weeks. For the APR to appear reasonable on a loan like that, the fee + interest on that loan would need to be <$5. Just conducting the transaction costs more than that.

Like I said, I don't think there is no room for improvement, but this article' math is populist nonsense. The market is inherently tricky.
Wikipedia's laundry list contains of two items:

* SQL not being relational algebra
* SQL implementations being incompatible

Both are real but I have not experienced either of these being a problem in real usage. Despite the problems caused by NULLs and that SQL allows duplicates I do not think the alternative would be better for real world programming. And the incompatibilities are avoided by picking one database per project and sticking with it.
At least it's a client only vulnerability. Hope your servers don't make outbound connections! :)
Historically, the US Post office did have a Postal Savings System. [1] Several other countries still have similar systems. I'm not sure that the US post office is the best place to solve this problem right now, but it's not unprecedented.

In the case of the US Post office, they have a constitutional mandate to deliver the mail, so I'm doubtful they can even threaten refusal of delivery as a penalty.

if the P.O. is in the loan biz and my letter carrier knows his job exists because people don't do biz with capital one, then physical spam from capital one might not make it into my mailbox, just sayin.

Delay or destruction of mail is a federal crime that carries an up-to-five-year penalty. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system

[2] http://law.onecle.com/uscode/18/1703.html
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""There is a clear advantage to being female to study physics: a greater chance of top grades and a lower chance of failure and lower grades. This holds at both AS and A2", says their preliminary paper."

I'd consider dropping out if my science teacher couldn't distinguish correlation and causation in their paper.

More seriously, I found the idea that high-performing students are dropping physics to optimise their overall average as an interesting thing. It's a shame when students sacrificing knowledge and skills that may have long term benefits in favour of a short term grade boost.

On another note: wouldn't the majority of students who drop out of physics be among the 'brightest students' at their school?
Possibly, but I don't think that this is a case where regulation is what screwed everything up. I think public perception plays just as big a role. Deregulation would improve competition but will also introduce other problems.

Incidentally I don't think it's a bad idea for government or nongovernmental to be allowed to offer these services in a deregulated market.
I did not downvote you.

Your comment seems either ignorant of the amount of work involved, or very arrogant about your skill, but does not provide any information for me to judge.

Why do you think you could beat even rybka with just six months of work?
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U.S. units are defined in terms of metric units.

The official definition of the inch is 2.54 cm (exactly).

An inch isn't a nice round number of cm, but neither is an A(whatever) piece of paper (other than A0). A4 is 21.0 cm × 29.7 cm. for instance.

"The next sentence was a _completely_ independent statement about the utility of the page ratio used in ISO/DIN paper sizes"

And I pointed out that the exact same argument applies to U.S. liquid measures. They're easy to divide or multiply by two.
The other day at work I caved and went for a pub-lunch, a burger with cheese, served with chips and coleslaw. I enjoyed it but immediately afterwards thought 'damn, that was greasy,' and remembered my marathon running colleague who always refrains from going for a 'crappy burger' with us. But here's the thing: I didn't feel hungry for the rest of the day. In fact I skipped dinner completely, just went for long walk round the city and stopped to have a beer somewhere. If you want to lose weight, surely the trick is to consume less calories per day and avoid the feeling of hunger. Few people are going to have the discipline to refrain from eating when they actually feel hungry, day after day after day.
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I think the sad proliferation of horrific ORM systems and the thousands of hours put into them by many people is proof enough that this is not just a popular myth. While I wouldn't say that most programmers hate it, I'd say there is a fair share of those who do. Then again, considering the horrors that are built to avoid SQL, one wonders if they should be counted as programmers anyway.
This proposal has been kicked around for years (because the post office once did this), but seems to be starting to expand in an ugly way. Speculative loans should not be an element of any USPS banking proposal - USPS should be a place to keep money and cash checks, not a new opportunity for eventually privatized graft with federal guarantees. It should just be another government debt dispenser, not the basis for some new kickback bureaucracy.

Checking accounts don't pay any interest worth discussing - the incentive for people to use them, an act that carries significant management risk (although that's been socialized through the FDIC), is because the only alternative is the mattress.

I'd gladly move my checking to the USPS if they started offering it. It's got a lot more locations than my credit union.
Your next conference should have real-time captioning
Are chess engines still trying to play against humans in an interesting way? (I understand they beat human players, but that people feel computers play in dull ways).

Is there a Turing Test for computer chess, where humans and computers play each other and they, and commentators, analyse the play, but no-one knows who is a computer or human until after the commentary is published?

And if we ignore humans are people playing computers against other computers for some kind of machine learning play?

And how optimized for speed is the software? Do they really crunch out all performance they can?

(Sorry for the barrage of questions but I don't know enough about this space to do efficient websearches).
About 10 years ago, my two sons and I worked out with George Turner as our coach. George was a gruff, ex-Marine in his 60s known all over the world and had many weight lifting awards to his name and wrote for magazines. His nutritional advice used to scare my wife. Essentially, it was a high-protein, low-carb diet.

He told us not to fear fat cause it was good for us. Nor eggs if you worked out cause cholesterol wouldn't stick to anything. If you were hungry, "Eat!!", he would shout at my son who was 100 pounds overweight. "Listen to me cause I'm right!"

This made no sense at all. He told us he used to give talks at the local medical university on nutrition. He complained that doctors were not given enough classes on nutrition and he knew more about it than most of them.

In nine months, all three of us were strong as an ox. My overweight son lost 100 pounds. I lost 40 pounds.

George was always right.
Varies by country, I think. In the U.S. this restriction was recently slapped down by the Supreme Court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Son....
India Post offers a whole lot of financial/banking services[1] apart from usual money orders/transfers; they're very popular too.

[1]http://www.indiapost.gov.in/financial_services.aspx
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Well, this wouldn't just refer to law enforcement. But even for law enforcement in the US for example, I would much rather them have to get a warrant. 99 out of 100 times they will not have probable cause. Privacy increased.
Though I am no mathematician, I deeply respect mathematics, and appreciate your defense of it as a humanity, and the importance of its rules for choosing rules to suit the situation.

That said, as I understand it, mathematics in the deep sense you describe gives great tools to specify patterns and how they repeat, but it breaks down somewhat when specifying exceptions to those patterns. For example, consider the debates around 'natural kind' in modal logic (Is a cat with three legs still a cat? How about Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat?). Wrestling with what becomes part of the 'data analysis within a framework' is essential. As it turns out, philosophy has lately turned toward the tools of mathematical logic to specify these things, while its concerns remain essentially human. That's at least one reason why I think the author preferred philosophy to mathematics in the choice of majors suggested.

Without recognizing the limits of mathematics and its abilities to describe what occurs in the real world, mathematicians are prone to being caricatured as the physicist is in the XKCD cartoon the author links.
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I like relational algebra. I like the idea of a data-store language whose core features are the CRUD operations. But I'll pipe up and say I don't like SQL. Verbose string management, monstrous 3-value boolean logic, the lack of any linguistic shortcuts for joining on foreign-key constraints, etc.. The problem is that a good replacement for SQL would be a modernized relational language, not a NOSQL language that throws the baby out with the bath-water.
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I'm flattering myself and thinking that you may be paraphrasing an argument I frequently make and have made on hear, but you're putting better than I usually do. To you point I would add that when we conceive these laws in the first place, we do so within a particular context of technology that forms our notions of what is public and private. The context completely changes when technology advances as radically as we've seen it advance. That's why we might not give two thoughts about an individual police officer tailing someone. But affixing cheap cameras, microprocessors, and location trackers to every aspect of public life isn't the "same thing," as the proponents of these tracking devices would have you believe.
So we just change passive to active in the following and adjust to required level of truth: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs "I did not have sexual relations with that woman")

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Whether this works or is right or wrong misses the point of doing it. This is being done because bad people brought bad things into this world. None of this was done until bad people did stuff. People forget that side of the equation.
I feel like you're trolling, but this[0]

[0]http://vr-zone.com/articles/nsa-tapped-fiber-backbone-spy-go...
The trick is, of course, that it's nearly impossible to predict what will be useful to someone ahead of time. While you can probably sort out some of the spam, a comprehensive archiving project should probably avoid false positives when throwing things away.

Seems like a hard problem to solve. The low-hanging fruit would probably be detecting duplicates and combining them, which loses redundancy but handles all of those identical landing pages.
You know, this would be possible in C and C++ if you add some code at the start of main() that unprotects the executable section, goes through it and modifies each "load 4 in register X" instruction to "load 5", then forks a process that attaches itself as a debugger to the executable to monitor every add and change the result to 5 if it's 4.
Maybe you should take it up with your local government.
Even those reasons are really stretching for it these days.

There are numerous ways of dealing with hierarchical or otherwise structured data using relational DBs. Support for recursive CTEs is becoming more common, which makes such querying quite clean and simple. And with many relational systems offering support for storing and manipulating XML and JSON data, storing more structured data becomes a non-issue.

I think that SQL managing to hide a lot of the underlying implementation details is one of its strongest points. In many situations the defaults are more than sufficient, saving developers and users a significant time. Yes, there are situations where more control over the exact handling is needed, but it gives ways of managing this. At least a simplified, high-level abstraction is offered; many NoSQL systems immediately force you to take a very low-level approach for even the simplest of queries.

And I don't see the ability to intentionally lose data as something that's good, either. The database should be concerned with doing everything in its power to protect and ensure the integrity of the data it has been given. If it's fine to lose some of that data, then whatever or whoever is providing that data should just not provide it to the DB in the first place.

So while some people may present those as possible disadvantages of SQL, I just don't think the arguments really hold up upon further scrutiny.
That Java one is particularly amusing, as most programmers otherwise familiar with the language would never know about the integer cache (and their reaction upon discovering that there is one would probably be the same as mine - WTF?)

Edit: I had a feeling I'd heard of an "integer cache" somewhere else" in a WTF-eliciting context... http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Integer-Cache.aspx !
I know we're not supposed to comment just to say you agree with the above post, but: OMG yes! Everything you just wrote. Relational algebra is a great concept for a data-store language, but why are we stuck with the COBOL of data-store languages?
Or the Nest, which is constantly sending proximity information to Google (and the NSA).
I would think this would be a breach of contract, if not false advertising. Is there a reason they escape traditional routes of retribution for these issues?
I'm not sure it is the only way information can be valuable. There can be an economic advantage to having information others don't have, but it's not a zero-sum game.
What kind of proof? Here are 102 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/index.shtml
Agree that highest priority should go to the "serious" stuff. However the most interesting part of a really old magazine or newspaper, for me, is the advertising. For example an early 80s computer ad, or a 50s railroad or airline ad. I find that stuff really fascinating, and it gives more of the flavor of the era. It might have a surprising amount of value to a historian or anthropologist.
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And algorithms now work better than humans at face detection.
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/2c567adbf7fc

They don't even have to snoop.
You mean shorter than "JOIN fktable USING (key_name)"?

(Granted, that implies both columns have the same name iirc)