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I should have made it clearer that I was meaning to refute the claim about [declining] "health of our population", not defending the nutritional science. I don't have much love for the latter.
You're correct. I chose to wrong quote to point out that in fact reason is not gaining any ground as religious authority fades away.
Thanks for posting this! Could you add a download link somewhere?
I believe that's a feature. I think it just detects mouse exits towards the top of the screen. There's a good chance that sites that use this library won't have many users that close tabs like that.
In practice, PGO with C/C++ gets most of the really valuable low-hanging fruit, provided the test cases aren't too far off from a typical workload.

Also, the JVM JIT needs a steady-state workload to make good guesses about it's optimizations - if it JITs a bunch of methods and then the load changes such that the optimizations no longer apply (loops iterate differently, inlined methods don't get called as much), the JVM's runtime optimization can be foiled. JITting a very heterogenous program can trick the JVM into finding a local-minimum in native performance (which I guess is still a lot better than actually interpreting java byte code).
Quite, but since he campaigned on skepticism about war from the outset of his presidential run (ie opposing the Iraq war and pledging to extract the US from it), I'm questioning the notion that he would have engineered the civil war in Syria to begin with.
We're not talking superfluidic Helium here... Glass or BPA should be fine... In that case the envelop is rigid and we might at well just suck out enough air to get buoyancy.
Yep. The AirBNB folks engaged in flagrant spam, sending out fake unsolicited emails from fake identities, and refusing to remove anybody who wanted to stop receiving them.

But now Chesky is rich, so he gives away money and pretends that he's something other than an enormous fucking asshole.
That'd be a great point if I hadn't started Windy Citizen with $3k to my name and $100k in student debt. I moved into subsidized housing in Chicago so I could save money.
Surge pricing essentially does this on Uber's platform
Sitting in Shanghai right now. The article is not blocked; I can't answer any of your other questions.
For years people said this about Uber in London but now the cabbies are protesting them because they're getting a lot of traction. It's important to remember that Uber is cheaper than cabs in almost all of the markets they're in. In SF they're more than 50% cheaper.
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doesn't the plan die? or it's producing seeds itself?
How To Work With CSV files Like Two-Dimensional Arrays?
"Radically reducing your food intake is about the only known way to seriously extend lifespan..."

At risk of pointing out the bleeding obvious, famine victims would disagree with this.
Fasting could be related to food preservation or simply lack of food before new harvest is collected. At least some of the dates do correlate.
The fact that particular traditions exist implies that they might have some net benefit. Otherwise, people who practiced these traditions might have been out-competed by other groups who did not.
Maybe I'm being nit-picky, but it's not "entirely self-sufficient," as it still needs light from an external source.
One of the top apps in Vancouver is from the yellow cab taxi company and it basically replicates Über's functionality except there is a huge existing fleet behind it and the prices are about half what Über charged before the regulators shut them down. Re-creating the über app is not too difficult, especially since most taxi companies already have sophisticated backend dispatching systems that apps can tie into. I'm guessing that the firms that sell this dispatching software got woken up by über and are offering white labeled apps to their taxi company customers. This will make it much harder for üÜber to break into new markets.

Now car2go, there's the future of cars on call. Especially in a city like Vancouver where you can nearly always find one within a couple of blocks.
I saw the second snippet in the post and thought, is the time you lose in that string.format significant? The real question follows: what do you use to benchmark this kind of code with consideration for luajit and also for your server architecture?
Swift, Apple's days-old intended replacement for Objective-C, does have generics.
1-A. SearchFloat64s

2-A. SearchInts

3-A. SearchStrings

http://golang.org/pkg/sort/
Big enough to change the rules, or big enough to absorb whatever fine they wreck you with. $1 billion in fines for making $10 billion you shouldn't've been able to make in the first place? Good deal!
Ugh, that site is painful to use. Broke my back button. Checkboxes don't actually check. Advancing the slideshow/presentation/whatever can only be done by clicking the right angle at the bottom right, which is miles away from what I'm doing at the top left on my big desktop. Yikes.
It doesn't need to be the tradition that shaped our biology. It could be our biology that shaped the tradition. Assuming we already have some benefit to fasting, a group who make a tradition of fasting are more likely to survive than a group who does not. Thus the fasting meme takes over as the people who believe in it take over.
It could make sense that prolonged periods of no-food are not only something our bodies have adapted to survive, but have adapted to thrive upon as part of their natural cycle.

How do you make the jump from "Most able to survive famine." to "Thrive on famine."? It doesn't seem obvious to me that we would automatically evolve to the latter result over the former.
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Sorry, I can't :( This isn't a box dedicated to tor, and also my vps provider requires to limit the bandwidth in their ToS.
While you're both correct, I really do think things like twitter do fit somewhat into if not fast food, maybe candy category of social/interaction.

It feels empty. I vastly prefer chilling out in person, even if there isn't a ton of conversation, its preferable to texting on my phone or whatever.
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I'm really impressed by Velocity.js. I'm glad that Julian Shapiro is one of the winners.
Nice, but we want infinite scrolling ;)
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Try HTML5 video instead. GIFs are archaic, low quality, and missing on features.

MediaCrush converts GIFs to video, and will host straight video files. It's open source, you might gain something from browsing the code.

https://mediacru.sh

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
How do you feel after each of those meals though? Also what time of the day do you eat and does it affect your 1-3 hours after.
Well, Swift looks neat in hands of professional. Nice.
Or Lotus Magellan, next to which all other file managers pale in comparison
A professional degree isn't exactly "less" than a doctorate, though. Traditionally speaking, Medicine and Law are doctorates... and they both rank ahead of the Doctor of Philosophy (but behind a Doctor of Divinity, which is the highest doctorate).
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/michigan-is-building-a-mode...

"The University of Michigan, along with the local government and major automakers, is building a model town to test a system of self-driving "connected" cars.

.. It's laying the groundwork for the real-world system planned for 2021 in Ann Arbor."
It's not like founders don't get any salary.
lines 9-16 of this file: https://github.com/andlabs/ui/blob/master/checkbox.go

or lines 10-12 of this file:
https://github.com/andlabs/ui/blob/master/area_darwin.go

those were the first to files I picked.

I have no comment on organization--something I struggle with.
> I suspect this is a very fine balance - if you're off by just a little, one or the other would die. There's not much room for error in a jar.

Why would all bacteria die if there is less oxygen? I imagine the weakest bacteria would die, thereby increasing the amount of O2 per bacteria, and thus reaching equilibrium again.
Do you think founders have a moral obligation to educate potential employees about financial projections?
You know, I've been using VS for so long and I've gotten it for free for the last 3 years since I'm a startup and a part of their BizSpark program that I hadn't even factored that in. That's a very good point.

My IDE consists of a few paid things that you can get for free elsewhere. I've tried using eclipse, but I'm just not as comfortable. But I'm sure I could get there if I jumped.

Things I pay for:
* VS - quit expensive
* Visual Assist X - $90'ish a year
* PHP for VS - $100'ish (because it was cheaper and more efficient to buy a plugin than learn a new environment)

When I add it all up, I have spent quite a bit on the IDE. I don't necessarily agree that the IDE is being beaten by other IDEs. The extensibility is through the roof and I use a lot of tools that really enhance the "shortcomings" of VS. However, because of the plugins, VS is quite bloated and takes way too long to start up.

One of the best arguments I've seen, thanks for posting.
The USG guidelines have been well-founded on scientific research.

If you want to argue that the USG guidelines were founded on scientific research that they (or other government branches) paid for, that they've managed to distort the resulting science to the point of destroying it, and that the whole process has been beholden to large food interests and national interests by virtue of the control of the purse strings... be my guest!

It is, however, what the "science" has been for the past 50 years. There has been no other "science". Attempts to pretend otherwise are simply and straight-up revisionist history, now that real science is finally poking through and the science of the past 50 years is not looking all that good. However, it is our moral duty to not pretend that "science" has been right the past 50 years, has been telling us the same things that we are just figuring out now, and it was, just, uh... umm... very very quiet or something?
>it turns out to be easier to make the whole world[1] into a well-known environment than make a car than can handle unknown environments.

I fully agree. And it's the reason we could probably see fully autonomous operations on designated sections of limited access roads in the relatively near future. The unknowns in that environment--mostly other vehicles--are relatively well-defined.

The reason for the skepticism about more general self-driving without even a human backup available is that even if the roads are precisely mapped the environment in a city is still largely "unknown." (Although obviously some cities are more complex than others.)
No, it's exactly cold reading, because it tries everything and encourages and watches your reaction (with javascript) to determine which things it was throwing against the wall were relevant to you. It's an ePsychic™:)
Not sure how that app works - but basically I don't have to deal with payment information (e.g. I don't need to carry cash), and I don't have to worry about tipping.

Both important to me, and I'd at least assume a few others. I absolutely hate the stress of having to deal with some angry cabbie and 5 minutes of BS because I dare use a credit card vs. pay cash.
It's been proposed countless times, there are numerous challenges to overcome and the benefits are hard to convince people of.

There's also the issue that it will cost tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to put people on another planet for an extended period of time.

Elon Musk wants to put thousands of people on mars [1] and he's one of the very few individuals with the resources to actually do it successfully. He has had some highly ambitious goals in the past (rocket ship company, electric car company) and has been wildly successful.

NASA supposedly had some funds appropriated to them recently for missions such as researching Mars colonization, they have had plans and discussions of what would be necessary for basic Mars colonization for decades. [2]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2012/11/elon-musk-mars-colony/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=mars+colonization&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=plants+on+mars&tbm=isch

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/elon-musk-provides-more-det...
Firefox OS, we need you to stop the "native" crazyness.
Right, so Uber is a premium product. It has surge pricing, if you want to ride at peak, you pay.

That's fine. But it means that it isn't going to dislodge yellow cabs any time soon because the price point is entirely different.
I have heard of this, and I think that is probably the only modern reason for blood letting. I think there is a similar condition in people who get frequent blood transfusions.
Out of curiosity, I'd love to learn more about your stack. Any blog posts handy?
What zindlerb said. There is no right day.
Also not sure what you mean by "launch". Read this for what I mean by my question: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/03/dont-launch.htm...
Perhaps not as exiting, but I have aquarium which requires maintenance only 4x a year. Feeder, filters, lights, water exchange etc operate automatically.
Yeah - it might be even better to subtract the most common sites, so the results are more peculiar to you.
No, actually I submitted it knowing that the paper had been retracted, and was stirring up trouble. The down votes are perfectly reasonable in this case.

I do appreciate the defense though as some times is is hard to tell which posts were inaccurate by mistakes, and which were malicious. [edited to thank the defending post]
That's a good non-functional feature. Does Crane offer any functional capabilities over Postmodern?
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According to the Chinese, a crisis is also an opportunity.

You will come to this crossroads many times in life: things are changing in the workplace - do I have a future here?

The best way to handle this situation is to be ready for both eventualities. If your contract is terminated, you should be in a position to start a new one fairly soon. Since you appear to have some lead time, polish your resume and start interviewing. If your contract is renewed, you may wish to continue, as it is an easy thing to default to.

The former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, used to say "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Dear Apple, please make Swift more fun
* Null Pointer (free jazz, everyone plays whatever they want)
I agree. Why isn't the Belmont Stakes listed on this site?
They aren't necessarily getting saddled with huge debts. I think taking one semester counts as starting (so many of the 4 year college students will have a few thousand dollars of debt, the community college less; I'm basing some of that point on lower level public colleges in my area that charge less than $5000 a semester for tuition, of course many will still pay more than that).
I'm going to go out on a limb and say medicine wasn't very effective pre 1900, and furthermore the vast majority of life expectancy improvements were due to clean water and enough food.

Historically, nutrition has saved a ton of lives. But, I'm with you, modern "nutrition science" doesn't really deserve any credit for that.
I wonder if that would still be true among animals that are allowed to eat whatever they want to eat, and given plenty of space and others to interact with.

I'm not positive, but I would bet that a big confounder to these results would be that we are feeding all individuals in the study an unhealthy, unnatural diet, isolating them, or causing stress. These factors could cause them to eat too much.
What do you mean by decentralized? Something more along the lines of Lyft?
I had a similar discovery with sleep myself like that. I had been suffering from un-diagnosed severe complex sleep apnea for as best as we can figure 5-10 years. once starting sleep with a BiPAP machine to help with the breathing I went from having no REM sleep and no dreams to having them all the time. After about the first month I could finally remember what happened the day before clearly and without issue. The dramatic change did actually swing me a little more towards depression for a while simply because I could finally understand what I had been missing for so long and that there was nothing I could do to get it back. It was definitely an interesting experience.
> So suggesting that you can get a cab 90% in NYC is a statement of fact, but it's not actually true.

I would have to disagree. I work near the Empire State building and have taken cabs home after work (6pm) plenty of times and have never had to wait more than two red lights to get a cab (lights going N/S take about 45s so that's around 2-3 minutes).

The times you have to worry about is Friday/Saturday night if it is raining. You might have to wait a few minutes then if you want a yellow cab. Black cabs are almost always instantly available but they are a little pricier so I don't count them.
The ebook equilibrium
Doing it in another language would probably require rewriting the entirety of LibreOffice, which is a very massive project with code spanning at least a decade, if not more. They recently switched away from a proprietary (in the sense that only they used it) build system to one of the more conventional ones (I forget from what to what), so anything IS possible, but the question is whether it would be worth it. I know LibreOffice has some Java interoperability, but I don't know how much, or whether that could be leveraged.
Software performance is counterintuitive
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Get in the cab, shut the door, tell them you're going to BK or Queens. Problem solved. If you act like a rube, you're gonna get hustled. I'd rather have that (and be able to call the city government and potentially have the person's livelihood terminated in the event of shenanigans) than 8x surge pricing because a middleman feels like it.
As homebrewer I love the idea, but unfortunately other than the Schottky Pumpkin Ale, it's not very "open source" as they do not list percentages or quantities on any of the grains they use. Even the Schottky doesn't mention the batch size -- though you can reverse engineer it given the gravity but you have to assume the efficiency.

Hopefully they go ahead and release more details on the other brews and make it fully open source.
VB?! Modern languages that are simple (like JS, Python) make more sense to me.

VB is a bit old and outdated at this point, I think.

(btw, my handle is not related to this site)
Has anyone ever actually used the travel time estimates in their app?

I've taken hundreds of rides, and I don't think I've even once looked.

I find it to be a completely pointless part of the whole product - I already know roughly how far away something is, and how bad traffic may be. When I call an Uber, I simply look at the surrounding map and see where the cars are to get a decent estimate. The one they give is usually off by quite a bit, depending on who accepts the hail.
These are just nervous jokes following the ongoing demise of antibiotics. But, having to resort to venipuncture for treatment of hemochromatosis must be tough. Hope your phlebotomist also prescribed some chelating agents to reduce frequency of treatment.
Well, I would say this is a pretty positive post for Python as well. Only 8x slower than OCaml... Not bad for an interpreted dynamically typed language.

This makes a good case for prototyping in Python and only moving to something else when performance becomes an issue.
Are you sure the code in checkbox.go is commented out? That's not what I see.

As for area_darwin.go, though it's a comment, it's actually C code being sent to an FFI: http://tip.golang.org/cmd/cgo/
Any plans to support Android devices?
First off, good luck trying to implement any kind of decentralized network service when almost nobody has a globally routable address.

Second, if ISPs are willing to keep records of IP-address-to-customer mappings, it's not much of a stretch to add TCP/UDP ports to those records as well.
Another movie that could have benefited greatly from a rabbit-proof fence:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/
When I started to fix my diet I had to purge myself of Caffeinated sodas first. I found the combination of HFCS and caffeine would make me crave junk food like an addict. I purged myself of the caffeine and ate junk food then after a few weeks purged the junk food and now I can turn away from the bag of potato chips without too much willpower.

Having gotten off of physically addictive drugs before I recognized the feelings and realized how much I had to slowly ween myself off of that stuff.
In my experience this effect is real, but I wouldn't always see it in the last line. A coworker proved this to me years ago by making me keep a tally when errors were caused by copy-and-pasted code, versus all other causes. Copy-and-paste won hands down.
The ideal language for this use case already exists: BBC BASIC.
Yes, absolutely. I just wanted to make sure people were interested in the tool before I put more work into it.
Normally ~1 minute, but our build queue got a bit out of hand. We've fired up a few more build processes and are working down the queue. You should get an email shortly. Sorry for the delay!
I was hoping it was going to be a fully open sourced start up. Be able to see the books, invoices/purchase orders, etc etc. But the beer recipes would be a great start!
Existing GTK+ bindings require very recent versions of GTK+, which, while they provide some useful things, fail backwards-compatibility tests pretty hard, especially on distributions like Ubuntu. That being said, I do have a project in mind that will use jrick's gotk3 and GTK+ 3.10...

GTK+ on Windows doesn't really have a particularly good reputation among myself and some of the people I know, and I didn't know native GTK+ for Mac was a thing until very recently.
Do the ones who are actually good at making games get treated better? Is this just at the lower / junior levels?
oh stop it you
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130123231314/revolution...
The article seems pretty obvious. If you don't eat food, your body will eat itself. It would make sense for it to eat the worst cells first. Then when you add new food into the system it can replace those cells.

Perhaps fasting was more common in the past, so it was a reliable trigger for this behavior, and our bodies did not need to develop their own automatic trigger. Why waste resources rebuilding things, after all?
You're right, thanks for the advice, I'll look into a video option!
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So I tried it and the result is amazing considering how little time it took to make it: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HMbRacJQ7WQ/U5IdwmumEzI/A...
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Oh, you're right. I guess I mostly buy TV show episodes.
People really hate the daily mail, don't they? It's a tabloid, but realistically you should be skeptical about everything the press puts out. However, when it's a plant in a jar, being skeptical is really just being a crank. It's a plant in a jar. Who cares? Besides, just because more credible papers mention the guy doesn't change the fact that you have to take him for his word.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/biology/article3667780...
Really curious about how app.io is able to do this so smoothly, seems like they are running iOS virtualization over canvas vnc. It's so freaking smooth I feel like I'm using an actual app.

I would love to know how they are able to pull this off. I tried the ipad as well and it's smooth! Very little lag.
Seems like a cool list of projects. Interested to see how this turns out!