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The very fact that there's a story about it on nytimes.com is reason to think that it's uncommon. If it was common then it wouldn't be newsworthy.

Edit: what's with the downvotes? This is an easy and fairly reliable heuristic: if it shows up on the news, it's not worth worrying about, because newsworthy stuff is rare pretty much by definition.
Quote from the paper: "Fanelli found that the number of papers providing support for the main hypothesis had
increased from 70% in 1990 to 86% in 2007 (it is unclear why Fanelli reported an over 22% increase in the abstract)."

of course, my calculator yields 86/70=1.228 (which would be a >22% increase)

such basic flaws really dont bode well for the rest of the paper.
I must be a particularly interesting case study. I can ASMR, but I also suffer from misophonia, which is sort of like ASMR's evil stepsister: an intense anger/aversion reaction to certain sound triggers. I've also got what I'd describe as a very low-grade and occasional capability for synesthesia.

I wonder if any of these conditions are related somehow.
I'd like to be able to plug in an open web directory as a source. (Found using the old "parent directory" "artist name") trick.
I looked around, but couldn't find anything. Are there any resolvers out there that do this?
Yes, that's what most people tend to use for programming these days.

Although I personally have never enjoyed it as much as the famous Redpower 2 mod, which had computers as well, with 6502 assembler and Forth. It was less forgiving than Lua, but somehow more fitting the genre (of construction set, that is); programming in Lua feels almost like you could program the thing in Java and put it in a new block.

I also liked the logic gates and other stuff that came with RP2, I think that's good for kids to play with as well. Too bad Eloraam stopped developing RP2, it was the best mod for Minecraft ever.

(Also, CC computers seem to reset on world reload, while RP2 computers were persistent. They are also dirt cheap compared to RP2, and their runtime behavior is not well specified. I just kinda feel that CC computers break the fourth wall of the virtual world, in several different ways..)
I'm 44, and started programming when I was 12 on a ZX81 and then a Commodore64. Back then we had magazines instead of the internet, and any serious program was written in assembly rather than BASIC. One of the more advanced things the magazines did was print out hex dumps of the machine code, with a checksum on each line, and there was a program (which you had to enter manually) that would let you type in those hex dumps. It would checksum each line as you went along and warn you if the checksum you entered didn't match the checksum of the bytes you entered. That was a huge improvement over just typing in the programs, because you knew you didn't have any typos.

Many, many hours were spent typing those programs in. I'm still really good at typing with one hand while the other is used to point at what I'm typing in.
> can't possible be interacting with your current problem

The only thing not logical with programming is a programmer's ability to fully simulate the circumstances by which all bugs may occur. That ability will vary greatly from programmer to programmer.

So yes, people think like this because it's easier to fix the bug than it is trying to figure out correlation.
Having met Monica briefly at a conference, I don't think that's the case. But I can understand why that would give the impression.
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The gentleman teaching me pronounced the 'h'. As in 'ka-hə-dek-san' and 'u-hə-dek-san'.
On the Altair 8800 we had to toggle in the hex bytes using switches on the front panel! Ha!
I've had airsoft rounds get literally stuck in my arm before to the point where I had to pry them out (which absolutely left me with scars).

I'd actually never heard of anyone getting scars from paintball- something I always attributed to their greater surface area on impact. I guess I'm not surprised but I am glad the 100+ paintball hits I took never left a serious mark.
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TIL: a solid CL implementation can provide safe maps from high-level intrinsic types to low-level implementation types at run-time. Also, SBCL has at least two IRs with each able to provide optimization hints to the code generator and compiler. So cool.

I love reading Paul's posts. His bit on Tobasco sort[0] was amazing.

[0] http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/08/27/tabasco-sort-super-optimal...

update: link
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How does this work with a jar which contains classes using java8 features? Will it work in this situation or is it only for classes to be compiled? Can retrolambda be applied in other situations to keep the java version at 6 but use java 8 features?
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Maybe my previous comment was unclear. If so, sorry about that.

The point was that, in programing, there is never any "figure out correlation." You can rule out whether a bug is being caused by a given line of code by examining the flow of data between what you're seeing on screen and the lines of code responsible for what is shown on that screen. A bug is never "correlated" with any given line of code. The line of code is either logically related to the bug, or not related at all.

I'd be interested to hear more about how programming could be made into a correlation game, though. It sounds like a new mental tool that I've never learned, which means I should learn it.
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Hungarian is regarded complicated, but in fact it is quite regular and even simple in some aspects - there is no grammatical gender and modern Hungarian has only three temporal forms, of which only one is a combined form (future).

Among the unusual things in Hungarian are agglutination (Turkish has it too and even Esperanto) and vowel harmony (mostly found in Turkic and Uralic languages).

Agglutination example: House is ház, apple is alma. Inside the house is ház[ban], inside the apple, almá[ban]. Inside [my] house is ház[am][ban], inside [my] apple almá[m][ban]. And so forth. It's kind of like postfix notation.
But in most real codebases separate units don't interact cleanly. "you look at the connections between the modules and see whether any data can possibly flow from one to the other." is something that would be very hard to do in codebases that aren't perfect. Probably more of a waste of the mental cycles than just putting it right if it is a quick fix. With version control you can even avoid the problems of making the original problem worse with your fix.
In Python you have no guarantee that that function hasn't been monkeypatched over and replaced by some other library you imported.
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That's HN for you. Seeing what they want us to see.
Not only are Finnish and Hungarian related, but they are (as far as historical linguistics can tell) completely unrelated to every other language of Europe. Going by family resemblance, you'd expect English speakers to have an easier time learning Persian or Sanskrit than Finnish.
Now I can't help thinking of the "spruce is on fire" Finnish-is-hard picture. Do you know it?
While I don't completely agree with the parent post, I don't think that your reply does it justice.

If you see something that can't possibly be interacting with your problem...

I think that "can't possibly" is the source of trouble. Today it's practically impossible to say with certainty what is actually impossible. There's so much going on at a lower level that's not visible to us, from network routing completely outside our systems, to the internal workings of many large APIs and frameworks, that there's plenty of room for things to happen in ways that are unlikely to us, but in retrospect after we've researched, do fit together.
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> Are you actually trying to imply that having a DVD quality leak come out far before the actual movie even hit theaters isn't going to have any effect on the box office results?

I'm saying that it is demonstrably negligible. For instance before the Casino Royale bond movie made it to cinemas leaks appeared and preemptively the studios made a fuss about this hurting box office figures. Somehow it managed to be the biggest bond release ever.

In fact I would state that the only thing really hurt by leaks are mid level movies that are not good enough to provoke people to go to the cinema.

Further to that I would assert, as others have, that people who often pirate often visit the cinema and would under no circumstances part with money for these mopvies so it economically changes nothing.
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I was wrong but that's not the core point of the comment. What I'm driving home is nondisclosure is irresponsible and I would hope that's not the route taken.
I'm Finnish and I have to say I've never heard anyone say "kahkytyy" and it ... looks weird, too. "Kakskytyks" is the form I'd use. (Also, "yy kaa koo nee vii kuu seit kasi ysi kymppi" for the first 10 numbers.)

My dialect is from the Turku region, for what it's worth.
Monkeypatching means that `def f(): return 1` could be turned into `def f(): return "i am now a string!"` at runtime, so I stand by my original statement.

EDIT:
Here is a trivial example of a program that type checks at compile time but doesn't present the same types at runtime. Obviously you would never do this in production code, but the same effect could be accomplished simply by doing an `import somemodule`.

http://codepad.org/OarBYXfZ
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From each according to their ability and all that. Oh, you can write crypto software? Therefore you must write it for me.
Out of curiosity, what do you think about Amanda Knox? Italy overturned her acquittal and wants another trial.

Do you think she should go to Italy? If she doesn't go, would that make you believe she is guilty?
I'd have thought that was pretty common for native English speakers who listen to opera or other classical music. Or indeed most people from the UK who like Rammstein....
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right, all nice to have things.

Does it actually solve any real problems?

Does it fix GC performance?
Does it fix API issues?
Does it remove the need for JNI bindings to native code?

No?
You can contribute by forking here https://github.com/phatak-dev/techtalks.
Could someone recommend a similar framework but Ruby based? Just because I'm more skilled in Ruby than in Node (not for trolling purposes)

I've been exploring Github but could not find a well mantained framework (or at least updated to last month).
I want Python for Android.

Ideally, it would compile to Dalvik/ART or ARM. It would use something like PySonar to infer types or use annotations to be able to use native types when possible (for speed & correctness). When the type isn't given or can't be deduced, it would fallback to boxed objects (like Nuitka does, in the way the offically C-Python keeps its objects in memory).

But that is not neccessary, all that is needed is a decent wrapper to the Android API for Python, and some packaging support. It is now already possible to compile Python for Android to include it in your app. What I'd like to be able to do is to write the whole thing in Python (+ a GUI design tool maybe).

I already see some people saying, that's not possible, because an interpreted language uses too much resources (CPU, memory, esp. battery) for mobile. Well, 90% of the apps I use are not computationally expensive. The consume battery mainly via network access, and via the screen, both of which is independent of the language or runtime used. And when they are doing something computationally intensive, it is usually the layout and drawing of the GUI - most of which is done by the native framework anyway. Most apps are literally just fancy listboxes and details pages, with a database and a web backend. (The great exception are games, of course.) For these apps, a rapid development language like Python (or Javascript, or heck, a new VB) would be great, ideally augmented by good tooling. And if you have something CPU intensive (map routing, image processing, complex translation etc.), you'll just write it in a C library anyway.
Each language has its difficulties.
Fully as fully fonetic language learning how to read Finnish atloud should be far easier than in some other languages who's speakers actually have spelling competitions for kids.

Hard part of English complex vocabulary compared to Finnish, as we usually derive things from existing vocabulary instead of inventing new except for loan words that normally are similar to English but more Finnish style.

Kirja=book.
Kirjain=letter as in alphabet.
Kirje=letter as in mailbox.
kirjoitus=writing
Kirjasto=library
Kirjoittaa=write
Kirjoitettu=written
Kirjata=to register [as write to register]
Kirjaamo= registry office.
Kirjoituskone="writing machine"= type writer
> What popped out immediately when learning the Finnish numbers was how long the words are.

Interestingly, the Estonian numbers are basically the Finnish ones with the last syllable chopped off: üks, kaks, kolm, neli, viis, kuus, seitse, kaheksa, üheksa, kümme.
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Yes, however there is a major caveat:
"Providing a Go equivalent to the Android platform is intractable."

What is actually happening:
"There is however, a subset of Android apps written against a much smaller C-based API surface provided in the Android NDK: Games. It is feasible to build Go support for Android providing the equivalent features found in the NDK."

Source: parent link (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N3XyVkAP8nmWjASz8L_Ojjnj...)
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Perhaps he was trying to emphasize that the 'h' must not be left silent. There's no vowel implied after the 'h', though.
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Don't forget negative concord. "I haven't eaten nothing all day" makes a lot of sense in Uralic languages.
I appreciate the difference between what people claim they'll do and what they actually do given the chance. However at least in the case of the Nazis I'd like to point out the war. During this time in history, Germany, the Soviets and America destroyed worker's rights. We all know why. Does this indicate how they were aligned ? A little, but there are many other things far more important.

It keeps baffling me how offensive people find the idea that the far left was leaning towards racism and the far right was the more tolerant side of aisle during this period. Things change. Is this really so hard to imagine ? Everyone knows that the Vatican, for example, is very much for equality between races and has actually stood by this stance when politically inconvenient, just like they stand behind their (somewhat lunatic) anti-birth-control stand today. Given that, and the similar attitude of other religions, is it really so hard to believe that when public opinion turns racist (as I'm hoping people are still capable of realizing that it did), populist parties will turn with it, including leftist parties. Conservatives, as the name implies will be more constant, and will resist this change on both sides. Right now they're anti-immigration, because they're more so than the "big" left party, but not by much. That can change in a heartbeat, and if history is any guide, it will.

You know those old movies where you see rich women react to black people as if they were smelly insects ? Those movies are quite realistic and, like today, rich women are rather unlikely to be conservatives. Those people were part of the left. There was a time, not that long ago, when that was the norm, the social and popular thing to do. I bet most black adults can enlighten you to these facts if you're confused.

Everytime some range of immigrants starts lowering pay for a large group of workers, racism becomes popular, for obvious reasons. 1930 in Europe was like 2009, on the Mexican border, for people without a degree, only worse to the point where they actually feared starving to death on a regular basis (especially in Germany, where there were a few regions where there actually was starvation). Is it really so hard to comprehend that under those circumstances, sentiment will turn racist ? Doubly so given that the majority of taxes was going to foreignors ?
Dialect differences rear their heads. For a fun read on one major class of Finnish dialects, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savonian_dialects

If I were good I'd be able to identify the region of Finland your teacher came from. Someone from Finland, help me out! Is that a Savolainen murre?
That's actually evidence that it could have hurt sales. The biggest bond release ever demonstrably has the most interest ever. The most likely that someone will shell out the cash to see it (as hundreds of millions did). If pirate DVDs got sold, they're more likely than ever to have replaced/supplanted a ticket sale.

Its not fair to say "well they made a lot of money anyway". Its also then true that they lost more money than other movies too.
I've also experienced getting nailed in the throat with a paintball, and for a real brief time I got worried that it damaged my windpipe. The other most painful hit I took was right in the "webbed" part on the hand in between fingers - my hand locked up in pain!
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Seattle actually has a similar sign-based system in place. I rarely have trouble finding a spot, but I moved here recently so unsure how it compares to previous system. http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/parking/signs_icons.ht...
Never heard of it. Reference?
"Cool Code" by Kevlin Henney is quite fantastic I think. He lists some examples of amazing programs (like a chess program in less than 1K, and the Ruby quine with the rotating ascii-art globe). Maybe not so useful, but still great!
http://vimeo.com/28772428
HN has nothing to do with the original article?
I guess I just assumed that everyone researches everything. Doesn't everyone look into how network routing works, or how every large API or framework is implemented, etc? If you're running into a bug, and that bug can possibly be affected by any of those things, then you have to dive all the way to the bottom of the swimming pool to see if there's something amiss.
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Your Aristotelian arm chair logic is not how the world works. There is no metric by which it is possible to conceive of something that didn't happen.
Intriguing scenario you've completely invented there
This has a lot more to do with refactoring the build system than anything else. The more the build system adheres to the Java Gradle plugin, the easier it is to use Scala or other JVM compatible languages. There is an open ticket for it, and supposedly Gradle 2.0 will make this possible.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=56232
Internet: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, crowd-anything that challenges traditional top-down and institutional choke points.

Energy: General Fusion, Helion, and other alternative fusion startups exploring other idea... I feel that the tokamak eats all official R&D funding in this area (and boy can it eat funding). Also a whole gaggle of energy storage startups... grid-scale storage is the missing piece to make renewables really work.

Space: SpaceX, Firefly Space, Blue Origin (debatable whether it's a "startup" or Bezos' pricey side project), Sierra Nevada (not quite a startup but doing new things), etc. (Might even throw in Orbital Sciences, which is a "startup" by average age of aerospace company standards).

Biomedical: Immunity Project, anything in SENS / life extension.

Overlaps quite a bit with old Leary's ideas about priorities...

http://www.futureconscience.com/smi2le-the-futurism-of-timot...

Guy was a bit nuts, but the good kind of crazy.
From what I understand (Paintball player, never airsoft) people who want to play airsoft are usually lumped into the category of "milsim" where it's tactical and basically recreating police/military tactical maneuvers. "Paintball" which you mean as speedball, is a much faster paced and flashier game in the sense that style is definitely a factor in the decisions being made because the field of play is wide open:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jXOhH_oiU
This is a great feature of Lisp, Smalltalk, and similar languages, in development. In production however it can be extremely bad since the source code you believe is needed to reconstruct an image may not be what is actually in there, or some bootstrapping may have been done by hand and incorrectly captured later on. If the image has been saved with this anomaly a couple of decades ago then it's really fun trying to sort it out.

I've spent more time than I'd like to think doing software archeology to find out just why two systems behaved differently, so I would seriously recommend that if you do perform hot fixes in this manner then you reproduce the problem on a system built from source, apply and test the hot fix, make the change in the source and build your test system again to test, apply the hot fix to production, and schedule a redeploy.

Fixing a live system can also be hazardous if you are replacing a function that may be on the stack at the moment, or if you are in any sort of multithreaded/process environment. Bugs become much harder to reason around and fix in those cases because there can be race conditions about which functions actually get called while you're applying your fix.

TL;DR You can, but probably shouldn't.
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Absolutely - please keep me updated on progress!
Scala doesn't have very good type inference, dude...
http://kivy.org/

Best you'll get, and quite good.
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I imagine Microsoft would be fighting tooth and nail over this one. They know that letting a first "success story of migrating to Linux/open source" could start a whole avalanche of such stories. From a PR point of view, it has been a pretty big hit to Microsoft, I think.

That being said, any major "switch" is going to cause a lot of complaints, if it's not done as smoothly as possible. Linux/open source software could be a lot more successful in areas where the users are "new", such as schools, or new government agencies, and so on.

I also feel that the governments aren't making nearly a strong of a case for open source software as they could be making. National security, much lower cost in the long term, giving back to the communities by using software that's paid with taxpayer money, rather than sending the taxpayer money into a private entity blackhole, that isn't even from the country, and is likely to use tax loopholes to pull the money out of the local branches, too. - all of these are reasons they could be pushing a lot more.
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