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It's very possible I just don't get this. I don't have a CS degree, and I develop backends for web apps. Maybe I'm not the right audience.

I'd love to find out why I've needed it in my life, though, if you can explain further. Right now, here's why I wouldn't use it:

1) It makes code less readable. It's anti-sugar. It's not obvious what code using plumb will actually do.

This right here from your PHP examples is just insanity:

--

$f = plumb(['strlen' __([] , "foo")]);
$f(null) === 3
$compose = plumb([[[2 , __(1 , 0)]]]);

--

I have absolutely no idea what that does, and in 10 years of writing backends, I don't think I've ever written code that I'd want to replace with that.

There are so many brackets and parentheses, it makes my eyes hurt. What if there were 1 nested bracket in the third line instead of 2? If I were scanning for bugs, I might not catch that quickly.

2) It makes code less usable. This is similar to the above, but has more to do with handing code over to someone new. If I were scanning some code and saw:

--

count = plumb([len , "baz"])
count(None) == 3

--

I'd say, "What the hell?" And then I'd have to look up what the plumb() function does I thought I was looking at Python syntax, but I'm actually looking at Python + plumb syntax, which takes time for me to learn.

3) It doesn't seem to add functionality. What am I missing here? What task were you previously coding that was so difficult that you decided to create plumb?

This reminds me of "PHP functions in [insert other language]" libraries or "OOP for JavaScript" articles. Instead of figuring out how to do what they want in a native way, people coming from another language will try to shoehorn the lexicon they're familiar with into a new language. That hurts readability, portability, and performance.

Yes, it sometimes makes sense to add a new "syntax" (in the form of sugar) to a widely-used language. jQuery and its competitors are the only successful examples of that I can think of, though.

Again, really, really curious about the reasoning behind this. It seems like you do have a CS degree, so you could probably teach me a thing or two.
Do you know how difficult it is in comparison, to lose weight using a low carb approach? Even if it's more difficult for some, it'll be easier for others.
Now that needs to be possible in docker build:

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/1916

That said, yes this release looks interesting!
You need food and water to survive. Transportation is probably not in that same category.
Considering that it's free and open source, and that I use Calibre for a fraction of a percent of the time that I do actually reading the books on my Kindle that I loaded using Calibre, I would rather that the creator of Calibre focused on the technical details, such as making sure that the file conversion/transmission is working correctly.
If your insurance company is image-mining and unable to pin down your past risks they will simply do the same thing they do today. Assume the worst and place you in the high risk pool until they have enough data to prove otherwise.
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You're quite right. My apologies.

I changed the title to that, but I fear the term "hard science" here is provocative enough to spark a tedious flamewar, as if the topic weren't enough already. So if anyone can find a more neutral description in the article, we might change it again.
While some restrictions can be enforced via other means, metering and noting aberrantly high consumption patterns can both show unobserved violations and find other causes of wasting -- e.g., broken mains or pipes on a property.
Someone's anonymous speech is being unmasked. I agree with the OP. Being rich doesn't exclude them from the freedom to speak without fear. An advertisement is part of that speech IMHO.
It would be nice if there were a way to provide google, bing, et. al. the data so they were constantly crawling sites. A non-insignificant amount of our bandwidth is used up daily by search engines spidering sites.
I was so excited to see this headline specifically because I hoped they would be doing a UI overhaul. Unfortunately, that just seems to not be the case or even on the horizon. I'd definitely consider dedicating time with it, but I've heard nothing but bad things about trying to work with the maintainers of the code.
> I don't care if you eat raw sugar or fat, as long as you eat slightly less calories than your body is using for a prolonged period of time.

Well, you might not care, but your body sure does. Your body responds very differently to sugar than it does to fat. And for some people—I would say anyone struggling to lose weight—this difference is the key to success.

Yes, some people can lose weight eating nothing but carbs. There's a lot we don't know, and proponents of this theory will admit this. But one of the primary prinicples of this theory is that genetics plays a large role in human fat metabolism. Some people can eat whatever they want and remain thin, while others eat whatever they want and become obese. There is no such thing as a one size fits all diet.
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Nobody is arguing that reducing calories to below the amount spent will not cause weight loss. Of course it will.

I know however that if I ate 1900 calories in sugar a day, let's say by drinking two 2-liter bottles of Coke, I would be constantly hungry. Eating 1900 calories in high-fat high-protein food however leaves me more than satiated.

I think by focusing on the arithmetic in isolation you're making dieting much more difficult than it need be.
>>> You seem to think we're trying to stop people from anonymously posting their opinions. We are not.

Of course not. You're trying to stop people from anonymously supporting people that publicly post their opinion. That's not much better, in my eye, since in our day and age, you can not effect change alone.

>>> We are trying to stop people from spending millions of dollars on paid ads advocating the defeat of a candidate they don't like

This is an essence of politics - convincing people to adopt your point of view by explaining it to them. Including when your point of view is the candidate is bad. Imagine the worst guy you can think of - truly Hitler incarnate - is running for your city council. Would you want to be able to donate to his opponent's campaign? What if this bad guy is truly vindictive and sworn than anybody who donates to his opponent would regret that very soon? Would you want to be able to do it anonymously?

>>> Can you cite any examples of this happening?

I can cite a lot of instances where people were attacked and suffered for their speech expressed in donations, Brandon Eich being easily the most recent and prominent. However I'm pretty sure once privacy is gone, attacking the supporters would be as prominent, simply because it would be an effective tactics and there's absolutely nothing preventing its use.
>all about minute incremental improvements

...how much of that is due to the fact that CS is now much more of a mature field compared to 44 years ago. It seems like the fields of synthetic biology and biological and chemical computers and self replicating nanobots (hey Von Neumann again) would be more open to grand scale ideas, and there are lots of exciting opportunities that haven't been explored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocomputer

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-slime-molds.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_computer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine#von_Ne...
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Oh, how interesting, I had no idea. I've been reading Hurley's Borges this whole time (which I understand now is good but not great). Time to order this... thanks for the tip.
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The reason I have stuck with Common Lisp, rather than bailed to Clojure or something else, is that the language is so fundamentally good -- Mature, robust, standarized, performant, compiled, gradually-typed -- that it is worth sticking with it, it is worth working to expand its ecosystem.

Regarding the ecosystem, Common Lisp has improved a lot over the recent years. We have Clack (Equiv. of Python's WSGI/Ruby's Rack), a bunch of web frameworks, an ORM, a small set of web-related tools built around those. It's certainly nowhere near the size of the ecosystems of Ruby and Python, but I think it's acceptable given the size of the community.

I do, however, think there has to be a movement like Fare's "Lisp library consolidation"[0] to, if not expand, improve the existing libraries: Build Github Project Pages, Sphinx documentation, a better-looking wiki. Just porting old READMEs to Markdown would be an improvement.

[0]: http://fare.livejournal.com/169346.html
You equate free speech with "fair". If I have a bullhorn and you don't, does that make my speech any less protected than yours, simply because you don't have a bullhorn?
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It's odd -- I'd swear I've read about a gear-like mechanism found in an insect years ago, but I can't find any references now... of course Google is flooded with a million articles rehashing this single news story claiming to be the first.

It may just be that late 2013 feels farther than it is, and I'm remembering this news from then.
> "K2pdfopt works by converting each page of the PDF/DJVU file to a bitmap and then scanning the bitmap for viewable areas (rectangular regions) and cutting and cropping these regions and assembling them into multiple smaller pages without excess margins so that the viewing region is maximized. Making use of this method, k2pdfopt can re-flow text lines, even on scanned documents"

Looks promising. Hopefully this would also remove javascript and executable code from the source PDF, although any exploits may run within the context of the converter. To be safe, conversion could be run from a livecd.
Not compatible with thunderbolt would be a deal breaker for me.
Ya, I disagree. If I was going to do my own start-up, I would definitely chose SF over NY.

New York just feels like the past to me; the old world where with old money where I'm likely to find people with generic backgrounds.

The West Coast is pushing the world forward, and I feel like I'm more likely to find people with the variety of backgrounds necessary to make a start-up successful.
You're confounding two separate issues.

One is preserving the environment, often (global warming, ocean acidification, mercury pollution, acid rain, background radiation elevation, plastics pollution, ozone depletion, antibiotics overuse) in ways which affect the global environment and pose existential risks to all of modern civilization, if not humanity.

The other is equity and fairness.

Achieving a few years or decades of growth to lose it all really doesn't strike me as particularly rational behavior.

Addressing the whole scope of challenges facing the world is going to be exceptionally difficult.
Great job. Does the JS client support mobile browsers?
Yeah, there's a gay aspect in the Count of Monte Cristo that got excised or downplayed as well. The question becomes do you want a biased translation that reads better or an unbiased one that reads okay? It's really a case by case thing. Any classicist will tell you Pope butchered the original Homer - he didn't even speak Greek. But his is still the best in English, I think.
I don't know much Nimrod, but here's an article I wrote about a D package I also wrote, in which a number of D features have come together in an especially pleasing way:

http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/03/21/functional-image-p...

I'd be interested to know if the same expressiveness is possible in other languages without sacrificing speed.
I think your specific example is likely to end up so heavily regulated as to be impossible. I'll go so far as to say that most harmful uses of data mining will end up with laws to mitigate the harm.

I think the likeliest 'harm' is that companies will be able to tailor really effective ads targeting people at earlier ages.

Besides, the information asymmetry between private people and entities with large amounts of data already exists. Your kid's pictures are a matter of degree and will likely not make a difference.

Heck, I'll argue from the other direction. In the future, having large amounts of harvestable data will make most people better credit risks. Those with heavily censored profiles will be analogous to present day people who only use cash - unable to get loans or what have you.
Thanks for the feedback on it. I'm not the best with words so feedback on what is off is always helpful.

The primary case is to build interactive static table views in code. It's best use case is when you just have a form to fill out. We plan on adding more interactive controls to the schemes, such as hiding or showing arbitrary ones, but for now all the interactivity lies within the scheme objects (which, by the way, is just a term we decided to use. I'll figure out a better way to define what a scheme is, but it is essentially a piece of the form that is closely related. For example, it could be a list of wifis available, or a group of cells that act as a radio selection, or just one cell).

I haven't had a lot of experience with creating interactive (I should clarify that by interactive, I'm referring to adding and removing cells from the table view) static table views using storyboards. The only decent way to do it I've found was changing the height of a cell to zero, and then adjusting it to the original value when it needs to be shown. I'd love to hear some of the other solutions you've come up with.

We do most of our work without storyboards, so having this has helped a lot in creating these in code.

Thanks again!
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"When Leibel had participants in one study drink formulas with the same number of calories but hugely different proportions of fat and carbohydrates, he saw no difference in the amount of energy they burned."

The study by Leibel mentioned in the article would seem to suggest that various sources of energy affect the body equally.
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Assuming you perfectly use the maximum capacity, at which point, the service is probably useless because no one can upload new photos.

It's super easy to do this if you're already running your website on ec2, and S3 for a few hundred photos will cost you less than a dollar per month.

Is this for Heroku users because running a single dyno to resize images costs $30 / month?
Awesome timing! I'm deploying my app to a client today, and having real-time stats on the PostgreSQL database would be very helpful to keep an eye on things. I'll definitely be using this.
this is like telling an alcoholic "recovering from alcoholism is simply reducing your level of alcohol intake to a level that isn't harmful." - yes, that's true. however it doesn't fix anything.

obese people are not normal. if "just eat less" was even remotely possible, they would have done it already. the above statement literally adds nothing of value to the situation. there are millions, soon to be billions, of obese people in this world - telling them all to "just eat less" isn't a solution. it's just not.

similarly, some people simply "drink too much" and can easily follow this advice. most alcoholics can't. here's the catch though - those who can just cut down, aren't alcoholics. do you see how this "just do less of X" logic is only descriptive, not prescriptive? there's a big difference.

keto is a specific diet designed to combat a specific kind of overeater, and it is extremely effective at that. it also happens to work for lots of others such as athletes who want to cut fat extremely quickly.

many overweight people are addicted to carbs and processed food, full stop period. because they eat too much carbs, they can not stop eating carbs, which pulls them into an insulin/fat storage/hunger spiral which is extremely, if not impossible, to pull out of. they have to just STOP, but the trick is replacing it with something else that will actually satisfy them.

keto helps with that. it helps direct your eating choices in a sustainable way while returning hormone levels to that of a normal person, preventing the death spiral of hunger and eating. it also satiates hunger and allows people to eat foods they like without feeling deprived, a critical component of long-term success. in short - keto allows you to eat less, or to eat like a normal person. combined with the judgment call that fat is not bad for you per se, it's an amazing way of approaching this problem.

don't forget the human element in dieting. pardon my language but "just eat less!" is worthless advice. utterly, devastatingly, uncompassionately worthless.
Another example of Betteridge's Law (all question headlines can be answered with "no"), but for a different reason than usual.

This event is about self-sufficiency, not skill at defrauding. Can't pay for, borrow, or otherwise "manifest" a new tent = can't have new tent.

But, considering the number of people who buy such tents and then never use them, you'd actually be pretty stupid to pay full price for one under any circumstances. You can easily get a great tent off Craigslist that might have been pitched once or twice in some gentle environment like a park. Even if it's been to Burning Man already, as long as it was well cleaned and stored it will be fine. You're going to thrash the tent pretty hard in the first five minutes anyway.

(Obviously do a full setup of any used tent, in an "open" and "closed" configuration, before paying for it. If it's been to the desert before, check for corrosion of metal parts.)
Thank you very much :) While those were difficult to get as some of the first "comments" other HN users definitely stepped in and gave great and constructive feedback.
Indeed. I swapped in a couple tougher ones :)
> However I'm pretty sure once privacy is gone, attacking the supporters would be as prominent

Our country doesn't have a tradition of unlimited anonymous election spending. That only started happening with Citizens United in 2010. So we're not about to unleash some new torrent of attacks on previously anonymous donors.

You value privacy over transparency. I do in some areas, but not in political spending. Seems like we'll have to agree to disagree.
If I leave some loose hairs on an airline seat, does the airline now own my dna?
The argument is that "compliance" is significantly influenced by hormonal regulation, which is influenced by amount of carbohydrates consumed.
Yet somehow people weren't widely obese in the 60s. I have this fascination with random pictures: it's really interesting to look not at the focus but an the background. You see the stuff in houses, the items in shop windows, etc. The relevance here is look at pictures of the 60s and people's sizes. Skim eg these [1] and look at the older relatives in the wedding pictures. You'll see people who can stand to lose 25 pounds, but (I just got back from the midwest) you don't see people who could stand to lose 100+.

Undoubtedly food has changed wildly in 55 years, but so also has the quantity. Not to mention all the estrogens from plastics.

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/adorable-real-vintage-wed...
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Why do you want to create your own language? People create languages for many different purposes. What would be original and interesting about this language?

I am inclined to agree with your larger point that we have gotten too conservative, but I also think we are awash in programming languages. Before I would encourage someone to create a new language, I would want to see a good argument that none of the existing ones would suffice for some interesting purpose.
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I agree.

Would you lose more weight drinking two liters of coca-cola a day or eating the equivalent total calories in a high-fat protein rich food?

I would think your body would burn through the straight sugar calories much faster than the protein. But consuming all the sodium in the coca cola product might cause water retention.

Toss up. But most if not everyone's diet will never be that one-dimensional.
Like everything else if the owners of the company vote to release the code, yes otherwise no.
Property prices are also tough to predict as preferences change and the general buying power of the economy changes. A major issue with the most recent housing slump is that many young people, who would be first time homebuyers, are choosing not to purchase a home. This is reducing liquidity for those that would normally sell their starter homes to them and upgrade. While general property values will probably rise, it is a very illiquid asset class and highly dependent on geographical preferences.
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It's interesting that a mountain only a few meters tall might be the hardest mountain in the universe to climb.
"Calories count. Macros more so."

EDIT: I'm on the Keto(genic) diet (protein/fat primarily) and run 3x/week. I'm losing ~3lbs/week. Start weight: 178lbs; goal weight: 148lbs. Height: 5ft 6inches. I almost never feel hungry on the diet, and plan on continuing it after I meet my weight loss goals.
Yes. I work at a flash storage company (XtremIO). No-one ever says "SSD"; it's always "flash".

"SSD" (out of context) refers to something you put in your laptop/desktop.
Tone down the hyperbole a bit there.

With gasoline, the use of stored energy requires emissions.

With batteries, the production of stored energy required emissions.

True, the analogy isn't perfect, because maybe the batteries were charged from a PV system (though in practice chances are they were not) but to call it "incredibly dishonest" and "blatantly false" seems a bit excessive, don't you think?

The point is, while using power from a battery doesn't cause any emissions, you need to know where the energy came from to make any meaningful comparisons.
> I would think your body would burn through the straight sugar calories much faster than the protein. But consuming all the sodium in the coca cola product might cause water retention.

http://zestnzen.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/nutritionenergyh...
If it is purely image hosting, that is expensive. But if it does image resizing on the fly, I'd say it's worth it.
This outrage about the surge pricing is really just some more first-world complaining. Prices have to float freely. It goes badly when artificial influences come into play, in short, when we muck with it. When they stop the surge pricing, the same people will be complaining when its busy there's no Ubers around to pick them up.
or just using munin?