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The mention of the "25 year discovery drought" made me think about this documentary I saw once about bacteriophages ("viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria") [1].

I don't remember the specific documentary but here is a wikipedia link [2] "Although extensively used and developed mainly in former Soviet Union countries circa 1920, the treatment is not approved in countries other than Russia and Georgia."

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
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> Is there any current reason to still use CVS in 2015?

Is there anything wrong with it?
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To illustrate the problem: my dom-css module[1] needs a method to convert to camel case.

I could copy-paste from stack overflow, but I would have to maintain/test that function. I'd rather depend on something.

I could depend on a big "string-utils" library, but that would probably carry some useless baggage, and its scope may change or grow over time. Further, maybe it has a competitor module with a vehement following (like lodash vs underscore), which makes my module less appealing to them. This sucks for my module because I just want that one function.

The better alternative is just to depend on the exact, clearly named "to-camel-case" function which is very unlikely to ever change or grow in scope.

[1]https://npmjs.com/package/dom-css
The profit motive also motivates people to externalize & rationalize effects on the environment & the public at large.
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Interesting I guess the answer to that is we don't have a strict limit? Looking at a library now its all pretty much ~100ish but nothing set in concrete as a rule. That seems a bit restrictive IMO.

Our other coding style rules kind of keep it down generally I suppose, like for SCSS declaring selectors on new lines (like in this styleguide) and in JS keeping callbacks to one level etc..
Ohms law. Voltage doesnt matter because its a redundant information, only current matters.
You can really see which makers are trying new things and which are just copying someone else. Interesting.
The most generous interpretation is that he's simply unaware of the humanistic side of the internet.

That humanistic side of the Internet has been drowned out by a sea of dingbats so obsessed with becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg that it is barely perceptible.

I'm an engineer as well as an artist and I got in to this industry for the humanistic side of things. I'm frankly disgusted with how things have been shaping up over the last decade. Our industry is full of callousness and arrogance. To make it worse the economic externalities of their successes are driving out anyone involved with humanities from the cities where this is taking place. It has created the feedback loops that result in the kind of ignorance that he's addressing.
Ha neat i did not know that neat. But i suppose there is still just more OBML to hold in RAM (even if it is more efficient).
Perspective of who? I am assuming you are not claiming there is only one perspective right? So perhaps these peoples perspective isn't the same as yours as their benefits aren't as obvious.

Change happens that much is sure but lets not replace that insight for thinking about how to deal with the fact that people who get disrupted aren't all part of the self improvement clique and can't just change their lives from cleaning lady to Ruby developer.
The French nation-state, which appeared after the 1789 French Revolution and Napoleon's empire, unified the French people in particular through the consolidation of the use of the French language. Hence, according to historian Eric Hobsbawm, "the French language has been essential to the concept of 'France', although in 1789 50% of the French people did not speak it at all, and only 12 to 13% spoke it 'fairly' – in fact, even in oïl language zones, out of a central region, it was not usually spoken except in cities, and, even there, not always in the faubourgs [approximatively translatable to "suburbs"]. In the North as in the South of France, almost nobody spoke French."

Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 : programme, myth, reality (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990; ISBN 0-521-43961-2) chapter II "The popular protonationalism", pp.80–81 French edition (Gallimard, 1992). According to Hobsbawm, the main source for this subject is Ferdinand Brunot (ed.), Histoire de la langue française, Paris, 1927–1943, 13 volumes, in particular volume IX.
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My co-worker started taking me after work 3-4 days a week and after a couple months it became a habit. Feels weird when I don't go now. Before, I had no clue about a routine, but thanks to him I developed a good one.

Mon and Th I will do Chest and Shoulders
Tue and Fri I will do Back and Legs

If I only go M-W-F, I'll hit everything each day (called Starting Strength) with Bench (flat and incline), Squats, and Deadlifts.. among a few other things depending on what parts I want to work on.

r/gainit on reddit was also a helpful place for me, as I am one of those people with a super fast metabolism and have a hard time gaining weight.
I've had a similar experience, with Perl up to about 7x faster. I had sed in a few data-mangling pipelines because I assumed simpler=faster, but replacing it with Perl was either a wash or a speedup in every case. This with the versions of perl and sed in Debian (looks like it's GNU sed), so ymmv with other seds.

The case where I saw a 7x speedup was doing many-times-per-line, fixed-string search/replace on a file consisting of very long lines (an SQL dump where some lines had >1m characters). Perl was IO-bound (so presumably would've been even faster if I'd had better disks), while sed was CPU-bound at a pretty low fraction of the possible IO performance.
I'm not sure of what the divergence you're indicating is. I agree that an app with no monitization is worthless for sure. A bloated app user base where you aren't monetizing your users is a money sink.

Granted there are other cases of revenue models that we may not even be aware of that are in play. For instance Twitter initially was making money off SMS bulk transactions. They would buy SMS network blocks in volume and sale broadcasting blocks to marketers at a markup which was lower than outbound texting rates. There was good money in the margins here for a time. They don't like to talk about it publicly but they still admit that the service was built around a focus on SMS... https://blog.twitter.com/2010/introducing-fast-follow-and-ot...

This is why for a while they also tried like hell to push people to take Tweets over SMS instead of having pulling them from the web via a web browser or other web based client. Smartphones unexpectedly gimped this business model for them.

There are boutique companies today that still are trying to eep out business around this model such as this one... http://www.fabit.com/products/mobile/sms/websms/overview.asp...

...now I'm just rambling...
It sounds like part of it was also hiring a trainer. Many people seem to experience something like that: without a social component, like someone to encourage you, you don't bother. But a trainer, or a partner, or an opponent can easily keep you on track--even if they don't really "do" anything other than make you show up.
You're implying that "preventing malware" is important enough that it overrides all other rights of the user, including some very important freedoms? And that somehow, supporting these freedoms means "supporting malware"? What the actual fuck!? This is as horrible an argument as "only terrorists have something to hide, therefore anyone who wants privacy is supporting terrorism." (Replace "terrorism" with your choice of anything the government is fighting against.)

How about we put everyone in prison, because some percentage of them will become criminals anyway? I don't even...

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Could you elaborate on 9p/virtio performance? I've had pretty good results booting qemu/kvm VMs with 9p root filesystems...

UML used to have some host kernel patches that were a lot faster for intercepting syscalls. There was never enough interest (even before Vanderpool/Pacifica) to merge it though.
When Gopi Krishna says of the scientist "when we ask him how did it take a leap, he is dumb" and then references Darwin, he's revealing a lack of understanding of the scientific process. Darwin knew he lacked a lot of crucial knowledge -- including how heredity works. Some of the blanks have been filled in, some have not -- or only partially. Darwin's ignorance doesn't undercut his greatness or imply the limits of science.

There has been a lot of good scientific work done on consciousness in the last few decades. Bernard Baars helped to make the topic respectable with _A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness_ which is still a very good analysis of many of the issues.

Currently I think the best theoretical grip on consciousness is summarized in Graziano's _Consciousness and the Social Brain_, interestingly discussed at (http://selfawarepatterns.com/2014/10/16/the-attention-schema...).

These scientific approaches to understanding consciousness have the advantages of helping us understand our subjective experience, helping us understand how that experience maps into brain anatomy and activity, and helping us explain why and how evolution would have produced consciousness in animals like us. Also, these approaches don't require any new work in physics or metaphysics -- they work just fine at the level of neuroscience and cognitive science.
IV antibiotics generally mean hospital, which generally means severe life-threatening infection.
Outpatient IV antibiotics are done but it's complicated and carry further risk of infection through having a line in situ for long periods of time.

IV antibiotics do have an effect on gut bacteria as well, it's not as simple as just not giving oral;
additionally (and, perhaps the crux of the issue) is that gut bacteria exposure to antibiotics is not how resistance develops; and certainly aren't the main problem.
It is the more common infective agents that cause the problems - Gram positive organisms (Strep Viridians, Staph Aureus etc) that usually enter from cuts or abscesses and, in the immunocompromised, cause significant disability.
As usual, Avira is right on the money with "Adware/InstallC.buzg." ESET is pretty good too with "a variant of Win32/InstallCore.UQ." None of the other providers clearly identified it.
without a whit of evidence wouldn't pass freshman comp

that he's accorded greater privilege demonstrates just how high the shit must have been piled at The New Republic's stables.

This narrative is, frankly, bullshit.

Hey buddy, if you wanna have chilled out conversation you might want to take a look at how your own approach might affect how things progress.
He only had one killed? What a modest man, by biblical standards.

For comparison:

> He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

(Not to mention killing all the firstborns of Egypt, wiping out the entire population of the Earth except for Noah's family, yadda yadda.)
The IBM bluemix mobile data service sounds like a good match:
https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#services/mobiledata/index.h...

"With the Mobile Cloud Services SDK, you can embed a special managed directory in your application. Any files that are stored in this managed directory can be monitored and synchronized. The application can share the contents of this managed directory by connecting to Mobile Data with the same application ID and user ID. By sharing the directory contents, different instances of an application can have synchronized copies of the files"
Reddit? Perish the thought :-)
Given that we've seemed to reach a stage where most US politicians seem to match the profile of what one would clinically call a sociopath, I'm going to hazard a guess that they will not really care.
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And does this answer satisfy you ? Answering-christianity (the site) is full of these sorts of answers. Most are similar to this one.

The technical answer to this reply is, firstly, that the same story is told by different narrators, not just the one mentioned. This is, of course, conveniently left out from the reponse you posted.

But if you're not a muslim, the answer is that this is part of the islamic canon. It's also part of sharia. It's part of the law in >50 islamic countries. If the argument held any water this would not be true.

> Copy pasting doesn't help anyone. I'd rather have it that you go to someone who is an expert on this field, do your research and ask him/her what's bugging you.

Sorry I was trained in exact sciences, and I have family that's in history (with focus on religious history). I believe in first sources' authority over people's authority.
There are many different versions of awk: gawk, (BSD) nawk, mawk, etc. I think OS X uses nawk, but mawk is reputedly faster. Gawk is definitely slower than both mawk. I'm not surprised that Perl is faster though.
If that's the term then it's unfortunate that the will of many many people now counts as "improper influence", especially in a republic where representation is the result of a democratic process.

The influence of many many people is the most proper influence our representatives can consider.
> propped up by Wall Street's expectation that they will jack those prices way, way up once all the competition has been flattened and customers have nowhere else to go

Wall Street will be disappointed. Prices for digital goods always have and will continue to be controlled by piracy.

> If you and the person on the other end both use the same software out of dozens of options. "Let's see, Jane is on Skype, but Mike uses Google Hangouts..."

In real life, Jane and Mike are both on Skype.

> If you happen to be among the very few people who live anywhere else, your mileage may vary.

If you live in the middle of nowhere, chances are you have a PO Box at the local post office. Not as convenient, but works just as well.

> email is a remnant of a more civilized age rather than a product of our current one.

There are plenty of open standards being pumped out. Nobody is using them.

Would it be nice to have everything open and universal? Sure.

But given the choice between sparse and open ... and rich and closed, I'll take rich and closed. Virtually everything has an API now. How awesome is that?

> Whose quality is determined entirely by which obsessive-compulsive editor has the most free time on their hands.

How was this not true of the old encyclopedias? At least now, you can do your own digging pretty easily to verify any claims. On top of that, Wikipedia keeps a history of who wrote what and when, which is specifically useful for determining if the editor has an axe to grind.
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Does it make me too cynical that my initial reaction to anything on petitions.whitehouse.gov is "Who cares?"

Can someone point me to a petition that actually made a difference?
It's sad that the most on point response I have seen to one of these things was the response to the "Build a Death Star" petition. Everything else just seems like a media spin.
What you see as progress is subjective. The effect of blindly assuming that technologic and economic progress are the only objective truths worth worrying about is incredibly problematic. That's basically the whole point of this article.
I wonder if the author also takes a dim view of footnotes.
Probably unrelated, but it is interesting to know that they received a $1 million donation from google in 2011 for (quoting wikipedia here) "lobby for or to consult for the company".
That's the biggest container ship; I believe the world's biggest ship of any kind will be 488m long ... a natural gas processing vessel which will eventually be docked off the coast of north-west Western Australia.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30497303
> I was referring to, for example, if a terrorist group says "we are going to do ... if you publish that thing" (like what already happened), wouldn't that qualify as 'immediate violence' in order to stop the publication?

If they made a specific and credible threat to cause death, bodily harm, or serious property damage if someone published something, yes, I think that would qualify as an illegal terroristic threat under the law.

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal...

Note that threatening to picket or boycott or otherwise protest isn't a terroristic threat. The threat has to be about something in the specific list I mentioned above.
It's the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as their banner proudly says, but you're right that the spin here is on security.

The sentiment these days with regards to restricting user freedom seems to be not "think of the children", but "think of the security." I'm guessing it reaches a wider audience: the rhetoric is basically "who doesn't want to be secure?" ...everyone who doesn't want their devices secured against them.
I disagree.

First, following your first link, I found the CDC bullet point that says 53% of drug overdose deaths in the US in 2012 were "related to pharmaceuticals". Note that doesn't say "were prescription drug deaths" as you did.

"Related" includes those deaths in which someone who had a legal prescription for a drug used something with it that was fatal - a simple example would be alcohol combined with many of the opiate painkillers, but it would also include somebody on the antidepressant drug selegeline who ate a tyramine-rich food like bleu cheese or sausage and died of hypertensive crisis. There are many other examples of deaths "related to pharmaceuticals" that would not involve painkillers, nor other pharmaceuticals used as directed. I recommend you do the analysis needed to see what's actually going on, not merely that which may constitute confirmation bias for your views.

Second - of course there are externalities that could well account for the increase in painkiller prescriptions since 1991.

Just one example - we have an aging population. When people age, they encounter illnesses that hurt. Osteoarthritis, for example - it is common for those who have it to be unable to do something as simple as remove a twist-off jar lid because of the pain involved. Ditto climbing three or four steps because of pain in their feet and knees. Nevermind diabetic neuropathy, and other such painful, age-related diseases. Have you explored the increase in our aging population and projected the numbers of people who could reasonably be expected to need painkillers to remain functional as they age? What did you find?

Further, one reason for the increased level of painkiller prescriptions could well be that analgesia has been underprescribed due to irrational prejudice against it and we're finally realizing it. In the US, opioid pharmaceuticals seem be regarded as "The Great Satan" by some Americans and by American law enforcement. Consequently, pain relief - which should be a straightforward (if complex) medical issue - is demonized, hindered, and encumbered with useless transactional friction.

So, yes - it's certain that our aging population has increased the need for painkiller prescriptions since 1991. How much, I don't know. If you look into it quantitatively, please let us know. But from what I've seen in the medical profession, the increase could well be independently explained by the recognition that pain relief is critical to quicker recovery from acute illness and equally critical for prolonged productivity and quality of life, and the shedding of prejudices that have blocked such recognition. I understand YMMV.
Right, ham refers specifically to cured pork.
Unfortunately, there's no vendor in that space with a track record in security. A major provider of hardware security modules ("hardware wallets") for Bitcoins was Butterfly Labs. Their Bitcoin mining hardware business did not work out well for their customers. (As in, forced by the FTC to shut down and refund customers who paid for hardware and didn't get it.)

There are some little startups selling hardware wallets, or trying to get funding for doing so, but nobody with a solid track record of protecting large sums of money has a product. SafeNet and Thales are absent from the Bitcoin field.
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Interesting check list. Humans always like to rationalize things which sometimes is not really a good habit.
I thought it was a good story
Someone should write a plugin or bookmarklet that adds an "official whitehouse response" to every petition which just reads: "Okay? Whatever, we're going to take no action on this." because that's been the response to every petition I've seen so far.
"You agree to only create petitions consistent with the
limited purpose of the We the People platform, which is to
allow individuals to petition the Administration to take
action on a range of issues — to address a problem, support
or oppose a proposal, or otherwise change or continue
federal government policy or actions. To focus discussion,
the platform is limited to a discrete set of topics, which
may be adjusted over time."

I wonder how releasing the white house beer recipe[1] fits that standard any more than the Aaron Swartz petition?

[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/ale-chief-white-ho...
Still I think it is worth a shot if it saves us billions of dollars in space exploration funding.
Move so that your home and office are 20 minutes apart by walking. You will walk to and from work, guaranteed, because it's the most efficient of time in that scenario. Maybe even 30 minutes, but beyond that most people will fall back to driving or taking mass transit.

When you plan vacations, decide to only go to places where you will be active. Walk, swim, hike, surf, bike, whatever. Don't go on a cruise. Don't go somewhere just because it has good food and shopping. Go somewhere where exercise will be inevitable, part of the experience. If you do this four weeks a year, it makes a difference.
I don't know what term this is, but We The People has historically refused to respond to petitions about specific individuals as opposed to systemic/generic problems.

I'm curious if the petition would have worked better if it were phrased as, e.g., "Direct federal prosecutors to be extremely cautious in invoking CFAA" instead of "Do something about this one person".
The OP is a very good designer. Why does the killer achievement have to be an app?
>> I am unaware of this author's poignant appeal on behalf of milkmen, TV repairmen, and gas station attendants

> Why is that pertinent?

The author start Amid the bacchanal of disruption, let us pause to honor the disrupted. I think it is reasonable for someone to point out that his "honoring" only seems to apply to (for want of a better term) the "creative classes" as opposed to blue collar workers.
> Could you elaborate on 9p/virtio performance? I've had pretty good results booting qemu/kvm VMs with 9p root filesystems...

The throughput is passable, if you do large enough reads; however, the latency for individual operations is terrible. Try booting via virtio-9p and building a kernel inside the virtual machine, as compared to the host system. Last time I tried it, it took several orders of magnitude longer, due in large part to the latency of simple operations like stat or open/read/close.
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