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I don't think strict studies in humans are even possible at all. I believe there were primate studies, but not very well designed, and there are some in progress.
Yes, I think "Toughen the cells" as you said is the right way of distilling this article; also note that subjecting yourself to periods of high heat or cold can produce a similar response. The mechanism, in part, is thought to be from what is called "Heat Shock" proteins.

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

As I said before, these proteins are made not just from heat exposure, but from other stress such as fasting and extreme cold exposure. Anyway, I think it is interesting as there is a reasonable amount of ancient literature linking fasting with health(for instance, Isaiah 58:8). Interesting how long science can take to "rediscover" certain basic things the ancients picked up on.
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A cautionary note: Make sure the patterns you're observing aren't rational adaptations to the work environment that you've fostered. At one employer, I retreated to the "thinker" mode because I was sick of dealing with a profoundly constipated and political development process.
sigh this is where HN gets its reputation.

Of course the article wasn't suggesting manual testing and avoid profiling, but it MOSTLY recommended techniques and tips that do not apply to the web. That's what jerf spent three paragraphs outlining.
> The two-stroke engine, built in South Korea, operates at 56.8 megawatts. That's the equivalent of almost 38,000 1,500-watt vacuum cleaners.

I see the BBC is on the cutting edge of the development of fatuous unit comparisons.
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elixir, nim, golang, clojure, haskell, elm, rust......there is no end...
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I just signed up for a statistics class at my local university. I will officially be an undergrad student again on Jan 20, and I intend to learn much much more this time.

Luckily my employer encourages learning, and it helps that the class is mostly during lunch.

Keep on learning!
So generally, if you buy something from a burglar which belonged to someone else until some act of violence, the law does not recognize your ownership over the property but instead would demand you return it to its original owner.

For practical purposes, it doesn't make sense to give that land back wholesale. But it is relevant to, for example, a Libertarian reading Robert Nozick and claiming that he has a moral right to his property because it was originally claimed legally and then transferred through a chain of non-coersive transactions.
Revolution indeed provides superior temporal resolution over its predecessor.

Though arguably Siemens dual-tube, dual-detector design provides yet better still temporal resolution.
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Yeah, I was wondering in particular about this one and whether it's actually used for anything other than looking pretty:

http://media.tumblr.com/8f42d18fcc4aba25c9ded0e6d47e502b/tum...

Maybe if it was part of a spin?
I imagine "jamming" has a pretty specific definition by the FCC. For example, if I DOS a WAP with reset packets, then that's just network traffic as far at the FCC is concerned. If I setup some kind of overpowered RF device that demolishes everything in the 2.4ghz spectrum, then I'm guilty of jamming.

If you DDOS my website, which is for some reason attached to the internet via wireless, you're not jamming anyone. You're doing a DDOS. The regulatory body or laws surrounding that are going to be different than a proper old fashioned RF jam.
IF is only really about weight loss as an ancillary benefit to the actual benefits. It's incredibly easy to gain weight on IF if you are trying - just eat more - but IF helps you eat less via about a half-dozen different vectors.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fasting-weight-loss/

The above is a good meta-resource on how and why IF helps you eat less.
There's a TED talk you may enjoy in which the speaker (I believe Arthur Benjamin) argues that statistics should be taught before calculus. There's a bit of a dependency on calculus in statistics (e.g. the proof of linear regression makes no sense without differential calculus), but I find that I use linear algebra and statistics far more in my work, daily life, and when reading about topics that interest me. There was no mention of those branches of math in my high school - I had to learn about them on my own, and I feel they're more valuable. I don't think you need to drop trigonometry and calculus to make room, though. I started my education in New Zealand and I believe by 7th form (final year of high school) students there have done both statistics and calculus, and more linear algebra than students in the US have.
The problem is that in America, the people that "matter" all have data-plans on their phones and so they don't need wi-fi.
Neither was I at 29.
I would turn this round. Your habitual behaviour comes to be associated with your environment. By removing yourself from that environment you find that those habits become weaker and may vanish. Behaviour isn't changed so much as behavioural cues can be eliminated.
This is off topic, but why is everyone using that same blog theme? It's taken me weeks to notice that all those articles were not,in fact, written by the same person.
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>For someone who already eats correctly (see my other comment in this thread) it's not such a big deal. But then again, you don't see those people on cancer wards as patients too often.

There are plenty of people on cancer wards who had perfectly healthy diets. Most of them are old, because cancer and cardiovascular disease are both primarily diseases of age. There are also cancers like brain cancer, most of which just show up because you were unlucky, not because of any environmental or genetic risk factor. Finally there are plenty of cancers that run in the family like, oh, breast cancer.

So there are tons of people on cancer wards who ate perfectly healthy diets.

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Yep, applying this restriction on functions is something I would avoid to suggest as they are a cornerstone of modern JS development.

However another part of rule seems to be something to consider.
It is probably easier in the long run if the servers had the same time as the machines that people use, which are regularly updated by their OS's choice of NTP server, since people run reports and react accordingly.
This has surely been a widespread meme for some time. The quote triggered for me a recollection of the Metallica lines:

Living on your knees, conformity
Or dying on your feet for honesty
That or in the face of majoritarianism, gerrymandering and electoral colleges - you realize that the odds are stacked against you, and simply choose "not to play".
If you sell digital products (SaaS, ebooks, etc.) by USA based company to EU clients, you have to apply VAT of EU country where the client is based (Belgium 21%, Hungary 27%, Ireland 23%, etc).
I don't see how pissing off your trading partners is helping the Putin regime and its apologists. This is what got them in this mess to begin with. I suspect we're dealing with a regime that refuses to learn the lessons of history and thus more sanctions and isolation are justified.
Hour-long reconstruction times are very abnormal.

GE sells a low-dose feature branded "Veo" that has ~30-minute reconstruction times. CT750HD spectral imaging (branded GSI) takes as long as 20-minutes.

Revolution imaging takes on the order of minutes (2-3). Indeed the 3d post-processing takes time and probably includes many manual steps/tweaks.
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That is silly. Most addicts don't have the resources to change their life structure, where would they go? what would they do? how would it be paid for?. It is only the rich who can check to a rehab clinic.
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Take out a full page ad in the New York Times about the issues he stood for.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/439578912/nyt-ad-challe...
As frustrating as the lack of action by the white house might be, I think this petition accomplished something:

I can almost bet Carmen Ortiz' name has been thrown to the hat for career advance nominations (federal judge, justice department) only to be immediately dismissed by white house staffers because "the internet would bury us"
Some of their victims were likely Muslims, including the cop they executed as he laid wounded. Unlike the US, I think most French people actually at least casually know some Muslims, which helps not seeing them as an alien entity.
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I use Bing because they pay me as well. I don't go for the money, I typically use my point on gift-like things. For example, for the holidays I used them on the photos printed on metal or glass, which is worth more than the $5 gift card I could have gotten instead. I also do a lot of sweepstakes entries; I've never won, but meh it's free anyway.
It would not be. And all of those instances make Robert Nozick's arguments about the sanctity of property rights as a first principle laughable on every continent. I've yet to find a another debate to which this is relevant.

Well, except perhaps the debate over that native american reservation that the federal government is currently seizing to hand over to a coal mining company.
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I see this on the front page of HN, and nothing about the terrorist attacks in France (which happened more than 24 f* hours ago), and I am sad.

Granted, these events have nothing to do with tech, but I'm amazed that nobody here is willing to show their support for freedom of speech and democracy.

I am sad that absolutely no one upvoted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856502
It turns out I have really decent hearing. So it's unlikely to be tinnitus; at worst I have a sort of hearing after-image when a tonal frequency suddenly cuts out (and now I'm guessing that's an effect of the ear actively filtering - I can't wait to watch that video).

But yeah, I did hear it on the dog. It's so anomalous to hear a high pitched noise coming from an ear that I was willing to question my own hearing/sanity. The best I could manage to guess was that there was some sort of small gas pocket leaking, which made a little bit of sense since my dog (samoyed) had a bubble on his ear (that eventually gave him a sadly adorable floppy ear when it eventually drained - prolly an aural hematoma); the bump never actually seemed to deflate due to the noise, though. At the time I was an early teen just sort of beginning to learn analytical techniques, so that reasoning was the best I could muster. These days I tend to trust/understand my senses more.
Ok, thanks for the help. I still can't seem to give it an externs file that makes the compiler happy. But I'll look into it on my own.
Breton, Gallo, Picard, Walloon, Provençal, Catalan, Alsacien, ...

Go talk to some 70+ people in rural parts of France and ask them if they had to learn to speak differently when they went to school or had to start communicating with people in the cities and I'll bet they say yes. Languages other than Standard French were very common even in the 20th century.

(By the way, whether something is a "dialect" or a "separate language" is much more of a political question than a scientific one. Speakers of some of the languages I mentioned -- Gallo, Walloon, and Picard are all oïl languages -- may have thought of themselves as speaking uneducated peasant French. But they were more different than, say, Scots and English, and probably not more than superficially mutually intelligible.)
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I was in a class last year, and one of the grad students was working on Nit and gave us a presentation of the language. It was extremely interesting and seemed quite well designed.
Looks nice. Some ideas are very similar to those of Crystal ( http://crystal-lang.org ) like the automatic type flow. But it seems not to support union types and types are required everywhere (which some might like).
> If you call for a rule that any research receiving government (or at least NIH or NSF) funding must be made freely available upon publish, that is within the purview of the executive and would solve the root problem once and for all.

That already happened --

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-...
I mean, the answer is probably to vote, and to convince others to vote. Start locally, and work your way up the chain. Talk to your friends, get them to vote accordingly. Go to your local government meetings, raise your issues. Volunteer for campaigns for your representatives, whether local representatives or Congress people.

If there aren't any representatives that you support, run for office. Dedicate your life to making these changes. Convince others that these are important issues, convince them to donate to your campaign and to vote for you.

The problem is, this is a hard road to take. And, truth be told, people don't really care enough to do the actual, hard work. They'd prefer to retweet some quote, maybe change their facebook profile picture for a week, if they're really serious about something. But ultimately, that doesn't get people elected, it doesn't put someone in office working to make the change. Best-case scenario, it gets some lip service from a 4-term representative. How much do you care? Do you care enough to actually get out there and actually push for change? Or do you just want to sit on the Internet and complain, and do a little comfortable work that ultimately sits in a GitHub account and rots?

There isn't an easy solution. It's going to take a lot of work to convince people to collectively vote for change in this area. This is why the government is set up the way it is. Every 6 years, it's possible to replace essentially 2/3's of the government (Executive & Representative).

Unfortunately, I imagine that most people truly don't care about this "prosecutorial abuse". He knowingly broke rules & laws, and the government went after him. He had an opportunity to take a plea deal and chose to kill himself instead. Sad? Absolutely. But you'll have a hard time getting enough people motivated enough to vote accordingly. There are other issues that people care more passionately about: budgets, social issues, foreign policy, economic issues, etc. That's why I said at the beginning to start locally, because that's probably your best bet on this particular issue.
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I thought getting older makes you wiser. Not comfortable and complacent.
This is so cool; what a great read.
I'm working on a Gameboy emulator in Rust at the moment and I'm in the same boat as the author: I know it has been done before; _but I've never done it before!_

It's awesome how the Gameboy kept me entertained for hundreds and hundreds of hours as a kid. -- Here I am over a decade later, and debugging my Gameboy [emulator] has kept me up into the wee hours of the night. (On more than one occasion, I might add.)

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Funny thing is I was actually going to write a NES emulator. On new-years day I decided I really wanted to write an emulator that could play the original MOTHER.

After a little bit of cursory research: the Gameboy hardware seemed a tad more approachable. To be honest that's not terribly surprising: obviously to fit a game console in such a small package (for the time) you had to make a lot of sacrifices.
Here are my thoughts after quickly glancing over the „features“:

1. No formatting rules and verbose „end“

I thought that by now it was universally accepted that having clear rules is a good idea, see Python and golang)

2. OO with inheritance

3. multiple at that

4. Dynamic classes/objects

5. Methods inside the classes

All of these make reasoning about effects very hard/impossible; Interfaces in golang, Multimethods in Clojure, Typeclasses in Haskell, CLOS in CL all provide a better solution to that.

6. Imperative

7. No functional elements (no functions, only methods)

Both mean inherently stateful, which in turn complicates reasoning

8. redef & super

It’s dangerous to have behaviour of single methods spread all over your codebase.

9. nullable

Looks like an interesting idea to eliminate the class of NPE runtime errors, yet it’s a special language (and syntax!) construct. It therefore does not arise out of the type system, but is explicitely built into the type system, so it doesn’t scale. See Haskell’s Maybe type on how to eleminate NPE’s with a small, trivial type that is no more special than any other.

Take it or leave it, these are the things I learned in my study of programming languages. I might be wrong, I might be right, but these are the things that came up as bad design most often in different languages. /me out
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That's what Hyatt just did.

http://newsroom.hyatt.com/?s=20295&item=123338
Yes, good point, but this was not meant to be an example of declarative paradigm, just functional paradigm. It's SML, which is not a particularly declarative language. Haskell is a little bit more declarative but AFAIK its pattern matching works the same way as SML.
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Yes, I agree that the SOPA petition did not change the White House's mind on DNS. But it did provide a good PR hook for them to put a stake in the ground, and clothe it in the veneer of public support.

It's probably best to think of the petitions as a PR tool, not a policy tool. Getting a petition over the signature threshhold, or getting a response, is a great news hook that activists can use to generate press coverage of their issue. For example: this discussion would not be happening today if this response had not been issued.

It's also possible that a petition can help affect policy over a long term. In general, people outside of government greatly underestimate just how long it takes to go from an idea or complaint, to a policy shift, to a change in the law. It's not uncommon for it to take a decade or more. For example Silent Spring was published in 1962, but DDT was not banned in the U.S. until 1972.
If you had beef with me, and instead of saying it to my face, you sent me some dumb list, as if it was indisputable proof that you were right, I'd hate hate hate you.

Don't ever do this.
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Theory would be the wrong term, too.
I tried Crystal a while back, found it quite addictive.

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The dose is primarily a function of the power delivered to the X-Ray source, the size of the beam and the scan's duration. The big features of this device are coverage (160mm) and rotation speed (mostly dose neutral). If you were imaging 160mm before you had to use multiple sequential scans, so the dose is not significantly different from that scenario.

Revolution has similar or superior (meaning less) dose than GE's previous high end scanner. GE's high end scanners tend to offer better dose than the competition.
This comes from one of their blogs which have a less formal style than their print publication.
I really like this. I especially like how the author(s?) didn't make the Assertions -> Unit Tests leap. Assertions are much more powerful, even if they aren't executed in production.

I feel like a few of these are glossed over. #7 implies that error conditions should be handled. #8 precludes transcompilers since they are also just glorified preprocessors. #10 means use "use strict"
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Doesn't look like they are setup to run in parallel, but most R stuff isn't. Unless a package has explicit integration with one of the distributed libraries such as doParallel

Would be interesting to see this package hooked up to streaming data and monitor performance
Everyone jammer is a DoS attack in one form or other. Either way you're flooding clients with junk disabling the connectivity.
> Which, incidentally, here on step two indicates why the NASA standards are from such a different world from the web browser that they don't much matter.

Other than the mention of recursion, everything else is about predictable and visible program flow. If you were to carry this forward to JavaScript you would want to avoid `throw` for application control for example.
Mr. Munroe's comments on competing standards comes to mind. http://xkcd.com/927/
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Could you go into more detail on where I could learn more about this / where I could work on such types of systems? (outside of high frequency trading)?

I've started working on similar types of technology recently, but purely by wandering into it by accident.
A problem with all ARM system on chips is that they don't have any kind of standard like the PC is for x86. There's some work going on on that field but at the moment, each ARM SoC has their own conventions for booting. It is typical that there is a smaller ARM bootstrap core on the SoC that does the early boot process and kicks up the actual (bigger) ARM core(s) and then hands over control to a bootloader (like u-boot) or boots the OS using a device-specific bootstrap code.

In other words: it would not be fun to do this using a RasPi (depending on your definition of "fun" of course). You would be spending lots of time with scarce documentation, dealing with practically no debugging aids and the only way to know if your code is working is whether a LED lights up and no way to debug failures. If you had a development board, perhaps you'd have JTAG or other debugging means available but I'm not sure if you can find this on a RasPi. You'd end up with very little transferable knowledge from this project.

Of course, working with scarce documentation in a harsh early boot environment is a valuable skill in itself, but not the kind of stuff I'd voluntarily get into. This stuff is hard enough to do on a well documented, widely available platform like the x86 PC.
> But then again, you don't see those people on cancer wards as patients too often.

This comment makes it seem like you believe the majority, maybe even the large majority, of cancers are caused exclusively by poor diet.
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A ballot measure...to do what, precisely?
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Cyclomatic complexity is different from execution complexity.
Interesting to think about the obstacles we unintentionally set in place for ourselves in living out our good intentions. Emphasizes the need for living with mindfulness.
Yes. When the user opens the app I will get their current location and add it to a column in the database 'currentLocation' Then I will query the database like so: select * from users where userOnlineStatus = 'online' and currentLocation = ""; <- That is what I would want to do. Its just calculating the distance so that not all random users are showing up.
Google is using too much popularity-based machine learning to "correct" what you're searching for.

This is exactly right and something I have been arguing for a while. Google's algos are good for finding what is popular, not necessarily what is right (though these things often overlap).