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Mary L Boas "Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences" [1] has absolutely been my favorite and most-used maths text in the 9 years since graduating uni. It's like a reference manual of just about all the non-CS (i.e. continuous/non-discrete) mathematical techniques required in my career. Highly accessible. It's a little too terse in places but I prefer this style of presentation over the insane long-form verbiage in other books I've since discarded which can make even simple topics seem overwhelming: the "Boas" book gets right to the point.

Edit: Calling it a mini-TAOCP of most of the maths needed for physics/EE work might be a bit of a stretch, but I've yet to see another maths text that does better as a highly readable, self-contained and compact reference.

Edit2: I moved house once and thought I'd lost my copy from university. I eventually found it, and yes, I have two copies... It's that important to me for brushing off the things I've forgotten :)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physical-Sciences...
I am happy that an expert without a bias reports about this. What you noted down came back into my mind immediately. These were the reported risks for professional athletes (back in the days when I decided to study physics instead of taking more of this junk and go pro).

There are also natural ways to keep your own T level high, like healthy food, enough sleep, everything that increases your muscle mass (weightlifting), not too much stress, staying lean, and of course the most enjoyable thing you can do with your partner ;o). All this desn't cost a 1000$ a month, its free and its good for you too. No enhanced risk for cancer, no bad wakeup after 20 years of taking it.
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On the subject of early technology I highly recommend 'The Centre for Computing History' in Cambridge. They have a good collection and a lovely atmosphere.

They're currently located in an industrial estate in Cambridge, I'm sure if/when they move they will get much more attention.
As that opinion & order suggests: racking up appeal credits. But then, the defence's entire "plan" appears to have been a series of Hail Marys. Because the evidence is laughably overwhelming. Because Ulbricht is apparently a narcissist so utterly convinced he couldn't possibly get caught that he kept a diary of his crimes right there on his daily working laptop.

(I realise technically he hasn't been convicted yet. But HOLY SHIT.)

To be fair, Ulbricht seems to have been a nightmare client. But a bench-slap like that says "one millimetre further and you're sanctioned." No lawyer wanting a long and happy career wants one of those.
"The only borough with a reasonable negative correlation between income and laundromat density is Staten Island with a moderate correlation of -0.44:"

Couldn't it be argued then, that population density acts like an agent against the depletion of infrastructure for the poor?
Might be of interest to me.

A detailed bullet-point list of features (available an obvious click or two from the front page - I appreciate you might not want that sort of detail on the front page in order to keep it clean) would be useful for assessing it though, i.e. does it support SNI (so it could proxy for several HTTPS end-points using a single IPv4 address), IPv6, and so forth.

Also, benchmarks against using nginx and other common options as a proxy would be handy, though I get the impression from the blurb on the front page that ease of installation/configuration/maintenance is more of a priority than speed (not that this is a problem - getting that side of things right is a most laudable goal)
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At the bottom of http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/ there is: "... Prometheus will be simpler to run initially, but will require explicit sharding once the capacity of a single node is exceeded."
My God. I didn't know that. No wonder corporations must focus on profit if shareholders keep flowing in and out, and each one treats their companies as abstract money-generating entities.

I mean, we can call this "not playing a traditional ownership role" but I can't shake the feeling there's something deeply wrong with that. We're buildings piles of layers of abstraction and the most important people are the ones who are most separated from you, don't know or care about you at all, and yet they "own" you and can tell you what to do. How on Earth one is supposed to run a company like that? Also, didn't similar abstraction cause the housing market collapse in 2008?

> This is why the well run companies tend to be those where the founding family still holds a large block of shares -- they tend to think long term.

Yes, I've observed that too. That's why I tend to believe, say, Google when they talk about pro-bono plans much more than any other IT corp. That's why I believe Musk can and will pull off things he says while his competitors will lag behind - because he both has a vision and holds SpaceX in iron grip. He doesn't have to follow the market if he choses not to.
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That's really awesome. I'd love an app like that for the human body, electronics and more subjects.
well yeah , you would then have to have a "sugar pill" group. I wonder whether these studies include an third" no intervention" group.
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Is it just me, or did this article completely assume that it's reader is male?
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Many women find physically strong men more attractive than weaker men. The benefit this brings men is allowing their DNA to replicate.
Personally, I'm not very surprised by this (testosterone causing larger increases than exercise). There are plenty of examples in nature of relatively "lazy" animals with large amounts of muscle (e.g. gorillas, lions, etc).

Of course, we're comparing animals with large genetic differences to each other, but my point is that exercise does not seem to be the primary cause of muscle, in general. It just happens to be the main parameter we're in control of.
take a look at the book "4 Hour Body" by Tim Ferriss, there in the chapter Improving Sex, sub-chapter: "Sex Machine I: Adventures in Tripling Testosterone"

I think in there the author, Tim Ferriss aged 34(?), mentions how he went from 2xx to 6xx in a very short amount of time, mainly by changing his nutrition.
> Does it shard?

Currently you can manually vertically shard, and in future we may have support for some horizontal sharding for when the targets of a given job are too many to be handled by a single server. You should only hit this when you get into thousands of targets.

Our roadmap[1] includes hierarchical federation to support this use case.

> You mention it's compatible with TSDB, why did you choose to implement your own backend, or is this a fork of TSDB?

Prometheus isn't based on OpenTSDB, though it has the same data model. We've a comparison[2] in the docs. The core difference is that OpenTSDB is only a database, it doesn't offer a query language, graphing, client libraries and integration with other systems.

We plan to offer OpenTSDB as a long-term storage backend for Prometheus.

[1] http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/roadmap/
[2] http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#prometheu...
It is meaningless to speculate on this without a concrete paper doing a concrete comparison of a specific concrete form of meditation vs. a concrete form of placebo, and without knowing whether or not the placebo was compared to a control group doing nothing.

You're right, it could mean there's nothing to train and practice. It also could mean there'd be a substantial placebo effect and a big gap from "doing nothing" to either the placebo or meditation, in which case, even if meditation were to turn out to be 100% placebo effect it would still be worthwhile to train and practice unless said researchers were to come up with a placebo that works just as well with less time spent.

What I know is that meditation has substantial subjective benefits for me. I don't care if that's 100% placebo effect and/or if I'm just tricking myself in other ways.

Because you know what? It doesn't matter.

Meditation makes me feel relaxed. It makes me feel as if I get insights into my mind and thought processes. It makes me feel like I have more energy. It make me feel more in control and in touch of my emotions and the world in general.

No matter the actual biochemical and psychological reasons for those feelings, they're still just as worthwhile outcomes to me.

That's easy to lose sight of.

Beating a placebo is an important measure when looking at drugs, because they pretty much all have potential risks and downsides (including the downside of cost). Showing provable effects is also important if considering prescribing meditation practice for psychological disorders, for example, because it could mean avoiding other treatment.

It is also worthwhile in order to learn more about the processes involved, and see what effects can be proven.

But it is largely uninteresting when considering casual meditation for someone who expects only subjective effects on mental state. In that case, what matters is mainly whether the perceived effects are sufficiently positive for someone to find it worthwhile to continue.

If it's all a trick of the mind, then fine. It still feels great.
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Would you dare an (unverifiable) guess at the percentage of people who plugged in a USB drive to copy some files and were enlightened to use it as a backup unit by the Time Machine dialog?

If I had to, gun to the head, I'd say that no one ever was.

I seem to remember that Windows pops up a baloon in the system tray every once in a while nagging you to configure the system for regular backups. That seems much more sensible.
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I can only answer with my personal experience here: During the intermittent fasting time (age 25), where I went from from 6xx to 1024ng/dl, I didn't gain significant amount of muscle, although I was working out with heavy (free) weights, 3x per week.
Not sure it's still the case, but it certainly was for me (class of '90).
But I am sure that it would eventually trickle down anyway. It's not like middle ages where the rich can't marry the poor, it's not like rich people don't lose their fortunes and become poor. It's not like the moment you stop earning money you have to give back the modifications gained.
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I've wrote a exporter for Docker, so if you have a Docker based infrastructure you get tons of metrics by using it: http://5pi.de/2015/01/26/monitor-docker-containers-with-prom...
Well, there goes my afternoon.
in terms of timing you mean? I fasted for 14 hours and simply delayed/skipped breakfast, still eating 3 meals at around 2400 calories.
Zeus, like a lot of text editors is an in memory editor, which basically means it loads the whole file into memory.

So it too is limited by the total memory available to the application.

For a 32 bit Windows application the available memory comes in at around 2 Gigs and for a 64 bit Windows application that explodes to 8 Terra bytes.

So even if Atom was 32 bit it should have 2 Gigs of memory to play with.

I'm not sure why Atom does limit files to 2 megs, but if it is because of the expansion of memory then there must be some serious expanding happening there.
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I have recently been reading up on assisted suicide clinics like Dignitas and think it is a very good idea. I can imagine someone who is dying of cancer or just old and tired of living wanting to die peacefully. Unfortunately, in my country (Singapore) and many other countries, this is illegal --- legislation makes it so that doctors cannot help patients die peacefully and would rather let the patient suffer painfully and in agony ... sounds like Hell to me. Even in Switzerland, there are tons of rules and regulations and paperwork for those determined to die in peace ... by the time it is done, the patient might have suffered incredibly. My idea is to create a sanctuary in international waters or on a private island where people who want to can travel there to die in peace , with doctors trained in assisted suicide to help. It will be a clinic with the most up-to-date technology in assisted suicide and doctors trained in this art who will live and work on this island. Because the island or ship is in international waters and under the jurisdiction of no country , there will be no laws against this and anyone who is sick or tired of living can venture there to do so. Let me know your thoughts and if anyone is interested in working on this idea ?

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The capture everything done online and store it. They can wait until you become a person of interest then plug your email address and name into the system to get your Amazon, eBay purchases, Google searches, FB comments and likes, GPS data from your phone to see where you went, who you were with by cross referencing FB friends and their phones GPS data.

They are not looking at you specifically but they are keeping your data in case one day they do want to look at you.
Yeah again, if you only want to go after research, you might run in circles. Meditation has helped me and a lot of people I know, a lot. Whether it will work for you in your circumstances is a different question. But then: The study won't be much help, because you might have different variables in your life.
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This is the sun right now: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/hmi_igr/1024/la...

"The MDI (Michelson Doppler Imager) images shown here are taken in the continuum near the Ni I 6768 Angstrom line. The most prominent features are the sunspots. This is very much how the Sun looks like in the visible range of the spectrum (for example, looking at it using special 'eclipse' glasses: Remember, do not ever look directly at the Sun!). The magnetogram image shows the magnetic field in the solar photosphere, with black and white indicating opposite polarities. "
from: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-update...
Changing to sitting on an exercise ball or going to a standing desk is a less severe thing to try to increase your overall activity level. Cheap too.
That stopped some time ago for humans, at least in industralized countries. Modern medicine, long periods of peace and (eventually) welfare provisions have taken care of that. This is a further step in that direction.

Evolution works over huge numbers, both in life and death; by effectively reducing the death-count around the globe, we're progressively abolishing it for humans.

That's a common argument, but isn't it putting too much emphasis on death as a driver of natural selection? I mean, a person who lives 80 years without ever having children is as much an evolutionary dead end as a bird who dies before he gets to reproduce.

As long as there are genetic factors that lead to some people have more or less children, evolution is still at work, even if they both live to be the same age.
"Women live longer than men" is interesting though.

Does that take into account the horrendous levels of male suicide? Statistically does this bump the average life expectancies down for men?

I'm definitely not disagreeing with you. It seems very plausible that human growth hormone could be linked to some cancers.

On a side note, is baldness actually a "health issue"? I mean I know mainstream media doesn't like to show balding men (40% over the age of 30. In TV and film not so much) but still, it's not actually life threatening.
The most annoying thing in Java without an IDE (and a source-control plugin for that IDE) is moving types from one package to another and renaming types. Due to the requirement that the directory hierarchy mirrors the package structure and that every public class is contained in a file with the same name this can be a bit annoying at times. Otherwise C# is much more concise for many things but apart from that there isn't much difference, at least for me.
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Not really surprising, I remember seeing a study with similar results, but I can't find it right now.
I don't think the name similarity was a coincidence.

For context, The Young Lady's Primer is a fictional book in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age sci-fi novel. It's a electronic choose-your-own-adventure book that tailors itself to the user, and is narrated by anonymized actors on the background (think mechanical turkey). It's highly interactive, in much the same way as Earth's Primer.
On Linux things should go in xdg dirs ~/.config ~/.local and ~/.cache instead of ~ but a lot of old unix software and sadly a decent amount of new software(even guis) don't follow the standard.
So, in another ludicrous conspiracy, one could assume that the UK government knows about the honeypots the FBI sets up, then adds them to the banned website list in order to protect its citizens?
Did you also lose bodyfat at that time? Because it's hard to gain mass if you fast and are at a caloric deficit. That's what Leangains' bulking period is all about - eat 10-20% above maintenance so you do gain mass.
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You must be talking about indexing torrents then, which has nothing to do with bittorrent per se. It's "just" a website where people drop content and comments evaluating the quality of said content. Indexes are used for searching for and retrieving content.

Bittorrent is decentralized, but Bittorrent (the protocol) says nothing about how you retrieve a torrent. It starts the moment you have retrieved a torrent (or, possibly, a magnet link), and not before.
Given the recent revelation by the New York attorney general's office [1], what confidence do you have that you are actually getting what is on the label?

(I didn't down vote you.)

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/new-york-attorney-g...
>Many males as they get older become more lovable and more pleasent to be around because of natural hormone declines.

Is your medical practice anecdote based too?
Oh yes. Rather than fixing the real abet non very sexy problems ( i.e. how to scale the system and while still keeping it somewhat manageable ) we design yet another super cool system that has the same abet different in specificity short comings ( does not scale at a reasonable TCO/simplicity ) and get accolades for yet another front-end to a barely functioning back-end.

Want to do something amazing? Get this into your requirement:

Give a modern i7 with 64G RAM, 24x 250G 6Gbit/sec SSD and 2x 10G NICs achieve sustained ingest of 6Gbit/sec of metrics over 1 NIC and be able to accept commands spit out results of queries over the second NIC while being capable of running purge cleanups of the garbage. Oh and let clients use SQL to pull the data on the flow level

Not only this would be impressive but it would actually optimize and simplify the monitoring in a great way.
You almost sound angry that other people are enjoying and having success with a language that you loath. I would wager that you simply are not taking enough time to shift your thought process to a state that is more in line with what is available in golang.
Depends on your school. UW CSE (a top 10 program) would be called rigorous but is not as theoretical (there is math, but nowhere near enough for a math minor).
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Sure, what are you looking for specifically?
There is several optimization algorithms that are inspired by nature. Especially Ant Colony Optimization.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Swarm_intelligence

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithm...
SNI is supported in the sense that, it will work fine when using it to browse to a server that has multiple https vhosts with different x.509 certificates. The proxy itself does not do anything with SNI. I'm assuming that if your use case is to point multiple domains at a single proxy address, you should probably be using a more advanced httpd than python's BaseHTTPServer. ipv6 is supported, and you can go to any AAAA-only hostname just fine.

Writing up a feature list and running benchmarks are some good ideas, thanks. :)

Edit:
I should probably mention, the live demo is heavily ratelimited as an easy way of conserving bandwidth. This way, it is more than fast enough for browsing pretty much anything, but makes it a less interesting for mass downloading large files and streaming video. It can still do that if you don't rate limit, obviously.

https://swiperproxy.github.io/documentation/sys-shorewall.ht...
In all my projects (and the projects I contribute to), style issues are a build-breaking defect.

In Python this usually means running flake8 as a Travis job.
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Then there is the quality vs. quantity aspect of living. Longer living should not be the goal in itself.
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Usually good books travel from English speaking world to other languages as translations.

One of the masterpieces that has gone the opposite direction is:

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (three volumes bound as one) by A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev (18 authors total)
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This book is really good companion for autodidacts. It's basically overview of mathematics.
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Funny, if you click "view source" on the webpage you can see that the author has comments himself.
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I don't think so. If testosterone is the culprit for increased risk of coronary artery disease, prostate cancer and sleep apnea, then doing things that naturally increase testosterone will increase risk also.

Don't succumb to the naturalistic fallacy. The body doesn't care where it gets its chemicals from.
>I was just at the gym watching the 30-year-olds at the pull-up bar building muscles in three weeks. And I’m at the pull up bar and nothing’s happening

While many of you are thinking that he's making excuses (he might be) or that the other guys worked long and hard to build muscle, I can relate: I've been lifting weights three times a week for the last four years. I still look average, and yes I'm eating and exercising properly.

I believe it might be something to do with testosterone. I was always skinny, high body fat and frail. I worked super hard to even start exercising, eventually I was able to get into routine but still now I feel like I should look much better after all this time.

What's the deal with testosterone in UK? I'm 27, is it likely that I can get it? Are there home test kits I can get (reliable ones)? Do testosterone boosters actually work (I can't verify without testing)?