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> If you weren't allowed to rent, was that also the case when you bought the house, or did that change during your ownership? It's hard to blame the HOA for enforcing rules that were available for your review at the time of purchase.

Most HOAs have a limit as to the number of units that can be rented out due to FHA/Fannie/Freddie GSE financing guidelines, as they want the complex to be owner-occupied primarily. Several people, unbeknownst to me, had purchased their units with the intent to rent them out, causing our limit to be reached before I had even purchased.
There is a also a short discussion on Reddit [1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/3a1c6a/omake_on_stero...
Sure, I know that, what's your solution though?
For a codec there is probably a clearer answer than for some other applications- codecs are very performance-sensitive (probably don't want a GC) and also very security-sensitive (you're decoding completely untrusted data). Previously they've always been written in C or C++ because of the performance requirements, and Rust keeps the same performance while adding some more safety checks. Go doesn't.
HN has carried news about fasting before, but this the first science article I've seen about a diet, i.e., food being eaten, that appears to mimic the benefits of fasting without actually fasting. That's a way easier sell for people, and also a way easier sell for doctors prescribing this to people who may be on the edge for other reasons and unable to sustain a true no-food fast.

(As long as I'm commenting, I complained a couple of days ago about how I'm very strongly willing to bet now that the "standard" diet is really quite bad, but that I'm far weaker on what a good diet is. This is the sort of thing I mean... how useful is fasting? Can we simulate the results without having to pay as many costs? How does fasting integrate with a low-carb/low-glycemic-index/whatever-else-you-like diet? What's the biochemical mechanisms at play here? Can we use those mechanisms any other way? There's so, so much fantastic and useful work to be done here, and instead we spent nearly 50 years re-running the same damned studies over and over again, wrong. ("Are eggs good for you? Are eggs good for you? Are eggs good for you? Are eggs good for you? I propose to study the question of whether eggs are good for you, give me half a million dollars...."))
Very interesting. How can we get more info on this? Is there any public code or product out there?
No, they did a super small random pilot study. Here is the section from the actual paper on the results:

In the FMD subjects, fasting blood glucose levels were
reduced by 11.3% ± 2.3% (p < 0.001; FMD) and remained
5.9% ± 2.1% lower than baseline levels after resuming the
normal diet following the third FMD cycle (p < 0.05; Figure 6B).
Serum ketone bodies increased 3.7-fold at the end of the FMD
regimen (p < 0.001) and returned to baseline levels following
normal food intake (Figure 6C). Circulating IGF-1 was reduced
by 24% by the end of the FMD period (p < 0.001) and remained
15% lower after resuming the normal diet (p < 0.01; Figure 6D).
IGFBP-1 was increased 1.5-fold at the end of the FMD regimen
(p < 0.01) and returned to baseline levels following normal food
intake (Figure 6E). These results indicate that the FMD group
was highly compliant and generally did not consume foods not
included in the FMD box provided to them.
What was the diet?
Notice how the ones trying to attract VC money aren't saying "Bitcoin" anymore.
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Not really. There's not a Napoleon cult in France and people don't talk much about it.
Interestingly, for the Belgium coin I heard on the news this morning that Belgium wanted to release an Euro coin for the bicentenary of Waterloo's battle and French government pressured Belgium so that it only remained a "collection" coin of 2.5 or 10 Euros (only valid in Belgium).

18th of June is also another important anniversary for France : it is also the De Gaulle 18th of June appeal (WWII London radio appeal for resistance)
"This will be extended to support operations in the other direction as well, namely for external systems to take action based on events within Layer."
Agreed. That was classy. But that is also a sign of them having no interest in the modern Common Lisp community :).
Yes, this paper is building on that work; developing a diet with effects similar to intermittent/prolonged fasting.
Thanks for this post. That is very interesting. It seems like a shame, because a project like this is a long road. If they haven't built a place where work can continue it will likely fade away.

I would love to see a sustainable, non-vapourware, micro-kernel. I've _heard_ such great things about them :)
I blame a lot of that on the type system. It's almost very nice, but in such a way that make compensating for the almost very painful.
Does this work well enough on a modern desktop PC without having access to Google's computing resources?
Did you read the whole thing?

"In a pilot human trial, three cycles of a similar diet given to 19 subjects once a month for five days decreased risk factors and biomarkers for aging, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer with no major adverse side effects, according to Longo."
Speaking of time..

I inherited a bug that only showed up the last 5 minutes of an hour. Except I didn't know that. The first time I worked on it, I reproduced the error but before I got the debugger started the time went by and the new hour caused the bug to go away...(why does this bug not show when the debugger is on?)

Eventually by hand tracing I figured it out.. Some weird time function was rounding the minutes to the nearest 10 minutes. When the time crept past 55 minutes rounded up to 60 and passed to a time function that didn't like...

Only bug that was harder was a serial cable with flipped wires. Which kinda worked, but gave out garbage. We figured that out with a scope.
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Other responses nearby are good. I'd just like to point out that the instruments on the craft are unique and hand-assembled, and hand-tested through several phases (thermal, vacuum, radiation), so costs don't really go down with small multiples.

Here's a picture to get the flavor: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA12021
That's basically what this is, except you do it for the query rather than for the index, and you build the structure more intelligently than just inserting all possible insertions/deletions/substitutions. If you wanted to make an index like that you could build a Levenshtein DFA for each term in the index, and then union all those together.
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Rust does not require a runtime / garbage collector and offers a programming model that interacts very precisely with external threading requirements. It supports being called from the native platform ABI without initialization, and it supports writing libraries to match an existing, native ("C") ABI and function as a drop-in replacement. Go does not do these things.

The suggestion to use Rust here is because this is specifically a thing Rust was designed to do, not because it has a huge following. Go is a great language, but it is designed for different things (and has a following of people who want it to do those different things). If those two languages are the two choices for replacing a codec that functions as a library, there is an objectively correct answer.
The idea was to not actually fast but to develop a diet that mocks fasting.
Ehhh gonna have to nitpick again

> there's no resource to allow the citizen to drill down into the actual argument as deeply as they'd like, so they can try to understand it to the depth that a close adviser would.

There are tons of resources [one example: http://www.vox.com/cards]. But the reason we have a republic is so that individuals don't need to become policy experts. They can rely on heuristics and the system is robust enough to handle it. This usually works pretty well

>go back to voting while uninformed. Which is really what the politicians want, anyway.

Most pols don't want this. Politicians want informed voters so people will be aware of the extreme efforts they go through to make their constituents happy. Election positions are determined based on polls, and extreme rigorous scientific effort goes into shaping candidates who are able and want to represent the policy desires of their constituents. (sure, the politicians might not actually believe these things, but to me that's usually irreverent. They want to be hired to do a job, which is representing the views of other people) The problem is, uninformed voters are more willing to switch sides based on emotion, ruining the math.

Informed citizens would be bad for some politicians (for example, blue state republicans who have to walk the line between the demands of their extremely conservative donors and their more moderate constituents). While some would do better with more informed voters (conservative red state democrats, for example, would be more able to shed the reputation of their national party and run on their conservative values if fewer people voted on policy as opposed to heuristics)

Basically, it's complicated
Some discussion around this on the OAuth WG mailing list: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg14629...
We'd just moved into our house, went out to supper, came back to a broken window. Inside, cupboards were open, drawers pulled - and they were all empty. We hadn't put anything away yet. The burglar went away frustrated and empty-handed.
I differ. I'm well aware that it's impossible to really block anything on the internet, just as it's impossible to really block any kind of speech in the real world. But we can try and curb the worst excesses - threats of death and violence - in the "public" spaces of the internet, that is twitter, facebook and so on. It's not only a way to make those spaces feel safer for those who are less privileged than us, it's also a statement from us, as the society that certain behavior is not accepted - because in the end, that's all a law is: A statement that we don't accept or condone murder, theft or other behavior and we, as the society will hand out punishment. And if you think about it - we punish putting bullets into people until they're maimed or dead - why should we not punish putting words into people until they're maimed or dead.
Isn't it? Kudos to the authors for a super clear paper. The graphs make everything crystal clear. Succinct and clear graphs are oddly satisfying for me.
Is it possible to sit down on someone else's computer and trivially use a Yubikey for SSH and git with SSH keys?
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Thanks in advance!
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It has been reverted[1] now. History repeats itself.

[1] - https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2700#c47
You could build and launch probes at regular intervals to L4 and L5, and dispatch them from there via low-energy transfer.

It would take months for each probe to get there, but once one arrives, you can transfer it from there to anywhere else in the universe far more easily than from the Earth's surface. And since those points are more stable than L1, L2, and L3, you can just leave the probe there for months or years until a good transfer opportunity comes up.
This has been reposted a few times now. Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654905
> Which are two of the most critical properties of a codec.

If your target is mobile or embedded, yes. Fortunately, that's not the only use case. Software codecs are a lot more interesting from the standpoint of not being fixed function.
> API's are not functional code, they are specifications on how to communicate with said code...

Code is not code, it is a specification on how to build machine language. Does that make my code any less valuable?

> ...these specifications have never been considered copyrightable until...

That's correct. Also, nothing was copyrightable until someone started a legal campaign.

> ...copyright applies foremost to the work as a whole...

So copyright can apply to an API as a whole because an API is the same thing as code. APIs are not free. People have to design them and test them, just like when they write code. What universal law do you think grants you the right to just take someones work?

> Non-copyrightable API's is in turn is the reason we enjoy atleast some level of interoperability today...

Yes and tax loopholes are legal until they're not too. Just because you're getting something for free already doesn't mean you're somehow guaranteed entitlement to it forever.
Even then, you can still do that with FOSS code so what's the need? The Mozilla/Icecat(weasel) saga is a good example.
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So every trait can be heritable, but often they only are about half the time? To me, 49% seems kind of high, considering multiple parent, dominant and recessive traits, etc. Then again, I may not be interpreting heritability to mean the same thing as you meant in this context.
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Thanks for responding. Yeah I'm sort of at a loss, but this is my first codebase with React.js and it's the only one that has had these issues. I'll shoot you a message.
I'm still lost on that prerequisite part, about a quantum algorithm someone computing something that depends on all the bits without looking at all of them. It sounds like, if I classically query all the bits, that counts as n queries, but if I apply some quantum operation to the n bits, that only counts as 1 query?

In what sense is the quantum algorithm (like for DJ or Grover's) only doing 1 query? How would that differ from calling it "one query" if I build a (classical) circuit of OR/AND gates and plug it in to the bits one time?
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I remember Byte magazine and I'm not that old.
I got fizzbuzzed in an interview recently. I knew exactly what to do, came out with it in a simple way in python.

Then "how about without the modulo operator". The solution is so obvious - using the modulo operator, I had a mental block. It was fine once I got nudged in the right direction, but under normal circumstances I wouldn't have needed the nudge.
There are definitely a lot of much more interesting videos from PGConf US 2015, especially the one from Robert. My talk was a 'keynote' and not really a conference talk :)
Indeed, but this study controlled for caloric intake.

"The total monthly calorie intake was the same for the FMD and control diet groups, indicating that the effects were not the result of an overall dietary restriction."
It's an okay discussion, but it would be infinitely better with some simple code that actually causes node to fail under load because of back-pressure problems (and then patch the test such that node survives).
But that doesn't include the credit card association's 2.10% or whatever, does it? Stripe does.

Yes, collapsing the confusing levels of this process is certainly worth something.
So no further correction on my apparent misunderstanding of EEO and the malevolent racism that is the Rooney Rule?

I'm willing to admit I'm wrong if you can show how discriminating against hiring people based on their race or sex isn't discriminating against hiring people based on their race or sex - or how the Rooney Rule, which encourages discriminating in favor of hiring people based on their race or sex in this context, is not racist or sexist.

I have no qualms with being racist in the context of wanting to see other minority groups and whites (who, in this context, are a minority group) in a field primarily dominated by blacks. For the same reason other people have no qualm with being racist and wanting more minority groups in primarily white fields. I just want them to be aware that they are being racist.
There's also http://appenlight.com which has some really unique features, like custom graphs and performance monitoring. Also written in python :)
That may have used to be true, but with every release of Java the language and standard library grows. More features means simplicity is lost, and Java is huge.
I am far from an expert in this area, but you can do SIMD with Rust: https://github.com/huonw/simd
Do you have the code for those macros somewhere online?
Thanks! Really glad to hear you like it. Our goal is to absolutely disrupt the industry and give everyone the same tools for success. With a simplified licensing structure like you'll find with other great SaaS tools we think we take a lot of the pain out of the process!
So in the future Firefox / Servo will implement decoders in Rust too?
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Then they found out where that extra memory had come from.
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The destinations the probes go to are drastically different, and generally the things you want to study aren't identical. What's more is that the mission plans for probes need to be extremely detailed, which impacts the design of the actual probes. The extreme level of detail necessary for a mission is also one of the reasons probes aren't launched on short timeframes.

However, they are absolutely used for more than one purpose, and this is part of the reason the mission plans are so detailed. We generally try to get as much usable science out of what we send. For example, the mission for Cassini Huygens[1] included Venus, Jupiter, and obviously Saturn and its moons. Some of the other easy examples... Voyager[2] I and II, Spirit and Opportunity[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover
Any military project with a 'J' in the acronym increases the likelihood of the program going over-budget...
The authors disclosed they have equity in a company called L-Nutra, which intends to sell diet food packs:

http://www.l-nutra.com/index.php/products/prolon

Nothing for sale yet, but hopefully the price will be competitive with do-it-yourselfers. I am cautiously optimistic about this direction.
Sure, just create a new package and don't import CL:SETF into it.
It's that, plus cloud orchestration (i.e., SmartDataCenter) which includes sdc-docker, providing the Docker API and image management.
> Modern game development seems to say "eh, a little hitching won't hurt anyone"

Or just like in the PS1 days, game developers still have to make trade-offs to meet dead drop dates set by publishers.

Online enabled patches can allow developers to be a little more cavalier with the quality, as they push to build more features closer to ship date.
> The reason they look so 'fractal-like' (e.g. trippy!) is because they actually are fractals!

While I agree with your idea about fractals (though you're a bit vague on the math details to know for sure), I also believe that a large reason the images look so "trippy" is because there is some local contrasting effect at work, generating high-saturation rainbow fringes at the edges of details and features. You get loads of that on psychedelics as well.

I bet there's a pretty straightforward reason to explain these rainbow fringes, if one were to dig into it, though.

Another (unrelated) observation I had was the feeling that the neural net seemed to be reproducing JPEG-artifact type fringes in the images? Though it could be that I was just looking at scaled versions of already JPEG-compressed output images, the article doesn't provide details (if only they had been PNGs ...).
https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib
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Not an expert, but in this specific case I suspect the radiation has no impact, because any life on Europa is most likely to exist tens of miles beneath the ice surface in the hypothesized warm oceans beneath.
I don't believe this person posted in the IRC channel.
Appropriate article for the first day of Ramadan.
> Somehow, all the businesses that currently exist and accept credit cards are doing so without more than 1-2% chargeback rates.

Citation needed.

https://www.quora.com/Online-Payment-Gateways-and-Processing...

"Amount over $2400-$2500 mark suddenly experiences a surge and it is almost 3.0% to 3.5%"

I have personally had times where my chargeback rate has been above 2%.

Being able to accept credit cards is more of a right rather than a privilege given how much of a monopoly they have and it is virtually impossible to accept payments online through any other means.

I take it you are in favor of credit card companies being able to block payments to arbitrary entities such as wikileaks?
Basically no two probes carry the same set of scientific instruments.

That's the problem. Great as those are, by continually making one- or two-of-a-kind devices we are endlessly prototyping. What if we picked one or a few different designs, selecting for greatest generality, and then worked to get the costs very low by manufacturing a lot of them, accepting that they will be suboptimal for almost every target?

Of course crappy probes would give crappy results, and many of them would fail altogether. But what if we deployed hundreds of cheap crappy probes on a regular basis - ie build a shotgun instead of a series of sniper rifles? Obviously finding a good general-purpose design is easier said than done.

We have I think 3 lunar probes in orbit at the moment, and a few more on the way, as well as various probes that have gone to the moon, sent back a bit of data, and then crashed into it by design. That's not very many at all. The moon's not that far away, why not try putting 50 low-cost probes around it with the same instrumentation and see what we learn from that? If we can get better astronomical observations from arrays of relatively low-power telescopes, surely we will get better planetary observational data from arrays of low-quality probes? Simply getting an array of probes up there and running and learning hwo to handle the networking, data flow, and and the inevitable variety of unexpected failure modes will provide us with a vast amount of experience, not to mention a vast amount of additional data about the moon that can be benchmarked against a whole lot of excellent data we have already for accuracy.

I don't mean this as a dig at you or the other commenters critiquing this proposal, but you remind me of Thomas J Watson suggesting that "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" (not withstanding the apocryphal nature of this quote, similar sentiments were expressed by other experts around that period, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquo...).
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I don't think it's a worthless goal (it's not that bad writing different versions of the code for different processors, since it's pretty mechanical and really only done at the end, but it would be nice not to have to), but I don't really trust the C++ standards committee to do a good job of it.

Thinking about SIMD in an object oriented way (e.g. the way the committee typically designs things) is just dead wrong, and will not result in any signficant performance gains relative to the scalar code. The best way to get good performance is to use each lane of the SIMD register to represent an additional element that's processed simultaneously, because otherwise you lose a lot of flexibility. E.g. instead of v1 = {x1, y1, z1, w1}, v2 = {x2, y2, z2, w2}, ... you have v1 = {x1, x2, x3, x4}, v2 = {y1, y2, y3, y4}, ... etc.