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> In a lot of ways, "if you don't like it, get another job" like "if you don't like it, get another country."

There are big differences between the two unless you live in a state that borders Canada. In most cases, getting a new job does not require you to relocate far away or significantly change your lifestyle.

> It's a fairly illiquid market for employees because the cost of getting to an agreement, negotiating terms (never-mind sampling) is very high.

Is this cost higher than staying miserable? About the only thing I can think of for being forced to stay employed with Amazon is to complete the "two year tour of duty" for your resume.

I'd agree with you more if we were discussing uneducated and unskilled workers. However unless I missed something I feel that we were talking about skilled and educated workers that are in demand by many companies.

That said I'm not condoning any company that has bad practices and I'm still sympathetic to anyone that gets poorly treated at any company, while at the same time I feel that staying with a company that makes you unhappy as an highly in demand worker is a conscious choice you make as an adult. I don't feel that most people have work contracts. Employment is at will for both the employer and employee.
Does Greece not have elections? How can you separate the people from the government that they elect?
Using same 2008 macbook as article mentions with same upgrades, going great. Same can't be said for all macbooks though, 2011 range springs to mind as particularly prone to failure and the newer ones just don't feel as sturdy to me.
It's not that simple. You can still eat more of those than your body needs to fuel itself for the day, and then what? Plus, denying your desires completely is the best way to fall hard off the wagon. Like most things in life, it's about the balance. One bad day is recoverable, quitting entirely is not.
> Proteins may require as much as five times more energy to digest as fats because our enzymes must unravel the tightly wound strings of amino acids from which proteins are built. Yet food labels do not account for this expenditure.

That's not quite true. Protein has 5 calories per gram, but labels only count 4 because of this fact.
Then, depending on structure, people could assist on the delayed dependency, or devote time to a lower-priority project until they are able to work on the more important one.

If neither of these are possible, then it probably is okay for that employee to work shorter days in the meantime, and leadership resources should spend time solving the bottle neck issues to prevent the situation in the future.
2009 octo mac pro with only 8 GB of ram ... still using it daily for all rsync.net work related duties (which includes at least 2 vmware fusion VMs running at all times). Works perfectly. Is fast. Runs snow leopard without a hitch.

2008 Macbook air was in (hard) daily use and travel from end of 2008 to beginning of 2015. Would still be using it if not for 2 GB of RAM becoming insufficient for a browser with many open tabs.

I've owned a lot of computers of many different form factors and it's hard to think of anything that comes close in terms of physical design and durability. Maybe SGI workstations from the Octane2/Tezro years ... and current model supermicro rackmount servers.

I'm worried, however ... the new 12" macbook with a single port (which gets used up by the power adaptor) is a fatal flaw. I've wanted a retina MBA for years now and now that there is one, there is no way I can use it. I predict buying a max-spec 11" MBA[1] just before they go out of production and using that for many years.

[1] with two full-sized USB ports in addition to thunderbolt.

EDIT: also, I haven't checked recently, but I think there now exists a bootable PCIe SSD for 2009 Mac Pros ... which means if I max out my ram and switch to PCIe SSD I could very easily run this Mac Pro for another five years. I think there is a 4k capable video card available for it and the lack of fast SATA is obviated by the pcie SSD ... really the only thing missing would be USB3, but I can live without that...
No search results appear, how is this better than Google again?
"For the purpose of losing weight it really doesn't matter if the calorie counts are accurate or not"

Pretty basic math tells you even a very small percent wrong (1-2) would affect weight gain/loss over the course of a year :)

I'm also not sure what you mean by "consistency". You say " If you aren't losing weight, adjust your caloric intake until you are losing weight at a steady ~1-2lb per week."

How can you adjust your caloric intake if you don't know the real numbers?
I guess you are assuming you eat literally the same thing every week, and drop stuff on the floor until you have a set of foods you know make you lose weight, and then only eat that for the rest of your life? That seems a bad strategy to keep weight off. Most people would probably be willing to eat less of something (which they sanely could if they knew the real calorie counts), but probably not change their entire diet and keep it steady forever.

Even if you just reduce the number of calories to try to account for all the inaccuracies, you are still in a situation where you actually have no idea what you can or can't eat.
IE i you say "well, 1500 calories a day didn't work, i'll try 1000", in practice, some days you will have eaten 1500, some days, 900. Your claim this will just average out magically is patently false (it only averages out over time if the numbers are less than a certain percentage away from right, and that percent is very small).

If you are eating different combinations of things, the likelihood you will ever find which are wrong/right, so you know to eat less/more of it, seems really slim. You still have zero idea what you can eat for real, and you'll still find if you swap what foods you eat, you may start gaining/losing weight. So "consistency" or whatever you want to call it, doesn't make any sense.

Now, i'll grant there may be no other way to accomplish your goal right now, but suggesting this is a good method is wrong. It's a horrible method. This is like trying to optimize a multivariable constraint problem through random guessing.
Honestly, while I'm sure I will find it amusing and I do find this stuff fascinating, I'm truly afraid of some of this stuff being converted to long term memory and having something more important being discarded :)

That's why I stopped reading the bible after the first 10 chapters or so and why I only lasted a few pages with the Falun Gong book. I have to stop there because I do not want to derail this thread further and because several "Hollow Earth" believers are downvoting my original post :)
I've got a free mac from a friend who upgraded to a latest retina model - it was a 2009 Core2Duo 15" MacBook Pro. I've put a 128GB SSD in(cheapest kingston one), bought a new charger, cleaned it throughout and it works perfectly well. It's really impressive.
My parents still use an old G4 tower of mine I got in 1999/2000. They mainly use an iPad but they use it from time to time for accounting things and basic tasks an iPad can't handle.

Honestly, the case is still unbelievably cool looking. I want it when they eventually decide to get rid of it.
You mean the game? Not sure there's much potential for confusion.
Although the original spec limited the 2008 alu Macbooks to 4Gb RAM one of the post-release firmware updates upped that limit to 8Gb. Mine’s been running fine with that, at least. Also, it’s on the support schedule for El Capitan.
This sort of reminds me of my old FileMaker days in terms of the way you layout the UI, populate it, etc.

I'll definitely keep an eye on this, I feel it could be very useful.
No, I can get an MBA closer from home and cheaper. I don't really need the university brand name just how to run a business, it would be closer to CPA imo. Where you figure out what business type you want such as corp c, corp s, or lld. And where would you choose deleware to incorp or offshore to cayman island, etc...

I've seen Sanford and they seem to be gear toward startup and have a better grasp on it. They have a few guest speaker from industry and they're close to silicon valley, a few of video seems to be gear toward tech startup. Unfortunately, I doubt I would get into it and it's expensive, any CSU (California State) would do for me.
Of course, you have to keep in mind the form those calories are coming in. Fats, though energy dense, are pretty much slow release. Fructose, on the other hand, is just nasty stuff that leads to a build-up of visceral fat. Both of them contribute to your calorie count, but they both affect your body in very different ways.
I look forward to an entirely robotic fast-food joint. Drive up, wave your rfid card, get a list of your last 5 menu choices, poke at one, food comes out the slot in a bag. No human involved.
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> get your desires under control

this is by far the hardest part. anyone can do it for a few days, even a couple weeks. but for significant weight loss (20 lbs or more) you need to be consistent for months, and that, imo, is the essential reason that so few people succeed.
Minimum-wage offensive could speed arrival of robot-powered restaurants
Not true - I'd say 9/10 Seattle area companies would LOVE to have an ex-Amazon employee join the team. It has a major reputation locally for "put in your 2 years then work wherever you want in Seattle"
"Equivalent x86 Linux servers are 1/4 the price."

That doesn't sound right to me. What are you considering an equivalent x86 machine?
I have and use a 2006 MacBook Pro 17" which Apple treats in a bizarre way. Latest version of Mac OS X works on it fine as do things like Photos (which sucks but that's another story) and iTunes.

But they don't support the hardware. It is considered (their word): obsolete. The battery died long ago (Apple actually replaced it once years ago when it swelled up) and needs replacing (the replacement battery also swelled up) and they won't replace it.
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> reported calorie information on the food you eat is still the only reliable way to lose weight.

Carbohydrate and sugar reductions seem like a very reliable way too. There are many anecdotes about successful weight loss on diets that allowed the person to "eat as much as they want" but had to limit their daily intake of carbohydrates.
Hey, would you mind if I added a link to this article from gopacket's README.md?
If you're getting a 4x difference in IPC using a crypto microbenchmark from compiled C code (i.e. it doesn't sound like you're bandwidth or I/O limited), there has to be something else at work. POWER8 is a nice core, but it's not that wide. Maybe the compiler was recognizing your operations and replacing them with AES primitives?
I started out my career in IT as an AS/400 operator / Netware 3.12 admin, and while AS/400 / iSeries aren't "en vogue" these days, I have a lot of respect for those machines. As you say, they are rock solid. One of the places I worked for had an even older machine, an IBM S/36 (predecessor to the AS/400) and while ancient, it just kept plugging away, day after day after day after day...

OTOH, you couldn't pay me to program in RPG/400 using SEU. Building menus, or playing around with a little CL on on the '400 is one thing. But RPG programming sucks. Well, it did anyway. Maybe things have gotten better. I understand the ILE stuff made RPG less column oriented and closer to a free-form language, but I had never had a chance to use that.
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I'm not sure if there was a public statement, but I was commenting on the thread way back when it happened. It turns out that there was an editor issue with the way the canary was being updated that prevented the new one from getting saved, and nobody realized that was the case.

We've since changed the way we update the canary and added monitoring checks to notify us if it's out of date. IIRC we also changed the text to a more clear version.
In it's largest incarnation, Terry Bozzio's drumkit absolutely dwarfed Peart's.

http://i.imgur.com/W81F6XN.jpg
So it looks like they've come a rather long way around to building the world's best graphical query builder, with plans for much more beyond?
I don't know, if losing weight is so simple, I'd assume obesity rates won't be as high as 80% in USA during the "diet/health" craze phase we have going on. Theres gotta be other factors that we just don't know about, like metabolization, which will be ultimately what drives obesity down.
I would assume it would have the same effect as with end-to-end encryption mails, where you just have unencrypted data when you are communicating with people that don't support this. Such as is the case with https://protonmail.ch/
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For some time now i have wondered what happens if one only eats corn for a week.
I use notebooks and pens for all of my note-taking.

Pulling out a laptop is too slow, cumbersome, and not practical in all situations. My notebooks are slim and discreet.

My notebooks do not need to be recharged.

My notebooks are designed to hold ink and can last for hundreds of years in the right conditions. Physics won't change much in that time. Computers and file formats will.

My notebooks can be easily recycled when I do not wish to keep them anymore. My laptop is expensive to recycle and there is a non-trivial amount of materials within it that are not recoverable and must simply be stored somewhere...

A pen and paper is the most intuitive interface we have for recording thought. It's entirely free-form and adapts to how I wish to use it without any programming or maintaining complicated digital formats. It exists as a single artifact.

I won't be interrupted mid-stream by a hardware failure, power-outage and I won't lose my work to corruption.

My notebook doesn't phone home to the NSA (yet) or the cloud.

With a good method of organization I can find my notes without much difficulty. Sure I can tag, search, and sort through the streams of bytes I write out on a disk but I rarely find use for such functionality. I'm sure I can keep a database of my books if this becomes an issue.

My thoughts exist in a physical artifact. This gives me a sense of permanence and will certainly leave evidence of my passing when I'm gone. Someone will have to pick up that stack of books and do something with it. Digital files can simply be deleted. Time-stamps and some bytes in an archive don't seem to have the same effect.
Even if the robot costs more today, that wouldn't change the inevitability of it happening. A $10k robot this year will be a $5k (in today's value) robot in 5 years. While wages go up, tech costs go down. No one will escape that.
As a hobbyist I have always been frustrated with the price of used Macs, even ones that weren't even usable anymore. I just wanted an old G3 or Quadra to goof around on, and guy still wanted $600 for them. C'mon!
The game was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title as well.
Could already be breached, and we would probably never know. It's not feasible for somebody to post all the info online like often happens in hacks, there's just too much data.
Try again. Took a minute to reboot server.
> The one's who are "right" -- they have the money. Because they understood what reality is.

Your entire post is a pretty damning conviction of yourself. I feel sorry for you.
I think being in front-page of hacker news broke the site.
> The traditional christian teaching is that solitude is bad. Man is a social animal and can only properly develop joined to family and community and church, fulfilling duties and obligations to each.

I wouldn't ascribe too much significance or meaning to 'Christian' teaching. It has no basis in science or empiricism.
as long as the calories on the labels are correlated with the real numbers it works. plus, its not like you're going to adjust your calorie consumption by 1% to gain/lose weight. if you're altering your consumption by 20-30%, you can tolerate small amounts of errors.

also, counting calories works. anyone that has actually done it can tell you that.
> a genetic disorder and has nothing to do with being solitary.

You don't really know that. We know very well that weak social ties aggravate all kinds of health problems. Extensive time alone is probably worse for you than smoking. It's perfectly plausible the Nietzche's habit of spending many weeks alone at a time brought about his early demise.
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Waiting for NLP to get to the point where it has < .1% errors is going to take a long time (which would be minimum to get people to trust it). Instead a user friendly version of command line makes much more sense. User friendly like my mom could use it, not me.

Obviously that's easier said than done, but at least feasible, compared to a pure NLP solution.
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Send Messages on Tissues. XD?
That was bittersweet. Was on a small digital ocean droplet. Wasn't expecting such a large response, so I'm really happy. I've upgraded the droplet so hopefully everything continues to work now.
That's not true. If some calories are not absorbed, then they're not really "in", are they?
I think that most of the HN users will agree that startups and tech should be among the available topics. Other than that I'm looking forward to actually seeing the app!
I'll report back once this is done. It's back up.
That book is golden - it explains clearly the incentives of the players in the corporate world with concise examples. It should be compulsory reading for every corporate employee, not just ones in pathological environments, so everyone would understand what the true rules of the game are.
It's not a unique property of Macs. I've got the cheapest laptop I could buy in August 2001, a Toshiba that still runs...and runs fine with Wary Puppy or Win2k despite it's CopperMine 800mhz Celeron for many tasks. I've got a Dell workstation from 2008 that still has more cores than I can light up unless I try...and this Thinkpad, bought used, is 2010 vintage.

Computers tend not to go bad. Instead, jumping on the feature bandwagon that drives the product line model to profitability makes us feel that 800 million cycles per second is useless. In the early aughts, out in my garage I had bootlegged Windows Advanced Server running on a 40mhz 486DX2 with 8 megs of RAM full time to serve up the occasional file off the 340meg disk.
Apple's Real Diversity Numbers Didn't Move All That Much
My wife just got the new macbook and freaking loves it. I have not heard a single complaint about the single port. She uses an adapter for the rare case where she needs to plug anything additional in.

Her biggest complaint is she sometimes forgets whether she has it in her bag or not because there is so little weight difference either way.
Temporarily. It's back up. :)
Well, it's not always 'getting your desires under control'. If your insulin level is low (not critically, but lower than average), your fighting with a desire to eat something sweet will end in a sweet-eating attack.
Knowledge is a bit more correct answer there. If you know what and why happens in your organism, it's easier to regulate the processes.
obesity rates are high because people don't try hard and consistently to lose weight. people lead busy lives, diets are not fun, and its very easy to eat a high calorie diet. diets don't work because people don't stick to them, not because diets don't work.
"Simple, not easy".

You track your calories, you track your weight. If you're not losing weight you reduce your calories until you are. This method compensates for peoples differing metabolism and activity levels.
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You get a pretty decent multiple of performance on power vs. intel. Probably something like 4-7x for common use cases.

Generally speaking, you buy the hardware because your workload needs the single core performance, or you're arbitraging vendor licensing costs for software.

Also, IBM's bread and butter is "peaky" financial services and gov't business, so they have business models that makes it work from a $ pov. You can buy a box with 100 cores, pay for 20, and lease 30 more for a few days to meet your peak demands for tax/christmas/billing season.
Confusion reigns. They should call it Evie.
It's key in how he summarizes it at the end: "it's not easy, but it's very simple."

Losing weight isn't complicated. Eat less, move more. That's it.

Losing weight is extremely difficult. The drive to eat is a fundamental instinct. That instinct isn't calibrated for constant easy availability of food. We inherently want to eat more than is good for us in an environment of abundance. Fighting that requires a great deal of willpower, which is a limited resource.

Successful weight loss comes down to figuring out how to reduce your intake and increase your movement without requiring more willpower than you can actually muster. This is really hard. But losing weight is still simple.
A similar toolkit, RecordStream, with support for many types of inputs beyond CSV: https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream
To calculate weight loss or weight gain (by counting calories) you need to know how many calories you eat and how many calories you burn. Since the latter is nearly impossible to guess, it's usually estimated with the first one and weight loss during the first month.

This automatically adjusts to any error in the calorie estimation.

Lets say someone eats 2000 kcal a day, but the "real" number is actually 1900 kcal. Lets also assume that in fact his weight maintenance level is 1900 kcal. After a month the person has neither lost nor gained any weight. This person will then incorrectly assume that his true maintenance level is actually 2000 kcal, and reduce his estimated calories to 1900 kcal, thus starting the weight loss process.

Yes, it would be nice to get perfect estimates, but it doesn't matter much in the weight loss or weight gain process. In addition, most people don't have a deficit or surplus of a mere 100 kcal, it can be 500 to 1000 kcal, which makes the error in "true" calories even less important.
That's basically just introversion and it's a perfectly normal way to think and behave for a large section of the population.

Introverts reacharge their batteries by engaging in solitary activities.
As someone with a similar level of experience, you are dead on.
Why don't you even use Persona on your own sites? :(
I still don't see this as an argument against calorie counting. When I over eat I know that I'm getting more calories than I need. It doesn't matter if the stem of the plant I eat is harder or easier to digest when the average calories consumed is higher than the average calories needed to lose or maintain weight. I really wish people would just admit as much and not fight in the margins for a completely wrong theory.
I read "Sum" as "Sun" and was trying to figure out why there was a bubble with "salary" in it.
It's just all so anecdotal. Finding five frustrated employees of a company with things would not be hard to do, and the response pointed out how many of the major complaints were severely taken out of context. It just reeks if someone trying to make a story when there is none.
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Hi, if you are experiencing corruption of data with the community edition, please let us know. We will take a look at that immediately.

The paid version of the software funds the community edition for Couchbase. I cannot say our system is perfect and I am certainly happy to hear feedback on how you'd like to see community vs enterprise edition configured. Posting here is fine or I am at - cihan@couchbase.com.
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