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> This doesn't require any "adjustment" on the body's part, it is a natural outcome of having less mass to maintain. I am speaking of something different, of the possibility of the body sensing starvation and shifting into kind of a high efficiency sustainment mode, perhaps lower metabolism, perhaps more efficient extraction of calories from food. Does this actually happen, I don't know, but I believe from personal experience and reading forums that there is a phenomenon of hitting a weight plateau that is not explained by the simplistic calories in, calories out theory.

I personally think that what you're describing can happen under certain circumstances, most common when you suddenly under eat calories by a wide margin.. i.e. you've been eating 3000/day for years, then suddenly start eating 1500/day.

So it's important to only go a little below your maintenance requirements.

If you still hit a plateau, just drop a little more, and repeat. You will push through the plateau, eventually.

>Why do conversations on certain topics have to degrade to nonsense if someone doesn't agree with your point of view?

Sorry, that's the Engineer coming out in me - when I'm thinking something through I always immediately think of the minimum and maximum case to better understand what's going on. I didn't mean to offend.

>Some people, me for example, can diet for a period, drop <x> pounds, and then I'm good for years with paying very little attention to diet - not everyone has it that easy though. But while I am dieting, I prefer to optimize it so it's over as quickly as possible.

You're a very lucky person.

>The idea of optimizing things is a fairly common theme on this site, but again, there seems to be something about the topic of dieting that changes the way people think.

I'm all for optimizing, and I personally think the calories in / calories out method is optimizing weight loss. I've never heard/seen a better and simpler way. It's the fundamental starting point of all diets - i.e. eat less energy than you burn.
Could not agree more. However you do realize that this is a favorite idea of the founders of YC? PG and RM's company was based around it. Recently someone posted a video of an interview with PG and he seemed absolutely enamoured with a more recent "cloud" company that did the same thing. He thought it was cool that the code entered on the screen never for a moment was saved on the author's own computer.

I use my browser to browse. And that's all. This allows the browser to be smaller, faster, less complex, and, if it matters, more secure.
How does it handle VAT MOSS on digital goods in the EU?

The new rules state that sellers must charge VAT at the rate of the buyer's country and must record evidence of the buyer's location. Even businesses under the VAT threshold must register for VAT just to comply, unless you're selling through a third party who handles it for you - like Google Play.
"the purchaser can then download the file from your storage via our website, so the file's location is never exposed." It looks like their site acts as a proxy to the dropbox link which only allows those who have paid to access the file
I just stopped using OS X for work, and I'm much happier... If I had to use OS X again, I'd be dearly tempted to fullscreen a Linux VM.
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Why not date some of the ink?
Hold on, why is there no market for sub $25m valued companies? How did the SEC kill that market?
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It actually works with openCL. I had to do a few changes to make it work on MacOSX, but I beleive the language barrier and the fact that his project is in a flux and I came out of the blue caused these few lines to not merge. Please see my fork of his dev branch, that works with 9.5dev: https://github.com/pg-strom/devel/pull/144

correction: those changes to compile on macox did get pulled so https://github.com/pg-strom/devel should build with openCL on your mac to link with 9.5dev.
Alright, this headline just seems wrong.

First, radiocarbon dating comes with error bars. The date range identified is from 570 C.E. to 632 C.E. Given that Muhammad is thought to have founded Islam in the period from 610 C.E. to 630 C.E., and that date keeping was relatively good in this period, this would seem to confirm rather than dispute the traditional accounts.

Second, the radiocarbon dating was performed on the parchment only, not the ink, as the article belatedly notes. Given the practice of ancient scribes to re-use parchment repeatedly, a rather unfortunate practice that has resulted in the loss of uncountable ancient texts, the age of the writing would be controlling, not the age of the parchment.

Third, I'm forced to draw a rather unfortunate conclusion from this information. The assertion in this article seems deliberately calculated to undermine the historicity of Islam. There is a very sad and shortsighted movement in some corners of military scholarship right now that identifies Islam itself as the enemy, often beginning with Huntington's "clash of civilizations" narrative and ending with some examples of sheer lunacy, such as the recent article by a West Point associate professor arguing that legal human rights scholars are "an Islamist fifth column."

Islam is one of the world's great religions, and like all religions it inspires everything from massive works of charity to zealotry, persecution, and bigotry. I have known many good people who drew their strength from Islam, and condemning an entire religion is a type of insanity that is directly contrary to the founding principles of the United States.

Islam is not the enemy. Those who would pervert it for their own violent ends are. We cannot lose that distinction.
That makes sense: they have a better tolerance for risk because they inherited their money, and thus are young enough to take slightly foolish chances (someone who has made his money the hard way is more likely to be responsible with it).

Which leads one to wonder what the unintended consequences of tinkering with gift, inheritance and other family-related tax rates might be. For that matter, if Mike Markkula had not received all those stock options at Fairchild & Intel and been able to retire, would we all have smartphones and personal computers today, or would we be stuck with an OSI/ITU-type centralised consumer-only network?
> ‘I can’t commit to another show, and I don’t have the time to emotionally commit to another show.'

I don't have this problem at all. There are shows that are too intense of a commitment for me (e.g., there are only so many Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones that you can watch at a time), but I always find myself at a loss for the lower-key shows. I end up watching reruns of shows that I know I like, but there are only so many of those on Netflix, so either I end up watching the same ones over and over, or I turn to my non-Netflix collection.

> It's as if I finished all the entertaining novels out there have to wait a year for one or two more to trickle out one chapter at a time.

This is why I love Netflix originals. Aside from being consistently high-quality and high production value (comparable to HBO/Showtime), they're perfect for binge-watching. I actually don't binge-watch so much, but I do appreciate being able to choose my own pace, which Netflix is perfectly optimized for.
I'm not saying that I agree with them or that what they believe is right. I'm saying that I accept their beliefs.

> rather, when you can't work for them because you're a woman, or black, or Jewish. How can this not be obvious?

It's obvious because they aren't allowed to do that. Limiting someone's rights (which they would be doing) is not within their rights.

You do realize that you are saying that a certain demographic shouldn't be hired because they wouldn't hire another certain demographic?

> old white guy

Oh dear... I've realized what I'm arguing against and we're quite done.
Older works I have seen referred to CE as meaning "Christian Era" anyway. I don't know if that predates "Common Era" or not, though.
+1 would read more.
Not JUST the diacritical marks. The writing style looks like Nashk, which came much MUCH later than the Koran.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others"
Right! Had we not squandered all those wonderful hardware performance gains on useless stuff like web browsers, searching the entire internet in milliseconds or streaming HD video over the net, we could now play Pac-Man thousands of times faster than in 1983!!!
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Lewis Mumford talks about that as well in the book, in earlier chapters. He says that mass production focused on quantity rather than quality of life. More of something doesn't necessarily improve quality of life.

Mumford actually argues for more automation; and it makes sense. Why are there still cleaning crews and construction crews that work insane hours for not the best pay in the world? Why haven't we automated that so those people can pursue happiness? Giving them more TVs or iPhones won't improve their quality of life substantially. My favourite example is computers in the classroom; they haven't really increased the education of students, only made certain things more convenient; we still have classroom sizes that are too large to teach effectively, we don't cover the material properly, we teach to the standardized tests, etc. Those are all quality problems that can't be fixed with quantity of material goods.

It's "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness", not "life and the pursuit of wealth". Materially we're doing great and we could be going further with more automation, but in the mind, we have huge issues that have been swept under the rug and are only seriously looked at by academics.
It's a logical question, but unfortunately things don't work like that.

Whule both might be turing-complete, the kind of tasks a GPU does fast are the tasks that are extremely parallelizable.

3D image creation (the most basic thing they do) is like that. So are other tasks we program them to do (e.g. running some number crunching etc).

But normal programs we run (the OS, Word, Photoshop, the web browser etc) are not like that, and we can't easily make them like that.
With the kind of money he has, Cuban should know that Angel investing is nothing new. I was part of a startup in the late 90s that was entirely funded by angel investments. These private investments are just business as usual. The only new thing is the organization of micro investment angels to allow investment from people with less money. Personally I think those are a bad idea and smart people would be better putting their money in an index fund, but I'm not a big risk taker.
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You are basically talking about risk vs. reward, and bring up an interesting point. In the original tech bubble of 2000 the broad market ended up participating in highly risky investments without fully understanding the risk because every company was IPOing.

It is a much different environment today where the majority of the very high early risk is being shouldered by private investment. IMHO, this is how it should be and in no way is nearly as bad as the 2000 bubble.
You have arguably less information when you wake up in that you don't know the time. Are you waking up because it's tails? because it's heads? or is it tails the second time?
Uh... I don't know how else to say this:

There is no real problem here; having "too many" "good" TV shows to watch is not a problem by any stretch of anyone's imagination. This article, and lamentably, this comment pertaining to that article, are a complete and utter waste of time and human attention. If you have read the comments section first, please close the comments as well as the article immediately and do not read any further.
> Perhaps it's equivalent to the seemingly obligatory sideswipe at the British Daily Mail on the part of some folk.

The Daily Mail carries comments from people wanting refugees to be shot (a variety of ammunition is suggested, a few only want rubber bullets, a few want live rounds) or tear gassed, or sprayed with sewage.

Recently some bloggers took anti Jewish Nazi propaganda and changed the word "Jew" to "migrant" and posted it to the DM comments sections. Readers upvoted those comments.

DM regularly has creepy articles about underage girls. http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/all-grown-up-sexing-up-the-in...

The Daily Mail is scum.
I was wrong about that. I thought there were cases where accusation + not (yet) being proved innocent was enough to get on the list. But a look at wikipedia shows that some kind of conviction or guilty plea is always involved.

But there is this about the UK: "and unconvicted people thought to be at risk of offending" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender_registry#United_K...
>But… the T3 is symmetric? And not from the 90s, it was launched in 2010?

I was thinking of the T4 and I had my dates wrong. T4 does weird dynamic threading internally. So it can be Out of Order and In Order at the same time. Depending on the number of execution units you need.

Furthermore you illistrate that Intel was again ahead. Having 6 core scalar galaxy hiding behind a virtual processor. You can just change that to a 3 and low-and-behold 50% less power consumption!
You just gave me a great idea: I'll just call Javascript "Lisp" internally, and be glad that Lisp is everywhere.
It may not be that comprehensive yet, but I thought this was interesting:

> Only a small minority of serious vulnerabilities appear to be disclosed anywhere outside a vendor advisory, making it extremely dangerous to rely on press coverage (or any other casual source) for evaluating personal risk.

I've always had a feeling that the cycle of reading an article on publicized security flaw X and then jumping in response to update or replace something immediately was kinda pointless. Seems better to have a regular update schedule and practice good defense in depth than to watch the tech media and obsess over their reports.
I also added their ATOM feed to my RSS reader, and I'm curious if some interesting articles will come.
Wow, I'm going to do this as soon as possible. This seems great. Let me read the comments on the article first though. But then I'm really going to do this.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9147958
Why wouldn't anyone consider it a success? Broadcast.com was streaming movies in the 90s! It was way ahead of its time. Unfortunately Yahoo squandered it (and Cuban himself thought it was a dead-end business, oh how he was wrong).
You misunderstand.

> In a bubble there is always someone with a “great” idea pitching an investor the dream of a billion dollar payout with a comparison to an existing success story. In the tech bubble it was Broadcast.com, AOL, Netscape, etc. Today its, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

He's not saying that Uber, Twitter, and Facebook have no value. He's saying that today's startups that are comparing themselves to these success stories are drastically overvalued.
eBay has had that for well over a decade.

Just enter your maximum price, ebay proxy bids up to that value.

If you get "sniped" you were just outbid.
"I want to stick a landing this year"

That's a gymnastics phrase for landing on your feet (with no bounce) during a dismount and is a pretty appropriate analogy for what they're trying to do with the Falcon 9 first stage.

To carry the analogy further, the second landing attempt could have been a "one hop" landing if they'd had a bigger drone ship. The first landing (which needed a bit more propellant to keep the stage upright) would have succeeded as a "one step" dismount - if the stage could actually take a step with it's legs.
> I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext.

One of the (bad) reasons companies impose password length limits is that the user is less likely to forger a shorter password, and therefore it saves money on inevitable support calls.

Granted, a 20-character limit is probably too high for this justification to be valid.
Nevermind the things I said above. Thank you for pointing this out. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Ask HN: Hack PR to get interview with celebrity?
Hi. I am going to travel to Europe where a "niche celebrity" lives. I'd love to interview that person - I manage one of the most important blogs about her works, so I'd be great (and a dream, to be honest).

However, all my attempts to get an interview have failed. I thought that, instead on propose a simple interview, reach them with a good plan to do a documentary, with a folder proposal, etc. But I am not sure.

Have anyone here experience something similar? Any suggestions? I'd prefer not to fail this time since I don't know when I am going back to that place :)
My jaw actually dropped when they said "they used a programming language called Haskell."

Were all my prejudices against the business practicality of functional languages wrong?

Nope.

"Biilmann no longer uses Haskell. It’s not entirely practical."

EDIT: ... and to say, if Facebook can't attract superstar Haskell programmers, then what chance any other startup?
Yes, the blog author was pretty generous. He got almost everything wrong if you're being at all critical.

The smartphone market is at least 5 years out. 3 years later iPhone comes out and defines the market. Saying it didn't get really, really popular for a year or two is misleading. If you were betting on the market being _at least_ 5 years out you would have missed that boat.
> And I went to a school in Canada that nobody's ever heard of (University of Waterloo).

Erm, that's well-known as an excellent school. Top-tier, really. My only qualms about inviting in a Waterloo man for an interview would be that our work might not be interesting enough.
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GDP per capita in Vietnam is $2k. I think you're overestimating how much it costs to retire. Even $500k would be enough that you'd never touch the principle.
I'm not sure I understand how liquid democracy would change the fundamental problem context in a way that would change the problem for homomorphic encryption...
Or prostitutes.
Let's say what he says is true; the valuations are zero. The decreased valuation of these companies have a chain effect but this time the contagion is contained to the investors themselves. They took on all of the risk and assuming they are private then they will take the hit as opposed to say CALPERS customers.

Unless they got that money to invest from public sources.
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You don't need it, but if you don't have enough entropy for key generation, something is wrong.
Just because the integers in that number happen to be consecutive if you reorder them doesn't mean they aren't "natural" (whatever that means). For example, a random number generator is exactly as likely to generate 12345 as it is 00000 or 92834 (for five digits). That doesn't mean any of those options is more "natural" or "random" than any other just because it doesn't "look random enough".
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Ask HN: Is there a fast method to get rid of a cold?
~ 2 times a year I get a cold - stuffy nose, sore throat, etc. Staying at home is killing me and drives crazy.

What do you usually do to treat a cold? Is there some secret method?
Agreed, but nothing really surprised me. It's just some of those start-up pumpers keep ignoring this fundamental truth.

It's not entrepreneur gene, however statistically, it's still the gene from your family tree, it normally takes generations to build the foundation for most people to take risks via education and efforts, and most if not all 'rich' families started from their disadvantaged ancestors.

Rising from poor like what's in Godfather movies is still possible, but very unlikely.
You omitted a significant phrase

> The Times of London reported ...

That's a News Corp. (Fox, Wall St Journal, etc.) publication. Unfortunately it is no surprise that they might try to undermine people who believe in Islam. News Corp's open religious prejudice, and propaganda, have a long track record.
Back in the dotcom days the IPO was the finish line, but recently the fashion seems to be raising greater and greater sums in private investment rounds, particularly for "businesses" that build up an audience first and figure out monetization later.

So instead of the many stock market investors (individuals, pension funds, hedge funds, banks, etc) getting burned, it is the much smaller pool of angels and VCs who would pass the credit/equity crunch to startups. The loss of wealth wouldn't be as widespread as before, but it would throw a wrench into one of the few genuinely competitive industries in the U.S. today.

There is reason to be concerned, but I think the author's fears are somewhat overblown.
For other news sources the researchers estimate that given the importance of the Koran it would have used the newest products. This is, of course, wild speculation. There is no way to confirm or deny that the original Korans were written on new parchments.
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> and like all religions it inspires everything from massive works of charity to zealotry, persecution, and bigotry.

A few people try to claim that other religions don't inspire terrorist groups, but that's clearly bullshit.

Buddhism is generally seen as pacifist but there's a Buddhist army and probably 2 Buddhist terrorist groups. (And that's not including Aum Shinryko)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Karen_Buddhist_Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodu_Bala_Sena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/969_Movement

etc.
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Yeah. He shouldn't have done that if he wanted to be taken seriously.
But in Montreal, as in SF, if the tenant leaves you can adjust the rent back to "market rates", which does benefit a landlord who renovates. Also, a good percentage of the new "condo" towers going up are specifically rental only.

The more perverse side effect of rent control shows up in the cases where rental tenants on a 30 year old lease, paying peanuts per month is posting their apartment (or multiple apartments) on AirBnB at market rates. All the while, the property gets much more wear and tear, increasing maintenance costs.
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Do you save more power having lot's of slow cores idol or fewer faster cores idle?
Looks legitimate to me. There are plenty of similar images on the net: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=seabird+plastic+ingestion&...
reading it the second time (last time I read it a year ago):

- Is ad business model a major reason Google is not providing a platform or hesitant about it? (Out of Amazon/Apple/FB/MS, FB is the only other primarily ad-based company (or is it?) so I wonder how FB is doing it). Because programmatic interfaces means developers can program out ads (unless there's a way for a service provider to avoid that situation, IDK).

- Or has Google moved towards platform/accessibility model recently? or is it same old same old?