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Sorry, it's pretty ridiculous that the author chose to write all that and engage in correspondence without mentioning the elephant in the room either to the photographer, or to the reader (us) in this write-up. The elephant in the room is that haxx.se is a tongue-in-cheek name (or a coincidence.)

Would it have killed him to mention this?

"Dear Photographer Lady: I run a very well-regarded library, you may have had this reaction because I have the tongue-in-cheek name haxx.se [alternatively: because of the coincident name haxx], however I am a well-paid consultant similar to yourself and other than this choice of domain name there is nothing alarming. The library is famous and you should see a similar notice in all of your friend's phones (or anyone else's you check). It is in use by major corporations including Apple and Spotify. Sorry about the confusion."

that's literally all this is about. (obviously.)

In fact, it makes me seriously question the author's good faith that he ends with the call-to-action "I’ve tried to respond with calm and clear reasonable logic and technical details on why she’s seeing my name there. That clearly failed. What do I try next?" without mentioning the elephant in the room.
if you really have to post stuff like this, at least check if it isn't a repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924416
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Hi! Regarding your tracking remark, companies such as YesWare, MailTrack, MixMax (and so on) use pixel trackers. While such trackers are indeed made available through a Google proxy, the caching is overridable if you pass a no-cache header (http://blog.movableink.com/real-time-content-and-re-open-tra...).
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While I agree that a 4 year CS degree is superior to a bootcamp in terms of computing knowledge and skill, the notion that knowing anything about algorithms leads to knowing simple web based security, most of which is baked into whatever framework you're using anyway, is silly.
Most people like that really just need someone to talk to, so introducing them to eachother solves both their issues neatly
Hey all, Will here, co-creator of Nova. We're just opening up Nova for sign-ups and we wanted to get the HN community's feedback.

The idea is that our product helps salespeople write fewer, more empathetic/higher quality emails and get better results than by just sending templates to thousands of people (which is what most companies these days actually do).

I saw the benefit of personalizing emails at CloudFlare, but it took way too much time and didn't scale. Nonetheless, personalization drove significant improvements in engagement and general positivity. We created Nova to solve the problem.

Love to get any feedback on the tech, the idea, etc. Open to any and all suggestions. Thanks!
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>haxx.se
I think the proper response is something along the lines of "did Michelin Tires hack your car?"
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Author looks like he doesn't even lift. Opinion discarded.

PS: To the people scouting his blog. Do yourselves a favor and research catecholamines and the role of stress hormones before taking his advice on performing a single meal a day under what happens to be a caloric deficit scenario. Guy has a long way to go in terms of nutrition and sports performance.
But my reasoning is spelt out clearly in my first post- I find the opening statement of the article to be a frivolous hyperbole in a world facing cancer, global warming, hunger, poverty, antibiotic resistant infections....
1. Technically, the velum seems to be older, we don't know when the manuscript is written.

3. Because nothing else "fits" with anything else we know of. When we find first text in an unknown language, typically it's some religious thing. The illustrations are at best "dream" constructs when not intentional attempt to make an "original" hoax. Otherwise, it's obvious that it's not something out of some non-western culture.
I think that's the right solution. This is a person with a problem, and now she found a real person to contact. Like it or not responding will just verify her idea that he's now in charge of fixing her problem.

Companies like Instagram, Facebook, Google and others make it hard to get in contact with a real person, but so users start hunting for a way in. In this case an Instagram user think she found a way in.
> They are not idiots,

They ARE idiots, but not because they don't know tech. They're idiots making strong accusations without having any idea what they're talking about or any evidence.

People finding scapegoats because they're afraid of the unknown is how we historically ended up with things like the witch trials.

Naiveté is fine, not everyone can know everything, but this sort of aggressive ignorance shouldn't be even remotely humored.
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Deflation is defined as:

>a decrease in the general price level of goods and services

In the Gutenberg era of paper based processes and hierarchies, as stated in your cited speech, a reduction in the price of goods and services is seen as a bad thing. This is no longer the case. The assumption of scarcity of renewable physiological resources (level 1 of Maslow's hierarchy) is no longer valid:

>In technology's "invisible" world, inventors continually increase the quantity and quality of performed work per each volume or pound of material, erg of energy, and unit of worker and "overhead" time invested in each given increment of attained functional performance. This complex process we call progressive ephemeralization. In 1970, the sum total of increases in overall technological know-how and their comprehensive integration took humanity across the epochal but invisible threshold into a state of technically realizable and economically feasible universal success for all humanity.

-Buckminster Fuller

In the era of electric automation, deflation flips into ephemeralization because everything is increasingly/exponentially produced better, faster, and cheaper. A reduction in the general price level of goods and services is the purpose of automation.

This is why goal #2 of maintaining stable prices is now obsolete and self-defeating. It completely ignores automation and renewable resources.
"I want to tell everyone about my private life, but I don't want governments spying on my publicly-readable info."

I guess it could help people in high-censorship countries use facebook.
Thank you for the comment, I learned something new today.

Resume: "if you could break a 4096-bit RSA key, you've probably found a fundamental weakness in RSA that means you should move to a different algorithm entirely"
The only fundamental difference between this and a 'proper' scientific experiment is the p value. All scientific experiments have cavets, and all have a probability their finding could be erroneous. Of course, no one should write a textbook based on this one guys self-reported experience. But, assuming he is accurately reporting it, it is evidence that this is _possible_ which is a very important thing to discover.

Yes, it may only be possible in 0.01% of the population, that is the type of thing which a larger-scale study can evaluate, but whatever they find, it will be an interesting result which would have been less likely if he hadn't shown it could be done.
I believe post you're replying to is in fact correct. In cases when national laws are not compatible with ECHR rulings, the laws are the one to be changed (repealed or adjusted to match the ECHR interpretation).
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Is there a reason that there's no overflow check on these refcounts? I suppose it's something like, these are hot paths in general and there's no good hardware support for atomic-increment-if-not-overflow?
Valve is spending their resources on the Source 2 engine instead [1], which is used by their games. Also working on UE4 would be a severe lack of focus and the work on Source 2 would suffer. Only working on UE4 would mean that Valve's own games would suffer because Source 2 receives no love. Migrating all these games to UE4 doesn't seem to have a net positive effect either. It would be a gigantic amount of work and in the end they would have to start paying Epic for the licence. Also, Valve developers have intimate knowledge of the Source engine, which I doubt they have of UE4.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(game_engine)
Am I alone in getting aggravated by people considering 360 video VR? If you want proper VR you need stereo display of 360 video. I feel like the lack of stereoscopic video being called VR is poisoning the well for layman.
Does this work on an iPhone? I was playing around with in-browser 360 degree video a while back and was infuriated to find that absolutely everything I required - WebGL, a Three.JS library, <video> tags, were present - but iPhone Safari will only ever play videos fullscreen through tap to play, so it's impossible to play a video through WebGL.

I really, really wish Apple would drop this restriction. Aside from anything else, the original intention (bandwidth savings) is totally ruined by the fact that everyone is encoding videos as (much larger) animated GIFs to get around the restriction. How about letting videos autoplay, but silently, and have "tap for sound"? Either that or disable autoplaying of GIFs, because the current situation doesn't really make sense.
You can leverage service discovery to make your configuration dynamic: http://prometheus.io/blog/2015/06/01/advanced-service-discov...
I've seen people die running a half marathon. Please don't push your body to the breaking point just for giggles. Work your way up.
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It is possible to do stereo display of 360 video in the browser - you just need Google Cardboard or similar to allow users to view it.
I got the impression that the paper was suggesting an early, disposable prototype during the preliminary program design phase, similar to what Fred Brooks suggested back in the day. (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PlanToThrowOneAway) Meaning that the PPD phase was in effect an initial iteration through the development process. The outputs from that were used to generate the program design documents in the primary development process.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10919375
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It's not a bootcamp either.
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Not a direct answer but it seems to accept images.
Once humans spread and travel became commonplace, its inevitable that 'invasive species' should become a worldwide problem. It only has to happen once; you can't ever be careful enough to avoid that. And the most invasive species of all, which erases whole ecosystems and changes everything including the water, soil and weather, is of course, us.
Meanwhile I find myself somewhat worrying about my unique, 32-character passwords because quantum computers
While this may be possible, I would worry about the effects on your liver. Ketosis does put additional strain on the liver, and while it doesn't seem like the side effects of extended ketosis are dangerous, there simply aren't any studies on ultra-endurance exercise during ketosis. And while studies on extended exercise during ketosis would be a good thing, they should be performed by researchers and doctors who know what the risks are and can monitor them appropriately.

IMO this is dangerous. Just because our hunter-gatherer ancestors did it doesn't mean it's healthy for us. For all we know, this type of activity could wreck your liver and contribute to dying in your 30s (our ancestors did not have a long life expectancy). So even if it was a survival adaptation, it may have ensured the survival of the herd at the cost of the individual.
Your point is valid, but your wording could have been better (I assume that is the reason for the down votes).

He doesn't mention consulting a doctor to explain the health risks before undertaking this. In my opinion, even if you think a medical professional is going to say you are stupid for trying it, you should still consult a medical professional. You need to be aware of the risks and their signs, and when you post something like this on your blog, it should be prefaced with you probably shouldn't try this.

What if someone dies trying to recreate his experiment? (I know common sense etc...)
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He was a good manager, he also had a really twisted and dark sense of humour which was fine with me since I did as well but you have to remember that what's funny to you might not be to someone else sometimes.
Nonsense. A proper scientific experiment would have controls and independent results and medical oversight and calibrated measurement equipment and a clear definition of what's attempting to be proved.

This is a guy fooling around and blogging for attention. Dangerously so. p=1, no scientific method = anecdata. His conclusions? Pseudoscience. It's dangerous to him personally and it's damaging to society broadly to promote such without caveats. So I'm providing them.
I see you are getting some negative feedback, haha. I think the main problem at this point isn't due client-rendering, but the large prerequisite files. Gzipping your JavaScript would trim a MB or more. Putting the static assets on a CDN (or enabling gzip yourself) would cut the render time by 2/3rds.

Semantic UI adds 700KBs of CSS, which seems like a lot more than your site should need. Even if this were a static rendered site, the browser would delay rendering anything until the CSS was downloaded.
That's just a chain of trust. Who checks their surgeon's credentials before going under the knife? You trust the surgeon's employer and the medical registration board in your jurisdiction.

The field of engineering offers a rough analog.

In Australia there's a society called Engineers Australia, who via the ITEE, evaluate and accredit educational programs before accepting graduates of said programs as members. There are equivalent organisations around the world (just as there are in the fields of law and medicine).

I can also give an example of how it works. My Bachelor of Information Technology states that I majored in Software Engineering. However the degree isn't accredited and therefore I'm not eligible for EA membership. I still refer to myself as a "software engineer" and show a degree from a reputable university, but I can't (and wouldn't) try pass myself off as an accredited Engineer.
> if I wrote a blog about my experiences I'd become a laughing stock of the Internet

So write a blog post on what lead you to such abundance :)
We also use Riemann in prod and love it. It is pretty much the perfect switchboard/aggregator for stat streams.

It's only part of the stack, but it's great for routing some stats to this TSDB and other stats to that TSDB. It's also great for detecting anomalies and sending updates to wherever you want them to go.

For us, this happens in 150 lines of clojure plus 150 lines of unit tests. I know that's fairly meaningless without knowing more about our system -- but the point is, it's very expressive so you get a lot done in a few lines of code. And therefore, don't worry too much about it being clojure.
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With most current note-taking systems, the sync is near-real-time - which, is super handy when moving from the conference room or on-the-go on your phone to your desk/laptop during the day - an overnight sync in that scenario doesn't meet requirements.

I'd imagine it wouldn't be too far fetched to utilize a sync service like your current solution for flat files in a more real-time manner...
Exactly - I was thinking about cars. If you have a problem with the brake system you don't call Delco (who used to make those indash radios years ago) because that logo is visible and staring you in the face.

... Although there probably is a cartalk episode that would prove me wrong on this assumption

Website might not be quite as complex as an auto but close and a decent analogy as there are different subsystems...
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The only "conclusion" presented at the link is that the author successfully completed the race after fasting.
GPS in wartime is a problem as it can be spoofed or jammed. This is how some think Iran managed to capture an RQ-170 drone.

The military is very motivated to find ways to be less reliant on GPS and other easy to spoof technologies.
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wonder if that only works on google search and what about if I share link on facebook will it auto download?
I like everything Andreas did differently from Python, except the unusual normalization rules for variable names. This is crazy:

VariableName == variable_name == VaRiAbLe_NaMe
Indeed, he should post his testosterone, cortisol, and adrenaline levels and the time of day they were taken. People who act like this is clear-cut are very silly and have little experience in biology and medicine.
A proper medical study also has doctors monitoring for any risks. They would run blood work and check for anything wrong - it's hard for one person to draw conclusions about how healthy this is if he wasn't baselining and monitoring different vital statistics (liver enzymes, etc.)

Also, everyone's body is different: he may just be a genetic freak who is able to do this. Especially with heath/body claims, be very wary that one person's results will be able to transfer to anyone else.
I link a small study of endurance athletes performance while in ketosis in another comment.
I've investigated whether or not Nim could have Python2 compatibility mode. I think Nim or any language's future could easily be secured by simply finding a way to carry on compatibility with Python2. I've wanted to offer the libre source community another path forward from CPython2.7.

Such a huge opening there for multiple parties. Unfortunately, in my research in figuring out how to do this I found that it's actually fairly difficult to provide CPython2 compatibility.

I do wish Nim the best and hope that it gains traction. More languages, more choices are always better.
The "damage" to society has far less to do with single mothers and I suspect rather more to do with how they are vilified and trapped in low paying/not working at all.

Countries that have good social programs encouraging single mothers to progress with their lives and giving them the support they need have better outcomes, I think it's insanely short sighted on a societal level not to do this, those children either grow up as functioning members of society or not and the cost on the not option is far higher.

Here in the UK the media went to town on single mothers and it was awful (our media mostly is tbh).
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+1 for pointing out that the post-War economy was a one-time boom created by the unique situation in 1945.

For the white middle class, life in 1950 was pretty good (unless you were sent to Korea). Life in 1960 was fabulous. At that time, a man could work as a clerk in a hardware store or an assistant in a butcher shop and support a stay-at-home wife and four children in his own middle class home with one car, one television, one phone, etc.

It was the American dream, based partially on generous union contracts for some, and general prosperity for others. Writers were in great demand; musicians could play 365 nights a year. Housing was cheap, jobs were plentiful, and salaries and wages rose every year.

Life in 1970 was different; the Japanese had beaten the Americans at steel, the Vietnam wartime economy was winding down even as Americans perceived we had lost the war, 50,000+ young Americans killed and hundreds of thousands of others traumatized and damaged. The Sixties had taken a massive toll on church, marriage, and society's general cohesiveness and morale, and suddenly things seemed awfully uncertain.

Around that time, Europe and Japan had rebuilt and were starting to compete vigorously, taking away the easy monopoly that American companies enjoyed for the previous 30 years.

It's no surprise that this same socioeconomic group is going through tough times today. The technology economy has no room for people with a high school diploma and good manual labor skills. Some car mechanics in the old days were barely literate, but fixing cars today requires knowledge of digital circuitry and software.

There are some silver linings, though. Shale energy has created a boom for drivers, roughnecks, welders, waitresses, etc. in places like North Dakota. Now that oil is legal to export, and assuming oil goes north of $40/BBL again, the U.S. will probably emerge in another decade or two as the world's largest energy exporter. Cheap domestic natural gas from shale formations has been a boon to the chemical and plastics industries. New technologies such as 3-D printing, as well as rising wages in the 3rd world, notably in China, are bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.

We probably won't see a golden age such as we experienced from 1945-1970, and unions have lost much of their clout since that time, but perhaps there will be more opportunities in coming years for blue collar and middle class workers than since the 1980s. Someone in this thread points out that technology workers may some day find themselves on the other side of the prosperity wall, as well. Nothing lasts forever.
Please cite your sources. It's certainly possible that it's dangerous, but there is also a tradition of labeling anything which is different than what was historically done as medically dangerous. There is an equal tradition of pulling the medical dangers of various things out of thin air based on guesswork. It is of course possible, I am very interested in reviewing your sources.
How is A Guide to the Good Life not on here - I feel like I see it mentioned at least once a day.
I was reading a long series of articles by a maker of fine violins, and he pointed out that what we are looking at is not a pair of holes, but the two edges of a single resonating area on an instrument which has been decoupled from the instrument on two sides.

I found that a very helpful when understanding the design of these instruments.
Thank you for the feedback.

Yes, good point, probably we need to explain better the benefits.

It's not a very sotisficated algorithm: based in our own little experience (1 year and a half), ourselves would have liked to have a tool like this. The flow at that point is you set at what price you purchased the stock and then we'll alert you when the stock price reaches the estimated, updated target price and some variables (EPS updates, PER updates, dividends changes if proceed, news, etc.).

No, we don't have tested it yet. Since it detects the stocks in S&P 500 too, probably it would works in that way and also you can get more stocks like this (or better if proceeds).

About the taxes, and also the broker's fees for example, you can set up in the tracking portfolio and get the current net benefit, the remaining benefit and more.

No, the emails will be used only for remind them when the app is ready, we deployed this weekend and need to add more to the landing page.

Thank you again, feel free to post your comments or write us.
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The whole blog feels like a confused agenda masquerading as hand-wavey pseudo-science. Do not like.

Ketosis is really quite well studied at this point, I don't really think this adds anything to the mix. Also why conflate fasting and ketogenics?
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