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It seems like the article is making exercise more mysterious than it is. From what I've read, scientists seem to be more knowledgeable than the state of confusion this article is giving out.

The benefit of exercise in terms of weight loss is that it increases your resting metabolic rate (RMR). So the greatest caloric expenditure is often not during the exercise activity itself. I used to think that it's impossible to burn off the calories eaten from a burger. Now I know better.

Of course, exercise is only effective if your diet complements it. It's not either or, it's both. Both contribute to a net caloric deficit or surplus, creating weight change.

They also don't go into enough detail about the types of exercises. HIIT and weightlifting are particularly effective towards increasing RMR.
What about running in the evening? I find it requires much more will power to work out in the morning because I'm tired, and I have a bunch of things I feel like I should be doing. But after I'm done working for the day, it feels good to do something physical.
OK, you're right--I goofed on this. If the delete/edit hadn't expired by now I'd do something about it.

While a mortgage won't be structured this way, evidently an equity loan can, and this I do know from personal experience.
See SamAtt's comment on other reasons "famous investors" are against this; the new net worth limits are arguably the least worst part of this, depending on how viciously the other parts play out.
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What about voicemail transcriptions? These are sent by a slightly different address.
Read the thread... doesn't seem like a 'hard' problem, rather, it just seems like there are multiple ways to handle the issue and they haven't decided on which one yet.
So, if I read you correctly you think that when angels no longer take the 'market' that banks will suddenly become interested in this kind of loan ? Do you see banks taking equity in start-ups ? Do you see start-ups that right now can't get money from banks but can get money from angels in this new environment suddenly getting bankloans ?

I really do not see that happening, if they could get their loans - at any condition - from banks today they would. The banks and the angels are not in competition because banks can't compete, they are not in competition because they don't want to compete.

If they would angels wouldn't stand a chance.
Quite interesting, but I'd love to see a key to the colors used.
But pragmatically, I'd be happy with any system that doesn't let them walk.
> How many angel investors really have less than $2.3 million in assets?

Wealth seems to follow a power law, so there are probably over 2x as many at $1M as there are at $2M.

> If I had to guess, I'd say that the increase in the cap was to try to cut down on Wall Street shysters ripping off doctors and marketing VPs.

How about some evidence that this is actually occurring?

Heck - how about some evidence that "Wall Street shysters" are even trying to get money from angels?

Note - Madoff was running a completely different racket, one well within the purview of the SEC, and they didn't catch on for decades. (He was supposedly stock picking.)

> If so, the thing for Angel firms to do is contact your California senators,

Angels don't have firms. Yes, there are some groups, but most angels aren't in them.

Most folks affected this don't even know that it's something that they should be concerned about because they haven't done the angel thing yet. This means that they never will, and the folks who they would have funded likely won't get funded.
It is, in fact, pretty, appealing to the senses and possibly emotions. But it's not just the aesthetics that make it worthy of consideration as art.

The gameplay itself is creative; the player can solve levels in unintended ways. There are (sometimes surprising) interactions between various elements, and it is their arrangement that the game is based upon. The layout of various levels is subtly expressive; there's a sense in which the player is getting inside the level designer's head by playing their level (this is, IMO, an overlooked aspect of many video games. Level design is an expression of the designer's thoughts!)

There are some definitions of "art" this would not meet, and others that it would. At the very least, then, it's worthy of consideration.
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I'm going to chime in from experience and say that your college algebra students are the bottom of the barrel in regards to math students. With that respects there can be many reasons why they are there: they didn't care about math, they never really understood math, and/or they never really tried to get math.

If you are judging the ability of finishing word problems in the textbook, I'm assuming for homework assignments, and they really don't understand the actual math I think your problem is probably that most are using a solutions manual or spending what would seem too much time solving the homework problems.

As for solving word problems or practical problems I believe that this is exactly what math should be for especially at the college algebra level. To be serious most students entering college who want or are going to pursue a degree in mathematics are going to start off closer to the calculus level and maybe trigonometry depending on underlying circumstances. What people in college algebra are going for is a degree where math has to be practical and the more diverse applications they see the better. To give a simple example take logarithms: if you were to teach logarithms on the sole basis of algebraic symbols and expressions when it comes time that these students need to apply logarithms to real world problems (like say compound interest) there is going to be a good chance that they didn't really comprehend logs when they were taught them and won't be able to use them properly.

Which brings me to another point for word problems: word problems exist because they make students think and relate math to the real world it is fundamental to learning for many students to apply mathematical concepts in a multitude of ways in order to actual grasp a concept and one of the easiest ways to do this is to place that concept into word problems.
A quick search revealed that this title ("...and used by reCAPTCHA") has been reused many times and is likely just a rumor at this point.

I would definitely be interested in seeing evidence of it though.
I generally just type in the name of the site that I want:

'amazon' for www.amazon.com

Firefox is generally smart enough to take me to where I want to go. The only issue is when some hack site games it's way to the top of a search result for something else, but I've only run into that a few times.

Which is itself an issue -- since many browsers are now turning the 'address bar' into a combo search+address bar, novice users may not even realize what the difference is (or was).
> If you can get a bank to lend you money it's stupid to sell off part of your company at damn near any valuation.

Exactly.

The only loop hole where banks are involuntary partners in funding a start-up is when a person uses their credit cards to fund their start-up. If the start-up fails (and they often do) it can put you in a world of trouble though.
yes, iPhone for now.. working on other platforms. But, as you point out, GV is already integrated with Android platforms.
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yes, working on adding support for voicemail alerts and transcriptions as well. coming soon! watch the blog for updates :)
The article author makes a good point about replacing the http:// and friends with a set of icons rather than removing it entirely.
I got partway into the book. At the first mention of Freud, I wanted to put it down, but I'm so desperate for pain relief, I convinced myself to keep going. Shit, if it cures my pain, I'll believe in pyramid-building aliens.

Then I hit the next chapter where he lists Deepak Chopra as a supporting figure for the TMP idea. At that point, it's an instant Home, Left Arrow, Remove From Device.
Boeing is quoting speed through the air there. With a tailwind ground speed will be higher - and airlines plot their courses to take advantage of it wherever possible (e.g. the jetstream). That's why I say "routinely".

One of the reasons the Dutch are so eager to fly again is they are the world centre of the flower business - but only if they have air freight.
> How many angel investors really have less than $2.3 million in assets?

There are actually two criteria, assets (not including residences and some other things) and income.

The current income threshold for single people is $200k/year. For married couples, it's $300k/year.

Both are reasonably common among techsters in SV.

Double those thresholds and potential angels are a lot less common.
You replace the image with http:// just like they currently add back in the http:// when you copy the naked link out of the address bar.
Types of Hair on Early Stage Deals
In the parlance of investors there is an oft-expressed and colorful turn-of-phrase, namely, "hair on the deal", that immediately signals the kiss of death for a company's investment prospects. There are of course grammatical and regional variations on this expression but the implication and import are always one and the same: that the company in question will not get funded. Among investors discussing a deal, the mere whiff of this hirsute quality will often suffice to end a discussion of the company's merits and shortcomings. In this post, however, I intend to delve into exactly what the range of characteristics exhibited by a company and/or its founders are that embody this dreaded state of 'hairiness'.
How this applies to color is left as an exercise to the student.

This is what I'd like to hear. Cocoa has NSPoint, which is exactly what you're talking about, for points. And NSColor is already a kind of the basic object for colors. Do you really need more primitive types for this?
The scheme is an essential part of the URL. Copying an URL from a browser's location bar used to be a reliable way of sharing links, but this change introduces a greater potential for errors (there's no reason to assume an https resource is available via http, for example).
I don't think it's intentionally partisan, I think it's simply under thought (like, at this point, the vast majority of IIB's stuff). It's not that you don't get a comparison, it's that the comparison doesn't really mean anything. When you are comparing these numbers you want to understand the impact they have, not just the numbers themselves. As the OP said, it's simply misleading to portray this relationship as meaningful: it's not.

The only value of these numbers, as you have said, is to have an awareness of their relative effect on the environment. That's not what's being presented here.
That wasn't what I was suggesting; I'm suggesting changing the back car. The first (N-1) cars remain the same throughout the journey and the rearmost one gets swapped at every station.
It generally does, although there are a few issue with copying partial text out of the bar, e.g:

[news.ycombinator.com]/somejunk

Copying the bracketed portion should include the http:// but some situation were causing it not to be copied, etc.
It's been removed from search engine URL lines for a while.
Remember that big infrastructure projects are a lot easier in China since the government has no hesitation about demolishing entire villages which might sit in the way of the latest highway, rail line or dam.
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Maybe with a longer development time you could have built something that would incur lower overhead over the long term. Heroku and Chargify become quite expensive if your business grows to any significant degree. Instead, building directly on top of the Paypal API and deploying to a hosting provider that will not bankrupt you as you scale would be a more optimal approach -- you won't get your site up in 3 days but with higher margins you will likely have fewer regrets down the road.
But the scheme is still shown for https.
Copy-pasting includes the scheme (mostly, there's a couple bugs at the moment). Better to read up on the issue before commenting about how it's supposedly broken.
Well, this is totally not relevant to non-U.S users, but great to see notifo progressing. This is one app I genuinely like.

You know what's missing? Google wave and email notifications.
Don't wast your time. This is useless SPAM. No references to scientific sources, but a link to an e-book.
nicely done! this post inspires me to take action and create some of the ideas i had, seeing that they can be done so quickly.
Trust me, I wish I could afford to use Github. But with the twenty-something private repositories I have now I'd be shelling out $50 a month. I find this a bit pricey considering that these private repositories probably takes less than 50MB combined.

To get around the private repository cap one could use one repository with every project as a separate branch. But I imagine such a solution would be a PITA to manage.
I had a dell where the power connector socket went bad, it would literally smoke if you tried to plug power into it to charge it. I took the hard drive out and shipped it back driveless without any problems. Got a newer model replacement laptop and a free external (well, $15 enclosure) for the inconvenience of using my desktop for a week.
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You're right, but there's a bit more to it than that.

What this article is really about is how people misinterpret the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote to mean "never worry about performance at all."
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It is for single-engine licenses, I'm not entirely sure that they are for multi engine jets. Given the likelihood of an all-engine out, I'm not sure that's practiced much. They also don't practice ditching on water, for example. (And let me clarify that I'm not saying they couldn't set it down, I'm sure they can do that. I'm saying that it's not clear to me that you can easily manage energy so you end up at the end of the runway in a position to touch down at the right speed.)
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Good observation. I know barely anything about ObjC/Cocoa, but if I was pushed to provide an opinion on them I'd start griping about how awful the verbose mixed case method names and prefixes on everything look. Which obviously isn't hindering the other people making fantastic iPhone and Mac applications.
I bet partners in major law firms have planned agendas maximizing weekend trips like most people earning >.5Mill/yr.

Instead, I'd object the argument that they can't do most of it remotely with teleconferencing an keyboard-PDAs.
I strongly disagree with the notion that college algebra ought to be the place where one learns practical applications of mathematics. A valuable skill for any educated person is the ability to plod through minutia and make sense of it. Being able to be focused on the point at hand and not let distractions cloud judgment is a valuable skill.

If one really understands the mechanics of logs then I think they will not freak out when presented with a formula involving logs. I'm all in favor of applications but isn't this the job of other subjects? The applications should be taught in the subjects that apply it. The goal of a mathematics class ought to be to understand mathematics.

This lecture,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI

is long but well worth watching. He provides strong evidence that students learn to solve word problems but haven't the slightest idea of what is really going on. They are memorizing steps. This happens at Harvard and the community college.

I've given my students the standard word problems on travelling problems. They get the problems right. Then I ask them this simple problem and they universally get is wrong:

You drive 1 mile at 40 mph and then the next mile drive 60 mph. What is your average speed? (Almost everyone says 50 mph.) We aren't teaching thinking skills. We are teaching memorization of problem types. Almost none of them is actually practical, correct, or useful.

But why are we teaching travelling problems in a math class? I think it should be taught in physics.
that's how it looks to me on Safari, but it works on latest version of chromium.
I really hope the big media outlets pick this up and broad-cast across Europe. Of all the nuisance on CNN's "Social News" this bit of usefulness could be a welcome change.
how so? i have several international friends that have GV accounts to get a US number. one was actually a beta tester of this feature. maybe i am misunderstanding you?
It saves a lot of energy. Accelerating one part can be done by taking energy from the incoming sub/super carriage. Accelerating and decellerating the smaller carriages is much more efficient than the whole train.
GV does not work internationally, does it? When I log in, I get redirected to a FAQ page with "Coming Soon".
The last time Apple was beaten by Microsoft (although it had partnerships originally) as it considered IBM its major threat. This time around I think Apple will be beaten by Google as it is having most of its focus on Microsoft.
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it’s worth remembering that “do no evil” is not a particularly high hurdle to set yourself.

For a company it's amazingly hard to actually carry this out.
Yeah, Wolframalpha is a disruptive technology. Is it still relevant to learn algebraic manipulations? I don't know. There are compelling arguments for both points of view.

When you say problem solving do you really mean so called practical applications? If so then I disagree. If you mean solving problems to understand the essence of mathematical ideas then I agree.

For instance, linear equations are the easiest equations to solve. All of them can be manipulated to yield the solution (or be reduced to showing all numbers are solutions or have no solutions). Linear equations are really 1st degree polynomials. What about second degree polynomials? After a clever bit of insight and some work we get that all 2nd degree polynomials can be solved. The quadratic equation is a solution to a problem in mathematics. It's useful as it leads to a greater understanding of mathematics.

I believe that this is what mathematics courses ought to focus on. Not on problems that involve throwing a ball in the air and predicting how long it takes to hit the ground.
Points taken. But, again, I am well aware of the developing world constraints (as I grew up in one :-) and this was a thought experiment.

Yeah, iPad is not rugged, but could be made that way for all we know. What will be a solution won't be an iPad, but something between an iPad and a netbook that runs Android. Who knows, OLPC might iterate to accommodate...
Ah yes, in that case the bank is lending money to the individual, not the company, and thus has a more reasonable expectation of getting paid back.

Of course any entrepreneur who borrows money they can't afford to pay back in order to invest in their business is a doofus.
Hmm, not sure how they got their accounts setup. I'll ask around and ping you if you like. Anyone here know?
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cloud machine = Amazon?
What did you answer to "Allow dev_appserver to check for updates on startup? (Y/n)"? I answered "n". Also, why is it looking for files in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION? I don't have that file either, but I put the app engine dir in my home dir and that worked.
I have to ask, if your total combined space is 50MB, why did you choose disk space as the axis of comparison across all these hosts?
o_O

/me tries

Had to hunt for a while to see where that's listed, now I can't believe I missed it. Many thanks for pointing it out!
I think a great deal of the confusion the article is conveying is not so much about the effect of exercise on metabolism and body composition, but rather its effect on appetite. One of the reasons that we're starting to hear obesity specialists back away from advocating the "moderate-vigorous exercise" as part of a weight-loss plan is because of the things this article brings up: in some people (mostly women), starting an exercise regime spikes appetite and makes it extremely difficult to stick to a calorie-controlled/restricted diet. Thus, even if the RMR increases, it seems the body is insisting calorie intake increase as well -- and I think that's where the confusion they are portraying is mostly stemming from: is it responsible to advocate moderate-vigorous exercise to the obese as part of a weight-loss plan, or is that setting them up to fail? (It seems clear that exercise as part of a weight-maintenance program tends to be beneficial.)
Just as much as it is about professionalism, it's about routine. For me, I don't "feel right" until I've eaten, showered and dressed. The day hasn't started until I've done that. I suspect that this author is similar.

Before I go to sleep, I brush my teeth, take off my day clothes, and read for a few minutes. I could just jump right into bed, but it feels weird. The routine I have is a way of telling myself "it's time for sleep." It's the same way for getting work done. Having a routine, however small, is a way to tell yourself "Now I'm working."

It's also a way to tell yourself when you're not working, which I think is equally important when you live and work in the same space.
My employer's been hiring tech aggressively for a while, and it's been getting harder and harder. We're NYC based.
The author feels that some people think working at home is slacking.
You can always reduce overhead after you gain some traction.
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To be entirely honest, I can't see how it would be useful either in 1995 or now. A person either cares about URLs or they don't. In the first case, the URL should be displayed properly; in the second, they won't have a damn clue what all that funny text in the box at the top of the screen is anyway, so you may as well show it properly.
There is also a logical fallacy that campaign contributions necessarily influence congress(wo)men. Contributions are given to people that others support. Just because someone voted for industry X and was given contribution money by industry X does not imply being 'bought.'

That said and taken into consideration, people that are outliers (like this guy: http://ismycongressmanbought.com/my_cong.php?con=Sodrel,%20M... and this guy: http://ismycongressmanbought.com/my_cong.php?con=Chocola,%20... should be viewed with a suspicious eye.

[1] Both happen to be Republicans. I was just viewing my home state (Indiana) where most politicians are Republicans. I am by no means trying to imply one party is better than the other. I am also a Republican.
Applied Statisticians: {R, SAS, SPSS}

Basic Stats Research: Same as CS people.

There's a ton of overlap between stats faculty and cs faculty these days - machine learning (usu. within AI) being the field of overlap in CS.
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2nd this - I always remove hard disks before dropping off laptops for service.
I fail to understand why someting that is totally reasonable to expect from any indevisual suddenly becomes "amazingly hard" when the indeviduals are grouped together.
I do. At least, when untrained people consistently see this prefix, they will be less surprised when they actually have to use it (like when copy-pasting). Or they could ask what this gibberish actually mean.
It’s really not that far from “be perfect in everyone’s eyes”.

It reminds me of “what would Jesus do?” – it’s not a formula at all, just a reminder to put things in moral terms. It doesn’t say much about what the speaker’s terms actually are.