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I'm a sugar addict... if I go off book - eat just an ice cream sandwich...for example..I might end up eating 5 in a row...and then get depressed and eat more junk food.

If I even eat something like a potato--my cravings for sugary stuff goes up. When I flip the switch into ketosis - I have to remember to eat, hunger doesn't exist, cravings aren't usually a thing except sometimes mental stuff when I see food on tv, or while I'm out and about.

I've lost 35 lbs since May 1st when I started Keto. I was 515 when I started.. my highest weight was 690 but I lost 190 after having gastric sleeve surgery.

I actually lost a bit more..got down to 460 but have been yo-yoing a bit between 460 and 510'ish...

We just had our first baby, and while I have no health issues (blood pressure, sugar levels, cholesterol are all in top percentiles - I literally have no weight related co-morbidalities and the only negatives are needing a CPAP for sleep apnea, low energy levels, and joint pain -- all of which are a LOT less now than in 2012 when I had surgery.

Years after surgery I still can't eat a ton at a meal- I can't eat a whole burger for instance at Red Robin, I split it 50/50 with my wife -- but my biggest problem was soda, you can definitely drink a lot of calories.. I think just cutting out soda and trying for less sweets I'd probably lose a good deal of weight over 1-2 years. But I'm impatient and have upped my game lately. I also have been lifting weights and walking 10k steps per day.

I can't see a low-fat diet ever really working for me... just because I'll probably always be addicted to carbs, which means over-eating if I let myself have the sugar, or carb-loaded foods.
Excluding some areas/situations, I'd just say grow thicker skin. There isn't anything particularly special about California with respect to LGBTQ and it certainly isn't a good justification for living there. You can be gay in Pittsburgh or Chicago or D.C. just as well as you can in Portland or L.A.. There are definitely family and emotional considerations and that's fair, obviously there are reasons other than the weather to live in California - that wasn't my point, rather, my point was that a lot of people want to live there and you can't expect to just get this somehow incredibly affordable cost of living you'd get in Kansas or something in California. If you could, we would ALL be living there.

People need to realize that location and where you live can be a luxury, and you have to pay proportionally for that luxury. I can't go move to Boulder or something on a $30,000/year salary and expect to ski year round then complain that I can't afford housing. The world simply does not, and should not work that way.
Here's a question: why don't more companies locate in the East Bay? There's a bigtime 'follow the herd' mentality when it comes to where VCs are allowing companies to make their headquarters. You don't need to have an office in Mountain View or Palo Alto. Many of your employees will live in places like Fremont, Pleasanton and Walnut Creek. Why not start a company there instead?
In everywhere I've lived, the pressure to build has usually won out because the neighboring municipality will let someone build if the first one doesn't. So urbanism slowly creeps in. seems weird that it never has in 20 years out there.
That's a big problem, especially in the US. Portion sizes for everything (including coffee) are over the top so people have no idea how little food they actually need.
Hydraulics are scary things there can be a lot of stored energy released very quickly if one of them gives out suddenly. I've heard horror stories about limb amputations etc due to sudden release of hydraulic pressure causing shrapnel to go flying across the room.

If there is a fault the safest thing for them to do is bleed out energy slowly unfortunately in this case sounds like this crushed the 'obstruction' in the process.

My Industrial plant code screwup story was not caused by me but was pretty impressive, what was supposed to be a "simple firewall change" knocked out communication between two interlinked parts of our plant which caused the line to stop and a big delay with a few million dollars lost. I believe the root cause was someone fat fingered the addition of a new firewall rule and we ended up dropping every incoming packet.
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I'm still not sure, but yes - a child shouldn't be exposed to unusual, or high levels of risk due to the "attitude of the parent".

This person knows more than I do about diving, but not necessarily about risk; A doctor who studies lung cancer might know more about the risks of smoking than a life-long smoker.
I'm not really sure what you are saying. "drop everything" is hyperbole - just drop the things with a higher chance of killing you.
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Honestly? Sounds like magical thinking about how self-driving will make things possible that aren't with a relatively low-paid human driver today. And probably wouldn't be available for a few decades anyway. Small buses are available in a lot of countries today.
Content creators are mastering chopping up content into separate videos with enough continuity and hooks to keep people clicking next video, next video, next video...

It's quite scary actually what the current and future generations are being conditioned to do.
That should be "8-12 hours a day .."
I've re-written sample script in pure shell code :P

The idea is that I'd like to write little to make little things work with IFTTT. Py2 is just enough to do a lot while keeping things casual and of fun. Py3 is too serious to me and shell script just awful...

Happy hacking.
Women still carry most of the world’s water
Yeah. I had no idea at the time what its purpose was, either and found out about it after the fact.

It isn't a pleasant thing to live with.
They are the people who decide to pledge themselves knowing war is very much a possibility.

Plus, soldiers will see action/danger even when the country is not explicitly at war.
I think you are correct in regards to the people who are currently using C/C++. They already have done the hard work to make it usable for their systems. But newer developers will look at the complexity of C/C++ development and choose anything but.

Maybe it is like politics, rather than attacking your opponents you should offer something that they do not. Then you will build your own constituency and gain influence. It will take a long time, but if you keep on providing benefits to users, then attrition might take you to the top. When someone attacks your camp, ignore them. You do not need a better way to attack them, you just need to stick to the knitting and make your offer provide benefits to users. External forces will likely decide whether or not you overwhelm your opponents.
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Made people rich, who definitely didn't deserve it.
Can vouch that's bullshit... and a crappy study. They should've done low fat vs full-on Keto and see what the results were like..

Personally, I'm aiming for 20 - 30 carbs per day now, but some days I have cheat days where I carb load a bit more, sometimes junk food, and things from food trucks, but gotta enjoy life sometimes too.. I do try to make those my heavier workout days though... I also do 15 off the stair pushups everytime I go near the stairs, and 10k steps per day.

Lost 35 since May so I'm happy so far.. have 200 more pounds to go though give or take.. My goal by October is 100 total pounds off. (Currently 480).
I suspect a lot has to do with what draws many people to California in the first place. (In addition to jobs, which are more recent in many cases.) Those reasons didn't include remolding the Bay Area in the image on New York City and New Jersey.
I was disagreeing with someone who wrote that we understand how neurons work and that perceptrons model them "quite well." They do not model biological neurons well at all. I agree that biological fidelity is not important for building useful ANNs.
Cutting power = you know that the arms will go slack.

Freezing = you hope that whatever the problem is, maintaining power doesn't make it worse.
This isn't a three-way tradeoff, though. Cost of living and income directly interact; where one is high, so is the other. Commute is independent of both in a strict sense, or in a better sense it's just one component of "cost of living".
Here is Robert Shiller on these issues:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/real-estate-pri...

and the demographia survey he refers to:

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

You can get all three of these things. Become a lawyer or doctor and move to Cleveland, buy a house near your work and you have it. Or Washington DC or Berlin or Canberra.

Restrictions on supply in some places as in the Bay Area is what is stopping all three being chosen.

If more apartments were allowed then affordability would rise.
Huh? Seattle's median home price has doubled from five years ago. [1]

[1] http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-hom...
> it's important to know that it doesn't have to represent who you are

Maybe it's easy to confuse what I said with this, but I never said this. Equating your emotions with who you are is an act that you've done. It's a result of an action. But they already are two separate ideas with separate words. There is you, and there are your emotions. I am not able to equate them. There is me when I'm sad, me when I'm happy, me when I'm busy... I can become sad or busy if I know what triggers those states. But this must all be based on facts.

Same with your gut microbes example. Yes, emotions are caused by externalities, and that is precisely why they are facts. But thinking they are internal will have you fighting gut microbes with your mind. This is the dead end you want to avoid. You cannot accurately process the outcome of your gut microbes other than by accurately dealing with your gut microbes. Everything else is a workaround. They may still work in the end, but the most effective treatment will always be physically and accurately dealing with the physical cause of whatever effects we are looking to change.

"Processing emotions" is no different than dealing with facts. EMDR therapy is also a physical therapy. It treats emotions as facts, and deals with trauma factually. Whether it works is also a fact.

I mean, "be factual" is just another way of saying "stay scientific". There is nothing shortsighted about insisting on remaining scientific.

So what are you disagreeing with again?
All of those places are certainly expensive, but for instance in Seattle, 1BRs rent for a bit over half what they rent in SF. There's a ton of wiggle room in "expensive".
V* RY Sex

How this particular red dwarf came to obtain such a name, gives me an inkling that whoever did it must have known the effect it would have on search engines.

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=V*+RY+Sex
because I can't sell my house and move to another one, I am stuck in this one until I die!!! I owe 80% of my current house value, if prices goes down even 10% I lost half of my down payment !!!
I don't think he's talking about literally mimicking how the human brain works. It seems like he's just talking about making neural nets more effective in certain tasks by allowing for more types of abstraction, just like a human brain has more types of abstraction than Artificial Neural Networks do.
I do not think NYC is a great example as it is also supply constrained due to zoning. NYC is rezoning to allow more supply, unlike SF, due to its density friendly culture.

As a bay area resident I look around and I see incredibly low density in SF, and most other bay area municipalities are extended suburbs. We do not have to build NYC density to meet supply as building Paris-style 5-6 story buildings on a subset of the properties would largely meet the demand.
> three ton(U.S)

tons and tonnes/'metric tons' are roughly interchangeable, like yards and meters. :)
The therac system is well known.. hardware interlock.
That's from before the New York agreement (SegWit2x) so it's not definitive. In fact many who explicitly don't support SegWit2x support plain SegWit.
Miners provide security for the system, but they do so at the behest of the users. If they don't enforce the rules that the users desire, the users will reject their blocks and the miners won't get paid.
Not saying all firms do this, but I immediately thought of malicious tactics like spoofing.
"The current level of what investors have demonstrated they're willing to build is by far below the norm for even SOMA. There is still a very significant amount of surface parking or 1-3 story developments in SOMA that could potentially become a very large amount of housing."

That's like saying "there's a very significant amount of land in America that could become a very large amount of housing.".

Sure it could. Except, someone owns the land and wants you to pay for it (trouble, that), or it's being used for something else that has a higher value, or it just isn't practical to build there for whatever reason. Or maybe the owner doesn't want to rebuild. In any case, be more specific: I live in SOMA, and I don't know of many vacant lots around here that aren't already slated for development. These sorts of stories are usually apocryphal.

This is another part of the "YIMBY" narrative that I dislike. You don't get to point at every building you think could be taller and say "I think that building could be taller, therefore, SF isn't building enough." That's not how it works.
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It's astable, not unstable. The net gravitational force from the contained star is roughly zero for any positioning of the Dyson sphere. Therefore, it can drift away from perfectly centered, but there's no runaway instability. You can correct its position very cheaply by e.g. modulating the transparency of different sections of the sphere and using light pressure to keep it centered. Obviously there are other concerns, but positional instability isn't that bad, relatively speaking.
Indeed. One bitcoin was over $3k about 5 weeks ago, and is still over $2k today. Scam someone for half a bitcoin twice a week and that's over $100k a year at current value.
Ask HN: Is it ethical to transfer ownership of a user database to a new company?
This requires a bit of further explanation. We've got a website (a number of websites, really) which have an existing user database. We're looking to move some of our services to a central service which will exist as a new company (owned by the same people.) This new company exists wholly within the same domain - so it's not as though the users will have signed up for something completely different with regards to content. We see this as a repurposing of our user information. Any additional access outside of the current scope must be explicitly authorized by the user. Is it ethical to transfer the ownership of the user information in this circumstance? Is it legal? Our users will be made aware of the change as they'll sign in to a different website with the same credentials as before.

Also, I'm open to alternative suggestions if you see this as a problem. I think there are plenty of options that users will be okay with -- we're not a bank or anything, the data is pretty low risk.
An option besides socialism though that looks interesting is the Venus Project, or Resource Based Economy -- where all goods and services are available to all people without the need for money, credits, barter or any other means.
Yeah, I think the author's just priming the pump for a few more posts in this series that show a new way of abstraction/new NN architecture that solves some new problems.

Doesn't seem like he's trying to claim anything philosophical.
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I was an intern at a university security lab working on a 7 months project. Early on, I figured it would be a good idea to use SVN to save my work so I setup a repository and did a few commits but quickly stopped maintaining the repo.

One hour before the end of my internship, I was ready to leave, my work done, ready to be used for the next person taking over the project. I want cleanup my files and documentation so it is all tidy and I try to commit my work. Of course SVN cannot commit because the repo and my work have nothing left in common. So I type (on a Linux system):
svn delete
to cleanup the repo so that I can push my files...
I lost months of work and I was not able to recover my lost files from the file system... I had to leave for my country of origin since this internship was part of an exchange program. I felt so bad about it, it still haunts me.
If the traffic to PayPal confirming the transaction wasn't from a centralised server, PayPal would have no way of differentiating between an ETH sale or any other transaction, so their cooperation might not be needed.

Reversal - might be better solutions but couldn't the smart contract escrow simply have a timer built in that would allow the fiat receiver to move the money out of his PayPal account, thus preventing reversal?

I'm just running with a half-baked idea, but it feels like it could work. Doesn't need to be PayPal, could be any fiat transaction provider that has an API that allows confirmation of the fiat transfer that the smart contract can access
What you've said makes a lot of sense. There's a sea of researchers out there who do extremely complex PCA and all kinds of wizardry with Excel, mountains of complex systems are built atop Excel in both academia and the wall street, MS really needs to see and realize their moves in Excel space could be huge.
I would be careful of suggesting the idea of property you're referring to is somehow "the original capitalist system". Many economic and political theorists in the mid 19th century and earlier talked about property rights in the terms I'm referring to - these were also capitalists.

“Propriété et loi.” Originally published in the 15 May 1848 issue of "Le Journal des économistes", Frederic Bastiat (hardly some obscure, sideline thinker) wrote:

> Economists consider that property, like the person, is a providential fact. The law does not give existence to one any more than to the other. Property is a necessary consequence of the constitution of man.

He continues:

> It is so true that property predates the law that it is acknowledged even by primitive people who have no laws or at least no written laws. When a savage has devoted his work to building himself a hut, no one disputes his possession or ownership of it. Doubtless another savage who is stronger than he can drive him out but not without angering and alarming the entire tribe. It is actually this abuse of strength that gives rise to association, agreement, and the law, which places public force in the service of property. Therefore the law arises out of property, a far cry from property arising from law.

Point being, the property rights I'm referring to - the property rights that the vast majority of free-market advocates speak about - have been considered and thought about for ages. I'm not coining a new label.

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/bastiat-the-collected-work...
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> 1. Eat right.

That doesn't meat anything.
Hence, Google Fiber and Project Loon.
This is totally true, but I think it's still important to note that while something like Artificial General Intelligence is still way beyond the state of the art, the state of the art still has a huge impact on the world. A tiny slice of that can be seen in autonomous vehicles and the impact that they seem poised to have.
That comment (without context) is 100% selfish and stupid (coming from a father).
So it's understood that in the best of cases, the pig is being cared for so that it can be murdered for food.

I grew up with livestock that would later be converted to food on our table. Those animals had one bad day their entire lives. Though we intended to eat them, we had no intention of adding to that count of bad days if we didn’t have to. So, though never called upon to do so, I’d stay up all night with a pig if she were sick even if I were going to eat her later.
many flights are not required to broadcast this signal....
very cool! Can you explain how this relates to Unix at all?

It is very cool for using monospace fonts and green-on-black (not RGB green this has more "taste"). How does this relate to Unix programs?
What is this required bank contingencies you speak of?

Just because you are getting a mortgage doesn't mean you need a mortgage contingency in your offer. You are taking on the added risk of actually closing on the loan, but that doesn't mean it had to be in the offer letter. If you know what the house is worth and what your credit score is and how the underwriting works, just make a "cash" offer like everyone else. It's not like you literally show up with a briefcase of cash in any case.
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But by ensuring that A, W1 and W2 wallets are yours, you are able to try as many times as you want (provided you're willing to pay for the fees). And the more times you try, more your probability of success approaches 1.
I think the author is trying to get across a mindset that is common among people who raise livestock, which others might find foreign like you seem to.

He seems fully aware of the contradictions within it, and isn't making any attempts to rationalize it. He's likely hoping that the reader will try to understand the mindset that makes this contradiction possible.
This is a pernicious misunderstanding of "frequentism", often found among people who studied statistics mainly by reading comics.

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Red looks like a good language. They seem to be supporting Linux last though, which has kept me from trying it personally.
Fun story: with an extremely slow internet connection (satellite) you could send valid requests to plow fields that allowed the otherwise impossible vertical farming
Stuy town is actually what I was thinking of. Or at least mixed use, with office/commercial on the bottom and a residential tower on top. Everyone else seems to do it, it's weird to see purely office buildings still being built without residential up top.
I disagree. Microsoft is correct; mostly if not entirely.

Q: It's a subsystem? What kind of subsystem?

A: It's a Windows subsystem?

Q: A subsystem for what?

A: It's the Windows subsystem for Linux.

As another commentator mentioned, there's probably a missing possessive ("'s"), but even if we take the proper name to be more of an adjective modifying/qualifying "subsystem", it's a Windows subsystem, it's purpose is running Linux... the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Statistics is the science of making decisions under uncertainty.

It is far too frequently misunderstood as the science of making certainty from uncertainty.
I guess most of you have never purchased housing in any of the major cities in China.

$180,000 is over RMB 1mm, which is way above what an average Chinese white collar can earn in a year. And an apartment can cost much more than $500,000, with a 30%~60% down payment.

People do afford the apartments, with life's saving from parents. I am not saying it's a good thing, but it is possible that people afford housing even with a ridiculous price.
Yes. Honesty is more endearing than trying to pretend, and it's easier too.
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In what scenario is it ever possible to understand the underlying model, if the model was naturally occurring and not invented by the scientist?
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