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... stating that weight gain is due to eating more calories than you burn is neither tautological, vacuous, nor inane. It might not be satisfying to the author, but it is a cogent and useful explanation of why people gain weight.

No, it's not useful. What defines "calories absorbed" and how is that related to the actual amount of food ingested? Do all possible calories in a given bite to eat always factor in the theromdynamic equilibrium or do some of them just pass through your system? What about "calories burned"? What proportion of calories burned in a day are due to walking, exercising, thinking, or just sitting there. How much does your metabolism fluctuate, and what controls it?

It's true that if you are overweight, then you absorbed more calories than you burned, but the converse doesn't necessarily give insight into what to do? You could eat less, but then maybe the body would be more efficient about extracting calories from the food passing through, or maybe it would lower your standing metabolism so as to not burn as many calories during the day.

I have maintained a healthy weight for some time, while my food and activity level has fluctuated wildly. Clearly, my body is doing some pretty fancy stuff "behind the scenes" to maintain energy balance, and that seems like the most important factor in weight gain or lack thereof.

Lastly, I will say your post brought up an interesting thing: you mention the law of large numbers. I believe this indicates you think there's a target caloric intake, and each day our body draws a random variable of calories, with the thermodynamic equilibrium as the expected value. It's an interesting model, but I'm not sure if that's realistic. I feel like what I eat in a given day is determined more exogenously than endogenously (e.g.: who I visit, what they want to do, what restaurant I walk by, what the special of the day is, etc). It's an interesting idea, though.
Sorry guys! I wasn't aware of the other use of the term - I've changed the title!

What are your thoughts on the post?
blekko has that feature. every result has a "spam" button underneath it. Click the link, and the host will be added to your personal /spam slashtag. Everything on your /spam list gets negated from all of your results by default.

Very handy. I put ehow.com on mine and never see results from them.
You can start writing patches now, there are tons of resources to get started. Pick a small bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ (even fixing a typo) and fix it. It may take a week, but who cares? You can get help via patch reviews and asking questions on IRC (irc.mozilla.org)

There is also a lot of resources on wiki.mozilla.org about all our projects and how to get started.

Don't let your inexperience stop you. It will certainly take a while to improve. All great programmers have years, even decades of experience.

There are also lots of other ways to help: QA (http://quality.mozilla.org/), Support (http://support.mozilla.com/), Review personas (http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/), and marketing (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/)

More info: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/
We're also hiring for a developer evangelist and marketing manager to join my team, I can be reached directly at danielle@twilio.com
So when you're marking, you're working off a mark stack. You pop an object off the market stack, scan it and mark each of its children, then put any newly-marked children onto the mark stack. Note that the mark stack separates when an object gets marked from when it is scanned and its children marked. So when the read barrier triggers, you can mark the object and put it on the mark stack, as if you'd just scanned its parent. The object's children will get recursively marked when the marker processes the object from the mark stack, but that can happen independently of the read barrier fault.
Ah, that reminds me that nowadays "homemade fries" are frozen fries put into your own fryer ;)

> I still buy rice pudding, though. I've tried making it and it always turns out awfully.

Here's grandma's recipe how to make rice pudding.

Ingredients: 1 liter of milk, 1 or 2 eggs, about half a cup of dessert rice, half to a whole cup of sugar, cinnamon, salt.

Bring the milk to a boil. Put in rice and sugar and a pinch of salt and cook with a lid for about 20 minutes (or whatever the package says). Make sure it doesn't char. In the meantime split the egg yolks from the egg white. Add some sugar to the egg white and whip until creamy with a fork or with a mixer. Add some sugar to the egg yolks and stir until white and creamy. When the rice is ready put out the stove, and add some of the milk to the egg yolks and stir. Then slowly add the egg yolks to the pan while stirring. You need to stir really well otherwise you get bits of solidified egg yolk in your pudding. Next add the egg white and stir. Put in a bowl, cover it with cinnamon and then sugar. Let it cool down for a couple of hours.

My grandma used to say it tastes as if an angel is peeing on your tongue. I can guarantee that it tastes so much better than rice pudding from the supermarket.

Many dishes have a kernel, the essential thing that makes that dish that dish. For puddings it's stirred egg yolk and whipped egg white. Next time you make instant pudding use a little bit less of the instant pudding powder, and add egg yolk stirred with sugar and egg white whipped with sugar in the same way as for the rice pudding. This will improve the flavor and change the texture from a gelatiny pudding to something more like a real custard.

Like chocolate pudding, caramel pudding is just a small variation. Put sugar and a little bit of water in a pan, and heat until brown (not black!). Then add milk or water and dissolve the caramel, and add this to the pudding. Nice with whipped cream.
I know it sounds snarky to ask, but how did that site take two weeks to put together? There is not much to it.
The title reminded me of this article, which doesn't really have anything to do with the OP but I felt like sharing: http://www.economist.com/node/15108690?story_id=15108690

"The funny thing is, with the passage of time, something does happen to long-term foreigners which makes them more like real exiles, and they do not like it at all. The homeland which they left behind changes. The culture, the politics and their old friends all change, die, forget them. They come to feel that they are foreigners even when visiting “home”."
As mentioned by ericbb, there is Go, yes. I've been working on another; a prototype based OO language without inheritance, explicit delegation and type polymorphism, but have nothing I want to show just yet.
I bought the 11" Air shortly after it came out as a fun little secondary notebook, and liked it so much I picked up the 13" as well for regular work purposes (replacing a 15" MBP).

I just finished coding an app on the 11" and it worked great. I never had a problem with the screen size or performance, and also have never had a problem with the apple logo showing through the display that another poster mentioned (on either the 11" or the 13"). I do occasionally hook it up to a 23" monitor when I need to do any design work, since there is a point where the 11" display is just too small for some tasks.

My only regret was going with the low-end 11" system. I really should have opted for the higher end 11", but didn't at the time because I was really buying it as "fun" purchase and the $999 entry price point was pretty attractive. If you're considering one, definitely spend the extra money to get the next step up.
Did Angry Birds eat the iPad mags market?
Etsy.com is hiring in Brooklyn, Berlin, San Francisco, and Hudson, NY. This should explain everything:

http://vimeo.com/13214706

Feel free to email me directly with questions, resumes, etc.
It's not necessarily a bad idea to charge money starting with the first customer. But if you have a network-oriented product, it won't get critical mass.

"The problem is, just about every startup is following this mantra [of free software], and that's exactly the reason why a lot of them fail."

Whereas, if startups just locked down their product, most of them would start to succeed? What are some examples where having a free version actually killed a project?
That's a much more expensive system. If we configure them as:

Macbook Pro 15: $1800 + $250 for 128GB SSD

Macbook Air 13: $1300 + $100 for 4GB RAM

Both machines will have the same size SSD, RAM, and same number of pixels, but the MBP will be $650 more.

(I know there are other ways of configuring the two, like adding a $100 hi-res option to the MBP, or adding the $100 MCE OptiBay like you did. I ignored them for simplicity and to create a more apples-to-apples comparison.)
If we ever get an optic nerve tap and thought-writer worked out, we'll scarcely have any need for physical interfaces that laptops and desktops offer.

The thought-writers are halfway there already, they're working on tech for disabled people that lets them manage somewhat crude gestures by thinking in directions.
I mean, I don't mean to disparage Chicago, I love this city (and hell yeah to Paulina Meat Market, that place is one of my favorites). I just don't think generally that Chicago has the kind of culinary culture that European cities do, and most of it comes from it's recent immigrants, although it's streets ahead of anywhere in the U.S., no doubt.

BTW, I've been trying to find an actual Timpano recipe for years, but as far as I can tell, it's either a creation for the movie, or it's such an obscure regional food that it's hard to find any authentic recipes, although there are plenty of really good approximations.
I have no actual numbers on hand but muscle is a lot denser and needs a lot more energy to maintain; putting on even a small amount of muscle and doing just enough exercise to keep the muscles around helps with weight loss (as well as general fitness)
Heh, yes. Developer team size is up to 23 now according to our about-us page. My estimate in that post was totally off.
"it seems awkward, fragile and ill-thought-out"

Or, you know...not. Sometimes, inheritance is the perfect abstraction for the job, neither awkward nor fragile, but perfectly elegant. Which was my point.

When you've got an is-a relationship, inheritance often makes sense, and encapsulation is frequently awkward. When you've got a has-a relationship, inheritance is frequently awkward. Just because you can find an awkward use of inheritance or a leaky abstraction doesn't mean that inheritance is awkward. It's a tool with limitations, and the world is a messy place. Containment isn't a magic bullet, either.

I honestly don't understand where the bias against concepts comes from. When the concept works, you use it. When it doesn't, you don't. It's engineering, not religion.
Socialism is the government control of production, and it's largely dead outside of Cuba and North Korea.

Nope, not necessarily. There are many definitions of socialism, and lots of movements defined as socialists. Many of them don't involve State control of production, eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
Yep. Here's his most recent video: http://youtu.be/17st-s5gg10?hd=1
My son has type one diabetes and is on an insulin pump. Because of this I have to check his blood sugar levels every two hours at night. I rely heavily on my iPhone 4 alarm. Last night went to bed with all my alarms set as usual. None of them went off. I woke up at 8 am in a panic not knowing what I'd find in my sons room. Thankfully he hadn't gone low in the night and died. Instead he was extremely high, which is also bad but not fatal in the short term. But still carries health problems.

My first thought was how irresponsible it is to rely on a consumer gadget for something life critical. But then I wondered, is there is any such thing as mission critical alarm clock that this person could find and afford? Can the average layperseon be expected to understand how various gadgets are prone to fail at such simple tasks? We rely on so many non-industrial grade things to not incidentally kill us: shoes, doorknobs, bubblegum, faucets, etc. Maybe it's reasonable to think of a virtual alarm clock in the same way, especially on a device that tries so hard to look and feel like an elementary object rather than a complex machine.
This is a very elegant way of giving HN the finger.

I'm kidding! :) I do disagree however, I find HN just as useful as ever!
They would parse the words, but not the correct meanings.

The impression they'd come away with would be something like: (Extremely large number) ignoring canned meat is like (random company name) ignoring the high-altitude water vapor.
Facebook close to naming Sun Microsystems campus as new headquarters.
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The express purpose is to remain neutral and to avoid conflicts of interest.

How well do you think Wikipedia is doing at that? (I ask as a new Wikipedian, registered and actively editing only for about a half year, who has seen many very controversial articles that are anything but neutral in point of view, ads or no ads.)
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Elbanco obviously cares about HN—kudos.

I left HN for about two months (/etc/hosts block; it works). I just started coming back this week. In the interim, I would have to say the overall quality has decreased. It's still better than many other sites, but it isn't as good as it once was.

His suggestions to fix the problem are interesting, and I somewhat agree:

> Reset the global karma scores to 0 - too many people get votes here simply for being popular.

Yes and no. People get "celebrity" votes because they are celebrities. Setting their karma back to 0 isn't going to do any good; it's the name not the karma.

> Hide handles on comments until a user votes for that comment.

Agreed. Let's make it two or three votes.

> Set guidelines for the semantics of karma voting -- is it agree/disagree, great comment/garbage, what is it? Nobody knows.

In my understanding it was always been the latter. But it would be great for this to be "formalized."

> Require a comment for a vote.

Nope. This would create a bevy of useless comments—just so people can vote.

> Allow filters.

Interesting idea. I'm apathetic towards it.

> Ask HN posts (and similar) should decay slower than the rest of the stuff, not faster.

Absolutely. The strength of this community is it's ability to clearly answer questions of any nature. Let's have more of it.
simple enough WIRED om the ipad sucked, thats why the sales dropped.
I use grep several times a week. If the job is one that will leverage command line skills, it would make sense to understand grep. It's not like "grep [f]oo" is an alien command; it's basically a pattern.
I know. And they all perform very similarly under most conditions (now. Not in the past.). And they're all near the top of all the charts all the time.
Which browser? Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox all support extensions/plug-ins.

Maybe IE9 does, too, but that's not important. :)
You would only consider the people you trust on a specific topic when ranking results (not all backlinks).
I am not opposed to the content mills per se, mainly because I think that they aren't doing anything "destructive" IE comment spamming, phishing, etc. They're using the tools and data that Google freely provides to produce laser targeted content that the algorithm eats up and ranks high because of their domain authority and onsite interlinking. It's essentially a battle between them and Google, and clearly Google is fine with them doing what they do or else they would have stopped them years ago.

What most (power) users are opposed to are scraper sites that reuse other sites' content to rank higher than the original content source, and tactics like eHow uses where they have 10 different articles about how to tie your shoe, but each one has a title that matches a different long-tail version of the search query.

Again though, the issue is that Google isn't reacting to and clearing out content spam. Most likely because the sites add to Google's bottom line and a spam engineer modifying the algo to remove the powerhouse content mill sites can actually negatively impact the Google's revenue.

Also, when we complain about search quality, we're a vocal micro-minority. Most people, like you said, find these sites useful, and haven't even though about the implications of these content mill sites.
It would also make them unresponsive to their community (assuming the really off-the-wall idea of 'perpetuity').
Got the 13" version with the 4GB ram upgrade. Works great for Android/iPhone/Web development. Loving it so far, haven't used by dell since. In fact, I'm going to give it to my mom (Core i7, NVidia GT435M)
Jumpscan: QR code for your business card?
I would be interested in taking on a remote intern or two over the next few months. I am an independent software developer who works on several client and personal web applications, mostly using Ruby on Rails (jQuery on the frontend). If anyone is interested in internship where they could work with RoR, HTML/CSS/JS, or learn about how a freelance business works shoot me an email (address in profile).
As an only child of a single parent, the responsibility for the evening meal fell to me

Same here. Mom couldn't afford much convenience food, so I learned to go to the butcher down the street -- 25 years ago in Brooklyn, NY there were still neighborhood butchers. Wonder if they're still there -- and get chicken/ground beef/etc, season it and either cook it following her instructions or wait until she came home to finish the meal. Learning basic cooking techniques from an early age (I started baking around age 9 and I'm bringing my son up the same way) means they became second nature without me even realizing it. I think it's that automatic response that is most important to learn; "I'm hungry" means I start thinking about what ingredients are on hand that I can cook quickly, not what boxed meal I can microwave.

I still remember being amazed post-college at how helpless my roommate was (Burger King every night or detailed instructions from his gf on how to make cinnamon sugar toast!).
There must be someone at HN somewhere in the Google pyramid who can tell someone with decent clout about this proposal.

There must be some way Google's search engine could learn by looking at the blacklists people uses.
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None of that changes the fact that this is IR.

And I still find it impossible to believe that "spots resemble a vertical or slightly diagonal line and really resemble a sort of one dimensional test pattern (with various symbols, kinda like various geometric shapes).
" would be visible via coincidence.

Psychosomatic. All the way. (I personally believe OP is a troll).
I'd be interested in two things (well, quite a few, but these two especially): any change in FF4b8, and a link to your code or (better) a bug report on the performance issue; we'll get to it after FF4 if it's not already better.
Which is why I like speed tests of real-world code. One isn't even remotely conclusive, no, but I'd argue that the results from many form a far more accurate measure than specific benchmarking code.

Benchmarks, especially the big ones, are targets for improving JS engines, while cases they don't cover may not get as much attention. The "official" ones should always be taken with a gigantic grain of salt. Especially as I believe I read that Mozilla's in-the-works engine is experimenting with making optimizing transformations of JS code to improve its speed, where none of the others do because it breaks from the spec, or some such argument.
I don't think you deserved the many downvotes you received. It's not like you were trolling. People here just downvote things they disagree with. Personally, I think Google should donate a decent amount to WP because Freebase relies on it. Without WP, Freebase would have been useless. (Disclaimer: I have no idea if Google actually donated.)
Dreamhost performance issues...need recs for new shared hosting
I'm considering moving away from Dreamhost. For the past couple of months, I've been monitoring the loading times of my pages and pages on my friends hosts to my surprise Dreamhost is about two times slower than the slowest in my sampling. Also to my surprise, using wasitup.com, I found that my domains have been going down for short periods of time. Dreamhost forum say that it's because of backups.

The thing that concerns me more is the performance. Can people here help recommend a good shared hosting site? Good performance, support, features? Thanks.
> […] and to live to ~30.

People used to die younger because of injuries, illnesses and poor nutrition, not because the body is only "supposed" to live for 30 years.

> Additionally (and importantly) evolution is only a factor up until age ~30-35 (child bearing/rearing age). Evolution plays no role in protecting us from most modern afflictions (obesity, alzheimer's, cancer, etc).

That's absolutely not true. It seems likely that older people have played an important role in society throughout, helping take care of children while the more able work, sources of wisdom &c. While evolution hasn't eliminated all diseases of the old age (because it doesn't work actively like that) longer-lived genes have provided some survival advantage.
It may sound unfair but in the USA broadband is not so good if you are not around major city hubs..which them being virtual might be their concern
Would you trust a fat guy's diet advice?
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tl;dr

OK, bye.
Relieving your users' copyright of their own published content hosted on your own platform is very dubious territory legally.

It's fine that they have an expressed policy that says it's okay, but I'd keep it at that and not refer to terminology like CC licenses.