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I personally outgrew their products within weeks of using them. I find their base functionality good and solid but nothing really ever extends beyond that. Maybe my experience was that their product simply didn't fit my needs but I felt it was always missing something that they never included.

I always felt I was going to go back in a year and it would be there. It simply wasn't.

So this really is for me an "about time" moment.
> TCAS isn't all it's cracked up to be. First of all, it only works if the other plane has a transponder (there are still plenty of light civil aircraft out there with no transponders).

Why hasn't it been made mandatory that all aircrafts should have a standardized transponder ? It scares me a bit that, at the end of the day, we rely on pilots avoiding collisions by sight.
You ramp it up then, and go see a doctor first if your really bad/old. Instead of 150 kettlebell swings, you do 20 and add 10 every few days, etc.
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What if you don't wish to introduce carbohydrates into your diet (à la Paleolithic diet)?
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This is an entire branch of philosophy.
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You make an interesting point, and what makes it very interesting is that it's testable: are native speakers worse spellers than non-native speakers? And which words do each group have the most difficulty spelling?

It doesn't seem likely that non-native speakers are better general spellers than native speakers; but it's possible that some words are especially difficult for native speakers and not for non-native ones.

Are you aware of existing studies on that subject?
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The Misc is probably my favorite general forum on the internet. Suprisingly-high level of discourse and genial atmosphere for a forum dedicated to lifting weights. HN would be pretty impressed with the number of engineers and entrepreneurs there as well :)
Open ERP is quite interesting. (http://www.openerp.com/)
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At the risk of starting a flame war, I am genuinely curious as to everyone's thoughts about whether Ruby offers better support for learning programming.

This has partly been instigated by three initiatives shared on HN: 1. Dev Bootcamp (and also Code Academy), 2. Bloc and 3. The Bastards Book of Ruby.

While there are good resources for learning Python, I'm getting the impression that Ruby has a bit of an edge. Am I wrong?
Similar, but more speedy, less comprehensive (ES5-only), and doesn't break your back button: http://www.javascripture.com/
There's also this: http://i.imgur.com/vvKOR.png
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Yes, I do have one word of caution though:

I downloaded VLC to my netbook through apt-get and ran it from the terminal. When run from the terminal it was outputting errors like the below (not actual domains):
cannot reach 442g.com => skipping...
cannot reach muzak.com => skipping...
cannot reach 3g3.com => skipping...
cannot reach gewedw.com => skipping...
cannot reach ewfr.com => skipping...
I've always wondered why but never really looked into it.
ooh - make a yearly one!!!

colours could be used to mean different things! day, night, summer, winter, full moons etc... cant think of a use for it right now, but I'm sure one will 'spring' to mind! ;-)
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Bought the app. Works as advertised. I love that I can switch from iPhone to iPad and back again very quickly.

Initial requests:

* Use full screen dimensions - my comps are sized to the dimensions of the screen. I shouldn't have to crop or resize my canvas. Also makes it difficult to look at items in the footer.

* List the dimensions in the interface, before I try to drop a file onto it.

* Don't prevent the app from loading a file just because the dimensions are wrong - show me your best guess results and let me decide if I want to change the file

* Don't force me to rotate my image if I'm working on an app in landscape orientation. If Silkscreen requires images in portrait orientation, then Silkscreen should rotate the image, not me.

* How do I close an image but not close Silkscreen? Do I have to exit to the home screen?

* If I have iPhone and iPad running at the same time, preview an image on iPad, and then exit, Silkscreen Mac complains that the image dimensions are incorrect and the Mac app interface slides to the left inside the app window, becoming unusable.

* Would be nice to be able to drop multiple files and then select a gesture to go between them, especially if you could choose a different gesture for each transition.
It's cool but the lack of unique url's and back button is a shame. Hopefully that gets sorted.
if the SEC believes that stiffer penalties need to be put in place because the leadership there honestly believes that the financial system is out of control, is that really so bad?

On face value that wouldn't seem bad, but I'm personally not interested in exploring that case, because as it stands the SEC doesn't seem to believe that the financial system is out of control. If they did do so, they would make use of the tools they already have.

Take a look at the case SEC v. Citygroup, the judge refused a Consent Judgement and the opinion outlines the ways in which the SEC's is really dropping the ball with the authority they do have, and just giving City a slap on the wrist, it even goes as far as to say that:

As for common experience, a consent judgment that does not involve any admissions [of wrongdoing on the part of Citygroup] and that results in only very modest penalties is just as frequently viewed, particularly in the business community, as a cost of doing business imposed by having to maintain a working relationship with a regulatory agency, rather than as any indication of where the real truth lies. This, indeed, is Citigroup's position in this very case

From: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases/show.php?db=special&i...

As little as admission of wrongdoing (or taking this to go to court and City losing) would make it possible for those people wronged by Citygroup to peruse them in civil court (they technically always could, but read the opinion to see why it makes a huge difference). If the S.E.C cared about getting the financial system under control, this would be an easy step for them to take.

Also, they're looking to be able to impose their new fines without judicial review which is completely different issue from the size of the fines.
Fat is where many toxins accumulate. If the animal you eat has been fed with pesticide-ridden, fattening-rather-than-nutritious crap and pumped up with hormones and antibiotics, I bet its fat is not as good for you.

As an heuristic, taste is supposed to be a measure of nutritional quality. Sure it can be cheated, but when something natural tastes better than something adulterated, I'm pretty confident you can rely on that hint.
Well, then I guess we'll agree to disagree.
I thought racetrack memory required titanium dioxide? How can you fab a chip with "standard CMOS" process then?
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The problem I have with fasting or reducing calories below maintenance is that I have a really hard time focusing mentally on anything. I'm reduced to TV watching. I can't program, study or do any other sort of mental work with any sort of effectiveness. Any suggestions on dealing with this?
The Stanford class videos are not at all like what you are referring to.

The difference between HR videos and lecture videos like what Stanford is doing now is huge - the people watching the HR videos don't want to be there. People that signed up for the Stanford classes are interested students, which makes all the difference in the world.
Heck, just think how much it would cost to buy all the hydrogen you need to create the universe.
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I've received some emails about this so I'll write this publicly here. I recall a case study and some papers that we went over for about 2 weeks in an education course. I will try to dig up the sources (this was about 2 years ago, though, so please be patient).
I'm going to disagree with you in part, and agree with you in part. I agree with you that this is theatre, but I disagree in that I claim these fines to be trivial to the size corporations involved. By making the fines look "large" to members of the public, the public will hopefully be disuaded into pushing Congress to make real, significant, and meaningful changes to our corporate landscape.

The part I'm disagreeing with is that the criminal misdeeds of the financial institutions are so enormous that even with these "power-upped" fines, the fines are a trivial mosquito bite to the companies.

The SEC is routinely in bed with the financial institutions that they regulate and I see these fines as a corrupt action that fines the institutions less than 1% of the damage the institutions did to the US, and then exempt the institution from further civil and criminal penalties. This is exactly like the "fifty states attorney general" settlement with the banks is doing.
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I see what you're saying about the quiz questions every few minutes.

On the other hand, she's not arguing for limiting ourselves to video lectures. Her point (see page 2) is that class time is precious and shouldn't be wasted on lecturing but on problem solving, critical thinking, and discussion, and this I totally agree with. (Why is it taking institutions so long to figure this out?)
I work in finance and I use SAP. Or more accurately, I try my best to delegate any SAP tasks to my co-workers because I swear I lose IQ points whenever I interact with SAP.

Is it dull? It depends. For the TC crowd, yes, but that's because they're consumer oriented and not very technical.

It should be interesting to the HN crowd because it's a huge opportunity for disruptive innovation.
awesome! How much have you guys been pumpin for that video? ;)
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One example of a hole does not make a bucket into a sieve.

For a company of FBs size and personal data contents, I agree, they have a rather scary track record. But saying <symptom of X> implies <X> is fallacious, especially when it's also a symptom of <AAA> through <ZZZ>.
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They're smart enough to milk the non-technical low end user. There's a lot more of them than there are the power-users.

So for their revenue stream of constantly revolving low-end users not changing much is the right thing to do.
Ok, it was my understanding that the F-15 adjusted the transfer function based on a feedback cycle rather than simply picking from a list of them. However, thinking back the conversation was ambiguous and I don't have the clearance required to find out the correct answer.

However, while flight control systems have been responsible for plenty of crashes pilots have often mistaken level for non level flight and focused on faulty instruments rather than switching to working backups etc. An automated system can handle redundancy much more efficiently than people in such situations so while it's little value for a person to have ex:7 gyroscopes if they need to pick between them autopilots can gain from access to such information.
You are right that either is better than nothing. But the bad advice that "lifting is the way to go, cardio doesn't work" is very common and it needs to be corrected.
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I remember reading a story about a year ago, reporting that stores would ask people using their smartphones to leave - they were worried that they were checking for lower prices in the area. This seems like it might be met with the same sort of attitude, at first.
Paypal wants to be a bank without being regulated as a bank. If they were regulated, this sort of fiasco would get their charter revoked.

In addition, the business courses I'm taking all (in the text books and case studies used in classes) point to how eBay is trying to transition away from the auction model and turn into fix-price sales as some sort of discount Amazon Marketplace. Making life miserable for smaller retailers and auctioners is part of this goal.
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Sorry just got up ... anyway ... I got it through Firebug and was able to reproduce it in a FireFox Tab, so I assume it was a GET, although it may have been a POST; I didn't cURL the URL from outside the browser though; I'm sure you need cookies.
It's not obvious to me that the studies you reference are refuting the article. In your reference, time on task is time when students "are actually paying attention to the content being presented". Some people can pay attention for long periods of time, and some can't. So, maximizing time on task does not always mean 60 hour weeks, although that might work for some people.
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Honestly? I'm willing to chock this up to a mistake. A reasonable series of circumstances for this would also be that they missed a single permissions check on an otherwise private-only method. It's probably a single line of code, and one that exists in thousands of other places, surrounded by at least hundreds of other lines of code. An easy thing to overlook.
You might want to also post something on reddit, in the r/nyc and r/brooklyn subreddits.
I think you talk about something else. The topic was HN discussions. That there are examples in the industry is no question.
Looks like they settled it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320154.
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DHH's Twitter suggests otherwise. He talks about the joy of starting from scratch developing with rails/master. Can't link to it because I'm on a phone.
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The SEC's fines have about as much to do with preventing a financial meltdown as local police traffic fines have to do with preventing a murder. It's just safety theater.

I read the ruling on the Citygroup case you mentioned (I linked to the opinion elsewhere in this thread for anyone interested), it seems like the way the SEC chooses to issue the fines is the bigger contributor to their ineffectiveness than the fines themselves.

I do agree that after-the-fact fines won't necessarily fix anything, and even if they do function as a deterrent their effect does have bounds, but to me it looks like the SEC is more interested in slapping banks on the wrist than actually carrying out their mission. They could cause more punishment to come to the banks then they do now, so I am confused as to why they would possibly want to be able to impose bigger fines. The way I see it, it seems to be all about running around the judiciary and nothing about the size of the fines.
I think the author makes some important points. So I visited Groove and tried to sign-up. This is what I got on Chrome in Mac OS X.

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You're probably better off getting the theraputic grade stuff... my dad with Parkinsons has this drop shipped: https://omega-cure.com/

If you have a freezer, you store a 2 month supply for less than 2 months of softgels.
a) Your wording is weird, but yes, they are just as healthy. All scientific research on the topic has shown no health benefits to organic plants. What makes you think organic chicken is grass fed?

b) Why do you think organic chickens are any different? USDA organic cert is a joke. It doesn't mean the chickens spend their days frolicking in fields. IIRC they can be kept in cages if they have some exposure to outdoors.

c) In the US, hormone use in chickens is illegal. Antibiotics are used in all animals, organic or not.
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Trello and Asana are free (last time I checked). It'll be hard to make money from people using their apps for free. No money = no app improvement. IMHO.
Fine then, you guys win. Every piece of software I have ever used that gave me a little trouble, including Firefox, is now bad software in my eyes.

Congrats.
It's very interesting to see the mesh operations able to be done client side now, and this is pretty lean. One of the biggest problems with doing CAD on the internet is the mesh pipeline issue where you're constantly throwing a ton of polys back and forth to the server.

Check out http://TinkerCAD.com or http://ShapeSmith.net to see server-side WebGL renders CAD operations. This could make such programs a lot faster for sure.

The only issue is that CSG style CAD on meshes is pretty basic compared to the now standard "Boundary Representation" of a STEP file - which is like the style SolidWorks uses. I don't know how easy it would be to make BREP.js, but I'm still loving that this was actually made.
Really bizarre formatting on this page, looks almost like a stitching together of images. That, plus the way its worded makes me suspicious of some kind of scam (worst) or is not fully baked (likely). Does anyone know more? Anyone have the same thoughts?
Could you cite an example of a case where the money the banks gained from fraud was larger than the amount they lost due to fines?
It doesn't failover to normal DNS. That's available (off by default) for those folks who place continuity above security.

Life's full of tradeoffs.

Source is on GH -- http://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy
I don't know what your pace was or whether "for miles" means 2 miles or 10. But there are plenty of apps for iOS and Android that will tell you how many calories you burned on your runs, and if it was multiple miles and you were maintaining a decent pace, you probably burned many more calories on those runs than you do lifting.

The likely reasons you kept gaining weight while running, pick one or multiple:

- Not running as often as you lift, so the total calories burned per week (or month) was lower.

- Running too slowly so that your heart rate didn't get up to the point where you were really working.

- Ramping up your carb intake, whether consciously or subconsciously this is really common when people start running -- your body starts craving carbs. Which then results in a calorie increase, which is the real problem (not carbs themselves.)

- Policing your eating better while lifting.

Ultimately if you want to lose weight you have to not only exercise but also keep your daily calorie budget at a deficit. People who have trouble losing weight usually fail at the latter one.
"Oh, I'll just ramp up slowly". That's what everybody thinks. It's common sense. But it's terrible advice. Nobody is stupid enough to start on day one with the biggest kettlebell. The point is you have to warn people, over and over again, in order to drive the point home about the dangers of overtraining. Why? Because the first time you start exercising again it feels good and you start full of energy and so forth. So the day after you feel like exercising again, you got that itch, even though you "know" your body hasn't recovered yet and you're still sore in a few spots. This is where it really takes discipline to stick to the plan. Sometimes you'll go to the gym and realize you're still sore from 2 days ago. If you start lifting weights anyway the odds are you're either going to outright injure yourself or you're going to lift in a lopsided pose to compensate for a sore shoulder or something.

It takes discipline to go home and skip a workout just after you've decided to get (back) into shape. If you tell people to just ramp it up and add a couple of swings every couple of days they're still going to make predictable and preventable mistakes and injure themselves.
The way it was framed might be a tad hyperbolic at this stage. However, managing an online presence if done properly can be a more inexpensive way to acquire new customers than using conventional, bricks-world advertising and marketing channels. As many businesses experience a relatively constant attrition of customers due to factors having nothing to do with the business' service delivery, etc., acquiring new customers inexpensively is a constant activity.

A lot depends upon the focus and goals of the business owner. The owner that is happy staying as a corner boulangerie could get just as much accomplished by making sure that they are active on a neighborhood mailing list that distributes a hardcopy newsletter to each new resident arriving in the neighborhood, than by paying someone to manage their Yelp presence, for much cheaper. Somone who wants to run a local chain of coffeeshops that push their baked goods on the other hand, might find it more feasible to pay someone to manage their Yelp presence.

The author doesn't make this clear, but I suspect (due to the Forbes origination of the content) he assumes the reader is someone who intends to run a scaled-up business as opposed to a classical "small Mom & Pop" operation. Otherwise, I find the "software as core" argument he puts forward a little difficult to buy into.
Two reasons why this comment might get downvoted (it was light grey when I saw it):

(1) Supplies your intuition about whether organic food is healthier than conventional but no facts to back that up. The world is usually counterintuitive.

(2) Suggests with a straight face that palatability is a good proxy for healthfulness, a measure that suggests health food stores should stock up on Doritos.
That one's really damning. It's implying that they're using some sort of syntactic equivalence to compare solutions, which is a big no-no. It's not that difficult to generate a bunch of tests and run both solutions through an interpreter, and in this case, it's not that hard to compare them both on every possible input by running them through an abstract interpreter.
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From what dhh posted on Twitter it sounds like a full rewrite:

> The tech and the design is all new, all fresh.

https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/144061889201188865

I agree that UI is really going to be the story. Customers don't need to care about what's underneath.
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This article addresses that objection: even with the light mass, there's an ionosphere where there's protection from the magnetic field. If mass were the sole or primary contributor, then we'd see correlation with mass concentration rather than correlation with magnetic field.
Umm, no. He's saying the exact opposite:

> Focus on the winners, and don’t lose sleep over the losers. Seems like a good investment philosophy to me.
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