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The E/C/A stack isn't a "fad weight loss supplement". It's actually one of the few weight-loss methods that's been proven by many studies.

Meta-study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12672771

Scientific reasoning behind the stack: http://thinksteroids.com/articles/ephedrine-targeting-beta-a...
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probably, no one would use it
I think you are too pessimistic on it's lifetime. Firstly, the foundation will likely continue to update the software. Most of the patches they made to the kernel are going to be submitted upstream. Even if the foundation doesn't do it, it can be maintained by the community. It's not infeasible to maintain a fork, although the work will increase with time. Even if it becomes stuck on an older kernel version, it's still not very difficult to run a distribution on top of that, since the userspace-kernel interface is very stable.
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I'm not convinced you can really separate those things in a practical context. Inevitably you end up with a leaky abstraction and the opaqueness of what's actually going on makes it harder to diagnose.

I think declarative is the right default, since it shows the intent over the mechanics, but I deeply distrust any system that won't let me be very specific about the mechanics if I need to be.
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You can put on your website/blog our widget and visitors will be able to send a voice message to you. People love talk, not type on keyboard. It's very easy for visitor to send a message to you.

We believe that it's a good tool when you need to show your customers/visitors/readers that their feedback is important.
But probably we are wrong and it's just a crap.

What do you think? Could you please give your feedback about it?

Website: http://www.speakpipe.com/

Thanks
Found a 4th one which is more important than the others (updated the blog post):

it also looks like launchrock only checks whether an email is well formed but not whether it exists for real or not hence people can leave fake, misspelt or, worse, other people’s addresses. This would be easily sorted by a double opt-in.
Excessive salary disparity is a problem for any resource that is limited in quantity - land, for example. There's also many other issues that are substantially effected by income inequality. I'd recommend a look at The Spirit Level, a decent enough book on the topic.
I always enjoy anything that can help me avoid using external services such as Google Maps. I'm not one who hates these services, I think they are great. But what if they get taken down? All the maps I have out there on sites are now down. It's a lot more reassuring when I can make my own.
I come across this "salary disparity isn't a problem" comment every so often and need to call it out.

Salary disparity is definitely a social problem. When one person has the money of hundreds or thousands of others, they can wield significant power over them.

I have no problem with there being rich people, but I find it obscene that our society allows people to become billionaires.
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Except you can use it to power on EC2 machines with those data, so you can use it for dealing with requests spikes, for offsite data elaboration or even Disaster Recovery of your onpremises infrastructure on Amazon.
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This is starting to feel like Microsoft in the 90s or IBM in the 80s. IBM brought a computer in every business. Microsoft took it from the server-room and put it on your desk. Apple took it from your desk and put it in your pocket. They are winning for now, but what goes up must come down.
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What's overrated is the "pick a degree, any degree, you get to call yourself 'educated' in four years!" mantra. The difference between the US and (what I hear of (so probably stereotypical)) Germany is that in the US you're told from a very young age to go to college to "get an education". In Germany you're told to go to college to "become a competent engineer".

I really disagree with you that it will balance out, that everything will be alright, and that the 40-hour work week will keep on going. I'll defer to the other comments on this page for reasons why.
There is already an FDA-approved therapeutic cancer vaccine that is sold by Dendreon for the treatment of prostate cancer (Provenge). Like this Roswell Park therapy linked to, Provenge also harnesses dendritic cells.

More info on Provenge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipuleucel-T
This is the first time I heard of Server-Side events. I am very impressed. Using the old HTTP protocol, rather than websockets' fancy one (albeit with more communication overhead), you can have a nice chat app.

On first glance this looks like it could provide an easier way to develop some classes of application, with automatic reconnection. It's best feature is that it is probably easier to provide backwards compatibility than websockets.

Thoughts?

The web just gets more exciting every day.
I suppose I am one of those people you are referring to that spread these lies and am causing a lot of damage. I make a calorie counter / weight loss app and website that is based solely on calories in versus calories out. I think you are massively underestimating the success rate of people that use a calorie deficit rate. Literally millions of pounds have been lost for millions of people using just my application alone. All evidence of actually using the application points to the fact people will lose weight. Sure, once people stop using it they might gain weight again if they don't control their calories. Thats why it is lifestyle change and shouldn't be considered a diet. But I don't think that discredits the millions of pounds lost. From our records, and as posted on our homepage:

"96% of users who use Lose It! for 4 weeks lose weight" and "The average Lose It! user loses 12.3 lbs"

Its hard for me to believe that a caloric deficit doesn't work when I see a lot of data right in front of me that suggests otherwise.
You should police your service better. Not impressed.
I'm proud to say that I work at Roswell Park. I'm one of five web developers in the IT dept. I write internal applications focused on supporting the many clinical trials happening here.

There is definitely a huge buzz going through Roswell's campus regarding this.

Here is the publicly available information regarding this particular Phase I study.

http://www.roswellpark.org/clinical-trials/list/191511
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Jerf, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. I think I agree with all your views. They are taken from the real experience of trying those approaches. And I am grateful that you provide the feedback. I and anyone tackling this steep mountain need all the help we can get.

I am sure that inspectability/debuggability are two of the big issues with such an approach. When things fail, the more magic there is, the more difficult it is to fix it. It's even difficult to understand what's happening!

I do think that there is a gap there. You can specify things and have the environment apply your spec. If it's totally naive, like Prolog's "slowsort", it will take exponential time and be impractical for real-world cases. But if strategies can be found and/or devised, and applied, which get some efficiency, it can be practical for many things. When things fall apart, it's clear that powerful debuggers will be needed. A lot of work will be needed on the tools, similar to SQL Query Strategy Inspectors, etc... maybe even professionals specializing just in this. But I think that it will finally allow us to write code in a sane way. Even if armies of professionals have to come after the fact to tweak it so that it's usable, the same as for SQL.

I totally understand what you see as adavantageous in Haskell. I think that same "it's turtles all the way down", where you can inspect and debug every step, is the reason that Haskell cannot gain the power that I am after. Prolog can't either, for other reasons.

I believe a fundamentally different approach is needed. And that's what I'm trying to sketch out.

And thanks to you and many other people hopefully we can learn whether there is something there or there isn't, and if there is, hopefully reach some useful result!
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>"I love people."

Do you love the people you would be working for?
A more optimistic counterpoint:

http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/22/prediction...
I wonder what that figure would look like if you factored in Foxconn City.
I fail to follow. This seems to be the response to the (flawed? I guess we have to agree to disagree at this point) complaint in your blog.

Yes, there are sites that allow you to send text messages from other numbers, some trivial, some with an API. I claim it's a hard problem to "fix" this.

What kind of response would you have liked to get? It was fast, open/honest and correct. The last part is probably hand waiving, but my blood doesn't boil. I'd have answered the same, given a small character restriction.

This whole discussion gives longer explanations why this is the case in general.

If you aren't talking about a specific loophole _in their service_ then I think we're still discussing the same thing or - well - fail to understand each other.
"Did you read the judgement yet? There's no point discussing anything without knowing the facts of the case."

I know it's nice and quick to dismiss arguments by presuming someone didn't read something, but yes, I read the article and I think the two photos are different enough. Mo matter what the judge wrote.

If anything, I'd say that the second photo (although aesthetically worse IMO) captures better the iconic landmarks by focusing just on the Parliament, the Big Ben and the Bus.

Yes, is missing, the bridge, but look at how busy is the first photo with the lampost and the bus covering the parliament and the people on the bridge. It also captures a wider area, loosing focus on the main icons.

The first is, overall, a better photo, but if I had to choose one to put on kitsch mugs, I find the second one more iconic (maybe cropping more on the right).

"If that's all it had been, the judgement makes it clear that the result would not have been infringing."

That was an extremization. Still, if I think I can do a better job at capturing a similar photo, I'm now barred from doing it and use the photo commercially unless I demonstrate that I did it either by canche, or that I didn't know about previous work (or more generally that my intent was not to take a photo not to pay the licence to someone else).

There are plenty of photo spots around the world were everyone go to make similar photos and plenty of well-known techniques that can be applied in post-processing. Yet, there are very few really original (creative) photos taken in such places.
Resolve link, this is of great interest.
I'm not sure if that's what kondro meant but what I would like to see is a virtually unlimited size ("elastic") volume where the local disk acts only as the cache.

This would make a wide range of big-storage use-cases ridiculously trivial - those where only ~10% of the data-set is frequently accessed.

I.e. one could lazily scale the expensive local storage with throughput-demand, while the S3 backing store takes care of the long-tail (which can easily be many terabytes long when you're dealing with media files).
But is it mere abstraction that causes me (to take a completely random example) to wait on Windows so often, when I've got so many GHz and so many GB at my disposal?

I think it's more likely to be a matter of priorities. It's more important to ship your PC software than it is to expend the effort required to make it slick and responsive. On non-PC platforms (like the iPad) that's not true; the platform's relative simplicity and responsiveness is a big selling point, so it's crucial to be fast and slick to fit in.
I don't know.

I don't think you analyzed the problem accurately. I think it's a pretty simple demand vs supply problem. Too much supply of unskilled (or average skilled) labor, but not enough demand. What you describe is a symptom of the root cause.

Population control seems like one potential solution. Of course given the norms of most of today's societies, telling people they can't breed is not gonna work too well.
> Oh but they didn't stop buying Fords -- even Pintos -- when this was happening.

Stop, no, but sales did change significantly and Ford changed its tradeoffs.

It's unclear what would satisfy you other than regulation ....

My point about this govt involvement was that govt isn't the rational actor required by all of these schemes. Govt said "a life is worth X" but when someone acts on that and there's some backlash, govt says "oh no, you're wrong". Either defend the original number or say "you're right, we were wrong".

Regulators should be liable.
Didn't know that. That's a pretty impressive list of big software projects :)

The Spotify client is really good too. It's very fast, rarely crashes on me, and strikes a nice balance between features and simplicity.
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> When one person has the money of hundreds or thousands of others, they can wield significant power over them.

Oh really? What is that power?

The power to get govt to things on their behalf? There's your problem.

Note that organizations also have power. Why should I be any happier when the AARP influences govt than Larry Page?
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Thanks for the tip. Songkick has always repulsed me in a number of ways including lack of innovation, vision and site design. I should really have a poke around now that it looks like they've had a redesign.
"You can put on your website/blog our widget and visitors will be able to send a voice message to you. People love talk, not type on keyboard. "

1) People browsing the internet already love to type on the keyboard. I don't see any shortage of text comments / messages. People writing their comments is the main staple of blogs, or Facebook and of Twitter.

2) Regarding the above, consider that blogs are textual in the first place, i.e the customer is there reading, not listening to someone. So why would he respond with voice?

3) People don't like leaving voice messages to people they don't know and expose their voice etc.

4) "Very easy" it is not. The huge masses without a Mac, don't usually have a built-in microphone on their computer. They would have to connect one to leave a message (and/or check their audio settings).

5) Has any "website/blog widget" ever gained any success in the market? With the possible exception of Disqus, and that is IF they make any money yet. I'm not sure "widgets" are a good business idea in the first place.

6) People also cannot leave a voice message while browsing a site from their work (which most people do most of their browsing from), because their boss/colleagues will hear them.

7) People might like talking in general, but that is to other people. Nobody likes leaving a message to an answering machine, which is what your service basically amounts to.
>"Since about 8 years ago, it's been earning revenue mostly through ads, and is supplemented by donations."

Are you profiting from donations?
I believe that in cases where the third party site lies outside the carrier infrastructure and the header is plain text (some carriers encrypt the value), a carrier<->site operator VPN is required.

People shouldn't really be surprised that ALL mobile web traffic is heavily proxied (and transformed, by default). You probably wouldn't want to experience a direct net connection as flaky as mobile ones actually are.
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Just so you know, this is what Orange had to say about the site http://www.hoaxmail.co.uk:

Hi Richard

Although I can understand why you may be concerned over the potential misuse of the below site, this is a third-party service which is independent of Orange and we would have no control over its existence.

If you have received an offensive or questionable message from this service, you can report this to them for investigation via http://www.hoaxmail.co.uk/help/faq.php?ref=H13 .

I hope this helps!

Darren
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Appreciate your reply, and without needlessly belaboring the issue any more then I have, perhaps a "greatest hits" page for worthy articles would be in order as suggested below. Because truly, it can be difficult to ensure seeing every worthy article that makes it's way up the HN page.
There are several arguments I disagreed.

1. A company may be hold such beneficial position for a while, but not forever if we allow competitions and fair market without political connection to protect this status quo by law.

2. Human being can invent things and no one buys them. We see this everyday in fail web startups. And customers vote with their money and their time to use service or product, so if an invention doesn't improve general/macro efficiency for its own customers with spent time/exhanges of money. It won't sell. And don't forget that people can choose not to use the service and product unless it is required by law. Apple/Microsoft are not in such position if I remember it correctly.

So invention as you said is improvement of efficiency. They may not improvement in their own manufacturing efficiency but they improve macro efficiency.

3. I understand the human right issue, that's why I raise restaurant business as a case. Why there are so many illegal immigrants working in restaurant business under bad conditions and people are aware of and without saying a word? Those workers also don't want to go to law enforcement to endanger themselves.

4. But to improve the human right issue in China, I don't think there is shortcut. The only way is to wait for the time that Chinese labors demand and fight for their rights. for democracy and rules of law. This takes time and unfortunately we are exploit them for business benefits.

5. As for fair taxation of such a huge profit. Don't you think it is very unfair for USA to take lion share of them and redistribute it to USA citizens ONLY. Or due to Apple's most work is done in china and let Chinese government to take majority of the profit on behalf of workers or ruling bureaucrats?
It's articles like this that basically sum up perfectly why I refuse to discuss anything Apple with people.

Don't get me wrong, I like many of the products that Apple make (I'm currently typing this up with a MBP), however the personal connection that people have with Apple is not something I share.

For many people there exists a strange bond with Apple where they take any negative comment about one of their products or services as a personal affront against themselves.

It's a corporation folks, a wildly successful one, but that's it. It's not your buddy, your soulmate, nor your friend.
I am totally agree with you.
We can write something that seems like pushing to the webpage.
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The community can't maintain the patches, thanks to Broadcom's policy of not releasing documentation unless you commit to ordering a hundred trillion parts or are employed by them (as the Raspberry Pi folks are).

If the point of this thing is to promote computer science education, then it's already dead. Remember, not everything happens in userspace. For example, there are advanced operating systems courses out there that are focused very closely on the low-level side or are based on non-GPL-compatible operating systems where they can't simply lift stuff out of Linux.

It's nobody's loss but Broadcom's: the educators will go for platforms like BeagleBone instead (which, although more than double the price, is still cheap), the students will have the benefit of well-documented hardware, and TI will be happy that many of those students who grow up to work in the embedded space will be specifying TI (rather than Broadcom) SoCs.
Due to Oracle lawsuits of Google, any JVM based future product risks being a monetization target with software patents by Oracle; that is why I am trying to avoid JVM/Java based languages/dialects; it seems a dead end. or am I wrong?
That article is actually hilarious in how bad it is.

Lines like this one:

"The message was so convincing that the iPhone Anita was using believed it was genuine and listed it directly underneath the real message from that bank."

Show a complete misunderstanding of how SMS works. SMS is like email in that who it comes from is simply a type of header, which when sending from a mobile phone isn't editable - when a message arrives your phone can't verify where it actually came from. In particular given banks don't send from an official number, they send from a text name.
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The scattered approach to configuration files is great when you automate your configuration with tools like Puppet or Chef.