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That is the problem. You have to cook all of the food yourself and bring it with you wherever you go. When you go out, you probably have to refuse most food people offer you because it will get in the way of your goals, especially if you want to reduce to a healthy body fat %. You end up not being able to eat for hours at a time and that makes you non performant and irritable. It creates social friction and it can take an extra 10 work hours out of your week, a significant chunk of productive time.

You cannot go to the convenient and ubiquitous street food vendors/fast food places in america and consistently eat food that will stabilize you to a flat stomach body. In Thailand, you can. It is a large reason why many Thai's are amongst the least overweight people in the world, and you see similar results in developed asian countries. It's not because they have more 'willpower' or other such things. Even though they have carbs in their diet, they have a very different composition and ratios of the types of nutrients they eat and sell as fast food.

This food environment difference results in the statistical difference in obesity statistics, it's nearly inevitable. That is why I said to compensate for the negative food environment in the USA, you have to do more extreme things.

The carb heavy and low fat diet you espouse is a part of the problem. Since the USA started espousing a high carb diet in 1984, obesity rates have been rising linearly and haven't been stopping[1].

[1] http://youtu.be/FSeSTq-N4U4?t=2m35s
What about search? If Facebook could ship a search product somewhere between the quaility of Bing and Google wouldn't that change the search and social space tremendously? It would increase the amount of time each user spends on FB/day, Facebook would deliver far more ads and build much more extensive user profiles, increasing the value/user metric.

Building a big search product requires a massive infrastructure and engineering effort, two things Facebook has a solid history around.
I'm guessing it means you have to come up with a generative process that produces k such shapes for any k.
I am implying that stupid people don't listen to rational arguments.
Serious question: since Mate is basically a Gnome 2 fork, isn't it all but doomed as more and more apps target Gnome 3 compatibility? Will it be obsolete soon?
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Flat in expense perhaps, but the liability chart would look...slightly different...
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Aww, I was hoping this would be more visible in the San Jose area. crosses fingers for a good partial eclipse

Any idea where to get those foil viewers? We used to have those in grade school, but I have no clue where to buy them as an adult.
I love freemind, mostly for how quick it is to use from just the keyboard, and also for the the platform independence which makes it very easy to use it collaboratively.
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Edit: Edited the title, seems there is a block only in India. Is there a ban anywhere else?
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They use the default crapware that came with the camera to send pictures. It auto resizes the photos in the worst possible way. Plus, even zipped, a moderate number of original sizes photos is still larger than a lot of email programs can handle.

I think you're drastically overestimating the sophistication levels of a lot of people when it comes to sharing photos and files. Plus, I doubt my dad has heard of Flickr, let alone know how to spell it.
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> You’ll probably notice this site isn’t a responsive site.

Actually, the default Wordpress theme this article's author is using is a responsive theme, and, in my opinion a well-designed one—an opinion which is further backed up by a later comment by the author:

> My iPhone does an okay job at scaling down this site without responsive wankery...

Responsive design is at it's finest when you don't even notice :)
I actually think food is in a unique position where divulging every last ingredient is the only ethical way to do it. They may only have a current legal obligation to disclose known allergens, but that changes, we discover food sensitivities and reactions after things have been in wide use for long periods of time. Trusting the company and the regulatory bodies isn't enough with food.

If that means someone else can come along and reproduce it, tough.
Another thing is that he doesn't need to use a stored procedure, he could use prepared sql statements.

In regards to your last sentence, he could change the isolation mode if he didn't care so much about consistency.
I think the point is that we vigilantly distinguish "that was stupid" from "that was a stupid person". Judging someone as stupid means we've stopped thinking about possibilities. Derek wisely says there's always more to the story (reminded me of this: http://garrysub.posterous.com/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-s...)

Labeling people is nearly always a substitute for thinking and empathy (both hard things).
What part did you use the scripting engine for? I was able to do something very similar, but purely with spreadsheet rules.
Even when they hold essentially the same views as I do, it's often for bad reasons

I noticed this too, and for a long time it bothered me. But I recently read Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind, and in it he points out that a lot of people appear to hold believes about a wide array of issues (politics, religion, consumer products, and so forth) that they don't really hold based on logic and evidence, but to signal group identification and affiliation.

In addition, he points out that, on a wide array of issues, people tend to have gut, intuition-based reactions first, then look for evidence to support their intuition, while a lot of us assume or want to assume that it works the other way around.

I probably learned something from The Righteous Mind on every page, and I say this about very few books; I also wrote at more length about it here: http://jseliger.com/2012/03/25/jonathan-haidts-the-righteous... .

(BTW, I agree with your basic point and think it's well put.)
Wow, as an Vim user, I think this is seriously cool. Now it'd need to support camelCode as well, so when I write camel-code in JavaScript, I get the right thing. That'd be awesome.
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That suggests that the off-budget wars were not included.

Edit: never mind. I was referring to what they call the "unfunded" wars under GWB but the graph obviously doesn't include those years.
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I did a Google search, but I'm not able to come up with anything but a non-profit that doesn't seem like a QnA site. Please advise?
Does the Excel web app support VBA? I was under the impression that the 365 apps offer a subset of the functionality of their desktop counterparts.
> he maintained a >50% top marginal tax rate average through his tenure.

Why would you average a tax rate over various year? Seems a deceptive thing to do.
People talk about how Social Security and Medicare are growing out of control and threatening to ruin any possibility of a sane federal budget. That is true, but it would also be true to say that school lunches plus Medicare or NASA plus Medicare is dangerously out of control.

In fact, Social Security is a tractable spending commitment. It is only Medicare that is growing like a crazy metastatic cancer.

And Medicare is growing like that because health care spending is growing out of control in the private sector, in the VA, in Medicaid, and everywhere.

The main drivers of health care spending are mostly not addressed by the Romney-Obama health care reform ('Obamacare') passed in 2010. Only a few minor tools to slow growth will be in the hands of federal bureaucrats and only if they have the courage to sieze them. Nobody is even talking about educating, licensing, and allowing immigration of more doctors; the USA has a very low level of practicing physicians for a first world country. Licensing regulations also prevent pharmacists and nurses from taking responsibilities for direct patient care that other countries allow them, exacerbating the problem.
I like the idea! But... I'm just not a fan of Bootstrap's typography. IMHO, it's too dense and low contrast, especially compared to the Flask Sphinx theme (my measuring stick for beautiful, readable documentation).
Let me guess: HTC Thunderbolt?

I have one too, with unlimited data. It seems they are only killing the plans when people upgrade to new phones, which would give us some extra time before our next upgrade.

That said, I am interested in how much these shared plans will cost. I would be much more likely to buy a tablet with data capabilities if I could just include it in my regular plan (knowing verizon, probably with an extra 5-10 dollar per device fee). Otherwise, I would just get something with just wifi, which does limit the usefulness.
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"I think the main technical issue is probably the fact that most people are NATed."

It's really not much of an issue as long as at least one peer has a reachable IP. I sometimes wonder how many people are under the impression that NAT's are a showstopper. This is simply not true. The showstopper is probably the RIAA and MPAA.

Skype slipped under the radar because they branded themselves as VOIP not file sharing. But it's really no different. It's peer to peer data exchange.

Only if both peers are behind the same NAT does the NAT pose a problem, in which case an external "supernode" is needed. But that's easy to set up. And it does not need access to packet payloads.

You could do a paid app. But the code to accomplish the job is very simple and has been made public in various forms multiple times.

File sharing copyright concerns, monitoring communications to catch bad guys and all that stuff is what's holding this back, not lack of a solution for connecting through NAT's.
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Don't forget its counterpart, the just-world hypothesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

They are closely related but people always forget the second one.
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I was thinking that on top of video for a pretty awesome experience
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alcohol in casinos is FREE lol. So yeah, you bet they take a hit on the booze and compensate with gambling.
Actually Cyc is panned pretty hard as a complete waste of a perfectly intelligent researcher's time.
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Can we find better things to write about than this? It is getting really boring reading about how other people think we should all behave.
Maybe for the client, but another place you can see extensive use of P2P is in gaming. Quite a few game clients have the Peer to Peer downloading built in.
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Take it as an "infrastructure"/"swiss army knife" for hosting and deployment. Most of its features are still topic of research in autoscaling,management, tuning and so on... Most of the users do not need that features, but others (like the Emperor) can be useful for everyone. Regarding the additional layer, is something required, as your code/framework need a way to communicate with the webserver and being healthy. Nginx's mod_wsgi is an old non official module, very funny, but it works in a very different way embedding python itself in the nginx core.
They aren't changing your contract; they just won't give you the same contract when your current one has expired:

LTE is our anchor point for data share. So as you come through an upgrade cycle and you upgrade in the future, you will have to go onto a data share plan. And moving away from, if you will, the unlimited world and moving everyone into a tiered structure/data share type plan. [1]

I could see this not being such a bad thing if they let us pay for bandwidth to use however we want. As it is, there are different rates and minimum fees for different types of devices and how that data is used on each device (i.e. "hotspot" feature on phones). Allow me to connect the netbook that I rarely need to use on their network and subtract from my allowance.

1. http://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/16/verizon-cfo-unlimited-d...
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I get poor search results daily, and half of them get "incorrected". "Did you mean UIView?" No, Google, I am working on OSX. I actually did mean NSView, that's an actual thing.
It seems like the article may be intentionally vague on this point, but I can't tell if already-grandfathered unlimited 4G customers are going to have it yanked this summer (which I guess would let them out of their contracts on their subsidized phones scott free), or if they simply won't be able to renew the unlimited part once their contract is up.
Um, what kinds of things do you want to read about? (Completely serious question. Honest.)
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These are still early days. Siri is slow and inaccurate. However consider it a preview of things to come.
Normally I am not one to comment on fundraising, and I have stayed out of the whole "bubble" debate. But, honestly, this is really getting a little out of hand now. The whole funding situation is getting really frothy.

$1.5b pretty much prices them out of any real acquisition now for the most part. So is Pinterest going to go IPO?

Where do they go from here? That's the question of the day.
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huh. so time to stock up on the old ones?
That was bothering me for ages. I wish someone from Amazon came out to explain what' really going on with broken sort.
I had the displeasure of doing this the other way around (Paris to Airport). I got on a 14 hour flight with a minute to spare.
This post abuses IDs. If you have something with the ID #main, it should be unique anyways or else you have invalid markup. If it's unique, why do you need a sibling selector to find it?

This post could be improved by using classes:

#container input:checked ~ .main > .findMe { ... }

But really, the sibling selector is powerful enough that you might not need classes at all. I think the following selector makes a much more powerful statement of the kind of thing you can do now that you couldn't before:

input:checked ~ div span { ... }
I was glad to see this paragraph included in the article:

> By the time they take the eighth-grade tests in the spring of the year, they already know which high school they will be attending, and their scores on the test have no consequences. “The eighth-graders don’t care; they rush through the exam, and they don’t check their work,” Abbott said. “The test has no effect on them. I can’t make an argument that it counts for kids.

Anytime anyone makes an argument that teachers should be evaluated based on their kids' test scores I have to explain about the problems of misaligned incentives. If the kids are not motivated to do their best, it's not going to be a fair evaluation of the teacher even if you manage to solve ALL the many other problems with high-stakes testing. And a lot of students aren't motivated to do their best on these kinds of tests, for a variety of reasons.
Node has synchronous file I/O APIs for the use case you mention.
Why would I care?

I understand the point of freedom for some software: say if tomorrow the whole nginx team decides to retire and I nginx is a critical part of my business, I have the option of taking over the maintenance.

But games are not like that. Games are entertainment and presumably a short-lived one. I play, I get bored, I move on. The games are also a product of diverse teams: it's not just programmers, but story editors, 2D/3D artists, composers, voice artists etc that create experience, not a tool or platform. Do you really want Hemingway's texts be licensed under GFDL so you could improve upon them? Or may be you want to get your hands on petabytes of data that went into production of Avatar so that you could fix a couple of landscapes?
I don't know I like to think I'm of above average intelligence and I would generalize and say that some religious groups are "just so stupid."

Then again, religion is a great way to cope with the paradoxical and absolutely absurd reality we live in so maybe they aren't that stupid...
Can it also be used with socket.io? I'm working on a real-time app and I'm using socket.io to transport the data and graphing it on canvas. I'd be happy to use a graphing library that 1) looks good, and 2) works with real-time data, instead of my custom solution.
Because, in liberal (small-l, read: the West) democracies, the notion that taxation policy should be used to encourage productive behaviours and discourage unproductive ones is deeply-enshrined. Thus do we give tax breaks to people who start companies, create jobs, or invest in same, and further penalize with a luxury tax those who just go and buy a big fuck-off yacht. We give tax breaks to local farmers, but tax cigarettes and booze.

If we had the kind of tax structure you propose, we'd equally reward those who invest their money in growing companies, and those who blow it on hookers and blow. Some libertarians would claim this as a just tax system, and that the free market would determine how and where people invest, but this is not an idea that has much purchase among economists, social scientists, or the political elite.
This is one of the few annoyances of shopping at Amazon. As a Prime user, I usually don't want to deal with anyone other than Amazon directly.

There's a search filter option to select "Prime eligible" items, but when you select it, the price sorting still seems to include Marketplace vendors. Selecting the "New" search filter does not help.

There's even a search filter for "Seller" that allows you to select only amazon.com, but the price sort is still wrong if this is selected!

(I understand that Amazon probably prefers that we stumble upon the marketplace vendors, but it's frustrating when you can't disable it even temporarily.)
You are falling for the fallacy of infallibility. You assume they are successful because they have some magic secret, not just a lot of hard work.
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Okay, now I know why I could't read the text I was typing in. Thank you, fellow hacker huhtenberg.
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I wonder if Blizzard will ever turn off the servers for Diablo 3.
And I wonder how many startups can be mapped to an XKCD comic. :/
I saw an on-going project recently that was attempting just that. They were using texts from the web to infer relationships from recognizable patterns. Like (the head of X, Y) implies X is an organization, Y is a person, and Y is the leader of X.

It would also try to learn new patterns from facts it already knew, like if it notices Jobs and Apple in a sentence it can hypothesize that sentence pattern is about a leader of a company.

For the life of me I cannot remember the name of the project or even the university, hopefully someone else has heard of this.
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I totally disagree. I get a lot of people saying crap to me about being smart or intelligent, I even got bugged into joining MENSA by other members. I still hold that I'm not really smarter than other people.

Most people are average, I get a lot of attention for things I do that people don't understand. But I'm not really a smart person, I just like puzzles and I do them quite often. There plenty of situations where I appear like a bumbling idiot.

Heres how I see it. People who have an interest in something invest lots of energy into understanding it. Judging someone by there ability not to understand something that they have invested a lot of time into doesn't make you smart, it makes that person a jerk.

And heres the reason. Calling someone stupid is an insult, a way of asserting a dominant position i.e. "I am better than you because my understanding is more advanced." Guess what, thats one hell of arrogant position to have.

As someone who usually runs teams I'd probably ask to someone who used statements like that to be transferred. If said person held an attitude like that, its not helpful to the team, potentially damaging to someone trying to get up to speed, undermining confidence. And lastly it wrecks of someone who would hold a something over someone else to look better rather than cooperate, build needlessly complicated code that half the team couldn't work on at a decent speed.

Anyway theres a quote attributed to Einstein I'm sure you've heard which sums it up nicely for me "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
Well, one argument is that politics is essentially a football game. The stakes are far, far higher, but fundamentally it comes down to all the institutions of a society self-organizing themselves into coalitions for the assumption or protection of power. "Reason" amounts to a way to mask rhetorical flourishes to convince dupes that they're morally better or smarter than the other side.

And if you're turning to the Wall Street Journal or New York Times to learn about the finer points of Nozick's critique of Rawlsian liberalism... well, then you're the dupe, even if it's of a "pox-on-both-your-houses" variety. Thinking too hard about whatever outrage-of-the-day Mitt or Obama has done is a similar waste of time--it's not that there isn't conceivably some correct position about whether eating a dog or strapping them to your roof reflects worse on your character, it's just that it's all a smokescreen.

Given that, I'd say you have to pick a side. If you end up rejecting politics because it isn't the Oxford debating society, you've essentially let the other side deprive your own side of a valuable resource. It might suck that you're stuck in a game not of your own choosing, but if someone's kicking you on the ground, you don't quietly accept it because they're not following Marquees of Queensbury rules.
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I cheerfully await several more "Are we in a bubble?" blog posts to get posed to HN shortly after this.
That's just not true with regards to Social Security. 100 years of projected life before dragging on other Federal finances and one major reform so far (another will be needed) is usually the sign of a successful government program. It's not in dire crisis: we will start to see it drag on other government finances in 20 years, as FICA will only fund about 75% of payouts once the trust fund is exhausted.

Medicare on the other hand is a different story. Costs are growing too high to make it sustainable. But that doesn't have to do with the efficiency of the program itself vs. other insurance companies - it's actually quite a bit efficient than private insurers. The problem seems to be the broader U.S. system of health cost/benefits compared to other countries. We spend more and get less.
I did relatively badly in my last year of school compared to my previous years as I had been given an unconditional offer for university, so spent most of my time that year reading books and dicking around.
Thank you so much for bringing this site to my attention. It seems to have become a nice replacement for smart.fm which I used a few years ago.