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I don't know why it's out of consideration that people are just shameless slobs now and that's a major component of the obesity epidemic. Bastardy, tattoos, and dressing like a sloppy clown in public were inconceivable 40 years ago when everyone was thin. Anything goes now (no one will call your bastard a bastard), and so does being a gluttonous fat ass, really. The social consequences are minimal.

I'm around a fair number of fat people and I don't need any nutritional science background to notice they eat very often and they eat a lot. I suppose there's clinical evidence that low carb diets work, but it pretty much seems to me the main factor is these people just don't care about being fat slobs.
Thanks. I'm clear now.
After years of study, self experimentation and research into the topics (I'm an amateur powerlifter, bodybuilder as well as a general fitness freak...I also write fitness related content, books mostly) here are some quick things to help sort this out. It's all about the hormones.

The single most important element to not getting fat is identifying yourself and then eating appropriately.

Are you a couch potato? Then YES, you need to restrict carb content.

Are you an athelete? Go ahead and eat carbs, but eat them AT THE RIGHT TIME (meaning, post workouts* mostly). And eat the right ones (high GI immediately post heavy lifting session, lower GI later in the day (generally speaking)).

Protein is your friend. Make sure all meals have it.
Eat lots of veggies, mostly green.
Drink lots of water.
Limit chemical consumption (most diet sodas spike insulin...might as well be eating a candy bar).

Getting more specific is going to really depend on our goals. This is critically important. If you can state what your goal is, it is REALLY EASY to understand how to eat, workout and live to meet those goals...but if you don't know the goal, you'll flounder.

For instance, to lose weight:

Restrict carbs for 6.5 days in a week. Do a carb refeed on the 7th night. Eat only protein, fat and veggies (think eggs, bacon and broccoli) when you restrict the carbs. You'll lose tons of weight and retain the muscle. To put this in to high gear, do a HIIT sprint session on day 1 and 2 to completely deplete your glycogen stores.

To gain weight (muscle):

Before you workout, water, protein, fat and veggies. After you workout (heavy weight workout), protein, carbs and veggies. Carbs stimulate insulin, shuttling nutrients to muscles, helping them grow.

There are TONS of tweaks to each of these if you are having trouble (like, for instance, add milk if you are still having trouble gaining weight or add some light cardio if you are having trouble losing weight), but the basics are the above.

I love this stuff....

* btw..when I say "workout", I mean heavy weight workouts (barbell etc). There is something special about the way it stimulates your body that high rep bodyweight workouts just can't do. Bodyweight workouts have their place, but they should be used for a very specific goal...
I found the post interesting. Just curious what are some examples of jumping laterally vs lineally with an idea?
Oh now, you're smarter than that. Capitalism existed well before the 18th century (where it would be more proper to say that it was first named and studied properly), and there have been plenty of temporary but drastic reversals before and since. I'm very much pro-market, but it's hardly immune to herding problems or irrational outcomes; and when markets fail, the burdens of that failure often fall upon those least equipped (intellectually or economically) to bear them.
The build quality has been nice, but the software has been horrible. The TF101 has had major stability problems ever since the ICS upgrade. The TF201 has had simlar issues, from what I understand.

Hopefully Google's involvement in the Nexus 7 release will remedy this.
Efficient food distribution is an interesting topic with respect to India - Mumbai has an industry based around moving food from affluent workers' homes to their place of lunch and back again, moving 200k meals a day. Even more interesting is that the workforce is largely illiterate, yet the failure rate for delivery and return is amazingly low.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala
I'm writing this with my 10.1 Android tablet and a bluetooth keyboard. As I do with most of my HN posts. I would code with these if there were a good IDE for Android. That's one of my dreams. I'm not sure what you mean with "prop up the screen"? You just pair the keyboard via bluetooth once, then it automatically works if you turn it on. You just touch on a text input and start typing. I have a Motorola laptop sized android specific keyboard that has android specific keys (home, search, back etc). But any PC bluetooth keyboard works. There's literally thousands of them, any regular desktop keyboard works. Most of the limitation comes from apps, there aren't enough productivity apps for most people's need. (I guess a blogger wouldn't mind, but as a developer, I need more than just android. But the keyboard is great vs having just the touch screen. I can't seriously write a whole paragraph with just touch.

A keyboard is a must have for anyone with a tablet imho. But maybe it's just me, I can't take touch keyboards seriously. How the hell do you guys live without arrow keys?
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There are some pretty nice case/keyboard combos for iPad. I see no reason why they can't also be made for the Nexus 7.
One thing I find a tad irritating about being male and trying to look good (as superficial as it is) is the discrepancy between gaining muscle and losing fat.

It seems females only have to go one direction -> be skinny whereas for males we need to somehow add muscle (for which the general advice is eat a lot of food specifically protein) and lose fat. Those seem very contradictory in my mind though I know little about nutrition.
I have an Asus Transformer TF101, with a 10" screen. I can type at ~65 WPM on it. That's about 10 WPM slower than on a desktop keyboard. As far as I am concerned, that is perfectly usable.

Having said that, at least one Android maker has built one with a 13" screen.
Google's biggest fail point is support. What happens if the device needs service?

Google did a terrible job at servicing (customer service) their phone. Trust me, an email address isn't enough. People want to call someone. And people want to take it someplace to get it fix or swapped out. The same day. A tablet/phone isn't the same as a PC. No one wants to overnight their phone for a replacement next week. ;)
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Thanks for the reply. By "prop up the screen" I actually meant angling the device itself like a laptop. I understand the iPad's case allows this and the upcoming Surface provides a kickstand.

With regard to IDEs, I'm not really familiar with Android and I naively assumed that one would readily be able to install native Linux apps like vim, but Googling around I discovered this is not trivial. That's a shame.
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After nearly 7 years, Google decided to shut down its Atlanta engineering efforts.

That's a relatively old shop to shut down. Anybody know how big it was?
This kind of work is OK for some simple block level circuit designs. In the real world designs, as circuits grow complicated, and parasitics add in, the SPICE convergence issue kicks in and automation becomes difficult.
This opinion is not going to make me popular here, but if I were a Google shareholder (and I probably am through an ETF) I'd be a little upset by this. And I say this as someone who has been against whites-only laws since before it was cool. I'm an equal rights for coloreds hipster. But this still irks me.

I want companies to lobby only for the issues that are their immediate business (and I say that only because I know we'll never get laws banning lobbying at all) and let their shareholders privately endorse their beliefs. I see this as another example of corporate personhood.
Even though I have no sympathy for people who are opposed to negros as private citizens, as Google shareholders I don't feel they should be forced with a choice between supporting their beliefs (however wrongheaded they may seem to me) and being a Google shareholder.
I also feel a little gross thinking about an American company preaching tolerance to Singapore. How about we get it fixed here before we start pressuring everyone else?
40 years ago we did not grow enough food per person to support a fat population. So, without the 'green revolution' it would have been impossible for the 'obesity epidemic' to occur. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

Also obesity has been an issue for middle aged wealthy people for at least the last few thousand years. Which suggest's people tend to eat more when they can afford to do so.
We marvel in that which is different?

(Had never heard of Jantar Mantar before - only been to a few southern parts of India - thanks. Will put it on my To Do list!)
It's an ASUS branded device, so I assume you would call ASUS...
I am intending on doing distance learning, with non-physical contact with lecturers / fellow students. Do you think it's possible yo achieve mastery this way? Are there online communities etc. which could help?
Literal truth is a cardinal value but small talk like 'How are you?' also has an important epistemic function: to maintain a dialogue and permit the ongoing ability to arrive at truths. Thus the paradox is that in order to maximize the growth of knowledge we make judicious use of small talk, platitudes, humor, etc.
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In a very real sense, that's true. But...I don't know what it's doing but I know how it's doing it, so to speak. With languages in which I'm quite fluent (Haskell not so much), I can sometimes spot problems in the code of someone coming to me for help without knowing anything about the libraries, et al, because even though I "couldn't read it" in your sense I could read it in the other sense.
They don't need to happen at the same time. Lose fat first, build muscle later.
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I've tried out the TF101 and the newer Prime at Best Buy, I also owned one of the earlier Asus Netbooks the EEE PC 901. I've also used a couple of iPad keyboard cases.

My hands are too wide to set all of my fingers on the home row in a natural typing position, so I was forced to look at the keyboard and to use a hybrid-touch / hunt and peck method on all of these devices. For this reason, I personally don't find them usable. I don't think my hands are freakishly large, so I think that many other people would have this same issue.

I looked around for the 13" tablet. I had never heard of it before but apparently it's a Toshiba.

http://www.slashgear.com/toshiba-excited-13-inch-android-tab...
Not sure if you need a bit of help creating bullets on HN, or if paragraphs were the one thing you didn't discover in India! If the former, prefix your bullet hyphens on each new line with two spaces. If the latter, the Enter key is free. :)
Kerr is an important professor and author in this area. He has also been a staunch academic opponent to further Constitutional controls, which has made his writings on Jones v United States and the 3rd Circuit cell site location case interesting to read. Look up things he has written about "Matrix" theory of fourth amendment protections.

I don't think Kerr really grasps the level of unease that the courts are developing regarding the capability of dragnet surveillance by the government of this sort.

But definitely, anything he has written is pretty much a must-read in this field.

Edit: Also Prof. Kerr blogs at http://www.volokh.com and http://www.scotusblog.com
I think you're overestimating reddit's reach. It's big, but it's still very niche. Google and Wikipedia are sites that Grandma uses on a regular basis, whereas if you asked her about reddit, she'd say "read what?"
Trig? Fourier series and its introduction to functional analysis and Hilbert space and the ideas of inner products and orthogonality there. JPG image compression. Shannon's information theory. Characterization of time invariant linear systems, e.g., acoustics. Antenna theory. Phased arrays and beam forming. Imaging in optics. Holography. The fast Fourier transform. Seismic data analysis via the fast Fourier transform. Characteristic functions and Bochner's theorem. Power spectra. X-ray crystallography. The fundamental theorem of interpolation and the Nyquist sampling theorem (e.g., how music CDs work).

There's a cute idea to put 100 wireless customers all on the same wavelength. Basically have a tricky antenna pattern with a lobe for each user and so that each user gets only their own signal. It's all trig.
Although Apple still has the better developer tools for now.

I agree that the supporting tools like Instruments are much better and Android doesn't have anything to compare to Interface Builder but the better Java IDEs like IntelliJ are so far ahead of XCode that it's not even funny.

Things are going to get interesting if Apple really does release a 7" tablet. I don't think they're going to get away with just scaling down iPad apps. Maybe that's why they were emphasizing the new dynamic layout stuff at WWDC this year? Manually positioning three completely different UI layouts for each app isn't going to be much fun.
> Eat the same diet as you are now, but less of it

Considering vitamins and minerals most people eat crap. Deficiencies are fairly rampant. The problem is that grains/beans, dairy, potato, and oils are good for energy but have very lousy nutrient profiles. People are eating an energy dense but nutrient light diet that is a vestige of times of hard manual labor.
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Technically Nexus devices have always been "at cost" to Google, since it's the OEM who gets the profit off the hardware sales in exchange for Google controlling the experience. So Rubin's statement about "selling through" the Nexus 7 actually says very little since that's always been the case. The real issue (and what the media is mostly missing) is whether ASUS is selling it at a loss or not, and considering the Memo the Nexus 7 was refactored from was originally going to be sold at $250, it seems unlikely.
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If you've been to India lately you would see that this is already happening. There is a new, massive, middle class forming. Nothing happens overnight but it has certainly been improving over the last decade.
Game developers should focus on quality over quantity
If you change the law such that many behaviors which were once illegal are now legal (which some would argue was the upshot of repealing Glass-Steagall), then the negative consequences which may ensue aren't necessarily criminal.
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Thoughts?

It was great meeting you last week at the startupweekend event at Google’s SF office. After talking with you and other folks at the event, I think I have to move up to nor cal. Being down here in the LA area just doesn’t have the network and startup culture like it does up there. So I’m trying to look for any jr. development jobs up there and I was looking into angellist.co. If you could recommend anything else, that would be great.

I took a look at your web blog. Very interesting and inspirational stuff. I especially liked the goals you set out for yourself of networking and meeting new folks.

Oh, and while I was walking back to the hotel, I saw this. I like the color scheme you used to highlight the classiness of the place:

Keep in touch,
Android bug reports are bugs themselves
I hit the sleep button on my Galaxy Nexus, but right before I put it in my pocket I felt the phone buzz.

I turned it back on to see what it was, and saw that the gmail app had been opened, and was in the process of sending a bug report to Google.

Being curious, I inspected the contents of the bug report. It contained a screenshot and a system dump inside a txt file. So far so good, until I noticed the size of the e-mail. Between the two attachments, the e-mail was 7MB.

Firing up the 4G radio and sending off 7MB comes at a cost. I have trouble keeping my phone charged all day if I use it a lot. The biggest offender here is the system dump, which is 5MB.

A simple solution to this is to throw the bug reports into a queue, and only send them when the phone is plugged in and fully charged.
So why do bastardy, bad taste in fashion, and obesity all track so closely? You see this all over the world. Where people are well dressed and there is little bastardy, they are thin, regardless of the affluence level.
Unfortunately that boat sailed in the 1970's with "California Bankers Association v. Shultz" which upheld the requirement of banks to report large transactions to the federal government in order to engage in surveillance against organized crime. I think that decision more than any other has been responsible for the collapse of protections against surveillance. Indeed in a remarkably prescient dissent, Justice Douglass more or less described where this was leading by describing in accurate detail some of the current anti-drug laws that have been tacked onto the USAPATRIOT Act as it has come up for renewal....

There is hope. The logic of Alito (joined by all liberal justices, except Sotomayor) and Sotomayor (who joined the conservative justices, but also endorsed Alito's logic) in Jones v. United States is quite incompatible with that earlier decision and it provides some hope that lower courts will say "oh there are five votes for tightening things up" and start to do so.
"India has some problems."

To be honest, if you care to read more than that, you might get more insight from reading some of the longer HN comments instead (from those who live in India, but recognise these problems).
IMO, gaining muscle is much harder to do than losing fat. I would do it the way bodybuilders do it an work to gain muscle then lose fat (unless you are grossly overweight, in which case it probably makes more sense to lose the fat first).

Why the difference? Well, losing fat is mostly about discipline whereas gaining muscle is about discipline and very, very hard work.
I was speaking to how exaggerated the title of the post is, not the ease of exploitation.
> Make sure you're always contributing your max $5k/year into your Roth, too. If you're ever really capital-F Fucked you can eat the tax penalties and get to that, too.

You can actually pull the money out of your Roth IRA without penalty of any kind, for any reason. The catch is twofold:

1) You can only withdraw the money you used to fund the IRA (not the money you've made inside the IRA). E.g., if you've put in $20k over 4 years and the account value today is $25k, you can take up to $20k penalty-free.

2) You can't replace the money back into the account past the $5k maximum. So if you withdraw $20k and then don't need it after all... too bad, you can still only put back $5k/year.
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Mouse acceleration is fixable at least: http://www.triq.net/articles/mouse-acceleration-preference-p...
A while back there was talk of BBM being banned in some countries (India was one of them) because of the problem of monitoring BBM messaging.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2009585,00.htm...

Miraculously, they were allowed to remain in service in those countries. It's safe to assume the nations didn't just give up on their quest to obtain access to the messaging data.
What I've seen for the most part isn't that people make the wrong strategic decisions. It's that they don't realize there are decisions to be made.

For example, there's a major correlation between your career success and how visible your role is. Maintaining internal systems will almost never pay off as well as working on the flagship product. This, and many other considerations, matter as much or more than your individual performance/talent. But the majority of people never consider them.

(A quick sampling of major strategic decisions: your elevator pitch, the elevator pitch other people use when introducing you, how visible your role/projects are, making sure your day-to-day responsibilities don't take up much time, refusing to work on projects that will pull your career in the wrong direction, working at successful companies/projects, and perhaps most importantly, understanding how connections are really formed).
Bad requirements and design errors can't be fixed by a perfect programming language.

Those are certainly the biggest problems in building software, but not the types of problems this particular article is talking about overcoming.

(I think we're both in agreement on this)
That's a good perspective of what the client-side functionality should be. I've had an idea on what the hardware-side or "the cloud" should be for a while...

The strangest thing about "the cloud" as it stands today is that it's really just Amazon, Google and Apple with giant server farms. Something goes wrong with the server farm, the whole thing crashes. This is not "the cloud".

At some point in the near future I think someone will work out a way to construct a true cloud that has the ability to harness any node on the Internet.

Think something like SETI@home, BOINC, Folding@home but where clients install a program, set aside how much space (in GBs) they'd like to offer and they get rewarded over time (money, points, currency, prizes etc).

As I upload things to this true cloud, the files are split, encrypted and distributed around this cloud in such a way that backups are made, redundancy and security is inbuilt.

If I'm storing 10GBs of other people's files, I can't access them since they're only partial segments and they're encrypted. If I turn off my computer, the file owners can still access their files from other nodes hosting backups. And files are hosted on nearby nodes to ensure speedy access.

It would be a rather difficult software engineering problem to solve, but ultimately this is the future of the cloud.
Oh and if your thinking I can install dd-wrt then check it out as currently they don't support the chipset inside the ea3500 and have no plans to either. Currently.

Kinda sad though that to use yoru own router saftly you need another router infront of it filtering out the extra overheads.

Personaly not keen on linksys since they were purchased by Cisco and been a happy draytek customer for over 5 years. Though next upgrade I might go homecrafting again having previously run a OpenBSD p90 box for 5 years prior to the draytek.

Think is nomatter what you get, if you don't have control of the firmware then there is nothing to stop them changing it later on down the line or the company get brought up and the same pattern playing out. That all said you don't have to upgrade blindly. Check out what the chanegs are and then decide.

Think is though this whole story reoslves around Cisco being able to see what websites you visit and it's not like your ISP can't do that already and in alot of cases has to by law and keep that on record for x amount of time.

Guess John Smith will be buying routers and internet connections for some from now on.
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