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Observations aside, there is actually scientific evidence to the contrary.
The fact is that our bodies require certain types of fats (omega3, omega6, etc..) in order to function properly. Your body is built to break down fats, this is why you have a gall bladder. Diets low in animal fats (not ala omega3's and 6's, which your body has to break down and consequently only gets a very small percentage of usable omegas) cause the body to more easily synthesize fat from other sources, most notably carbohydrates. Diets high in carbs trigger leptin signaling surges which can cause averse reactions like your brain no longer receiving leptin signals. "In Framingham, Massachusetts, the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate,the lower people’s serum cholesterol. We found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories weighed the least and were the most physically active." [1].

If you want to have the best brain function (your brain is made up of mostly fats) and body function you should strongly consider cutting out gluten based foods (which interfere with so many things in a bad way [2]) and start eating grass fed and finished beef, and wild game with a side of veggies. Cut out as many tubers as you can get away with as well.

Foods that you cannot eat unless they are cooked are probably not the best for your diet, in my mind this makes perfectly logical sense. We are people of the ice age, our diets for many thousands of years consisted of what could be eaten raw, including meats. While we do not yet have a full understanding of the rate at which humanity evolves; it is understood that the core functioning of our bodies energy system can not completely change in the span of a few thousand years.

[1] Dr. William Castilli, "concerning the possibility of a nut...," archives of internal medicine
[2] Journal: Neurology - Hadjivassiliou 2001
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Ask HN: Why do many web services not have a login form on their homepage?
I often notice that webservices do not have a login form on their homepage. For example MySpace and Zoho. This seems strange, as over 99% of the visitors probably are existing users who want to log in. Is there a reason behind this? Today everybody is so focused on usability and a/b testing that I find it hard to imagine that these companies simply overlooked this issue.
Welcome to HN. A photo uploader for hipsters is worth a billion dollars, but real engineering should be given away for free, 'cos those guys don't need to eat, right?
Apple might disagree with you... There is a trend where OSX is getting slowly but steadily closer to iOS.
As a webdev who use Firebug (and Adblock) a lot, I'm so glad about this. FINALLY !

However they are three years too late about that, from a market share perspective.
> It's not a good idea to scale disk writes using threads when you can use aio

Last I checked (at least a couple of years ago admittedly) glibcs POSIX aio_* implementation was implemented using threads despite kernel support for it.
If your son had been born during a death march would you have considered trying to push the leave around a bit so as not to further burden your colleagues?

I have known men at financial services firms for example, who came in for a week during paternity leave to help out with a PCI audit, or took leave a week late because they were not replaceable quickly for an on-site visit with a consultant.
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Probably because they're hungry a lot. The more weight you put on, the more food you need to eat.

Also, I read that the more sugars you consume, the more you eat as it messes with your insulin and therefore your body does not signal that you are no longer hungry even though you've eaten enough. Can't remember where I read this, so if anyone has any citations or wants to correct me if I got it wrong, I'd appreciate that.
Porn is associated with wanking, and wanking is stigmatised even though presumably most men have been wanking for far longer than most men have been using porn.

Porn is also associated with prostitution, which is stigmatised as well. And some men feel that although of course there is nothing wrong with the porn they watch, the porn some other men watch leads the featured actresses into prostitution.

And some men watch porn even though they feel it's morally wrong (and morally wrong things are stigmatised). They just don't have the self-control to stop themselves. (That makes them hypocrites, but most people are hypocrites one way or another.)

I get that "protect the children" is an overused slogan these days, and not just in relation to adult porn. But it's far from the whole story.

(n.b. I'm trying not to argue about what should be, I'm trying to talk about what is.)
OSX version:

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The problem here for me is not so much that MS found an image they didn't like and then over-reacted (which I rather think they did). It's that they have obviously written tooling specifically with the purpose of finding these things, and then shutting down accounts.

That they think it's OK to routinely look at these files, where I think most consumers would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, highlights to me an extremely scary though process.
People did react to the Exxon Valdez oil spill which IMO woke the oil companies up as to the value of pure image advertising.
Fruit are also usually high in fiber, which I hear helps counteract the sugar.
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Nowadays it has been observed that people prefer to buy things online rather than going to any store or mall, and similar is in the case of purchasing passes.
I yes, I missed your GGP. But it still doesn't work. If you actively use a hotspot then IP GEO tracks you. If you use wireless data then you can be tracked by cell tower triangulation by the network operator, by GPS, and also by passive wifi tracking that we've been discussing.

I suppose that you might be able to try tunneling all of your outbound data through a VPN tunnel, but at that point you might as well go back to using internet cafes and phone booths.

I prefer misdirection. Set up a device that will appear to be 'you' in many places at once. For instance, google and facebook both routinely believe that I commute from New York to London at least 15 times a day.
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I love how the sheep icon clones the object. It literally made me smile.
If you are working at a company where death marches are the normal development process you've got a lot bigger problems than being able to find the time for paternity leave. Run, run away from that job as fast as you can. There are tons of companies out there, even startups, hiring devs who won't work them to death.

I'm a bit disappointed that the state of this industry is still so immature. We've had all of these studies and all of this wisdom from experienced high-caliber devs on the best ways to go about developing software (and none of them include death marches) and yet here we are still bumbling around and fucking it up and folks like you have the audacity to call it not only normal but proper and expected.
I expect this sort of action from The Yes Men, as they are 'culture jamming' activists and this is their modus operandi. Considering the levels of influence multinational corporations such as Shell have on our world and on leading world governments I don't have an issue with a little impersonation to draw attention to issues such as these.
I do have an issue with a charity doing this. Funds donated by Greenpeace supporters will have gone towards creating this assassination. IMO that's not justified.
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That simulation is absolutely fascinating. I knew hybrid cars were packed with loads of advanced electronic tech, but the use of epicyclic gears as the PSD is pretty cool.
Khan Academy is working on them. They already have lots for mathematics - http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard
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I used to be an avid Firefox user. I switched to Chrome because it was faster and had all the same extensions I used on Firefox. Why should I switch back? Chrome is still faster no?
I would rather recommend buying a 16:10 screen and rotating it 90 degrees. Works perfect for me.
that reminds me of the (thankfully!) small hydrogen explosion I set off in my parents' basement when I was in High School. I was trying to make a hydrogen-powered bunsen burner. I blew up my prototype but no other damage (the prototype was powered by a magnesium-vinegar hydrogen gas generator).
A music website that competed with the one I worked for (and with whom we were quite chummy, hence me having some inside information) had their entire database cloned by a rogue dev who then sold it on the black market. The first sign for users that anything had gone wrong was an influx of spam to their addresses, even though the database had far more nefarious potential uses.
I don't even consider Greenpeace environmental movement. For me they are just attention whores with unknown motives.
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They have this policy in place but there is a difference between having a policy and actively enforcing it.
Yeah, getting these posts back up has largely been a casualty of our lack of resources, not any sort of coordinated malicious plot against them. But we're glad you like 'em! (and I think your comment was the little bit of kick we needed to just go and bring it back.)
Replace MySQL with Percona XtraDB, and leverage aggressive "permacaching" for a start. Then it's more about splitting up your infrastructure and having mechanisms for dealing with increased load on different parts of it (ie high db load = spin up more DB machines)
Is this going to be on MSDNAA like Windows 7 was? Or what is the cheapest/best way to get the Pro version for significantly less than retail?
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No I wouldn't. I took all the time the law allowed me, and if I could have taken more, I would.

During paternity leave I only 'worked' one and a half day. And it was a special case that had nothing to do with work per se. I was invited to be a guest lecturer at a prestigious university here so I talked with my wife and she spent the day with my kid for me to prepare for it and then half day while I did it.

Only reason I did it was because I had already agreed to before hand (kid was born 2 weeks before expected) and it was a great opportunity for me. But if it was a week long affair, I would have cancelled it on the spot. I just don't care about money/career enough to miss important time with my son or help my wife out.
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Well, I work at a Linux shop, and I don't know anyone who would buy an AMD laptop to run Linux on it. And it's been more than two months since IvyBridge release, so a laptop that runs SandyBridge is probably not technically new (it can be never used, but already morally old... :)

Yes, this is a kernel issue, already fixed in 3.3.x. But Canonical has no intention of backporting it to 12.04 (3.2 kernel). And we are talking here about "just working", not installing an unsupported kernel manually from a dev repository.
This is amazing. Sell them for £15 to western festival goes and use the left over money to make more to send free to developing countries.

Make a version that compacts a bit more and you could sell them to travellers to.
That offer is for druiid only :), but --reverse is in the works.

(And seriously, editing the script and hacking together a quick reverse is pretty easy, but I just want to make sure we take the time to get it right in all the annoying little edge cases that inevitably crop up.)
Site appears to be down. The Google cache is here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tAI5zmC...

But the meat of his presentation appears to be this video, available on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/45485034
1. The list of countries from where you can order servers is expanding on a regular basis. If your country is not there yet, it should come in the future.

2. You have 2 300GB with a RAID card (battery powered). So, you can put in RAID. For the reliability, I keep my fingers crossed (I have some of these servers) but no failures yet and an interview with the operators said that basically they an extremely good reliability. This is not marketing in this case, this is because they need it to be financially sustainable.

By the way, do you know what kind of SSD (SLC, MLC, real disks or cards?) are used by Amazon?
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There is also the Defcon game that uses a rather funky Wargames style retro interface:

http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/
So.. What are the challenges?

Right now, being blocked like this, I'm assuming by default

- You sniff the UserAgent (didn't test) instead of using feature detection

- You're basing a product on non-standard web technologies and will, like Google does, later provide 'Please UPGRADE to Google Chrome' (emphasis mine) links all over the site, as on this FF landing page.

Worse: There's no introduction to the site at all. So the topic says 'Mobile Mockups', but I don't even see an about page, some introduction stories, images or whatnot. I end up with a bullshit message that tells me to install a different browser for a product that I cannot check out without doing just that.

There's not much room to present a product less favorable.
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Why do you think it's still faster?
I think there is a major reason why there are death marches.

You promise stakeholders and customers that a product will be ready to ship by a certain date. These things are very easy to underestimate. So in the end you have lots of extra bugs to fix, and you have a huge amount of tension between releasing the (buggy) software on time, letting the delivery date slip, and putting in whatever it takes to release something of acceptable quality on time.

Moreover pre-hyping releases is an incredibly easy way to get a lot of publicity for your product, so it is very common.

So the fundamental issue is marketing, and everything cascades from there. But even if it isn't a normal part of development at your firm, if it happened because something major was discovered last minute and required a lot of work, would you have considered postponing your paternity leave?

Compare this to biotech. Here you have elaborate licensing and safety studies (of dubious effectiveness these days) which occur between the initial product development and its release to market. If Novo Nordisk comes up with a new drug tomorrow, they can't even estimate a release date because of all the regulatory stuff that comes with it. So this slows the march to production down and prevents death marches.

So I think the issue with death marches is that they happen, not as a function of or product development, but as a function of PR and marketing, which leads to pre-hyping a specified day of release, and if you let it slip too much, you lose out on all that built-up hype.

So I am not saying they should be normal. I am saying they are systemic, and expected particularly in a start-up phase of a business.
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Indeed. Remember when the tech blogs made a big deal about Google Drive's privacy policy because of the wording, and saying how Skydrive has a bit better wording? Well it seems in the end it was Microsoft that was using actual people to look at private files, while Google just wanted to scan them automatically using algorithms for different stuff.
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>>>It would not do for Microsoft to get a reputation as "the company that helps wankers store their porn"

Sorry, but that moment passed decades ago. I'm certain most pr0n is stored on machines running Windows.
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I clicked on a circle I just created, then I hit backspace. The whole tab closed! That's a bit problematic for me.
Nowadays Firefox typically uses less memory than Chrome (though of course this depends on exactly what you measure and how). It's highly debatable which is faster -- this depends even more on how you measure -- but Chrome certainly isn't miles ahead. Chrome may have all the extensions you currently use, but Firefox still has a lot more; perhaps the next one you'd find useful will be Firefox-only.

None of which means that you actually should switch back: Chrome is a great web browser. But it isn't obvious that you shouldn't.
Wasn't Dropbox involved in a pretty big privacy scandal a year or two ago when people found out they weren't encrypting their files properly or something?
Not related to them wanting to do it / enforcing it, they might be required to have that in there for legal reasons.
I don't think Microsoft know what they doing. All cloud storage providers need a policy similar to what Microsoft have. They cannot have pirated content, child porn etc on their servers.

This rule should be strictly enforced on public folders. On private folders Microsoft shouldn't even be looking. While you should not be allowed to store "bad" content, it shouldn't be enforced on private folders unless there is some from of legal request.

I don't understand why they think it should work any different. Skydrive should be a way to back up files. You cannot back up your files if someone is snooping on them or if your account is banned for accidentally including that risky photo of your wife in the back up folder...

But fine. Whatever. Microsoft want to make their service unusable. Why are they then banning the entire live account? Suspending people from XBOX live and prohibiting them from using app purchases? If they are suspending the account the account holder needs to be refunded. Why don't they just prohibit the account from using SkyDrive?

Microsoft have been getting better recently. On this though they seem to have completely lost the plot.
>I don't think corporations are evil. In fact, I bet most people on HN don't think that.

I don't think that anything is evil per se, but I do think that corporations and modern businesses are defective by design. Why are they defective? Several reasons.

A) They are frequently more populous than can be effectively managed (also see: Dunbar's number).

B) They are unethical by design since money can be made by simply throwing money in a particular direction. This make no fucking sense whatsoever. Imagine if money didn't exist and we only had physical goods. It would be the equivalent of having 100 logs, putting them on a particular patch of ground then ending up with 200 logs a week later. This just makes no sense.

C) The are unethical by design since the wage gap is huge and the scenario is essentially that many hundreds or thousands of people are working to make a tiny minority extremely rich. It ain't slavery, Bob, but it sure as fuck smells like it.

C part deux) They are unethical by design because when a worker creates something, it is by default not his. Common sense dictates that what comes from your hands belongs to you. The rules of business are such that what comes from thousands of peoples' hands belongs to one person. If there was ever a scam...!

D) The purpose of the business is to ensure it's own survival. A more enlightened approach would be a business which ensures the parent society's survival. This makes more sense because when an entire society flourishes, so do all the businesses contained in it. When a single business flourishes, other businesses and, by extension, parts of society will suffer for it. In other words, the world ain't zero sum and modern business practices do not appear to take this into account.
Probably, but as I was knocked out by my head hitting the post as I skidded along the ground still attached to my bike I hate to think what would have happened if I wasn't wearing a helmet. It's not exactly an experiment I want to re-run.
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I use FF for Vimperator/Pentadactyl. There's no equivalent in Chrome (and never will be because of Chrome's design choices), and it makes every other browser's interface feel hopelessly pedestrian to me now.
One of those three (A or C, I forget) has no vaccine. The other two do, both are serious, common, and life threatening in a global scale, even if not so much in well-off places.... but it's out there en-masse. Hep B is among the most virulent and widespread diseases in the world and LOTS of people out there have it.
How would you respond, being the father of a 3 month old, to being asked by Marissa Mayer to put in a 130 hour week because it was really important?

How do you think a mother would respond? Do you see a difference?
> I get that "protect the children" is an overused slogan
> these days

I am afraid that this is not only overused slogan, but often dangerous and harmful attitude.
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Weight is only one indicator of health. Gain or loss in weight is related purely to calorific intake, nothing to do with whether what you eat is good for you.
I just realized I physically can't read this post, the pink background hurts my brain. I'll try to find a browser add-on to mitigate that disaster.
Most of the things you mention are already available: sign-up from Facebook/Twitter/etc and payments Stripe/Recurly/Paypal.
The fact is that generally those things need to be customized for the specific needs of each product even more if you're not building a generic site, ie. a forum or an intranet. And then offering a sufficiently easy to use API to do rather complex things ends up "bounding" the ability to extend it. (Which is is what happens when people want to customize modules for popular CMSs like Wordpress.)
Also there are also frameworks that take care of this Django/Rails.
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