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now that big companies have been hacked, it's the time to start looking for solutions like Authy to prevent phishing attacks.
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Yes? Very yes?
To address #2, they explain why they can't use kickstarter in the FAQ.
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You are missing the point completely.

It's not difficult to finish "on time" when you are both the definer of the requirements and the creator of the solution. But that is not the reality for most companies/shops/agencies being hired to help a customer.

You are trying to compare projects where the canvas is known and well established with projects where the canvas is unkown and always changing.

There is a reason whey it's easy to estimate how long it's going to take to print an ad and why it's hard to estimate how long it's going to take to make sure that an ad displays properly on a webpage.
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Also worth noting that this phenomenon exists everywhere.

For example, the standards for Nielsen ratings used for (much more expensive) TV advertising are pretty lame. If you're in the same room as a powered-on television, you're considered a member of the audience.

My other question would be... does it matter? Wouldn't the ability to target burlesque folks (who are real people, just not real names in this example) with laser-like precision be more valuable than trolling for real burlesque aficionados amongst the general population?
I thought we needed more twitter-like services...
I'm an American, but I don't feel US has the god-given right to be the only super-power in the solar system for the next few hundred years.

If China establishes colonies, good for them. When England colonized America, it began the downfall of Spains empire (more or less), but no one is crying that Spain didn't become the global power it 'should' have become.
Actually a fairly even-handed take. I think some of the confusion is due to not understanding Android, but overall a pretty good if surface-level review.

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or you can just implement a google authenticator & HOTP for your own site. it's open source and a billion libraries exist
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I had created nearly 100 images on Makrio and I love it. Personally, once you connect it with Facebook, it becomes less about the content itself and more about re-inventing this content with your friends. You learn something new about your friends too. Making stupid jokes in real life creates awkwardness, editing the content in funny and sometimes perverted ways on Makrio brings joy. It's fun, give it a few days.
I'm much more concerned about the impact higher carry rates would have in relatively more common situations, like disagreements between motorists, etc.

Many people with guns feel empowered to double down in situations they would otherwise walk away from, and the involvement of a gun adds to the opportunities for a deadly outcome. Some gun advocates argue that an armed society is a polite society. I have my doubts about that, but I don't doubt that the consequences of impoliteness would be much more extreme.
For Dutch speaking HN'ers I'd recommend http://24kitchen.nl (also on TV)

Especially the desserts/baking section by Rudolph van Veen is great. He covers many classics, like creme caramel, tarte tatin, baklava, omelette siberienne, etc. He also explains the basic techniques well, like beating egg white with molten sugar to get a sturdy cream.
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And the US does have a multi-ocean Navy, divided up into 6 fleets that are assigned to certain oceans/seas. And its size is clearly due to the role it's been assigned by the US government. In fact, reasonable arguments can be made that the USN is too small for what it's been tasked with.
Inflation in India is north of 7% so that kind of savings rate isn't great. It's worse than the 0% savings/1.7% inflation we have in the U.S.
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These are just the sites that haven't updated to IPv6 yet.
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Sure. It's incredibly simple, even if there are a lot of concepts to grasp.

Diet:

The macro-nutrient decomposition I tend to follow can be calculated for your bodyweight, height and level of physical activity here: http://www.1percentedge.com/ifcalc/ . Note that your level of physical activity is most likely sedentary, even if you plan on exercising. The higher levels are for people who have physically demanding day jobs. The rest/workout split toggle in the top left of the "Macro Calculator" tab will give you different total caloric requirements based on if you want to gain/lose/maintain weight. Remember: a ~500kcal/day deficit from your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) translates to losing 1 lb/week, and vice versa for a caloric surplus. You can play around with the 4th tab to see what goes on.

The tl;dr version of this calculator is basically: eat more carbohydrates on workout days, and eat more fats on rest days. Eat 1g of protein per lb of body-mass on all days, and try to hit your daily caloric goals on all days.

Meal Timing:

Here's a typical day for me:

* 6:30am. Wake up. Do morning things.
* 7:15am. Take 10g of BCAAs with water, 4000IU of Vitamin D, and 10ml of concentrated (high levels of EPA/DHA) fish oil.
* 7:30am. Take public transport to gym.
* 8:00am. Double-shot of espresso. Sometimes I skip this - I purposely cycle on/off of caffeine every few weeks.
* 8:15am. Start exercise routine. Lift heavy things. Lasts about an hour.
* 9:15am. Finish workout. Ingest 10g of BCAAs.
* 9:30am to 2:00pm. Work.
* 2:00pm. First meal of the day. No significant calories (< 50kcal) before this.
* 6:00pm. Second meal of the day.
* 9:00pm. End of caloric intake window.
* 11:00pm. Bed time.

For rest days, I skip the BCAAs and the gym (obviously).

Of course the above isn't written in stone, and sometimes I break my own rules by going out with friends, having a drink or two past 9pm, and so on. But you get the general idea.

Exercise:

Lift heavy things, and perform compound movements. My exercise regime consists of heavy squats, bench press, standing overhead press, Pendlay rows and deadlifts. Any other exercises are incidental, and I try to avoid muscle-isolating exercises in general.

I would highly recommend reading Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe (even though some disagree on his precise methodologies, it's still the best introductory book out there), and perusing the http://stronglifts.com site as well. Once you've gotten past the point where those programmes are effective (which will take months, if not a year), there are many intermediate to advanced compound-lift based programmes that you can switch over to.

Sorry for the long post. I could go on for ages about this stuff; it's incredibly interesting, and is actually quite formulaic. If you eat what you're supposed to eat and do the exercises you're supposed to do, your desired results just... happen. Makes the scientist in me very happy ;-).

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Has anyone tried this? How does it compare to, say, Gardein? (the stuff they serve at Lyfe Kitchen)
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Nobody except for HFT people has ever argued that they add value to the system.

Everyone else believes that HFT exists because it's profitable, and that it subtracts value from the system.

You can choose who you want to believe.
Although a site may have a primary color palette, colors will often look very different in context. Our vision is full of tricks and assumptions that can cause the same color value to look drastically different in different situations. The color in your swatch might look different when used on a different background color, or might not appear as bright when used as a link color, and so on. It's reasonable to expect some variation in the color palette to deal with these issues. Some of these counts seem a bit excessive, though.
I highly doubt the government would trust a service like that for such problems or even waste their valuable time. I'm sure they have much more efficient ways of detecting this then trying to sift through that junk. It's also very easy to manipulate check-in's (Foursquare specifically), in respect to checking into locations when you don't actually have to be there, physically. And as far as Facebook goes, you can check others into a location, which could easily spike false information.
How is it the site with one of the most conservative designs -- Github -- has by & large the most colors? From memory, I only see a few shades of gray when I picture the site, though I know there's a few colors that accent the UI, but hell, 331 is more than the entire old "web safe palette".

I wonder if there's some sort of anomaly or bug causing the number to be so high... perhaps they use far less images, and instead use CSS instead? Maybe they have a CSS-based color-picker somewhere in their source?
I think when I bought an Arduino, this is really what I wanted.
So it seems you want more 'remixing' and less user created/uploaded content, a la Imgur with some added text. Now I'm picturing pulling content from Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, Tumblr, 4chan(?) but creating a personal stamp on it and then sharing it.

That to me seems cool, and I can very easily imagine how awesome that would be.
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A bookmarklet and a grid. Like del.icio.us? "Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love."

The meme generator argument is legitimate, the fact that the layout looks somewhat like a recent site therefore it's a clone is just a false analogy.
Multithreading is better than nothing. This article points some reasons that it's not optimal and a few possible alternatives.
You mean, like it should be available online, most of the time, it should have a login button, and then some content, and then maybe have content from more than yourself...
Yeah, every site kind of has to be like pinterest.
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They need to accept that there is some ambiguity.

I subscribe to the local newspaper in my hometown, which is 500 miles away. Should the guy buying ads selling cords of firewood be pissed off because my subscription is not the norm? (a local resident in this case)
i don't understand vegan meat. if you are vegan why would you want to eat stuff that resembles meat? there are plenty of amazing vegan dishes that look and taste amazing. it feels like a cop out to be vegan yet eat stuff that looks like meat. if you want to eat meat, just eat meat! there are plenty of places to buy meat that are raised by farmers that take care of their animals. it just costs significantly more than cheap meat.
Could some of the 'used once' colors just be a shading or bevel on an element of the main color? Rather than just someone picking a color that is 'close enough'.
The difficulty is in the details. Normalizing would have to account for a variety of different variables such as location, average age/customer base, average revenue per customer, etc. Furthermore, you would need all of that data many different businesses to even be able to build your normalization.

Sure, you could do a subpar job with the normalization but then that will increase your false positives and decrease confidence in the method.
Symlinks are not synced automatically, only when restarting Dropbox, or pause/resume syncing.
Olive oil is actually excellent for frying.
Extra virgin olive oil has a smoking point of 405 deg. F, which is similar to canola.
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I read the Kickstarter ToU, and I didn't see anything that would explicitly or implicitly prevent a campaign of this nature.
I read that somewhere in this ebook on IF, don't recall on which page (great resource btw, one of the few user-friendly books I've seen yet): http://www.precisionnutrition.com/intermittent-fasting

I can't say anything about the people you mentioned. I myself had absolutely no progress when IFing for some days, only dizziness and irritability.
People who don't eat meat say it's indistinguishable from meat.

I've never understood the fake meat thing, I eat alot of meat but don't go around looking for fake vegetables. Even when I go to a vegetarian/vegan restaurant rarely do I find the imitation dishes to be anywhere near as good as the originals, however, there are a lot of great vegan/vegetarian dishes that are much better than any of the faux dishes.
Sure, it could be. But the problem was it wasn't, so ES2 came out and effectively abandoned huge chunks of existing code the relied on the fixed function pipeline. And they had no answer for what people were supposed to replace it with. Thus the aggrieved flaming from people like jwz who just want to port some software.
Only if they can record phase information and have some way of determining the overlap of their visual fields.

Recording sufficiently accurate phase information for visual wavelengths is really hard.
Why is this on the front page, I always thought that it was common knowledge that Linux software frequently outperforms Windows software.
Did you lose the XCode Command Line tools? I had to install them last week (after I had upgraded) and I swear on my life I had them before. (I would have had to have to have used brew and built as many of my projects as I had).
No. Accounting for everything is not the same as doing everything. You can tell me it will take a week to implement a feature and it may take you half an hour to come up with that estimate. It doesn't mean it took you half an hour to implement the feature!
You are relying on anecdotes. However, given that shooters of this sort are quite rare, is there even enough data to reach statistically significant conclusions about the risks from people returning fire?

In any case, if we were to follow this argument further, we would expect that many more citizens would be armed, which would likely change things. Given the inherent confusion of such a situation, I would expect we would start seeing armed citizens accidentally shooting other armed citizens because they misread the situation.

Even trained, battle seasoned soldiers make mistakes.
The fact that I'd really like my car to be able to travel at the speed of light doesn't make it broken when it can't.

My car also doesn't fix me dinner, which would be really cool, but the lack of satisfaction of my own personal wishlist doesn't mean the objectives that are set out to be achieved by cars have not been sufficiently met for most people.
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:) Actually, I wanted to ask whether it's in order of milliseconds or seconds! Don't know how the "minute" found its way into my comment. A minute is reaaaly long.
it feels like a cop out to be vegan yet eat stuff that looks like meat.

Vegan isn't just about meat, it also proscribes eggs and milk. There are a lot of foods that are better if you have some decent egg and milk analogs.

But mainly, people eat vegan for ethical or health reasons. So maybe they still really like meat-like textures and flavors, but have strong reasons for not eating actual meat.
No there's no reason to bring this up now. First, it has been worked around and second, VFP support for the LuaJIT ARM port is already in progress (parts are in the git repo, not enabled yet).
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My favourite brown shirt is green. Normally, I don't like brown, but I like that one. I wore it for years thinking it was brown until I said something to my wife that made her look at me funny (ier than usual).

My colour confusion is particular: Certain pinks and purples are grey, certain colours aren't quite right (like my "brown" shirt), and I cannot see red unless it is "bright enough". I see the red of an apple just fine, but Mars has always been a faint object of uncertain colour. I always thought people were waxing poetic until I learned of my colour confusion.

I really do prefer that term, by the way, not for any reasons of political correctness, but because it is far more accurate, and gets people inquiring as to just what I mean. If I say "colour blind", they assume red-green - I have no problems with red or green or Red Green, and see traffic lights the way FSM made 'em.

The only time my colour perception has caused me problems at a computer is when someone insists on pink fonts on grey backgrounds. It's not just that it's hard to read, it hurts. It really, really hurts to look.

For me, there is minimal contrast and no edge definition, so the letters float and shift on the screen and it is painful to look at. Highlight the text, flip the contrast, readability restored.
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Farhad Manjoo at Slate reviewed it and liked it, specifically saying he preferred it to Gardein: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/07/...
That section has parts that are half-off the rails. The windows and insulation comments struck me as particularly bad.

Once again, for the folks commenting on trains: the US train system is very, very good at hauling cargo. It was designed to do that. It sucks at hauling people because they are on the cargo train tracks and don't have tracks of their own.
It's a little different though. I think a better analogy would be writing, and I have seen people claim to not be good at writing as others do with math in general. Reading would be like counting in math, and most people can do that. I agree though, that with practice many would probably benefit from it for either math or writing. But there will be some people, who will just be not good at math short of some upgrades to their brains.
A good exercise, but nothing beyond that. Too many factors based on assumption. Also repeat visitors tend to skip continued the check-ins after the novelty of it wears down (unless there are extremely good reward offers associated with number of check-ins).
And I would expect thee preparedness of the average concealed carry permit holder to decline if we do more to reshape the US around the notion that an armed society is a polite society.
Is it really not possible?

Here is an example of a third party Blizzard app:
http://code.google.com/p/winauth/
Killing a bill with unpopular amendments is indeed a time-honored tradition in legislatures everywhere.
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Yeah, I am right there with you. I love things like tofu as they are, no need to dress them up as something they aren't. The best vegan dishes I have ever had came from places that treated those dishes as first class citizens, not imitations of other menu items.

It just makes more sense that if you prepare the ingredient as well as possible it will turn out better than if you place a restriction on yourself first (like, "make it taste like meat").
You can circumvent this problem by asking for the bill in the moment your food arrives.
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You are, of course, correct. And in the absence of any context, I'd say those questions must be answered. Note that the time required to get them answered (requirements gathering) should also be estimated.

However, in most cases, there is a surrounding context to that set of "requirements" I gave, so you'd probably be able to answer accurately.

The overall point is that you still have some idea of (a) how long it will take and (b) what level of confidence you have in the estimate.
I'd bet part of why this happens on some of the more egregious 'offenders' (although it's arguable whether this is actually a problem or not) is the use of CSS preprocessors. It's a lot easier for a designer to add in one-off slight variations to a color when you have something like Compass or LESS's color manipulation functions.
So maybe they still really like meat-like textures and flavors

Almost as if evolution had bred them into meat-eating animals!

Nah, that's crazy talk.
Great comments in this thread so far. Let me summarize a few and add some of my own:

1) Some people do not want estimates. They want unrealistic promises for purposes that have less to do with the project, and more to do with making themselves look good in the short term (for a promotion, bonus, whatever.) If you're in this situation, you need to go out of band with your communication about the project (i.e., above someone's head) or find a new position/manager. This is not a good place to be.

2) As some have mentioned, when people ask for when it will be "done", qualification is needed. Very often you may be asked for "calendar time", not "perfect engineering days" or their equivalent. Make sure you figure out which is being asked of you; not doing so can end badly.

3) Some estimates are well within the range of the possible, others are truly just not easy to come by. Figuring out the difference between these and communicating them is extremely important. "Build a perfect X system for our Foobarbazio engine." "GiantCo spends millions a year on this problem and still hasn't solved it. No one has. More basic research is needed (on AI, ML, NLP, whatever) to even begin to do this." "I don't believe you! Bilk-us Consultants says they can build it in 3 months! What do we pay you for!" "..." They aren't all so easy to tell apart.

That all said, there are many good rules of thumb to get you at least a basic estimate, many of which are covered in the above comments. If I had to pick a few favorites, I'd pick:

1) Ask someone who has done it already. If someone hasn't the (almost) exact thing, ask someone who has done something roughly similar. If you can't find that, ask someone who has done something /vaguely/ similar. Try to transpose the specifics (they used Oracle, we're using Postgres; they used a great library, we have to write our own.) If this is truly green-field stuff, try to:

2) Build a prototype. No, you will not get the one million tiny details that can bite you during real development, nor the unknown unknowns that can crop up while trying to solve truly hard(er) problems, but it can be a helpful way for getting your mind wrapped around the problem. If this isn't enough, you can also:

3) Build another prototype (it's the second, so maybe we should call it a deuterotype.) Flesh it out. Make it bigger than the original, but ignore the (currently) irrelevant details. Yes, this takes longer, but it's better than getting halfway through full-time development and realizing it's not going to work.

4) If after doing the above, you feel like you're no closer to an estimate, either give up and just develop it, and you'll eventually get to the point where you might be able to estimate the rest. This can of course blow up if you hit an impassable snag; that's why it's a last resort.
Are you serious? People don't eat real meat generally because they don't like the fact that they're killing a live animal do so. I quit eating meat 5-6 years ago for this reason, yet when I visit restaurants and my friends order meat I wish I could taste what they're eating.

Meat substitutes currently are terrible, the textures and flavors are completely off. BeyondMeat supposedly creates a chicken strip that takes like the real thing, and has the same cooking properties which is extremely exciting.
I guess the more general point I was thinking about is that there are tons of new signals that governments or private groups could use to assess all sorts of activities. For example the government has easy access to cellphone density data from carriers, which would be harder to game. Foursquare check-ins could be a cheap way to decide which places to look into first.