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Diets that ignore lifestyle are greedy. How about a new term? "Ethnodiet," or "technediet" rather than "logodiet" or "science-based diet." Regardless of the authority of scientists, or nutritionists, you are probably not one. Whereas appealing to the authority of astronomists may be an epistemtically defensible practice, appealing to the authority of nutritionists may not be. The discoveries of astrophysics arguably have direct influence on your life, but if they do, we'd be hard-pressed to integrate those findings in our everyday lives; the discoveries of nutrition, oddly researchers and laypeople alike, seem to carry an inherent imperative as to what-comes-next after said discovery is made. Whatever the content of the discovery, the "what-comes-next" is a matter of decision, but at the same point, it is a decision of whether the discovery is amenable to all of food science or not. In astrophysics, for instance, we have a long-standing set of metarules for the integration and change of the overall conceptual system. Where is this in food science? And what is more, Does a scientist's finding in and of themselves say anything about normative structure? (This idea is from Alain Badiou: "Situations are nothing more in their being than pure multiplicity. Nothing normative can be drawn from the simple realist's observation of the becoming of things.")

1. Eat Food (that could be readily identified by most traditional cultures; no Food Disputes; don't eat foodlike substances)

2. Mostly Plants (-- they have the most mature survival systems; eat them)

3. Not Too Much (learn how to eat little; that is, learn austerity, not asceticism; apply more traditional diets as this doubly expresses a political note and expresses Occam's Razor which does not aim to lose weight, but return one's body to an earlier state of humans within "civilization")

Try it. "Science-based diets" tend to lack consciousness of the ethnological structures we must persist within. A diet that says {nothing} about the contextualized features of Eating is blind. -- Something like what Einstein said.
60% of the time it works every time?
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sure, this will work if what your doing can be generated essentially off templates.

this will start breaking down when you start building components which are inter-related. every incremental change now requires understanding of the ball of spaghetti that exists.
Ah I see now why you would call it ditransitivite. I believe that you would call it an argument/complement to 'responsibility', as 'have' is not an inherently ditransitive verb.

The point about whether it goes both ways is a matter of opinion I think. I feel that humans have an obligation to treat animals well, not necessarily because of how they would feel or their obligations to us, but because it makes humans look bad not to. Kind of like how a gentleman is supposed to be polite regardless of the situation.
Your litigious attitude isn't helping you much here. You've missed a good opportunity for exposure.
because doing it the right way is too hard!
I can imagine that they'd understandably work to get their own site/etc up and running first as the priority, as a manual "hack". After all, it's the main page everyone would be going to for information on what's going on.

After that, coming up with an automated process for migrating what must be a shit-ton of zone information to another system must have taken some time. I have no idea what their specific solution was, but I'm fairly confident in the fact that it wasn't just a matter of copying over a few zone files. They'd probably have to do SOME sort of ETL (extraction / translation / load) process that would take some time to develop, test, never mind run.

And I can't remember the last time I gave technical information to a PR person who actually got it 100% technically correct. ;)

My intention wasn't to shit on your point or anything, or in any way defend Go-Daddy and their screwup, I'm just thinking it's a bit unrealistic to try and infer detailed information from a PR release.

In the end, it was technical, they screwed up, and I doubt they'd ever release a proper, detailed post-mortem of what happened.
It's not a letter, it's an email. That's the whole point.
A very interesting post indeed. Another common mistake many people seem to make is when comparing historical life expectancies. Most of our progress in prolonging human life is due to minimizing the infant mortality rate. This means that people who survived infancy and childhood could make it to an old age even in historical times.
You can still get it on your iOS device(s). The difference is Google is offering it free.
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Great additions, I know I'll be using the arbitrary pay period feature.

On my wishlist is more recurring billing analytics, on top of the simple "volume" metrics.
YC and subprime seem diametrically opposed to me. YC's risk in a tranche (i.e. one YC round) is bounded from the beginning: they can't lose any more money than they invest, let alone get wiped out if some model happened to be off by a few percent. What assumption is there which, if it shifted, could blow them up? They've already taken their maximum loss by the time the checks are written!
Sorry if I was unclear. What does it say about the US?
The stickers and t-shirts are meant as a way to help the project while still getting something in return - think of it as a donation with a perk.

As for 1.2k / board - that's quite steep, their BOM (Bill of Materials) should be at most 1/2 of that. A very substantial off-the-shelf 4x (motor + ESC + LiPo) combo will run at the very most for $400.
The perils are mainly getting sued for copyright infringement. I'm all for copyright even if the current scheme is insane.

The legal problem is that no one can tell if the content is authorized or not. Maybe it's fair use, maybe I legitimately bought it, or maybe it's similar enough to another video that the bot got confused. Sending a warning is just a way to sidestep the judicial oversight that a legitimate legal action would entail.
Sounds like a coordinated effort to bypass due process and mete out extrajudicial penalties.

Hopefully, though, it's in response to (and replacement for) the absurdity of getting sued for $3mil. because you downloaded a few mp3's or movies.
Uhm.. I read it the way you did it for a couple of times and then decided that it's really just a bad way of saying 'back early (25 max) and get a board for $100 less than the next 25 people on the first batch'. In other words: No, I really don't think they give you a $100 rebate for ~$1100 and a full board for $100 more..

Not my native language though..?
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What if a major retailer asked for your ZIP code at the register? This happens to me often and is much more analogous to the situation than a cashier asking where I live.
"standard" run-times .. yeah, right. But try PyPy - same perf class as V8. And LuaJIT - probably faster than V8 - apart from GC. And for GC perf: Erlang does parallel (per "green thread") GCing ..
Love the codecasts (the iPhone one was very informative), but each time I go to cssdeck I struggle to find the play button. This time it was hidden under one of the code panels and I only found it after accidentally dismissing the code panel.

Making the play button more prominent and placing it in the outer chrome would make life for the new viewer easier.
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Seriesly - a document-oriented time-series database written in Go
Here is the best layman's explanation I could find:
http://i.imgur.com/VrjiG.gif
I’ve dropped 19 lbs in just under three weeks! This is a ridiculous loss of weight. It might even be unhealthy, I’m not really sure.

Oh, it's very unhealthy. That 19 lbs was probably mostly muscle you burned because you essentially went into starvation mode, Christopher McCandless style. There aren't enough calories in meat and (most) vegetables to survive on.

Safe weight loss is pretty simple and there's no other way around it. Cut out 500 calories per day, either by diet or exercise and you'll lose 1-2 pounds per week. Any more and you aren't burning the fat you have you are burning through your muscle.
Yeah it's come up a few times over the past year. http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=six...
Thanks for all the constructive comments guys.

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Thanks for all the feedback, and look forward to any more you've got!
> 2. You'll get much better results if you combine diet and exercise, you'll get faster results, and you won't have to be on such a strict diet because the exercise will make up for it.

For many people, this is not true. Exercise uses up surprisingly few calories, and people justify all kinds of crappy foods for themselves based on this reasoning.

The classic example is "oh, I've jogged for a half hour, so now I can have this grande mocha frappa doppa lattechino". The sugary drink crushes the effects of the run.

So! Know yourself. Stick to your diet. And if you work out, you can eat a very little bit more. But crappy sugary stuff is always crappy sugary stuff.

Also, track what you exercise and eat so you know how you're doing.
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6lb a week can easily be a large loss of water weight for someone who's overweight, it's not maintainable but if it happens for more than a few weeks in a row is the time to be worried, not now. Also, cutting 500 calories per day is a weight loss of 1 pound per week (a pound is 3500 calories) :)

Oh, and it's very possible for someone who's untrained to lose more than a pound or two a week (by being on a bigger than 1000 calorie daily deficit) and still not lose muscle but instead make new muscle and strength increases, it's just harder.
It has been specifically designed to avoid regulation. The ISPs opt-in, there are no prescribed penalties, there are no legal notices or anything that would involve the courts.
Putting a skateboard on top of a $100 RC car would be less elegant.
I don't believe they have a 99.999% SLA. That was their historical up-time.

I just misread their statement. They probably meant the up-time before this incident.

"Throughout our history, we have provided 99.999% uptime in our DNS infrastructure. This is the level our customers expect from us and the level we expect of ourselves. We have let our customers down and we know it."
I was trying to comprehend your post, but it was a little too conceptual for me! Though point #3 I agree with - I think a lot of us need to re-adjust what is a normal sized portion. Many of us are eating as if we burned 6,000 calories working in the fields all day. But most of us are not doing that type of manual labor so we need to eat less.
Your practices sound very similar to LeanGains, minus the Intermittent Fasting. LeanGains worked for me, and I love it, because it's really just science (free!) applied to your lifestyle, rather than a cool trend or product designed to sell.

In addition to moderation, balance is important. Having a healthy balance between fat/proteins/carbs/nutrients as well as balance between life/work/exercise. Being off-balance is usually unsustainable in the long term.

For example: Going no-carb will lose weight up front, but the body requires sugars in some form -- much of the weight will come right back once returning to a balanced diet with carbs. However, the body can be trained to crave less carbs, and weightloss with a low-carb diet is sustainable for a lifetime.
I think I signed up to hear about the UK rollout 12 months ago. Any year now I reckon ;)
I don't feel like encrypting it would make it acceptable. Keys can be leaked.

I just don't feel like it's okay to secretly store someone's private information in a file they believe is safe to share publicly, no matter how well you think you've hidden it.
I just switched to them yesterday. They have a very nice import tool that matches up all your CNAMES and other records.
Well, i wish there would by something like that for Linux. Some of them can compile the games for Linux, but the tools are Win-only.
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Seems like it's illegal to use in California: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21968.htm
I have the feeling this will end up very bad for Americans, much like the patent system, and then there will be a decade or more before anyone even tries to revert it.
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You'll note that I did not mention cardio at all but instead mentioned strength training, but yes what you're saying is very correct for someone on a low-cardio only exercise plan. It's very important for someone starting out to always be keeping track of what they're doing so that they can re-evaluate their diet and exercise plans at the end of every week or other time period.
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While it could indeed be a routing issue, who's to say that it wasn't caused intentionally by the guy in the tweets? It would be in GoDaddy's interests to cover that up and fix whatever exploit he used to get in, instead of admitting a security breach.
The real problem with using HTML5 for native apps
The real problem with using a one code base solution (HTML5) for multiple mobile platforms.
The title, as currently, written, "Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots" is pretty generic (and entirely accurate - They are watermarking WOW screenshots, and it is being done secretly).

I'm curious as to what your title would have been:

"Blizzard watermarking WOW screenshots?" - This is less informative, but removes the word "secretly?"
Heh, yeah. It is a bit difficult to interpret PR speak (and I have had to correct our guy before).

I think perhaps the takeaway from here is to not trust what is being said, go with your gut... and move any services off GoDaddy ;). Would be nice if like Google or Amazon they would release a real post-mortem post. Even if it's an internal 'uh-oh' I trust companies that are willing to admit to mistakes.
"Youtube Google" Seemed to work for me.
The Obama administration did play as a "mediator", but you're right. This system is specifically designed to avoid regulation, because they know they wouldn't get that regulation. This way they can sidestep it by "partnering" with the ISP's and carriers.
The author tries to justify a career spent in financial modeling. (pdf)
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I'd like to go to the Quantified Self 2012 conference, which relates to my startup, though it's sold out. Is anyone selling a ticket? Thanks. :)
This is exactly what started happening to my '07 MacBook Pro after years of solid use. The parts started getting a little looser, the whole body is slightly bowed (it still closes though), etc. Jostling it a little in its bag is sometimes enough to put it into a wakened fright, and whether or not the fans kick in he's gonna be a pretty hot piece of metal by the time it's out of the bag. Since it started happening I just make sure to shut down before carrying.
This is really interesting. Makes me wonder why I bothered generating those hard-to-crack passwords if they can easily be reset by a bit of sweet-talking.
Also life expectancy changes as you age: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

By the time you hit 60, you've gone from ~75 to ~80.
One thing I've always wondered about these game engines that are marketed towards Indie developers is that I don't tend to see many very successful games developed using them.

For example the list of Unity3d games here: http://unity3d.com/gallery/made-with-unity/game-list

There's only a handful there that I've heard of.

Most of the Indie games that have been hugely successful (braid, super meat boy, minecraft etc) all seem to use a minimal but fairly custom engine rather than a monolithic solution.

I wonder if this is partly because these engines are usually designed to offer features that are as close to stuff available in AAA games as possible meaning that they are better for producing "me too" type games rather than something unique. Whenever you start using large amounts of someone elses code inside your product you are always going to take on some limitations in terms of what that code was designed to do and which edge cases were thought out in advance.

One example of this might be in Braid where you have the ability to rewind time. I'm assuming that the game does this by keeping a list of all the previous states of the scene graph in memory and having flags set on objects which do not rewind when everything else does. In this case it is important for the programmer to try and keep the memory footprint of the scene as small as possible so that a large number of states can be kept in a machine with low memory.

If you were trying to develop this using a monolithic engine that was built under the assumption that time flows forwards and old states can be thrown away it might be such a hassle to implement this that you either throw the idea out or curtail it to the point where it affects how good the game is.

Edit:
Further to this I often get the same dilemma when choosing things like web frameworks. A lot of these provide built in functionality for stuff like authentication and internationalisation. However I often find that the built in solutions to these things don't quite meet the requirements for what I'm trying to build. So the solution tends to be to not use the built in functionality and implement these things myself but then I run up against other parts of the built in functionality or third party plugins which assume that I'm using the "out of the box" solution.

This is where Java with it's Factories and Interfaces, or functional languages which allow me to pass implementation around can be very useful. On the other hand I'm not always sure it merits the extra complexity so I prefer to use loosely coupled libraries. If that means that I sometimes have to write boilerplate that converts between object types etc then so be it.
I was surprised by 2 kW. I have an electric moped that's 2 kW - and in that class 1.5 kW is more typical. Maybe a burst vs steady state spec
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While this rings true after all these years, had it not been for Java those of us living in the midwest would have either had to move away or spend the intervening years coding in VB6.
I used to think GoDaddy went down through no active fault of their own. Now I realize they're just a shitty company with a shitty product. Good riddance.

Our company's email is hosted on GoDaddy, and it has the most downtime of any email service I use (which are Google Apps/Gmail, Yahoo for Business and a private IMAP server). Frequently it will just be dead in the middle of the day, which is why this particular outage wasn't so surprising to us.
<a href="http://www.ogre3d.org/>OGRE 3D</a> a MIT licensed game engine that has been around since 2001. I think some of the games in the OGRE gallery are far superior to most Torque engine games.
What? First, I'm pretty sure you're the creator so you don't have to be noble about it.

Second, the word "Helvetica" is trademarked in reference to a font or a software program relating to fonts. So unless he plans on selling a font called Helvetica, he can write the word as much as he pleases. It's the Latin name for Switzerland.

Third, until you trademark the term Helveticards and he starts offering a product in a similar likeness, this discussion is between him and Linotype. Stop trying to peddle your own product. Too bad, because I actually like your cards!
I've watched a couple of these 'casts now and they're really quite informative, although I do wonder if the author constantly adding/editing comments as the main narrative/exposition method is the most instructive.

Obviously there will be things that should be commented for explanation, but it feels like it should be for more 'stable' (I'm struggling for the right term here) notes.

In contrast to a traditional presentation where you have slides + narration (which later becomes a transcript), the 2 forms of information are merged here, which muddies things a bit.

Keeping it all-text is essential; the 15x multiplier is great, and utterly impractical if you're also trying to follow a voice-over, but maybe it should be in another window, perhaps with some sort of temporal glow-highlight or visual-diff style emphasis on what's being changed, to draw those things apart.

That's all a bit cssdeck-meta though.

On this demo specifically, I'm curious why part of the behaviour was tied to the role="" attribute, and part was done with classes. Can anyone with more frontend experience than me (so, essentially everyone) suggest where you might choose one approach "foo[attr=val]" over ".foo .bar"?
Clever, although I believe it's unethical.

It starts like this. How far from the day companies do this with the images you take with your mobile, with the videos you stream, etc.? The world will turn into a DRM fest.
https://aboutmybrowser.com please
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We're not trying to replicate or replace a traditional four-year CS program. Over 500+ hours, working full-time, in pairs, and with constant access to instructors, students have rapidly built skill and experience with programming. Ultimately, that's what I think employers are looking for in junior devs.

We have also spent considerable time reviewing traditional CS topics like algorithms and data structures.

We're a couple weeks away from hiring day, but companies including Apple, airbnb, Lytro and Twilio have signed up. These companies are making the investment to send senior engineers to hiring day; they don't do this lightly.
The zboard is a different design in that you don't have a hand-held remote, you press on footpads to accelerate/brake.

I would have to try them both out to see which is a better solution to the control problem.

edit: another key difference is that this is 12 pounds vs the 30 to 37 pounds for the zboard. That difference is HUGE.
I've been building that project over and over since I was 14. My first try was a "Vision Gator" skateboard with a 35watt brushed dc motor and vacuum cleaner belts for drive.

It is astonishing (and more than a little awesome) that you can pack 2kw of motor power and so much range into so small a space now. Oh how I wish parts like this had been available in 1989.
I have my stats memorized. Accidents are at the very least in the top ten cause of death every year. Every year, around 100K people die in accidents, of which 40K were car accidents. However, that is dwarfed by 600K people dying of heart disease and 570K people dying of cancer every year.
can you clarify what you mean by:

> it's really the only decent tech firm in Phoenix to work at.

and then:

> Horrible, horrible, backward-ass culture.

what part of the company is good if not the culture?
Thanks for the music.

I am probably the only one put off by the northern hemisphere in what looks like Mercator, so won't moan about that ;-)

No thanks for the automatic play on page load.
I think I've actually seen these on DIY electric bike boards?

I would recommend a direct drive motor though, less parts to break, direct torque.
well it's helvetica on a mac.. should pay for a license so it works on all platforms.. just sayin.
Love this - especially Evernote
Is that new? I mean I have had it for free on my iOS for at least a couple of months.
If you were using Chrome, my extension MuteTab (http://www.mutetab.com/) could help. It shows which tabs are playing HTML5 audio/video or have other plug-ins such as Flash. Unfortunately, it just provides a list and cannot tell you for certain if a tab is playing sound or not. (It could in theory indicate if HTML5 video/audio, some Flash sites such as YouTube, and QuickTime were playing sound, but I haven't implemented that portion at this time.)
Works for me in Firefox 15.0.1 on Linux.