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While it would make me a nice person to congratulate you on your weight loss, as a fitness enthusiast I feel compelled to point out that short term fluctuations in weight - even if they are in the magnitude of 19lbs in 3 weeks - are meaningless. What matters is whether that weight loss is sustainable in the long run.

Becoming fit is actually similar to becoming rich. Both are about having good habits that govern one's lifestyle. People who try to "hack" their way into weight loss end up gaining back that weight relatively quickly. Similarly, people who "hack" their way into richness end up either poor, or in jail, or both.

Bottom line is that in order to undo the effects of eating badly for years, you need to eat well and exercise for years. There are no shortcuts.
I've adopted the policy for my own comments to delete (immediately) any comment that gets a downvote. I wonder how many other people do that.

Despite believing downvotes exist as a means of labeling content as not belonging here I hate when people delete their comments in response to any number of downvotes. Generally speaking, once you've added your comment it's become a part of the history of the discussion and I don't like said history being removed. Further, while I could see a certain nobility in people removing a comment because they see the community says it doesn't belong, most people doing so just don't want to harm their Imaginary Internet Point total and I have a strong distaste for people who put too much stock into that number.
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I want to work in Japan writing technical documentation. 
Where are some places to start looking for work? I'm interested in any companies you might know of that hire doc writers, or agencies that one could go through. English speaking is a preference, since I have not yet started learning Japanese.
why is "YC's Parse" and just not "Parse"?
Why did this get downvoted? Trump is one of the most tasteless pricks in contemporary culture.
All rape, by definition, is forcible. Voluntary rape is an oxymoron.

Some conservative pundits like mentioned "forcible rape" as a way to try to make many things that are rape legal (like raping ones wife ("she consented when we for married"), raping someone who has consumed alcohol ("she was obviously out for sex, so gave consent that way") etc.). Please don't suggest this is a moral way to talk.
Because it's a thin, light 15" Mac laptop with a sharp high-resolution display?

I lugged a 2011 MBP 15 laptop around a lot. Now I lug a 2012 rMBP around, big difference in weight. Plus, I can jack the screen resolution up to 1900x1200 or whatever when I need it.
It's written for Forbes Woman so the title is demographically targeted. That's all ;)
Thanks for the kind words - I almost always try to keep everything separate, and think through the failover scenarios. Power, network connectivity, etc.
In this case, though, we thought about it briefly early on, but it kept getting pushed down the priority list. As a community we talk a bunch about technical debt, but there's ops debt too that I made the mistake of de-prioritizing.

Email's an especially good point - I suspect email's a pretty huge SPOF for all of us. A major gapps outage would be pretty disastrous.
Sorry, that was an unintentional side-effect of switching away from requiring a credit card upfront.

We'll put the information somewhere else.

Until then, for everyone else: it's $5/month or $50/year.
I know there is a separate culinary definition of what a fruit is that I don't really understand. Like under some definitions a tomato is a vegetable. Maybe he is working off that but botanically a pepper is a fruit. His point would probably stood better if he used spinach as an example of a vitamin C rich green.

Either way, these fad diets always scare me. I wouldn't touch anything that draws simple, arbitrary, counter-intuitive lines on what foods you can and can't have. The body is good at knowing what it needs and what it doesn't. Support it with a little bit of knowledge and self-discipline and it will serve you well. I guess a well balanced diet is old fashioned and people just want to try and cheat the system somehow.
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My situation is unique so don't know if this will help you. My son is also under 2 years old. He has always been a very happy baby (never cries except for when he gets hurt which almost never happens). I guess this is a bit different than what most parents experience. My son sleeps a good 12 hours through the night and additionally naps for 2-3 hours during the day. This means he's only up for about 9 hours give or take in a day. This isn't always true but it's pretty standard. It helps that my wife is a stay at home mom. I pretty much spend mornings with him, work during his nap, a few more hours in the afternoon, then work evenings to night. I get adequate sleep hours and are able to function pretty normally on a good schedule. I am not sure how that will play out for you. As a note, I have my office in a separate room he is never allowed to come into
I'm interested in getting into longboarding. Would you be willing to share the name of the hand braking board you've used?
Even if this guy was legit and the product worked as advertised, I still think it is a terrible idea.

Having multiple devices is useful. If they need to shared data, do it wireslessly, or through the cloud.

Otherwise I have these empty husks lying around my house that are useless without my phone.

The motorola atrix "lapdock" is a similar product idea. It is 78% on sale on amazon. I hated it the moment I saw it.

http://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Dock-Motorola-ATRIX/dp/B004M...
This would be very interesting to lots of people. There are lots of half-baked sandbox solutions so seeing what you guys did you be interesting.
This definitely lifts off the cons I've had so far with Parse, adding logic to the backend instead of just a pure data storage. Awesome job to the Parse team
> With the advent of the assembly line, workers were only required to learn one specific, usually very simple, skill.

I think a lot of the benefits came from automation. An artisan working alone cannot afford the machine tools and jigs to accelerate his work. The assembly line is actually about the centralization of capital and economies of scale, not the deskilling of the workers. In fact, modern First World manufacturing suceeds by firing as many unskilled workers as possible and replacing them with engineers and skilled technicians.

I would say that Java shops value elegant code very highly—in the tools and frameworks and OSes. The front line Java coders are business software's version of sheet metal and rivets.
Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong. Slowing down vs. braking, I mean.

If I'm going 20mph, "braking" to me means coming to a stop in an equivalent distance as a car or bike going the same speed.

Are the brakes that you've used stable at that rate of deceleration?
A hacker friendly gardening solution.

http://makeprojects.com/Project/Garduino-Geek-Gardening/62/1...
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Are you suggesting that, because it takes skill to operate, it's a bad idea?

I commute on my longboard every day between the parking structure on campus and my building, which is about a mile away - takes me 10 minutes of kicking the board around and working up a sweat.

An electric longboard woud fit right into my current commute, except I'd arrive at work without my shirt soaked through.

For this type of commuting, a couple of days practice in a empty parking garage or lot gets you good enough to safely commute, and if the SF hills are intimidating, you can always walk down them.

As for braking, they indicate that the remote does have a brake slider, and by using regenerative braking, they can slow the board down (to some extent). You would still need to know how to brake the board, but the board can stop itself.

This would also be a super fun toy - I already take my longboard out to race down hills, with this I get to ride up before I fly down.

But, a rollerblade version? Can you explain how that doesn't have the same concerns you raised? Rollerblades are even more difficult to brake than skateboards, and you're committed on rollerblades, while on a skateboard you can jump off and carry the board whenever it's inappropriate or too difficult to ride it. There's also zero cost to hopping on a skateboard, while rollerblades involves sitting down and changing your shoes.

I doubt this product will fix all of the transportation woes of the US (which their marketing seems to point to), but it's great for current longboarders and people already interested in unconventional transportation options.
Websites specific to the niche you're targetting or well known sites in the native language of the target audience. Perhaps Twitter or more closed communities like Something Awful.
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"Context -- I'm a young programmer and don't trust my own code as a matter of course, and I'm working in a bootstrapped-to-the-hilt startup where any ounce of effort saved is gold."

Seeing this on a young developers resume will get you an interview immediately with me.

This sort of concern is a mature trait to exhibit. It's also risky to exhibit when around the unskilled (It's very subtle), which makes it an even more potent indicator.
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The fact that it is a tech company in Phoenix?
And we look forward to accepting your money!
I get this a lot with my since discontinued MBP 17". Placing my iPhone on the empty space beside the trackpad will black the laptop out. Never knew it was to do with magnets.
Completely agree! It's just a shame that only a handful of companies offer such a program. I'd gladly give my tuition money to programs like these.
Yes, it was a very bad idea.
Unfortunate? Psh. When I was a little kid I liked "Lacker" because it rhymes with "Hacker". Then I grew up and became a computer programmer. See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
I worry this is the step in between illegal downloads and making anonymity illegal. If they can flag you for downloading unpaid content, it won't be long before they flag you for circumstantial patterns leading to that behavior such as using TOR.
Yeah. I was expecting things like "use semicolons", "global variables are bad", "=== is often what you want, not ==". These are the things that many devs will need to learn. A bunch of design patterns was not what I expected.
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They havn't said where the router issue was. I'd be surprised if their public facing DNS servers are actually storing the data as well - more likely the actual records are in a SQL, LDAP or similar backend on their internal network - which will have a huge internal infrastructure, including many, many routers.
http://vooza.com/introduction.html
There's actually a bunch of companies already making these - definitely not an original idea or even an original implementation.

Back in 2007 we used to ride electric boards around UC Berkeley, and they only cost $600.
Probably not a bad idea, although you might be even more successful if your attachment unit just spot welded itself to the ship. (of course that leaves traces but it requires no energy to keep attached).

The sea gliders are interesting (see Liquid Robotics) but they have limited cargo capacity. 15,000 lbs would be like 5,000 sea gliders, that is a big foot print.

The game will of course really change when the human operators step out. Most drug cartels seem unwilling to risk their load to robotic pilots but at some point that will change. In a submersible you could gain a tremendous advantage if you didn't care how 'deep' you went relative to the Coast Guard.

Once we get electro-stimulus drugs this will become moot of course but in the mean time it makes for some interesting engineering challenges.
I signed up to be notified when Stripe was available in Canada and received a welcome email maybe a week later.

https://stripe.com/global
The United States ranks #56 (higher numbers are better), ahead of basically the entire EU, on colorectal cancer mortality.

The United States ranks #41, ahead of much of the EU but behind Germany and France, on ovarian cancer.

The United States ranks #61, again ahead of almost all of the EU, on breast cancer.

Here I might point out that to come in much higher than the US in these numbers, ie, to be Gabon, you have to have a lot of people dying before they can get cancer. Moving on:

The United States ranks #27 on leukemia, besting France, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.

The United States is #170 on stomach cancer, ahead of all of Europe.

The United States does worse than Europe on lung cancer, and is right in the middle of the pack on skin cancer. Other than that, the narrative is pretty clear.
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Your posting just made me realize how smart the segway concept is. The brake force automatically matches how much you lean back.
I tried the vnc over the raspberry from the kindle and it wasn't really satisfying for what it worth. The e-ink display size and refresh rate is ok for shell action, but not so interesting for the X window...
I picked Finland out of a hat, but the numbers I used were for Germany.
Hi Bryan: good job experimenting to improve your own health and happiness, and thanks for posting so others can learn from your experiments. My wife and I have started a blog about this sort of diet, which is sometimeas called a "ketogenic diet": http://www.ketotic.org/

Our first blog entry was about the tiredness and headaches you've experienced and some suggestions for how to get past them: http://www.ketotic.org/2012/05/keto-adaptation-what-it-is-an...

For what it is worth, I think a keto diet is probably a very healthy way to live long-term. I wouldn't want you to just take my word for it, though. Eventually I hope to write enough on our blog to explain why I think that.

Regards,

Zooko
Didn't Braintree just expand to a lot of countries: https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/international
C++ primitives are the practically the same as C++ objects. Just look at C++, there are a million design decisions to make things that way. You can feel the sense of apology in C++ for every place where they're distinguishable. (The only places I can think of right now are the initialization of constants in header files and usability as template parameters.)
I thought OPEC was the oil producers club, and that the US isn't a member. Did I miss something?
How come this page is completely screwed up without JavaScript (tiny font, no paragraph breaks)?
Busy for the sake of busy? Or, are we just not saying “No” enough?
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It sounds like it could be dangerous enough to lead to lawsuits. I think there's a reason why electric scooters are much more common than electric skateboards: people can stay on them.
How weird is it that something as basic as email still needs mad hacker skills to set up and dedication to maintain?

Why can't I plug a Linux box to the Internet, have a wizard auto-configure most of it (including DNS stuff, etc), let me toggle some "auto-update" thingy and be on my merry way?
Hey tborg...

I've been on the private beta and working on that article for over a month in conjunction with Addy and Paul from the Yeoman team. I contributed numerous tickets and issues to the repository and assisted in testing countless times. Just so you don't think I whipped it out really quickly.
Did you actually read the article? It is more in depth then the QS on the yeoman.io site. At the end of the day, introductions are going to cover similar material, but I think this version is a bit friendlier than what is up on the main site now.
It seems like Parse will be in a never-ending battle to continue adding functionality on the back-end to approach what one gets when they simply run their own back-end. Surely there is a happier medium?
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In JS, a singleton is a reference to a module. It is used to ensure you invoke the module only once.

Global variables are irrelevant since your global namespace most likely resembles a tree structure.

edit: you may be right about the command pattern, I've never used something like that. It may just be the example is half-assed though.
someone has hidden it, no idea why though.
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Hi! Thanks for the kind words! They mean a lot to us.

1. We help you arrange housing by connecting you to other App Academy students moving to SF, as well as by connecting you to local hacker/startup houses, but ultimately accommodation is the responsibility of the student.

2. We have accepted international students in the past, and will continue to do so. However, we unfortunately don't have the resources to help you with visas.

3. The only difference for entrepreneurs is the payment plan.
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I downvote something when it's really stupid or not useful. I very rarely downvote, and I really don't care if I get downvoted.

I'm not here to earn karama, I'm here to discuss hacker stuff. If I have 10 karma or 100,000 I'm going to have just as much fun.
> "It won't fail because of me."

Leave now. It will be a black mark on your resume if you stay.

Seriously.
`The last mile of transportation is this huge problem that hasn't been solved yet`

Really? I think we've had it solved for at least several million years. Anyone that isn't capable of walking or skating a mile is certainly not going to be served by this. It looks like a cool toy, but I don't think it's going to revolutionize transportation.
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I recommended this class to a friend of mine, she applied, but the day of acceptance came and went and she never even got a rejection email. I emailed Ned and never heard back either. It seems that all they managed to do was add her to their mailing list. So I cannot recommend them anymore for their way of dealing with applicants. Simply not responding is rude and unprofessional.
Is it just me but I am getting quite annoyed by wonderfuly designed pages which really get you pumped to use the product but then when you click to Sign up you get this Waiting list option/ queue/ MVP style dissapointment? I would appreciate if posters made it upfront in the HN submission that signup is disabled.
This is one of those things that's like Google in the sense that it seems to be just an improvement on existing technology, but in fact is enough of an improvement that it's qualitatively different.

In all the startups we've funded I don't think I've seen one whose product was so enthusiastically embraced by YC partners. Three bought one of these boards. One says it "changed his life."
Your statistics are simply wrong. Which is why they numbers don't seem to add up correctly. US has a mixed heath-care system with some people reviving enough treatment that it actually lowers there chances of survival and others getting little to no treatment.

PS: It's hard to get good data. Japan has twice the US suicide rate and a longer life expectancy. However, some of their numbers are off due to people not reporting deaths so they can continue to collect pension benefits.
Is a computer science degree worth the paper it's printed on?
Your experience level sounds a lot like mine before I was accepted into the App Academy (I'm a student here right now). I'm not a software engineer either but I had been teaching myself to code in Python (with a Django framework) for about a year to a year and a half before applying.

It took me about 1 month here to cover the same amount of material that took me 1 year to cover on my own. Being self taught is great, but learning in a classroom full of equally motivated students guided by an incredible teacher is even better. If I get stuck, I can turn to any of my fellow students and they'll help me out. Likewise, I often learn the most by helping others get unstuck. And, of course, our instructor is always there to help us think about problems in new ways. He gives lectures daily and then for the rest of the day he helps us out in a more personal, one on one basis. His great skill is his ability to break down complicated ideas and present them in an easy to understand manner.

While I could learn all of this on my own, it's hard to overvalue the effect of learning in an accelerated environment like the App Academy provides.

I've actually been blogging daily about my experience at the App Academy. You can check that out here: http://krisallenfields.tumblr.com/
Yes. It works for anyone who has their phone number tied to their Facebook account (even if not publicly displayed) which turns out to be a lot of people. IME Facebook has all sorts of ways to convince you to give them your phone number.
Up until the MVP is developed there's really not much else to do.

As a guy that straddles the line between "tech guy" and "business guy" (I've done both of them), my opinion is that there is a lot that can be done before the MVP is developed. In fact, if the business guy isn't out validating what the tech guy is building from day one, it is almost guaranteed the MVP is going to be wrong and/or it is going to land with a resounding splat.

As the business guy, my job was getting out, meeting with potential customers, understanding what they would buy, what they wouldn't buy, and why. My job was getting early interest in our idea that could translate into (eventual) early use of the product. My job was making sure we understood who else was in the space and how we were going to differentiate our product.

In short, if you practice "throw some code out and start selling", you are going to have a really hard time getting traction.
curious, what determines if the course does not work? Is there a time period that students have to get jobs post-course that determines if the student does not have to pay?
No, it would allow them 131 hours of downtime in 15 years:
( 365 days * 24 hours/day * 15 yrs ) * .001 = 131.4
I 100% will take your word for it on the quality of some elements of MIT's humanities faculty (not being ironic).

But few of the MIT grads I've known (wonderful people, all) appear to have benefited that much from this opportunity. They're nerds through and through.

Maybe the technical course load precludes exploring non-technical subjects. Or maybe the experience of 4 years almost exclusively around young scientists and engineers tends to alter one's perspective. Maybe it's that I've only been around conventional technical MIT grads (EECS, Physics, not Philosophy).
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Erm. Wow.

This is CSS demo that was purely meant to be a learning/teaching exercise. There is absolutely no competition.

But how about rather than complaining that someone else 'took your name', though yours is obviously equally inspired from LinoType you work on building a better business?

I know I personally bought your cards a few years ago and still have yet to receive them despite emails/Tweets and the like.

You're doing yourself absolutely no favours with behaviour like this. This sort of behaviour only works with giant companies, and still then it often creates bad blood for the consumer.
What a great idea, let's put all our tech team members all on one page so that recruiters can have one-stop shopping for people to spam.

I am half joking, but also half serious. I minimize my profile online to cut down on recruiting spam. Coderwall is a step in the wrong direction in this regard.