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For the wooden spoon across the pot, here's the original reddit thread with discussion:
http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/od9at/lpt_put_w...

The spoon breaks the surface tension of the bubbles, causing them to pop when they start to boil over.

Other people seem to be saying a metal spoon should work just as well (with the added bonus that it won't warp, unlike a wooden spoon), with the only downside that it will be hot to take off. I'm doubtful that a metal spoon would work as well though, because metal does not absorb moisture like wood and also has a smoother surface (i.e. less surface area on a microscopic level), and so it probably wouldn't be as effective in making the bubbles attach and pop. Of course the only way to know for sure would be to do an experiment.
Could you explain it then? I'm really confused!
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Jump on a framework (Django). There's plenty of videos out there, but really the documentation / demo app is pretty nice.

Warning: learning a framework is a lot like learning a language. You have to just memorize a lot of syntax and/or "names" of predefined functions. Where to put stuff, how to do x or y.

It's fun, though. Good luck!
Hmm. Meanwhile, on amazon.co.uk I am offered £6.99 including VAT and told "This price was set by the publisher".

This is roughly the same as the $9.48 Amazon-set price that Tim sees, plus 20% VAT.
No. Removing cork only removes the outer layer of the tree and doesn't harm the tree. 9 years the cork is removed (and it must be removed or the cork goes bad) and a new one grows uup.
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Fair enough. I must just be grumpy this morning.
Assume that unhealthy food is $1/serving and 500kcal/serving.

Assume that healthy food is $2/serving and 400kcal/serving.

Assume that you need 2000kcal/day.

A healthy diet costs $10 for "just enough calories". An unhealthy diet costs only $4 for the same calories. If you ate 3000kcal/day, it would still only cost $6. So yes, it can be cheaper to eat a lot of unhealthy food than to eat only a small amount of healthy food if the price differential is large enough. It's also easier to overdose on unhealthy food because the calories are so concentrated. A second bowl of ramen can contain 400 calories. A second head of lettuce might only have 40 calories.

Of course, you might face a million-dollar loss 20 years later because of heart disease, but would it really enter the calculations of a single mom with a weekly grocery budget of $35?
Very melancholy morning realizing that the defining English language publication of my childhood and early 20s is ceasing dead-tree production.

Makes me wish I had saved all the in-flight Newsweek's through the years.
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We've had similar issues in the past like when we've used RDS for some of our projects (In particular issues with disk IO). AWS a great place to start, but chances are the "one size fits all" solution is going to get difficult once you're doing more advanced tasks.
They've been going after the religious right for a long time now. I used to be a subscriber, and they started skewing more and more overtly religious with each issue. Eventually I got tired of the science-bashing, the Bible study, the Tea Party tubthumping, etc.

I wish them the best of luck in their online venture, though I do share your skepticism that their target audience is digitally connected.

A big issue with their target demo is that it's really hurting, financially. Those folks might be cutting back on subscriptions, or even ad hoc purchases, in general. That doesn't look to change anytime soon. That being the case, maybe Newsweek feels it can earn better ROI by selling digital ads against free eyeballs than it can by trying to sell print copies to people unable or unwilling to pay for them. If this is the case, the strategy might be somewhat reasonable.
That's correct, I mentioned it at the beginning of the post
I've read and have been told this issue is due to issues with video drivers and performance. I never bothered to try and fix it since playing around with video drivers is painful.
Most real world problems exist on gradients. Reddit errs on the side of free speech. That's a tough place to be, everything exists on a continuum and being the person to draw stark lines is hard.

I think people are being a bit rough on the reddit crew, the decisions they have to make aren't clear or obvious.

FWIW, I'm fully on the side of banning reddits like creepshots and jailbait, but I understand that making those decisions takes time and deliberation, and that sometimes you make the wrong call.
Sometimes you want the wine to be exposed to oxygen as it does; it changes the flavor of the wine, sometimes for the better. This is similar to decanting a wine; exposure to air changes it chemically.

Wine is often a social experience - so there is something too be said for the "fun" and flash of popping open a cork.
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Answer:

1) Money
2) Vulnerable

Doh!
ASCII is a 7-bit code. Latin 1 uses 8 bits and therefore cannot be ASCII. It's a superset of ASCII, though.
Exactly, as long ad it's legal, everything should go. Imagine HN banning posts about some topic because it rubs the majority's sensibility the wrong way. Without freedom of speech the Internet as we know it wouldn't exist. That's far more important than sheltering someone from what they may find offensive or objectionable.
It is quite true that the human body is subject to the limits described by thermodynamics (this should not be controversial).

That doesn't make it any easier to determine what calories out happens to be for a given person on a given day. It does mean that a reasonable estimate can be made and evaluated against a well tracked dietary intake (but well tracked there has its own set of problems).
Why is it axiomatic that the protection of freedom of speech is always a good thing? It is in the American constitution, sure, but how many others have it? Is it really a good idea? Do we not also have to protect weaker members of our society from charlatans and manipulators?

Just saying.
The article was censored because it broke the cardinal rule of Reddit: You don't post people's personal information. That restriction was also immediately rescinded, a poor choice if you ask me.
Thank you. Really wishing there were more women actively commenting in these threads as they're the ones actually affected by these types of behaviors. It's easy to say "Things are fine, leave it alone" when you're not the ones being targeted and victimized.
>This is supposed to be a list of "facts" but in reality, the "sugar is addictive" hypothesis is still, well, a hypothesis.

I took addictive in the sense that we are "addicted to oil."
I tried Trello before and I think its pretty lightweight and useful.

Great idea about an upcoming post :)
I made one in pylons. It kept blowing up in the memory. It was a bitch to get up and running and then debug. And then, well, I wasn't sure what I couldn't do with highcharts and python libraries instead.
Is obesity/overweightness worse in the poorer demographics than it is in the middle and upper classes? (rather than just more counter-intuitive)
Cork allows some contact of the wine with oxygen, allowing it to evolve over the years.

For wines that lose their primary characteristic when aged (think fruity, fresh wines, normally whites) a screw top is the way to go, for something you want to keep in your cellar and let it evolve a bit till is just right, I'll take cork every day.

As a sidenote, cork was one of the main components of the Space Shuttle's insulation (http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/03/science/shuttle-s-cork-fro...) [and yes, I'm from Portugal, you can all blame us for the Columbia...]
> I've never used reddit so I have no idea what's there

Everything. If you try visiting reddit.com/r/<pickaword> there's a chance it exists.
It'd definitely be a shame to see The Guardian go, I stopped reading around the point where they started cutting big chunks of content out to get the costs down, but I understand why they did it. Still use them as my primary news source, although the quality has dropped some what in the past 6 months.
I don't understand the lane-changing example.

When something bad happens, we can apportion responsibility for it. Sometimes one party is fully responsible for the bad thing. But other times, some other party is partly responsible, which must mean that the first party is not fully responsible.

If you're going to argue that party B is 20% responsible for a bad thing, then party A is at most 80% responsible. Party A can still be 100% wrong (they shouldn't have changed lane) but they're not 100% responsible.
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It seems to me that dissenters in the internet age will ultimately need a new, expanded "freedom of speech".

I hold quite a few controversial opinions, and in the last year or two I increasingly feel unsafe when expressing them on the internet. I do not fear governments, but I do fear witch hunts, and I fear automatic indexing/flagging of my speech by corporations. The recent doxxing scandals are not helping my peace of mind, and neither do the firings of people who get "exposed".

The original version of "freedom of speech" only said that the government should not persecute people for speech. That was certainly a great idea, when the government was the only entity that could realistically persecute you. Today we additionally have huge corporations and online hiveminds that can and will punish you for what you say. Other "human rights" that have sprung up in the last century acknowledge the new reality, e.g. people get protected from discrimination by private companies, not just by the government. Freedom of speech is lagging behind: a company cannot fire you for being black, but can fire you for your online conversations outside of work.
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I don't understand. Kody Maxson & Amanda Todd are known individuals too. I just listened to a half hour episode on the CBC's The Current that was very well done and brought up a lot of good discussion points about the nature of hactivism, vigilante justice, doxxing, the role of the police, the role of advertisers, Facebook & Youtube in censoring hateful comments, et cetera.
That's a good question. I know that the Font Awesome project has better hinting for smaller sizes as a stated goal. Currently hinting does seem to improve their icons at 12pt but below that, it doesn't give much help.

Subpixel rendering is, of course, very helpful. It's really preposterous though that we have to resort to abusing fonts to get subpixel when implementing it for arbitrary vector rendering is so straightforward.

The other big problem with using fonts for hinting support is that people have differing opinions on the value of hinting for fonts, but everyone would probably agree on the value of hinting for icons. If you disable hinting because it hurts your eyes (or because you use OS X and don't have a choice), then you're going to miss out on icon hinting as well.

Seems to me what we really need is a client side solution for rendering arbitrary SVG with either manual hinting or icon-optimized autohinting (which might be too general of a concept to be doable).
Per the video showing the exploit: I thought since it was being served through an iFrame, it won't allow you to effect the inner elements with CSS/JS? If that doesn't matter, is there a way that Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. can do anything on their end so the front end user (or exploiter, in this case) can't modify the button with CSS to do these types of things?
> I think we clearly see Apple leading the way (so far) with its designs & innovations.

I don't know if you're joking, but Apple hasn't "innovated" in the mobile space for 2 or 3 years now. They've just been copying Android, with things like multitasking, notifications, and turn-by-turn directions. As of late, their new "features", such as Siri and Maps, have been half-baked. Basic options, such as changing the default app for a function or adding widgets to the home screen, still aren't available.

On the hardware side, people applaud their industrial design when they see it in an Apple store, but in actual use, the glass backing on the iPhone 4 and 4S broke frequently, and now the aluminum on the 5 gets chipped/scratched very easily. As for form factor, they're now copying Amazon and Google by releasing an iPad Mini.
I had heard that there was a combination of a blight on cork trees and a huge increase in demand of wine corks but I don't have any good sources. Anybody else know more?
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I was wondering why I'd seen so many more Fab ad's on Facebook recently, two out of the 300 people in my friends network have liked the page, so it ends up pretty much dead centre of my news feed a few times a day.
Doxxing is a word with a precise definition that allows writers to be more concise. It is useful and it describes what happened.
QFT.

I mean why even waste the time writing an article about it? The answer is obvious.
I thought I heard about there being a cork shortage as well, after googling around it seems that this may be an urban myth. Even Cork conservation sites say there is no cork shortage [1]. Looks like twist-offs/plastic corks etc. may just be around because they are cheaper than natural corks at current market prices. Would be interesting to see how the production and demand for plastic vs. natural corks swings with the price of petroleum or other chemicals necessary for plastics production.

[1] http://www.corkforest.org/faq_cork_facts.php
I guess a weekly edition would make sense, keeping up-to-date with a daily newspaper can be practically a chore.
as long ad it's legal, everything should go

That is not how Reddit works. There is some entirely legal things you could print in the USA that are against Reddit's rules. They do not allow publishing of personal information. They have already said "This is legal speech, but we don't want it here"
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The Guardian is owned by a trust, intended to keep it going in perpetuity. That should shield it from commercial pressure. However, the trust only has finite resources, so it can't run at a loss forever.

I agree it is a shame.
Out of curiosity, what were the arguments that convinced you that simple calories in/out ins't valid?

I'm personally a tiny bit incredulous anytime someone mentions that they've tried cutting calories, but with no results. I've always wondered how they continue to get an energy surplus in the absence of input. These seemingly perpetual motion machines would be of great interest to science, I'm sure ;)
No.

Reddit is about reflecting their audience's taste or lack thereof, not condoning nor condemning it. Reddit works precisely because they maintain some sort of "net neutrality" ethics, refusing any editorial meddling. Banning a distasteful content provider would break that neutrality; but hiring him would break it just as much.

If there's a will, among Reddit's users, to help Brutsch find a new job, he'll get it. And I'd bet it will happen, if only because some companies would value the PR outcome of such a move. But that's for the community to decide, not for the infrastructure guys at Reddit inc.

Reddit has neither a high nor a low moral ground on this; Reddit is and should remain amoral. That's where the Nike comparison completely falls apart.
[Weasel words]. Which "people"?
In the Amanda Todd story, the "bad guys" are Youtube, Facebook & memegenerator. I guess the big difference is that the first two have gone through these sorts of things before -- there are some new aspects of this for Reddit.

I think it would be interesting to compare the rules that Facebook uses to take down Pages vs the ones that are used to take down subreddits, but I don't think the Facebook rules are public. Facebook definitely took down some of the "good riddance Amanda Todd" pages, but I understand they are leaving some up that many find offensive.
Server also can be hit-and-miss if you've got any irregularities in your setup...I had a rough upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 a few weeks ago (died halfway through, system left in half-upgraded broken-but-bootable state). In the end it turned out that it was due to a no-longer-maintained package (gitosis) which I'd replaced some time ago (with gitolite) but I hadn't actually removed the gitosis package and there was some hangup about deleting the gitosis user.

In fairness, after manually resolving the problem with removing gitosis and cleaning up a couple of other half-upgraded things, the upgrade process did recover and finish successfully, but it certainly wasn't painless.
It depends.

First of all, flags are really bad for languages since there's an n:m relationship. Which flag would you use for "English"? The USA flag? The Flag of England? The Union Jack?

If you offer only "English" then depending on if you write "center" or "centre" you may offend either USA or British people. Same for "German", where a Swiss may be offended to see "Straße" while a German could be offended by seeing "Strasse". Of course most people won't care about that and I bet most Brits are used to see "color" without a 'u' on the internet, but from experience I can say that there are people who care about or even get offended by that.

But even if using textual representation for languages like "English" is not perfect, offering every language-country possibility (en-US, en-GB, en-??...) isn't a viable route in most cases since there are way to many combinations.

Just think of yourself (assuming you're from the USA): would you rather see the word "English" in a language selector or the Flag of England?

So what should you do? I'd suggest going with textual representations like "English" or the ISO 639-x shortcodes ("en" or "eng"). Being German that's easy to say for me, and I know a handful of people who'd like me to distinguish between de_DE, de_AT and de_CH.

So as I've said: it depends :-)
It's not a great substitute - it costs ~$50-100 per month and an extra 45-90 minutes per day...instead of saving gas money. I too live in a cold wet land, but can't afford the cost in time or money.
Internet social revolution still in progress;
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Try to write a python script and run it natively on the iPad, and we'll talk again if we live in the same universe.
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That's the general direction I am heading, although I haven't picked a front-end yet. I'm thinking of returning the more complex results as JSON, and using ExtJS for grids, charts, etc.
This seems like outrage looking for a victim.

Nike is a huge multinational business. I find the comparison to reddit silly.

Reddit, in its entire history, has erred on the side of free speech. That is noble, rational, and respectable.

Reddit preserved /r/jailbait for as long as possible because it was not illegal. Reddit is trying to be a platform and a vehicle for discussion, not a content moderator, and in that regard it's doing a good job.
The protection of freedom of speech is fundamental, and one that Reddit is standing by.

Ah, but the crux is how you define "freedom of speech". After all, in the USA (AFAIK), it's legal to publish the personal details of a reddit user (which is exactly what gawker did here). And yet that is not allowed on reddit. Reddit have already decided "some things are legal, but we won't allow them here".

So you have to look at what sort of speech they protect (sexual photos of children, sexual photos of people without their consent) and what sort of speech they don't protect ("outing" people who take photos of people without their consent).
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Kudos to Kunvay for being mentioned.
Yes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207163807.ht...

Though the relationship appears to have weakened in recent years:

http://frac.org/initiatives/hunger-and-obesity/are-low-incom...

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050502/rich-poor-gap-narrow...
Don't forget cork handbags and shoe soles, I've seen them in quite a few fashion collections this year : (http://www.corkdesign.com.pt/corkdesign.php)
Scrum programming burndown charts corroborate this S-curve effect.
>Eating poorly impairs your ability to think to the extent that you cannot be held responsible for your poor choice of diet

You appear to have fallen into the trap of believing that the concepts of compassion and personal responsibility are at odds with each other. American politics have been poisoned by the same idea, and it's a real shame.
>I was a believer of the thermodynamics-like theory that deltaWeight = weight + (calories in - calories out)*stuff; many a post on HN convinced me that it's not true

Like doing big-O notation, there are constants that get factored out. Some people have a higher or lower base metabolism, or respond differently to exercise.

You're not proposing, though, that it's possible to maintain or gain weight at a calorie deficit? That would be magical.
Why is that so hard for people?

Because look at the result. Sexual photos of underage girls. Taking photos of up women's skirts without their permission or knowledge. Something is wrong here.
> The usage of that freedom of speech is a personal responsibility. Reddit nor any other organization can be held responsible for the consequences of using that freedom of speech in ways that others may find objectionable or questionable.

The issue here is not that others are finding freedom of speech objectionable. Rather, Reddit as a privately run website has created a system in which people committing (legal) violations of people's privacy and safety can find an outlet to encourage and promote those behaviors and actions. Creating a space for people who are acting unethically while profiting from user traffic and advertising is hugely unethical and Reddit staff should rightly be called out on it.

Reddit as a whole promotes the viewpoints of the most privileged, which is why spaces like creepshots and jailbait found a home on Reddit in the first place. The flaws and pain that Reddit causes should be identified and proclaimed loudly such that other people can see just what Reddit is (hint: it's not a happy land of free speech and community).
"Overweight people are now a global problem"

My first thought was they are exerting too much pressure on the surface of the world and endangering the integrity of the crust... need to get out more...
If quotas are monthly not daily,some gymnastics is required.
couldn't help being reminded of old SNL skit about 'cork soaking' with janet jackson.
After years of failed diets and gym memberships, I also, became unconvinced that calories-activity=weight.

If it's not true, then not eating shouldn't kill us, and anorexia isn't an illness. Have you tried to stop eating? When I tried to wean myself off food, I lost 12 lbs. I'm completely serious -- I went for a week without solid food, taking in only 32oz of soda and 24oz of beer per day (while not working).
Back when I waited tables, whenever a customer would doubt the quality of wine because it's a twist-off, we were supposed to tell them that it's a "green thing", and a lot of good wineries are getting away from the cork for environmental reasons. Well, looks like it's just cutting costs with some clever marketing.
ConstructiveHumour=✓

Wait, true...true
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That was pretty distasteful considering the bailout by Microsoft in 1997

It wasn't a "bailout" it was a legal settlement.
Cork also has the problem that it can occasionally spoil the wine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_taint) My understanding is that twist-off caps are strictly better for wine, but the inertia of tradition has kept most wines sealed with cork. (It doesn't help that cheaper wines were the first to switch and so twist-off caps became associated with cheap wine.)