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There's room for compromise between "adopt extreme diet" and "eat unhealthily". Paleo is one of the many philosophies I studied while I was developing my own eating behaviors, but there are plenty of foods I enjoy too much to fully stick to a plan that cuts happy things out of my life.

The problem this solves, in my mind, is less "unhealthy food" and more "tiny, unhealthy food", and that's interesting to me. Food that packs a lot of calories into a small space can be hugely detrimental to a good diet plan, because you don't realize how much you're eating. Embiggening the food to make you think you're eating larger quantities is a completely silly but still interesting idea.

Incidentally, anybody who finds this visualization cool and is also worrying about their own diet: you might find Picture Perfect Weight Loss worth a look. By comparing the calorie counts of similar foods, it does a great job highlighting which foods are shockingly worse for you than still-tasty, slightly-healthier counterparts. I own a copy and occasionally briefly skim through it, and simply having those visuals has helped train me into avoiding certain nasty cravings. Book preview at: http://www.amazon.com/Shapiros-Picture-Perfect-Weight-Loss/d...
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Check out my benchmarking tests with Drupal and NGINX vs Apache

Plus with Varnish thrown in for fun.
>To a TSA agent who probably has only a high-school education, a power trip, and was raised in a culture where movie supervillains use bombs that look just like that

Well there's your problem right there. I'm not sure how any argument based on that premise can be a justification for how the TSA agents did anything approaching the right thing in this situation.
Thus far we have done precisely zilch about global warming. Nothing, nada, not a thing. Every significant target has been missed, every opportunity for increased use of fossil fuels has been taken, nuclear power is now practically-speaking off the table, and now that the Arctic ice cap is retreating, we're taking the opportunity to drill for more oil under it!

We have evolved under natural selection pressures to maximise our exploitation of the world around us - the winning apes were those that could make bigger & sharper tools, bigger fires, bigger farms. The idea that mankind has somehow veered away from the 'natural' path, that he is a 'disease' (the Matrix's Agent Smith), could not be further from the truth. Every organism competing in Earth's biosphere is trying to maximise their resource usage, maximise their mastery over the environment.

Our problem is that we have succeeded! We have grown to dominate the entire planet, and (Elon Musk notwithstanding) that's a hard limit. So we have what Iain Banks calls an 'outside context problem'. The strategies our genes have evolved over eons are now insufficient: there is no more competition between Man and anyone else. Even the competition of one human tribe against another is lessening, now that the big tribes have nuclear weapons.

Solving this problem will require post-Darwinian strategies. Getting to the point where that is a realistic prospect will be highly non-trivial.
Not in the near future.
Duckduckgo would make more sense in my opinion.
If I look under your doormat, and there is a key, and I use it to open your front door...
>So if you're a CS major and you want to start a startup, instead of taking a class on entrepreneurship you're better off taking a class on, say, genetics. Or better still, go work for a biotech company. CS majors normally get summer jobs at computer hardware or software companies. But if you want to find startup ideas, you might do better to get a summer job in some unrelated field.

THIS. The field of CS has so many people in it, it's difficult to find an idea that somebody hasn't already implemented in 4+ languages.

If you branch out into other fields, you become infinitely more valuable to said fields, plus the problems in other, not-as-programming-saavy fields become readily apparent.

I know it's been repeated elsewhere, but as a chemical engineer I feel obligated to spread the word.
According to Gruber, they actually aren't technically competent enough to build an online store that doesn't require taking it down: http://twitter.com/gruber/status/264135810566209537
Surely you are just benchmarking Varnish and Drupal is irrelevant in the equation? The other results are more useful. Interesting to see how little it takes to kill Apache for a stock Drupal install.
I am living in a pretty cold place and away from the shore so I don't see why I should be scared.
Wasn't Autonomy a public company when HP acquired it ?
Was it not the responsibility of HP board and management and their investment bankers to do due diligence before they made such a big acquisition ?

Could it be that HP management , having lost the position of largest PC maker to Lenovo, is looking to throw our attention away from their incompetence.
Forking's always fun. When I interned at Aviary the forked content was sometimes the most interesting.

A word of warning, gleaned from Aviary's eventual failure in that market: forking has a tendency to reduce somebody's feed to a bunch of images that look almost exactly the same. The difference being, lots of the forks will be shoddier and lower-quality than the original. It can make a feed far less engaging in far less time. You can fix that by attaching all forked projects together in a feed, but then you're back to square one: not enough original content hitting a user's feed.
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99% of spammers can be stopped simply by IP and email bans.

For which I find this one of the best providers of up to date lists... oh, and they have an API I use at registration time: http://www.stopforumspam.com/

The last 1%, I let my other users flag, and then I ban them and add their data to the site above.

This isn't a big problem anymore, it just sounds like the author hasn't integrated his forum with the site above.
If they hadn't disclosed that information, then I would see it as a problem.
The indictment filed against Weev by the DOJ in 2011:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/113664772/46-Indictment
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Who's biased? The original doc was newsworthy and so is this. I'm sorry if that creates a problem for your loyalties.

"The bias of the media is towards sensationalism and laziness"
Why should I, as an innocent party to a companies security failings have my personal details revealed. This is exactly why we have laws protecting identity theft and fraud.

Naming and shaming the company and the extent of their security failing is enough. But only after they have patched the hole.
I should clarify: I meant the type of trading Yuri describes, where you're trying to make money by identifying stocks that are mispriced.
...externalize opinions about movies in context...

I'm not even sure what that means. Target your pitch to an 8th grade reading level. Yours sounds like the abstract for a research paper. And these days, your core value proposition should be able to be expressed in a tweet.
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In order to double the profits you need to either double the sales or eliminate all costs.

Or do a mix of both. Doubling sales multiple times is more likely than making profits on your infrastructure... Amazon AWS is probably the exception here.
"Why should I, as an innocent party to a companies security failings have my personal details revealed."

Because life is pain?

But of course you can always sue the company that leaked your data and then mistreated people who warned them. Hell, you should. Probably with a class action suit.
In my opinion it's Square, not Twitter that makes sense for Apple the most.

Payments has the potential to be a multi billion dollar business for them if executed correctly.
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I love the idea! This makes a lot more sense than writing Formatters and repeating code everywhere. I'll play with this later today. Thanks!
In my case
1. Source of ideas: How to I make my everyday life simpler?
2. Filter criteria: Will I pay for this, if so how much?
You don't live in a world governed by machines and pure logic. You live in a world governed by human beings and their nature.

You have the capacity to recognize where you should be and where you shouldn't be. What you should be seeing and what you shouldn't be seeing.

Right from wrong.

> A web server is more of a business in this metaphor. If the door is open and the lights are on, it's implied you can come in and look around.

No.

If you're inside a business and you see a door open and it is evident by the design of the building that it is their storage space ... you do not have the right to waltz on in. You damn well know through your experience in hundreds of other stores that this area is used by employees and for employees only. You do not belong there.

Are you telling me he read those emails by accident? Just stumbled on them? Or did he know exactly what he was doing?

Enough of this white hat bullshit. I do not have the right to self-deputize myself and become a vigilante on the Internet. If these clowns don't know how to secure their own damn servers, let them pay the price that will be exacted by less scrupulous individuals. That's how the free market works. Stupidity is severely punished. They will very quickly learn how to properly set permissions on their server.
Why my weblink is deleted from here.
Why the link is deleted. If it is a new website. people should know about it right?
I don't see what's so bad about this? Temperatures will rise, sea levels will rise, what's the big deal?

Certain parts of the world that are low-lying or subject to extremely high temperatures will become uninhabitable. Too bad for those who thought it would be a good idea to settle there, they'll have to migrate.

Once all the ice has melted, sea levels will plateau. By the 22nd Century (notwithstanding a global nuclear war between now and then) we will have mastered nuclear fusion and will no longer be dependent on fossil fuels.

So what's the big deal?
If we're talking about most Android devices out there I have to agree completely. Samsung's skin is especially hideous.

The Nexus version of Android is what it should be. It looks great. It's clean. It's functional. It's even better than iOS is.
Rather if you leave a (possibly classified) document under your doormat, am I a criminal if I find them and read them?
To trigger some activism against these annoying pdf hijacking sites I just pinned down a FREEDOM-FOR-PDFs-TEMPLATE-TEXT side-project :) - you might use this as a starting point for your own emails, certainly this can be extended:

http://pastebin.com/GhKkAnVP
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Here's a reason. I, like most humans, live near the coast. When my home is submerged I'm going to come and live in your neighborhood. And when I run out of food, I'm going to go to your house and steal yours.
Do you happen to have a source for this? I've always heard (via offhand comments, admittedly) that the deal was done and Google wasn't surprised.
This has given me a little shot of confidence. I've just finished my first mini-site with potential revenue stream. From the few places I've marketed it thus far, not many have really "got" what problem I'm trying to solve. But it's a problem I genuinely have and am thrilled to have a solution to it. I just need to find the others who'd like to drink from the well.

(Well idea: as I've gotten older I no longer care to keep up on all music related media and there are too many bands I like releasing music I don't want to miss. I've made a service that allows you to keep track of releases from your favourite artists chronologically so you don't miss out on any.)
Thanks! The answer I generally give to "who are your clients?" is "yes" -- it's so across the board that even I was surprised. The median client really varies on location -- in NY it's typically a guy heading out to the Hamptons or Jersey Shore for the weekend of fun, but it's also women looking for a fun gift, celebrities looking for better service (though, somewhat surprisingly, celebrities more frequently rent what we call "luxury" cars -- BMWs, Mercedes, Range Rover, vs what we call "exotic" cars -- Ferraris and Lamborghinis), and, yes, folks who own them at home and like to try something similar-but-different while on the road.
> but I have trouble understanding how it's possible to miss 8.8 billion dollars.

I think we all are this morning. Unfortunetly the chatter we are hearing is that this type of accounting cover up, if true, would require help from their auditor.

Which means we may be down another accounting firm by the time this is over.
Yes us evil Eukaryotes are responsible for the demise of this planet. Why don't we all do the honourable thing and kill ourselves rather than solving the climate problems with taxation and working out how to trade carbon and leverage trade sanctions to gain more tangible but useless bits of metal and plastic...

I mean those sulphur breathing bacteria which we oxygenated out of existence are utterly pissed at us now.

For those who don't get my comment: we don't know how the planet works. Don't know what our impact is. Oh and the climate changes anyway without our intervention which may cause our demise or not - just go with the flow.
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I think part of your problem might be that you are solving a problem that a small group of people have, and only a small group will ever have. Most people just aren't that into movies; they decide to see a movie (or not) based on the trailer; they view movies as a way to kill two hours or a pretty safe date activity. The number of people who really have a significant "pain point" in deciding what movies to see is pretty small and likely always will be.

Feel free to discount my opinion though, I haven't seen a movie in a theater in probably 5 years and basically think movies are a complete waste of time and money.
Can someone give a rough range for how much Twitter would cost to buy? Instagram was $1bn, and I'd say Twitter is at least an order of magnitude higher, no?
You're right many vulnerabilities exist in the plugins/themes. We do fix these as well.
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Fortunately this isn't one of those "we are doomed unless you give us money" but its probably leading to one of those types of proposals.

This is a worst case scenario. It even goes as far as stating it may not be possible to prevent and simply lists possible outcomes; climate science is not exact.

So what do I take away from it? Nothing much. Its nothing we haven't seen before, most predictions are being pushed far enough out so they cannot be invalidated.

If the temperature does change as drastically as they suggest why do they think we would not be adjusting as well? A lot can happen in the span of two or three generations. New technologies can minimize if not eliminate the effects.

Look, we went through scares of overrunning the planet with people, mass starvation and disease were to be rampant but it didn't happen, we simply grew into our new existence and population numbers. We certainly can grow into most changes to the planet. Until the change is drastic enough to end life on this planet we will adjust to it. I do not think short of nuclear war we can even engineer that.
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Stating the obvious here, but at what point do we drop the word "simulation" and just say IBM has electronically re-created a macaque monkey brain? Doing that would then entail ethical issues, just like if it were a real monkey. Does not sound like they are quite "there" yet, but they sound close. Let's quit "monkeying about" with weasel words like "simulation" and start tackling the inevitable ethical considerations head-on.
one can argue that civilization itself is post-Darwinian - whenever there's any engineering and design involved, it's not evolution. we've evolved to the point of being able to figure out how our world works - now we need to figure out how to keep it working.

what's most perplexing for me is the constant pressure on growth. we can't have growth and survive this century at the same time. the big question is the mode of failure of humanity, which at the moment doesn't give reasons for optimism - we're on our way to wars for fuel first, and a couple of decades later wars for food and water.

recommended reading: the limits to growth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
The point is that a proper understanding of the business model allows you to conduct valuations, capturing all revenues and expenses, away from the financial statements. Those should absolutely reconcile back to statements. But they aren't driven by statement classification of items. Properly done, those models would have shown these problems.

HP is essentially saying "They didn't tell us X was in the marketing costs!" Well, then HP weren't asking the right questions about marketing strategy and drivers, and about relationships with customers and partners.
Are you comparing out-of-pocket costs for a single-payer health care system in Canada with the premiums for private health insurance in the US? Canada does spend less than the US on health care, but not ten times less; your taxes are making up a good chunk of that gap.
> In fact, HP should start suing the one that had the brilliant idea of acquiring Autonomy: Leo Apotheker

Why? for making a bad business decision?

The board approved it. That's why there is a board.
The finance department at HP signed off on it.
The tech department at HP looked at the tech and signed off on it.

Everyone signed off on it, it didn't' work out.
According to USNWR, both the UIUC and University of Texas at Austin also have top 10 undergraduate engineering programs (#5 and #10 respectively) as well.

I can't think of a top graduate program with a poor undergraduate program. And CS tends to be extremely rigorous, so I am honestly surprised that a recruiter would view a degree in CS from UTex as a non-indicator.

But I'm not trying to shoot the messenger. Perhaps UTex and Brown were selected to specifically illustrate the phenomenon here, that a highly regarded engineering school might be discounted while an Ivy league school that normally isn't associated with Computer Science would be considered a positive indicator.

It's a little hard to argue with a recruiter, they've done far more placement than I have. But I have worked (and done lots of interviews for) for a large silicon valley company, as well as for a few startups, and personally I think that a CS degree from UTex at Austin or UIUC would be very positively received.

Undergraduate curricula tends to be standardized, and nobody gets out of a top school without taking the tough courses. But you can get wiggle through an MS. But at the door... not so sure, the selection requirements (undergraduate GPA and GRE) at Berkeley were very high for any kind of admitted grad student. However, Berkeley doesn't have one of those "industrial affiliate" programs that are profit centers. However, I don't think these programs harm the universities that offer them at all - the students are almost always already employed at good companies doing interesting work, and I think the other students benefit from their presence.
It's also not in anyone's immediate short-term interest to find a reason to scotch an 1.0x10^10$ deal, and whatever we'll kick this stinker of a deal down the road for the next CEO/CFO/&c.
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Food. You probably eat grains and other food which are grown in warmer areas, which might become too hot or too dry to continue growing that food.

Migrations and property destructions will matter too. If New York gets a even bigger Sandy a few times every year, the rest of USA will too suffer economically.
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you forgot to mention that he's probably going to try to shoot you and you'll probably try to shoot back. extrapolating to whole nations is left as an exercise to the reader.
This is so true.

I hated android based on my experiences early on. Then I tried a Galaxy Nexus on ICS. Almost overnight I dumped my iPhone and switched.
No, but you will be assigned 6 pre-approved tweets per month (for a modest $99/year fee).
Your usage of Democrat in this post betrays your own bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
I am going to give my opinion just on a first impression analysis. You need to change the name of your startup. tinj.co? It has nothing to do with anything and inevitably you need to explain it with three words after stating your name, but my problem is your three words don't help define tinj.co. So I went to your website and I was like OK, tinj.co has to stand for something. But it just says a new way to rate. 5 stars is no good anymore. In conclusion, I am all for your idea, but your name its making me angry.

--note: I know nothing more than my rottweiler sitting next to me. The difference between me and most people is that I will tell you I know nothing. So just take the advice and do with it what you want.
See Muphry's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
I'm sorry, I think due to our lacking description of how the technology exactly works you're confusing it with existing technologies. What we announced today is not comparable with something like Installatron, they do just version updates. Those automatic updates usually breaks plugins. We only patch the vulnerabilities, without modifying any functionality.
I agree. This story is quite hard to believe... Nobody spends $12bn without looking carefully into the books. There always is a long and thorough Due Diligence process on transactions like this one. Investment bankers, lawyers and accountants get get their fees mainly for going through every single document in the company...
It's not just the stock apps - there is a culture amongst Apple 3rd party developers to discuss, refine and push design and interaction forwards.

The only time I've seen it amongst Android devs is for that alarm clock app [1], whereas it's a regular talking point about iOS apps (the latest being Paper discussing their colour-picker [2]).

[1] http://dewith.com/2012/an-android-design-process/
[2] http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/31/3578672/paper-1-3-color-p...
Do they use iPhones? I'm not really sure how placing a call is harder on a SGS2 than on iOS.
The principal difference is that Stopforumspam is a blacklisting method, and what I described is a whitelisting one.

Theirs is an effective approach, and it works great for dedicated forum sites. But I think it's an overkill for simpler setups for two reasons. First, it creates an obvious dependency on an external service. Second, if I want to allow unregistered posting, it leaves me only with an IP address as a data point and here I wouldn't bet that their by-IP detection is too accurate.

It's a simple, self-contained, virtually maintenance-free way to detect humans trying to post. I don't argue it's a superior to other methods, but it is simple and it helps simplifying the user experience of real visitors.
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Anyone who wears such a watch and does not expect to get stopped by Airport Security (TSA or anyone else) is simply retarded.

This guy is clearly not retarded, so he is obviously a publicity whore.

End of story.