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It's very interesting to see how quickly things turn ugly (or at least uglier) in situations like that. With power down for two days, did they see any increase in crime beyond what you described?

As it happens I was watching a TV-series yesterday that has this exact plot/theme, not exactly HN material as it's Sci-Fi but anyway: The world loses power globally. Anything using power is dead. Planes, Cars, batteries, etc.

Not sure if it's a hit that will last but I found it entertaining and it made me think a bit, what would I be able to do to survive something like that? What would my plan be?

I'm not about to go all doomsday prepper but I guess it does not hurt to at least have an idea.

Or just be prepared like in the story, preparing for the worst as we usually do when designing redundant solutions.

http://www.tvrage.com/Revolution
There certainly do exist people that face a negative return to marginal work, due to the phase out of public assistance with income.

This is largely because either their state-government is incredibly stingy (see: Texas) or because their potential wages are incredibly low.
You are worried that you spent too much time reading about things you could read? Really?
The 1px letter spacing is actually a decrease, try toggling the CSS rule off, the letters will be spaced out even further.

I had a play about with the numbers a little, I think 0.5px is probably a nicer setting.
>You just look at the scale or the mirror and change your behaviour.

The question is what do you change.

If I wake up one morning and decide I'm going to make a change and reduce my caloric intake. Instead of having my normal 1000 Cal eggs and and bacon, I decide to have a 500 Cal glass of sugar water.

By lunchtime I'm starving and I feel week so without thinking about it I consume an extra 600 Cal over what I normally would for lunch.

Furthermore, keto fans aren't arguing that ketosis violates the laws of physics. Of course in the end it's energy in vs energy out. But the core belief is that the body doesn't process all food equally.

They are arguing in essence that the calorie is an imperfect measure of energy available for extraction by the body. Eating what is labeled as 1000 Cal of food A may cause more weight gain that eating 1000 Cal of food B. They aren't saying that the body magically shunts energy into the ether as long as you don't eat carbs.

Consider a completely imaginary hypothetical. What if 1000 Cal of food A was processed 100% efficiently so that no waste left your body. And 1000 Cal of food B was processed such that 50% of it left your body as waste. Additionally consider that different combinations may affect the percentages. So that for whatever reason eating food A with food B, may decrease the efficiency with which food A is processed.

I'm not saying that the above scenario is in any way true, but if someone proposes that this is the case you can't say he is denying the laws of physics.
Hm, in fact sometimes they do get caught....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_numbe...
> Writing the code is the easy part. I’d say code flows from my brain more fluently than English does.

There's a certain irony in this statement. Writing code that works is easy, but writing code that clearly communicates a simple design to other programmers is not. Much like the difference between rudimentary use of English and that which is moving or persuasive. One is mechanical, the other achieves multiple objectives and requires a mastery of empathy.
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I'm looking for a webservice that will be able to notify my via an api call when a remote xml file changes.

Does such a service exist?

Thank you
> HOW much more? (HOW much less.)

Doesn't matter. Just keep loosing / gaining until you reach the desired weight and then adjust to stabilize. It will take different time for different people and/or food combination, but in principle, you can just adjust the amounts and you'll get there.
Yallah yallah! Your ability to deny reality is amazing!

We do not need to further incentivize working in finance. Finance has already eaten most of the rest of the economy. This is shown by the fact that from roughly the 1980s onwards, FIRE sector has grown immensely, not only in total profits/revenues but as a share of all profits in the United States.

If finance is supposed to make its living by enabling other sectors to grow, then finance should not be outgrowing the other economic sectors. It should remain as a roughly steady proportion of total profits and grow with the economy.

Instead, finance, real-estate and insurance have grown at the expense of the rest of the economy and the rest of society. That's not doing their stated job, that's parasitizing everyone else.
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If I had a reliable method for producing accurate and precise numerical forecasts of the future behaviour of complex systems with a large number of unobservable variables, then I would be a multi-quintillionaire.

This doesn't mean that weather forecasting, economics, agile software methodologies -- to pick just a few famous examples of subjects dealing with complex systems -- are totally broken tools that must henceforth be discarded.

It just means that we have to pick our battles.

Controlling systems by incremental adjustments works perfectly well. In fact it works for highly predictable simple systems too -- you can take variables like shell mass, powder load, wind velocity, humidity and predict with enormous accuracy where an anti-aircraft shell will go when fired.

Or you can use tracer bullets.

(Yes, this is the elegant little example from The Pragmatic Programmer).
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Indeed, stating that these objects result from some classification of all number-like objects seems misleading at best: Most mathematicians would, just as one example, certainly consider p-adic numbers as number like objects.

It would be better to point out what really matters in the hierarchy N, Z, Q, R, C:

Everybody will accept that N is an interesting object for counting.

Z is the quotient group of N under addition, more elementary: In Z you can compute arbitrary differences of elements of N, and it is the smallest "reasonable" such object.

Similarly, Q is the quotient field of Z, i.e. "the smallest reasonable object containing Z that allows division of non-zero elements".

R is the completion of Q under a natural metric (i.e., "fills the gap on the number line of Q"), and therefore allows one to have a reasonable notion of limits and calculus.

C finally is the algebraic closure of R, so that every non-constant polynomial has a root in C.

Thus, these objects are all constructed from the natural numbers to satisfy certain "niceness" properties.

Of course, it would take quite some space to explain this in a very elementary fashion. So perhaps it is instead better to simply refrain from such a statement in a textbook aiming for shortness above all, or at least make sure that any statement in this direction is substantiated and supported by a suitable reference to a place where your readers can learn more.

A textbook that gains conciseness from vague statements and half-truths would seem to be much worse than a textbook of twice the length that explains its content well.
> to meditate for any reason other than because it's the truth will eventually be self-defeating.

What? I get a type error when I try to parse that sentence (meditation isn't a boolean). Could you explain that part?
> Furthermore, keto fans aren't arguing that ketosis violates the laws of physics.

I don't have the exact link to hand; but please take it from me on face value that I have had "ketards" do just that. I realise that most of you are sensible people, but sometimes ... well, I guess every group has its share of people who make the rest look bad.

> Eating what is labeled as 1000 Cal of food A may cause more weight gain that eating 1000 Cal of food B.

Right, so we're arguing about labels. That's why I always use the term "net calorie balance". I'm not referring to the label on the tin (though that's a usable first-order approximation in many cases), I mean the actual physical-physiological outcome for the day.
Not sure how much space you have on your phone, but just a few more apps installed can cause problems for me.
Am curious about the rant part?
That I was slim with a "high carbs" diet for 20 years also makes me doubt the carbs theory a bit.

Not all carbs are the same. Sugar, potatoes and refined flour are very concentrated, fast to digest and process. Also there are the interactions. You can lose weight eating only steaks.

The thing is that carbs diet is effective for the people that are already overweight. It's not as if you need to do them to stay slim. Actually I don't do it anymore (I eat less, avoid fats and prefer fruit and salads, also works). But I can witness it works.
No, it's not about self-restraint. It's about basic definitional arguments.

Libertarians define freedom as the absolute, unbridled exercise of private property titles.

Non-libertarians take exception to both the extent (the "absolute, unbridled" part) and the core matter ("private property titles") for various reasons. Among these reasons:

* Any value legislated into absolute supremacy becomes steadily more and more totalitarian. People want some moderation.

* An archipelago of private dictatorships is called "feudalism", and is no better than a single public dictatorship.

* "Property is theft!", as Bakunin put it. Private property titles are themselves a form of government-enforced coercion. Taxes you only have to pay once a year, land-rent you pay once a month, exploitative wage-labor you perform every weekday.

* Even the most proprietarian society has some kind of public space, and it must be managed somehow. Example: you can't run naked through the streets.

* Some people genuinely believe that "freedom" in the sense libertarians define it is unimportant or unworthy. See: religious conservatives.

* Private capitalist markets are provably incapable of handling public goods (National Science Foundation, NASA) and commons goods (scarce fisheries, national forests, etc).
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I believe the nexus 7 had the same issue, and they devised a slightly longer version of the micro USB plug that is capable of carrying 2.1 amps of current, which is more than 10 watts of power. The socket can still accept "normal" USB plugs, and the new longer plugs can be used with "old" sockets too (these combinations will not be able to achieve the increased current rate, of course). All in all, it seems a reasonable solution.
I find it weird that you can reduce charity contributions from taxation. Isn't it like grant for the rich to "choose where they pay their taxes"? And have nice dinners...
They're capitalists voting for a managerial conservative capitalist party. America's "left-wing" Democrats would be right-wing Christian Democrats or right-wing Liberals in the entire rest of the First World and large portions of the developing world, too.
That's not much. We handle that every 7-10 minutes and these are complex quoting, transformation, credit scoring and CRM functions. WCF has been a big problem for us.
I'm wondering if we could get a quick script to count how many pages are in the 75 books listed so we can understand how much did he actually read :-D.
I can't reply to your comment below b/c it is too many deep. I'll do that here and add some comments.

Net calories is fine if your only goal is "don't be a fatass". If, however, you are an athlete, lift weights or want something more, net calories don't tell you much.

There are some easy experiments.

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Let's assume 2000 cals daily is a supposed 300 cal deficit for someone. Let's assume sedentary lifestyle.

A. 2000 protein

B. 2000 fat

C. 2000 simple sugar carbs

D. 2000 complex carbs

What is going to happen? A and B will loose weight. C will likely gain weight, quite a bit of it fat. D will most likely gain weight as well, but probably less so. D in particular would depend on how "sensitive" they are to insulin spikes.
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Same setup. New items.

A. 2000 cals prot+fat

B. 2000 cals prot+carbs

C. 2000 cals carbs+fat

D. 2000 cals prot+fat+carbs (35/25/40%).

A will lose/maintain weight.

B would be tough. Probably lose/maintain.

C would gain weight (carbs and fat together do bad things, particularly in sedentary individuals).

D. This is you. Would lose weight, but suboptimally. A would be better for weight lose.

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For some context, I guess. I'm an amateur bodybuilder and powerlifter. I used to play competitive basketball. I have a (rather time consuming hobby) of writing fitness books. When people say "net calories are all that matter" it is clear they don't understand the problem domain nearly enough. Nor do they understand that one must manipulate the macronutrients to achieve certain goals.

I hope we one day STOP talking about calories completely and only talk about macronutrient ratios and grams. This is much more important.

For instance, I have a photoshoot coming up for a book. I'm cutting bodyfat right now to get as lean as possible. I'm running 6.5 days of near zero carbs, .5g fat/lb of desired bodyweight and 1-2g protein/lb of desired bodyweight (leg day I take in more protein for instance) and a singular non-carb insulin spike after my workout (whey protein, leucine and creatine shake to spike insulin and spare my muscle).

On the 7th day, I "carb up", or refeed. I basically go nuts and eat simple carbs (icecream, rice, cereal) to replenish my glycogen stores and, WAY MORE IMPORTANTLY, recalibrate my hormones.

When I'm trying to gain muscle, I do this:

only protein and fat before a workout. Only carbs and protein after a workout. My macronutrients are about 20/25/55 (fat, protein and carbs).

If net calories were the only thing that mattered, I could eat 1000 cals of pure sugar and get ready for my photo shoot. I can't. That is stupid.

If net calorie surplus were the only thing that mattered to gain muscle I could eat 5000 cals of pure sugar or 5000 cals of pure fat to put on muscle. I can't. That is stupid.

You have to understand what they are doing. However, there are some VERY simple rules. It just isn't nearly as simple as you think. And it is foolish to perpetuate this decades old bunk science.

EDITED: tried to fix up the formatting a bit.
It's definitely doable, although ultimately there are only so many hours in a day. You have to choose how and when to spend them carefully, with the support of your partner, as it can place additional load on them. Also, writing code on 4 hrs sleep after night feeds is no fun!

Young kids tend to sleep quite a lot relatively (if you're lucky) - so when they sleep, daddy works. It might mean shifting to 2-4 working session per day, somewhere quiet, instead of the more traditional 1 working session per day approach.

From my experience defining boundaries/rules that allow for constant, incremental progress on the product while keeping partner, kids and yourself happy is the key. It's very easy to just work all the time and burn yourself out.
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Now composing email >:-).
Complex systems, like the human body, are incredibly robust (failure rates of the death penalty in the US, for example, are surprisingly high), and incredibly fragile (we've all heard stories about the person who slipped on the ice, hit their head and instantly died). We get used to the robust and we sometimes forget the fragile.

When I lived in Switzerland I was surprised to find that every modern building has a nuclear bunker in the basement, and that even now they are kept up: supplies are rotated, there are inspections, etc. At first it seemed quaint, but then I realized that as arguably the richest country in the world, they're not as interested in getting richer as they are in preserving what they have -- thus different forms of insurance, including even bunkers. I now find that quite smart, actually.
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Self-propagating heap memory crawler in x86-64 Linux Assembly
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A million billion times this.
And eventually Google will shutdown the API because it's not even documented but then everyone will start bitching like they did for the weather API.
The Great Outage of 2003 was a fun time. We had a gas stove so we could still cook dinner (though as a newspaper columnist friend of mine wrote at the time, the entire neighbourhood was suffused with the smell of everything out of every fridge cooking on the barbecue), and several neighbours came by to share a glass of wine on our front porch.

It was breathtaking, that night, to look up at the clear sky and see the countless stars blazing down without having to compete with light pollution from the city. Normally you have to go several hours into northern Ontario to see the like.

One of the things that impressed me was how civil everyone was. I was at the downtown library when the power failed, and the 2 km walk home was filled with curiosity (just how big is this thing?) but free of incident.

Even at intersections, nearly everyone slowed down or stopped and eased through without trouble. On a few corners, self-appointed crossing guards helped maintain order - in fact, those tended to be the worst intersections, because drivers would cede responsibility to the crossing guard instead of responding directly to the conditions.
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http://www.hackernewsers.com/ use to be an awesome tool for connecting like minded folks from the HN community. However, I just visited it again and it seems to be down.
Here is the Google result title and URL for each of the 17:

Box | Secure content-sharing that users and IT love and adopt

https://www.box.com/Share

Wayfair - Furniture, Home Decor, Tools, Office Furniture, Bedding ...

http://www.wayfair.com/

Home | Palantir

http://www.palantir.com/

Accept credit cards with your iPhone, Android or iPad – Square

https://squareup.com/

SurveyMonkey: Free online survey software & questionnaire tool

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

All-in-One Marketing Software | Inbound Marketing with HubSpot

http://www.hubspot.com/

SugarCRM

http://www.sugarcrm.com/

Designer Fashion Flash Sales, Designer Fashions Online | Gilt Groupe

http://www.gilt.com/

Zendesk.com | Customer Service Software | Support Ticket System

http://www.zendesk.com/

Fast Analytics and Rapid-fire Business Intelligence from Tableau ...

http://www.tableausoftware.com/

Software Development and Collaboration Tools | Atlassian

http://www.atlassian.com/

Marketing Automation Software - Easy. Powerful. Complete. – Marketo

http://www.marketo.com/

LivingSocial

http://www.livingsocial.com/

Dropbox - Simplify your life

https://www.dropbox.com/

Online Advertising Management Platform | Marin Software

http://www.marinsoftware.com/

Online Event Registration - Sell Tickets Online with Eventbrite

http://www.eventbrite.com/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/
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Not everyone works well with Khan Academy, incredibly awesome though it is. A textbook is actually my preferred method of learning.
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> if you’re in the infrastructure business design as if lives depend on it.

This. Is not as simple as it sounds.

It is why some colleagues of mine stubbornly refuse to write software for medical appliances: even if they design as if their lives depend on it, they might make a mistake and cause serious harm.
Revolution is the silliest TV show ever contrived. 15 years in the power outage, they still wear clean tailored designer clothes. Resistance fights the only organizing and governing force, why?, just because. Electricity is out (or rather blocked), but diesel engines don't work either - surprise, many diesel engines don't depend on electricity to operate.
When did anyone ever get asked if they consented to the "social contract"? No one. We need, at the very least, to change the term. Something like "social compulsion", perhaps?

The person creating capital may not be someone who is liked, but they often produce jobs, and products/services that people want. Their capital comes about because of voluntary transactions within society. The so-called "social contract", meanwhile, is built on coercion.
at what point do people decide that the apple app store is not worth developing for? the early gold-rush days have passed, so there's not even the lure of making loads of money from a minimum-effort app, and from what i hear the store is now so crowded, and the search and sort tools so bad that even getting your app noticed is a struggle - so why continue to deal with apple's abusive hoops and requirements?
If Obama is what leftist means in the USA (I still don't believe this), then what would you call a communist? I don't know if there is anywhere else where the political compass is so skewed. To most people I talked to when the US elections were going on, Obama is considered the left of the right.
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Well yes, I'm not saying the show is not flawed or silly. But I found it entertaining enough simply because it made me think 'what if .. ?'
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Jesus, that JSON article is unreal. Probably the best I've read all year.
Yep. But if you treat the game as win/lose then your best strategy is to increase your variance, which you do by taking a whole lot of tickets. Since many ticket routes overlap, it becomes a game of pure luck - the game is mostly determined by who happened to get tickets that overlapped, and all your efforts in playing won't overcome such an advantage.
This assumes a linear correlation between labour spent and gross income earned.

The tax brackets are known to everyone, including those who pay the salaries - if you want to get someone to do that 20% extra work, and they'll want a 20% increase in net pay, then you can just do the math and pay the appropriate gross.
I can identify with this. Bootstrapped and profitable enough to hire other people to grow faster. But as I'm doing almost everything solo and the business needs to keep running on a day to day basis, the time to formalize processes, hire, on-board and/or train people, let alone look for funding, barely exists. My current idea is to gradually bring on freelancers so I don't overstretch my time or resources. Long term, I'd like to acquihire people already familiar with the business or have saved up enough profits that money can be more easily thrown at the problem.

I imagine this is one of the reasons folks like pg are keen on multiple founders since one founder could more easily be 'spared' to handle things like recruitment, process, and other things important to growth that are separate from sales or product development. I can do all the sales and production and do it well, but then that leaves little time for anything else.
Yeah 'cause instead of buying a reliable japanese car, you bought an unreliable swarm of american scooters. </sarcasm>

This probabilistic stuff is academic nonsense
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I'd like to see individuals making a high salary get their taxes slashed down to the levels that asset-based wealth currently enjoys. This can't take place unless the disproportionate influence of finance capitalists is likewise slashed. I wouldn't necessarily hold my breath for that; the governments of the world are as rotten as they've ever been.
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