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While admittedly I haven't taken the time to read your entire blog post, I'm throwing this link out there for your perusal:

http://thatpaleoguy.com/2012/12/19/calorie-rants-and-ketosis...

Quite simply, you have to consider how a calorie takes the path to becoming a calorie in our system, imo.
This sounds awfully ... Taubesy.

Problems with the Taubes' it's-all-carbs-and-insulin hypothesis:

* Protein consumption causes insulin spikes too.

* Insulin is not the only hormone involved in weight control system and energy system behaviour. Also involved: leptin, ghrelin, glucagon, cortisol and probably dozens of others neither of us will hear of in our entire lifetimes.

* Population obesity closely tracks calories-per-capita, apparently regardless of macronutrient breakdown (http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/calories-st...).
>a diet that restricts food intake will always lead to weight loss.

ftfy
So, I should make a resolution to join Meetup, and thereby get fit, enjoy a hobby, advance your career, and have fun?
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Honestly, any form of elimination diet (don't eat x, for any x) works, in direct proportion to how many of your calories typically come from that x.

It's not what you eat, in that regard. Pick anything you eat a lot of, and stop eating it. You'll have a hard time matching that missing intake with other foods, and so you'll eat fewer calories, and so you'll lose weight.

If your diet has a name, it's a fad.
Well the system is designed to facilitate long distance and international trade (with a DUNS number you can look-up how long a business has existed and their payment history) even if you're in Pakistan and they're in Argentina. Since companies dealing in physical goods take much longer than 30 days to set-up anyway the process hasn't traditionally been a constraint. All that "unneccesary information" is very relevant for a textile shipper even if it isn't for someone selling a crossword app.
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@font-face is a CSS rule that allows you to input your own font to appear on a website even when the particular font is not installed on the visitor’s computer.
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Looks like it works like this:

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-ios
This is a brilliant story. I wonder how other infrastructure coped with the outage (water supply network and sewers). Living in a dormitory in Russia, we had outages in water supply periodically (once it lasted for whole two weeks) and that quickly translated into a horrible mess of insanitary.

Also loved the little episode with bikers, as I'm fascinated with their craft. Hope there is a going to be a followup about them.
My overarching theme in my blog post is that the underlying complexity (which absolutely exists) is utterly optional for actually controlling weight. You just don't need to know it or understand it.

Eat less --> weigh less

and

Eat more --> weigh more

Are sufficiently good that you can form a working control system with them. No other variables need be observed or cared about.
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Best movies to teach card playing skills? (Poker, blackjack etc)
I've watched 21 and wondering if there are other movies or resources that also teach card skills in an entertaining way? Perhaps chess too!
I still find Joss Crowcrofts Open Exchange Rates API much friendlier; https://openexchangerates.org/
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Ever had to register to buy online - and been PELTED with SPAM?
Luckily, the Stack Exchange guys open source some of their creations: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/02/stack-exchange-open-so.... I would expect that they are of good quality, given the reputation of the company.
Well if you consider 4 years undergrad, 4 years medschool (medschools offer no aid and routinely cost 70-95k a year), 4 years residency, 3 years fellowship it can add up (you're not making too much in residency/fellowship). Additionally this would be basically your entire twenties so if you made an effort to have friends or get married (possibly have a kid) you'd be in even more trouble. Assuming a generous starting salary of 320k for some higher end specialty if you're getting taxed at nearly 50% of total income, leaving 160k take home, it would be a pretty poor ROI and you could be nearly a half million in debt.

I assume the low capital gains tax is because the money is 'at risk' in the market, but for professions with long expensive educations - the risk is in the time and money investment up front. Additionally doctors/lawyers are more likely to actually spend their money locally to buy and fund local business since they're not moving around millions of dollars or just leaving their wealth in the market - taxing them harder just means they won't pay local contractors to have an addition on their house and they'll pay taxes instead.
"that the body was "too complex" to be governed by mere physics."

The body is too complex to be governed by "mere physics", because it uses control systems that regulate the intake process.

I can eat three times more than a friend of mine, and incorporate to my body way less than my friend, because bacteria and virus in my intestines are completely different from hers. Also my body is different.

A calorie of fat has nothing to do with a calorie of sucrose or glucose.

"Mere physics" of burning something at 1000C and measuring the thermal output is completely different from the "real physics"of metabolizing substances in a 20 different steps chain process, where every step could be inhibited or excited by cell control systems.
I thought this was going to be about over-reliance on Twitter Bootstrap.
It's about self-restraint. Libertarians believe government has very specific purposes and boundaries within which it must stay, and that other matters are totally irrelevant to governance. Non-libertarians want the classic "2 wolves and a sheep voting on dinner", libertarians say that dinner isn't even on the ballot.

Of course, it's much easier to coerce people into doing the things you want them to do by making the desired behavior a matter of law than to convince each individual to cooperate and use his own free will to obtain the same result, so an undisciplined and unrestrained populace is going to disregard the "no voting on dinner" rule and use the force of the government to get what they want.
> This is very telling example of how differently Java people think.

Notice how the blog didn't even mention Java once and is talking about Clojure and defmacro, still you managed to imagine the article, an argument and respond to it. What more, your response is on the lines of "The earth goes around the sun" -> "Hah. No".

> First of all - ''this'' is NOT list comprehensions

This is list comprehension as in the accepted definition of list comprehension.

> Lisp has list comprehension, the sub-set of features that makes macros possible. Quote, back-quote, comma and grouping with parenthesis are parts of Lisp syntax to do it.

List comprehension doesn't mean whatever you want it to mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension#Common_Lisp

> Look at it carefully. This is the how confusion looks like.

Look at this comment carefully. If you ever wondered how empty vessels make most noise, this is how it looks like. Without pointing out anything in the article which is wrong or can be improved, or without even giving out unrelated examples(that would have been something), this comment has shit all over it over some delusional sense of lisp programmers superior to Java programmers. It might have been a bit acceptable if the comment would have posted a clever lisp solution, or the blog would have had anything to do with Java at all.

> Thinking in terms of classes and methods prompts them to create artificial, unnecessary complications.

And again, imagine arguments and respond to them. Where on earth TFA mentioned classes and methods?

Also, this fucking hippy culture of "classes suck; functional programming rockz; lolz" need to die. What makes it more irritating is 99.999% of the times, the person singing the praises of lisp, functional programming et al. and trashing Java(there is a very high correlation) is a fucking moron and can't code to save his life, in lisp or any other language. Do a 100,000 lines project in Haskell, come back and then tell me how classes suck and this functional programming project of yours is so much better. Even then, that will be just personal anecdote, but currently, it's just incoherent, incompetent rambling.
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Nice! I'd buy ebook when it's out. BTW, I also recommend "The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity" (http://www.stevenstrogatz.com/the_joy_of_x.html). This amazing book rekindled my interest in Mathematics. Now, I've got a couple of math books in my 'to-read' list.
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However it does, simple feedback loop with adjustments proportional to minus weight difference (aka. are you gaining on weight? eat less.) should still work regardless of what you eat and what "types" of calories there are. It's not just calories-in / calories-out, it's a feedback loop between your weight and amount of calories you eat, and that - as Jacques wrote - tends to disregard internal state and processes by the very definition of how it works.

The trick is, what I so far found out, to establish a set of meals that you can actually stick to for a longer time without feeling nauseous, while still maintaining calorie deficit. There are also issues like insulin reaction; so far I believe in this one, as hunger doesn't seem to feel as bad and doesn't disable my thinking since around the time I cut out sugars completely (I used to drink a lot of them). But accounting for all those things only helps you to stick with your diet.

So bottomline, I think that most of the other mechanisms people bring up are important not for weight loss per se, but for the ability to stick with a given diet for longer, while calorie deficit does it work.

FYI: I'm on keto for just over two months (with lot of cheating unfortunately - there were so many parties recently...) and have lost 10kg in that time.
There has been a lot of back-and-forth over this, I've done my own research and I think that it is possible to make some degree of ASIC in about a year.

Specifically this would be something called a 'structured' ASIC. If you get it right the first time (always a big question) then under a year is doable. A structured ASIC isn't nearly as efficient as a real special purpose design, it will consume more power and will fall speedwise somewhere between an FPGA and a true custom ASIC, probably closer to the FPGA end.

There are currently three companies that claim to be working on ASICs, only one of those three I think has the chops to pull it off.

But anybody that paid their money up-front to these companies without a shipping product is really slightly out of their mind.
If these systems were not reliable the 500 million tourists visiting the EU last year would not have been able to get a visa or not be able to pass border control points. That's just the visa specific parts, so yeah you could say it's somewhat reliable.

The users being used to telephone and fax being the reason they are okay with WCF? Maybe in the 80's, but it's been a while since then.

We are talking 10 mill+ daily transactions as a low brow estimate. A transaction in this case being a bit more complex than the page viewing of a cat picture. These are systems with dev and maintenance teams of hundreds and hundreds of deveLopers globally, working for 5-10 years. To refer to this as the scale of a smallish web app, well...
As I say elsewhere, all this is by the by; all that matters is net calorie balance and all that's needed is to compare inputs (diet, exercise) with outputs (weight, appearance).

Your friend no more needs to know about your gut flora than you need to know about my insulin sensitivity.
If this is a set of tutorials for new developers, it needs to be labeled
Well this is partially because the alternative to the right, the Republicans, have gone full retard over the last two decades. A lot of people in the valley might vote for a moderate Republican like there used to be but will not vote for a party that puts someone who doesn't believe in evolution in charge of the House Science committee, regardless of their fiscal policy.

>We have plenty of examples of high-tax, high-regulation economies around the world with no startup scene.

Sure, but California is already high-tax compared to most of the US. Why isn't Silicon Valley in a state with no state level income or cap gains tax? There's a number of European countries that have marginal taxation similar to California, why isn't there start-up scene worth talking about there?

There is one Silicon Valley in the whole world, sure there is plenty of innovation elsewhere, but for the software industry there is one stand-out and that is the valley. If there were a few of them then we could easily draw parallels between them and see what they have in common, as it is we can't do that because we have an n=1 situation where all we can do is speculate.
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Ever heard of the Bütone Drum? A type of tank (or tongue) drum. It's a tuned percussion instrument hand-made from steel.

"We build each drum to order based around our customers’ tuning requirements."

http://bit.ly/UFCff3
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Are you me (apart from the keto)? Because this is pretty much what I am trying to convey.
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FWIW, the JAMA article talks about mortality rate.
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> She guess doing a minus number would move a sprite in
> the opposite direction!

I'm curious how that is possible. Did she just move a slider towards the negative range? Randomly guess it? Does she have a notion of continuity past zero?
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I doubt that you can eat three times more than your friend. In fact, that is impossible. Please provide us with some real numbers and data.
Thanks to Stuart Sierra for a great Clojure 2012 summary. Personally, I'm very pleased to have tracked close to 95% of what was mentioned as 2012 was a year of Clojure immersion for me. I had settled on Clojure after building a few toy projects in Arc, Ruby and Python. Yup, 2012 was a great year of programming. :)
It's funny, we're so highly dependent on electricity for everything that there's not more failsafes in place. Generators aren't exactly super cheap, but they're at a price point where if your business requires power then having one in the wings is useful. Even more surprising that a big petrol station wouldn't have one.

It's also telling that when power goes down, or there's a big event (inclement weather and so on), there's a rash of panic buying, some incredibly ugly behaviour (looting, greedy price increases) but offset by some truly wonderful behaviour (free gas to stranded people? Friends for life at that stage). Society might be a veneer of polish, but at it's core there's still a lot of incredibly nice people.
DUNS is a private company, Apple and the US Government are subscribers to their data.
Kind of sounds to me then like it's tuition fees that need to be fixed, not the tax code.
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I don't think I'm you, but I do agree with what you wrote :). I also found the basic understanding of control theoery... enlightening, in many areas of life, not only dieting. I hate when people argue over whether A causes B or B causes A, and fail to notice a feedback loop in work.
in several (european?) countries, incorporated businesses automatically are assigned a DUNS number by D&B. head to http://www.upik.de/en/upik_suche.cgi and search for your company before requesting a number. surely enough, all of my companies already had one, even the one incorporated two weeks ago.
So, first off: I really do not believe that this service (Zeusmos) was that popular; I mean, when you hear about the number of people who were using Installous (omg too many ;P), the number of people using Zeusmos would be this tiny tiny speck in comparison.

Once you are only talking about hundreds or even in the low thousands of devices (as opposed to tens of millions), you can satisfy the demand by getting a bunch of friends from your high-school class (the developer of Zeusmos was 15) to register for individual developer accounts and then contribute their Apple ID and passwords to a pool.

Based on what it says in the article (edit: which a friend of mine is telling me might be wrong, so maybe these people are doing something more complex), the other product (Kuaiyong) was using a single Apple Enterprise certificate: you only need one of these to satisfy an infinite number of devices, and they probably were signing the stuff on their server rather than on the client (so not redistributing the certificate).

That said, the rules on how you can use an enterprise distribution certificate are quite strict: you can sign applications used only by 1) employees of your company; 2) customers of your company who are physically present at your company's place of business; or 3) customers of your company who are being physically supervised by an employee of your company while at another location.
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I don't think you understand what was claimed in the article. 'List comprehension' is the name of a specific syntactic construct. List comprehensions describe straightforward transformations of other lists in convenient notation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension

They're syntactic sugar for map and filter. Consider this python code:

[x**2 for x in range(100) if x % 2 == 1]

This is a list comprehension. It's equivalent (in 2.x) to the Python

map(lambda x: x**2, filter(lambda x: x%2 == 1, range(100)))

(or in Clojure,

(map #(* % %) (filter #(= 1 (mod % 2)) (range 100)))

(seems like cheating to use the odd? function))

...so, equivalent to map and filter, just with better syntax.

Caveat: in 3.x, python's map and filter return generators, so the equivalent comprehension would be a generator comprehension instead--just the same thing as above but wrapped in parens and not square brackets--which would also return a generator.
For example, it is possible I am eating 2000 calories a day, burning 1900 and shitting out 100.

EDIT--because I am too lazy to wait to post to daughter comment--

It is possible, for example, that if I eat a FOO, which has 100 calories, it will change effeciencies of systems in my body in tangental ways so as to cause it to burn 5% more calories than it would have if I didn't eat a FOO.

I could also eat a candyBAR which has 100 calories, that causes it to burn 5% less calories than if I didn't eat a candyBAR.

Thus, conclusively proving that "calories in" and ignoring the actual foods eaten is absurd.
Lisp needs the parenthesis not because it lacks a stack, but because functions (like +) can take a variable number of arguments.
I have the original Doxie (http://www.getdoxie.com/product/doxie/index.html). I haven't tried their newer models.

I use it mainly for 1-5 page documents and it works great except if the document is printed on really poor paper or the lead edge is crumpled. You do occasionally have to re-scan a page if it doesn't feed properly or gets rotated halfway through feeding.

If you are scanning 40 page documents and can afford the extra space you might want to consider a scanner with an auto-feed as your rescan rate may be higher than mine! The software is relatively easy to use and allows you to re-order pages, etc.
Just my anecdote/experience - but I've been vegan since I was 18 (now 30). I knew that as I got older my metabolism would drop off but a little over a year ago I weighed 248 (I am 6'1") which was a wake up call.

To rectify things I picked up running on the reg again and cut the shit from my diet e.g. no added/processed fats at all (you can get more than enough from whole grains, legumes, and vegetables) and I am down to 185. Meaning I am actually lighter, healthier and more "energized" now than when I was 16.

I can recommend the rave diet book and the mcdougal books for recipes/theory. I also keep a photo blog if you want an idea of what my average diet looks like on http://www.stoicvegan.com
I think this is very good news: it could mean that Apple ran out of ways to torment developers and brought in a third party to fill the gap. Personally I would have opted for forcing new developers to cross-validate each other's documentation after translating it into Esperanto.
That's beautiful, great work and well documented.
Except that someone will be hitting the external limitations (only 24 hours in a day, human body needs non-billable hours for sleep and food) pretty quickly. Also, this is true as long as there are no opportunity cost alternatives (spending time with family, pursuing hobby).

In a nutshell, "High top marginal personal income tax rates are found to impede long-run productivity". Source on this is OECD, but original PDF link no longer works http://www.cato.org/blog/oecd-admits-high-personal-corporate...
> relatively inefficient but flexible turbines (usually natural gas).

Actually, natural gas plants are at least as efficient as coal. They're just more expensive, especially if you turn them on and off a lot, which is pretty bad for the lifetime of a lot of components.
If I may generalise most offensively, people in prosperous societies have basically no freaking idea how much they are eating (or not eating, as the case may be).

Eg:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7869932

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2082216

I remember talking to a (rake-thin) cousin of mine about this when we went to dinner one night. "I eat as much as anyone", he protested.

Later in the evening, noticed that while I had finished the chips that came with our dinners, he had not.
The point of a list comprehension is often that it can work with multiple lists. This can't do that, can it?
You should then not gain weight. Those 100kcal also count as calories out for the simplified model[0] used for feedback weight control.

[0] - http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/rubberbag.html
I had a similar experience to henrik_w, though more around low back pain from prolonged computer usage. I felt the crazy thing was that I was in good shape and also knew how I should be sitting, and the importance of taking short breaks from the computer. I just never did those things when I was concentrating on my work.

I ended up creating a software solution that included break reminders but also uses your webcam to check your posture and remind you whenever you sit in a bad posture (or even a good one, since sitting rigidly in any posture for long periods is part of the problem).

It's not a substitute for exercise, but it is a simple, low-cost way to keep good posture in mind throughout the working day, without being overly intrusive. It's called Postureminder and there's a 30-day free download on my website, http://www.postureminder.co.uk

Phil