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A basic text on biochemistry will educate you more than this "expert". You really should educate yourself properly instead of following random web sites that confirm your own biases.

Carbohydrates ARE converted to fat under normal dietary conditions, via insulin. If this metabolic process was "rare" as he states, then diabetics that require insulin injections wouldn't need them often.

I don't know where this "expert" is getting his information from, but it's a basic human biochemical reaction to form fat from blood glucose, via insulin.
I thought write amplification happened inside the drive (due to the drive internally working in bigger blocks than the 512-byte sectors it presents to the outside world), so the amount of data written to flash would be greater than the amount sent over the SATA link?
It wasn't meant to be a jab at your newness exactly. I just thought you're rushing into commenting too quickly perhaps? I don't know, I didn't even make an account on Hacker News for over a year after reading and didn't comment much right away afterwards still. Everyone is different though in that regard and just because it suited me does not mean it does for everyone, so take my example at face value.

I just loved the comments and insight on here and felt I shouldn't post much unless I really felt I had something to add to the conversation. If you haven't yet, I recommend reading the FAQ area[1] about posting stories and comments. It's really good information that seems to get skipped over sometimes.

Also, welcome to HN :)

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm still confused about the 2/3 of people who opened the link to vote "no."
Marathons are bad for your body if you train for 5 weeks! That's ludicrous! I trained for 6 months and (despite being built like a computer programmer) was jogging again straight away (with a day of rest, of course). My time was 3 hours 45 - so not too slow. But man, a LOT of training before hand!
"It's only small because bitcoins are a pain in the ass to get, and haven't spread yet. Once they become mainstream"

In other words, it will always be small. Bitcoin has almost no chance of becoming mainstream.
A short bike ride that burns about 1250 kcal, which is another 50% on top of my normal daily requirements. So not that surprising that I'd need to take in 450 kcal really.
If you're submitting your blog post because you think HN readers would enjoy the article, then absolutely.

If you're submitting your blog post because you want free advertising, then not really, no.

I appreciate there's a fine line between the two (after all, who doesn't want free advertising?), but if HN readers are not interested then the article will quickly drop away without much exposure anyway.
If an object is defined as const, casting away its constness and modifying the object causes the program's behavior to be undefined. Compilers are free to take advantage of that.
>>I want to punch Guido or whoever else has a saying in language's design for not "stealing" this and adopting it into Python

Please relax... no tool is perfect for all situations. It is always a trade off.
> You cannot motivate people with fear, at least not with fear alone

Fear is exactly what has kept North-Korea going for ages.
writing 4096 byte demos and similar, back in the day, I can assure you I had fun coding x86 asm :)

maybe if the Asphyxia tutorials hadn't been written for Turbo Pascal (+inline asm) and the C-compilers (back in '97) were really that good at optimizing as comments here suggest, I'd have gone a different route. but still, that's just performance. I doubt a compiler can beat a human at size optimization, cramming as much audio-visual power into as little bytes as possible--although executable-packers have come a loooong loong way since then (and impressively, afaik mostly by research and not so much Moore's law).
The question is why do you choose the Paleolithic era as your cut off? We evolved the ability to consume dairy and grains about 10,000 years ago. If you are basing diet on what we evolved to eat, why do you exclude foods that we evolved to eat?
Well, hold on there. Think about the comparison: The 9/11 attacks DID force a nation into an actual, real war (two, actually, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and three if you want to count the generic "War on Terror" that was stepped up dramatically after the attack). The war in Afghanistan has become the longest in United States history, and those wars together HAVE clearly helped set in motion a series of events that will dictate the balance of power in the Middle East for a generation to come, from the deposition and removal of dictators by force to the Arab Spring to the ongoing civil war in Syria. Though there was no contiguous threat in the Middle East to rival Nazi Germany, the Middle East was and is still characterized by a number of oppressive dictatorships.

Did post-9/11 have the same economic effects for the US as the post-WWII era? No, but that's not really the effect of any particular difference between the events that precipitated WWII and the wars of the last decade. And, if anything, the post-9/11 landscape HAS seen a dramatic shift in the global balance of power, specifically in challenges to US supremacy and an internal reconsideration of how we project the power we do have.

The point to be made here, which I think backs up the whole "digital attack as next Pearl Harbor" argument, is that unconventional warfare is the new conventional warfare. We're less likely to see a direct military challenge along the lines of Pearl Harbor, and much more likely to see indirect challenges to US supremacy through digital or terrorist attacks. There are a lot of parallels to be drawn here, and you made many of them yourself.
Seems a little disingenuous to claim they're the first tablet to have side-by-side multitasking when the Surface lets you do just that.
Cyber is a fraudulent weapon in a nonexistent war
I think this is the explanation, I usually only find myself wanting to temporarily "stop" Vim and do something on the shell for quick one-off commands that are fine in a subshell - not to keep a backgrounded Vim instance around for longer than that. The blog author seems to have a different use in mind.
I fixed the problem; If I manage to have something like 10k Google Maps requests in a day I'll run into issues with their API but this is all through their official javascript api
Hey, my name is ICC, and I'm one of the most respected compilers in the industry. I also sabotage your code so that it works poorly on AMD CPUs, while making sure that Intel CPUs run my code at full speed. After all, Intel likes to establish market dominance.

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49

Blind trust in the compiler is bad people. Good luck discussing this issue without any Assembly Programers who can fully understand what is going on here.
I am not an expert, but from my work experience, I'd guess that about 80% of all of the companies in the world have ineffective defenses and are essentially open to this kind of attack. The people doing this to US companies probably think of themselves as superior and think of us as hapless rubes.
I've run five -- four in New York City, one in Philadelphia, where I got my best time (3:51) and inspired my Mom to run her first, at 66 years old, which I wrote up here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/redefining_possibility -- and story-told here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/telling-my-awesome-story.

I didn't use online tools. They feel like the opposite of why I run. I like to feel free and untethered, feeling just the wind. About once a year I try running with an mp3 player and they ruin my experience. I run in minimal shoes now (Vivo Barefoots, which I recommend) and will consider moving to total barefoot when I run my next.

I just run. If I'm not running my best time, so what? I don't expect to win. I expect to push myself, to practice discipline, to enjoy myself. I know how not to get injured. If my time could be a few minutes better because I'm too busy running the way I want instead of running optimally, I sleep just fine.

Here are more of my thoughts on running marathons and inspiration -- http://joshuaspodek.com/on_reading_new_york_city_marathon_re....
I have literally known 2 people who have died while running a marathon (one 30ish, the other in his mid 40s). It's stupidly abusive on your body, but if you do want to run one, make sure you get your heart fully checked out by a doctor.
There is a possible flaw in the statistics. In many cases it is simply ...the customer walking away. (not the student failing)

For example not everyone is after "credits". I have enrolled for some online courses and have found the quality of instruction low, or the pace wrong for me. As my purpose was to increase my knowledge, I just bought a couple of books on the topic (much quicker and more in depth). On a current course with coursera, I am enjoying the course and the lecturer Michael S. Roth, especially as the course is diametrically opposite to my day to day working life. Not too sure if I can afford the time to write the essays for the assignments.
One of the most important features on a phone (to me) is the camera. I love that they're willing to try a new take and make a better camera. But why are they not releasing sample images? If you're going to push a new technology... back it up with some examples!
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I came here to vote "no" because I wanted to ensure the pollster got an appropriate balance of "no" answers.

I usually vote in every HN poll that I see anyway.
4 marathons here. Three were Ironman marathons and one just-a-marathon (Philly 2007, 3:48).

I followed a similar program for the standalone as I did for the Ironman marathons: one hard run (hills, tempo, fartlek, etc), one long run, and 2-3 easy-ish runs. Each run will get longer as you progress until you're at the point of doing 15-17 miles as your long, 8-10 as your hard workout, and the rest being as short as 3 and as long as 6 miles.

I personally never ran more than 2 hours (~15-17 miles) at a time when marathon training. Others, like my wife, would run three hours as their long run. For me, the recovery and wasted days after a three hour run weren't worth it. I'd rather run 2 hours then another hour the next day than run three hours and not be able to run again for two days.

And since you're still a ways out, weight train now to avoid injury later. You don't need to do massive weights and you can avoid bulk using higher rep sets but getting some lunges, squats, and dead lifts in now could save you from injury during your key training period.
I have been using the free tier (50K API calls per day) of Open Calais for years and have also used it in code examples in three books I have written.

One thing that Open Calais does that I really like is that they attempt to have a single URI uniquely identifying recognized named entities. This is useful because, for example, when it recognizes President Bill Clinton, you get a reference to a unique URI, even if his name, title is different in different processed texts.

Thomson-Reuters bought ClearForest several years ago, thus acquiring Calais. If you are interested in text mining, and if you haven't experimented with Open Calais, then please put that on your TODO list.
still there for me.
Not at all, I've just realised that waiting for a bit works better than drinking caffeine.

Exercise helps greatly as well.
>> Does anyone know of a guide to getting a sane, non-broken vim working with some basic plugins like syntastic

There are a number of vim-setups that are popular. janus (https://github.com/carlhuda/janus), spf13 (https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim) are pretty popular ones.

>>Last time I tried I couldn't bind F-keys for some reason
F keys bind fine for me, using OS X Terminal, and gnome-shell in linux. Are you using an esoteric term?

>> I couldn't get syntastic's error marking column to stay on instead of shifting my text back and forth all the time
That is using the SignColumn part of vim. As far as I know, vim doesn't allow you to force the existance of SignColumn. You can open up a bug report at their Google Code repo if you think its worthwhile

>> I couldn't get auto-complete mapped to tab properly
Depending on your language, YouCompleteMe (https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe) is amazing, but if you don't do C based stuff NeoComplCache is great too (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2620)

>> the extra functionality of vim ends up being counter-productive when none of it works right
To be fair, thats true of any tool.
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Surely the GPS is an OS thing, so that apps just request latitude and longitude (etc) and the OS/GPS chip does all the relevant computations leaving no room for different apps to have different accuracies.(Other than different smoothing algorithms layered.)
The way the government allows corporations to calculate calories is a very corrupt system, self-moderated with little to no supervision or enforcement.

So keep that in mind when reading labels.
But there are still a pile of references to South Korea! The Juche approach to garbage collection sucks.
this is why i love HN where reasonable people are willing to consider different perspectives and make their choices of conviction. thanks for the conversation.
"Login to the website not via the suspicious link" requires understanding what URLs are, how to isolate which part is "the website", how to edit them and how to enter them. The amount of people Googling for "log into Facebook" proves none of this is a given.

"You expected this email" is also not a hard test to pass in either academia or corporate settings, where users are generally besieged by unsolicted instructions to "Go here, do this, hurry up about it".
If you had a bagel (plain with no spread) and a cream filled iced donut sitting next to each other, I think most people would think choosing the bagel would be the obvious healthy choice.

(Honestly, I think that's why people have success with low-carb diets. So much of their calorie intake is from carbs from simple basics like breads and pasta.)
Having a better conducting, higher surface area electrode is a huge step. BUT it doesn't really change the fact that a carbon based supercapacitor requires an electrolyte to form the double layer, and all existing electrolytes have a breakdown voltage below 5V. What we need is a better electrolyte. In calculating energy storage in a capacitor, the energy increases exponentially with voltage, while linearly with capacitance.
When I was in college I spent a summer going through Alaska's database (it was downloadable), cross referencing with a people search engine, and then mailing letters to people to tell them that they had missing money and how to claim it (and asking for a 5% cut). Made a decent summer's wage. Pretty sure I could have made a ton more money but it was pretty boring work so I just focused on school and more professional internships after that.

Still, an opportunity for someone feeling entrepreneurial out there.
What a crock of shhhhi!

Who are these scientists? Hard-wired to enjoy TV? Hard-wired to surf the net? Does it ever stop? Most people hate working hard. Be it studying, working out, working. The only things that make those enjoyable is a clear goal of why you are doing them. If not, it will be tedious and very hard.

I was hard-wired to hate exercise, until I stopped looking at exercise as a way to lose weight or be happy or have a nice body. It was simply a challenge of mind over my body, the same challenge that applies in studying for long hours, working for long hours, delaying gratification and subjecting myself to pain to reap the reward that lies ahead. Once I did that, I enjoy exercise. I skip ropes for the most part with light weight training. I skip for an hour straight. My weight drops 2-3 lbs everytime I enter the gym. I work that hard because I have a reason. Prior to this? I walked around the gym for an hour touching and sampling various equipments. What I now do in a single day is greater than what I use to do in an entire week. Tbe great thing about humans? We are hardwired to change anytime we make the choice. That's the only thing we need to remember.
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Ahh, thanks. I didn't realize it was just a demo. Sounds like a fun weekend project.
Hi Daniel, we'd like to address the issue you're having with the walk-through. Can you send feedback using the console's feedback button and I'll contact you directly?
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A lot of us do development on remote servers. Using vim in a terminal on the server is a heck of a lot snappier than a local editor over a remote connection. Also makes reconnecting your dev environment as easy as tmux a -d and allows me to do so from multiple machines.
I think almost any programmer running a service used by hundreds of thousands of people would hate the idea of it being down. It's part of building things to want them to work properly.
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Not ideological reasons but more so pragmatism. But sure 2.X series.

And 2.4+ nodes can be managed.

Once Python 3 is the thing everywhere I'm sure we'll have compliance. Ditto with, say, OpenStack which is also holding off. You kind of treat them as two different languages to a degree, if you still want to support things like RHEL 5 (2.4), you have to.
The NK leadership, both military and political, must know there's no realistic chance they would remain relevant after any peaceful reunification. (United Korea would have little use for NK's gigantic standing army, and the West wouldn't countenance any kind of dictatorial model of government.) These are the two institutions which prop NK up, and the first priority of any bureaucracy is its own survival. Therefore I don't think the north really wants reunification with the south so much as absorption of the south (however unrealistic that may be). NK's talk of peaceful reunification can therefore be little more than the PR-friendly side of their bipolar coin.
Knowledge of the ability to use netrw as a local directory browser seems to not be very widespread.
The comment was referencing the fact that you can make a gun for yourself without a serial number as long as you don't sell it or do anything with it that is defined as 'transfer.'
Thanks to the hundreds of blog posts that tell them to do so.
What simple things was Cinammon lacking? I actualy enjoy using it more than any other DE I ever used. It keeps the traditional things I want and has a clean modern feel, and is easy to customize without overwhelming you with choices.
Well that really depends on what you do with the package. If you see it is not addressed to you, then bring it inside, open it, and consume the contents, you just gave the prosecution evidence. Even if they cannot build the case against you, they might try charging you for opening mail addressed to someone else.
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anecdotal evidence I will add, I lost 30 pounds from February to July last year with a break fast that was either 2 donuts or bagels from Dunkin Donuts along with their large coffee and cream.

I simply counted calories and worked out. I aimed for 1600-2000 a day and the weight just came off. One snack I had to drop, and mean I had to because it was a binge type snack, was nuts. The calories I was consuming were silly. When I measured out my quarter cup (200 calorie average) it was shocking.

My belief, the majority of people have no clue how many calories they truly consume and even a simple picture chart like this one may be the hint they need.
Using a mouse? In Vim?
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The training required to run a marathon is way past the sweet spot of (exercise benefits - side effects). A one-off marathon is not necessarily a big deal. However, running 2500 miles a year is not good.
Split panes is pretty much the main reason I need iTerm2. That, combined with system-wide hotkey toggling (which I used to get on Terminal with Visor), and Send Commands to All Sessions mode (cmd-ctrl-i, I think) makes me a happy command liner.
I used NERDTree when I was starting Vim, but uninstalling and hating it were essential steps towards Vim nirvana.

Because then I found out about ctrlp.vim and :E, two things that makes NERDTree completely useless to me.
Poll: Have you run a Tough Mudder?
If you are a mudder, what online resources/texts or training program have you used or you follow?

I would be running May 2013 Chicago, IL mudder and probably July 2013 Tahoe, CA mudder.
> I don't think NKs planes have GPS, do they?

They couldn't buy something off the shelf for private aviation? Also, Seoul is pretty huge. Hitting it by dead reckoning or terrain navigation over 35 miles shouldn't be an issue.
The author mentioned CtrlP for fuzzy filename matching. Its great because it's in pure Vimscript, but in my experience it becomes unusably slow for moderately sized projects. A month or two ago, I switched back to CommandT (requires Vim to be compiled with Ruby support, engine written in C) and haven't thought twice about it since then.
Not being able to run for 6 months after a marathon you've trained only 5 weeks for may not be uncommon, but you didn't take an intelligent approach.

Your experience is not common for people that put in the effort early.
"free-hand laser cutter"

That sounded way more dangerous than it actually it. Cool.
A great scifi book that also mixes in entrepreneurial concepts is "Infoquake."
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I think the percentage of marathoners who qualify as a "marathon maniac" is quite small. To become a member of Marathon Maniacs at even the lowest level you have to document running (a) 2 marathons within 16 day timeframe or (b) 3 marathons within 90 day timeframe. (http://marathonmaniacs.com/criteria.html ) This is certainly doable, but I think percentage of marathoners who have done this is small. Such short intervals between marathons are not generally a good idea for people who aim for getting best possible times -- too stressful for body -- more for people who just like to participate in the events.

Best subculture I've found for actually getting training help and discussion is in the 'Marathoners' subforum at Runners World message boards:
http://forums.runnersworld.com/forums/runner-communities/mar...
To be honest, everyone thinks the diet that worked for them is great, and all the other ones are bullshit.

Most people will lose weight on any restrictive diet they stick to. Most people can't stick to a diet.
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I'd probably buy one if I could think of a practical application for one.
Salt is using its own homebrew transport encryption protocol instead of TLS (which, among other things, serializes everything as JSON o_O): https://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/specs/salt_aut...

Why are they doing this? Good question!
Could somebody file suit against the Chinese government? Could they prove a case to the standard required in a civil case?
What remote transports does it have that are daemonless?
You're not wrong. In context here, I was in a running club, regularly racing half-marathons-usually running a longer distance than that at least once a week, as one of 4 training sessions, and I'd run a marathon before. But training for my second marathon, I developed a niggle in my left hip.

I tried to cut back on training but still do the marathon, as it wasn't far off; but on the day, 6 miles in, I tore my right calf (most likely because I had unbalanced my stride from the first injury).

A torn calf takes weeks to recover from, but after I recovered from that I found I was still hirpling from the injury on the left. That was over a year ago, and while I don't limp any more, I still can't walk distances without pain, despite physio.

The moral here being - don't attempt to run one carrying an injury.
Why on earth would Nokia back this project? If they make a tablet it's going to be a Windows 8 device.