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I fail to see how sprint speed, or indeed any other sports-based metric, is related to health. A strictly vegetarian diet is more healthy in the sense that it dramatically reduces the chances of getting various diseases. These include some of the top killers in developed countries, like heart disease and stroke. Vegans are also far less likely to be obese, and obesity is an important risk factor of many diseases.

The three main factors that influence health (in the sense above) are smoking habits, diet, and exercise. The factors you mention are secondary. I refer you to the sources I cited above for more details and evidence.

> Basically there is no such one-fits-all scenario for a diet.

That's a bit like saying that not everyone should avoid arsenic... There are of course personal variations, but the fact that meat, dairy and eggs are bad for you is not one of them. The basic mechanisms that cause animal-based food to be harmful, like the fact that saturated fats increase bad cholesterol, are well-studied and do not vary greatly from person to person.

On the other hand, a vegan diet is not one-size; it's not like we just eat lettuce all day. In fact, when you go vegan you discover that you do not lose any diversity, because there are many plant foods that non-vegans usully don't consider eating (for no good reason).
You seem very certain about this. I don't know if I'm as certain as you are about this issue, but my thoughts about this issue have opposite valence.
I can't find the one I watched but there is good stuff on this site about the science and neurology behind meditation.

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com
I believe your bigger issue is that some countries won't allow some convicted felons to enter - particularly Canada.
I can see most of those being useful so that you can easily extract components. For instance, from a URL you might want to extract the URI; or from a phone number you might want to extract the country code.

If done right, I can see those being useful. I agree that it can be overdone, though.
Onsite power, generators, parking for cars, a big tower for RF, satellite, security, etc. A perfect office normally and set up perfectly for disaster response when the earthquake eventually hits. Being able to get $0.95/ft2 NNN on Pioneer, and taking an entire building, so each employee has 500+ square feet...

Imagine being the only place with real comms, security, and competent people (i.e. non-government), just like my friend who stayed in his ISP in NOLA after Katrina, or my office in Baghdad, or any other situation like that.
i just contacted kickstarter via email.

i hope they take down this cheating fraud bitch. she has a lot of nerve to be so blatantly stealing other people's hard earned money.
FWIW Chuck, I agree that the phrase "VC-istan" rubs me the wrong way in Michael's otherwise quite interesting and compelling writing. For me there are two reasons, one bad and one not-terrible (note I don't have any "strong" reasons... as Chuck says this is merely something that irks me):

1) The bad reason: while I'm a startup founder who has deliberately eschewed VC money for many reasons that overlap Michael's analysis, I have many friends who thought VC was the right choice for them. These people are not stupid, dinosaurs, corrupt, or anything else that warrants a pejorative. They made a rational cost-benefit decision that they believed to be best for them. It irks me to have a significant group of people whom I respect categorized in this "feudal" taxonomy, as you put it.

2) The not-terrible reason: if you follow Michael's writing you find that he has had one or more bad experiences with startups in the past, and he has never mentioned a good one. If you are someone who believes that good startups do exist, then it is very easy for your monkey-brain to short-circuit to "sour grapes" whenever he discusses the VC ecosystem, even though I mostly don't believe that to be the case. I think it detracts from the strength of his writing to give lazy readers an easily-avoided prompt that might lead them to inaccurate conclusions. If one merely wants a shorthand for "the VC-ecosystem", I think VC-land conveys the same grouping of concepts without provoking a potentially suspicious reaction. I know that I have a very minor ego vs id battle every time I read "VC-istan" in his essays, and I suspected others did as well.
Well A the finish system would be dammed as "socialist" and B America is some much more diverse in terms of wealth and race.
I'm not a lawyer but I think a fraud prosecution is very unlikely. However, there are a bunch of torts involved.

The real consequence I'm referring to here though is a firing for cause. Real for-cause firings are rare in our business, so I think we tend to forget that they are a big deal.
Hmm, we'll certainly keep our eyes out for that and cover it.
I'm not really that concerned about people breaking and entering (I have guns...) while I'm in home or office, but secured parking would be awesome.
That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It Seems
Most millionaires become rich by keeping as much of their income as they can ... I guess it's easier if you're willing to give up a good reputation in the process. When I read the KS campaign, I thought it was a bit weird that the mom was obviously doing the writing, but I hadn't researched Susan Wilson at all. Maybe she was really just trying to show her daughter how to reach for her dreams but she'll have to be careful with the extra money or she'll teach her the wrong things. I'd suggest using the extra money to send needy kids to the computer camp.
This is actually a problem with how US society works.

It's in society's best interests for someone in OP's position to become a productive member of society again. But if they're eternally refused employment, education, and passport due to the background check, how is someone supposed to recover their life after that?

The problem is cultural, we need to be more forgiving of peoples' past. As more and more of the population becomes more and more searchable, this sort of relaxation is inevitable. But social change takes time.
Sounds like a "Gentlemen's Club" from an Ian Fleming novel.
If you really are a programmer you do meditation whenever you are working, the process of meditation is to contemplate on some subject, object or whatever. So yes I do meditate, at work and daily on Lord's holy name.
"Hembra" used to be acceptable some time ago, but right now is controversial and not used in that context. It is still used for female animals, though.

The same goes with the male equivalent: "macho", which now is only used for animals and not people. (Macho can be also used in a similar way as in english, but that's a different acception and context usage)
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Notice that your citation completely agrees with my statement above but includes lots of wiggle words like "can", "appropriately planned", "well planned", "supplements" and focuses on vegetarian diets without specifying type of diet and doesn't focus on veganism as a dietary habit.

It also doesn't discuss long term dietary issues of vegan practitioners, percentage of practitioners with health deficits (ones who don't practice an "appropriately/well planned diet" and live without the use of "supplements").

Cite me some long term studies with randomly sampled population surveys and we can start having a real conversation.
Look at her (Susan Wilson's) other Kickstarter [1], her husband, the ex-marine sewing super hero capes, goal $20,000 raised $400. Clearly Susan is getting better at understanding the Kickstarter user mentality. And that is what she is training her kids to understand.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/susanwilson/the-cape-pro...
"Technically (within the yogic meditation tradition), 'concentration' is defined as..."

Which yogic meditation tradition? There are dozens if not hundreds of them, interpreted in a myriad of different ways by thousands if not millions of teachers across the millennia.
I enjoyed thinking about what Nabokov was assigning to his students:

"Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Robert Louis Stevenson"

Looks like I'll be reading Metamorphosis( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis) tonight!
Its possibly the most important daily task I have. If you go for weeks meditating, and then take a week off, you'll know what just hit you.

The first week is the hardest. Stick it out. The benefits will come. I use Jon Kabat's tapes and they're perfect.

I meditate for 20 minutes in the morning with one simple rule. DO NOT check email or any input that gives you information (ie. news / social media) before your meditation. It will only make it more difficult.

Last year I went on my first meditation retreat and it was rather insightful. An entire weekend can clear the noise completely from my mind without any urge to dive back into technology.
Tell-all cars put your driving business out in the open
From what I gathered from a quick look at Wikipedia, probably the biggest factor is that diesel engines are best used for high-torque, low-speed applications.
The bar has only recently been relaxed according to wikipedia until recently in the finish system if you went to a poytechnic you where bared from doing a Masters or PHD.
I typed out my (very long) story, then ended up deleting it. Let me offer some advice, however:

When you fill out applications and are asked "the question", lie. As someone who has very strong ethics and morals, it's hard for me to say that. It is, however, absolutely necessary if you wish to work again.

Eventually, however, somebody will probably find out and you need to be prepared to deal with that.

The first time it happened to me, I was fortunate in that I had a great working/professional relationship with my superiors a few levels "up the ladder" (very large company). When they found out, they called me in and confronted me about it. I told them the absolute truth and also explained why I lied about it. They sent me home, mulled it over for about a week, then called me and told me to come back to work. It was never mentioned again.

The next time it happened, I was offered a job at a company after one short interview. When I filled out the paperwork, I lied, of course. It wasn't very long before they found out about it (and this was a MUCH smaller company). The two owners, however, knew that I was friends with the Mayor, who they were also friends with. They asked the Mayor about whether they should keep me and his response was something to the effect of "I would, he's a helluva lot smarter than any of your other guys". (It probably also helped that my boss is pretty shady anyways).

*

With regard to Google search results, take control of that shit. Start a blog, write awesome shit, post videos on YouTube, participate in mailing lists/forums, etc. Spread your name everywhere you can so that when you are Googled, it's your own stuff that comes up. If you Google me, you'll get tired of clicking "Next Page" long before you find anything negative.

Basically, lie on the paperwork. If you're honest, they're not even going to give you a chance. If you at least get "in the door", work harder than anyone else. Volunteer to work on things nobody else wants to and do the absolute best that you can at everything. Eventually, they WILL find out. Be prepared for that day.

Good luck, it's not easy.

-- 15-year convicted felon
Just skimmed the article and kickstarter page so maybe this is addressed already: (speculation) surely this isn't about the money, it's about publicity for the game camp? They don't need the money if her profile is to be believed (although the amount of supposed millionaires around that are dirt poor means it's plausible she isn't rich). She probably has some connection with the game camp.

Edit: actually I want to revise that statement, on looking through her website links I think it's more likely this is advertising for her, she's trying to build a brand. I assume she'll go a long way off the back off "next on USA Today, the crowd-sourcing mom!" or something. She's got her own female entrepreneur thing at fundher.com. Maybe that's it.
That's not even remotely true. Go look up what the anti-tivoing clause in the GPLv3 actually means, and think about what effect that would have on iOS.
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I grew up in the mountains outside of Napa. One of our neighbors was very wealthy, and also paranoid about fires (brush fires are very dangerous in that region). He owned a fire truck aside from many other vehicles. One day an arsonist set fire to the mountainside, and he had a heart attack because of it. A new person bought up his property, and I would visit their house sometimes, and see that firetruck, not knowing the backstory. I just thought that wealthy people owned firetrucks because it was cool. :)
That picture diminishes the credibility of the article so much!
Can't really see the fraud here.
Probably not the reason, but it's worth noting that law and medicine historically had women in some roles, albeit subservient. Typically your court reporters were female, and of course nurses were pretty much all female. There weren't any roles in ye olde engineering where it was typical to see a woman at all.

Edit: probably more telling is that both law and medicine are heavily involved in a sense of social responsibility, something that women are traditionally socialised for. Engineering not so much.
Distribution in any fashion of any GPLv3 code counts as implicit acceptance of the license, which kicks in all the nasty stuff in there, including the virality of it (so the rest of your code now must be GPLv3), the anti-tivoing clause, the patent crap, etc.
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My afternoon chatting with a man who thinks I shouldn't be able to get married
-ism implies institutional bias of a society

Sexism/racism et al. can exist outside of institutions no?
"Hate crimes" for instance clearly do not involve
any recognizable institutions yet clearly involve an -ism of some kind. Nor do -isms only exist at the society level. For instance it would be possible for a female owned company to not hire men (female hiring bias/sexism) which would run counter to larger societal biases.
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Guess we're not going to be able to work with our SX-64 portables on planes anymore.
A backup of a corrupt repository would have been just as corrupt though.

This is the big thing I can't figure out what people are not understanding. git does consistency checking for you already, tar|rsync|etc. don't, so it makes sense to take advantage of that.

What we had was an instance of some of the underlying data becoming corrupt on the filesystem (with indications of that starting on Feb 22!). The big mistake was considering the source repositories as consistent and canonical at the remote anongit end, but the data would have been just as corrupt if we had scp'ed the repos from git.kde.org to the anongit mirrors around the world, since we would have bypassed git's internal checking in that way.

Is it safe to rsync a running mysql database at random times, or are you supposed to use mysql-provided tools to perform a backup?
>> ... the backups were ...

But what you describe, is necessarily not a backup.

EDIT: redundant text removed
Supply and demand. There isn't a huge market for 30 year old used fire trucks, so the prices are low. As the author found out, a fire truck isn't the most practical vehicle in the world--certainly not as practical as a Honda Civic.
report abuse now: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/susanwilson/9-year-old-b...
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As a European I don't understand the american fascination with impractically fhuge cars for every day commuting.

Okay I get it, you want a big car for that roadtrip or vacation. Understandable, I do too. But for everyday stuff? My hatchback does perfectly fine around town ... hell, it does perfectly well on most vacations and long drives too.
I don't think this is true. The gist of your comment is valuable, in that lots of places don't background check, but checks are in fact pretty common. We see a good cross section of the industry (we're consultants) and I wouldn't be surprised if as many as half did checks.
This is one thing that bugs me about complaints about the carbon emissions of cars. Planes cause far more carbon emissions, and they do it way up in the atmosphere where it seems plausible that it actually does more damage. It's a giant elephant in the room.
Many themes recur in Nabokov's work. One of the most frequent is the use of fallible narrators and layered levels of implicit plot.

This article is decidedly Nabokov-esque: the author feigns ignorance of the connection between describing a movie in perfect detail to Nabokov and then being hired to review movies. It's not a million miles away from the sort of gaff Charles Kinbote might make [1].

Incidentally, I think Pale Fire might appeal to much of the HN crowd. It's frequently read as a dense, finely-wrought mechanical puzzle that might appeal to the coder mindset.

Like Nabokov, I'm also a big fan of writing under pseudonyms. It's a very freeing experience.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire

Edit: if you like puzzles, it might be better not to spoil the fun by reading the wikipedia article (or indeed any review, or the dust jacket of the book). It would be better to buy the book, start with the foreword by C. Kinbote and read through to the end of the index.
If it's not a rigorous philosophical work, people will not be very precise with their qualifiers.

For example, in the previous sentence, I said 'people' and not 'most people.' Especially in the social sciences, people assume you're discussing populations, and words like 'most' impede clarity more than aid it.

That said, I don't know the author, and they may be a gender essentialist; they do still exist.
It explicitly mentions just compensation. A sub-market price isn't just.
Then why don't they collect money for the camp instead of for themselves?
Dear God. Now I have a quick fix for any time I feel like I need a dose of humility.
I live next door to a busy firehouse, and I've heard plenty of gripes about the perils of their newer truck vs the mid-80's pumper with 350k miles that replaced it. Based on the frequency that I see the department's backup engine next door, I tend to agree.

Basically, the new trucks are unibody and much more fragile -- it turns out that new firetruck demand is driven by smaller/volunteer departments that don't put a ton of wear on the equipment. Minor accidents and mechanical breakdowns on the newer gear are major repair incidents that require weeks of downtime.

The old trucks were basically custom cabs sitting on a truck frame. Not very comfortable, but tough enough to survive 30 years of service with 2,000+ calls a year in a northeast city.
Not from plants, but from micro-organisms and bacteria! Yum! Many of my foods are fortified with B12.

50% DV in my soy/almond milk, 40% in a single tbsp of nutritional yeast. I have a cup with cereal in the morning and a cup with dinner at night and I'm set. It's quite easy.
If it's the mom saying "hey look kid you need to earn your way in this life, but if you really want to go to this camp, one thing you could try is kickstarter" then that's great! I had plenty of super wealthy friends growing up and the ones that tended to be of solid character had parents that led them in such ways. Why does a parent having a ton of money necessarily mean the approach advocated for the child to take/learn should be different than for less wealthy parents?

Though I do agree kickstarter ought to disallow this sort of thing regardless.
I think starting your own company is your best option if you have a previous conviction.
Though I do use nginx and am very happy with it, I am somewhat put off by the fact that I reported a bug five months ago (including a working patch for the problem) and no one seems to have as much as looked at it [1]. (Granted, this is in a module, not in the core server, but in general the community process for the project seems messy and vague.)

[1]: http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/242
My nightmare scenario here would be being parked somewhere near where a fire breaks out, and then having to tell people that no, I can't actually help them.
Well, I was interested in the book that inspired this comic, but I followed the link to the original [1] which states that the "comic was respectfully removed in March 2012 due to the wishes of the copyright holders of the text."

1) http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse...
Government jobs are, obviously, not going to be an option.
We're already doing #1, 2, and 3 on the list you provided, just so you know (although we missed out on some areas for #1 in retrospect).
Save Kickstarter from scam - report this fake sexist project
Nice story. Must have been amazing to grow up there.
Terrible idea. That would have severely impacted all of the high-profile projects to date.

Whoa, HN double-posted my comment. Never seen that happen before.
Case in point: during the Depression the Agriculture Department estimated that 25% of the population was malnourished, something the military confirmed to their satisfaction during the draft, which later was an input into the Federal school lunch program.
I'm a Muslim. We pray five times a day. It's a whole lot better than meditation.
I've had that particular 'uh-oh' moment on about 3 occasions. Pretty sure it was a major brand, no idea what caused the break, but it seems to be entirely possible.
"The recovery from the Great Depression began instantly with Roosevelt’s policy shift, in March 1933. He had changed expectations, and begun an administration that would use money as a tool to bring widespread prosperity -- rather than serve as a tool of moneyed interests."

This is pure economic propaganda. Anyone with a whit of knowledge of the period knows that the depression lasted through the entire 30s, with unemployment remaining very high for the whole decade (it was 19% in 1938)
Your pitch sucks
We hired a guy who had recently finished 7 years in the clink. After he got out he was freelancing in a shared office space. Worked with other devs there whom we hired or knew. They vouched for him.

He's a great dev, good friend, recently finished a PhD while working full time for us. We'd have been stupid not to hire him for the mistake he made a decade ago.

Don't hide your record.

Network and you get work.
The RSS feed is just a mirror of the HN frontpage.

Date is not as relevant as points are. Remember, the vast majority of articles are crappy and never make it to the front page. An RSS feed full of 1 point submissions is not very useful.
You could look at how pyMC calls out to Fortran (windows and POSIX FFI, source translation is sketchy without thorough unit test suites

http://pymc-devs.github.com/pymc/INSTALL.html
What makes the truck more unsafe around children than e.g. a Ford Explorer or similar?
This in turn led to the Raich case where the Supreme Court ruled the government could prohibit state-permitted personal private activity on the grounds that it affected interstate commerce by reducing demand for a federally illegal product.
I don't get it. Is it fraud because she already has enough money to pay for it, but opted to use Kickstarter instead?

How is that fraud? Is every millionaire startup founder who raises capital a fraud as well?
I don't know if it is alright but i made a new news item of this with a clear call to action and hope we can take this project off kickstarter. let's get it done, hack0rs
I'm a newbie - if I install Passanger to be able to run Rails apps on on Nginx, are these benefits lost?

Better yet: What exact is Passanger? (Explain it like I'm five)

Their site says, "Phusion Passenger is an application server for Ruby (Rack) and Python (WSGI) apps." - so it's something that runs below Nginx and run Ruby code?

Or is it an extension for Nginx/Apache?

Thanks!