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The mechanics of weight gain and loss are fascinating. Every time I read an article like this it makes me appreciate the complexity of the human body even more.

That said, the issue as a whole is not rocket science, and should not be treated as such. While it is very interesting to examine and discuss how the human body treats various types of calories, at the end of the day the closed system that is the human body is still governed by calories in minus calories out. It is impossible for someone to continue to gain weight if they are eating less calories than they are consuming. Literally. Impossible.

The problem is one of human psychology, both at the calorie consumption side and calorie burning side.

On the consumption side, there are two main causes. First, for overweight and obese people, the act of putting food in their mouths and drinking high-calorie drinks has become so second nature that their minds simply stop registering it after a while. This is why in scientific studies and surveys that examine the topic, overweight and obese participants massively under-report what they ate throughout the study while those who have trouble putting on weight (the so-called "hardgainers") over-report it. The mind underplays the importance of events and situations it is familiar with (such as eating) and vice versa.

The second reason is that even when people do pay attention to how much they are eating and count the calories at that moment, they are terrible at estimating their daily or weekly intake. They try to do "mental accounting," the most common example being "I ate a salad at lunch today, so it's OK for me to order some fries at dinner." For obvious reasons, this approach fails hard.

There's also the calorie burning side. Just like most people are terrible at estimating how much they are eating, they are also terrible at estimating how much they are burning. For example, walking counts as exercise for a surprisingly large number of people, yet walking for an hour straight at moderate pace burns only about as many calories as in a slice of bread. And yet the mental accounting comes into play afterward during dinner and they justify their bad habits by telling themselves they exercised that day.

There are other issues, such as the way food companies manufacture their products in very specific ways so as to maximize their consumption, or the way they market to children. But in my opinion these are at the periphery. Ultimately the matter is about the individual. It's about how much they individual eats. Not what they say they eat, but what they actually eat.
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The most interesting suggestion, to me:

"However, there is something else we can do. It is more radical, but also more useful. Rather than letting people only evaluate papers, why not give them a chance to participate and improve them as well? Put all your papers on github and let others discuss them, open issues, fork them, improve them, and send you corrections. Does it sound crazy? Of course it does, open source also sounded crazy when Richard Stallman announced his manifesto.

Let us be honest, who is going to steal your LaTeX source code? There are much more valuable things to be stolen. If you are tenured professor you can afford to lead the way. Have your grad student teach you git and put your stuff somewhere publicly. Do not be afraid, they tenured you to do such things."

This is a fascinating idea. I'm curious. If we did this (say, with an upcoming technology paper), would anyone want to contribute?
You nailed it: they could start out by taking out some child pornographers, money launderers, corrupt congressmen, senators, judges and mayors. Then move on to Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, members of the press, uppity hackers like Aaron Schwartz, et al.

But wait there is more,

How about some ambitious sys admin from Booz Allen or otherwise sell the information to HR departments, the Enquirer, The Daily Mail, Goldman Sacks, the Chinese, the Russians, or start his own "protection business"?

</sarcasm>
I don't think moving the goalposts from $30k/month to $1k/month out of thin air makes your argument more convincing.

"building a company 99 cents at a time isn't going to work"

Except when it does. You could say the same thing about any price point.

From your earlier thread:

"It doesn't sound like the economics are there to build the next EA, id Software, etc."

Is Rovio not many times bigger than id software?
Oh absolutely, but I don't know of any one-time-pad schemes that normal people use to encrypt their online activities. That means moving information outside the public network before sending messages over it.

If we can get entangled particles between parties ahead of time to exchange keys, we can do all sorts of fun things.
No one is using this password reset feature, lets drop it.
"Or just say you don't have BitCoins, since it would be mighty hard to track that."

Yeah, nobody would ever think to look at the public record of Bitcoin transactions.
I like the sound of overdosing on silver and permanently turning blue / grey
Trade Me has been gamed though, by importers and people using it as a virtual store for selling or trading their niche. I'm not sure what the answer is, but a way to filter out the high-volume sellers would be nice.
From their site:

-You have a right to privacy.

-Your search data should never fall into the wrong hands.

-The only real solution is quickly deleting your data or not storing them to begin with.

-Since January 2009 we do not record our users' IP addresses anymore.

-Your personal data are not shared with any third party.

-We are the first and only search engine to do so.

-Since then we have added many other features that protect your privacy.

-Our initiative is receiving an overwhelmingly positive response!

https://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html
Don't take this the wrong way, but you mention the effect on globalization as if it were obvious that the damage should worry the American government. On the contrary, the U.S. has vacillated between isolationism and interacting with other nations before.

I don't know if you've been over to the U.S. but we have a stunningly large continent of people who feel that it is absolutely treasonous to give foreign aid at all to other nations (especially ones like Egypt and Pakistan) while there are still the poor within domestic boundaries.

The people worried about globalization are in large corporations. Even many of our liberals see "globalization" as a code term for "child labor" and "sweatshops".
You are making excuses. You need to be making a plan and executing on it.

Find out where your local thrift shop is (30 seconds on Google), figure out what other errands need to get done in that part of town, put the shit you don't want near the front door or in the garage. Next time you run an errand near the thrift store, put your pile of crap in the car (loose, no need for a box). Drop it off while running your other errand.

Strart by telling yourself that you will do something and it will get done, but start by telling yourself that something cannot be done and it will not.
Anyone who reads this and thinks this is what 1999 is like didn't live through it. In 1999 all these apps went IPO and the founders and VCs made a ton of money. Many wish it was like 1999.

Edit (please read for amusement value): http://www.sandspring.com/charts/cdj0214ipet.html
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There is a "design" to this page. It just doesn't include pictures, videos, hover bars, animated banners, nor advertisements for weird tricks to lose weight. This site is about the flow of textual information.

I like a usable application interface as much as the next guy, and am quite happy to see native interfaces (even if they aren't my beloved WPF ;-) rise back into prominence so that the hyper-text transfer protocol can get back to carrying hyper-text.
You had alt.religion.kibology and the first crowd-sourcing app in The Internet Oracle.

The technology changes but we seem to keep reinventing the wheel every time the cart gets overcrowded.
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We still have fixits and we also have delete-it's as well. The team I'm currently on has Delete Tuesdays where everyone competes to delete unused code or config options. It's very satisfying.
If we knew back then what is common knowledge today, we could build an early version of Google search in a few months. Web spider, parsing HTML, extracting links and text, computing Page Rank and then making an inverted index to look up info by keyword. Imagine this would have been 100 times better than Yahoo's links and Altavista's search.

By the way, syntax highlight thinks "Altavista" is a spelling error. Talk about becoming the footnote of history. Google was the company that took the lead from AV and now Google's own browser can't understand their main competitor of 10 years ago. AV did it to themselves, putting all that shit on the homepage and not providing good results. LOL
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""On your 1099 please list all Bitcoin address you've sent or received money from". Right."

Yeah, here is what would happen if you were caught cheating:

"Hi Mr. Auditor. I have nothing to do with Bitcoin, honest!"

"Oh, well, what did you use 10kW of power every month for the past yeah?"

"Oh, see, I was actually trying to make a cold fusion reactor!"

"Show me."

"No, I blew it up by accident."

"Oh, well, funny how there is no crater..."

Seriously, do you think the IRS does not know how to catch people who cheat on their taxes?
I suppose that means the NSA has been keeping my data since 2002 or so.
Since comments on the blog post are closed:

What we need to solve this problem depends exclusively on Apple / Google, since they chose to follow the native / app store path.

- Change App Store discoverability, removing the emphasis on Top ranks
- Decrease delay times between approvals
- Provide a way to discover from where your users come from

We're also locked to the native approach, which slows down the whole process. This is also a huge drawback for mobile as a whole. For instance, there isn't a easy way to crawl apps like Google crawl's pages.

In mobile, we're basically 'recreating the wheel' in many areas. All this effort could be directed towards supporting web technologies the best way possible, like webOS was doing in a great way.
Just use the elastic IP? I have all of my instances in a subnet, and just connect to each's elastic IP. easy.
I'm not ignoring them, I'm just saying they aren't common. The hole point of bookmarking a version of the document is to flag it for special treatment.

I'm totally for getting rid of the discrete "compile" and "debug" icons in the IDE, my research centers around that.
Have you actually looked at the studies cited, and checked the fat—protein—carbohydrate ratios used?

For example, this 2009 study used the following ratios to conclude "low-carb" diets aren't better than regular reduced-calorie diets:

20%—15%—65%

20%—25%—55%

40%—15%—45%

40%—25%—35%

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19246357

None of these are actually low-carb. The recommended ketogenic ratio is:

60%—35%—5%

Try Peter Attia's Eating Academy for some highly informative reading:

http://eatingacademy.com
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I usually use DuckDuckGo.com, because they have a neat toolbar and I want to support their cause, but everytime I don't get the results I want through DDG (which happens rarely) I just type !sp + searchterm into my search bar and it searches via startpage.com, which uses googles search results without my IP address or searches being recorded, no identifying or tracking cookies are used and SSL encryption is set by default.

Startpage.com was launched in 2009 by ixquick to create the same service via a URL that is both easier to remember and spell.
Yeah - both store more, and have an archive of obviously non-intelligence relevant encrypted/TOR traffic. I like to think that one day someone will have burn gigawatts of cpu/gpu power subverting the TOR network and breaking TLS/SSL, only to discover I'd been looking up what day the recycling bins are next collected in my local area.

More to the point - I want the expectation of privacy and the deployment of tools to maintain privacy in the face of technological and legal "advances" in surveillance to seem closer to "technologically informed libertarian" rather than "paranoid wingnut" or "jetliner-hijacking 3rd-world-sympathiser".
How would they know which bitcoin address corresponds to me? I can make a brand new wallet, find someone on Local Bitcoins (https://localbitcoins.com/) and buy some nearly-untraceable bitcoins with cash in a matter of hours.
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Why is it that almost every single article / debate ends up with someone finding a weird tangent blaming / criticizing Obama?

Not being a US citizen, I really don't care about your politics, but these sort of nonsensical comments really stand out.
You don't think that's a quite outdated, even reactionary way of thinking?
I would love to know why real estate qualifies for a 1031 exchange but currency exchange does not.
Maybe he would have failed the "commie traitor" check /s
Such a device would necessarily need to make some engineering compromises (thermal and layout issues). It would also have a tiny market. As such, the price would also be rather high.

For example this is pretty much what the Vaio Z was. A very thin and light (17mm, 1.15kg) laptop with a high-res screen (1920*1080), a real CPU (up to quad core mobile i7, not a ULV chip), and a 7670M GPU.

There were just two catches: the GPU was housed in the (tiny) external docking station, and the laptop + dock cost something like $3000. Unsurprisingly, it looks like Sony killed the whole external GPU concept in this years refresh.
If you're running a linux distro that requires compiling packages from source (Gentoo comes to mind), then you could conceivably be compiling a lot of things often.
You statement is perfectly valid. Scala was in my mind when I wrote my comment.

I wish I found Scala as easy to use as I do Go. I do not enjoy the syntax, nor do I consider running on top of the JVM a selling point.

I came from a Java, but worked in Python for many years, so that probably explains my bias.
Right, but change bitcoin for a game currency. Such as gil in final fantasy. Surely the IRS isn't going to come knocking at your door for transactions man during a game.
You are expected to pay taxes, in USD, to the IRS, on barter transactions. Yes, you can lie, but guess what? You can lie about your USD income also. You just have to hope that the auditors believe your story when they come to check you out (like where you got a Rolex and a $200k car when you only reported $20k in income).
What percentage of readers of your comment do you think click through to your profile?

Of the comments you read, what percentage do you view the profile of the author of?
There is no strong correlation between power consumption and the number of bitcoins you've mined. What's to stop me from hoarding hundreds of bitcoins but claiming I've only slush-mined 0.5 BTC?
very interesting concept. The karma based version at http://firespotting.com gets many good ideas. The validation and user base is a good value add.
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Look, this is no different from lying about your income in any other situation. People do it all the time. Yes, you can get away with it...until you are audited, at which point the auditor is going to start checking on things, and if you do not have a believable story you'll meet the same fate as Al Capone.
Hiring contractors to screen contractors...
My first reaction was that this is creative and interesting. Impressive that you did it in 24 hours.

The validation use case for Upboat makes sense... but it seems strictly weaker than, say, Kickstarter for validation. Emails mean much less than payments; you could get 1000 emails but then have a low conversion rate on that. If you did the same project on Kickstarter, you'd either fail to reach your goal or reach the goal and have validation that N people want it enough to pay for it. Upboat would be good for checking interest in FOSS projects or something, but then what is your plan to monetize it?
Nothing, but then you face the same problem that the mafia has: how do you spend all that hidden money without getting caught? Yes, you can get away with small things -- groceries, bullets, etc. -- but once you buy something big (a car, a boat, a house, a fancy rifle) you're going to have a hard time hiding the transaction.
Honestly, those specs, especially the resolution, are useless if the screen is glossy and has no matte option.
They don't care so much about the Bitcoins themselves as they do getting their cut of the fiat money when you cash them out, I'd wager.

If you buy 300 bushels of apples for $1 and, for whatever reason, the price spikes to $300 overnight, when you sell them do you claim that "Well, I paid the tax on the $1 so I don't have to pay taxes on the $299"?

If you keep your money in apples the IRS doesn't want 20% of your apples. It's only if you sell them back out and claim it as income.
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There's also skinny people who burn calories for no apparent reason, like in the Vermont Prison Overfeeding Study.

I do not lose weight on low calorie diets, period. I get hungry and sick and cold for weeks on end, and my weight does not budge. My most successful periods of weight loss have been on high fat, zero carb, very high calorie diets. I know what I was eating - I measured everything correctly, regardless of all the patronizing "fat people are unaware of how much they really eat" talk.
Hi! I'm the author of the blog post that you listed in your article. Glad you found it useful; it surprises me to this day, almost 2 years later, at just how many pageviews it continues to generate.

However, I would like to point out that the correct solution to this problem is DNS, as others here have indicated. Couple Route53 with something like Zonify (http://nerds.airbnb.com/easy-aws-inventorying-with-dns/) by the fine folks at AirBnB, and you've got something quite powerful that is diff'able via your normal tools, and can be easily versioned for sanity and safety.

Don't let my comments (or the comments of others here) detract from the pretty clever approach that you took. I think it's the fate of every ops/devops to, at some point in their careers, create a host address storage/querying system that contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of DNS without realizing it the first time around.
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The problem is he doesn't know how to use DNS. :-)
I guess no one on here has heard of the stacks project. Its over 3800 pages and I counted 93 contributors on the first page. Also, the LaTeX source is freely available on github. https://github.com/stacks/stacks-project
You do realize that:

"A global passive adversary is the most commonly assumed threat when analyzing theoretical anonymity designs. But like all practical low-latency systems, Tor does not protect against such a strong adversary. Instead, we assume an adversary who can observe some fraction of network traffic; who can generate, modify, delete, or delay traffic; who can operate onion routers of his own; and who can compromise some fraction of the onion routers."[1]

If your attacker is not "a global passive adversary"(GPA) what dots are they going to connect if you renew your car registration? If your attacker is a GPA they are already connecting all the dots.

[1] https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...
One important point that seems to be missed is that they really want to isolate what mechanism is causing the effect rather than planning to dose everyone with silver.
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One unfortunate trend that I hadn't previously associated with Windows' focus on touch is the default inclusion of touchscreens on PC laptops.

It doesn't seem to be causing much of an issue with the battery life, size, or resolution in this case but as a Linux user I don't need or want the touchscreen especially if it costs more as a consequence.
Yeah - fair enough.

On oft-hear piece of advice is to never use an identity you ever use elsewhere over TOR - for me, as a "non US person", even if I can trust TOR and TLS/SSL to ensure the privacy of my data in transit, it doesn't matter if the far end of my connection through TOR ends up at my gmail/apple/facebook/linkedin/twitter/dropbox/yahoo/amazon/any-other-US-affiliated-corporation. Being "non US" and located outside the US means the bar for any "legal requests" those companies receive is _very_ low.

(Hmmm, I wonder if proxying all my web traffic through a vpn with a definitely-in-the-US endpoint might be a worthwhile bit of civil protest? I wonder if tcp connections originating from my Digital Ocean vps in New York and heading to US datacenters have slightly better legal protection or "presumtion of domestic provenance" than tcp connections originating here in Australia? Maybe I should be doing this anyway for all the analytics/ad-tracking web-bugs...)
I think for this to work he needs to aim at the sweet spot that Kickstarter doesn't serve: new businesses and business services.

And he could charge per email received. He wouldn't make as much as Kickstarter does but perhaps down the line he could switch the business model to be more like KS where users "purchase" rewards.