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It's tough to for any author to reduce the concepts of weight management beyond 'calories in' and 'calories out.'

I've been on a weight rollercoaster for the past 10 years, varying between 180 and 230 lbs and I've read many of the same books the author names, and while they all may lead to self-discovery on what makes YOUR body tick, none of them contain the mystical ONE THING that will cause you to lose 20 lbs in one week. In this I agree whole-heartedly with the author.

For those that are very overweight, I do highly recommend the advice to change your diet first, without starting an extensive exercise regimen. Many folks' regular diet is so bad that just eating healthy food and drinking water will cause them to lose 5+ lbs in the first week. You need to buy-in early on to the idea that exercise isn't about burning off the food you ate (as that's impossible) but about raising your metabolism and conditioning your body.
Not sure what you mean but I'm a fairly typical HN type and I read the article of my own free will and found it useful.
Yeah, you can see that by looking for when companies do open-source old code. It's usually a case where someone has some specific reason they want it open source, and is willing to push for it.

id Software games: John Carmack wants to get old code out there, partly so students/others have some real-world examples to peruse and hack on rather than only toy games from textbooks, and partly because he's proud of a lot of his clever hacks and eventually wants them to see the light of day.

Axiom (computer algebra system): Someone starts a proprietary software company based on academic research, and it fails. One of the original researchers has a personal interest in getting the code released, so the project can continue.

Blender: Company goes bankrupt, and the original programmers want it to be open-sourced so their work doesn't disappear. Raise $100k to buy it from the creditors in bankruptcy.
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That's an awful lot of words for saying that eating right leads to a healthier life.

Way too many people tend to write a poem to express even the simplest idea. Concision is paramount in communicating.
In the Fourth Circuit, sending a SWAT team to make sure a bar’s beer is labeled correctly is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

http://www.restorethefourth.net/ comes to mind.
Thats really interesting, thanks!
For the very overweight this is very likely; running a substantial daily caloric deficit just by eating healthy and drinking water will cause large early losses. This isn't sustainable, however, and really just kickstarts the process. As someone nears a breakpoint (different for everyone) they'll fall into the one pound per week rule.
If you think the parent is incorrect, I invite everyone to look up Gonzales v. Raich, and Wickard v. Filburn. Everything is commerce, and therefore regulated under Congress via the commerce clause.
When you start a low carb diet, you immediately lose a considerable amount of water weight. It's why people consider Atkins to be a scam (as they would immediately lose 5-10 pounds only to gain it back just as fast when they stopped dieting).

However, I have some personal experience eating low carb, and the rate of weight loss, for me at least, was around 2 lbs/week, as predicted by my food/calorie tracking app (MyFitnessPal).
> Technology is more powerful than both democracy and bureaucracy, as it is not subject to dilution and co-optation.

How many web sites do you visit with ads compared to the ones you don't, again? I mean, the whole "eternal September" concept is predicated on certain technologies being diluted/coopted.
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I, too, am anxiously awaiting an Ubuntu that I can run on a mobile device, especially an x86 tablet, so that I can have a tablet to take on client visits and be able to use it for code editing and debugging if needed.
Thank you so much for posting - very insightful interview. I know HN doesn't really approve of "me too"-comments -- but this really deserves being submitted as a story on its own.

(I've become more than a little discouraged from my few submissions that have sunk through the front page like a stone -- so I'll just leave this comment here :-)

edit: Be sure to also read the linked "interview that focuses on one of my recent failures.":

http://makezine.com/2012/04/30/makes-exclusive-interview-wit...
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>You mentioned you used "Assembly, Turbo-C, Turbo-Pascal, Borland C++, Java, Javascript, Perl and many, many others", and, apart from JavaScript, none of them is closely associated with modern non-Microsoft development.

Yes, but the difference is I'm not criticizing modern non-Microsoft development.
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Cool to see Radley's writing in the HN top ten. He's a great guy and a hacker at heart.
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It's loss of water weight. Low carb dieters shed initial water weight very quickly.

If I understand correctly, it's because some carbs are stored in the liver compounded with water as glycogen. When you start low carbing, the glycogen starts being used and the extra water is released (via your kidneys).

I started carb reduction without reading much about it and experienced the classic effects: quick weight loss, dehydration, muscle cramping, sudden loss of appetite. Maintaining hydration and electrolyte balance is important when adjusting your body towards using less carbs.
After stegospam pass, have you not some html redundancy free room to utilize?

Are you aware of deogol, perl, stego?

Not much gained, but there is a scanner how much free space per html file size.

..........................

Deogol

an HTML steganography tool

What is Deogol?

Deogol is a commandline Perl program implementing basic steganography on HTML files

http://hord.ca/projects/deogol/
Well put about the 80%-20% of work.
If leaks are condoned by the administration, then it has to make you wonder how much of the professed value these programs actually have.
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No, clicks are either click on the ad, directing the user to your site or click on the name of the ad Publisher (i.e. your Fan page). Likes and shares are different metrics
Unless there is recourse, FOIA is a nullity. In this case "What do you know about me?" is obviously not a secret of any kind unless I'm doing classified work. So the FOIA denials are obviously defective. It doesn't matter that they are defective based on classifying non-secret information.
This, really. Most of the time you're building something because it doesn't exist already and you have the skill to do it. There are plenty of things that don't exist that really should - and it's bizarre that they don't.

The other option is to save money. Frequently I think about whether I should buy expensive widget X to do what I want. Then I wonder how I could build it myself for less (same with software, but usually finding an open source solution).
Keeping a big secret like that is hardly possible. Most people with a brain knew the NSA was monitoring domestic communications before the Snowden fiasco.

So, people would know because if it wasn't so, such a secret is simply too difficult to keep. Citizens have to work in the intelligence positions, too.
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That jumped out at me as well. I think the most amazing thing is how arbitrary this all is. The court tries to make it appear is if they have 'guiding principles', but it strikes me much more as 'patterns that appear to hold in retrospect while we make this up as we go'.
If nothing else, that makes it even more interesting to see the previous discussion, and see how attitudes have changed, if at all.
Sorry if this is off topic, but: I think that taking reasonable steps for both protecting our rights as citizens and not screwing up the environment are sort-of the same topic: making sure that future generations have life as good as our generation (or my generation, I am in my early 60s) have it.

Native American Indians have a philosophy that our actions should be guided by what is best for future generations. Being apathetic and sleep-walking into a less free future society, and screwing up the environment are selfish acts.
They already tried and failed to require a back door. There is a reasonable argument that the government does not want to make crypto software contraband.

In any case, foreign hackers are still going to be after your data. It's insane that we don't have easy routine encryption of communications and data storage.
when your police department's funding depends on what you catch, coupled with a low crime level, you start SWATing things harder
Seems to be a lengthy yet incomplete summary of the first 1/5th of The Four Hour Body (cited, at least).

Likewise I don't know where the 'I don't know how' bit fits in, given there's a massive explanation of how provided.

I am guessing written by a North American, given the 'we' in "I am frustrated with the lack of understanding that we have around nutrition, exercise and health". I shall assume the 'we' refers to 'people near me'.
as my prof once said: "it ain't as easy as 1-2-3, but it is as easy as 1-2-3-4-5-6".
I'm sorry, but I just don't agree. You are advising me to be complacent, and I prefer not to be that way.

You are also understating this specific issue by describing the data as "shopping habits".
There has never been any dearth of Tea Party content since it began. The media has been inundated with their point of view since the last presidential election. Money pours into their PACS. Nobody's stopped any TP group from running ads or rallies. Fox News is practically a Tea Party shill.

To suggest that somehow the Tea Party voice has been silenced or that their point of view hasn't been firmly established in American political consciousness is just absurd. They fail to gain traction because of the extremist nature of their views, not because the establishment is "keeping them down."
This.

People often underestimate the amount of effort that open sourcing (in a responsible manner) a large project requires.
That doesn't sound so bad if it works well, though, right? Kind of like including jQuery so you get cross-browser code.
Where is a ~ used for string concatenation?
Again and again we see questionable or outright illegal police shootings of dogs and people and nothing ever comes of it. The responsible parties are never charged with manslaughter or even fired. I want to support the police, but the thin blue line bullshit has to stop!

I get that police work is often dangerous but individuals that have shown poor judgement are retained on the force. That police officer that shot the dog 4 times had already shot and killed a developmentally disabled guy who was brandishing a knife but could have been tazed or bean-bagged.

These are not the sorts of people to be handing out guns to.
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If you can't personally run "office hours," but still see the value in them, have you considered finding some "Teacher's Assistants" with motivations similar to yours to help out? I'm only one year into my formal CS education, but I think even I could handle intro programming questions. I'm sure there are more people out there who would want to help.

Just a thought! Good luck with the project!
>When you spend weeks or months perfecting your product in the name of 'user experience' or 'design' before selling it, you are doing more harm than good for your users and yourself on your quest to be financially independent

Some of us are serious about delivering quality. You are trivializing 2/3 of the web application right there. If it looks like shit and confuses people, no one is going to use it, unless it meets a serious pain point and has absolutely no competition yet, which, is not the case for most of us.
I would be seriously shocked if #1 was a valid reason. Products for which the source is completely lost after they are shipped? Can it happen before the release? Why there were no backups?
>Had it hit the ground?

Yes, that was post-crash.
There is a real problem for a subset of people regarding food addiction - particularly to sugar and certain carbohydrates. I am personally aware of people who have lost 50 to as much as 300+ lbs through a 12 step program called FA. It is not for everyone, but for some it has been a life-saver. http://www.foodaddicts.org/
If you like videos:
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A presentation by an author publishing a book about the history of phone phreaking. The discussion is focused on his experience dealing with FOIA submissions. I found it informative as a real life explanation of the timeline for requests and how much is redacted.
Not to take away from your message but you can just say "Native Americans" and leave the "Indian" part off.

Otherwise I totally agree with your post.
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I write a lot of mobile apps. I come across an app that I think needs improving, or one that I want and don't want to pay for. I think about what I could do to improve it, and if it is possible for me to do, then I write it up.

I have gotten very quick at creating MVP, and once you are used to the IDE and libraries, you can build quite sophisticated stuff very quickly.

I got an iPad mini about 6 months ago, and love it, so have been producing a lot of apps that make use of this fantastic device.
Actually, it is _exactly_ what 'to sue for' means. See, for example, the usage in 'to sue for peace' [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suing_for_peace
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I'm no fan of the recent fourth amendment violations, but the NSA's response is actually reasonable here given its proper mission. Re-read this section, but imagine the requester was asking for information on whether the NSA had collected information about his communications and movements during his recent trip to China:

Any positive or negative response on a request-by-request basis
would allow our adversaries [China] to accumulate information
and draw conclusions about NSA's technical capabilities, sources,
and methods. Our adversaries are likely to evaluate all public
responses related to these programs. Were we to provide positive
or negative responses to requests such as yours, our adversaries'
compilation of the information provided would reasonably be expected
to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.

This is completely accurate. If the NSA actually responded to these requests, it would be trivial for an adversary (e.g. China) to probe the extent and nature of the information the NSA collects, just by having their agents regularly file FOIA requests.

My main problem with these programs is the lack of oversight and any kind of public controls to prevent abuse by bad actors. I don't mind when judges issue warrants to gather private information; that's oversight, with a level of public visibility eventually involved. Warrants are accounted for right there in the fourth amendment.

But these programs are known, thanks to Edward Snowden, to have shoddy controls over individual analyst access to the information. That alone reveals an institutional bias inside the NSA against respecting citizens' privacy; if they treated it as a really big deal then Snowden wouldn't have been able to gain access to individual information as he has claimed. Consequently I have little faith that justice would be served on analysts or departments who use the information for their own purposes, and that's the core problem for me.

We know the FBI treated Martin Luther King as a potential terrorist. If the NSA's information had been available to them, why wouldn't they have asked for it, formally or otherwise, if there were no negative consequences?

What does that mean for political activism given today's more tightly integrated Department of Homeland Security?
You're living in a Free World. Have you read the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Those are the ones you need to enforce, alongside your Intellectual Property rights ( to your likeness, voice samples, and output). Take them to the International Criminal Court. but _you_ have to sue. As a person with rights that can be prejudiced.
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We have to ask ourselves: where is the money? Our rights aren't being lost to a sprawling military-police state just because there's a Big-Brother wannabe conspiring to destroy the constitution. Police departments grow the same way our project departments grow in engineering companies: by managers arguing for bigger budgets and spending more, sometimes wastefully, to justify bigger budgets come next fiscal year.

These hyped-up (sometimes roided-up) SWAT teams do what they do to justify their existence....no manager wants to preside over a shrinking department. It takes a lot of thinking and long-term policy making to reduce this perverse yet basic economic incentive
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Am I the only person who enjoyed reading this guy's story? I'm happy that he's found a lifestyle that works for him. The amount of skepticism and criticism in this thread is off the charts...
Yeah, it's no so much mission creep as mission search.
> But the technology the author is discussing generally has a design goal of preventing all searches, under any circumstances.

Well, the alternative is that the government has access to everything, all the time, and we just have to trust that they're not going to misuse it.

Also, your wording implies that if a government agency does have a valid warrant, that this means they're somehow entitled to whatever information they seek (within the parameters of said warrant). This is patently absurd to me. If the government seizes an encrypted document with a valid warrant, more power to 'em. Have fun brute-forcing it. Doesn't mean I owe them the passphrase.
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Good read: this story has nothing to do with programming but everything to do with overcoming the loss of extrinsic rewards and putting yourself somewhere where your mindset and personality fits best
Because we don't perceive time logarithmically. 10 sec compression is 10 times worse than 100 sec compression.

So looking at the first chart, lpaq9i and durilca4linux points are right next to each other, while in realty durilca4linux is 530sec slower.
it is surprisingly common in my experience.
The standard intuitive explanation seems pretty easy and worthwhile:

Two sets are the same size if and only if you can pair members up.

{1, 2, 3} and {4, 5, 6}, obviously.

{1, 3, 5...} and {2, 4, 6...} are too, you can pair them up (1, 2) (3, 4) (5,6) ...

But some sets aren't the same size; you can't pair them up. It's easy if they're both finite, or one is infinite. If both are infinite, well, if they're not the same size, one has to be larger: there are elements in one that are "left over" after trying to pair them up. That's the bigger one. Cantor proved that this does, in fact, happen. The reals can't be paired up with integers.
nice idea, but:

- Music is not everyones taste.

- Would be interesting to see an overview of the routine first.
It's also not very hard to lose 5lb if you are morbidly obese.

Harris-Benedict predicts that an individual should have an equilibrium bodyweight depending on their activity level and mean caloric intake. When your actual weight deviates from equilibrium, you will approach it along an exponential curve.

This means that if you alter your diet, your initial loss (or gain) will be rapid, while later losses/gains will be very slow. Graphs here:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/weight_stability.html
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> What will they do if I say something they don't like? How will I know?

By denying entry to you on your next vacation or business trip to the United States.
To me it seems that there are a lot of issues at play that led to the death of this man, but temporarily ignoring the fact that it seems hypocritical for a state to both punish gamblers while promoting a state lottery, it appears necessary that SWAT teams are required to arrest people within their own homes given the fact that people are free to own weapons and use those for protection.

I'm not saying that firearms need to be outlawed for anyone but government agencies. I'm just arguing that when people need to be arrested (lawfully or otherwise), police officers want also want to protect themselves in their line of work, so they necessarily need to create an imbalance of power for their own self-preservation. The victim was unarmed, so the use of SWAT teams certainly was unnecessary and he could have been arrested by two officers and a single patrol car, but given any other case, he might have carried a weapon and gunned down an officer.
I would concede that you're right, however Apple doesn't provide a construct for the 99% to "do it right". Yes, there will always be those that blindly trust, however when you start talking about a master umbrella for an indivdual's complete, and utter, online presence including physical ties to money, property and other assets it shouldn't be taken lightly. If Apple had provided a "just works" method of showcasing how they cannot ever, without a doubt, decrypt the data while it sits on their servers, or offer up a way for the end user to easily leverage another service (for seperation of duties) they wouldn't receive the flack they do from those who inherently know the risks.

I have had no problems getting family members to adopt 3rd party password tools. An hour showing them along with explaining the rationale and the light bulb switches on. A simple document showcasing how to generate new passwords and add new sites or services goes a long way for the few times they do that particular task.

The root problem is that the 99% seems to be ignorant, not because they want to be, but because someone hasn't talked them through it. I find that pointing family to pages or videos is far less effective than me, personally, explaining things. Not sure why - but it's far more effective (maybe because they know I've actually taken time to show them vs just point them).

I still view iCloud as a bad idea and wouldn't recommend it to anyone I know.
In spite of the outrage, where is the occupy NSA, occupy washington movements? States are not going to reduce surveillance - they have the power and means to do so - and would like to perpetuate the same. Want to preserve your privacy? "Come on!Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!"
Doesn't that stunningly miss the point of sentiment analysis and customer service? If you are optimizing the score with your own output in what way does the sentiment represent a proxy for any meaningful business measure like retention, loyalty or willingness to pay? Surely it's just a proxy for "we have a fella who tweets"?
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Perl 6 does...I can't recall anywhere else, though.
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Interesting. I had no music till I enabled Flash. I could see this being useful if you get lots of different workouts, maybe a different one everyday? What happens if someone comes out with a 6 min workout :/
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front page? seriously? you guys don't cease to surprise.