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It took me a while to convince myself that this wasn't a joke. Obviously, nobody wants to ship a crappy product, and obviously if you insist on perfection your product will never ship. Deciding when a product is "good enough" is a judgement call.

Shouting "how dare you" at people who disagree on this judgement call is just stupid.
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From the description of one of such "botched raids":

"With an accidental weapon discharge, police fatally shot the 68-year-old retiree, who was not the target of the warrant. Police instructed Mr. Stamps to lie on the floor, and Mr. Stamps complied. One officer moved towards Mr. Stamps to check for weapons. The officer's tactical equipment made his movement awkward, and he lost his balance and fell. As he did so, his weapon discharged. Mr. Stamps died from the single bullet wound to his upper chest."

Seriously? This is sick.
It is also about feeling good, being healthy and not obese versus feeling bad, being sick and not obese.
Also a 1000 calories of sugar are going to do far different things to your body than a 1000 calories of protein. That's why focusing on calories always seemed to be the wrong metric to me.
I think he meant "training in dealing with barking dogs"
and= isn't all that useful, I agree, but it would be odd to leave out given that there's or=, ?=, ownsor=, etc.

\alpha-bravo-charlie == "alphaBravoCharlie"

Well, since GorillaScript doesn't require parentheses for invocation, you'd need to have some delimiter between the context and the arguments or have to wrap one of them. Why not simply just use "," as the delimiter and then you can treat it as if doing .call/.apply?
you mean aggressive dog training?
Now if this works, which Ember-data doesn't (not finished I guess). This is a bigger step towards using Ember,
Purely for the joy of software engineering.
Primarily because iOS is where the money is, iOS customers tend to be middle-class with significant disposable income, hence they're both the group most likely to be interested in health related apps and have the income that makes $100 devices fall into the impulse buy category.

There's also the secondary issue in that iPhone are much more standardised so it's much easier to test your app on 99% of the phones that your users are likely to be using.
Very cool, I will use this.
To where did you move?
Very nice. Can you please add a way to skip some workouts?
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I've suffered with excess weight most of my life. It doesn't help that sit at a desk for up to twelve hours a day. There's more to losing weight than just calories out are more than calories in. You have to be active. I've been on a reduced calorie diet. Sure, you'll lose weight at first; however, if you don't develop a healthy lifestyle (getting out and doing things on a regular basis) the weight will just come back.

When I left for undergrad over ten years ago, I was heavy. During my undergrad years, I walked everywhere or rode a bike everywhere. I lost about fifty pounds in two years. I put all of it back on and more once I graduated and started working at a desk all day. I feel miserable everyday now because of all this excess weight I carry, which is why I've decided to start riding a bike again everywhere when I get back to California on Monday. I'm finally going to put the car to rest.
It also helps that I wasn't too proficient with Vim, if at all, when I started using Colemak, so I didn't have to deal with any burned in habits with Vim either.
I appreciate that. It is very interesting to see people jump on what I did or even more did not say in one post about a personal experience.

I think people need to realize that:

People are just trying their best!

Holy negativity. And in that I appreciate your comment Justin :)
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Open-source and profit aren't mutually exclusive, in this case he was unable to get enough of the latter to justify the effort of the former, perfectly reasonable.
Your comment seems unnecessarily antagonistic.

I'm a bit sorry to come across as rude, but this advice and then your later dismissal of ketogenic diets reflects the extraordinary ignorance that inflicted us with the food pyramid and war on fat 40 years ago.

I'm not sure how I dismissed ketogenic diets (I was on one for a year!) besides calling them a 'fad', which they certainly are.

Understanding and controlling the insulin cycle is key to understanding nutrition and its role in weight control. I tried "eating less" for years before I gave a low carb diet a try and permanently changed the way I ate and thought about food.

This is definitely important! But it might not be necessary, as proven by the fact that people have lost significant amounts of weight without doing so.

If you had actually read the article about which you added a comment, then you would have read a process of discovery paralleled by myself and an extraordinary number of others.

I did read the article, and I'm not sure why you assumed otherwise. Most of my comment runs in parallel with the post (particularly being conscientious about what you do with your body.), though I don't think a process of discovery which leads one to assume multivitamins are 'snake oil' is particularly flawless.
Exactly. Our bodies regulate how much we eat via hunger, and some nutrients make us more hungry than others (ie. carbs).
Thank you. This is not a post from a diet guru trying to sell anything. This is a personal story about how one change is leading to a mindset change. The details of labeling a diet are not the point. Thanks for seeing a bigger picture.
An affordable Google Glass could make this a reality.
"Press any key to start" is a pretty useless instruction for tablet users without a keyboard.
Are you sure? Another possibility is that you're just not hearing about it, if they're disproportionately targeting groups that you aren't a member of.

The U.S. is a weird case, because there are these very clear abuses, and yet there's a culture of uncovering these abuses even when they're not happening to one's own group.
To be truly secure from government intrusion, we must accept the inevitable and horrific consequences.

The freedom to own lethal weapons leads directly and inevitably to the massacre of innocent first graders.

Likewise, the freedom to be truly "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" leads directly and inevitably to monstrous and evil acts.

Freedom is dangerous. Both the second amendment and the fourth cause us to "arm our enemies".

Freedom is also analog, not digital. We can accept some limits on our freedom to reduce the risk.
Compressing all the questions into one: "How dare you want to be a web developer instead of being a businessman?"

Well, being a businessman sometimes makes sense.

But usually I deliberately pick being an engineer and not a businessman. Doing business takes a different mindset and a lot of time; it's not easy to do both, and often not fun.
They mention at one point what people say when they are stopped by the police for speeding.

"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"Well... 38...40?" (In a 35 MPH zone).

I was told to always say "No, Officer, I don't know why you pulled me over". This seems to be a good idea now, as it cannot be seen as a confession. What should you say when the officer pulls you over? Can you plead the 5th and say nothing? How well does that go over?
D uses it too. I think they use it for array concatenation as well.
" You sound as close-minded as some of the people you're railing against."

Again. Re-read the first two paragraphs. How do you GET this conclusion?

It makes absolutely no sense. I'm clearly calling the guy a square because he's outright asking me for fashion tips. Context, man.

What is wrong with your brain ?
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> A columnist at the Fayetteville Observer remarked, “They were there to play cards, not to foment rebellion. . .

What the hell do you think they're training for?
Chill out, dude. Evi turned a one-person operation with a couple of VAXes in the mid-1980's into a large scale incubator and trainer of future sysadmins who are now running sites all over the world. Did she "work a day" at UnixOps or CSops, as they came to be called? Of course not, she was too busy soliciting the funding, wrangling the office & machine room space, and creating the contacts that made it all possible. You don't even know "what it is she is even famous for." In point of fact, Evi wasn't even the intellectual powerhouse behind the books--that would be Trent; her genius was her leadership and ability to inspire her students. "Grandmother of the data center" is an apt-enough title.
Yes, I agree with you re: the emotional effect of different dietary choices.
I think what I objected to most was that you decried the signal to noise on this issue then your #1 point was one of the noisiest statements made in the last 50 years.
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Try releasing early. When I work on personal projects and drag them out to perfection or until they have every feature I originally envisioned, they never get finished. I redesign them half a dozen times throughout their development, recode bit and pieces, etc. However, when I hack together a project over a weekend or week, toss it online and it gets a little traction, it's good motivation to continue. You have users behind you providing feedback and ideas, and it's fun to push out little updates every few days when you have people excited to see them.

At the same time, it prevents you from becoming too involved in a failed concept. Release quickly, if there's an audience, keep polishing the project and grow it over the coming years. If the interest just isn't there, well you wasted a week, learned a few things, and move on.
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I agree; it's basically a physics problem (calories_in < calories_out to lose weight), with the body's metabolism being a second-order effect. I went on vacation recently, walked around all day taking photos and visiting museums, and ate well; but still lost 12 pounds in 3 weeks, without even trying.
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>I am annoyed at myself for letting me get to be ~300 pounds in the first place (the main point about that is that I let myself get that unhealthy, to a point where I increased my risk of death, which was irresponsible given the fact that I have family and friends)

Though I would feel worse about it if you did not have friends, either way becoming unhealthy is irresponsible because it causes a public burden. If you die, someone is going to have to come clean your body up. Whether any of your money makes it to the pocket of those people is irrelevant.

No one likes cleaning up dead bodies. Just because you are paying a doctor, does not mean you are 100% entitled and you aren't creating a burden. Doctors take an oath to help the sick. They have to help you in an emergency. Whether you are paying or not.

This for me is one of the major holes in libertarianism.
A lot of Occupy Wall Street folks were using Bambuser (http://bambuser.com/) to do this, check it out.
Thanks to the new immigration bill, the whole border with Mexico will become militarized, and will employ more people than the whole FBI, and will be under DHS. This is what the "war on terror" post-9/11 culture has created.
Why is it only bad when the BND works with the NSA? If it is just intercepting all day to flow across Germany's borders via DE-CIX it is potentially equally problematic.
> fat doesn't make you fat

True, and it's why the low fat (== high sugar) marketing has done nothing to curb the obesity trends.

> Your body turns sugar and things that metabolize into sugar (carbs, breads, pastas, rice) into fat.

True. Keep in mind that (most) excess amino acids also get converted to carbs, and then to fat.
Very good point - thanks. I think simplicity is always the key with finances. Thanks for the feedback.
I gained 3 stone over a long time simply eating a very small surplus (50 calories a day) over a long time. People are -generally- good at eating the right amount of maintain their weight, but even a tiny margin over a long time can add up. Overweight people I know don't actually eat that much more than your average person!

Oh, and I lost that weight and more simply by - duh - eating less than my body needed. It's not an exact science, but it does work. If you don't think it does, you either have a very rare medical condition, or (sorry for the tough news) just need to eat less and exercise more, like everybody else.
An automated turret is not at all the same thing as a firearm with an automatic fire mode. An assault rifle with an automatic fire select might indeed increase the likelihood the operator is killed. An automatic turret on the other hand doesn't have an operator, making it potentially quite a good deterrent to thuggish humans jacked up on authoritarianism with guns storming an area.

I assume though since you're automatically painting opposition you don't understand with the same tired old bullshit labels typical of mainstream statist standard leftists, correcting your mistakes is liable to just annoy you with more cognitive dissonance. My apologies, I won't be replying again.
Someone shipping a physical product does not have the luxury to ship a half-baked, bare-bones first version and upgrade it in 6 months for every customer with a click of a button.
You're both right, that's what the blog seems to be saying to me. Can't argue with either. I think this is also a not-so-hidden hint of 'if you wanted this open source, you should have paid more attention to that kickstarter!'

I can't really blame people for not backing that kickstarter either though. Why $30K for an OSS feed reader when there are so many open source ones [1] that could be easily retooled to most purposes? The market for this stuff is so incredibly over saturated as it is. Rather make something new and different if you're going to do a kickstarter.

[1] http://opensource.com/life/13/3/eight-open-source-rss-feed-r...
The police officers are putting their lives on the line when they escalate a situation that does not require it. This is a non-violent crime. Send someone to take some pictures and arrest people later.

Without the SWAT team, this remains calm and less costly for the police and the taxpayer.
There's nothing like looking at that Table of Contents to put your own PhD in perspective!
There are a lot of skinny people out there with rubbish diets, packed with carbs and low in protein.... while carbs undeniably cause hunger compared to fats and protein, there is definitely an individual variation in appetite that diet cannot completely make up for.
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. I figured security/privacy was a sticking point for most people. We're looking at doing this for companies rather than personal information so I'm not sure if that changes much or not. We have a couple people interested (are currently building it for 1 client) but I'm trying to get a feel for the market first.
That level of antagonism requires evidence to support your point. Otherwise your words just come off as unacceptably rude.
so many threads on hacker news get voted to the top without any comments at all. usually you're supposed to read the article, but in this case i doubt anyone is really capable of understanding it. so in conclusion, aside from this one the article has the appropriate number of comments.
Very cool. However, no audio for folks outside U.S. (due to Rdio). Would be nice to have a small warning if this is this case, so users aren't left wondering if something is broken.
Arrow keys didn't work for me, so "Press most any key to start"?
The problem is the public thinks that those being targeted are all dirty evil criminals, and I also think America as a whole doesn't have an "innocent before guilty" mentality. It's not just the American leaders that have corrupt minds. It's also a lot of Americans, who are supporting this sort of stuff.

The media is also not helping at all, and making the problem worse, because they are usually on the government's side when it comes to such issues.
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Just pressing the screen worked for me
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Freescale's documentation was fantastic. TI's was mostly good, except for whole areas they left out.

Marvell . . . hoo boy. Let's just say that everyone telling us "If you go with Marvell, you're in for a ride" was correct. Just enough detail to get you into trouble. Cheap, though. . . . :-)
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Originally. The first version took about a week IIRC.
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> Is this an interpretation of the word "unreasonable"?

Probably, but it's not a reasonable one :-)

Here are just a few reasons why:

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/17/were_all_terrorist_suspects_...
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/what_do_drug_sniffing_dogs_h...
Unfortunately this is more being dumb on crime. Just think about all the criminals they could have investigated insted of thus amatur rides.

Her in Norway its can sometime take 10-20 minutes just to get thru to the police if you have an emergency at night. I hope the local SWAT time at least is out chasing real cals and real criminals instead of shutting security guards and raiding the local veterans clubs for some $5 dollar poker fee.
We continue to learn about more and more "exceptions" the authorities have written themselves that allow them to examine the contents of U.S. correspondence without a warrant.

Who knows how deep this rabbit hole goes? Today, or in the future; I suspect that the rabbit is still digging.

I'm not a drug user -- never have been. I have some friends who have been (I'll be judicious with my tense, here). I would guess that 50% of U.S. citizens, if not more, have used illicit drugs at least once. (And, remember also, underage drinking is "law breaking".)

I find this... "policy" abhorrent in its formulation and execution. Individual results are essentially "luck of the draw" and up to the attitude of individual border agents. ('There's something about this person... Let's google them.')

The current President has admitted to smoking marijuana. Should Canada exclude him from entry? What about all the troubles sports stars? What about all the troubled actors who travel north for their productions to take advantage of lower production costs in Canada? What about all the Canadian actors down here? One can hardly toss a stone without hitting one. (Lots of boozers and "experimenters" in that lot.)

Preferential treatment, maybe?
I don't get why Germany (or any sovereign nation) allows foreign military bases in the first place.

I'm kind of curious though are there any size limitations on embassies or consulates? Could I technically have a really huge one of those in a foreign nation and run all the spying etc. from that?
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> different

That's the key, rule 1 for introducing a product is someone has probably already done it, so make sure you provide some value that your existing competition doesn't have. After playing with 'fred' for a few minutes, I don't see how I would care to use this over any of the alternatives.
Tell that to Acquia.
45mph at 30k feet for hours at a time has to be surreal.
Scale is the problem. Let's say this wasn't about Bank of America but rather "your favorite giant company" -- the one that has 40 million online users and 16 million mobile users. How does a relationship that large engage in a meaningful, authentic dialogue in tweet-time?
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> he reason fads can be successful usually have less to do with the specific mechanics and minutiae of their gospel and more to do with the fact that you're conscientious about what you're putting into your body

Another reason is that most fads are effectively big lists of restrictions on what you are allowed to eat. Since finding things to eat becomes harder you often end up reducing the total calorie count as a side effect.
Sadly, yes, it is the America that America wants, as far as I can tell.

I think this is where efforts to fight these problems fall down. They're almost all based on the assumption that the populace doesn't want this stuff to happen, but that the government pushes it through by abusing power, subverting democracy, etc.

But from what I see, this is not the case. Most Americans want this. Whether it's gun-wielding maniacs, drug dealers, or international terrorist masterminds, they feel unsafe, and want the government to help. They like heavily-armed SWAT teams available at a moment's notice. They like the government spying on every communication they can get their hands on. They like x-ray machines and body scanners in airports.

There is a sizable minority where sanity remains, but it is a minority. I think that efforts to fight these problems need to recognize this, and realize that you have to convince the people as your primary action. Fighting the government won't help, because the people will insist that these things be done, as long as the majority feels this way.

No, I don't know how....
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- Don't eat 600 calorie bombs from carls jr that fit inside the palm of your hand and don't fill you up still. Eat more satiating food for the calories, which is fibrous vegetables and proteins. Avoid liquid calories and other such things that are easy to overeat.

- Eat like my skinny indian friend. He takes a bite, chews it for quite a while, and then take another bite about a few minutes later. He doesn't do this on purpose, it's completely habitual. Such a slow eating speed really helps him stay skinny.

- Stop snacking on high calorie nuts, chips and bars. If you just habitually nibble on food that is in front of you until it's gone, recognize that and don't put food infront of you.
Period has a general meaning of ending a sentence. At this point in our history, people willing to clear the deck of C-ism should be encouraged. I think the learning curve is worse when folks imitate C for no reason other than computer tradition as opposed to building something that feels tied together. We ditched a lot of older habits with C, we should continue the path.
Yep. I bet the "SA" even stands for "Sentiment Analysis."