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I've noticed a lot of people disagree with this idea. I lost about 25 pounds over one and a half years counting my calories. I used an app called Lose It! and set it up so I would lose half a pound a week. During that time I worked out on an elliptical machine three times a week for 30 mins. Later on I lifted weights every other day for 30 mins. I was probably in the best shape of my life after I lost the weight.

It wasn't easy counting calories, it takes time to do it, and it can be frustrating, especially when you're hungry.

I found it was also hard, at first, to turn down food. About a six months into the program though, I started to realize just how many calories were in certain foods. I would think to myself, are those calories really worth the taste? Most of the time, the answer was no. Although, with beer, it was usually yes.

Perhaps it doesn't work for everyone, but has it ever caused someone to gain more weight? Not just a few pounds, but tens of pounds?

I get the sense that the people who don't like the idea of "move more/eat less" don't want to deal with the hassle of counting calories and working out.
I don't know how many other people track their book collection this way, but the ability to import a Goodreads shelf would be useful to me. I have an "own" shelf on Goodreads to track what I have in my home/Kindle. A one-click import would save me a lot of redundant bar code scanning. Documentation for the relevant Goodreads API call: http://www.goodreads.com/api#reviews.list
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Given perfect eye tracking, that could work for the vestibulo-ocular reflex case where the eye counter-rotates to keep the world stable during head rotation, also given that no object is close enough for the parallax from the eye moving in space during head rotstion to be noticable.

It would not fix smooth persuit tracking of a moving object while the head is stationary though, as you could not selectively shift the moving object to match eye rotation while also keeping the background stationary.
Difficulty rating systems I've seen essentially take a sudoku and then solve it starting with easy human steps, and working their way down to more complicated logical deductions.

Chokepoints that can only be found in a large set, or having to solve the puzzle with a complicated deduction like an X-wing or Y-wing, raise the number. With guessing as a fully last resort.
General consensuses are not always right.
absolves overweight people of much of their responsibility...

So our object, scientific explanation for obesity is ... lack of personal responsibility!

I suspect Fitocracy is selling their explanation rather than your "explanation" because at least their explanation seems to offer a rational way of changing the situation rather being a mere gesture blaming people (not to say that their system would work for everyone, everyone's different and some people might even find shame and guilt useful for losing weight - still it's unlikely to be an appealing marketing campaign).
I also don't have a solid understand of SELinux at the moment.

don't you think it might be best to fix that before you ask such an expansive question?

it's an optional access control system. when enabled it adds security to a system.

it's open source. it's also only one of a bunch of alternatives - people are also free to use apparmor, or even smack or tomoyo.

does anyone else feel that this really is worth a further examination by independent sources?

no.
Laser pixels can conceivably deliver low persistence and a multiplied 'frame rate' by splitting each burst of light into, e.g. four fibers, and looping three of them to provide physical delay. So the eye would be hit four times per frame, giving a strobe rate of say 240 hz on a 60 hz display.

Such a display would be made of pure cash, of course. Can't have everything.
The 22nd IOCCC is here (International Obfuscated C Coding Contest)
Just out of curiosity does anyone know of research proving or disproving the viability of using 'safe' bacteria to defend against dangerous bacteria?

I've often wondered since we've selected for super bugs buy killing off the easy to kill ones with antibiotics, couldn't we intentionally reintroduce the easy to kill ones (or something similar but benign) so that the super bugs have no population advantage? Instead of being the only guys on the playing filed they'd have to compete with the benign bacteria which would, in my thinking, limit their growth potential.
I don't think any of those fits the bill.

Mac OSX and iOS are not the same OS, nor do they have the same interface. Using the same core/kernel doesn't count. By that logic Android is the same as Ubuntu. It obviously isn't.

Chrome OS and Android are not the same OS, nor do they have the same interface.

Windows 8 has mostly the same start screen - quite different UI everywhere else. They are also not one OS, just use the same core, as iOS and Mac OS X do.

Ubuntu could get the closest to this vision, because they have the phone OS integrated with the desktop OS. And I guess Android could, too, if Google commits to Android on desktops eventually (I think they normally would, but I have no idea if they will and when, because of Chrome OS).
> The LuaJIT interpreter keeps all important state in registers; this is not affected by the sequencing of bytecodes.

Except on register-starved architectures like, say, i686.
If you can find something that burns calories that you enjoy and keep doing, the weight just kinda melts off. A couple years ago I got into burlesque dance; two hours of class every week got me into amazing shape. That's stopped for various reasons, and my weight's slowly crept up. I haven't found anything that I delight in doing the same way, so I'm out of shape. I've been fighting it but it's an uphill climb.

I mean, yeah, to a large degree it WAS "eat less, move more" - but I wasn't thinking of it in terms of losing weight or getting fit. I was thinking of it in terms of "learning to move in frighteningly sexy ways".
While it might not be much "hassle" in terms of adding some code, the part I appreciate most about bootstrap is that it's put together by competent designers and looks good as a whole. Once I start f'ing around with individual bits and pieces, my guess is that things are going to go to hell in a handbasket in short order, which sort of defeats the purpose of the whole thing in the first place.

Also, my guess is that the flat base is there because that's what's cool these days. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing: for a lot of people, having something that looks modern and recent is pretty important too. Just that I'm worried about it, a little bit.
It's not crossing lines. Would you get angry if an FBI agent got into a plane and flew around looking for clues to some crime (eg tyre tracks)? Doubtful. But they put up a remote control plane and you're yelping that the rule of law means nothing to anyone who disagrees. The law is stands does not require a warrant for aerial surveillance. It seems to be you who dislike the rule of law.
I don't deny that there is bigotry in Britain, including bigotry against Jews. (Of course there is: there is bigotry everywhere).

What I do question is that there was/is more of it in Britain than in other countries. For example, the part of Britain I live in (Scotland) is the only European country never to have had state persecution of Jews. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Scotlan...)

> for more recent, read up on how at almost every turn Churchill's efforts to help Jews during WWII were thwarted by those under him.

If someone asked me to name a country that was "infamous" for anti-semitism during WW2, I doubt if Britain is the one that would spring to mind. Nor would it for most historians.
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In the 20 interwar years, both Communism and Fascism (Business plot, Leo Strauss, etc.) both had an enormous intellectual following, even in the U.S. In Europe, there was an overwhelming sentiment that Democracy was weak and outdated, which is why the Nazis and the USSR saw each-other as their primary threat, and had both fully anticipated and planned for a European war for years prior.

There's nothing like that out there today. Russian hatred for Islamism exceeds the U.S.'s, China is panicky about Xinjiang Province/Pakistan. China and Russia pretty much act purely on interests and have no ideology.

While there are few parallels to WWII, there are some with WWI. I hope that stark alliances don't form.
I'd really rather just have a zip full of the images so I could look through them in my image viewer. This takes forever to load them if I go through them any faster than a snail's pace.
Edit: Just saw the button to preload them all. That's better than the zip, then. Using the play button doesn't work without preloading everything for me. I wonder why that's not done by default.
Whole grains, legumes, olive oil, lean meat, fresh vegetables. Foods that are nutritionally dense. Avoid saturated fats, fried food, starches.
That's not what byline means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline
You have no actual point to make, and you really need to chill out and stop being rude to people.
No drugs. I just stopped eating certain types of foods, and started eating more of other types of foods. For a couple weeks I added up my calories consumed for kicks, and I'm eating just as much, calorie-wise, as when I was gaining weight, and some days more. Haven't changed my exercise. No real health problems either, so unless you want to make a circular argument, where you claim I'm unhealthy because the composition of my diet affects my metabolism, you are just wrong.
If such a machine exists then it's either a total ban on using it as evidence or the problem of "forced voluntary test": if you don't volunteer, the court infers you have something to hide. The govt doesn't even need the warrant in this case.
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Nice job!! The source code is very well written!
Prince Who? Look, I'm an American. We fought several wars to confirm that we don't have to give a flying fuck about King George III or any of his syphilitic inbred descendants.
I'm just gonna copypasta the end of the article here, since you seemed to angry to actually read (not skim) past the title.
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At this point, I know what some people are thinking. “Well, Dick. If you’re so smart and it’s not about willpower, I guess no one is at fault for being fat then, huh?”

On the contrary. If there’s one thing I’ve seen in my decade of talking to thousands of people between forums, clients, Fitocracy, and real life, it’s that people are responsible for their own failures. Most times, it is their fault.
But it’s not for the reasons that most people think. Most don’t fail because they didn’t eat less or move more.

They failed because they could not see beyond the oversimplification of “eat less, move more.”

Many times, this is a problem of hubris; they failed to be curious, introspective, and mindful. These people also beat themselves up for all of their past failures, not realizing those plans had them doomed for the start.

The Biggest Loser will have you believe that fitness success is about being tough, being hardcore – dangerously hardcore. In fact, it’s about the exact opposite.

Fitness success is about humility – realizing you cannot reduce one of the world’s most challenging problems to “eat less, move more,” and then seeking out the knowledge to improve yourself. Success also requires compassion – forgiving yourself for past failures so that you can try again.

Those things are the exact opposite of being “hardcore.”

That’s the ultimate irony. It’s why people are ultimately responsible for their failures – not because they failed to shrink their waist, but because they failed to expand their horizons."
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Hth! ^_^ gl with your reading comprehension goals in 2013
"My conclusion reading your paragraph is that the rule of law means nothing to you."

Your comment really seems to be a reaction to the NSA issue.. and on that I'm with you 100%.. but...

US police forces and the FBI regularly fly helicopters -- without a warrant. How is this any different?

You make it remote controlled and suddenly it becomes completely different?

You'll have to explain that one to me.. because I really don't get it.
Reintroduce them where? Into my abdomen during my appendectomy?
I think you can preload them or just wait and it will preload them and then you can play it around 10FPS which is as fast as you'd want to in order to catch all the action, but doing this manually with images in a viewer would be pretty tedious, I would think.

It's quite clever actually, and pauses on interesting frames with dialogue, as voted by people previously? or something: https://github.com/deplicator/xkcdTime_atyourownpace/blob/ma...
What a great innovation that now content disappears...unless you tweet...
I'm not a lawyer, but I could see an argument being made for a "numerical aspect" to privacy protections. The idea of a reasonable expectation of privacy as a standard seems well supported, and I think it could apply to this situation.

Certainly the police COULD track me when I'm out in public, but my expectation is that they won't unless they have a valid reason for doing so. So while I may not have an explicit legal protection against being tracked in public as an individual, I have an expectation that I'm not being tracked unless I'm the subject of an investigation.

I suppose this is less of a numerical aspect as it is a reasonable expectation factor for the majority of people who would be tracked with pervasive drone surveillance. People just going about their business don't expect to be randomly tracked by the FBI, but most people would probably expect to be tracked if they were specifically being investigated.

But like I said, I'm not a lawyer, so it might be impractical for the law to work that way. If so, then maybe a change in the law will be necessary if it becomes practical to engage in pervasive drone surveillance and it turns out that's what the FBI ends up doing.
>That means, say infectious-disease experts, that their best tools for defending patients remain those that depend on the performance of health personnel: handwashing, the use of gloves and gowns, and aggressive environmental cleaning. Yet even research that could improve best practices has been short-changed, says Eli Perencevich, an infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City who studies how resistant bacteria move around hospitals. “We haven't invested in research in how to optimize even standard infection-control practices. We just blame the health-care workers when they go wrong.”

It seems that a possible positive outcome of this could be cleaner hospitals. No infection is better than a treatable infection. Even if CREs are controlled, even if new antibiotics are developed, these outbreaks will keep happening and resistance will keep developing. Developing effective yet practical hygiene procedures is the only way to solve the problem once and for all.
I suspect you'd have better luck finding a naive college freshman whom you can convince that such a project "will be great for your portfolio!"

Other than that, I doubt you'll find anyone begging for the opportunity to work for you for free.
Savings, right, since we want rich people to spend money instead of hoarding it to drive the economy? Or value creation, since it causes economic inequalities? Or maybe even consumption, I guess, if you hate America and don't believe the amount of money we can borrow and spend by racking up a trade deficit is a good measure of economic health.
> How does this work? What happens to a bad actor who doesn't care or just can't get its act together?

Governments could refuse entry to people who've visited that country.
So are these alleged hw backdoors low level enough that os doesn't matter?
No, but the Bootstrap guys are very good with CSS and HTML, and there are probably lots of other benefits to upgrading once you look beyond the flat design stuff. Things that I would be very happy to have!
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Is your point here that past techniques are far more expensive and therefore the use of drones is an improvement? I'm a little unclear here, but that's what I'm getting.

Applying Alito's interpretation of the Fourth Amendment (and everyone who joined with him in the Jones concurrence), the fact that manned aircraft are probability expensive make them fundamentally different than a much cheaper technology. The idea is a reasonable person knows manned aircraft are super expensive and thus law enforcement will only use them in certain situations. Because of this, such activity is not considered a search under the Fourth Amendment. However, according to Alito, this does not mean that the search is still considered reasonable when the same activity becomes much cheaper. Indeed, he held that extremely lengthy tailing of a vehicle on public roads with a cheap GPS device constituted a search while the _same_ activity done manually by law enforcement did not constitute a search.

For what it's worth, I think the FBI's use of drones here is fine. I'm one of the last people on HN who would ever jump on this surveillance bandwagon/train wreck we are seeing.
I bring this up because four Supreme Court justices believe that the cost of an activity can determine whether it constitutes a search (yes, it is not settled law). Because of this, drones being cheaper isn't actually an argument for them being ok. The correct argument here is that drones are cheaper, but still probability expensive to deploy en-mass against the public. If drones ever become cheap enough to do that (like the GPS device in Jones), then it's a whole different ballgame.
We've been doing the probiotic thing for a long time, I can remember being fed not in the least tasty bacteria granules stored in foil wrappers in the fridge in the late '60s. But outside of the gut how could you do this? Skin isn't going to work, not with it being exposed to zillions of bacteria in the wild. Of course, those should be wild-type and not necessarily antibiotic resistant.
> After all, the whole government idea is a double standard. Some people can be legally violent, while others must obey.

To be fair, the original idea is that some people are legally violent on behalf of the rest. Any implementation is thus plagued with principal agent and quorum problems. As the system precesses, it becomes an autonomous entity working to keep up an illusion of subservience lest we stop feeding it.
What is ab?
The spirit of the 5th amendment is that no one should be forced to help prosecute themselves.
I have a fair bit of domain experience, and I'm going to disagree with the other people who have responded to you and argue that volunteering time is often more helpful than donating money. The efficacy of time vs. money is context-dependent and one is not better than the other.

1) How much money are we talking here? An extra thousand dollars would be meaningful to a small organization, but $50 is not going to make a difference. Something like Habitat for Humanity has thousands of people donating $50, but small organizations don't, and are constrained by lack of man hours as opposed to money.

2) Not every organization worth helping is a non-profit. Local community groups are often not non-profits or any sort of official organization at all. Once again, just because Habitat for Humanity is inundated with volunteers doesn't mean your local group investigating police corruption is.

3) Many organizations don't know how to use volunteers. This is partially because volunteers are notoriously unreliable, but it's also because most groups don't have outlets for self-motivated volunteers. These volunteers have to "create a position" for themselves, and if they're motivated enough to help but not motivated to define their jobs then they'll just lose interest and drop out.

4) A lot of organizations are composed entirely of volunteers. They might need money for something like webhosting, but they probably also need people to perform basic tasks like research or website administration. Unless you are giving the group enough money to hire a full-time staff member or something similar, there are severe limits on the marginal utility of a dollar.

5) To reiterate, not every non-profit/organization is Habitat for Humanity. There are a lot of smaller ones that need help an do good work.
> Now if someone takes your permissively licensed code and makes it proprietary, THAT is a real hindrance to users of that software

I look at it as decent screening process. If the only reason the person / company is returning the changes is the license, then it is very probable that I don't really want those changes or to work with them.

Its also a really poor business decision on their part (yet another good reason to not deal with them). They will spend time on their fork and have no influence over the direction of the code.
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There's an open issue for IPv6 on GitHub: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip/issues/21
Pinterest's Updated Privacy Policy Still Doesn't Include One-Click Unsubscribe
In Pinterest's latest email, they announced their updated privacy policy, but still refuse to provide a one-click unsubscribe as required by law under CAN-SPAM.

What's the most effective way to report Pinterest and apply pressure so they'll change their spammy ways?
And do what at the borders, many if not most of which are porous?
fiorix, I am curious why you are using sqlite/redis as a store for the geoip data, instead of using cgo in conjunction with libGeoIP.

Was it to enable updates to the geoip data if you get corrections (crowdsourced or otherwise)?
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Merely pointing out the hypocritical arguments of some Android supporters does not automatically make somebody an "Apple fanboy".

Merely pointing out the functional differences between iOS and Android does not automatically make somebody an "Apple fanboy".

Merely pointing out the philosophical differences between iOS and Android does not automatically make somebody an "Apple fanboy".

To generalize this, merely pointing out things that can be perceived as negative about one product/company/person does not mean that the person expressing such ideas automatically supports some competing product/company/person.

Goes both ways.
I haven't looked at the answers yet, but here's what I came up with in pseudocode:

A: Would one of the other Gods, who is not Random, say "da" \
if I asked him if God C was Random?
(DA) {
:God A or B is Random.

C: Does "da" mean "yes"?
(DA) {
:God C is True.
} (JA) {
:God C is False.
}

C: Would you say "da" if asked whether God A is Random?
(DA) {
:God A is Random
:God B is !God C.
} (JA) {
:God B is Random.
:God A is !God C.
}
} (JA) {

:God A or C is Random.
B: Does "da" mean "yes"?
(DA) {
:God B is True.
} (JA) {
:God B is False.
}

B: Would you say "da" if asked whether God A is Random?
(DA) {
:God A is Random
:God C is !God B.
} (JA) {
:God C is Random.
:God A is !God B.
}
}

I found it helpful to build the logic assuming they would answer "yes" and "no" in English. Once that was done it was fairly simply to modify it to handle the da/ja.
Sounds intriguing. I know a fair bit of C, python, Fortran. I've used f2py a bit. Do you have any good Cython tutorial you like to recommend?
I didn't know either. Per "man ab":

> ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
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Don't use it for actual benchmarking though, it has lots of known problems. Use something like: https://github.com/wg/wrk
> Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be “Abolished”

That's one thing. Now make these 2 events happen in the opposite order.

;-)
Why does the view count change wildly up and down as I refresh?

Otherwise, love it. Needs a favicon. Get ready for viral growth.