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>>I’m 6’4” and I’ll never be slight in appearance, that’s just genetics

Maybe not - I bet somewhere in your ancestry we're lean, ripped, warrior/hunters who were like that due to the type of work they did, and because people didn't bring donuts every time someone in their tribe had a birthday.

Serious congrats and well wishes to you in any case.
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http://www.livestrong.com/article/406097-why-do-overweight-p...

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=121373121&pag...

Higher Metabolism, more water weight to shed.
Salt sensitivity is also far easier to manage, and its impact is limited to putting you over the top when shit hits the fan (eg: high-sodium diet can make or break you when you stray into heart-attack territory).
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"Carb sensitivity" is also a thing, and some people get a much stronger weight gain response from eating carbs (and weight loss response from not eating them) compared to other people. You might have a relatively high sensitivity to carbs.
Given that a 4GB USB key holds roughly 2844x more data than your average floppy disk, I'd say $5 is a steal!
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In OpenWrt there is a "Distance Optimization" field, described, "Distance to farthest network member in meters." I would guess this allows some assumptions about the raw timing of transmission through the air, which no antenna could overcome. However, since it's just called an optimization, not a security feature, I'm not sure of the actual effect. Do you know if this really changes your long-range scenario?

For my specific setup, it's something of a moot point. With my home office and router at the front of the house, a distance enough to include the back yard will also include a fair chuck of the street. It may be close enough that I'd notice the suspicious vehicle, though.
Have you kept going past the 5 - 10 pounds? It's doubtful that you'll continue to shed weight at that rate. What happens is that without carbs your body's glycogen stores begin to deplete when you stops eating carbs (carbs are essential to glycogen production). Your muscles will take a week or two to flush out all the fluid they were holding on to before eventually stabilizing at a new level. Most people tend to drop a lot of weight at the beginning of a diet, especially low or no carb, however once the initial glycogen depletion happens they level off with the weight loss.

Some people hit a plateau and get discouraged or think they're done and start eating carbs again and shoot right back up. Others continue on at a healthy 1 - 2 pounds/week until they reach their goal.
Apparently this guy just got rescued by the CBC, of all things:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/20...
OP here. I love getting to work on these problems every day. If building these kinds of systems is your thing, drop me a line at avital@meteor.com.
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Indeed. Brazilian names can be huuuge, with lots of parts. It's really rather amusing, when someone applies for a credit card or whatnot, to see what parts the credit-card company decides to include/initialize/exclude to fit. It's pretty much up to their bank's whim.

But in Brazil, I've never once heard anybody complaining that it offended their heritage, or that their "name means everything" -- it's obvious and common sense there's only so much space on the card.
Well, good thing that we have Android Police and their teardowns acting as a control, that way they'll spot something when Google pushes an NSA trojan to Play Services. /s?
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Ask HN: Cost vs Performance for our BETA systems setup?
We are attempting to bootstrap our image processing service (http://www.pixtulate.com) and are getting ready to roll out our BETA. Naturally cash strapped, I am working out a minimum systems arch setup and trying to balance stability, performance and cost while keeping in perspective this is BETA. We are also trying to decide between hosting on DigitalOcean or Linode (like both a lot)

Based on testing, here is what we "think" our min requirements are to get started:

1. Load balancer with fail over (HAProxy or other)
2. 2 image processors (min 2GB RAM and 2 CPUs/each, but the more the better)
3. 3 couchbase nodes with 1 replica each (can get away with 256MB buckets since we don't store much here)
4. As much fast disk space as possible for image caching

With DigitalOcean, a bare bones setup will run about $70. Linode will be double ($140) but you also get at least double or more the resources (especially disk and CPU). Since this is BETA (and a small one at that), would you optimize for cost or solid user experience/availability? $140/month won't break the bank, but we would prefer to spend less.

With Linode we get decent headroom from day one while DigitalOcean scales cheaper.

Anyone willing to share their BETA experiences and what turned out to be important in their systems setup?
I just checked Chapter 4, and it has inches and ounces. I could be wrong, since I haven't read it, but I don't see why it would affect understanding of the ideas.
Offer HN: Let me build your iOS app for $200
You can catch me at c.k.howell (at) warwick.ac.uk

Why? I want to add to my iOS portfolio whilst getting a chance to practice and experience building something for somebody else

Why $200? Given that this will be my first time building for somebody else, I want to make it costly enough that I work on interesting ideas but also affordable enough so that the price will accommodate for any beginner freelancer kinks

About me: I have a game on the App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firework-flare/id513766705?mt=8), a game ready for release for iOS 7 in October (http://www.chrishowell.me/unibus or http://howell.herokuapp.com/unibus), and have interned at an app development agency (http://www.theappbusiness.com).

How it works:

1. Email me to talk more about your app. Once I'm ready to commit to working on it, we can have a Skype call where we can scope out the requirements.

2. Design: If you have a design ready, I'll use that. Otherwise I'll use the native iOS 7 components. If you don't have a design, some simple diagram of the application flow and views will be necessary. I'll need from you the App Store icon and loading screens.

3. Back-end: If you have one, I'll use that. If you need one, you'll have to build it some other way.

4. Payment: $100 upfront, $100 on completion

5. You will own all the code, but I reserve the right to talk about and put images of the application up on my portfolio website.

6. Given that this app should end up in my portfolio, it's in my best interests to make sure you're happy with your application. To achieve this, I will expect you to be able to respond promptly to emails throughout the development.

Thanks to natasham25 for the inspiration.

If you have any questions feel free to email me or reply to this post.
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Exercise is wonderful, and (particularly strength training) can dramatically change how you look and feel. If you just want to lose weight though, just stop eating carbs.

It really is that simple. There are many ways to lose weight, but dropping sugar (in all it's forms) is the most straightforward. It's the closest thing to a 'weight hack' I've ever seen.

If you are currently overweight, just cut out carbs completely for 3 months..don't bother to count calories; don't fret about nonsense like whether your food is organic, or free range, or locally sourced. Just stop eating sugar. No rice, no potatoes, no bread, no sugared soft drinks, no pasta.
You're welcome! I appreciate the kind words.
The FBI "could" track your movements via cell phone data. The FBI "could" then provide that data to the DEA to help make an arrest. The NSA "could" keep a log of everyone you ever call or who calls you.

Not that we should have ever cared about those possibilities until they came to light, leaving us scrambling to cope with the consequences and attempt to repair the damage after the fact.
I think you're confusing complexity with difficulty. It may be 10^12 times more complex. But, if you're making your own FGPAs or chips and you can just use different word sizes or massively add more gates or processing cores. Or, even more specialized custom built super computers. The capabilities of what they're able to fabricate I think mitigate most of the protection provided by using 2048bit over 1024bit. It seems you need to be talking on the scale of at least 4096bit before the problem becomes intractable due to the limits of technology and the processing improvements that can be provided by custom hardware.

To put it in simple terms, doing operations with a 32bit numbers and a 64bit numbers have a calculable complexity gap. But, that gap means very different things in terms of difficulty on a 8bit microprocessor vrs a 32bit microprocessor vrs a 64bit microprocessor.
Will you be able to make Convergence for Chrome, too (especially now with "packaged apps" and whatnot)?
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I would really like to see Watsi team up with Partners In Health http://www.pih.org , my favorite health related charity.
Can't forget the core muscle groups -- a solid core is essential to balancing yourself out. Lower back and abdominal regions being the main focus.
The Lectures may occasionally mix in Imperial units, but the vast majority of the calculations use SI.
"At its core, Weight change is simple input/output math."
But I also think that...at its core it's very complex. What if you do all of that input in a single large meal vs 6 smaller meals? That's a BIG difference. Similarly just doing lots of cardio (and "burning" calories) vs high intensity workouts (like crossfit) have very different results.
Bullshit. The fallacy is that someone can care only about weight loss.

I tried it for years. I burn 2200 cal/day so I can eat a large Cinnabon every day (800 cal) and still lose weight.

The problem is it fucks your insulin resistance and turns into diabetes.

So, I don't consider a solution viable if one of the side effects is death.
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words. If you want employees to give you a heads up before leaving, you need to foster the kind of environment where an employee would feel comfortable giving you advanced notice.

Where I work now, the guy I replaced stuck around for a month or more to interview people (hiring me in the process) and transition and bring me up to speed. I'm not looking to leave but I've seen how (well) my employer treats someone in the "I'm leaving" situation so I would feel comfortable letting my employer know before hand.

I read a blog once where the author encouraged employers to treat past employees as "alumni", keep open future communication and even possibly hire them again at some point and benefit from the skills they've acquired in meantime.
To be fair, these often are coming from business requirements.

Half the times it's "falsehoods a programmer back in the '80s believed about names and I have to operate with that goddamned system".

That and we have to support all the cavemen that want to sort by last-name. I'm perfectly happy to just use one 1000-length UTF-8 field for names and skip all the stupid abbreviations and worrying about firstname/lastname, but for some reason the BAs insist on supporting "Mr. So and so" and being able to write "Lasty, Firsty" as if that is in any way useful when you've got a searchable document.

I suppose you might occasionally need the Lasty, Firsty when printing into dead-tree-form, but when have programmers ever cared about that?
> This is why companies should always be proactively adjusting compensation, perks, etc to retain the people they can't afford to lose, though very few actually do this.

Precisely. It's amazing how quickly some companies will only take a reactive approach to retaining top employees, then sit stunned when they walk out the door.

The last job I left, my current employer counter-offered to match my new salary, and tossed out a "discretionary bonus" they supposedly had been planning to give me as an incentive to stay. I politely declined.

What's funny is if they had taken me aside before I even considered looking for a new job, and simply said something like, "Hey, you're doing a great job. We want to give you /raise|bonus|perk/ to let you know you're appreciated" it would have meant the world, at least in my eyes, and I wouldn't have begun considering other opportunities.

As was pointed out earlier in the thread, sometimes good work finds you, and in cases like that there really isn't much your employer can do, but I think the larger point is often there are a lot of things they CAN do to retain good employees and a lot of companies aren't doing them.
How will I crack adobe illustrator and photoshop now?
So I've got a new laptop. I'm the UX guy for a startup and of course I need photoshop and illustrator. Our startup hasn't generated enough revenue for me to pay for it yet. Any Ideas?
Personally, I'm glad I co-operated with my previous employer by delving into the specific factors that led to my decision to leave. Despite the fact that I obviously left, I really liked those people, and sometimes you go out on a limb for people you like.

My feedback provided a written-down justification for investing in some much-needed improvements to the way they built software. A few things tangibly improved as a direct result, and that is valuable to me.
Well, there are some people, like myself, who are interested in seeing ads. The reasons vary. For example, im on the lookout for an upgrade to a vps. Im getting lots of targeted ads with offers and specs. I consider that a good thing. I also like to know when my friend's startups are advertising and how they are doing it. Not everyone dislikes ads enough to go through the technicalities of installing an ad blocker.
Thus AdBlockAdBlocker is born.
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Isn't Yahoo powered by Bing?
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Why does this keep disappearing of the front page?
>And what better way to prove it than to cherry-pick examples.

Examples are always cherry picked. The other option is called "exhaustive enumeration", and I don't think it's possible.

Let's just say that 50 years ago,

1) nobody could track your exact position 24/7,
2) there was not fingerprint matching,
3) you could still dissapear in a remote place with much fewer chances of people finding you
4) your friends didn't post pictures of you for all the world to see
5) people were not required to carry some sort of ID cards
6) your purchases could not be tracked in real time (cach or cachiers check's, no credit cards)
7) all your (snail then) correspondence was not automatically and efficiently read
8) CCTV wasn't prevalent
9) radio couln't track what you were listening to (as Pandora etc)
10) nobody kept track of what movies you watched (like Netflix, Youtube, etc)
11) They could track cars by reading their plates of some camera.

etc etc. And tons of other stuff besides.

It's nice living in a dream bubble, but all these do exist, and are a real tendency in a higher technological society. After all bureacracy and control with expand given the chance (and with the lack of any counter tendency), and technology is a huge enabler for it to expand.
"Who permitted them to do it? No particular man among the dozens in authority. No one cared to permit it or to stop it. No one was responsible. No one can be held to account. Such is the nature of all collective action."

- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
You were riding 100-150 miles a wee kand you didn't loose weight due to that? What was your caloric inputs...?
Because semantic actually means something, it's not a subjective term.

Calling something Semantic UI and comparing it to another library, that more follows the actually meaning of semantic, is silly. Yes you can change the class name but setting up the name as something meaningful, something semantic, such as 'submitButton' lets you redefine it in the CSS.

If I'm building something that multiple clients will use I don't want each client having buttons with class names specific to the client, but something I can modify easily in the CSS to get the look and feel they want.

It's ass backwards.
Why Python? : Python
Thanks for the heads up. Stopping now.
> hunger cravings

A good diet should almost never leave you hungry. The problem is the no meat/no fat diets that people try to go on. When you eat high carb you get very little bang for your buck in terms of both volume and satiety.

1 pound of chicken is only 520 calories and the protein will keep you fuller much longer than 520 calories of Oreos. 1700 calories is a good target for a typical male who wants to lose weight, which on a high protein diet can look something like:

Breakfast: 16 oz non-fat cottage cheese (300cal)

Lunch: 10 oz chicken breast (330cal), 1/2 cup dry rice = 1 cup cooked rice (300 cal)

Dinner: 10 oz chicken breast (330cal), two pieces bread (220 cal), bbq sauce (140 cal)

You're at 1620 cals so you can still have an afternoon snack and be right at your target. Add some veggies to your lunch and dinner and I challenge you to eat all that and still feel hungry.

I'm not even recommending keto or paleo or any of that stuff, just that the reason people feel hungry when they diet is that they generally don't eat enough protein.
Yup, I was down to 10-15 lbs overweight before I stopped freelancing (perhaps it should be called free-ranging) and started employment again.

Office job plus free pop and chips plus stress = massive weight gain. I think for me at the core it's a stress + easy access to unhealthy food issue.
The other scenario is that the whole freemium model may disappear and you end up with more paid for/subscription models for a lot of sites.
Our culture of exclusion
This isn't news, and hasn't been hidden. EZ pass readers are plainly visible all over the place, including on the BQE in NYC and other places in NY. They give you an ESD bag to put your transmitter in.

As part of 511, state DOTs also purchase cell tower data to estimate speed on highways. My understanding is that is where the Google Maps traffic indicators come from.
1) An arms race of ad-detection tech vs ad-hiding tech;

2) A segregation of sites in those who are okay at being free&ad-free (personal blogs, hobbyists, shops, corporate sites) vs paid-content sites. Possibly site owners will have a big need for functioning micropayments.

3) Migration of ad budget from banners&impressions towards sponsorships, paid placements and "advertorial" content/biased articles.
If you want writeups on scala/java interop, the Manning "in Action" and "in Depth" books have excellent summaries. From scala you need to worry about java annotations, static members and "throws" exception declarations. Java private /protected etc are checked at runtime and compile time. (That's just me copying items out of the "In Action" ToC, but everything's very well documented).

For clojure/java interop, there's also good writeups in 2 Manning books, and also the OReilly and Pragmatic books. It looks like combining them (Scala/clojure interop) would take some plumbing, depending on the specific libs involved but i havent' tried. (And the Manning authors are all pretty far along on 2nd editions of both "Joy" and "In Action")

http://www.manning.com/fogus2/
who are the other two in the photo? http://blog.cloudflare.com/static/images/vonneumann.jpg

(von neumann is on the left, i think?)
I think people forget sometimes that 1984 was a work of fiction, and never actually happened.

I don't think it's fiction, and I think it had happened before it was written even. There are still bugs of course, but those are being worked out as we speak.
We will see the explosion of native and more tightly integrated ad formats that are harder to block.
Example: Job posts on HN.
Publishers will figure out how to make ads that bypass ad blockers (i.e. "native".)
That's a crazy heavy power clean weight. What kind of weekly weight increase?
You could put a shunt across the antenna.
The western world is no worse off. We die from poor nutrition but the rest of you kill yourself with cigarettes.

At least when you're in the west second hand food smells better than second hand smoke.
That's OK, if they have restraint in what they let through.

Maybe I'm not typical, but I made my peace with ads long before the Arpanet switched to TCP/IP, and every ad blocker I've installed has been in defense from an impossible ad after running unfiltered for a while.

Maybe there aren't enough of us, maybe the temptations are just too strong for ad blocking organizations if they accept some, but I have to think there's at least a little hope.
many spanish/latin people have the last name of their mother and father. ie Laura Marcos Moreno
We'll actually get to be the customers and pay for the things that interest us instead of being the product.

I think this would be a huge improvement, personally.
I used to get my wifi from over 2 kilometers away with a satellite dish and a usb dongle.
I assume the ui class is there for namespacing, which I think is a good idea.
> While funny looking, what is the ingenuity behind it?

Is there a requirement that HN articles be ingenious?
It's a novelty, that's all. And sometimes that's enough.
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What are valid reasons to use PHP? Like, you don't care about your code or you have no availability SLA?
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This is ridiculous. If you're smart and not complacent, you're probably always looking around for something else, maybe not super-actively, but possibly doing a phone interview every now and then, writing back to recruiters, and a smart company should take that for granted, for all its employees. The job market is a market.

You don't need any "reason" to consider other options, except for the obvious one: there always might be something better out there, and you'll only know if you're looking.

Your satisfaction in your current job is its own issue, and you should talk about that with superiors/etc. whenever necessary and possible.

But there's no reason to tell your boss about a job-hunting unless you already have an actual offer and you're contemplating taking it. Let's not hide the fact that the job market is built on negotiation.
As long as we're continuing to be cranky about spelling, "spelt" is a perfectly valid British spelling of the past participle of spell.
Notably newer Intel CPUs (iirc, Sandybridge and later) include a true random number generator, but I'm not sure how much software supports it yet.
There was a Finnish study where they had some people try to control salt intake and others just eat as much salt as they want. The "as much salt as they want" group actually had better health outcomes. Their conclusion was that for most people, the body's salt regulation is actually very good.
Instead, it would burn other things ... your own muscle, then fat, etc.

That's the first I've ever heard that a human body would burn muscle before fat. Also, a beer each day would be out of your system relatively fast, so it should have no lasting affects on your body's metabolism.

Also, if you're drinking a beer a day, then be sure it's at least bottle-conditioned craft beer since the suspended yeast has many nutrients. ;)
... that isn't even a rare case. Half the Latin-American world does paired names with a space instead of a hyphen.
Wow... I had only ever used Craig's List for buying and selling goods. I had no idea there were people raping and murdering each other on there. You'd think that the admins would try to put a stop to that.
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