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In addition to the other comments, I'd add that in the context of Chess, we have a contest in which there is a winner or a loser or a draw, and we can relatively easily verify that the system is functioning as designed with simple statistics. We also have a system that broadly speaking produces a fairly uniform ordering. Yes, at the very top of chess there's some question of who might win or whether styles have an effect, but broadly speaking in the population at large, a 50 point difference will have a certain meaning; at the macro level, we're measuring something with one dimension.

I would imagine many psychology studies are measuring something a great deal less well defined and more multidimensional in practice than "A will beat B at chess."
I wonder how this compares to the Visual Node[1] plugin by Redgate.

[1] http://www.visualnode.info/
So, as an armchair juror, 3 enourmous questions spring to mind:

1. Why would a man, who allegedly built an extremely profitable empire using robust cryptographic software, not have enough expertise to employ powerful encypted countermeasures on his personal machine? Why wasn't his hard drive encrypted? Why were there no plans to erase and destroy data at a moment's notice, in the event that he gets arrested? Are we expected to believe that his meticulous use of crypto-currency and onion routing go hand in hand with maintaining a silly plain text journal of his comings and goings? That he was simply naive to the idea that his local storage devices should not be a meticulously guarded has his network presence?

2. Are screenshots honestly a valid form of evidence? Consider that there's a distinct lack of any sort of chain-of-custody for such evidence, and the fact that it's trivial to fabricate screenshots, why should I believe that any give screenshot can be regarded as authentic evidence?

3. Screenshots aside, how can we honestly buy into any digital evidence presented to us, when there's no assured certainty to its integrity? Consider that one cannot even trust plaintext HTTP data to be safe from corruption by MITM attacks. Given that large quantities of digital evidence can be manufactured programatically, with relative ease, given the proper expertise, how are we to trust a large volume of digital data as anything more than artificially produced bits and bytes spat out by a machine? Logs? Logs, you say? Who maintained these logs? What program created these logs? And if I can possibly capture and replay a remote desktop session, doesn't it stand to reason that I might be able to spice things up, and insert salacious tidbits, and then programatically produce screenshots at will? So what if they have gigabytes of data demonstrating such and such? What is the true measure of authenticity when confronted by the fact that it's still just faceless bytes sitting on a disk?
Bravo. As a longtime enterprise reporting guy turned Rails dev, this resonates deeply with me.
I'm not posting this as a disagreement to anything you've said, but if everyone on that list decided to drop carbs for protein/fat, there wouldn't be enough food for everyone.

That's to say, before we can really cut out carbs from our diets we'll need to re-examine where our current food production is heading. The past half-century of advances seems to mostly have gone towards producing the most carbs per acre, albeit those carbs are typically then inefficiently converted into fat/protein (livestock). Soy is pretty good for mass protein production. Not sure if it would really be up to the task of what corn puts out in caloric density.
This applies to type II diabetics, but not to type I. As a type I diabetic, I would be dead pretty quick without carbs. Proteins and fats can raise blood sugar, but they do it very slowly, so I would have no way to correct low blood sugars before they got out of control.

Minor nitpick, I know, but the two types get conflated often, leading to misinformation. I cannot count how many times people have been surprised that I am diabetic, since I am thin (which is normal, since it is not weight related, and actually leads to weight loss when untreated).
Using "DMZ" in this context is very confusing, in common usage it means the exact opposite of what you intended.

A lot of home routers have a "DMZ" feature that gives the device you put in the DMZ full access to the outside internet, but restricts their access to other hosts on the local network.

It's typically used for gaming machines when you can't be bothered to forward a lot of ports individually, I have a gaming console in a "DMZ" on my network so I can play games online without fuss.
This part I just don't get it. Why? Salesforce is not a small startup. It can definitely afford a 100k hackathon.
If you truly don't eat any carbs at all (something that is extremely hard to do) I am pretty sure you end up in ketosis. That's not exactly a healthy state of affairs despite the fact that you can live that way. Practically speaking, there are too many things your body needs that also require you to eat things with carbs: vitamin c, folate, etc...
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. Fruits and Vegetables are mostly carbs (except for the rare ones like avacados) just like whole grains. Presumably if you were to cut out all carbs they would be on the chopping block too.
It is just like any evidence. You look at the people that are certifying it and decide if it is plausible that they are all lying.

(aimed mostly at 3.)
I must admit I didn't see that one coming. It suggests a fascinating application, which is to wear a graphene condom, on top of a rubber condom, on top of a graphene condom. Thus creating a condom 'super capacitor' [1] that you would charge up by rubbing it, which could then power a piezo electric vibrator. I'm so waiting to see who patents that!

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/163071-graphene-superca...
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The winning team presented their project at a Meetup well before the Hackathon was even announced:
http://www.meetup.com/Salesforce-com-Integration-Analytics/e...

Which is totally against the official rules for the Hacktahon, which stated "The application you or your team submits must: have been developed solely as part of this Hackathon"
http://res.cloudinary.com/hy4kyit2a/image/upload/Final%201M%...

So there you go.
Time. He is quite busy with conferences and FSF stuff.
This stuff gets a little conspiracy theorist. I think the most basic problem is that carbs are cheap and it's easy to eat a lot of them because they're not filling. Losing weight is about calories in versus calories out, but calories in is about hunger management.

Where I get breakfast, they sell these pretzels. 300 calories for something that'll leave you feeling hungry immediately. Meanwhile a small container of 2% Greek yogurt will fill you up till lunch for half the calories.

My favorite lunch is a salad at chipotle: lettuce, chicken guacamole, cheese. At 450 calories, it's ridiculously filling and has about as many calories as a small sandwich that'll leave you hungry by the afternoon. Or a twelve piece nuggets at chick fil a. 400 calories for a tasty lunch that is so filling it's even a bit hard to eat in a sitting.

But have a cup of coffee and a scone at Starbucks? Same number of calories as the twelve piece nuggets, except people don't feel like fat asses having that before going home for dinner.

If you have trouble losing weight because you can't stay on the wagon, at least try a low carb diet. Realize that a bagel at 200 calories = 5-7 strips of bacon and the latter will fill you up and the former won't. Also eat lots of vegetables to add volume with low calories. If you have a sweet tooth, put a teaspoon of sugar in some FAGE. It's only 15 extra calories.
Yep. We had graphite gel and spray for our pinewood derby axles in Boy Scouts.
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One very plausible answer is the government wanted to demonize him so there'd be less of an uproar of support against their actions.
An entry fee does not make something negative EV. $1,090,000 was added to the prizepool. If it was literally 100% guaranteed that the winner was pre-selected, then it would be -EV if >180 teams entered and all had the same chance of winning a prize. If the event was not rigged, then it is clearly +EV for even medicore participants.
Or, alternatively, recharge your smartphone during sex.
> if you eat lots of carbohydrates you're more likely to feel hunger and loss of blood sugar every two hours

You are describing symptoms of metabolic syndrome, typically caused by being fat, not an affect of carbohydrate. I am thin, and therefore not insulin resistant. I can and do add sugar to OJ sometimes for a quick meal. I don't get hungry again for hours.
Try stuff from him & Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose. All interviews are available on the website.
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TDD + print() == "debugging like a BOSS". :)

In all honesty I rarely feel the need for anything more. Generally I don't even need the print() because I stick to small self contained functions.

The exception is when I'm using a poorly documented or new to me open source library. I guess at times like that a debugger may be useful. So next time I run into such a situation I'll try out a debugger.

But I can't see much of a reason for it in my own code.
I swear I was reading a different HN thread on this topic yesterday or even today, and the very idea of paying for a music service was considered extremely offensive.
> we already know the simple principle by which you can lose weight.

We know of one simple principle (eat less, to the point of losing weight), that's extremely hard to practice. Turns out that no other principle works consistently for all the population (usually around 80%), and this one simple principle (doctors hate it!) leads some people (I heard estimates range from 5-20%) to significantly worse quality of line (including depression, sleep problems, anxiety, concentration problems).

It is easy to change your routine in many ways - e.g., a lot of people have no problem adding a couple of jelly donuts per day. Or to stop going to the gym even if you've done it for years. It is possible that such a change of routine is possible for overweight, but it hasn't yet become popular (or discovered).

From all the anecdata I've been able to collect, Soylent seems to leave people satisfied for long, compared to foods with similar caloric content (Not comparing to other meal replacements here - to your random everyday food). So does fat in general, if consumed sufficiently far away from carbs (Bullet proof coffee) or flavour (shangri-la "diet"). None of these seem to work for everyone, but e.g. 80% of people on shangri-la self-report an immediate, considerable, appetite suppression affect.

The accepted body of knowledge with respect to nutrition, appetite and hunger seems to be all wrong; nutrition "science" is not. There's actual science to be done here, but it is not done in academic institutes - mostly by individuals, so it's taking longer than you expect to get quality results (and even longer to take them seriously when they are found).
What a weird feeling I get when seeing this.

It looks so cool but pisses me off at the same time.

I hope I get a way to turn this off easily of at least filter it's content.
Just in case you're looking for winamp after the close date, you can find old versions of it on http://oldversion.com. My fave is 2.95.
Ok, then I'll rephrase my question: If I consume 3-4k calories of fat per day and exclude all carbs, will I lose weight? The answer is still "No, not if I'm using fewer than 3-4k calories in my daily activity."

I've been a lean 168, an obese 250, and am now a pretty healthy 175-180 pounds. As a matter of principle (I love food!!), I don't change what I eat over time. It's a healthy balance...but it's a lot of calories. If I'm active, I lose weight. If I'm sedentary, I gain weight. The fact is, if I have a consistent surplus of calories, I'm going to get fat. Period.
Actually, they have a responsibility to endeavor to turn a profit. Growth at any cost imho comes from MBA's who want to spin the lottery wheel and cash out stock options.
1) He was arrogant and thought that they would never get that close to him. or He thought that keeping notes offline in an analog format would be safer than keeping digital copies.

Also consider that for all the Trade Craft Bin Laden practiced to stay hidden. He was sloppy when it came to the computer drives and notes he kept in his house.
I can't get over how he wasn't using full disk encryption.
They use telfon in all sorts of implants. I don't think there are really any safety concerns.
Seems nice, but it is not freedom software.
But I would move to use this docbook, ie xml and xsl as external file formatd for an emacs word processor.
I agree. I saw this recent piece on Doritos and was amazed at how much attention goes into EVERY sensory experience you have with the chip to maximize your intake (ie, calories consumed):

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/01/dining/nacho-g...
Are you thinking of Ketoacidosis? Ketosis is fine for people to live in and intentionally induced via the keto diet in quite a few people. It does remain slightly controversial if we need ketosis for weight management via keto, but I've seen nothing saying ketosis is harmful.
Ansible has way too few examples and documentation going around it. The supplied examples are way too simplistic and do not mirror any real life application at all.

I really hope that the authors create a non trivial project (like hadoop on EC2) which exercises a lot of parts of Ansible, document it throughly and structure it to match real life workflows. It's really, really hard to go around hunting for documentation.
For example, I did not even know after reading the Ansible-EC2 documentation for a few hours that you need to periodically run "python ec2.py" to keep refreshing your inventory in a cache on your disk. I somehow thought (or intuitively expected) all that happened in the background on running the playbook, and just take a few minutes longer - it's not as if any time is saved, since you have to run the inventory script anyway.

Single playbooks that launch an EC2 instance, print hello and shut it down are not the typical use case.
Not disagreeing with anything you say, but I generally eat a 100% carbs lunch and also feel full and not hungry later. Usually it's 2 apples or 1 apple and another serving of fruit, and a cup of tea with no refined sugar. (Usually a bit of honey).

I feel like all the simple answers in nutrition are BS and the only short answer is "it's complex."

But I definitely do agree with the calorie-is-a-calorie line of thought. Gaining weight is an I/O issue.
All good points. This is why neither you, nor any other programmer, is likely to sit on a jury in a trial relating to computer crime.
I think you are being overly dramatic on "enormous", but either way: it is not a zero sum game. If someone adds some activity into their weekly plan while simply maintaining their current eating habits, that is still an overall win.

It is certainly a win for their health, because obviously eating "healthy stuff" does not actually make you perfectly healthy.
Let's hope they will also be 100x stronger than current ones, so they never break.
In a previous thread about datomic, you mentioned trying to have at least 4 gigs of ram, is that ideal for a large app under a lot of load, or basically necessary? Am I going to run into any trouble using it on side projects on my 1 gig VPS? I'd imagine not but that post made me think twice.
Nice display, but I'm having a hard time seeing any utility in this. top 5000 maybe, but even a cursory examination makes it clear that getting into the top 5m barely breaks the notability threshold.
I like the vibration effect better. Or at least my girlfriend would :-).
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Mathematica being what it is, what are science intensive problems worth solving on raspberry pi without uploading to a server?
I'm thinking along the lines of robototechnics. Something like calculating a ballistic trajectory for autonomous gun turret with statistical analysis of precision via feedback loop. Feedback being the delay of sound of projectile impact for impact distance. Or visual position of a hit. You get the idea.
What can you think of for civil use?
An uproar from whom?
The FBI appears to have seized a very large number of Bitcoins, posed as hitmen killing someone on his behalf, and they've got a wide variety of physical evidence like the fake IDs shown.

I doubt they needed to take the risky step of faking extra evidence here.
Pin not talking about high fiber carbs like apples. They have very low calories because they're mostly fiber and water. I'm talking about the staples of American diet: bread, pasta, etc.

Also, two apples have 200 calories. That's basically a slice and a half of bread. Very few people would find either filling. But at 270 calories a lot of people would find an 8 piece nuggets at Chick Fil a pretty filling.
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There's a major difference between how your body reacts to complex carbs (fruits, vegetables, etc.) versus simple, processed carbs (cookies, soda, etc.). The former is packed with fiber which moderates the intake of the carbs into your bloodstream. The latter is a direct injection...which causes a spike versus the slow release that you experience.
This headline sorely needs a qualifier to explain what it's about -- even something simple like "[chess]" would be sufficient.
Ok, but that's not what you said? You say something bold and provocative and then start carving out exceptions buried downthread.

As I said elsewhere in this discussion: "I feel like all the simple answers in nutrition are BS and the only short answer is 'it's complex.'"
Only in places that allow use of cheap generic post-exposure drugs produced in India. Unfortunately the very same drugs in Europe are hell expensive. They should be probably subsidized by the country like Germany which is famous for its sex industry.
Okay thank you skram. I really apprciate your time and patience. You could've spend your time doing something else but you took the time to respond to my question and I appreciate that.
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Big up to Automaticc for doing this. Right On!
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Depending who unpacks it. I suppose that richest man in the world can be turn-on for many women...
While that was evident and clear -- and I upvoted you for your cogent analysis -- it also goes with what I'm saying, that the only short answer is "it's complex."
I remember he made a comment (can't remember where) that he chooses projects which are likely to have the greatest impact per dollar, or something to that effect. You'll have to find the source yourself, though.
I advance the possibility that your thinking about programming languages has become, to paraphrase The Dude, way too uptight.

Is a telescope a proprietary source? Is a commercially manufactured CCD a proprietary source? Maybe they got the response curve wrong! Okay, test it before you announce your galactic dust measurement paper! I take that attitude towards "experimental mathematics" that involve computers in some deep way.

And no need to patronize with Wikipedia links, I know the story about the Mars Climate Orbiter. And I don't think it even demonstrates your point. As I understand it, vxWorks, which many of the NASA missions use, is closed source. You have to pay to see the source. And I'm sure that Wolfram Research would or could do the same thing for e.g. intelligence agencies (and hopefully will do for everyone in the future, fingers crossed).

Let me do some patronizing of my own: are you sure your understanding of what the language does is up to date? You seem to talk of it as if it were a predominantly a CAS: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/index.html
I swear. He better call it Steel Gates
If you want to go into theory, of course it's an overall inefficient way compared to just cutting your energy intake dramatically.

But very few people can actually do that reliably, and even less can then transform that into properly adjusted eating habits. Exercise makes the process considerably easier.
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Ah, it's a 12 years old story, then. I wasn't aware of that; thanks.
> Losing weight is about calories in versus calories out

[citation needed]. I know that's the common wisdom, but I also know of countless anecdotes (see e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sam-feltham/weight-loss-advi... and his previous 6K-calorie diet, and some real data - a few of the references in http://media.sethroberts.net/about/whatmakesfoodfattening.pd... , don't remember which ones) where that simply does not work. And I've actually been looking for papers establishing the science behind "calorie counting", and came up mostly with contrary results -

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22760558

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/6/1649.full
You really think "my client is too smart to have made any of these mistakes it must all be a government conspiracy" is going to fly as a defense?
Scribd is using it for async document conversion.
If Teflon were anymore inert, it'd be a noble gas.
It's a public API meant for consumption by other developers, 95-99% of which are going to be use camelCase.

I don't care what their code looks like internally. I do care about the public interface to it.
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Vegetables are mostly water. Lots of them provide more fiber than other carbs (and even more protein than digestible carbs). Pedantically you would have to cut them to eliminate carbs. On a practical basis, there isn't much reason to.
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Why does it piss you off? It's only there because you've chosen to.
Mobile desks. Let people move where they want to. If nothing else I get tired of looking at the same walls from the same angle day in and day out. I like variety.

Overall though I prefer an open space environment with the ability to periodically go of to a quiet area for deep thinking. Sometimes you just need that solitude to do your best work.
Ok, here it is. Technically, we don't need carbs. Whatever that means, it is what it is. Carbs are a non-essiential macronutrient.

We need some vitamins, minerals and what not as well as protein and fat. We don't need carbs. Some of those vitamins and minerals come from plants, which have, as we say in the biz, trace carbs and fiber.

When I'm cutting down for a photoshoot I go keto. I might not have a veggie for weeks. My bloods and panels all look fine. I mostly eat veggies b/c I feel bad for not eating them.

I do take a multivit every day and I'm eating plenty of fat which helps the colon move things along.

When I'm gaining muscle, I do eat carbs. Lots of carbs. But we don't need carbs.