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This is great advice, and worked for me beautifully since I stopped smoking and started eating at home with my wife. +1
Our nation was not founded on the concept that nobody is exempt from the law (see: Presidential pardons). That's an intellectually dishonest thing to say. What you suggest is quite simply stupid - should every enemy combatant be given the chance to take the lives of US citizens, just in the effort to give that combatant a trial? Hold trials on the battlefield?

Your problem boils down to the fact that there are people out there in this world who have power, and you do not. This bothers you. The NDAA and the Patriot Act weren't created in a bubble, and if you actually want to understand what caused them to be written other than malice (seriously?), you ought to read more about the history surrounding the times, as well as current events today.

Sometimes the US government goes too far, but not nearly as often, or nearly as extreme as you keep saying, and frankly it's just sad that someone like you can have even an infinitesimally small sway in how this country is run.
Did you notice it was John Carmack who said what's in the title, right? Has StackOverflow made John Carmack lazier?

Anyway, in his twitter TL he has an answer for a quip similar to yours:

> "people probably said similar things about books..."

Yup. Reading books has made people lazier, because if they had knowledge about [topic] they shouldn't be reading about it anyway.
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Lobbyists can't be the whole answer; tobacco hasn't had lack of lobbyists or lack of quality of lobbyists, but it got severely restricted.

In the end I think the answer is "because we, society, allow it.". It is very hard to lobby for things we really do not want.
> all-around reinforcing that the people there are the same as people everywhere

This is the thing that's important to remember, and is incredibly difficult with the way our media portrays the DPRK.
Do you honestly think it is reasonable to expect everyone not to use any plugins? Let me know how they are going to, say, get audio from webapps.

I guess everything is stable, if you just avoid all the features everyone uses.
>Nothing is a replacement for diet and exercise.

I don't know why people say this. The benefits of exercise are simply initiating biochemical processes that cause your body to grow and become more efficient (drugs that target the SIRT1 gene are an example). There's absolutely no reason why we can't develop drugs that initiate that same process. Same goes for preventing fat accumulation. Claiming that there's no substitute is a cop-out and its an unfounded assumption.
Ah, Rust behind the scene. I sensed that correlation.
If you go as a tourist it must be a guided/accompanied tour (or rather, you arrange it through one of DPRK tourism bodies, and they only do guided/accompanied - you can't just turn up at Pyongyang airport and ask to come in), but there is nothing stopping you having a group size of one (i.e. just yourself).

People working there and diplomats and so forth come under different rules.
He is -very- clearly using the word "we" to describe "the masses", not HN readers.
Please don't use precise computer science terminology to describe social problems unless you also plan on providing a precise model describing the said problem in mathematical terms.

Otherwise, you're co-opting language about things that are precise and provable to make your subjective point.

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Large runs means about 50-100 or more, so not too much!
I have the opposite problem - can't gain weight. Doesn't matter if I eat more or less, what kind of food, how many times a day and if I am training or not - it just stays the same no matter what. Recently it's been even worse - a simple 2 hour exercise would leave me with -1 kg and I had to wait like 4 days to gain back that 1 kg lost in one exercise. I think the hormones almost singlehandedly decides what you look like. I knew people that were obese and gained weight simply by drinking water and not eating anything. I thought maybe "survival instinct" would help me gain at least fat, where it supposedly activates when you are eating very little, and that is supposed to be the reason why not eating does not help fat people lose weight, but my weight even then just stays the same. I occasionally go for a whole day without eating (not intentionally) and never start to gain fat. It's really frustrating. Sometimes I just wish I could be fat and just go to gym.
But not individually. You have to sign up for a group tour.
Finally a well thought out comment. One of the big issues I see with obesity is that the problem is oversimplified, as are the solutions. I know of several people on whom counter-obesity problems have had a significantly detrimental effect.

I've seen ineffective gastric bypass surgery which led to a friend gaining even more weight and watched helplessly as he slipped into a very depressed and negative state. As the article points out, if someone said there's a drug that just cures cancer it would be laughable. It is indeed so with weight loss. Phentermine will have minor side effects with impulse control, addiction, paranoia etc.

Interestingly enough, obesity is typically not associated with the "poor" in the rest of the world. I have often heard it mentioned as an anecdote to how "wealthy" Americans really are. But therein lies a very interesting problem to which I simply haven't seen a very good answer. Unfortunately the sigtma associated with obesity and the well entrenched and highly profitable "weight-loss" industry gets in the way of significant advances being made in this arena. Again, as is mentioned in the article, there is even a stigma associated with "diet doctors", which surely has dissuaded more than a few brilliant minds to explore the field more.

Ofcourse, as a programmer who is very familiar with a sedentary lifestyle and the pizza culture, obesity is a serious issues that does affect more than just the poor. And for crying out loud, I hope someone figures out more about it than pseudo science of obesity we have now. It's not as simple as it looks at first glance.
It's strange, because the government run China Telecom is letting you pre-order a phone with bitcoin.
>They don't want to go to the gym and do the hard work and lose those 10lbs over say six to eight months.

I wouldn't want to do that, either. That's miserably slow. A pound per week (which is a fairly slow weight loss, equivalent to a roughly 500 Calorie/day deficit) loses you about 24 pounds in 6 months. Two pounds per week is still well within the healthy range and gets you nearly 50 pounds lost in 6 months.
>> In summer 2013 I traveled to the most isolated country in the world.

I thought it was the pitcairn islands ... (population 65, boat every 3 months ...)
Okay, that's a fair point. It just seems like Ruby and Node have sucessfully adopted the use of two separate files for dependency tracking, so it seems like it would work with Python as well.

I guess what you're suggesting is that requirements.txt should be the equivalent of a Gemfile and there should be a separate "requirements.lock" (or whatever) which tracks the output of pip freeze.

On top of that, I understand that you're suggesting that the generation of this lock file should be part of the process of setting up a virtualenv as opposed to a separate tool such as pip-compile.

If my interpretation is correct, then I totally agree. Although I still think pip-compile may be useful until such a tool exists :)
I do what is best described as marketing automation. For instance setting up campaigns that will send personalized content messages to client customers (think the offers that you receive from a company such a Bestbuy). So there's a lot of planning and testing involved before the campaigns are executed.

Then there's other things like designing some business processes and, occasionally, editing some HTML here and there.
Because "one bad js = frozen browser" is bad
They are even less problematic when you consider them in comparison with the infrastructure required for physical currency banking: vaults, guards, armored cars, auditors, trust, communications.

When everyone already has the ability to use a cellular phone, the additional marginal resources required for using cryptocurrency are almost trivial. The way most banks operate, they would need electricity, Internet, and computers in all of their branch locations anyway.

If you have neither traditional banking nor cryptocurrency, aiming for the latter offers a bigger return on your infrastructure investment.
Ultimately, this is the real answer. We can overcome anything if the political will exists.
Wow, um, I think a simple cot would suffice and would be about $15,950 cheaper... http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-2000009891-ComfortSmart-Foldin...
I feel a little like its banning in China is inevitable. This is a currency that allows people to circumvent the PRC's ability to monitor and control money, in a country where Facebook and Twitter are blocked because the government can't control them. It seems to me like they're not taking it seriously as a viable currency, and that's why they're responding in this way.
Armed government thugs create black markets.
It's needed to attract the die hard Chrome users back to Firefox.
If you follow the slideshow to the end, there's a link to a blog post where he discusses his reasons, the travel arrangements and some FAQ, among them the question about solo traveling. tl;dr: No, he didn't travel alone. It's impossible to do legally and very much inadvisable to try otherwise.
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If the lectures do not do a good job of teaching the material and the assignments do not actually do a good job of testing your understanding of the material, what is the point of the course? I think epsylon is accurately presenting the prevailing opinion of the course. It's not very good and is a time sink for all the wrong reasons.

If the grader is marking you off on a certain aspect of the assignment, how do you know you have actually learned the core concepts? How do you know you aren't missing something important? The problem with "doing it until I feel I have learned the core concepts" is that I don't know what I don't know (unknown unknowns). That's part of why a structured course is supposed to be valuable, because it doesn't let me skip important concepts.

This course can be salvaged the second time around, but it is going to require a bit of polishing.
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Thank you, I couldn't believe there wasn't a quoted doctor somewhere in the article bringing up this point.

I'm not overweight, but I know I don't get quite enough exercise right now either. My blood pressure and cholesterol levels are a bit higher than normal. Nothing concerning yet, but if I let it go on like this for another decade it won't matter if I'm not technically overweight. I'll still be unhealthy and facing similar cardiovascular/metabolic problems. These things can't be solved by a diet pill.
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The intent is simple, but there are many ways to express that intent. Some of them work well when there are two components sitting right next to each other in memory on one machine; others work well for an unknown number of components interacting with each other over a slow, unreliable network.

Even if RPC is a fundamentally, unambiguously simpler way to express that intent (and I think that's arguable), it does not meet the same technical requirements that REST does.
Then what he was saying is immensely broad and basically useless as guidance for today. "Bad thing happened at some point in history" is worthless, as a sentence.

And we're not swinging towards authoritarianism. That's absolutely a lie. Want to know the irony in you saying that? That you can say that, and not fear your door being knocked down and you being questioned. You don't know authoritarianism if you think the US is headed that way. Authoritarianism is not being able to criticize the government. Authoritarianism is the inability to change the government. Authoritarianism is a very loaded word, and your misuse of it only clouds the real problems the US government has, of which there are undeniably many.

People like you who go chicken-little constantly by bandying about words like "authoritarianism" create huge political blockage, which causes government standstills like what we're seeing in congress today. Lawmakers are afraid to do anything, because every time they try, it ends with some lawmaker or another being portrayed as eating children under a bridge somewhere, and his/her constituents buy it enough to oust him/her, despite just trying to make this country a better place.
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I think we may want to stick "Mail service" between 1 and 2.

The ability to distribute printed matter by mail lead to magazines like the Saturday Evening Post being able to create a national identity in the United States.
do you have any resources handy to explain people that the word radiation isn't a synonym of death?
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Ah, you mean that kind of individually. I thought you meant "I'm not a journalist or a diplomat" individually.
Point taken, @Ihmar also suggested some first steps (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6854593).
I can't tell if you're being funny or not by linking to two YouTube videos, a New Yorker article, and a Wikipedia page that doesn't exist.

Also, that's not the kind of silencing we're talking about. We're talking about the act of blackmail using data collected by spying programs.
I think this is a good point, but it runs into some particular problems when dealing with software, in particular open source software, where there is no direct relationship between the person creating the software and the person using it - in fact, it's not automatically true that the person creating the software knows anything at all about who is using it.
"It's not really fair to blame a spammer; their business depends on you getting spammed, spam is effective, and so they have little choice but to spam you."
No, I was referring to benihana and solely on him/her. Pfff...
Cool! I built something similar like that except I have yet to create a web interface for it and it has much much less dependencies (just really a fancy post-receive for git).

For my own use I just like to have a git push to deploy. A web interface could be useful for others, which I will build eventually.

Plug: https://github.com/shuhaowu/gioku
Did you go with Koryo Tours? I went the summer before last and it was undoubtedly the most interesting trip I've ever taken. It definitely humanized the people who were previously thought of, just a little bit, as "the enemy." Waitresses giggling while singing karaoke, rowdy schoolboys asking for a picture, soldiers laughing as we smashed into them on the Funfair bumper cars, that sort of thing.

One thing we were surprised by was the openness of our guide. She asked us what our country thought of North Korea, and wanted to hear all about our elections and political system.

At first we thought it was genuine curiosity, but after a while and some pretty dubious claims (come look at this average farmworker's house! everyone in North Korea has a computer!), we suspected that it was designed to "butter us up."

That, I think, was my only real problem with the trip. A lot of what I saw surprised and impressed me (boy, could those children play their instruments!), but I never knew if it was all a ruse for the tourists.
What I'm hearing is that the massive break between WP7 and WP8 won't be the last of its kind - the inevitable consolidation of WinRT and WP8 into a new OS will require deep-enough changes that I doubt we'll see the OS released on our existing devices.

I'm also disappointed to hear how much legacy code lives in the Win8RT/WP8 platforms - I thought they were supposed to be a clean break.
I suspect that a lot more cash is coming from the Siberian labour camps that VICE, for example, reported on, but it would be nice to get at least rough numbers.
Microsoft's main problem is that most customers don't see it that way.

IF they choose Windows, it's because they want compatibility with software they already use. That's what doomed RT. Microsoft thinks Metro/Modern/Market apps are what Windows is now. They want to shed the past. But customers buy Windows exactly because of continuity with the past.

Android customers want Google's ecosystem and the big selection of apps in the Play store. Microsoft's other problem is that the Bing/Live ecosystem isn't competitive.

I agree with the article to the extent that Microsoft should have done what Windows customers wanted: Let Windows be Windows. And they should have freed themselves to build the future, initially as a companion device to Windows. Or they could have bought Blackberry, or not shut down Nokia's OSs and gotten a leg up on that transition. QNX running and Android-ish userland based on an MSIL VM would have kicked ass. Instead we are dragging Windows everwhere and the userland is a hodgepodge of Web, C++, and MSIL apps.

Killing RT and running real Windows everywhere is a small improvement over the current mess, but Microsoft is wading deeper into the swamp instead of finding a way out. The only way to win at mobile is to make a non-Windows product. They are so far away from that as to be a lost cause, even if the next CEO sees the problem.
They played the game wrong. There are counter examples of drugs that should never have been approved rushed to approval.
That's the value imparted on the paper currency, not its intrinsic value. Its intrinsic value is that of a piece of paper with interesting designs on it.
I've stated my opinion, I mentioned that I did it myself, placing affiliate tags on book links (in the comment you're replying to), no I didn't want to draw attention to my own blog because it would have been off-topic and yes, I gave explanations in this same thread.

What you're doing is a direct ad-hominem btw. I don't need qualifications to infer that it's impossible for somebody to read 132 books on some of the hardest topics in CS. We also have different definitions for what "value" is.
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Neat! I like it.

Really, the web interface is just to make it easier for me to create sites and for other people to edit them. I'm not finding myself spending a lot of time in the web editor.
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> All IPC happens using the Chromium IPC libraries

Interesting that they chose to share code with Chrome. Since the two are competitors, I would have thought that they'd use completely separate implementations. It's interesting that open source makes this sharing possible.
How do poor people have less time to cook than well off people? We all work the same hours.

No, we don't all work the same hours. Maybe you're one of those hackers who works 80-hour weeks by choice, but even then, there's a big difference between working 80 hours because you can, and needing to work 60-80 hours at 2 or 3 different minimum-wage jobs (unlike most people) to make enough to get by.

But not all poor people are like that, so what about the ones who have jobs with regular full-time hours, or less than full-time? Well, a lot of their time might be spent looking for another job, or some other way to supplement their income, that you, with your good income, don't have to worry about. That's time they can't spend cooking or thinking about how to cook well. And if they can't afford a car? Walking to whatever job they have, which you apparently think would be an unadulterated good for them, probably takes a lot longer than driving would- less time to cook or eat well. And in bad weather it may be impossible, meaning that they have to take public transportation, because that's all they can afford right now, even though it's more expensive that owning a car in the long run- again, less money they can spend on food, and still less time than if they had their own vehicle.

And add to all of that the psychological toll of knowing that you in poverty and exercising the willpower to deal with all of the above problems and others that come with poverty, and it's freakin' hard to find both the time and mental energy to figure out how to eat both healthy and cheap.
It's amazing how well this works, at least for me.

Sometimes I even make an effort to think to myself, "How would X respond to this situation?" Replace "X" with anyone of your choice who would probably be a lot cooler than you under stress: Jesus, Spock, Batman, James Bond, Yoda, Mr. Rogers, or whoever the heck epitomizes "chill" in your worldview.

It sounds cheesy, and it probably is. But it works. Chances are, the "X" of your choice wouldn't react hastily or let small things get to him. Shit happens to everybody, but stopping in mid-emotional-flareup to process an appropriate response is a skill. And skills can be developed.
So how would you rewrite the poem?

First they came for the terrorists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a terrorist.
Then they came for the enemy combatants, and I didn't speak because I wasn't an enemy combatant.
Then they came for the traitors, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a traitor.

? I'm just trying to see which part of this is not 200+ years old. Was there ever a time in the history of the US where the US government wasn't "coming" for terrorists, enemy combatants, and traitors? If that's the case, then how do you build a bridge from "terrorists" to "random law-abiding citizen", which is the point of the poem.
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Wow! That's twice as powerful as 500 Startups
Unfortunately, it seems still quite slow... I have tried running the Life example shipped with LuaWindows and I would say NetLua is DEFINETELY slower. Not gonna lie on that. It's only 2 weeks old, though!
I suppose it is potentially, but I have to assume that the people in the pharmaceutical industry understand which drugs they should market (and how, and when) to make the most money. To me it seems that "diet drugs" would basically print money from them, but my point is I believe there is a reason for them doing what they are doing, and that if they calculated they would make that much money, you better believe that they would pour truckloads of money into advertising.

Still, it just seems so odd, given the rather... large potential market.
I understand how news like this will have short term price effects but isn't one of the fundamental reasons for betting on bitcoins that governments can't (not won't) regulate them?

P.S. When are spellcheckers going to start recognizing bitcoins?
I think the real question is: how are they unpalatable now?

I ask because taste bud response varies; one common reference is the supertaster-taster-nontaster continuum, which is focused on perception of bitter component found in some vegetables.

If you're a supertaster, you might not be able to do anything to make them completely acceptable to you; they're always going to be a bit over-bitter. Hate to say it, but cheese, butter, and gentle use of honey may be your best bets.

On the other hand, if you're a taster, the suggestions here will help... and if you're a non-taster like me, you might discover that fresher -- and weirder -- produce has a more intense flavor that you enjoy, though you might need to acquire a taste for it.
I work in a different country than all of my friends and business partners, and we've all started using bitcoin for everything in the last few months. The first time you set up a multi-signature escrow with no fees, no middleman, and no 3-5 business day wait, it's mind blowing! I believe that everyone will eventually have this "ah hah" moment, even if the currency units themselves are horribly unpredictable.