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Besides us being thin, the bigger problem is that his joke is totally cliche.
To me the most interesting part of Walkers writings on diet and exercise are the exercise bits:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/chapter1_2_5.html

Very simple and absolutely doable even without any room or extra gear.

Don't let the simplicity deceive you.
"... I sympathize with OP and understand his reasoning. I'm glad I ended up going down a different path, although I don't really know why. I hope he finds a way to release the hurt and anger and move on. I know that I have. ..."

Hey ed, I haven't been back to hackernews for a while but I want to chime in on this topic.

Each person is going to respond in a different way. Also reading the article Mark has had a pretty rough time. Physical injury is one thing, psychological injury by people you know is worse. The dilemma is caused because the fact the person being abused (bullied, call it what you like) knows the attacker and has no control over the situation. There is no use trying to explain this to people who have not been in a similar situation.

As for me I entered school at 5'8", okay at sports and took the math/sci stream, same ineptness as most. I had a foot in 2 camps: sports & science. I think I managed to slip under the radar till the last couple of years. But unlike the experiences I've read here most have the crap for me didn't begin till the last couple of years at HS. The last year especially. A year bookmarked by tragic circumstances on top of all the crap in-between. I still don't know why people I'd known for years gave me the crap they did? I brushed it off at the time only wondering later why? But it wasn't all bad. I actually had someone come up to me late in the year telling me they'd under-rated me. Gee I wasn't as if I was a different person before I organised the emvac. Then there was the school leaders more worried about publicity and their hides than students welfare. Yeah I learnt a lot more than I bargained for that year.

So while I've graduated, moved on and had a good run since, I sure as hell make sure I pick my friends carefully and assert myself online. I don't take any crap. And as for attending HS reunions, No.

Besides the school has been torn down ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157620934091013...
I happily pay my taxes, exactly so that someone like Mary can get the required treatment. Hardly any individual can carry the costs of such medical investigations and operations.
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Not just 'making things': creatively crafting solutions. A mason also makes things, but he just stacks bricks. I'm proud to call myself a software engineer.
It's an Israeli newspaper; if a Russian-American scientist made the discovery, I'm sure the Russian papers would mention that fact as well.
Thanks! Will check out your suggestions. Waiting for my flight to board as we speak.
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Singling out the few substances people have been taking on purpose, in addition to their regular diet, to obtain certain effects, is a poor way of identifying chemicals that should be avoided because they are 'drugs'. It is simply an absurd definition of 'drugs'. You take drugs everyday, in large doses, with your regular diet. Change your diet and you change, for the better or the worse, because there are some substances you suddenly take in much more or much less.

Not too mention all the stuff that's in our regular drinking water: instead of avoiding pot, I'd start by avoiding tap water.
Ask HN: How do you see the future of computing ?
How do you envision we will be programming computers 10 years from now ?

20 years from now ?
It's likely that some of the same high-school administrators are now failing to protect geeks in the same or a different high school today. Maybe he should make an effort to generate some accountability for administrators for allowing bullying.
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It's wrongly labeled, but given the litigious nature of the market Apple has little choice in the matter.

This is the kind of nonsense you have to deal with when writing for a platform that is as closed as the iphone, you are literally at the mercy of the outlet.

This is what other companies feel like when they sell through for instance wall-mart. The other party dictates all the terms and you either accept that or you move on.

There is money to be made writing iphone applications, that's why people will develop for it, in spite of the ridiculous labeling and restrictions.

Apple is just too scared of having its precious brand damaged by some dimwits lawsuit about their mentally damaged 14 year old that saw a pair of breasts or something like that.
Hell, even Google -- striving for openness and fairness and not-being-Apple -- built a remote kill switch into their app store for Android

You know, I'm really glad they did. They'll know first if an application has a virus or remote exploit, I want them to take it off my device. I trust that they won't do anything shady (and I trust Amazon won't do anything shady) because (1) they're bound by laws that keep them in check and (2) they want my business.
What do you think he should do that wouldn't benefit from getting over it? Having his kids take karate, for example, would probably be an even better idea if he wasn't still full of anger. It seems like the only benefit of this kind of anger is collective: it might motivate him to take some kind of action to improve the situation for everybody — but he doesn't seem to be doing that.

Oh, and the swastika was on the street, not on the lawn.
I also find it comforting to discover other young people who have weird hearts. Even cardiac doctors and nurses remark on my age.

Further, there is a medical unit in London called GUCH (Grown-Up Congenital Heart) that was created specifically for people like us who had heart problems early on in life. The need wasn't there before because, in the past, we'd all be dead by adulthood.
Furthermore, all of the world's most intractable problems are basically marketing problems. For global warming, world hunger, malaria, water shortages, fisheries depletion, etc., we already have the solutions.

I agree, those are basically marketing problems — they are created by marketing. The problem is that marketing, which is where you try to persuade someone of something because it will benefit you personally, regardless of its truth, is fundamentally corrosive to the kind of disinterested investigation of the truth that we need in order to collectively solve these problems.

You could as easily say that these are violence problems: it's just a matter of getting really talented soldiers to kill the people who are opposing the solutions. The trouble is that there's no correlation between the correctness of a person's point of view on how to solve world hunger and their skill at violence, so generally speaking, increasing the level of violence doesn't improve the level of competence in social, economic, and agricultural policy. (I guess it might solve the water shortage problem in a different way, though, sort of like you can lower the rate of heart disease by administering carcinogens.)

Similarly, there's no positive correlation between the correctness of one's opinion and one's skill at marketing. I think you can make the argument that there's a negative correlation: people whose opinions are tentative and based on evidence are not nearly as confident as a good marketer needs to be.
Accomplishment is a matter of framing; you can get a powerful sense of it by visualizing some simple outcome (e.g. drawing a short line), then doing it, and then comparing the (remembered) blank space, your visualization, and the result. You have changed reality through your will; you are an agent; you have an impact on the world.

I think this is the basis of all sense of accomplishments - it's just a matter of what you allow yourself to count as a "real" one. After all, what is your contribution to any accomplishment but a complicated conditional sequence of perceptions, judgments and actions? You can raise the bar (for misery punctuated by brief moments of joy), or lower the bar (so every moment is ecstatically joyous). I prefer the latter, but seem to spend most of my time in the former...
Yes, I certainly know how lucky I am to live in a country with a nationalised health service. And I am eternally grateful to the rest of the population who have contributed to my healthcare via their taxes. I know that if I live to be a hundred, the taxes I pay won't get close to covering the cost.
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I hear what you say, and I agree with much of, but I disagree with some of your points.

> if the same piece had been spoken to you ... you would have loved it.

Not if the person had a really, really annoying voice, or if it were littered with grammatical differences from my norm, or if it were so loud it were painful, etc.

Delivery matters. If you force me to get past the delivery to find the message, you are saying that my reactions are less important than your thoughts. If you care about your audience, you will take the time and effort to remove obstacles and let the message be unhindered.

How many times have you visited a web site, only to leave fairly promptly because you can't make instant sense of it? This is the web/visual equivalent. We are repeatedly exhorted to make the design simply, clean, clear, and attractive.

Checking your spelling and grammar are the authorial equivalent.

I frequently write in a non-native language, and I know that I need to check these things almost fanatically. Not to do so is to show a lack of respect for my audience, and to ignore the wisdom of ages ago:

http://www.penzba.co.uk/SoothSayer.html
I agree with you very very much. I figure the only asset I've got going for me is my brain and I refuse to risk it without a really good reason.

No drugs, no alcohol, no nicotine for me. What's gone in the brain tends to be gone forever, and forever is a long long time.

Decriminalization of drugs is a really good thing though. If all the money that went into this silly 'war' (another nice example of a word that has been stretched beyond its original meaning) on drugs was put to good use then jails would be less full and people would be less scared for doing something relatively innocent.

Where to draw the line ? Harddrugs ? Drug pushing ? Hard to tell. But it's too easy to make someone a criminal right now and that ought to change.

When a good sized portion of the population is in jail for something that you can argue is much less severe than consuming a nights out of alcohol there is a change to be made.
If you don't want to go hungry, you won't try to "sell your friends" on where to hunt. You'll tell them what you know, you'll listen to what they know, and if their idea of where to hunt is better than yours, you say so, and then you go hunt there instead of where you originally thought you should hunt. You get just as much meat regardless of who initially suggested the hunt location. This is a situation that calls for honest debate, not marketing.

Contrast this with marketing. If you're marketing Nike, you don't get just as much meat regardless of whether people buy Reeboks, Nikes, or Birkenstocks. Your incentive structure is totally different. If you're really good at winning in the incentive structure of a marketing director, Nike's sales will go up, regardless of whether they're better or worse for the customers.

It's probably futile trying to argue with you since you started the conversation by, essentially, saying that you don't believe in honest debate. Marketing is the opposite of honest debate.
> It would be interesting to see the effect of captcha on signups (and not just comments).

Yes, I think that author fails to take into account that on certain sites a lot of spam would cause potential users to shun from even trying to signup.
Excellent point, I had not thought about it in that way.

I assumed that the speaker would have been reasonably proficient but a horrible writer, of course there are other variations, and I'm acutely allergic to some voices so I really should have given it more thought.

In the age of spell checkers there is hardly any reason to have simple typos in your writings anyway, but that is another matter.
Nobody should EVER under any circumstance delete ANYTHING from my computer, even if I bought it or not, if it is pirated or not, if it is stolen or not.

Is this different from flipping a bit on a server when I discover your registration key is illegit? If so, why exactly? How about if flipping the bit constructively deletes your file, i.e. if I disable your access to my encryption keys it might as well be 600MB of /dev/rand?

I really don't have too much sympathy for people who think they have absolute property rights because they're putting the data they stole on hard disks they own, darn it.
this links straight into a registration page because of the referrer...
Labeling those who disagree with you as "evil" and "stupid" is usually a poor way of convincing them to see things your way, and in general is a poor way of relating to your fellow human beings.

This is a sentiment that is usually agreed to in the abstract, but is often shunned in practice.

But don't worry, you're really, really right and you can be 100% sure of that, so it's okay if we jettison the trappings of civilized discourse.
There are plenty of sexual assaults that are less traumatic than having your fingers broken.
Rocks did not lobby for the law of gravity.
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Ask PG: Is voting on HN anonymous?
Not truly anonymous, but can someone with access to your server tell what stuff an account upvoted/downvoted?
That's why I prefer real paper based books. No book seller will break in my home at night and burn my copy even in case it was "illegal". ("Illegal books" reminds of me of the Nazis)
See the previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=696652

From what I can tell, they didn't actually remove the hideously stupid tempdir-walking rng-seeding code in NSS -- they just fixed it so it's not called on XP (at least most of the time), as they think XP's RNG is good enough for them.

They were planning to still use it intentionally on Win2k and WinCE.

Most of the stupid shit that Mozilla does has a freetard angle of some sort, and it's possible to understand their motivations. This is just plain baffling. WTF Mozilla?
Given the fact that you have to be logged in to upvote, and after you upvote you can't re-upvote - yes you can tell what someone upvoted.
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carbohydrates are all nothing but sugar

Sugars are a pretty essential part of any healthy diet. If you're not eating sugars (complex and simple), you're not eating right.
He references an interesting concept called Conway's Law, a law stating that: organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

Here's a link to the article Melvin Conway wrote describing this insight: http://www.melconway.com/research/committees.html

Also the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Law
No they are NOT rights. They are monopoly privileges granted by the gov't.
Nothing stopping you from doing that today. Trees are the key, so you end up having to move around a bit to keep the screen in the shade. I do a sizeable portion of my coding outdoors:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/04/west-coast-mob...

You're right though. Coding in full sunlight on the beach would be a nice thing.
Just to retrieve stuff from the Memory Hole: Amazon's behaviour is not new, neither borderline braindead by any standards widely accepted by society.

Life always worked like this. Digital Restrictions Management stakeholders, like SONY rootkits are colluding with all antimalware vendors and major OS suppliers to be trusted (see HDCP, miniDP). The standard procedure in case of deadtree books [1], which are democratically banned by Human Rights Champions, is to wipe off the shelves wholesale by the censors, on consensus. And block any dissemination by showing no interest, like CW/YRO/Story Nobody Wanted. Although the information age makes old techniques more cumbersome, they still work surprisingly well, perhaps because of a lack of active interest from most people. And stuff just gets more complicated from this point...

[1] Look for this on Amazon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt:_Me_and_War_criminals
The NHS is one of the greatest things we've invented in the UK. It's not always perfect but everyone uses it at some point, some more than others that's just the nature of illness. You may not have had to use it yet, but one day you or your family might and if that happens you'll be glad it's there.

Thanks to the NHS we don't have stories like this one http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/164436/boy_dies_fro...

I gladly pay my taxes for things like the NHS, my taxes are spent on far worse things thats for sure.
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Suppose China decides that it is illegal to read 1984. Should Amazon delete any copies of 1984 found on Chinese Kindles?
I guess it's even worse depending on he kind of captcha you use. Some captchas are so awful that they probably make more people abandon the form.
If they buy millions of dollar of whatever crap you sell online, would you still care about which browser they use?
I think the problem is the exact opposite. It's easier to blame everything on some single, specific thing like high fructose syrup or saturated fat.

If you eat varied and in moderation (and don't sit on the couch all day) then you wont be obese. But politically it's better to blame McD, Coca Cola, and friends than say "You're fat, and it's your own fault".
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After you've downvoted you cant upvote either, so there could just be a flag that says you've done one or the other.
This is the first firsthand confirmation I've seen that this actually happened.
Hey Andrey,

I think that a large part of the disconnect between the actual law and peoples position (and their perceived ignorance) stems from the fact that the laws are no longer used as they were intended. People tend to live with an understanding that laws are 'reasonable' and that the interpretation of the law will cause some kind of balance in society, in other words a sense of justice.

When that all goes out the window the disconnect between how the laws should work and how they really work gets larger and larger until it snaps.

We're not there yet, but more and more people are waking up to abuses of copyright law on both sides of the line.

Filesharing is a nice example, and DRM abuses are another, as is the buying/bribing of politicians in order to get more favourable laws passed.

If the corporate side would be more reasonable about their 'rights' I'm sure that the people would be more reasonable about such things as piracy.

The way things are going right now we're heading for an all out confrontation which in the worst case will lead to draconian penalties (some of that has already happened) and as an alternative to that to a total abolishment of copyright (which some would argue is a good thing but I'm not so sure about that).

Also, and this is understandable, since HN seems to be reasonably US centric, you have to keep in mind that lots of what you wrote above is applicable to the US alone.

Lawrence Lessig is one of the heroes of our modern times, but it still remains to be seen if he's actually going to manage to fight these windmills and their owners. The approach is right but the interests against which the fight is ('happy birthday' anybody ?) are very wealthy indeed and with wealth comes power.
Have smoked infrequently and enjoyed it, but can't see it as being useful for programming personally, so I'll vote no. I'd view it simply as a social drug like alcohol.
When there are rocks in a position to fall on people, it is reasonable to warn others that they are hazardous in a way that, say, sheep or cotton balls in the same location would not be; and then to remove them.
At some point surely all computers will be quantum, so that would have an effect if that's the case.

Edit: maybe its further away, but still worth thinking about.
Of course...

The owner of the server has the power to log each and every access to the site and that includes up and downvotes.

That said I'm pretty sure PG & company can be trusted wrt to such things, HN would die overnight if there ever were any question as to the ethics of the people running it.

There would be much more worrisome things for some people here, imagine being a VC writing here under a pseudonym and being unmasked or someone openly critical of their employer having their posting history revealed.
Whatever we're using, there'll be plenty of tongue-in-cheek posts recalling the glory days of 'real programmers' implementing custom Hashtables in pure Java, no less, in order to avoid the synchronisation issues in their company's Enterprise Framework, or whatever.

And they say the magic's gone out of programming!
A company has the right to do what it wants with its products, and when that company ..., when it ..., and when it ..., when it's ..., then I'm going to look with skepticism upon claims that Amazon's removing an illegal book and offering a refund equates to a sacrilege of justice.

All of the elided content in the above quote is presumably good stuff Amazon did for the commenter.

It is my impression that the commenter has just admited to being driven by personal experience (instead of objectively judging) when he said that Amazon removing an "illegal" book from the Kindle is not unjust.
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Yeah, but it's still a fraction of what we pay in the US where the insurance industry takes a nice chunk :-P
If the pills do you good, I don't see why you'd have to return them as long as you legally bought them.
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PG has mentioned that he uses (unpublished) algorithms to find "voting rings" coming from the same IP, or someone trying to vendetta-downvote another.
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Easy, COLA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7kTPbW6QQ

Any syntax you want, running on the same JIT compiler, but designed from scratch without marketing breathing down your neck.
You're impressed by the fact that this guy wonders whether he can call the FBI to complain that a mathematician claimed he doesn't understand anything about the Theory of Relativity? I've known plenty of 80-year-olds who were a lot more lucid than that.
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