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I don't really have any training in this area (I didn't study anthropology, history, biology or nutrition in school), but while the implementation of paleo might be flawed the principle makes sense to me - eat what we evolved to eat, exercise like we evolved to exercise. At least that's how I see it. I'm not all to familiar with what it's actually like.

I think that we could probably all go for eating less meat and a lot more fruits and vegetables. The flesh of other animals tastes so good though!

Whenever I've been in shape I haven't stuck to any diet or strict regiment. It's pretty easy to loose weight (in principle, not in practice) if you do some moderate exercise (like take a run a few times a week, take the stairs, etc) and avoid restaurants and processed foods. I think when you start cooking for yourself, you'll end up eating a lot more raw "real" food and will find it hard to cook the really unhealthy stuff you might feel totally fine about ordering. It just kind of works itself out.
> we assume that our universe is an early numerical simulation with unimproved Wilson fermion discretization and investigate potentially-observable consequences

So the argument seems to be that, if we were living in a simulation, and it used physics we now know to be slightly inaccurate, we would be able to measure that.

Maybe I'm missing something, but that's not very logical is it?
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Hmm. I've never noticed such. Does anyone have any good examples?
How would using TypeScript fix that?
One advantage Western Eropean health car has that is not very often talked about is the brain drain from Eastern Europe.

Countless well prepared doctors from countries like Bulgaria and Romania leave to work and live in France, UK or Germany.

They are happy with the higher standar of life and better income in the west. However their education is subsidized by the East with the losses never recouped.

Without those doctors, the health care in Western Europe would be significantly worse, kind like how Silicon Valley would be without immigrants.
Thinking that something sells itself is an engineer's mistake. I'm an engineer myself, and I have learned through experience that quality is not enough. Selling is important.
My understanding is that this is pretty well supported by studies, too - regular exercise leads to improved mental function.
Quote "To date we’ve raised $3 million from ..." (long list of names of VCs and individual investors.)

Bad idea to list these names. Some of the listed parties are individuals, small investors, who will surely want their status as speculative investors to be kept confidential.
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transactions, which move bitcoins from one address to another, must be signed by the sending address.

however, not all parts of a transaction are signed. modifying those parts allows one to create a valid transaction with the same bitcoin transferring effect, but with a different overall hash.

the hash of the entire transaction is used as a transaction id.

so a modified transaction would have a different id.

some bitcoin management software (a wallet) loses track of transfers, because those transfers don't occur under the transaction-id it expected.

the implication is that some bitcoin services could get confused about who they've successfully sent bitcoins to.

an attacker could socially engineer a "robbery" by transmitting a mutation of an official withdrawal transaction, then appealing to the helpdesk of that service that their withdrawal never went through. it did go through - just under a different transaction id.
Or just a natural one.
How would you know what the real thing was from inside the simulation?
Dark matter matters?
I hit play and it was just showing the "Buffering video..." overlay for a few seconds and went back to the "collection" view. I was switching to my browser to read the comments here and after one minute it started playing. Pretty good quality too, just seems a bit buggy.

Edit: Just ran into this error: http://pastie.org/private/fkqs779gnv13slrqm2gog
I'd recommend kraken over bitstamp. Unlike bitstamp, kraken was immune from the malleability issues and didn't halt withdrawals.
Yes, in that case, starting with calorie moderation is key. In fact, even if you don't do anything else, this alone should bring your weight down to managable levels where you can start doing exercises that look injury-prone now.

But exercise would make it much easier, because it releases dopamines, which makes you feel good, which lowers your food craving.

(I'm not in my early twenties and I've been overwheight for the most of my life.)
Is the number of generations our ancestors have been agriculturally active enough to have an evolutionary effect on how our bodies metabolize food? At most is seems it has been 14000 years, whereas we've been around for several hundreds of thousands of years. I don't know the answer there.
There is a similar problem with nurses being recruited from other poorer places.

Another problem is that clinicians make mistakes, and those mistakes kill people, and the risks of those mistakes rise with Whatever national language as a second language.
It's clear that in the author's world everybody drives a Prius. I guess Amazon and Google shopping drones will deliver everything in his utopia. No need for trucks to be able to navigate the streets. Hey! I'd like to see a plow on a Nissan Leaf!
In Firefox they can be disabled via the gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled about:config switch. Unfortunately that will really highlight the accessibility nightmare that icon fonts are, as they don't display and have no alt-text like images.

I've also noticed that disabling JavaScript has a huge effect on some websites' speed. But other sites don't even work without it nowadays.
There are several flaws that are still not fixed. This known vulnerability only "suspended trading" because people started using it too much. The other vulnerabilities aren't "in the wild" but offer similar exploits. I suspect that as soon as MTGox resumes we'll see a new exploit take its place.

If I were a conspiracy nut I'd tell you that the Merchant Services companies were responsible. But more likely I think that these issues are just the result of there being enough money at play now that there are those looking to beat the system and so instead of being a community of "hippies" who just want peace and love, the BTC community now has armed muggers and cat burglars. That's what happens when the hippies get to a point that they could buy mansions with imaginary coins they trade.
I would assume they checked with investors before releasing this, no?
Would a parent universe that didn't share mathematics as universal noumena be capable of creating a simulation of a universe like ours?
I don't see why not, but it would have to be baked into the client/server connect model. Basically they would have to act as a bouncer and only allow connections to the server after being authenticated before hand. If they detect a DDoS incoming then they just need to ask each legit client for a proof of work, this makes it so no amplification attack would work.
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"will find it hard to cook the really unhealthy stuff you might feel totally fine about ordering"

Yeah, that doesn't work for me. If I'm not thinking about health, I'm happy loading up on the cheese and fried things to a probably unhealthy degree - especially when I'm making it myself.
This reminds me of an article I read a year back, same topic:

http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-big-toe.html

"The bottom line is, if we are in a simulation, there needs to be compressive sampling because quantum effects between particles would otherwise require an infinite amount of memory, so the meaning of the wave function is that it's for data compression. [...] The fortuitous data compression implicit in wave functions is merely another reason to suspect we are in a simulation. "
Open sourcing it is a great idea. I'm sure many people would be interested and it would be a way to keep the project alive in some way, seeing as you've put so much time and effort into it.

Also, open sourcing it doesn't preclude the opportunity of releasing it for sale in the Mac App Store if time permits down the road. Textual is a great example of this:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textual-irc-client/id4030126...
https://github.com/Codeux/Textual
> reposting their shrill political screeds from their personal internet silos

Amen to that. I left the facebook years ago because of this.
I left off the ones that wouldn't appreciate it
I admire your passion and dedication to having a positive impact on the world.

My challenge to you is this: What gives you confidence that the impact you'll have on the world will in fact be positive?

Engineering certainly gives us the ability to impact the world. Increasingly and since the first industrial revolution power goes to the greatest engineers. But are the skills that give us the ability to change the world really sufficient to decide what change is best? For that, I believe we need wisdom and understanding far outside our field of expertise, and in the evening and on the weekend we should be reading not just Javascript Ninja but also books on history, philosophy, political theory, literature, and psychology - if we want to optimize the chance that our impact will truly be positive.
It would be interesting to find a way to do so allowing for example rewritting of rules of the simulation to allow for new rules of physics or change universal constants.
"We apologise for the inconvenience"
So if I understand what you're saying here, you think that a thief working at the Apple store might have either themselves had access to your Apple ID, or was colluding with someone inside of Apple at Cupertino to get access to your Apple ID, so that they could steal $8500 from you?

Am I missing something about the story here or is that an accurate summary?
Look at the size of the list, and ask yourself if all those people would accede to a request to release their name and status as investors to the public. Not likely.
A similar system in the US would allow millions to stop being dependent on their jobs for health insurance and possibly not accept the horrible working conditions they have here simply to avoid dying uncared for in a hospital.

We can't possibly have that here however. "Capitalism" (meaning oligarchy / monopoly based market control to Americans) must be applied dogmatically to everything, regardless of outcome.
Using a fancy programming language is orthogonal to if you are doing R&D.
There was quite a good explanation posted to HN 5 days ago: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2014/02/10/why-mtgox-is-full...

(discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211286)
Hi, I'm Adam, 27, married with a two year old and one more on the way. I commend your efforts and wish you luck. Some small percentage of people who start out down the path you're on make it to the end as true technical experts.

All I will do is put in a word that most people who start down that track don't finish, but they still get a chance to change the world. Their chance comes through the coworkers they mentor, the spouses whose less-profitable careers their high-paying programming jobs support, and the children who they raise with, hopefully, some psychological balance.

Remember that this path is just as hard, requires as much thinking and practice, and is mastered by just as few people. For now, if you don't think that's what you're called to, great. But there's nothing to be embarrassed about if you find out later that it is.

And if you get to that realization, approach the rest of life with the same zeal you poured into becoming a technical expert, plus perhaps a bit of new-found humility. Practice constantly, seek help from books and from people who have thought about the problem extensively (religious leaders, therapists, or trusted friends), and remember that you're in training as an excellent person to be.

(Edit: I guess I should also say, I'm not sure the options are exclusive. I've read the books you mention, I've spoken at JSConf, and I've built some really incredible things, all while never regularly working more than a normal workweek.)
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I suspect it's enough to have small effects but not enough for complex adaptations (requiring multiple mutations to stack). Actually, I think I read that adult lactose tolerance evolved during that time? I'd also guess that it's plenty of time for a lot of evolution to have gone on in our gut flora.
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You're confusing selling with having a business use. There's a huge difference. The OP doesn't have a business use, therefore no business (pun intended) to sell anything.
> Actually it works on Win/Mac ...

So change your landing page -- it detects the user's platform and makes a guess. Visitors running Linux see a Macintosh icon.
This article goes out of its way to make Google+ look bad when it comes to numbers.

"Plus has 29 million unique monthly users on its website and 41 million on smartphones, with some users overlapping, compared with Facebook’s 128 million users on its website and 108 million on phones, according to Nielsen."

Is that supposed to be a bad thing? If you have ~1/4 to ~1/2 as many users as Facebook, are you not a very successful social network? If Plus was an independent startup people would be crowning it the next Facebook and saying that Facebook better watch its back. With all numbers in this article the author seems to say that if you don't have as many users as Facebook, you're nothing.

Plus is a Top-5 social network that also offers a convenient solution to Google's many-account problem. Sounds like it's doing just fine.
Beside the point: I think this google plus problem is a symptom of a larger problem. Google still acts as if it's a start-up, but it isn't. It's a company with a userbase that has come to rely on their products. Building integrated platforms - by hijacking existing ones in this case - requires planning, not multiple public iterations of crap. How many times has my Youtube GUI become more cluttered because of some integration they're in the process of rolling out? People have really come to rely on these tools, they're not the new trendy video-sharing website anymore.

Back on point: It's just a description of reality that Google's attempts at integration through Google Plus is causing a lot of annoyance and friction with its user base, even if the end-goal is more beneficial to both. For a lot of people their plus-accounts were made for them without their consent. There's an option in youtube to also publish your comment on google plus, which is opt-out initialy; It remembers the setting of your last post. So you can raise question marks as to how accurate the numbers Google publishes about their Plus-network really are. I'm pretty sure there aren't 500 million+ active users on the plus network in any meaningful way.

The real danger exposed in the article is that a lot of unknowing users are having their search results directly influenced by brands and companies that they've added to their circles. It's also frustrating that there's no option at the moment to turn off this bias. I think this going to come back to bite Google in the ass at some point in the future (I'm already using duck2go).

You add to the above the recent copy-wrong-slip-up and you could even say that there's a video-sharing website up for grabs. Because the google plus integration is antagonizing a large share of youtubers and the copy-wrong issue has antagonized the most important part of their user base: Users that upload original quality content, 90% of all uploads is crap, right? I believe the best way to handle managing a platform of this scope is the Apple way. Because when Apple releases something it's an event and everybody expects having to relearn some things. But when Google releases something it's a YAIP - yet another initiative/project. So it's really a succession of stupid moves on Google's behalf causing the negative comments, I don't think Google bashing comes into play in any way. (^-^)-
Do you mind if I ask what your use case is that demands an upsert?
checking transaction hashes for acceptance into the blockchain was a stupid idea to begin with. clearly the data in a transaction is malleable without affecting the signature. given that mtgox already were using non-canonical transactions, they should have been aware of this.

a transaction only becomes immutable once it has been included in the blockchain. after this point, searching for a tx by hash is ok.

calling this a bug of the bitcoin protocol is akin to saying that array decay in C is a bug in the language spec. it is known, and and has been talked about for a long time. in both cases.
I guess I don't see the problem. You got your answer from the "duplicate", right? And marking as duplicate gives google the search terms without creating duplicate answers. It sounds like this was exactly the outcome that's beneficial to everyone.
My shins ended up hurting so bad for months afterward. Overweight people cannot run.

Running should not hurt. We were Born to Run, like it says in the title of the book.

Shin pain tells me that you may be running with bad form, impacting the ground like a pogo stick. Consider running barefoot. Read Run Barefoot Run Healthy.
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most of the video is sideways since i was learning to use the camera but it was pretty good show!
I detect mobile devices on the server and simply disable web fonts for them. You just don't need all that stuff on mobile.
I don't have the link, but I think it's somewhat established that US cancer survival rates ( of those who have been diagnosed ) are better than in Europe
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How did you decide which people wouldn't mind -- did you ask each one? Also, perhaps more to the point, what value does it add to the article?
>It is very frustrating when loading up a website and seeing a mostly blank page because the fonts are still downloading.

Yes, annoying, can confirm. So I load the page, and all I see are text decorations like underlines, but no text. I have to wait like 1.5-3 seconds, depending on the connection. I mean, seriously, come on!
Anyone would pay a slightly smaller premium in exchange for the awarded sum being limited to actual incurred/billed costs
I think that's still a bit questionable. I'm not allowed to have copies of child porn, even if the children were abused by someone else and they uploaded the photos to the public.
The article should have linked to the original Simulation Argument by Nick Bostrom, since the physics part is just one of many possible tests to verify the hypothesis. Here is Nick Bostron's argument: http://www.simulation-argument.com/
>If only 30 hours is sustainable for you, do that instead.

This is not an option for most us.
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Purely on mechanics, the "by any sensible definition" clause does make this a classic "no true Scotsman" argument.

What you probably wish to argue is something like: "Those unique 'American freedoms' that ostensibly result in such a crappy health care system --- and the inevitability and necessity of this is highly debatable --- do not contribute nearly as much to actual freedom as you seem to think."

What you are actually arguing is: "There exists no sensible definition of freedom wherein the citizens of the United States are free and the citizens of France are not."

A disagreement which continues from this point will devolve quickly into an argument about when and how ideas are "sensible". This is perhaps a really interesting topic when pursued in its own right, but the assertion has, at that point, effectively derailed future debate about the different freedoms enjoyed by the French and Americans.
> If you're only accessing a small set of known fields you can work around the issue by using plv8 to create function indexes on the fields that you'll be using.

You don't need plv8 to create an index on a JSON field, it's supported natively.
Both do make sense insofar as they are consistent with the design model/philosophy of their respective OS shells.

In Windows 95 the model is that Start is your starting point for everything you do with a computer. Moreover, managing and configuring a PC was regarded as a core activity for all users, so management functions like shutdown/restart and the control panel got a prominent top-level place in Start.

For Windows 8 the design mantras were "content over chrome", "users should be able to enjoy just using a PC without feeling like they have to manage it", and "each view in the UI should have one clear purpose". Therefore Start was dedicated to "destinations" like apps and content, while management and configuration functions like control panel and shutdown/restart (meta-functions that are about the PC or app itself, not what you do with it) were moved to the Settings charm (could've been called "settings and management"), sort of like tucking away wires and cables.

Of course, making sense in terms of your design model is no guarantee a decision will make sense in terms of the user's model.
Wow, I never realized that... and it's crazy!
Yeah... opened a VPN to a US box and it suddenly jumped into life.

edit:

Looks like it uses the YIFY database which is blocked by most UK ISPs.
This is precisely what I do on my laptop. I regularly have to access the web over rather poor connections like public hotspots or not-quite-so-glorious Internet connections, and web fonts make this quite messy.

I really like typography (calligraphy has been one of my favourite pastimes for many years) but I think its implementation on the Internet is very bad from a usability perspective.
This seems very interesting, but the overview of this article tests my mathematical knowledge, and I can hardly read the rest without a healthy dose of intuitive reasoning to infer the unknown terms. As far as I can tell, this is a method of statistical analysis which does not require assumptions about the structure of the data in order to perform statistical operations, including comparing data. Conventional information theoretic methods require modeling the predictability (or entropy) of data and then performing statistical operations on the basis of those models, which may be errant, oversimplified or difficult to determine for complex data sets. Instead, the data are represented with an arbitrary number of dimensions in a way that generalizes Euclidean space, and then spatial operations can be performed on the data.

That's as far as I can understand and I'm afraid that there are mistakes even in my simplistic summary. Can someone explain it better?
I notice it a lot on Digg.com on my iPad. The images show up sometimes 10+ seconds before the text! hurts my brain!
+1 to recognizing that the ability to sustain work volume is unique and personal. The issue comes in when you are asking someone capable of doing a 40 hour/week job to output 60 hours. That ask will ultimately break that person.
I googled ten of them. Every single one was a publicly-known angel investor. Maybe you should consider that the guy writing the post actually has contact with these people and has vastly superior knowledge of what they want than you do.
Edit: Or run them out.
There was one slide that caught my attention here:

Computer Science: Fixed programs, transient data

Data Science: Fixed data, transient programs
Upsert is really exciting, as the author mentions, because it is a huge thing keeping people from choosing Postgres instead of MySQL.