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Have you looked into healthy fats?

My skin likes pastured (grass fed) butter, coconut milk/oil and very dark chocolate. Vitamins D3 and a DHA & EPA (Omega 3s) source like fish (krill oil) should do the skin well too. Also green and white tea w/ lemon no sugar killed acne.

Favorite health blog: wholehealthsource.blogspot.com
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I'd contend that with youth I have a better perspective on the folly of your adulthood just as you can perceive the folly of my youth. (I'm 17.)
What makes your later view more correct than my earlier view, on this one?

Accumulated experience generally correlates with more appropriate responses, granted. But inappropriate experiences lead to inappropriate responses. How do you verify that your experiences have led to correct conclusions? They are influenced by the society in which you live. And society (the entity itself, not the collection of people involved) generally prefers the status quo, because of natural selection.

Of course there must be a line. There is a minimum level of development necessary for reasonable integration into a society with a specific set of values and expectations. But humans mature at different rates. Age is not the appropriate unit to be using, here. We need a measurement of an individual's ability to _grow_ from immersion in the adult world. Instead of the SATs, we need CATs... Coping Aptitude Tests. It's not such a big leap for the College Board, either. (Now all that's left is to figure out how to measure maturity. Sweet deal.)
Wait, he's saying that recognizing a proof in polynomial time makes finding a proof easy? The search space is exponential, and there's no adequate heuristic for a best-first search.
Was temporarily paralyzed from neck down (it seemed permanent at the time) from a major car accident but managed to crack jokes with the paramedics on the way to ICU.

Ended up with fractured C3 to C5 and ripped ligaments and had 2 major operations and a halo device. I was 15 yo.
Er, have you looked at the US or California prison populations lately? They're remarkably high as things are, and there are already all sorts of ways to confiscate the property of convicts, which has proved a bonanza for some law enforcement agencies.

As for the other economic incentive, you would need to compare the potential saving with the cost to the state of keeping someone in jail, which can run anywhere from about $15k (Texas) to $35k (Maine). Weather and geography are significant factors in this variation. The basic income we're talking about is probably only sufficient for basic survival; somehow I doubt it's going to be more than the cost of imprisoning someone.

Of all the possible unforeseen ramifications of how something like this might work out, putting people in jail to save money is not high on my list of things to worry about...though now I think about it, the cost per inmate per year might be a reasonable metric for determining this basic income, since it reflects the approximate cost of living in the most literal sense.
I'd aim for a 4.0 for that first yet. If you keep the same studying habits you had in high school getting As in those early courses is a breeze.
Thanks for the elaborate explanation. Most things seem pretty easy at first glance until you sit down and try to do them.

I suppose you probably look forward to the day when most apps will be online.
Hard to compete with some of the great things accomplished by others here (spaceships, businesses, businesses that process logs from spaceships while cycling around the country in spaceships while making your mother laugh about a nuclear power plant you helped build that hopefully does not run Windows, etc.), BUT I'll try anyway and throw out my Dead By Zombie game (http://DeadByZombie.com), whose Windows port just launched last week. It has a Rogue-like UI style but is otherwise very different from a Rogue-like in terms of play style and goals. I tend to develop several new hobby projects each year from scratch, outside my day job in software development, and then release them and try to monetize them in various ways. By HN standards, probably pretty simple and unimpressive.

I think it's just good to be creative and productive. By my standards, it's impressive to be doing things like this rather than merely sitting around watching TV or making inane chit-chat at bars, like so many Americans seem to do. (Though there's value in doing even those in moderation.)

Live, love, think, create, do, repeat.
A life full of that is what impresses me.
I used to work for a car manufacturer where we made such a diagnostic database for mechanics. At the end of all the decision trees was "hmm. call factory." Instead of following the suggestions, the mechanics routinely skipped to the bottom. Several dozen of my field trips to dealerships were resolved with a $2 part that they skipped over because reading was hard.
Instant signup bloated my user database. Note to self: remember to create user records in the database after the email is verified; mean while save user records temporarily by their session key.

I have a chunk of 100 or so users whom I am not sure will ever come back. I have a MOTD message waiting for them the next time they login, if ever, asking them for an email address. In the mean time I have to skip that chunk of user IDs in my reports and analysis.
Would love to see java / tomcat / grails in the options!
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On the other hand, it's supposed to be an amount of money that is enough to subsist on. If there's a relatively predictable perception of "subsist" in terms of proportional allocation to categories of goods in a basket, prices for goods in this basket might start to track their respective allocations.

On another note, who says the rational thing to do with a windfall is to go blow it on something just because you can?
I understood it to mean that you don't treat people since you start living like a king. Instead of talking the local people and understanding the culture you only converse with them to get certain tasks done - maid, gardener, and so forth.
Number two never worked for me. Either I must have been doing something wrong, or the classes were not structured in a way which one could do this efficiently. I often found I would waste my time reading fluff content that was never pertinent. Either the teacher didn't follow the book closely, had a terrible choice of textbook, or I didn't have a context from which to read the book to put it's material into perspective.
If that's what you like then can't you just create a separate semi-anonymous openid for every site you use?
Awesome news, not that surprising really, the prize amount is peanuts for Netflix compared to the benefit they gain.
The author of one earlier book, Why Evolution Is True, writes a favorable blurb for Dawkins's book (at the posted link). That's gracious of him to praise a competing book. I think the rationale for this new book is that Dawkins is second to none as a story-teller about any subject he writes about.

(Edited for spelling correction mentioned in reply below. Thanks.)

Further edit to add a link answering the question in the parent of my post:

Most of the data showing that evolution is a fact can be found at the TalkOrigins Archive.

http://www.talkorigins.org/

Not a book, but all the facts you could ask for and some very fine writing in parts.
I sort of agree with this but I also think it fails to mention the problem of over-design: anticipating requirements that will never materialize or any kind of thinking that goes too far ahead causes enormous cost. There's one thing worse than no design, and that's the wrong design (even if, when created, it was a "good" design).
The sample size is >1: global warming through high CO2 has been observed on the planet Venus.

Our model for radiation poisoning is pretty good, but mechanistically there's no way in that system to easily undo the damage of radiation.

Also, it's disingenuous to say that the sample size for climate modeling is 1. We have multiple samples, from multiple methodologies, of the global temperature and the global atmospheric CO2 throughout time. We also have multiple samples of experimental data confirming and quantifying CO2's contribution to the greenhouse effect. Your argument is kind of like saying, "we know bombs work, we know how bombs work, and we know that all of these bombs we've been dropping on Berlin are positively correlated with the increasing destruction of the city, but there's insufficient evidence that the problem will get any better if we stop dropping bombs on Berlin. So let's build a gigantic dome over Berlin made out of nanotubes."

To do engineering on a system, you have to know nearly everything about how all of it works. To diagnose a single problem you can narrow down your knowledge a lot more and have much higher certainty. So even your restated principle is wrong. We know that not irradiating yourself will lower your risk of cancer. We don't know how to undo the damage caused by radiation. Again, your argument is kind of like saying, "if we're not sure how to fix radiation damage to tissue, we have no proof that radiation has negative health effects".

Furthermore, your decision theory is wrong too. We have to be 99% confident that geoengineering won't cause any bad, unforeseen side effects before we even do it. But we are even 50% confident that something we are doing (emitting CO2) is having a potentially catastrophic effect, we have to act on it.
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A woman can only bear a single man's child in a 9 month period.
A woman with a large number of male suiters is theorectially less appealing, since the chance of successful mating (where successful -> results in offspring in the near future) is very low (assuming each man has an equal chance, it's essentially 1/(#ofSuiters) ). In reality, the energy cost of impregnating a woman is so low that it doesn't really matter that much, since he doesn't actually have to bear the child.

A man can impregnate many woman in this same period of time. All of these woman have a good chance of creating offspring, so the main concern of an individual woman is finding a man who will be able to provide for her child. This is a complex requirement - it isn't necessarily sufficient to just look at a man to gauge his ability to secure resources. Also, the energy cost of becoming pregnant is extremely high for a woman. Therefore, the woman reacts based on a large number of variables. She also assumes that other woman are searching for a man based on similar requirements, so the fact that a man is surrounded by other woman increases his value as a potential mate.

I realize that this simplifies things quite a bit, but I think the fundamental argument is sound.
The quote is about the consequences of P = NP.

NP is the set of problems with solutions that are verifiable in polynomial time. If the problem size is n, imagine a non-deterministic Turing machine that can make one of 2 choices at each step. After n steps there are 2^n possible configurations of the machine, and your polynomial time verifier can check each of these configurations (in parallel, thanks to the non-determinism).

So there's n steps for the guessing and O(n^k) steps for the verification, so you've just been through an exponential search space in polynomial time.

That's why exponential search spaces are the bread and butter of NP. And also why many view P = NP as unlikely.
That's a pretty astute point.

I can see them sharing the same database for both sites but displaying the CSS/HTML questions both on doctype and SO, but doctype restricted to CSS/HTML only. This will allow them to get content through multiple channels but allow them to sell more targeted ads on doctype.
"No other form of media or infrastructure in the PRC is exempt from state planning--it is illogical to assume that the internet would enjoy special privileges."

That's an important point. I can remember being an official interpreter for Chinese government officials visiting the United States a decade ago. A question they were often asked, when in interviews with American counterparts, was "Do you have an email address?" At the time, the answer was surely no. Internet use in China has scaled up only as Internet control has scaled up.
I desperately want something like this to succeed before Twitter takes over the world and becomes the defacto standard with all it's closed, proprietary, single-vendor, feature deprived, insecure, unstable and unreliable patheticness.
If it just displayed the script that it generates instead of asking for password to run the script itself, it will be much simpler. OS installation is anyway just a single step with Slicehost webapp.
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I agree with most of the comments that it seems like a spam tool and using twitter in domain name was not probably a good idea. However, I consider the approach that twitter took to be rather an extreme. They should have made an initial move by emailing the guy and asking him to shut down the service and provided reasons for it and given him a chance to change his practices. I just hate the fact that it is so easy to sue in US which IMO is also one of the reasons that insurance costs are so freakin high.
The logic of the old Betamax case, treating as fair use the copying from VHS tapes by individual consumers for their own individual use, is undercut by the DMCA's provision prohibiting trafficking in devices that circumvent DRM - in this case, RN's DVD ripper software.

A loss for consumers, as noted in the original post.

This came in the form of a preliminary injunction granted by the same San Francisco federal trial court judge who essentially shuttered Napster some years ago. Though preliminary in nature, the ruling likely portends what the outcome will be at trial a year or two down the road.

More helpful analysis, with links to original documents, may be found at http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/.

And a surprisingly negative analysis (found in the first comment below the blog post) from the program manager for Real Network's Linux-based version of the program appears here: http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/realdvd-p.... This gives a picture of some of the weaknesses in RN's legal position in light of how the software works.

The court battle would appear to be a losing one for Real Networks, even as continued technological developments likely will make this a Pyrrhic victory over the long term for the Hollywood studios.
You could potentially use a run (or runs) through the O(n^100) problem to optimize approaches for smaller problems.
If you were lucky that would ammortize the cost of the first run.

With a bit of luck you might also be able to come up with a scheme to generate optimal nonuniform circuits for smaller problem sizes, which would ammortize nicely if you had enough of the smaller instances to solve.
...I don't really see what high school did for you, then. That sounds more like an argument for change than against it. If you're not gonna know as a junior in college, having been through high school, any better than you did as a 8th grader - why bother with it at all?

I'm currently frustrated by high school. I've known I wanted to do "computers," like you, since middle school. High school hasn't changed that.
Maybe some people aren't exposed to enough options in middle school. So why don't we fix middle school instead of sticking adolescents in 4 more years of useless education? Assuming a high schooler can take 8, and assuming only two will be in his or her subject of interest, fully 75% of the student's time is wasted learning facts and skills that are unimportant. Even accounting for an additional class in a subject of moderate interest that may be useful later in life, that leaves 5/8 periods wasted. Assuming an additional 2 classes (I'm feeling generous) are useful for the skills they provide, such as communication and... (You pick. I can't even think of another useful skill that a high school class might teach.), that leaves 3/8ths of a student's time wasted.

Consider a business where 37.5% of _every_ employee's paid hours was spent playing video games. (For all the good the other 3 classes do our student, I don't think that's an unfair comparison. Except the games would be more fun.) How do you think that company would fare? That's shockingly wasteful under any other circumstances. Why do we expect it of our schools?
"... Conversely, men rate women as less desirable when they are surrounded by other men ..."

I think "Flight of the Concords" got this one right (nsfw) ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wl_uQOABxg
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Dawson = Dawkins, right?
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I guess I was asking it indirectly. I know that better user-experiences lead to more conversions. So maybe I just answered my own question. Thanks for the link!
No, it doesn't. It may be that there was no great gap to be filled here, and in that case, there would be relevant links. If there was a gap, then links to existing works that are similar but don't quite fill it would be helpful.
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Which, spam or trademark infringement? The first is in their TOS, I believe, and I suspect there are better ways of enforcing the latter.
According to http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-149993, every Alaskan in 2007 received just shy of $3,300. I wouldn't call that enough to live on, but it's not a bad start if you're looking to have just enough to scrape by.
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this is from 2006
I'm sure he does. But most of the time corporate execs have this 'iron curtain' on communications with the public or media. So when a corporate exec from a large company sends something out it can feel like a big deal...
That explains why women would have evolved this way, but it doesn't explain the actual mechanism.

I would posit that women on average tend to perceive the world in a way that makes sensory information and emotion more salient than it is for men, and somehow men already in relationships seem more desirable when seen through this lens. But I could just be completely full of it.
he is not being sued as of now.

its a cease and desist order asking him to stop the spam, change name to not infringe on trademark etc.
I'm hearing about people around me getting into serious accidents. Aren't seat belts and air bags supposed to prevent these kind of injuries?
I think I just scored the best "# of lines of code to techcrunch article" ratio ever. (208 lines of code thus far) http://twitter.com/joshu/status/3248158809
Version control - use it for everything

Even things not software-related. If it's done on a computer, it should be in VCS. Ideally on a repo hosted by your school, if that's not possible, then one on a third-party machine that's run by as large a company as you can find. If you roll with DVCS, then make sure you also publish it to somewhere third-party. This is not only for the versioning, but for the dating of those versions. Having all your work under a VCS means you can say the following things:

"Sorry Prof, I was a day late submitting this assignment because my flight had to pull an emergency landing in Reykjavik when this guy had a hart attack, and then we were locked in for a day by the fog. But here's a commit dated before the deadline, can you accept that?"

"No, I didn't plagarize that paper - you can see it develop over the past thirteen versions here, time-stamped over three weeks."

"I had my circuit designed, but when I opened it to print OrCAD crashed and mangled my data - here's a version that's time-stamped to yesterday I can use instead."

The third-party large-company aspect is good so that when they say (for all of those statements) "How do I know you didn't change the times on your server to make up that history of work?" you can respond with "The company that's hosting this had revenues of three million dollars last year, they're not gonna screw with their systems because I ask nicely." and then they drop the issue.
I like Dawkins. I find his voiced thoughts intelligent, interesting and precise.

Most importantly, it sounds like this book will provide a good summation of Evolution. Well thought out books that summarize an area of knowledge make it easier for me to create/solidify my own framework within that area. Which it turn makes it easier to branch further out without getting completely overwhelmed (a little bit is fine!)

I'm definitely looking forward to this. Hopefully I'll be done with his "The Selfish Gene" by the point this comes out.
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Social proof doesn't explain the result adequately; to wit:

Conversely, men rate women as less desirable when they are surrounded by other men, compared to being alone or surrounded by other women.
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C'mon, you know that's what it's for.
My question got answered in 4 minutes. I cant complain
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in order to combat piracy, they need to add incentives to buying a dvd.
Ignite Seattle (which has since spread to other cities) is a wonderfully fun event of Pecha Kucha style talks. If one comes to your area, you should not just attend, but submit a talk as well

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A good rebuttle to that general notion: http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-ha...
The topic of this submission should be changed, since this developer is not, in fact, being sued by Twitter.
Charles Murray wrote a whole book, In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State,

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/084...

on this subject and how it might work in the United States.
I agree. What's to prevent me from cheating the system by having a ton of kids? They'll be provided for by this program. Also, I elect that my salary be $1 and receive bonuses instead... yes, there are arguments against that, but at least right now, I'd have to spend effort to be rich first before taking the $1 salary + bonus.

I just finished reading through the Self-Enforcing Protocols post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755131), and this scheme strikes me as something being easy to abuse.
Have a look at the PDF he links to at the bottom. They sent the standard cease and desist takedown notice. His post shows just how beneficial a real lawyer is in making legal decisions (note, he's not being sued and the letter doesn't say "we'll sue you").
Alaska has an amazingly high cost of living, as I discovered when I stayed there to visit a late relative.
Did you actually read the letter? They haven't filed suit. They aren't trying to recover damages. This guy doesn't need to spend a dollar on legal if he doesn't want to fight Twitter; he just needs to comply with Twitter's demands, or negotiate a better outcome for himself.
I thought it was going to be an article that would teach me how to fail fast.
The computer programmers mentioned did all right though. Thank heaven.
What's to prevent me from cheating the system by having a ton of kids?

Um, maybe having the kids around?
Instead it was just a demonstration of how to fail fast.