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Someone has to be in the lower 5%, it's true. But it doesn't have to be you or the parent.

It's absolutely true that the skills to make yourself seem more desirable are "learnable" skills. They also happen to correlate pretty highly with plenty of other important skills, like making better friendships in general, succeeding more in business, succeeding more in other spheres of life, etc.

That's because most of the things you need to improve to be more desirable is: a) make yourself actually more desirable, usually by doing interesting things/etc., and b) make yourself a better marketer, who knows how to actually show that you're more desirable, in a way that doesn't turn people off.

I really recommend you and anyone else who has trouble "attracting" the opposite sex, read any of the Pick Up Artist material that's out there. Don't fall too in love with the "world of PUA", and don't take it too seriously, but do read it and practice it. It will really improve your life, and not just in dating.
IEEE Floating point rounds numbers in binary, not in decimal. So it is trivial by simply having a 54-bit register to hold the 53-bit mantissa.

So the answer to your question is... Floating Point numbers "don't round correctly". They're actually quite complicated, and require careful study.
Well, ACs are rare in Italy..
Thanks. The first source I found (without much more than a quick search, I admit) turned out to be way off what everyone else seems to say. I've edited my original post accordingly.
The definition of a refactoring (at least the one I give juniors) is the modification of a system of code such that an external contract remains valid. An external contract is typically validated by tests (though it doesn't have to be). If your refactoring crosses a unit boundary, you're certainly going to have to test at a higher level (assuming you want the safety of a contract validation through tests). Otherwise you're modifying the contract of the system under test and you've crossed over from refactoring to redesign and reimplementation.
The stomach is not a good judge of whether you should be eating more or less food. For whatever reason, some individuals may be prone to overeating or undereating. If your natural eating tendencies have caused you to be over- or underweight, common sense says that you should stop listening to those natural urges.

The key to successful dieting is to transform eating from a biologically-mediated process into a cognitively-mediated process based on counting calories. Given this cognitive feedback, your stomach will actually adapt to a new calorie intake level, lessening hunger. Hunger can also be managed by eating more satiating foods and drinking water.

Caloric deficits (or surpluses) work like clockwork. The metabolic slowdown discussed in the article has marginal effects if any -- perhaps a couple hundred calories worth per day at most. A simple thought experiment shows us that the idea of a "set point" body weight is ludicrous: at starvation, of course, the body cannot possibly maintain weight.

The reasons why many people fail at dieting is that people underestimate the amount of effort/pain required:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18544_how-the-karate-kid-ruin...
Good thing this only affects %29.8 of Linux distros out there (http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all) :P
The death star explosion?
Except that blankenship and the author are wrong. Go to 10 different gyms on the same day and you'll get 10 different workouts with 10 different formats. WOD is simply an acronym of a phrase used to describe what you are doing today. There is no definition.

I have been training at a CrossFit gym for several years now. I do the WODs that most people do sometimes. However we also have a small rock climbing "system wall" that I do climbing drills on. I have also been cycling through running programs to be a better runner, single leg programs to improve stability and balance due to injury (not CrossFit related) and just for fun a one arm chin up program just to see if we can do it. All under some supervision from the head coach. We also have ultra marathoners and dedicated Olympic lifters at our gym all doing different WODs.

My CrossFit gym clearly does not conform to the "Reebok CrossFit Games" style of working out and I challenge you to show me when rock climbing drills came up in any WOD. All these arguments against CrossFit are really against the common public perception of CrossFit. Plenty of gyms out there that don't do that and still have "CrossFit" in the name.

BTW, I agree that the popular form of CrossFit is stupid and everyone should probably stay away from these gyms.
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And thus evolutions is of course false by your perfect mathematical deduction?

I recommend you broaden your understanding of science. Scientific hypotheses are always one iteration in a series of increasingly accurate models of the known universe. Evolution, being a very young science, is understandably very far behind Physics in its life cycle. This does not mean that all evolutionary theory is "nonsense" because it cannot be instantly falsified with a perfectly designed experiment in real time.

The beauty of evolution, just like any other law of the universe, is that it does not care much for one's disbelief.
For me the hardest so far was Polish. But I did not know about SRS back then so maybe this time it will be a bit quicker :)
This war was lost when the criminals started using Narco subs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine and that they started to use horizontal digging
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/mexican-cartels-are-using-f...
You have to put your email address in the about section, the email field is for "Please put a valid address in the email field, or we won't be able to send you a new password if you forget yours. Your address is only visible to you and us. Crawlers and other users can't see it."
My best guess is that noticeable opposition to Crossfit is directly proportional is the pervasiveness of Crossfit. It is popular enough that a few lovers and haters have dramatically increased the number of times you've heard about Cross fit, over say the single lover and hater of a random workout.

I'm sure there's a more math-y argument than mine.
Except that it does not bounce the way a normal air filled ball does.
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>I'd love to troubleshoot your slow data backup issue... That's the stuff I rather enjoy.

I'm not directly involved with the tech side so I don't know the details. I gather they pull the old data off the disk using some offline low-level tool though (like you would for harddrive damage recovery). Between that and the encryption its somehow very slow. No idea why its like that though.

>get the user a wholly new machine

I wish it was the same here. They just give loan machines :/
"The metabolic slowdown discussed in the article has marginal effects if any -- perhaps a couple hundred calories worth per day."

I'm sorry, but that is not a marginal effect. That is the difference between weight gain and weight loss. Also, if you read the article you would have noticed that a calorie deficit is not the only thing that necessitates weight loss, in fact, it might not help at all. There are good calories and bad calories, and how your body handles each depends on the source of the calorie.
> That's the most ridiculous point I've heard in a long time.

How is it ridiculous? It's not a personal slur on you. Do you deny that people from lower socio-economic backgrounds generally suffer more from overweight issues and obesity? Wouldn't you say that people from this type of background are less likely to consume their mass media in the form of the New York Times?

> Being overweight is in no way equivalent to a crime.

That's not what I said. Read again what I wrote. Another example. I smoke cigarettes. Should I not take responsibility for this? If I can't stop smoking is it "out of my control"? I'm not making a binary choice out of anything, I'm just contesting the following comment elsewhere here (I should have made a separate comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7762934

> The food and quality of food that is available to many people is a factor, which is could be said is generally out of their control. I don't think it's helpful to blame the individual as we are all part of systems.

There is nowhere in the developed world where you can't buy decent fresh food. At some point along the way some of the responsibility must lie with the person who is choosing to buy one type of food over another because perhaps its pre-made, pre-packaged, hits their pleasure centres, whatever. I guess it relates back to my first point in that I imagine that people like this may not be as informed about nutrition as you or I. And if they are informed then what?
It's a matter of taste. I think the decorator approach looks more bolted-on and ad hoc. I prefer C style declarations over annotations, though, because they have the least amount of noise.
> Why are people so offended by Crossfit?

To be honest, most people couldn't give two shits about Crossfit. It's the Crossfitters that are the problem. They tend to act like newly converted religious acolytes, annoying the hell out of everybody they come in contact with by constantly proselytizing Crossfit.

It's kind of like any other activity that a person has to choose to make serious and comprehensive lifestyle choices that remove them from what they perceive to be mainstream society. They have to constantly justify their choice and one way of doing that is to build a circle of like-minded people you can echo chamber off of, another way to do it is to announce it all the time and assert the choice as part of your identity, yet another way is to convince themselves it's a moral conviction and their chosen social isolation is simply a result of them finding some true path and people who haven't found that path are immoral or crazy or whatever.

You know how to tell somebody does Crossfit? Don't worry, they'll tell you.
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I suppose it was inevitable that someone would put a 'new and improved' gloss on a more traditional architecture (in this case, apparently Python + Postgres, with the addition of some binary protocol like Protobufs), but frankly the gratuitous slams on JS and NoSQL just make this look like an ill informed backlash.
No, it is like saying, "if you speed past every red light at 100 mph, you will probably get into an accident."

A Workout of the Day (which every Crossfit gym does) is basically doing a perfectly fine movement at very high repetition. The higher the reps of these complex movements, the riskier they are. Therefore, every Crossfit gym is dangerous.
> a lot of my coworkers do it and my unit's PT seems to be going in that direction

You probably remember when P90x was infiltrating various units like a virus also.
I recently went from bulking to cutting and went from 3500 calories per day to 2000 per day. You are massively underestimating caloric intake shifts that are possible or necessary.
Possibly. We should keep in mind that our knowledge of number theory is very limited. They are probably not really interested because it's all really obvious to them -- and has been for quite a while. It's quite amusing to think about how they might laugh at our encryption systems relying on simple discrete logarithm-problems etc. Not unlike we laugh at Julius Ceasar for relying on simple substitution.
This is so true, I used to have trouble remembering how to do ssh tunneling w/o looking it up and then one day someone pointed out to just remember wether you are using a remote or local tunnel the listening side of the tunnel always comes first. After that it was easy sailing.
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The article I linked explains it pretty well. A small but vocal minority of users wanted more power. MS gave it to them in VB.NET, and with that power came complexity. The huge majority of people who just wanted to do simple CRUD stuff stuck with VB6 (which is supported to this day).
Italian here. To start, there is immense peer pressure over physical appearance - god forbid a neighbour might see you in a tracksuit when you're buying some milk on Saturday morning, let alone seeing you as fat. Then you have cities built for walking, not driving, which makes a HUGE difference in the quantity of everyday low-intensity physical exercise. Then you have strict quality controls on traditional food manufacturing. Then you have a general obsession with cooking every day.

This said, as US-style food becomes more mainstream (thank you, Hollywood), obesity rates are going up in Italy as well.
Well, Sweden is up there too so...
You're getting downvoted, but I think you have a point. Any attempts to enact type-checking in a language that doesn't require it is doomed to failure. You'll get all the safety of a dynamic language, with the flexibility of a typed language.
I'm sure these lectures are great but my computer was none too happy about 100 embedded videos in a single Web page.
> The good news is you and I likely won't be around to care when we find out what aliens are really like

I've never understood this sentiment. I would most certainly like to be around if and when we find this out, for better or worse. Why wouldn't you want to be?
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Saying that fat contains twice the calories as carbs ignores the plain fact that carbs contain a hell of a lot of calories.

This is the problem with modern eating. We don't realise how many calories there are in a slice of bread or a bowl of pasta.

Low carb works because people can't seem to understand that flour is 95% the energy density of sugar, and it's easier for them to trick themselves into calorie restriction by pretending that carbs are metabolised in a weird fat making way than it is for them to understand that wheat contains a lot of calories.

Also - people don't realise that after you've done all the calculations - eating an extra pound of fat will make you weigh roughly an extra pound.

Here's my diet advice:
If the thing you're eating is used in nature as an energy store, then it's probably packed with calories.

The article sets off alarm bells with me, because it places so much emphasis on slowing metabolisms at the beginning. As far as I'm aware, your metabolism doesn't slow down until you're close to starvation (all reserves used), and the reduction in energy output caused by the slowing metabolism is minor. Speed of metabolism seems to be something only people on the dodgy end of the weight loss spectrum believe in.
Or for underweight people, part of the solution.
Without getting in to the merits of a basic income, the fact is Switzerland does not currently have one. Creating a high minimum wage without adding one would likely result in a large increase in unemployment.
Also carnivorous sapiens will occasionally eat a bit of vegetable matter, but only if its hiding under a burger or has cheese and sour cream on it.
Portion sizes and things like not downing a couple of glasses of sugary soda with a meal and then finishing with a 1000 calorie dessert make a big difference.

http://djstrouse.com/italy-small-portions-smaller-people/
The last time Apple felt itself falling behind in a key market
Are there natural (as in non-human) phenomenona that produce the sequence of prime numbers?
I cut my power lifting teeth on Rippetoe years ago. Now that I'm older I'll likely not hit any new deadlift PRs again, but I'll never stop doing them :)
WRT "confused", google for the term "glycemic index" or "glycemic load per serving"

Its an artistic illustration of Betty Crocker vanilla cake and vanilla frosting having a GI of 42 and a total glps around 24 (for 111 grams) vs kraft mac n cheese having a GI of 64 and total glps around 32 (for 180 grams). (Yes I actually looked this up not just make up example)

Some of this is political BS in that the serving size for the mac n cheese is about 60% larger than the serving size for the cake. None the less it is a medical experimental fact that your blood sugar level will spike about 50% harder after the pasta than after the cake. Probably all the oil in the cake, and grease (if purchased) or butter (if homemade) in the frosting, and egg in the cake (intended as an emulsifier rather than a protein source).

But yeah, like it or not, WRT blood sugar levels, at the end of dinner, you're WAY better off eating a serving of cake than going back for seconds of pasta. Crazy but true.

Now notice that the total glycemic load is what annoys / kills your pancreas, so cake is slightly worse (per gram of serving). However wild crazy fluctuations in blood sugar both drive your brain crazy and screw up the rest of your body, so pasta is worse for that. Your pancreas is not in charge of the quantity of food you eat, so the net effect is eating "more cake and less pasta" will in the long run loose weight or at least result in less weight gain.
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Thankfully, I escaped most of that.

The biggest difference is that P90X is mostly bodyweight, and while you can make yourself really sore, you're unlikely to do lasting damage to yourself with it. Meanwhile, Crossfit does heavy weight. Sometimes it's perfectly fine; I have no problem with PT sessions where we do circuit courses. But I definitely have a problem when they're like, "Okay, first we're gonna do 500m on the rowing machine with the damper set to 10. Then we're gonna do 2 minutes of military press with a 95-pound barbell. Then we're gonna do 2 minutes of deadlift." People with absolutely no idea of what they're doing are applying High-Intensity Training concepts to exercises that should be done slowly and methodically. There is no justification for doing deadlifts quickly. None.

Then they wonder why people need surgery.

Of course, the PT that old-school SNCOs would have us do wasn't much better. "Okay, we're gonna run 5 miles today, then 6 miles tomorrow, then 5 miles the day after... Whaddya mean, people's knees aren't working anymore?"
What's the algorithm? If I use "abc" or "aaa" it prints "is not a shit pkg name".
The advice is sound. You get fat from the stuff that goes in your piehole. Stop putting so much stuff in there. The flaw is not in the argument. The flaw is in the people.

THAT's thinking like an Engineer.
I think it's both.

I see both happening. I see major attitudes of helplessness or victim mentality. Or just ambivalence. Go to any mall. We all know this story.

But also, it then becomes a thing where those who do have their head in the right place to pursue health in a practical and beneficiary (edit: beneficial) manner, these folks often do turn around and moralize. It's too bad.

The real truth is, we need to forget about those types of things, for a little while at least, and concentrate purely on the facts. The consequences. What is actually occurring. Because in the end, it doesn't matter what peoples' intentions are, or motives, or desires, or anything else. What matters are consequences.

That said, of course it's incumbent upon anyone promoting health to offer a helping hand, only, and never anything else. Never any judgment. Because not one of us is "above it."
Julius Caesar didn't have number theory nor computers so his cypher was actually pretty sound.

We have a pretty good idea about the limits of encryption. I doubt advanced aliens would have much to laugh about our current state of our encryption systems.
I think he's a huckster.

Intelligence is not a function of CPU power, and all his AI predictions so far have failed.

The singularity seems to me like science fiction. Theory after data, not before.
I really like openVPN better for this stuff. Have a RPI listening on just about every port that exists TCP and UDP (via IP tables rules). I travel a lot. Sometimes places like China. I always get out. Of course I keep the RPI outside my local DMZ for security reasons.
Other good articles (or podcast) on the problems of CF:

-Coach Sommer´s (From http://www.GymnasticBodies.com) pod cast on Barbell Shrugged on movements like swinging pull ups and muscle ups at Cross Fit and not using appropriate progressions http://youtu.be/nHSESdnfpOk

-Charles Poliquin´s take on what means a good cross fit box
http://www.strengthsensei.com/selecting-a-better-crossfit-bo...

Edit: fixing the link
...without regard to form.

A workout that I have enjoyed success from came from Huge in a Hurry. Every rep is to be done with perfect form. If the form breaks down the set stops.
You are assuming that the average person is a weight lifter like yourself. Most people aren't, most people get very little structured exercise.

The truth of the matter is that most people don't have the time to go throw 45's around a gym for an hour a few times a week, and that diet and metabolism are the two main factors in a persons weight.

Edit: Also, most people aren't eating 3500 calories a day. They are probably eating maybe a couple hundred calories more than they should, but the calories that they are consuming is causing insulin resistance which causes your fat stores to take up additional calories. Even cutting out the extra calories won't help once insulin resistance happens. And here's the kicker, not everyone's body will exhibit insulin resistance, that is why there are people that seem like they can eat what ever they want and not get fat.

Here's my anecdotal evidence, I used to eat whatever I wanted, though I ate mostly (what I thought to be) healthy, eg: oatmeal, fruit, veggies, etc. But I hurt my back and all of a sudden, despite my reduced caloric intake, the pounds started being put on. It wasn't until I discover HFLC diets, and began to do my own research that I realized it wasn't how much I was eating, but what I was eating that was causing the weight gain.
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If you want to improve, you'd better take accountability.

Looking for places where to put blame is useless in situations where there isn't moral hazard, or where you are unable to punish the blamed. On those cases, you're left with the choice of accepting your part of the problem and correcting it, or keep suffering.
Full body workouts, compound movements, etc... became popular way before CrossFit.
I don't think this is Debian stable only?
I had something similar happen myself, albeit not as bad your experience.

While doing a warm up set of deadlifts (I think it was 120kg x 5 - I was working up to 180kg x 5, iirc), I lost my concentration for just a second on the third rep and my form broke down, leading to a pulled muscle in my back. It took me three or four months of stretching and rehab to fix it.

Squats and deadlifts are awesome exercises, but they need to be done with 100% concentration. A single second of lapsed concentration can, potentially, lead to a lifetime of problems.

I still squat and deadlift today, but I'm super careful when I do so. If things don't feel right (e.g., my concentration is slipping, the bar feels heavier than normal), I walk away and go home. I'd rather play it safe than hurt myself badly.