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Seconded. I am grateful to Aaron Iba for posting his article (http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...). I had similar experiences, and thanks to him my (severe) RSI problems are a thing of the past. There was a time when I was reduced to dictating and using touch-only keyboards (by FingerWorks) or ergonomic keyboards, and even that for a limited number of hours per day. These days I can type on anything, in any position, for any amount of time.

Let's expand on the psychosomatic illnesses a little. Now (several years later) I know that there are a number of symptoms that are caused by my mind. I know when to expect them, I can make a pretty good guess whether a given problem is mind-caused or not. What I can't do is cure them completely, still working on that. But I do know that Sarno is right.

Now, before you hit "reply" and go all-scientific, think for a moment. The problem we have is that we don't have ways to "measure" the mind. You can't easily just form control groups and do clinical trials. What works for one person might not work for another. So I can understand why doctors would rather stay away from the subject and pretend that the body and the mind are entirely separate (which is actually demonstrably untrue). They can't do anything else, as a doctor is sworn to only use scientifically-proven methods.

I see this discussion come up regularly. There are usually two groups that form: people who managed to deal with their illnesses and people who say that all this psychosomatic illnesses talk is hogwash. I am in the former group and I am worried that the latter group prevents many people from healing. So, if you suffer from things like RSI, joint or tendon pain, back pain, muscle pain, jaw pain, frequent sore throat (yes), frequent sinus/nasal infections (yes), at the very least do yourself a favor and read one of Sarno's books. I'd also suggest other sources, but I simply don't know of any, except an increasing number of studies that show that we don't understand the "placebo effect" and that the mind has much more to do with physical health than was previously thought.

Obviously, nobody suggests that any illness can be cured just by reading a book or thinking about it. There are certain physiological aspects of your body that your mind can influence and some that it can't. From what I observed myself, the two main "tools" are changing muscle tension and restricting blood flow.

And finally: nobody (least of all Sarno) is saying that you should avoid talking to doctors. The first step is always to seek medical help and eliminate any physical cause. What should alarm you is when after multiple visits to doctors you're not getting any closer to curing the problem. Unfortunately, very few doctors will tell you clearly that they have no idea what is going on, so you have to listen and think. If you're doing test after test, if your doctors say "well, let's try [medication name here]", the problem you are observing might be the symptom, not the cause.
It is relevant in that the headscarf is a symbolic issue in immigration debates in Germany. The biggest ethnic minority in Germany are the descendents of turkish migratory workers.

It's a symbol of conservative muslim faith (in the eyes of Germans) and subjugation of women in general. Most muslim organizations and German politicians with a turkish background actually appeal to fellow muslims not to wear headscarves.

My point was that there is no widespread refusal of integration, and that misogyny in muslim Germans is usually exaggerated. I didn't want to explain that too thoroughly because the post would have been even longer.
Should I be concerned that my https with https://news.ycombinator.com started wigging out after I posted the original question? Chrome wouldn't load it due to safety concerns
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Actually Indian constitution does give Freedom of Speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#In... but agree there are some restrictions which I assume are valid and are there for other countries too. There are problems enforcing or protecting these rights when you are up against corrupt politicians and organizations.
His comments are way off the mark. The recent advances in neural network training are not strictly due to convolutional neural networks, but rather the discovery that gradient descent works remarkably well on training multilayer neural networks when using modern hardware. All of the best performing pattern recognition techniques in speech, image recognition, and natural language processing now utilize "neural networks". A neural network is nothing more than a poor name for a non-linear statistical model, and if you like one with a hierarchical structure (which is made possible strictly due to the non-linearity).

I don't think that anybody in the research community (except for maybe an occasional crazy) believes that neural networks have any biological significance beyond inspiration. NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) has been a reputable venue for work in statistics for some years now with no confusion over the idea that "Neural" does not mean a precise (or even imprecise) imitation of biological neurons.
Meh... As someone who worked on a counter-top beer brewing appliance for my senior design project, I can tell you this thing doesn't produce good beer.

The picobrew is spargeless and is also a single-vessel system which does not stay true to the traditional beer brewing process, meaning the quality of the beer is significantly lowered.

Not to mention half the fun of brewing beer is being involved in the process itself. Adding hops and other ingredients when necessary and being creative by introducing your own ingredients into the process.

When we worked on our senior design project, our market research told us exactly that. People want to be involved in the beer brewing process. Another issue we had was the volume of the yield. With a counter top appliance, you can only get so much power out of a single wall outlet/socket, so your heating element is limited as to the amount of volume of water it can actually heat.

Brewing beer generally takes about 3 hours, so people tend to brew more than 2-3 gallons. The picobrew's yield is 9.4 liters (2.5 gallons), and it is also spargeless and single-vessel so its target market isn't really people who like brewing beer. It's people who've never brewed beer, and are just going to buy a flashy toy which will rarely get used.

We build an interactive android application that communicated with a netduino microncontroller through a web server. This allowed us to query the microcontroller, which controlled the heating element, water pump, and temperature + float sensors.

All I'm saying is, if a few Georgia Tech undergrads can build a counter-top brewing appliance, someone who does this as a hobby and has some programming experience, could just as easily build a larger scale brewing device with a netduino/arduino microcontroller, a few relays and some sensors.

You can see an automated run of our prototype here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mttrd7mGvI

and a small splash page that gives a general overview of the components used here

http://brewmasters.herokuapp.com/brewery
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In Europe it is common to provide car and petrol. However from some point it is perceived as a benefit and taxed.
Oculus + Joystick + Eve Valkyrie could work.
Californian tech companies aren't there for its "worker protection" laws. They're there because of the talent, which Silicon Valley has a monopoly on because of network effects.
Skepticism is not unreasonable, but so is hope: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1644

Short version: details matter, Thomas McGuire is a smart guy who knows enough to avoid the obvious mistakes, Lockheed Martin is a commercial company taking a commercial route to technology development, so they are disengaged from the scientific community.

Will it work? They only reasonable answer is: "Maybe." We'll know better in five or ten years.
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Use a microcontroller to manage the heating element and couple that with a PID to hit your target temperature. I can give you some tips on how to do it, although tuning PIDs can be somewhat time consuming...
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Fusion centers weren't put in place to militarize the civilian police forces or turn them into mini-intelligence agencies. The fusion centers (those that work -- many of them have communication "issues", according to congressional investigations IIRC) were designed to simplify collaboration between law enforcement agencies around the US.

There's a lot of interesting things that go on in the big (and little) cities in the country, but it's incredibly difficult for individual agencies to know what's going on in any of the others, except what they read in the newspaper. Using DHS as a service bus, they can better understand trends and collaborate on actions to deter or disable larger criminal networks.

Yes, Homeland Security gets easier access to local police intelligence and stats as well, but DHS and FBI I think have jurisdiction to get that anyways.

The point of these, though, is ultimately providing better information to police agencies so they can make better-informed decisions.
Is Quickr any good? From my experience, craiglist india is full of spam.. Every board is filled with men trying to hook you up with prostitutes.. No matter what board it is..
Seems to be missing some information.

Otherwise you could say the price before lunch was $35 and each sold one chicken, and the price after lunch was $0 and each sold all the rest of their chickens.
That's a really bad analogy.
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To be fair to LM if they get this right and it works, they will assume a large portion of all the world's wealth rather quickly.

Also surely we need a Manhatten project for nuclear fusion. Indeed it is possible it the the fault of the Manhatten project that Fusion wasn't pursued at the time
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Nothing to see here, move along.

Definitely don't press that red button over there.
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And how is that a bad analogy? I'm responding directly to his point. Employers aren't required to pay for a host of things that are work related.
Unrelated, but the ridiculous banner on that website takes up half of my screen, and a good portion of it as I scroll down, the purpose of which is beyond me. "We noticed you are in the United States"... no I'm not.
Like Jobs' "software hobbyists" the Apple was originally built for, I suppose their keyboards are truly designed for the "typing hobbyist".
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Also India ranks, 140 on world press freedom index 2014, if you move 7 places ahead you will be in Putin land. It became worse in the last 10 years, 120 to 140.

http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php
I would add to this list:

If you are intercepting UNIX signals (starting with SIGINT), go back to the drawing board and think again. Don't do it. There is almost never a good reason for doing it, and you will likely get it wrong and frustrate users.
Greatly misunderstood essay. What joel says is:

"Once you have gained traction, never ever allow yourself to be caught without ship-able product"

Also old code indeed rusts. Framework, API, binaries, libraries change, sometimes in very subtle ways, so a perfect piece of code that was written for php 3.2, apache 1.1 and MySQL 3 and left untouched for a decade just refuses to work when php ticks from 5.3 to 5.4
"By the end of the day, they had sold all their chickens."
From the same book, there's also his comment on Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from which he refused an invitation:

"When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get any ideas for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they're not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come. Nothing happens because there's not enough real activity and challenge: You're not in contact with the experimental guys. You don't have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing!"
Because there's a difference between "work related" and "work mandated". How I get to work is my problem (unless its out of office, then my employer pays the extra cost). But if they expect me to use a phone during work they will either need to provide me one or reimburse my expenses.
Where's the risk if you're getting paid above market? Time was people joined a startup in order to make their equity valuable. If all these funded startups are paying above market a large number of potentially viable ones will go belly up in an implosion of Roaring Teens opulent overspending.
If you are making services small and having lots of them and redeploying often it matters more. If you just have one at a time maybe you dont care.
Apologies - I was thinking of ALTER SYSTEM [1]. That writes to postgresql.auto.conf. It sounds like that file has priority over postgresql.conf [2]. You might well be able to just prevent writes by the postgres user (or whatever user you're running postgres as).

Regarding superusers overwriting files - COPY can write to anywhere on the filesystem. From the docs "COPY naming a file is only allowed to database superusers, since it allows reading or writing any file that the server has privileges to access." [3].

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-altersystem.ht...

[2] http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-4-feature-...

[3] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-copy.html
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Pretty interesting, just a pity he didn't specified an actual license, as "disclaims all copyright" has no legal value and even if it had, it would certainly mean different things from one country to an other (for example in France you can't, even yourself, put something you've produced in the public domain as you can't cede your paternity 'right')
You seem quite ignorant about labor laws. If you don't want to use the other analogy, here's another one. Employers are not required to pay for employee uniforms even if they're mandated for the workplace.
I've often thought this - that xkcd.com/1168/ is funny is a terrible embarrassment. I would also like to add that manpage syntax help should be standardized and machine-parseable. I had an idea recently to auto-generate GUIs for command line tools from the manpage syntax line, but it turned out that while such lines look precise but cryptic, they are often in fact highly ambiguous, nonstandard, and still cryptic. This seems broken to me.
I assume they unscrewed it (joke attempt)
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The HN libertarians, for some reason, have an incredibly strongly held conviction that governments should not be able to identify their citizens, even in person, even for legitimate reasons. If you support any reasonably secure government-operated authentication system on HN, you will be downvoted to oblivion (as you just were).
Using a cell phone for work purposes is part of the job itself, it's work; driving to your place of employment isn't.
"You’ll find the departments are predominantly staffed with women... They are hiring predominantly male candidates for positions whose duties they typically don’t understand. "

"Those ladies down in HR..."

So the article makes some good points about HR filtering candidates based on questionable heuristics, but the gender of the people in HR being mentioned as somehow relevant sticks in my craw.

Further, the suggestion that there are secret policies in HR to hire people with degrees from good schools is BS.

These policies occur because of the need to justify individuals/policies, etc to managers that lack technical expertise and also fail to utilize the expertise of their experts on who to hire.
Ya Quikr is good, you can also try olx.in
Wearing a uniform is part of the job, but your employer is not required to pay for it. Pizza chains aren't required to reimburse their delivery drivers for mileage. Explain.
I've enjoyed much of Fowler's previous output, but this post didn't grab me. Assuming anyone building a modern web-oriented service is going to use at least some kind of service oriented style architecture (SOA) - eg. service-specific containers - this post is kind of toothless, since individual subsystems are by definition possible to retire, fail, scale, etc. without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Re stem cells - my sister is a vet, she says currently animals get much better treatment than people because stem cells are experimental for people, but routinely used on animals, and the effects are astonishing.

She also have this conspiracy theory about sport stars returning to sport 3 months after especially bad injuries - they must get stem cells, it's impossible otherways.

I don't know if it's true, I hope it is because it means it will eventually be used on regular people as well.
Which city are you in? The sailing and food sound great
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Came here to say exactly this.

There are two parts to this as I see it with some bit of overlap.

1. A hard core group (could be religious, person centric (e.g., Mahatma Gandhi)) that act as custodians of "sentiments" of larger population. They act with various degrees of violence if they believe that the sentiments have been hurt [1], [2]. The police force itself generally sides with the mob and they cite oft repeated phrase of "natural reaction by the crowd" as a reason for avoiding taking action.

2. Freedom of expression that's curtailed by law and codified in law books.

For me #2 above is far more serious issue. Various courts routinely invoke this law, which is amazingly ill-defined to start with, to suppress any kind of dissent. I can't cite hard data here but in my life time I can clearly see an uptrend in such cases. There's also a harsher (some say draconian) law around sedition. Even if you are a mere sympathizer with a banned group then you will be treated as an enemy of the state; there's no soft middle ground here and you are treated as a militant [3].

Shiny GDP and development notwithstanding India is fast moving towards dictatorship which is really unfortunate as right to dissent is the core of a democratic society.

[1]: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/muslim-techi...

[2]: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kerala-police-may-b...

[3]: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/du-profe...
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This is about the UK. There is apparently something like it in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Valley_School
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We had a temporary issue in our Singapore data center related to a very large attack targeting a site reporting on the protests in Hong Kong. The issue was limited to that data center. We mitigated the attack and resumed serving HTTPS traffic for free customers from the region.
> under-valued in Germany as it is over-valued in Spain.

How can the Euro be 'under-valued' in Germany?
I believe the "e.g." in the last point is especially important: Even if you don't use microservices, you can (and should!) still make your architecture modular.
It would be very interesting if this could be combined with snabbswitch for some truly awesome bare-metal lua networking.
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I disagree with what jp555 just said as well (from what I've read, I think that high-GI foods do negatively impact insulin resistance), but I think you don't quite understand his other comments. The point is, because you changed the macros, you're feeling full much sooner (because fat makes you more "full" faster than sugars), which causes you to eat less calories, which causes you to lose weight. Calories > Macros in that sense.
Its good for job security.
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..and all thanks to Jesus!

Oh, wait.... science.
Some really interesting stats. First usage of Linux:

Nadella told us that some 20 percent of VMs on Azure use
the open source operating system.

Also, new regions including Australia:

Two new Australian regions are coming on line, taking Azure
up to 19 in total. This is twice as many as Amazon's AWS
platform has, three times as many as Google. Each region
sports about 600,000 servers, for a grand total of more
than 11 million. Last year's capital expenditure on Azure
was $4.5 billion—meaning that functionally, only Microsoft,
Amazon, and Google can compete at this scale.

And finally the specs on some of these machines:

Announced today were a new series of virtual machine types
that offered not just the scale out that cloud is known for,
but also scale up. The G-series instances offer up to 32 Xeon
cores, 450 GB of RAM, and 6.5 TB of local SSD storage. Azure
also has a new premium storage facility, offering up to 32 TB
of storage per virtual machine, capable sustaining more than
50,000 IOPS, with a sub-1 ms read latency.

Could we be seeing Microsoft's own "turn-around moment" like Apple did when Steve Jobs returned?
>"Companies can very quickly go from profitable to out of business or close to it"

Sure, but types of companies I'm talking about where these folks work are big blue chip FTSE 100 companies. It's a very rare event where a company the size of Lloyds or Barclays or BAE snuffs itself out of existence.

Ok sometimes you get a perfect storm such as the 2008 banking crisis but even then the UK government and others stepped in to prop up the likes of RBS, Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock. No-one turned up to discover the doors locked in the IT department and life very quickly went back to business as usual.
The argument is exactly that when China shifts to a nation of consumers it will not grow at 7.5% but at maybe 4%. Currently it is not a nation of producers it is a nation of infrastructure builders, that is what is driving the growth, not production, the largest infrastructure investment (50% of GDP per year) ever seen. Consumer economies just dont grow that first continuously.
I don't think giving something away for $0 is ever called "selling", is it? I especially would not expect that usage in a problem like this.
arduino, $20 heating element, $10 relay switch and some PID programming and you can control the temperature too :)
I guess you can make that analogy. Anthropology kind of loses some of its bite when you get into nations, perhaps also what we call religions. There is certainly a element of the same game dynamics at play, testing for weakness and the mutual deterrence of war itself. Everyone bleeds in wartime.

The outcomes though are different. Territorial gains, death counts, the percentage of lives "traditionally" ended by violence in a culture. Different outcomes breed different games.

Tangentially, this perspective tends to lead to a certain perspective on people. Things like religion are smiler to things like nationality. They're all Myths.
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Do they? Everything I've read about keto diet is that it will make you less "short-term energized" - you're lacking glycogen, i.e. you won't be able to sprint as much.